Ever wonder about the little snippets of theme music played on DVD menus?

Oh, sorry. You thought I was going to tell you something about it. I'm just wondering too.

Here's one opinion about it: some of the snippets are too short. And when they are too short paired with being too thrilling, like the 30 seconds they play on the DVDs of the TV show "24," that's double bad. Especially if you are an old fart who falls asleep on the sofa and you wake up all stirred up.

I like the theme. The deedle-deedle-deedle piano part I imagine to be running, and of course it trails off to Black Helicopter sounds.

My kids are making fun of me for getting hooked on an action show. They also make fun of me for blogging and podcasting my opinions about TV music. When I did kind of a dumb recording of TV westerns, comparing them to a theme from Tommy, my older son said he didn't find it weird for someone to enjoy thinking about stuff like that, but that putting your own commentary about it on the internet was quite another matter. I said, "Who else's opinions would I put on the internet?!"