Dark Side of the Town Hall

For the second Presidential Debate of the 2008 Obama / McCain presidential race, I tried an old psychedelic expirament: synchronization with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. It worked better than I expected, and I microblogged the entire experience.

Try it yourself. Queue up Dark Side of the Moon and begin playing as Tom Brokaw says “Good Evening”.

Yes, this is silly.

I noticed synchronicity a few times:

I’m watching tonight’s debate on mute with Dark Side of the Moon playing. I call it Dark Side of the Town Hall. 6:41 PM Oct 7th

Started Dark Side right when Tom Brokaw said “Good Evening” - the pulse background is kinda creepy, laughing, screaming 8:03 PM Oct 7th

Awesome: They shook hands just as Breathe kicked in. IT WORKS! 8:04 PM Oct 7th

Obama answers his first question to the first stanza of Breathe ♫ “Don’t be afraid to care / look around, choose your own life” ♫ 8:05 PM Oct 7th

McCain answers his first question to creepy synth pattern of ♫ On The Run ♫ 8:08 PM Oct 7th

“Not You Tom” didn’t synch, then he pauses, then the plane wreck sound effect at the end of ♫ On The Run ♫, then McCain’s answer. 8:09 PM Oct 7th

Obama “other folks” eh? Oh all of them that come across your desk? ♫ Time ♫ is revving up - clauses end in that droning low E 8:11 PM Oct 7th

McCain on Obama’s cronies as the Gilmours’ solos in ♫ Time ♫ “Buy up these bad loans” wailing blues 8:13 PM Oct 7th

Obama rebuttal during solo refrain, nicely synced, contine through last verse of Time and end right as the song ends 8:16 PM Oct 7th

McCain rebuttal backed by Clare Torry. Oohhh “The American workers are the best in the world” 8:18 PM Oct 7th

Obama makes promises of investment (with what $?) to Ms. Finch during mellow lull in ♬ The Great Gig in the Sky ♬ 8:21 PM Oct 7th

♬ Money ♬ and McCain’s rebuttal sync perfectly. “Let’s look at our records instead of rhetoric” “Money…root of all evil today” 8:22 PM Oct 7th

As the sax solo winds gives way to guitar solo in ♬ Money ♬ McCain describes order of priorities. He’s really good at this. Gilmour I mean. … 8:25 PM Oct 7th

Obama compares himself to JFK as ♬ Money ♬ winds down. Really? /that/ JFK? Really? “Giving none away” ♬ “Giving none away” ♬ 8:28 PM Oct 7th

McCain describes eliminating government departments by specifically solving defense spending problems to ♬ Us and Them ♬ Clinton-omics? 8:30 PM Oct 7th

♬ “Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words / the poster bearer cried Listen son, said the man with the gun / There’s room for you inside” ♬ 8:32 PM Oct 7th

McCain on nailing Jello to the wall as ♬ Any Colour You Like ♬ begins (I’ll take Lime with vodka, in a dixie cup) then describes his tax plan … 8:37 PM Oct 7th

Obama describes his tax plan to ♬ Brain Damage ♬, then McCain plays up his maverick record to the same. 8:41 PM Oct 7th

♬ Eclipse ♬ ends as McCain comments on environment. Nuclear power, or something like that. 8:45 PM Oct 7th

Debate continues, The Dark Side of the Town Hall does not. ♬ “There is no dark side of the town hall really. Matter of fact its all dark.” ♬