trois gymnopedie

For as long as I can remember, I've planned to use the song 'Trois Gymnopedie', or [the slightly different] 'Gymnopedie No. 1', by Erik Satie in 'pedal'. Actually, I'm not even sure how I came across the song, if I had to guess, I'd say it was just something I stumbled onto one day while flipping through my iTune's collection. And I've been in love with it ever since.

I always though it held a certain layered emotion to it - that it set a good mood-pace for the film, as well as urged the listener/viewer to 'look closer'... that things were happening below the surface. Which is an important piece of the documentary, that although you may be 'looking' at a person riding quietly down a perfectly straight road cutting through the center of a never ending wheat-field during a breath-taking sunset... the least important "thing" happening is that the person is riding a bike. It's actually about the journey inside... as cliche as that comes off. And, like I said, I always thought "gymnopedie" was a good song to express this.

So, you can imagine my frustration when tonight, while watching 'Riding Giants', which I just received in the mail from 'NetFlix', during one of the more serious and soul-searching moments of the film, they begin playing... you guessed it... "my song". And it wasn't something that faintly played behind a handful of other conversations, oh no, all other audio was dropped and it was cranked and played for at least a minute straight. So frustrating...