{"id":2194,"date":"2021-06-06T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T21:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2024-02-24T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T19:24:35","slug":"lx-chapter-commentary-6-cornfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-chapter-commentary-6-cornfields\/","title":{"rendered":"LX Chapter Commentary #6: Cornfields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>When I hear the word &#8220;cornfield&#8221; I immediately think of <em>Quantum Leap<\/em>&#8216;s third season premiere episode &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/quantumleap.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Leap_Home,_Part_I_(episode)\">The Leap Home<\/a>&#8221; from 1990 (or 1969 if we go by the leap date). Sam Beckett leaps into himself as a 16 year old, and running through the cornfield on his family&#8217;s farm features prominently in two different scenes.<br><br>Since this song from <a href=\"https:\/\/smarturl.it\/BH.ALoveExtreme\"><em>A Love Extreme<\/em><\/a> is an instrumental, &#8220;cornfields&#8221; was the only word I had to inspire me. Musically it feels like the soundtrack to a chase, which kept running through a cornfield front and center in my mind. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2092\">first instrumental dream<\/a> had a movie\/music tie in with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lovers_and_Other_Strangers\"><em>Lovers &amp; Other Strangers<\/em><\/a>, so the precedent existed.<br><br>I was already running (pun intended) with the QL parody\/tribute piece when I found a <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/trek565758\/treklenburg-podcast-57\">Star Trek podcast<\/a> Benji Hughes guest hosted called &#8220;Treklenburg.&#8221; Midway through the episode he mentioned how much he always loved <em>Quantum Leap<\/em>. (He also mentions\u00a0<em>Enterprise<\/em> and says &#8220;Put an instrumental theme song on that!&#8221;) My tenuous connection was serendipitously validated, and the rest is history.<br><br>Other tidbits:<\/p> <ul> <li>Mirroring the <em>&#8220;Two _____. Both w___&#8230; Sometimes&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> opening on all of the instrumentals was a fun bit of synergy to work out. For the longest time the intros started &#8220;There are two&#8230;&#8221; Shortening it up was inspired by the novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37510662-foe\"><em>Foe<\/em><\/a> by Iain Reid, which starts with the line &#8220;Two headlights.&#8221;<\/li> <li>The song starts with what I&#8217;ve always heard as the sound of wind chimes, which is very similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantumleap-alsplace.com\/sounds\/technical.htm\">sound effect<\/a> when Al the hologram from\u00a0<em>Quantum Leap<\/em> would appear or walk through an object. (Not to be confused with the sound of the imaging chamber door.)<\/li> <li>As an obsessively nerdy fan of\u00a0<em>Quantum Leap<\/em>, I wrote the first draft mostly from memory of this episode plus other references. I screwed up on the number of cheerleaders and the color of Sam&#8217;s attire, but worked those mistakes into the plot instead of correcting them to add some dreamy realism.<\/li> <li>If you want a great proxy for a mini Season 6 of <em>Quantum Leap<\/em>, check out the novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36337550-the-7-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle\"><em>The 7 1\/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle<\/em><\/a> by Stuart Turton.<\/li> <li>Does the handlink access Ziggy directly, or is Gooshie the go-between? That&#8217;s a legitimate question.<\/li> <li>&#8220;Al likes girls. And <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/2Fc8HWC0yGaWXq0IW3gZxu?si=48bd68a645904803\">girls love shoes<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li> <li>I entered an early draft of this chapter (minus the album references by removing Benji&#8217;s last name) as a short story for a NaNoWriMo writing contest. There was a requirement to include the number 1667 (the number of words you need to write per day for a month to &#8220;win&#8221; NaNoWriMo with a 50K word manuscript), hence Ziggy giving a 16.67% chance Benji will remember the party.<\/li> <li>The saga cell parody at the end still makes me grin every time I read it. An old Benji Hughes mailing list email about tour dates called him &#8220;Dr. Hughes&#8221; which directly connected my brain to the famous QL opening narration.<\/li> <\/ul> <p style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/b\/lx\"><em>L Extreme<\/em><\/a><\/p> <p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/classic-tv\/quantum-leap\/video\/the-leap-home-part-1-november-25-1969\/2924325\">&#8220;The Leap Home, Part I&#8221;<\/a><\/p> <p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-v6aV_QrwgA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I hear the word &#8220;cornfield&#8221; I immediately think of Quantum Leap&#8216;s third season premiere episode &#8220;The Leap Home&#8221; from 1990 (or 1969 if we go by the leap date). Sam Beckett leaps into himself as a 16 year old, and running through the cornfield on his family&#8217;s farm features prominently in two different scenes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-zo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2472,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-19-coyotes\/","url_meta":{"origin":2194,"position":0},"title":"LX Commentary #19: Coyotes","author":"LBDG","date":"October 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Another instrumental closes out Side C before we flip the record for the final time. 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