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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 31, 2014 17:22:42 GMT
I bought some candy to hand out, but I probably won't get any trick-or-treat-ers because I'm in an apartment. I'm gonna be chatting with pals online all night and listening to spooky music until the wee hours.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 29, 2014 3:16:26 GMT
Saw it. It does seem to be an improvement on the original in nearly every way.
Some of the themes and subtext seem to direct responses to certain fandom complaints about the previous movie, and about later seasons of FIM. First of all, there was the complaint that EQG relies too heavily on the Ponyverse rather than being its own, independent thing. So what happens here? The humane six send a cry for help to Twilight, because they themselves think they can't solve the problem without her. Second, there's the complaint about Twilight getting singled out and separated from her friends in Megan McCarthy's plot-heavy episodes. So here, Twilight becomes convinced that she has to save the day all by herself, and it's her job alone to write the musical counter-spell. She even considers asking Sunset for help, but decides not to.
Then the ending yanks the rug from underneath both of those. The humane six save the day almost completely without Twilight. Sunset has the epiphany that sets everyone else on the right path, and her singing voice is the one that overwhelms the sirens and completes the magic friendship laser rainbow. The rest of The Rainbooms create the counter-spell. Twilight's role in all this? Realizing that she doesn't have to save the day herself, and using her personal influence to convince the others that Sunset's epiphany is right.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't all intentional on the writers' part, but it's interesting all the same.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 28, 2014 22:25:48 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 28, 2014 16:34:21 GMT
Chanchullo by Rubén González. Cuban pianist, and apparently one of the giants of Cuban music. Then he got his international break playing for the Buena Vista Social Club project. But his solo albums are even better, I think. Very jazzy.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 28, 2014 5:10:23 GMT
Holy crap. Duke recorded a session with an accordion player. It's better than I could have hoped.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 28, 2014 1:08:09 GMT
Now listening to a 3-CD anthology of Duke Ellington's music from the 20s. Wonderful music, even though the sound quality is pants.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 27, 2014 16:38:38 GMT
But would you slide towards positive or negative? Positive, I think? It straddles the line between familiar and unfamiliar in a very disconcerting way. Now listening to 23 by Blonde Redhead. Some darn good shoegaze.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 27, 2014 14:33:34 GMT
I'm an okay cook, buy I lack the motivation to do it most of the time.
And I was thinking Talking Heads with that line. The original was "There's a party in my mind and I hope it never stops."
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 27, 2014 5:19:08 GMT
I listened to Ys by Joanna Newsom. I'm at a loss for words.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 27, 2014 0:06:36 GMT
I am eating fajitas that I cooked myself. They taste GREAT.
There's a party in my mouth, and I hope it never stops.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 25, 2014 20:21:19 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 24, 2014 21:35:19 GMT
Glad to hear things didn't go too bad.
EDIT: Where is he, now that he's been found?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 24, 2014 16:54:13 GMT
Vinyl is only as good as the source material, though. Very, very true. Another frustrating thing about this vinyl resurgence is that the vast majority of albums since 2000 were recorded and mixed digitally. So all these new vinyls have exactly the same sound fidelity as the CD version... at best. (Unless the CD was brickwalled during mastering and the vinyl wasn't, which is an entirely separate issue.)
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 24, 2014 15:52:01 GMT
Crap. Sorry about that.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 24, 2014 3:51:06 GMT
Not just kids. The whole family!
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