Final Draft?

Have you ever experienced a religious miracle? Or maybe you still feel chills and believe a spirit is present while playing the Ouija board. If this is the case some psychologist may diagnose you with apophenia. Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. This term, coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958, has come to describe this distortion of reality in healthy individuals without implying any mental illness.
While Conrad would tell you these patterns do not exist, psychologist Carl Jung would offer his argument of Synchronicity. Jung described Synchronicity as a “meaningful coincidence.” Synchronicity is an underlying pattern which includes, but is larger than, the system that displays it. English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd has been accused of purposefully synchronizing their albums with movies. The most famous of these Pink Floyd synchronizations, is a mix of their album “The Dark Side of the Moon” and famous MGM movie “The Wizard of Oz” and is called “The Dark Side of the Rainbow.” After watching the sync there can be three possible responses. The first response is that there is no connection at all and those who see a pattern must suffer from apophenia. The second response would be from someone who sees an underlying pattern in which the movie and album connect through synchronicity. The third way you can view this film is as a purposeful synchronization, by Pink Floyd, of The “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wizard of Oz,” to create a requiem for Judy Garland.
Judy Garland, who lived only forty seven years, worked for forty five years. Judy Garland’s works include: thirty two feature films, half a dozen short subjects, star of thirty of her own television shows (gust appearance on at least thirty more), over 100 recorded singles, over a dozen record albums, and, between 1951 and 1969, fulfillment of over eleven hundred theatre, nightclub and concert performances. Even with all this success Judy could not find happiness in her life.
Judy Garland had faced clinical depression and substance abuse throughout her life. Judy had many nervous breakdown and even suicide attempts. In 1950 Judy cut her own throat with a piece of glass, many argue whether this was a suicide attempt or a cry for help. On the set of Judy Garlands most famous film, The Wizard of Oz, producer Melvin Leroy and director Victor Flemming are blamed by many for abusing Judy Garland. While filming the scene with the Cowardly Lion, it has been said that Judy Garland giggled. Director Victor Flemming took Judy aside, lectured her and proceeded to slap her in the face. The slap in the face was said to “cure” her of her laughing. During filming of The Wizard of Oz MGM was concerned about Garland’s weight. The Producer and Director of the project gave pills to Garland to keep her weight down and boost her energy to finish filming on time. It is no wonder how Judy Garland became addicted to drugs, which ultimately lead to her demise at the age of 47 from an accidental overdose on barbiturates. “The Wizard of Oz” was the beginning of a troubled life for Judy Garland.
“The Dark Side of the Moon” synchronization with “The Wizard of Oz” begins with screaming as we see the names of the Director and Producer. The screaming here refers to the abuse that Judy Garland suffered at the hands of these two men. The first track is “Speak to Me.” In here we hear “I've been over the edge for yonks… I've always been mad, I know I've been mad.” This is a reference to Judy Garland’s mental state. The rest of the track is virtually unspoken. “Speak to Me” fades into the next track called “Breathe.” When looking at these tracks next to each other you see: Speak to Me, Breathe! Almost as if that’s what you would say to someone you found overdosing.
As “Breathe” begins we hear “look around and choose your own ground.” This sounds like a reference to the fact that it took over a year before Judy Garland had a proper burial. Garland’s body was kept in a temporary crypt until the story broke. Arrangements were made quickly after so the family could avoid anymore shame and embarrassment. When the track ends we come into “On The Run.” The song has no lyrics, however we can still draw that “On The Run” plays while Dorothy is singing the famous song, from “The Wizard Of Oz”, “Over The Rainbow.” Both of these songs have the same abbreviation: “OTR.” “On The Run” ends with the camera pointing to a cloudy sky while we hear thunder which foreshadows an approaching storm.
The soon to be “wicked witch” enters to the sound of bells in “Time.” Moments later, inside the house, Dorothy exchanges looks with her mother and the witch on cue with the guitar picks. After this confrontation Dorothy runs away and into a sign that seems to refer to time: “Past, Present and Future.” When Dorothy begins to have her fortune told to her she has a look of concern on her face. Dorothy begins to listen hard when we hear the lyrics ““Home, home again, I like to be here when I can”. Dorothy then decides to run back home before the storm hits.
“The Great Gig in the Sky,” begins with the tornado approaching the home that Dorothy is running back to. The camera angles start changing to the cue of the music as the singer stresses to the panic of Dorothy. As Dorothy is hit in the head, drops onto her bed and goes unconscious, the singing, by Clare Torry, drops her stressed singing into a dream like sound. The singing fades in and out, screeching high when images of the witch appear and low again when she fades out. Could this “Great Gig in the Sky” refer to the house, tornado, or maybe even the combination of both in the sky? The house finally lands and there is now silence. Dorothy walks to the front door and as she opens it we hear cash registers and chimes and see color for the first time! The first three lines of the song are: “Money, get away – Get a good job with a good pay and you're okay – Money, it’s a gag.” Seeing as the first three lines of this song spell out MGM, perhaps this is a shot at MGM. MGM began giving Garland drugs at the age of sixteen. While MGM continues to make money off of “The Wizard of Oz,” Garland never received one cent royalty after her pay for making the movie. Judy was penniless for the rest of her life. The IRS seized most of Judy’s property and possessions due to back taxes she could not pay. Other than the blame of MGM in the song there are numerous syncs. There are rumors that the munchkins, who marched out of step, but could dance on beat to the guitar solo, were drunk. So at the end of the song “Money” we hear someone say: “I don't know, I was really drunk at the time.”
Judy Garland was a huge supporter of the gay community. After Garland’s funeral, which many homosexuals attended, it was said that all the homosexuals met at The Stonewall Inn, which at the time was an illegal after-hours gay bar. That same night the police decided to raid the Stonewall Inn. On any other night the patrons of the bar would run when it was raided, but this night they decided to fight back. The riot lasted for several days. The Stonewall Inn riots are said to have started the gay rights movement. After all of Judy Garland’s effort while she lived could it be Judy’s death that triggered gay pride around the world? The rainbow, the symbol of gay pride, is said to have gone back to Judy Garland and her part in “The Wizard of Oz”. It is no wonder that the Song “Us and Them” is supposed to represent this.
As “Us and Them” begins we see a munchkin holding a death certificate, which represents Judy’s own death. In the background we hear organ music which is affiliated with death most of the time. “Us, and them, and after all we're only ordinary men” This is what is being sung as we see three male ballerinas dressed in pink. “Me, and you, God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.” This could be saying that their orientation is not their choice. And just before we would hear the wicked witch tell Dorothy “Ill get you pretty” we hear: “Listen son, said the man with the gun, There's room for you inside.” This could be the words of an officer telling a homosexual there is room for you inside the paddy wagon. During the song the munchkins still appear to be moving to the music. There is a scene where we see both the good and the bad witch and in the song we hear “which is which.” (Witch is Witch) The singer proceeds to say “Down Down Down” as we see the house has fallen down upon the bad witch. The good witch floats up and disappears as we hear “Out, Out, Out.” The scene changes and the song ends.
The movie is now in color and the next song is called “Any Colour You Like.” Dorothy walks along the yellow brick road in this song. This leads us into the song “Brain Damage.” Here is the scene where the Scarecrow originally sings “If I only Had a Brain”. “The lunatic is on the grass” is playing as Dorothy walks onto the grass and the scarecrow jumps down onto it. This line refers to the mental condition of Judy Garland. The next set of lines that follow are: “Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs, Got to keep the loonies on the path.” The dictionary defines a daisy chain as a garland! “You raise the blade, you make the change, You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.” This line sounds like it’s talking about Judy Garlands many suicide attempts. Judy even attempted suicide by slitting her own throat once! The last lines of this song say: “And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.” This could be a reference to Judy Garlands live performances in the last years of her life where she slurred words and forgot lyrics.
Dorothy and the Scarecrow are now making their way down the path and come across the Tin man and the next song, “Eclipse.” Dorothy grabs the Tin Mans arm as we hear “All that you touch.” Dorothy and Tin man notice an oil can as we hear “All that you see.” While listening to Pink Floyd repeat each phrase with “all” as a prefix it sounds like oil. The same thing the Tin man needs to be able to move again. The song ends with Dorothy trying to listen for a heartbeat in the Tin man’s chest. The song “Eclipse” is the last song on the album and has a heart beating as an ending. There is much sync through the second and third play through, however; only one playback is necessary to see the requiem for Judy Garland.
The album cover for “The Dark Side of the Moon” has a prism with a Rainbow over it. “The Wizard of Oz” was the first film to use Technicolor technology which involved the use of a prism inside the video camera. “The Dark Side of the Moon” was also released two years after Judy Garland’s death. It appears that “The Dark Side of the Moon” is a requiem for Judy Garland but maybe there is no link between the Pink Floyd’s creation and “The Wizard of Oz”. It will be the belief of many that I got high and established a number of connections when there were none whatsoever. Some will believe that it is beyond my understanding to why these connections were made. Whether it is apophenia or synchronicity you believe in, it is also important to remember that, even though Pink Floyd has denied making any purposeful link between “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wizard of Oz” they encourage their fans to see the sync and judge for themselves, as do I.

3rd Part First Draft

Judy Garland was a huge supporter of the gay community. After Garland’s funeral, which many homosexuals attended, it was said that all the homosexuals met at The Stonewall Inn, which at the time was an illegal after hours gay bar. That same night the police decided to raid the Stonewall Inn. On any other night the patrons of the bar would run when raided, but this night they decided to fight back. The riot lasted for several days. The Stonewall Inn riots are said to have started the gay rights movement. In all her efforts while alive could it be Judy Garland’s death that triggered gay pride around the world. The rainbow, the symbol of gay pride, is said to have gone back to Judy Garland and her part in “The Wizard of Oz”. So it is no wonder that the Song “Us and Them” is supposed to represent this. As the song begins we see a munchkin holding a death certificate, which could represent Judy’s own death, and organ music playing in the background. “Us, and them, and after all we're only ordinary men” This is what is being sung as we see three male ballerinas dressed in pink. “Me, and you, God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.” This could be saying that their orientation is not their choice. And just before we would hear the wicked witch tell Dorothy “Ill get you pretty” we hear: “Listen son, said the man with the gun, There's room for you inside.” This could be the words of an officer telling a homosexual there is room for you inside the paddy wagon. During the song the munchkins still appear to be moving to the music. There is a scene where we see both the good and the bad witch and in the song we hear “which is which.” (witch is witch) The song proceeds to say “Down Down Down” as we see the house has fallen down on the bad witch. The good witch floats up and disappears as we hear“Out, Out, Out.” The scene changes as the song ends.As the movie is now in color the next song is called “Any Colour You Like.” Dorothy walks along the yellow brick road in this song.This leads us into the song “Brain Damage.” Here is the scene where the Scarecrow sings “If I only Had a Brain”. “The lunatic is on the grass” is sung as Dorothy walks onto the grass and the scarecrow jumps down onto it. This line refers to the mental condition of Judy Garland.The next set of lines that follow are: “Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs, Got to keep the loonies on the path.” The dictionary defines daisy chain as a garland! “You raise the blade, you make the change, You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.” This line sounds like it’s talking about Judy Garlands many suicide attempts. Judy even attempted suicide by slitting her own throat once! The last lines of this song say: “And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes,I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.” This could be a reference to Judy Garlands live performances in the last years of her life where she slurred words and forgot lyrics. As Dorothy and the Scarecrow make their way down the path they come across the Tin man and the next song “Eclipse.” Dorothy grabs the Tin Mans arm as we ear “All that you touch.” Dorothy and Tin man notice an oil can as we hear “All that you see” While listening to Pink Floyd repeat each phrase with “all” as a prefix it sounds like oil. The same thing the Tin man needs to be able to move again. The song ends with Dorothy trying to listen for a heartbeat in the Tin man’s chest. The song “Eclipse” is the last song on the album and has a heart beating on it. Listening to the “The Dark Side of the Moon” on repeat we would hear a heart beating again as the Tin Man sung “If I only had a brain.” There is much sync through the second and third play through, however; only one playback is necessary to see the requiem for Judy Garland.The album cover for the Dark Side of the Moon has a prism with a Rainbow over it. The Wizard of Oz was the first film to use Technicolor technology which involved the use of a prism inside the video camera. Even though Pink Floyd has denied making any link between “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wizard of Oz” they encourage their fans to see the sync and judge for themselves. The “Dark Side of the Moon” album was also released two years after Judy Garland’s death.

2nd Part First Draft

The Dark Side of the Moon synchronization with The Wizard of Oz begins with screaming as we see the Director and Producers names. The screaming possibly reffering to the abuse of Judy Garland at the hands of these two men. The first track is “Speak to Me.” In here we hear “I've been over the edge for yonks… I've always been mad, I know I've been mad.” A possible reference to Judy Garlands mental state? Other than that the track is virtually unspoken. It leads into the next track called “Breathe.” When looking at these tracks next to each other you see Speak to Me, Breathe! Almost as if that’s what you would say to someone you found overdosing. In “Breathe” we hear “look around and choose your own ground.” This could be a reference to the fact that it took over a year before Judy Garland had a proper burial. Garlands body was kept in a temporary crypt until the story broke. Arrangements were made quickly after so the family could avoid anymore shame and embarrassment. When he track ends we come into “On The Run.” The whole song in unspoken, however we can still draw that “On The Run” plays while Dorothy is singing the famous song, from the Wizard Of Oz, “Over The Rainbow.” Both of these songs have the same abbreviation: “OTR.” “On The Run” ends with the camera pointing to a cloudy sky while we hear thunder foreshadowing a storm. The soon to be “wicked witch” enters to the sound of bells in “Time.” Moments later, inside the house, Dorothy exchanges looks with her mother and the witch on cue with the guitar picks for the most part. After this confrontation Dorothy runs away and into a sign that seems to refer to time: “Past, Present and Future.” When Dorothy begins to have her fortune told to her she has a look of concern on her face. Dorothy begins to listen hard when we hear the lyrics ““Home, home again, I like to be here when I can”.”
Now as “The Great Gig in the Sky” begins, the tornado is approaching the home that Dorothy is running back to. The camera angles start changing to the cue of the music as the singer stresses to the panic of Dorothy. As Dorothy is hit in the head, drops on her bed, and goes unconscious the singing, by Clare Torry, drops its stress and becomes dream like. The singing fades in and out, screeching high when images of the witch appear and low again when she fades out. Could this “Great Gig in the Sky” refer to the house or tornado, or maybe even the combination of both in the sky? The house finally lands and there is now silence. Dorothy walks to the front door and as she opens it we hear cash registers and chimes as well as see color for the first time! The first three lines of the song are: “Money, get away – Get a good job with a good pay and you're okay – Money, it’s a gag.” Seeing as the first three lines of this song spell out MGM, perhaps this is a shot at MGM. MGM , who began giving Garland drugs at the age of 16, never paid Garland a cent after the movie was released. While MGM continues to make money off of The Wizard of Oz, Garland never received one cent royalty after her pay for making the movie. Judy was penniless for the rest of her life. The IRS seized most of Judy’s property and possessions due to back taxes she could not pay. Other than the blame of MGM in the song there are numerous syncs. There are rumors that the munchkins, who marched out of step but could dance on beat to the guitar solo, were drunk. So at the end of the song “Money” we hear someone say: ““I don't know, I was really drunk at the time.”

Beginning of First Draft

Have you ever experienced a religious miracle? Or maybe you’ve been at the foot of a paranormal event. If this is the case some psychologist may diagnose you with apophenia. Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. This term, coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958, has come to describe this distortion of reality in healthy individuals without implying any mental illness. While Conrad would tell you these patterns do not exist, psychologist Carl Jung would offer his argument of Synchronicity. Jung described Synchronicity as a “meaningful coincidence.” Synchronicity is an underlying pattern which includes, but is larger than, the system that displays it. English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd has been accused of purposefully synchronizing their albums with movies. The most famous of these Pink Floyd synchronizations, is a mix of their album “The Dark Side of the Moon” and famous MGM movie “The Wizard of Oz” and is called “The Dark Side of the Rainbow.” After watching the movie there can be three possible responses. The first response being that there are no connections at all and those who see patterns must suffer from apophenia. The second response would be from someone who sees an underlying pattern in which the movie and album connect through synchronicity. The third way you can view this film is as a purposeful synchronization, by Pink Floyd, of film and movie to create a requiem for Judy Garland.

Judy Garland, who lived only forty seven years, worked for forty five years. Judy Garland’s works include thirty two feature films, half a dozen short subjects, star of thirty of her own television shows (gust appearance on at least thirty more), over 100 recorded singles, over a dozen record albums, and between 1951 and 1969 fulfillment of over eleven hundred theatre, nightclub and concert performances. Even with all this success Judy could not find happiness in her life. Judy Garland had faced clinical depression and substance abuse throughout her life. Judy had many nervous breakdown and even suicide attempts. In 1950 Judy cut her own throat with a piece of glass, many argue whether this was a suicide attempt or a cry for help. On the set of Judy Garlands most famous film, The Wizard of Oz, producer Melvin Leroy and director Victor Flemming were said to have abused Judy Garland. While filming the scene with the Cowardly Lion, it has been said that Judy Garland giggled and for that, director Victor Flemming took her aside, lectured her and proceeded to slap her in the face. The slap in the face was said to “cure” her of her laughing. During filming of The Wizard of Oz MGM was concerned about Garlands weight. Producer and Director of the project gave pills to Garland to keep her weight down and boost her energy to finish filming on time. It is no wonder how Judy Garland became addicted to drugs, which ultimately lead to her demise at the age of 47 from an accidental overdose on barbiturates.

Collective Thoughts After Comments

My draft is still extremely rough, I believe I was asked in a comment if it was a brainstorm and thats how I mostly see it. My ideas were scattered around and hard to understand unless you were me. I needed to gather all the information I could speak of before I started arranging, deleting, and adding flare into it. I want to write the article in a form that even if you haven't seen The Dark Side of the Rainbow you could understand what I'm speaking about. I'd like to even influence readers who have never seen it to try out the sync. When I first started this project I wasn't sure where It would take me. Never thought I would stumble onto evidence that makes it seem as though The Dark Side of The Rainbow is a requiem for Judy Garland. I've decided to revolve around the requiem as a main theme and only incorporate the ideas of synchronicity and apophenia as possibilities. There are a ton of other movies by Pink Floyd that also supposedly synchronize but Wizard of Oz seems to be the best. I plan to make the target of this piece to be film and music fans. Someone made a comment of homophobia icons in the media? But I don't think it has anything to do with homophobia. I believe that Pink Floyd might have even been giving praise to J. Garland for what she did. To speak of Judy Garland and not mention that which was also a big part of her life would be a half assed project. OR perhaps that would have been homophobia to leave it out.

Requiem of Judy Garland DSOTM Syncs 2

Judy Garland was a huge supporter of the gay community. After the funeral, which many homosexuals attended, it was said that all the homosexuals met at The Stonewall Inn ,which at the time was an illegal after hours gay bar. The same night the police decided to raid the Stonewall Inn. On any other night the patrons of the bar would run when raided, but this night they decided to fight back. The riot lasted for several day. The Stonewall Inn riots are said to have started the gay rights movement . Could Judy Garlands death be what triggered gay pride around the world. The rainbow, the symbol of gay pride, is said to have gone back to Judy Garland and the Oz. The Song “Us and Them” is supposed to represent this. As the song begins we see a munchkin holding a death certificate (Judy Garlands?) and organ music playing in the background. “Us, and them, And after all we're only ordinary men” This is what is being sung as we see three ballerinas, ultimately refereeing to the homosexual community. “Me, and you, God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.” This could be saying that their orientation is not their choice. And just before the wicked witch tells Dorothy Ill get your pretty we hear: “Listen son, said the man with the gun, There's room for you inside.” This could be the words of an officer telling a homosexual there is room for you inside the paddy wagon. During the song the munchkins still appear to be moving to the music. There is a scene where we see both the good and the bad witch and in the song we hear “which is which” (witch is witch ) The song proceeds to say “Down Down Down” as we see the house has fallen down upon one of the bad witches. As the good witch floats up and dissapears the song is saying
“Out, Out, Out.” The scene changes at the end of the song.

As the movie is now in color the next song is called “Any Colour You Like as long as it's black.” Dorothy walks along the yellow brick road at the start of the song as we hear Any path you want to take.

During the song “Brain Damage” is the scene where the Scarecrow sings If I only Had a Brain. “The lunatic is on the grass. - ( scarecrow jumps down onto the grass )
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.”
The dictionary defines daisy chain as a garland!
“You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.” This sounds like its talking about Judy Garlands many suicide attempts while in psychiatric stay. She even attempted suicide by slitting her own throat once!
“And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.” This could be a reference to Judy Garlands live performances in the last years of her life where she slurred words and forgot lyrics ([playing different tunes)

At the end of the sing Eclipse we see Dorothy trying to listen for a heartbeat in the Tin Man which we indeed hear a heart beating at the end of the song.

Another interesting fact is that the album cover for the Dark Side of the Moon has a prism with a Rainbow over it. The Wizard of Oz was the first film to use technicolor technology which involved the use of a prism inside the video camera. Even though Pink Floyd has denied making any link of The Darkside oF the Moon with The Wizard of Oz they encourage their fans to see the sync and judge for themselves.

Dark Side Of Oz Syncs Part 1

When “synchronizing,” The Dark Side of the Moon album with The Wizard of Oz, you see many similarities. The First song is called “Speak to Me,” where Dorothy is balancing on a beam between two pigsty’s the singer sings: “Balanced on the biggest wave.” Dorothy then proceeds to fall into the pigsty at the same time the next track starts. The beginning of the next track is suspenseful, as are the actors to save Dorothy and sounds like a swarm of hungry pigs squealing. The next line says “you race towards an early grave,” now this could be referring to Judy Garland (Dorothy) who died two years earlier at the age of 47. The album is about Time, Death and Insanity. Judy Garland had attempted suicide, had mental problems which she continually struggled with and a drug dependency in which she died from.
The next song was called “Breathe.” I find it interesting that these two tracks were next to each other. Such as if Judy Garland was found overdosing the first thing someone would say to her is, “Speak to me! Breathe!” During the song we hear “look around and choose your own ground” which could refer to her burial. It had been over a year before Judy Garland was given a proper burial. Garlands body was kept in a temporary crypt until the story broke. Her family then made quick arrangements to avoid further shame and embarrassment.

As the song “On The Run” ends the camera is looking up at a cloudy sky. The track seems to be ending with a sound of thunder in it. It seems like there’s a storm on its way. Another thing to note is that while “On The Run” is playing, Garland is singing “Over the Rainbow,” they both have the same acronym “OTR.” As the witch enters the scene to the song “Time,” bells seem to immediately go off. As Dorothy exchanges looks between her mother and the witch the guitar seems to pick on cue with her for the most part. When Dorothy runs away she finds herself at a fortune teller. His sign reads: “Past, Present and Future.” Dorothy starts to look at the fortune teller as she is being told something important while at the same time you hear “Home, home again, I like to be here when I can” being sung.

The Great Gig in the Sky is the song playing for the tornado scene of the movie. The camera angles seem to change on cue of the music. As Dorothy panics the singer seems to stress her voice more until Dorothy is hit on the head with the window and goes unconscious. At that point the singer seems to fade out and back in to a screeching high when the witch appears, but then fades low again when the with disappears. The singing stops the second Dorothy’s house touches ground again. Could the Great Gig in the sky be referring to the house and/or the tornado?

The next song on the album is “Money.” When Dorothy opens the door of her house it is the first time we see color in the movie. It is the same time the song begins with cash registers and chimes. During the guitar solo the munchkins seems to be dancing to the beat. There was a rumor that the munchkins, from The Wizard of Oz, were drunk , the reason for this is because they marched out of step and at the end of the song your hear someone say “I don't know, I was really drunk at the time.” Another way to look at this scene is that MGM is to blame for Garlands demise. MGM forced her to take pills to control her weight and energy. They started her in drugs from the age of 16. MGM never paid Garland a cent after the movie was released. Garland only received the pay for making the movie at the time. The rest of her life she was penniless. The IRS seized most of her property and possessions due to back taxes she could not pay. The first three lines of the song Money spell out MGM: “Money, get away – Get a good job with a good pay and you're okay – Money, its a gag.” This could be placing blame on MGM.

Synchronicity Rough Draft

“Picture and track are so closely fused together that each one functions through the other. There is no separation of I see in the image and I hear on the track. Instead, there is the I feel, I experience, through the grand total of picture and track combined. “(Flinn, 46) Flinn, Caryl. Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music.
Today we see all events as of happening casually. There must be a cause for every effect. So what do we call an event that has no cause? In a religious expression it would be defined as a miracle. Carl G. Jung calls this cause and effect relationship Synchronicity. A double event shows us that our insight has something to do with the external world. With a transformation of consciousness you can open up to the irrational and recognize the reality of the world of the unconscious. “Synchronicity is no more baffling or mysterious than the discontinuities of physics. It is only the ingrained belief in the sovereign power of causality that creates intellectual difficulties and makes it appear unthinkable that causeless events exist or could ever occur. But if they do, then we must regard them as creative acts, as the continuous creation” Carl G. Jung

Writer's Guidelines

Bright Lights Film Journal is “a popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political.” This is the venue I think I am going to look further into. They are interested in reviews of movies, studies of directors and other key production figures. A plus side that I found was that most of their material comes from students and professors. Their style is idiosyncratic. They want their ideas available to a wide audience instead of, in Bright Lights Film Journals words, “bone-dry scholarly analysis.” B.L.F.J. exists only as a web page. Ideal lengths range between 600-1800 words. However, for more ambitious think pieces 2000-3000 words is good. No length is looked down upon though, as long as the subject deserves it. “We have no set taboos and prefer passionate, opinionated, even ranting pieces that are intelligently and engagingly written.”
- http://www.brightlightsfilm.com

Ideas...

My topic is going to revolve around films with Pink Floyd scores (http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/amphitheatre/3528/pink_floyd_movie_syncs.html – this is a website with a list of albums by Pink Floyd that match different movies) . People have debated whether or not Pink Floyd made their albums as scores to movies. Perhaps they did, or perhaps it is just apophenia, or another possibility is Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity. The venue has yet to be decided but that doesn't mean there aren't a number of choices (hmoviescopemag.com, electricsheepmagazine.co.uk, bfi.org.uk/sightandsound, moviemaker.com, etc. ). The venue will have to have publications revolving around films and their scores. Possible targets and writers for them include: filmmakers, film enthusiasts, music artists, music enthusiasts, film distributors, film journalists, directors, cinematographers, producers, screenwriters, editors and many more. The writing style is almost like a novel. Current editors have written novels, graphic novels, comic books, scripts and much more. I have a simple early working outline and an idea of submission guidelines ( at least for BFI )

Best Venue and Topic

The journal I am looking at mostly right now is PsyArt. According to their website, PsyArt is a peer reviewed journal that uses a psychological approach to the arts. PsyArt specializes in psychoanalytic psychology and literature, visual arts, music or film. PsyArts volumes extend back to 1997 and is free to anyone using the internet. My paper is going to be on the psychological aspect behind musical myths. Possibly finding and supporting proof and/or disproving certain musical/film myths and deciding whether to side with apophenia, synchronicity or even both.

Poissble Venues?

My topic has to do with musical myths and/or the psychological aspect behind it. I searched for music/art journals as well as psychology journals. The Connections Journal deals with social network analysis and has a section for psychology communication. Interactions is not a scientific publication but has to do with the connections that exist between people. I am interested in this because of the groups of people who can see the musical myths and the groups who do not. I am interested in how they differ. The Atlantic seems to have a variety of topics to squeeze into. I also did a search for journals that had a combination of music and psychology, thinking that there would not be many journals but I was surprised. PSYART is an online journal for the psychological study of art. The Journal of Music and Meaning is a good journal on music research. The Music and Psyche Network seems to be on the lower end but still has me interested. IT may fit my entry better than the rest.

Links:
Connections:
http://www.insna.org/pubs/connections/index.html
Interactions:
http://interactions.acm.org/submit.php
The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/index/books
PSYART:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/index.shtml
The Journal of Music and Meaning:
http://www.musicandmeaning.net/links.php
Music & Psyche Network:
http://www.musicpsyche.org/

Which Side of Believing

The term apophenia was coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958. According to Skeptic's Dictionary apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena. In statistics this is called a Type 1 error, seeing patterns where none, in fact, exist. Many believe apophenia is the explanation to many unusual experiences and phenomena such as ghosts, hauntings, E.V.P., numerology, and The Dark Side of the Rainbow. Conrad described this as distortion of reality present in psychosis without really implying the presence of neurological or mental illness.
Others believe in the synchronicity, as defined by Carl Jung: a phenomenon in which coincidental events "seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality.” This theory is impossible to prove.
A big part of the psychedelic scene in the 60's was putting random film clips to unrelated music. I have even stumbled across “The Synchronicity Arkive.” (http://www.synchronicityarkive.com/) In The Dark Side of the Rainbow, Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon album is said to be in synchronicity with the visuals from The Wizard of Oz. A problem you encounter while watching this is that The Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd isn't as long as The Wizard of Oz. One theory is to put the album on repeat and let it start again. A second theory is to put on the Pink Floyd track Wish You Were Here and then finish it with PIGS from the Animals album, another song by Pink Floyd. I can remember watching the film a while back and thinking the same thing I did after watching it again. As awesome as a soundtrack as it sounds for the movie, and as many parts match, there still seems to be some gaps in between. I cannot choose a theory to support.

About Me

Hello everyone, my name is Evangelos Samaras and I am a Liberal Arts: Psychology major. I am currently interested in the criminal mind although I am not officially trying to earn a degree in Criminal Psychology(Forensic Psychology), but I have not completely ignored it either. As a long term goal I am interested in becoming a Psychiatrist but I have a lot of schooling left to reach that position. On my spare time I like to make music and watch Horror and B-list movies. I love to make music, whether it's playing the guitar, keyboard or writing lyrics, there is no aspect of it I don't like to tamper with.