While trying to choose other theme music for myself, while pondering whether Amon Tobin‘s Slowly describes me specifically enough or merely described the way the bay looked on this particular morning, I listened to Four Ton Mantis (on the album Supermodified (2000, Ninja Tune)).
Oh my gosh.
I once wrote a screenplay for a wordless film for this song. About Godzilla. Waking up, and then destroying a city. And settling in for a nap, after having a butterfly land on his nose. There were timestamps for various scenes, aligned with the music. (I posted this work to the writing group section of a dating site (!!), and my posts there somehow led to a fun, four-year relationship with another writer, though this is not an obvious outcome to such writing. [muffled question] What? [muffled question off camera] No, he wasn’t scared away by this. [muffled sound off camera] Well, “normal” people can be a bit dull…)
Anyway, it’s a great song. If I were to put on a robot suit and stage a fight with another woman (who is also in a robot suit) in a scale model of NeoTokyo, this could be the soundtrack to that fight. Or we could wear giant robot suits and fight in actual NeoTokyo, if that would be easier to film, but I don’t think we could get insurance. (Yes, I am thinking of Iczer One, and no, you can’t stop me.)
(I would link to media of Four Ton Mantis, but it isn’t visible on the iTunes version of the album currently available (even though it is on my phone), and the album version isn’t available on YouTube. The remixes give the song a different character entirely, though they are also fun – they just have less of a giant-robot-suit-fight-music character.)