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Three Favourite Songs

Tagged by rowanthesloth.

Rules: 1. Post three of your favorite songs.
 2. The songs don’t have to be new.
 3. It could be fun if the lyrics were in other languages than English.
 4. Tag as many or as few followers as you like.

1.  “I’m So Sorry,” Imagine Dragons.  I love alt-rock in general, but I get most of my music as MP3s and then burn my own CDs for in the car.  Smoke + Mirrors was one of the first albums in a while to impress me enough to buy the whole CD straight out, and I do not regret it.  This is definitely my favourite song off of it, and a good ‘take on the world’ type of song for getting psyched up about anything.

2.  “Captain Morgan’s Revenge,” Alestorm.  I live three blocks from the waterfront, in one of the pirates’ favourite areas--between the trade and the tides creating and hiding all sorts of tricky-to-reach anchorages, they loved it here.  So, pirate festivals are all the thing around here, and if you go to a pirate festival, you get two choices for music--drunken sea shanties and TOTALLY AWESOME PIRATE ROCK.  This is my favourite example of the latter.  Mind your eardrums, it’s a bit loud.

3. “Starburst (Original Mix),” Octagen & Arizona.  And now for something completely different, my current favourite trance track.  A solid bass-drum line forms a nice framework, and the other pieces layer in from there, adding and removing bits often enough that it never gets TOO repetitive.  At 3:40, the bass drops out for the bridge, and at 3:54 it begins in truth--at only about 20s before the main pieces start coming back in, it’s quick, but it’s AMAZING and will definitely make you feel like wanting to fly.  After the bridge, the pieces come back in a different order, showing off some of the underlying harmonies and counterpoints.  “Shadows the Sun (Daniel Kandi’s Banging Mix)“, Julian Vincent ft. Jessie Morgan deserves a spot as honourable mention as the track that REALLY got me into trance and still one of my favourites.

Honourable Mention:

1.  “Word Crimes,” Weird Al Yankovic.  The song everybody loves to hate (and for good reason!) had a really catchy beat, and Weird Al takes full advantage of that to discuss with us the annoyances of txtspk and how they’re taking over beyond just our cellphones.  The video uses (and cleans up considerably) some of the visual elements from the original, and I am definitely here for these puns.  A must-see for the entire internet, and also your mother who texts like she’s 12.

2.  “United State of Pop 2014 (Do What You Wanna Do)”, DJ Earworm.  There are a number of DJs on Youtube who compile the Top XX Billboard Hits into one completely new song, but DJ Earworm is one of my favourites--the lyrics and music are coherent and meaningful in every year’s piece.  An excellent way to take in the year’s music trends if you’re not into the Top 50, and if you are, you’ll probably enjoy playing the ‘What song is THAT bit from?’ game.  There are lyrics videos available for most of the years as well.

3.  “Touhou PCB Medley Black,” Ryan TTC (TheTrustedComputer).  Touhou is a series of games in a distinctly-Asian genre known as “bullet hell shooters,” which ought to be Googled and watched if you think you’re good at games because it will definitely change your mind.  Every game in the series is made pretty much by one guy, and the music is INCREDIBLE.  The Black remixes are an attempt to take it out of the basic synthesizer constraints the original creator was working with and make it every bit as chaotic as the game itself, and this one definitely succeeds.  You may be more familiar with UN Owen Was Her, which for a while was the Japanese rickroll in a level of insanity that Rick Astley was thankfully never the victim of.  People ask me why I leave music on in games.  Touhou is the reason.  This is from the seventh game in the series (of 14ish), Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Tagging rowanthesloth back just because they tagged me and might be interested to see the results.

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Oh my gosh! Happy birthday you beautiful human!!! :)

Thank you Blake my friend !!!

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Why do you dislike the 2005 Pride and Prejudice so much? I thought it was a pretty good movie?

Okay, here’s the thing. Like, it is a “pretty good movie” - it’s visually gorgeous and the soundtrack is stunning and yeah, okay, from many angles it can be considered a great movie. 

But it’s not Jane Austen. 

Let me explain: the thing about Pride and Prejudice is that it is fundamentally a social commentary expressed through a comedy of manners. So much of Austen is about claustrophobia and people rubbing each other the wrong way in these tiny social circles because travelling was so much more effort. But in order to make his film so beautiful, Joe Wright completely disregarded this. 

For example, possibly my biggest pet peeve about this movie is Darcy’s first proposal scene. In no way shape or form did that need to take place in a thunderstorm. That pathetic fallacy is completely unnecessary and actually detracts from the drama of that scene. The whole point is that they’re in this tiny room together with these emotions running high but they can’t raise their voices, they can’t get away from each other because of the social rules they’re still bound to. 

What’s brilliant about the BBC version is that it captures that perfectly. Jennifer Ehles does such a good job of this seething rage beginning to get the better of her so that when she finally says “you are the last man in the world I could ever marry” she brings herself up short because she knows she’s gone too far, she’s been too rude. Elizabeth may be witty and ahead of her time but she remains a product of her time and she wouldn’t get all up in Darcy’s face about it. 

I don’t dislike Keira Knightly as an actress, I’ve enjoyed her performances in many things but she was not right for this role at all. (Though the thing about film acting is that it’s so dependent on the director and the editing that hey, maybe under different circumstances she could have done a good job, but I’m unsure). She played Elizabeth as a modern woman in a Regency Era setting, and that just doesn’t work. She’s too loud, too physical for the kind of environment that Pride and Prejudice takes place in. 

But while her performance is too big and too unrestrained, things that should have been big were too small. Again, Tom Hollander is an actor I like very much, but his Collins was all earnest and small. He barely made my flesh crawl at all, which he really should. (And when you look at David Bamber, he’s flawlessly slimy, and hilarious to boot). One of Austen’s strengths is this wonderful melding of big and small - her principal characters are stuck in these tiny communities with these huge supporting characters that only increase the sense of claustrophobia. 

One thing I will say for the 2005 version is that Jane and Bingley were lovely. Though I will never understand how that one thing was so perfectly Austen while everything else was trying to be a Bronte novel. 

WHICH IS ENTIRELY THE THING. Joe Wright tried to play Pride and Prejudice as if it were written by Emily Bronte. Like that scene with Darcy walking through the fucking mist in the morning to confess his love to Lizzy again - that’s just wrong. And I know what you’re about to say: “if you’re complaining about that, why aren’t you complaining about Colin Firth’s wet shirt in the BBC version?” Well I’ll tell you: because it was played right. When Lizzy and Darcy come across each other in that scene it is painfully awkward because it would be. Darcy asks if her parents are well about three times and Lizzy can barely make eye contact. It might not be in the book but, were it to have been, that’s how it would have gone down. Instead, Joe Wright gave us this... whatever it was with dramatic whispering and hand kissing. 

(Don’t even get me started on that “Mrs Darcy” scene, which luckily wasn’t in the UK version because everyone knew we’d hate it as a nation)

And the thing is, this style might have worked for a different Austen novel: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion are all novels that are in dialogue with the Romantic ideology of the time, and maybe Joe Wright’s style would have worked with them, but it doesn’t with Pride and Prejudice. 

So that was really long, sorry. 

TL:DR - it is by many standards a “good movie” much like Game of Thrones is by many standards a “good show”. The cinematography is good, the score is good, the acting is good (because poor characterisation and bad acting aren’t always the same), but it completely misses the point of the original text upon which it is based. 

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transpadfoot said: how do you switch to uk netflix?

zenmate! it's a chrome extension for proxies. you can set your location to a different place and if you set it to uk and log in to netflix you get uk netflix.

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Reblog if you're a radical gender bending genderqueer.

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Can I get a trenta butthole with raspberry and light ice?

I forgot why we started calling a BTL a butthole but I'm still really proud of us and we are my favorite baristas.