That should stop the flow of the red, red kroovy.

Does not approve.

If they interrupt Ode to Joy for a public service announcement about suspicious packages I'm going to have to blow something up.

Bagelox-99: How about big band music?

/no wait, we want to shoo away 18-25s, not 18-65s

You obviously don't swing dance.

Heathen.

A right shame, my droogs and I love a bit of the old Ludwig Van after a nochy of the old ultraviolence

Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?
Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom: Are you referring to the background score?
Alex: Yes.
Dr. Branom: You've heard Beethoven before?
Alex: Yes!
Dr. Brodsky: So, you're keen on music?
Alex: YES!
Dr. Brodsky: Can't be helped. Here's the punishment element perhaps.

What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.

One of these days I'm gonna have to see that movie.

/finally read the book last year

Angel trumpets and devil trombones - but only the '63 Berlin recordings, please.

/all else is homogenized pablum

Pants full of macaroni!!

The movie is a generally faithful rendition of the edition of the book Kubrick worked from. Both book and movie are very good.

chaosweaver: Though there was a fat bum in pink sweats sleeping on the stairs last night.

hp6sa: Subby - Portland already does it. Minneapolis is looking to copy that. Hence, the Minneapolis paper.

/My office overlooks a light-rail stop, so I'll soon be getting a Ludwig out of these replies, I suspect.

Lane Transit District plays classical music at the downtown transit station in Eugene to deter people, especially youths, from loitering. LTD plays a lot of opera, especially "Carmen" in an effort to keep groups of teens from blocking the sidewalk area near the EmX boarding area, but their plans don't seem to be too effective.

Beethoven may work. I personally like his Concerto No. 5. If you really want to deter them though play some of Stravinsky's string quartets, or some other 'atonal' pieces that will drive them batty.

/I appreciate the music, but no one ever said I had to like it.

As a bit of a Beethoven scholar, I have a feeling that our dear Ludwig would be doing backflips in his grave if he knew that we were using his music to pacify the masses. I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of his intention, and if there was anything that Beethoven feared, it was to be misunderstood by mankind and misjudged by history. Unfortunately, due to his "mythic" status, that's precisely what has happened.

And as a lover of A Clockwork Orange, the irony is just too much.