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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 16, 2019 6:19:44 GMT
I caught an airing of the Dragnet movie (the one from 1954) on TV once. Most of it was really good, but the one fight scene was unintentionally hilarious. I think I remember the sound effects of the punches were way too loud—and there were a lot of first-person POV shots, which meant a lot of shots with actors punching the camera.
Applelight, you ever see Police Squad!? It was a parody of American cop shows from the 50s and 60s, by the same guys who made Airplane!. So, lots of jokes based on weird wordplay or twisting the cliches of the genre. Really funny stuff. The Naked Gun movies were also based on Police Squad! but I prefer the original series.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 18, 2019 7:15:05 GMT
After listening to [untitled] several more times, it's really grown on me. It's definitely up with my other favorite mwY albums.
In other news, I finally got an actual CD copy of The Tick Tock Companion by Joy Electric. It's a limited-edition side album Ronnie Martin did, and rare enough that Ronnie himself doesn't have a copy anymore. I was super lucky to find a guy selling a copy through Discogs for a reasonable price—rather than auctioning it off on Ebay, where it could have sold for hundreds of dollars. The music itself is an oddity in Joy Electric's discography. Ronnie normally played synthpop, but for Companion he abandoned the "pop" completely and just recorded an hour of abstract synthesizer sounds. I believe the entire thing was improvised live in the studio; in any case it kinda sounds like the Forbidden Planet soundtrack, or something by Tangerine Dream.
I dig it. The complete lack of anything resembling "songs" means I won't be listening to this one super often, but the vintage synthesizers sound great. It's a lovely soundscape to get lost in.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 13, 2019 6:04:46 GMT
I agree that does sound like the most interesting of the three premises.
Had a weird dream last night that struck me afterwards as a potentially interesting setting for a story. I dreamed I was visiting my parents' place, and was going to get a blu-ray player with my mom. We took a "subway" to get where we were going, but the subway turned out to be just a room with a bunch of random chairs in it. We sat down for a bit, then the room's door reopened to a completely different place than before. So wormholes were involved, or the entire room was teleporting. But that wasn't the weird part.
The electronics store was kind of a hole in the wall. We walked up to the counter to ask for a blu-ray player, and the lady behind the counter just handed me a purple remote control. Since I was dreaming, this made perfect sense to me: Of course if I start using this new remote, my old DVD player will suddenly be able to play blu-ray discs! Then I took a closer took at the remote, and noticed some odd buttons—particularly one that would show how many fairies were currently in the room. Which made me realize that, of course, electricity is actually caused by fairies. Most people had no idea, of course—but those in the know about fairies could use that info to unlock certain hidden features of common electronic devices.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 10, 2019 1:51:43 GMT
And now you're making me feel guilty for not being sick.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 6, 2019 18:49:40 GMT
The thing about mwY is that the overall sound of their albums has kind of been swinging back and forth like a pendulum, with heavy post-hardcore on one end (like on [A-->B] Life and Pale Horses) and indie-folk on the other end (like It's All Crazy!). They're all good, but some take a little more getting used to than others. The two albums you got are near the middle, with Brother, Sister leaning a little more towards the indie-folk side, and [untitled] leaning a little more to the heavy side. (Also, [untitled] occupies roughly the same place on the pendulum as my other fave by them, Catch for Us the Foxes.)
Also I gotta take the chance to shill one of my favorite bands. The guest musicians playing brass on Brother, Sister were members of Anathallo, another band that was similarly passionate and weird, though never as aggressive as mwY.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 6, 2019 5:31:38 GMT
Yeah, mewithoutYou are really something special. My favorites by them are Catch for Us the Foxes and It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright. I just got [untitled] as a Christmas present, and it may be up there with those two. I'll need to give it a few more listens before I can say. What kind of music does she do? Miwa's first two albums, Forgetful Ocean and This Is How I Found You, are a slightly off-kilter take on poppy blues and folk rock. Then for her third album, Fantastic Lies of Grizzly Rose, she turned into a "sonic carnival", incorporating waltzes and western music and adding an accordion, trumpet, and xylophone to her ensemble. You can stream all of her albums on Bandcamp: miwagemini.bandcamp.com/music
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 5, 2019 7:12:10 GMT
Earlier today, I got an email from Miwa Gemini, a musician from New York. She was wondering if I had actually received the two CDs I ordered from her Bandcamp page. This was because she'd just logged into her Bandcamp account for the first time in a while, saw my order, and had no idea if she'd sent me the CDs or not. I ordered them back in 2014. And I got them pretty promptly, so Miwa had nothing to worry about. Still, this was a good reminder to listen to all her albums again. They're still good. I'm a little surprised that she still handles the logistics of mailing off her CDs and merch by herself, but I guess she isn't big enough to need help with all that yet.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 1, 2019 5:09:18 GMT
Merry New Year, everyone.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 25, 2018 4:47:47 GMT
The holiday break is gonna be short for me this year. I just flew up to visit the family today.
Happy Christmas, everyone.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 21, 2018 17:17:27 GMT
The Matrix would be the one exception, I guess.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 19, 2018 13:59:38 GMT
Apparently the female lead from Mortal Engines had a huge, really disfiguring scar in the book, because the author wanted a heroine who wasn't conventionally attractive. So of course, Hollywood said "Not conventionally attractive? We can't have that!" and toned down her scar severely.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 15, 2018 15:32:42 GMT
Pretty much. Except they've expanded the roster over from first-party Nintendo characters to third-party characters who've appeared on Nintendo consoles (like Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Pac-Man, and Snake from Metal Gear), and even characters who haven't appeared on Nintendo consoles themselves but other games in their series have (like Cloud from Final Fantasy VII and Joker from Persona 5).
Also I think the lore is that these aren't the actual characters fighting, but they're just toys brought to life.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 9, 2018 14:57:33 GMT
That's great to hear.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 6, 2018 2:44:43 GMT
Damn. I hope you can get that fixed without too much trouble.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 26, 2018 2:03:52 GMT
That sounds like fun. I'd love to see London sometime.
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