spirit time has come

Sometime around 1995 I was scoring the show Twitch City for CBC made by Don McKellar and Bruce MacDonald. It was only 13 episodes which was too bad because it was so much fun to work on especially the episodes with Tracy Wright where she played a strange catwoman who is abducted in a feline takeover of the world a la Planet of The Apes. They imprisoned her and put her on trial but a rebel human force staged a daring rescue and broke into the courtroom where she was held behind bars. After successfully battling with security cats, they started to free her and with a crane raised the jail cell. As Tracy’s character grasped the revolution and nascent freedom she cheered on the rebels exclaiming the following words, very slowly like someone struggling to remember a poem. I didn’t understand what she meant until the third or forth time and was then spectacularly amused, “rise up, rise up, oh rise and show your power, rise up rise up, we’re dancing into the sun, rise up rise up, it’s time for celebration, rise up rise up spirit time has come”.

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  1. Big admirer of McKellar, here. Always wonder what he’s doing these days.

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