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Saturday, November 12, 2005

The Twilight Zone theme is perhaps the one piece of music that can evoke a physical and emotional response from me. Growing up in the seventies, the local television station would show Twilight Zone four times a day during the summer. Twice at noon and twice at midnight.
But today if I happen to hear it being played on Sci Fi channel (who like every other channel apparently uses the credit roll to advertise something else) I still react.
This is the only song I know where if I hear it, the hackles on my neck begin to rise. My fingers dig into the armrest and my heartbeat picks up the pace.
It brings back the feelings of the comfort of childhood summers as well as the spine-tingling anticipation of being creeped out/ scared/ amazed. It has a macabre hipster beat. And the crescendo at the end gets me every time. If I had never seen a single episode of Twilight Zone and I heard the theme for the first time I am sure I would still get the chills.

posted by zailo  @ 3:43 PM

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