The chord progression of the canon (“I V vi iii IV I IV V”) is one of the most common in many popular songs produced since.

Comedian Rob Paravonian‘s rant about Pachelbel is humourous and educational when in comes to understanding the deju vu syndrome of hit music and how we can look to the long deceased composer as a true patron of the parallels.

Crosslinks:

http://myspace.com/robparavonian

http://incompetech.com/music/canon.html

The above clip is from Vincent Gallo’s film, Buffalo ’66.

Vincent Gallo on a scene in his other film, Brown Bunny:

I wanted to show what people do every day all over the world,” Gallo said. “In sexualized behavior, your mind fills up with the intimacy of sexual thoughts, but in my character, it stays locked in resentment, fear, anger, guilt. When you juxtapose that against images you’re used to seeing for the purpose of enhancing pleasure, I felt it could create a disturbing effect. It’s metaphysical. You’re seeing how he visualizes his own sexuality. Never in my life have I had sexual or violent images as components in any of my work and this was not the inspiration of a provocateur; that was not the goal. Some people respond to it deeply in the way that it was intended.”

Crosslinks:

http://www.vincentgallo.com/

http://www.galloappreciation.com/

“I was concerned with something like the notion of language speaking the subject,’ and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.”

-Martha Rosler

se‧mi‧ot‧ics (http://www.dictionary.com)
–noun (used with a singular verb)
1.
the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the
analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
2.
a general theory of signs and symbolism, usually divided into the branches
of pragmatics, semantics, and syntactics.

Crosslinks
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?SEMIOTICSO