Maybe not
Maybe I won’t go through with the Enya thing. That last post was not funny and this idea will drive me insane. I need sleep.
Song-by-song Very Best of Enya review 321 GO!!!!!
There’s over an hour of music here and didn’t realize that ahead of time.
I’m not really sure what I’m getting myself into.
1. Orinoco Flow
0:00 What does this sound like to me? This sound like something familiar. Maybe from a game or a movie or I don’t know. It’s not even the song but the synth string reverb thing. God what is that? Why does this make me happy? Why do I kinda enjoy this?
0:09 The piano. It’s genius. It just….. fits.
0:20 It’s so enthralling. The vocals are just hypnotizing.
0:33 The minor switch is really kinda risky in what I was assuming was just gonna be a kinda happy-floaty song. Although the arpeggiator makes it work. I think. I don’t know what I think. Do I like this?
0:50 And now it’s major again. She does have a brilliant sense of harmony.
0:55 And the timpani! It worries me that I’m not even a minute in and there’s already so much to write about. I hope that the rest of the album, the rest of the song even, can live up to this. It’s really kinda kitschy sounding, but it’s also kinda cool.
1:30 Now it just seems to be repeating itself. Maybe it is losing steam.
1:40 One thing I’ve just noticed is how loud this music is. It’s supposed to be ethereal and relaxing, but it seems really loud compared to, say, The Beatles or some other arbitrary band that’s not really meant to be relaxing. Maybe the difference is that The Beatles recorded in the ‘60 back in the analog days, but Enya recorded in the ‘90’s and onward and had digital recording and could be as loud as she fucking wanted to. But The Beatles were only remaster a few years ago and still don’t seem to be as consistently loud. And Enya being being this loud seems counter to the music’s purpose. Although maybe I’m just not getting it. Maybe I’m totally misunderstand her. Maybe she’s going for a sort of loud-is-the-new-soft sort of thing. Maybe there were some sort of punk spin-off counterculture that reveled in really fucking loud pizzicato strings rather than guitars. Or it’s just the engineer’s fault for leaving the compressor on too high. I could just turn the volume down, but I’m at the same level that I listen other music at and even, say, Deerhoof isn’t this in my face. Maybe the engineer just got done working with Slipknot or something.
1:50 Oh my god. Something happened. It’s still loud, but the song changed. Maybe I shouldn’t lose hope.
2:00 So is this like the karaoke for an RnB track or something? My sister just pointed out that it sounds like she’s saying “turn it up/turn it up” which I can only assume is her giving the engineer commands once she noticed the drop in apparent volume level.
2:19 And we’re back in the game again.
3:00 I still don’t hate it. It really is kinda fun. I think I might want to find some of these pizzi-punks and say “Hey, guys. I’ve seen, or rather heard, the light. I want to join.” Not yet though. I’m still not convinced.
4:28 I’m not sure what just happened there. I just kinda forgot to write. This isn’t relaxing so much as entrancing, but I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. From 2:19 on it just repeated itself ‘til the end. But that’s not a criticism. I’m all for drawing out a hook for all it’s worth. And hell, with something that mind-leeching with it’s counterpoint and it’s interweaving melody line she has every right to exploit it. Although it kind makes the RnB section feel unneeded. But then she ends on a weird minor chord. Maybe there really is depth here. Maybe there really is some torment locked behind the waves of strings and synths. Maybe I need to stop writing and analyzing and remember that I’m LISTENING TO FUCKING ENYA. She’s like the queen of annoying ‘90’s new age music! But maybe there is something there. I don’t really hate it. Yet. We’ll find out.
I think I’ll do one of these a night. I was gonna do the whole album now, but I’m writing way too much to be able to keep it up. So stay tuned because the next song’s in Elvish. Like, Tolkien’s Elvish. I’m not making this up.
A child before losing their baby teeth.
i don’t think that child’s gonna be losing their baby teeth any time soon
Normally I’m not disturbed by teeth like some people can be, but this is just…..
(Source: jpegirl)
“Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.
Now, once you’ve selected the “Straight White Male” difficulty setting, you still have to create a character, and how many points you get to start — and how they are apportioned — will make a difference. Initially the computer will tell you how many points you get and how they are divided up. If you start with 25 points, and your dump stat is wealth, well, then you may be kind of screwed. If you start with 250 points and your dump stat is charisma, well, then you’re probably fine. Be aware the computer makes it difficult to start with more than 30 points; people on higher difficulty settings generally start with even fewer than that.
As the game progresses, your goal is to gain points, apportion them wisely, and level up. If you start with fewer points and fewer of them in critical stat categories, or choose poorly regarding the skills you decide to level up on, then the game will still be difficult for you. But because you’re playing on the “Straight White Male” setting, gaining points and leveling up will still by default be easier, all other things being equal, than for another player using a higher difficulty setting.
Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting.
You can lose playing on the lowest difficulty setting. The lowest difficulty setting is still the easiest setting to win on. The player who plays on the “Gay Minority Female” setting? Hardcore.”
— John Scalzi tells it like it is. (Go and read the whole essay, then read the comments.)
TONETTA - DADDY (by BLACKTENTPRESS)
Fun Day on Tumblr
So today has been a fun day on tumblr. Lotsa action on my dashboard. It’s also Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day. Go hug your mom or something.
NEIL CICIEREGA'S HOME TUMBLR KIT: Bronies
http://www.reddit.com/r/MLPLounge/comments/rzd57/this_is_basically_the_saddest_day_in_the_history/
huhhh, apparently I shattered someone’s world by being annoyed at the Bronies for letting rape joke bullshit slide. I hold the radical opinion that you should not let your friends, or peers, be…
My bro is cool. If you’ve ever counted yourself as a “Brony”, just be aware of what you might be associating yourself with.
Someday I hope all these teenage boys grow up and mature into good human beings, conscientious of how they impact others. You can still grow up, even if you are in your 30s
And this is why I’ve dissociated myself from Bronies. I still watch the show, I still enjoy it, I’m glad that season 2 was added to Netflix, but I’m not a Brony.
Actually, it wasn’t the Molestia jokes. I was fine with those. I didn’t think they were funny or relevant or anything, but I was fine with them. I was more the sort of overall creepy vibe that the Brony community carries about itself. I think it has to do with the weird herd-like, hive-mind, single-entity mentality that is only so apparent in this situation. If someone disagrees with something that the rest of the fandom (a fandom supposedly based on the precepts “love and tolerance”) consented to be right, than the dissenter must be a mean person.
And that is why I’m not a Brony anymore.
It was fun when it started, but around the start of season 2 the show got gradually better, but the related community moved gradually from fandom to fandumb (thanks TVTropes).
I’ve wanted to make this very post a few months ago, but was unable to find an incident that seemed like strong enough evidence and kinda lost my train of thought.
I’m not taking sides here as it’s really not my place to be on either side, but just wanted to share my kinda middle-of-the-road opinion on the matter.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
Oh my God though
…WHY WOULD ANYBODY…
oh now that’s just sad
aaaand I laughed….
“Ugh, I hate MIDI” is of my favorite sentences that I hear a lot of people say.
I was listening to my iPod on shuffle while assembling my IKEA furniture and before I knew it, I was crying to “Casimir Pulaski Day” while assembling a Bjursta
The English language was created in anticipation of this sentence being formulated from it.
This is aside from the subject, but am I the only one who doesn’t think that “Casimir Pulaski Day” is that tear-wrenching? Yeah, the subject matter is sad and the song itself is really well done, but I read so many account of people crying because of it and I just don’t get why.
(Source: strangersam)
