Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Into the Danger Zone

Spring TV is dreary so, cooped up at home, the DrsC have been watching some well-loved old films on DVD. A couple of nights ago it was the original Tom Cruise Top Gun.

The Kenny Loggins vocal theme Danger Zone is very appropriate right now when anytime we leave home during this CoV Spring can be ...
Highway to the Danger Zone
Ride into the Danger Zone
The Loggins video, appended to my DVD, tries to evoke the early scene from Apocalypse Now where Martin Sheen lies on a sweaty Saigon hotel mattress hallucinating. It doesn't succeed, I prefer the music as background to F-14 catapult launches amid swirling steam and roaring afterburners.