So I realized as I was flipping thru my music Collection the other day, exactly how many songs were no more than revisions of older songs, or otherwise songs based strongly on other ones. The first example of this is when I remembered that Rammstein's son g "Dalai Lama" was based on a much older tune "Erlkönig" or the Elf King, which was an old German song/ poem dating back to the 1800's. The poem was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and was later turned into a Leider (musical piece) by Schubert. The story was definitely rewritten by Rammstein, however after reading a straight translation the similarities of the story stands out. In both of them a fathers fear of his sons omens of death but is unable to save him, and possibly fulfills the omens himself.

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I was somewhat struck both by Biscuit's previous blog and a trailer I watched today--yet another remake of an original that doesn't need to be remade. This time they've chosen to butcher more Freddy Krueger---the biggest horror? It's not Robert Englund, and from the trailer it appears as if they're making Freddy out to be innocent? Anyone familiar with the origins of Freddy Krueger knows the basic plot: Freddy killed children, and got freed upon a legal technicality. So the angry mob of parents went vigilante style on him, locked him in his boiler room where he used to take the kids, and lit it on fire. Thus, he comes back to haunt kids in their dreams.

Robert Englund

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