Saturday 8 December 2007

Themes means Karlheinz

Alas, he has passed. All the good ones do. It's always a matter of time with these guys.
I particularly like newsnight reviews's tribute to him last night. Obviously on hearing of old Stocko's death they dispatched a wondering eyed work experience student to the dusty vaults below White City. He passed the war room, walking on passed the Aunty's Bloomers vault, past the vault made up entirely of footage of Des Lynam's ears, through the underground warehouse containing all the episodes of "Points Of View" where Terry Wogan falls asleep. Past Aunty's Christmas Bloomers where he finally arrived at the soft cardboard box marked "Weird Shit." Inside he managed to find a a grainy old VHS caked in muck.

The clip was played as the credits rolled after Mark Kermode had expressed his disgust in everything from the cultural offerings of the program to the studio decor and host's hairstyle. The clip the director had chosen was a passage of one of Stockhausen's more abstract numbers. It appeared to be played by the crew of the starship Enterprise. Blue velour polo necks was apparently what one wore to "shake shit up" on BBC2 in the 70s. It was so short it didn't make sense, fifteen seconds or so. I know he only died on wednesday but, c'mon Kirsty, sort it out.

I know he's up there, boring god to tears with aleatoric theories.
I'll miss you Karlheinz ol'bor, but not as much I miss Richard Pryor.

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