tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29922215992923500872024-03-05T14:07:17.836+00:00Yet Another Renegade Angeltenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comBlogger573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-32860166162142465982023-08-03T07:23:00.006+01:002023-08-04T20:53:44.910+01:00Recommended Twitch Musicians, 2023 edition<p>I seem to have forgotten to do one of these last year. Oops. But here we go, this year's edition, new people to check out:</p><p><br /></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/steveforward" target="_blank">Steve Forward</a>. Really incredible guitarist, from Essex, UK. Professional session musician, has his own albums out. Really great CGI effects to watch, too.</li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/kseniagalaxy" target="_blank">KseniaGalaxy</a>. Very talented singer, originally from Kazakhstan, has lived in Thailand for many years now. Has a very fun community and uses fun CGI effects with filters as she sings, to transform her into various things.</li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jmopiano" target="_blank">JMO piano</a>. Known as Jon Michael Ogletree on YouTube, where he's much more famous. Pianist who plays his own arrangements, all learned and played by ear. He's on just about every night, and is very accommodating.</li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/steggymusic" target="_blank">SteggyMusic</a>. From Ohio, USA. Vocal and acoustic guitar, has some original songs too. Mainly rock music. He's got a lovely voice.</li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/syjamusic" target="_blank">syjamusic</a>. Symon James, from London, UK. Not a lot of musicians on Twitch play 100% original songs. Syjamusic does exactly that.</li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/deltacrabmusic" target="_blank">DeltaCrab</a>. Taiwanese-American fellow based in Amherst, Mass. Crazy stuff with synths! & guitars and vocals too. Sometimes he'll make loops out of people chatting, a lot of fun, always fresh!</li></ul><div><br />As always, I still recommend my long-time favourites: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/joshuawoomusic" target="_blank">Joshua Woo</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lara6683" target="_blank">Lara6683</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jonathanong" target="_blank">Jonathan Ong</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/porkrollbob" target="_blank">PorkRollBob</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ihazabeard" target="_blank">ihazabeard</a>, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/venusworld" target="_blank">VenusWorld</a>.</div><p></p>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-55421266239687702762022-04-13T04:15:00.003+01:002022-04-13T04:15:48.975+01:00Space Invaders has lyrics, at least in my head.<p> </p><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="adcni" data-offset-key="82anp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="82anp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="82anp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Oh hey, it's nearly Easter. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="adcni" data-offset-key="en8po-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en8po-0-0"><span data-offset-key="en8po-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="adcni" data-offset-key="48j1u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48j1u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="48j1u-0-0"><span data-text="true">Fun fact: ever since I heard the song "Gesthemane" from Jesus Christ Superstar, the soundtrack to Space Invaders has had lyrics in my head, and they are : "why must I die? why must I die? why must I die? whymustIdie? whymustIdie? whymustIdie?whymustIdie?whymustIdie?whymustIdie?" </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="adcni" data-offset-key="up86-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="up86-0-0"><span data-offset-key="up86-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="adcni" data-offset-key="cqtnf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cqtnf-0-0"><span class="py34i1dx"><span data-offset-key="cqtnf-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aiZm2KcJxUE" width="320" youtube-src-id="aiZm2KcJxUE"></iframe></div><br /><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div></div></div>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-48347114064209603192022-04-06T02:24:00.001+01:002022-04-06T02:24:26.439+01:00Is "Cradle Of Love" by Billy Idol actually a really dodgy song?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NCZuYS-9qaw" width="320" youtube-src-id="NCZuYS-9qaw"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>YouTube autoplay brought me to this song tonight, I hadn't even thought about it in years.<br /><br />This song is dead suspicious. I think it's a celebration of underage sex. Though it's from 1990, it's got an older 1950s kind of feeling to it. It's got "Cradle" in the title, as in, what babies sleep in. "Robbing the cradle" is what people say about age gap romances, so it seems like a pun on that.<br /><br />"It burned like a ball on fire / When the rebel took a little child bride" - I think this is a reference to Jerry Lee Lewis, whose big hit was Great Balls Of Fire. He married his cousin when she was 13 years old.<br /><br />It also contains the words "flesh for your Romeo", and one of the main things people always like to bring up about Romeo & Juliet is that Juliet was also 13 years old.<div><br /></div><div>Then the rest of the song is all like wey-hey I had sex.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Conclusion: This song is dodgy as fuck.</div></div>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-5544899741905954312021-12-20T02:34:00.006+00:002021-12-20T02:34:58.069+00:00Christmas thoughts<p>Tonight I am thinking to myself about how I got cast as one of the three kings in a school nativity, when I was in primary school. </p><p>I didn't volunteer, it was because they needed someone "of Orient". </p><p>All I really learned that was sometimes all you are to people is a race.</p>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-61022371705462328562021-06-24T18:48:00.008+01:002021-08-05T15:57:28.350+01:00Recommended musicians on Twitch, 2021 edition<p>I made <a href="http://tenshi-a.blogspot.com/2020/03/recommended-twitch-musicians.html">a post like this</a> last year, I think it's about time I did an update for 2021. Now that musicians have been forced to take down their VODs from Twitch because of licensing stuff (Twitch don't like paying royalties), it's harder to see which streams are going to be "your thing", so - have a read, and maybe look through their YouTube and songlists to see if they perform the kind of stuff you like. Pretty much everyone is free to listen to, but whether song requests are free differs from channel to channel, so, be polite and read streamer profile panels for info. Tipping money is a friendly and nice thing to do!<br /></p><p>Here we go.<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Joshua Woo</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/joshuawoomusic">https://www.twitch.tv/joshuawoomusic</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/joshuawoomusic/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/joshuawoomusic/songs<br /></a>Spotify (solo): <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ctglO7zzrGgYtFavND9BC">https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ctglO7zzrGgYtFavND9BC</a><br />Spotify (band): <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6FfAxaRvMrikzkied5Kduv">https://open.spotify.com/artist/6FfAxaRvMrikzkied5Kduv<br /></a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dVLVy3lE4T9UUWtZ1_3OA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dVLVy3lE4T9UUWtZ1_3OA</a><br /><br />Josh was known as PlasticJosh last year. He's come a long way in a year, improving his sound quality, and writing a lot of original songs. He's also started releasing solo material under his own name, as well as continuing to release songs with his band Plastic Sun. He can still sing ALL THE NOTES. Serious range, 4 octaves or something. He's a one-man band. He's performed the entirety of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" album a few times. Including singing "Great Gig In The Sky". He's got an upcoming Queen stream and I am really looking forward to that. You can also spend channel points to get him to do David Bowie or Bob Dylan impressions, because why not? Watch out if you request MASTER EXPLODER by Tenacious D, I am now one of his mod staff and I hate having to clear up all the brains off the floor.<br /><br /></li><li><b>lara6683</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lara6683">https://www.twitch.tv/lara6683</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://goo.gl/6AVr4n">https://goo.gl/6AVr4n<br /></a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/lara6683">https://www.youtube.com/user/lara6683</a><br /><br />I'm never going to write one of these lists without Lara on it, unless she stops streaming on Twitch. Legendary video game* piano lady. Lately, she's really gotten to grips with using a looper, which is great, she's been able to play all the little bits she didn't have enough arms for before. She's especially good for playing chill, relaxing music, and also - sometimes people get her to mash two songs together on the fly to create something new, and it's astounding. Always astonishing.<br /><br />* she plays other genres too haha<br /><br /></li><li><b>ihazabeard</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ihazabeard">https://www.twitch.tv/ihazabeard<br /></a>Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/s/ihazabeard/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/s/ihazabeard/songs</a><br /><br />A fellow called Myles who lives by a beach, in the south-west of England. He's got the most lovely, melancholic voice, and specialises in "sad boi" songs. He plays a really nice guitar while he's singing, and I can't believe almost forgot to mention that. Last year he was on hiatus and I was wondering if he'd ever return to Twitch. Well, he did, and he got partner status. He'll often stop and call it a shambles, or deliberately hurry an ending and say "something like that". But he's really, really nice to listen to. I recommend you request his original song "Long Way Home". It's such a good song and there's no other song on this planet as perfect for his voice.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Jonathan Ong</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jonathanong">https://www.twitch.tv/jonathanong</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwbNxgXSHBjGBUjKHVZS7ZA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwbNxgXSHBjGBUjKHVZS7ZA<br /></a>Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xeDq8pB9BO7iiivmRFXp1">https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xeDq8pB9BO7iiivmRFXp1</a><br /><br />Dr Ong is still a charming, giggling lunatic who will learn and play literally anything you throw at him. Sometimes just on piano, often as a massive production off the cuff. Also, he's AMAZING at piano. His warm-up is Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu, which he'll play at the start of every stream while casually chatting <i>like it's nothing</i>. He's started writing original music and has put some on Spotify. I'm really looking out for the Nier piano collection he's been working on, too.<br /><br /></li><li><b>porkrollbob</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/porkrollbob">https://www.twitch.tv/porkrollbob</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/porkrollbob/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/porkrollbob/songs</a><br /><br />American guy with a huge songlist of 1000+ songs, mainly blues and rock. I always picture him with a huge smile on his face, I can hardly imagine him without it. Another one-man band, and he's really good at what he does.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Amelia Ray</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ameliaraymusic">https://www.twitch.tv/ameliaraymusic<br /></a>Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/ameliaraymusic/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/ameliaraymusic/songs<br /></a>Spotify : <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2gK69QweVlWP3gCB9baUou">https://open.spotify.com/artist/2gK69QweVlWP3gCB9baUou</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AmeliaRay">https://www.youtube.com/user/AmeliaRay</a><br /><br />Nice lady from San Francisco, currently living in Finland. She knows just about every song on this planet. Her songlist is merely a guideline, there are secret songs. Every week, she'll do a special stream like "Billboard Top 100 songs of [X year]" and go off and try to learn those 100 songs to play the next day. She has a game every day too, where someone in chat will suggest a word, and she has to play 13+ songs with that word in the title, with the rest of chat calling out whatever songs they can think of that match. She's also a songwriter, check out her songs on spotify and bandcamp! <br /><br /></li><li><b>sarcastic_fingers</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/sarcastic_fingers">https://www.twitch.tv/sarcastic_fingers</a><br />Songlist : <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/sarcastic_fingers/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/sarcastic_fingers/songs</a><br /><br />Pleasant transgender dude who plays piano and sings. Specialises in songs from the previous century. Really great at the kind of song where it's the story of a life and the strong vocal blows you away. He can bring out his proper opera singer voice once in a while too. But that kind of song is tiring, so he mixes it up with some other stuff. Kinda looks like 1970s X-Men Cyclops, in red glasses. All in all very cool.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Erin Shay Live</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/erinshaylive">https://www.twitch.tv/erinshaylive</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/erinshaylive/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/erinshaylive/songs</a><br /><br />This is actually a married couple duo from Australia, but the husband doesn't get his name on the banner, hahaha. Erin is a wild ball of pure energy, who can sing really well, but you'll often see perching crouched on top of a chair... or dancing about... and there's a thing where sometimes she sings a song while doing a handstand and with a mouthful of Malteasers. Her husband Si accompanies on guitar. He's actually really good too, but I guess I won't talk about him, haha.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Bagel Rabbit</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/bagelrabbit">https://www.twitch.tv/bagelrabbit</a><br />Violinist who will improv along to songs requested by chat. Literally any song, they'll try and play along to it. Last year, they were on hiatus... I wasn't sure if they'd come back.... but... good things come to those who wait, and Bagel was reborn into being the gayest streamer you ever did see in your life. But also, streams are very much 18+ now. As it's currently Pride Month, they're raising money for two charities; one for trans sex workers and the other for elderly LGBT+ folks. Since they play along to other people's music, they've had two copyright strikes already, there are no saved VODs, you'll just have to pop along and see with your own eyes.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Jenem</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jenemmusic">https://www.twitch.tv/jenemmusic<br /></a>Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/jenemmusic/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/jenemmusic/songs</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/39LOdVfciNvDAyTbE5cjSA">https://open.spotify.com/artist/39LOdVfciNvDAyTbE5cjSA</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJ1iFuN1uG-oQh5I6fN2gQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJ1iFuN1uG-oQh5I6fN2gQ</a><br /><br />Singer / songwriter who plays guitar and sings. I listen to her some afternoons, she's good, her songs are earnest, and I like her Manchester bee emotes, the symbol of her home city. <br /><br /></li><li><b>Fenwa Teryen</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/fenwateryen">https://www.twitch.tv/fenwateryen<br /></a>Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/fenwateryen/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/fenwateryen/songs</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/FenwaTeryen">https://www.youtube.com/user/FenwaTeryen</a><br /><br />Acoustic guitar / vocals from this chap. He seems to live in the Fallout game continuum, has a quasi-1950s aesthetic, has a classic bass announcer speaking voice like... Troy McClure or someone, but his singing voice is way higher. He sings mainly really, really vintage songs and also Fallout-related songs.<br /><br /></li><li><b>SangahNoona</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/sangahnoona">https://www.twitch.tv/sangahnoona</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/sangahnoona">https://www.youtube.com/c/sangahnoona</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0jgQptgJlvGmjonCUAUFqO">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0jgQptgJlvGmjonCUAUFqO</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/sangahnoona">https://www.youtube.com/c/sangahnoona</a><br /><br />Super classy piano bar, huge long songlist. She's great at playing funk, rock, pop, jazz... all sorts. Originally from South Korea, but based in Washington DC, USA. As well as being a great pianist to listen to, I feel like she's a really good host on her stream, very pro delivery, camera shots, sound quality. She streams on YouTube too.<br /><br /></li><li><b>The Complements</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/thecomplements">https://www.twitch.tv/thecomplements</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/thecomplements/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/thecomplements/songs</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tU85IJB7ZSiF8vzN8JbdV">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tU85IJB7ZSiF8vzN8JbdV</a><br /><br />A duo named Greg & Aleesha, mainly piano & vocals. They do Disney songs and music and musical theatre showtunes and pop and rock too. They're also really, really nice and wholesome and friendly.<br /><br /></li><li><b>Lizz Vega</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lizzvega">https://www.twitch.tv/lizzvega</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOb-nKUytSwoGYDO5dZQxhg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOb-nKUytSwoGYDO5dZQxhg</a><br /><br />Chill lady who plays harp, but... like no-one else I have ever heard in my life. She'll play the harp and loop an organic psychedelic dreamscape with it. She'll thump it for percussion. She'll surprise you by singing. Honestly, she's amazing.<br /><br /></li><li><b>EBX Erin</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ebx_erin">https://www.twitch.tv/ebx_erin</a> & her band: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/elsiebinx">https://www.twitch.tv/elsiebinx</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/s/ebx_erin/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/s/ebx_erin/songs<br /></a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/erinaccomando">https://www.youtube.com/c/erinaccomando</a><br />Band YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChE7ppzoydydUTKbO_oS5KQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChE7ppzoydydUTKbO_oS5KQ</a><br /><br />Great vocals & piano, and I think she is another artist who is a vocal tutor. She also has a band called Elsie Binx. Currently raising money for LGBT+ charity The Trevor Project. <br /><br /></li><li><b>King Korgan</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/kingkorgan">https://www.twitch.tv/kingkorgan</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/kingkorgan/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/kingkorgan/songs</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDK46mrkSUq7ZjB1eAa9pw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDK46mrkSUq7ZjB1eAa9pw</a><br /><br />Time machine to the psychedelic 60s & 70s. Nice fellow who looks like Roy Wood and sounds like Wakko Warner. Has genuine vintage electric organs and guitars, sounds great. <br /><br />--<br /><br />Last year's list is still good! Give those people a follow too! </li></ul>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-42599619312621445422021-05-24T03:02:00.004+01:002021-05-24T03:02:47.309+01:00Thoughts by a British person about American TV's ideas about British people<p><span data-offset-key="6kivf-0-0"><span data-text="true">One thing I find really weird about American TV is that if they make a character who they think is stereotypically posh British, they give them this weird accent that doesn't sound like anywhere in Britain and make them use obscure words like "nary" which British people stopped using a few hundred years ago.</span></span></p>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-77609386139703943612021-01-13T17:15:00.001+00:002021-01-13T17:15:25.697+00:00Thing about Day Of The Tentacle<p>I know it's not cool to talk shit about a beloved older comedy game, but I've been playing <b>Day of the Tentacle</b> (remastered version) recently and.... </p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br /><p></p><p>The game is set in the USA and 200 years of it are set in the past and 200 years of it are set in the future. The aim of the game is - we need to fix time because if we don't, in 200 years, all of humanity will be enslaved and treated as pets. And 200 years in the past, they're signing the US constitution. </p><p></p><p>And it's like... it's been written as if slavery doesn't exist 200 years in the past. </p><p>Hello writers, I think you missed something really important. </p><p>I mean, I know back then when it was written, it was much harder for people to research, and people would trust the history they were taught in school - which for Americans was nationalist propaganda. It still believes in the myth that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth">George Washington's teeth</a> were wooden and not pulled from slaves.<br /></p><p>This game just doesn't feel right, here in the near-distant future.<br /></p>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-40901863930655506382020-08-05T09:39:00.010+01:002020-08-06T15:20:53.068+01:00The song "Jealous Guy" is such a non apologyI'm talking about John Lennon's song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qkrnf30DZw">Jealous Guy</a>.<div><br /></div><div>People go on about this song "oh it's so beautiful", "oh it's so sincere". But I find it ugly and insincere. Which doesn't mean that I think people are wrong to like it, just that they've missed something.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Context is huge. John Lennon stated in interview that he was a wife beater, through jealousy. Read the bit in the wikipedia page on him about his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon#Cynthia_Lennon">relationship with Cynthia Lennon</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Beatles song "Run For Your Life" on Rubber Soul (1965) is another song Lennon wrote (well, Paul McCartney gets co-writing credits) where a jealous guy threatens to murder his "little girl" if she does anything with another man. The line "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man" originates in an Elvis Presley song, but John Lennon decided to expand that into a full song. I've read claims that George really liked the song and John hated and regretted writing it.</div><div><br /></div><div>In his last major interview, John Lennon spoke of the opening lyrics in the Beatles song <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Better">Getting Better</a>: </div><div><br /></div><div>"It is a diary form of writing. All that 'I used to be cruel to my woman / I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved' was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically – any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster."</div><div><br /></div><div>Speaking about Jealous Guy in 1980, John Lennon said:</div><div><br /></div><div>"My song, melody written in India. The lyrics explain themselves clearly: I was a very jealous, possessive guy. Toward everything. A very insecure male. A guy who wants to put his woman in a little box, lock her up, and just bring her out when he feels like playing with her. She’s not allowed to communicate with the outside world – outside of me – because it makes me feel insecure."</div><div><br /></div><div>And perhaps that would all be good and well, except that he sang the whole thing as "how he behaves when he's jealous" - it's framed as "something I did in the past" but there's no "and I don't do that any more".</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>If you want to read the lyrics <a href="https://genius.com/John-lennon-jealous-guy-lyrics">go here</a>. </div><div><br /></div></div><div>"I was dreaming of the past / and my heart was beating fast" - probably he's just saying he had a moment of self reflection and it made him uncomfortable enough to write this song.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>When he says he began to lose control... it's easy to assume it's that he's simply saying he lost control of himself, that's the kindest interpretation. But in the context of him being a "very jealous, possessive guy", what if he's singing about feeling like he's losing control over his lover that triggered this in him? "I began to lose control" (over you). In that case, it would be almost blaming her for his actions.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>He never apologises for his actions - he says he's sorry he hurt her and made her cry, which I suppose must mean he thinks that's specifically the line where he went too far. Not the violence itself, but the tears. The effect but not the cause. He's not saying "I should not have used violence on you", he's saying "your tears made me feel bad".</div><div><br /></div><div>The bits about his insecurity, "shivering inside", "swallowing my pain" - seem like excuses after the fact, and honestly some fairly minor discomfort compared to getting beaten up by your lover. </div><div><br /></div><div>"I was trying to catch your eyes / Thought that you was trying to hide" is chilling. Was she avoiding meeting his gaze out of fear? Is it another signal about his controlling nature, he interpreted her not looking at him as an admission of guilt, suspected she was doing something behind his back and jumped to conclusions? Or is that line just saying that she trying to physically hide from him?</div><div><br /></div><div>He never says in this song that it's wrong to turn to violence, he just states what he did. He also never promises he won't do it again. I mean, maybe that's useless because who would trust him if he did. But he doesn't even hint towards any kind of reformed behaviour. He just says - this is what I'm like when I get jealous. It's not past tense, and I feel that's an important point. </div><div><br /></div><div>As a result, at the end, when he says "I'm just a jealous guy. Watch out. I'm just a jealous guy. Look out baby, I'm just a jealous guy", if just comes across as REALLY THREATENING. </div><div><br /></div><div>It's like "this is what triggers me, so you'd better not make me jealous if you know what's good for you".</div><div><br /></div><div>Which doesn't feel like any change from "Run For Your Life". </div><div><br /></div><div>But, if you still think it's a really beautiful song about a man with complicated emotions... I guess I don't want to rob you of your perception of beauty. But that's not the song I am hearing at all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Do I believe he ever really became the "Peace & Love" guy he claimed to be? I don't know. I hope so. It's clear he had some strong regrets, but also Jealous Guy sounds repentant but resistant to reform. So I don't know.</div><div><br /></div><div>Other notes:</div><div><br /></div><div>1) The original 1968 demo was a totally different song, it's called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGAw_k3maXs">Child Of Nature</a> and it's super peaceful. I am not saying it's a better song. Just that it's a totally different song.</div><div><br /></div><div>2) The studio version of Jealous Guy was co-produced by Phil Spector. Who is probably more famous for his murder conviction than his production work by this point. Who was a ball of intense control and gun fanaticism when he went into record this song. There's a story he took out a gun when recording with John, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycxTWrjuWoU">shot the thermostat off the wall</a>, and John said "I don't mind if you kill me, but I do need my ears". I wonder if it was this session.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>If you're thinking "well what kind of song would you record if Phil Spector was shooting things in the studio?", and I'll leave you with another song. Phil Spector pressed a gun to Leonard Cohen's throat and told him he loved him. And they recorded an album together that most Leonard Cohen fans hate but I actually quite like. The first track: "True love leaves no traces / if you and I are one / it's lost in our embraces / like stars against the sun". </div>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-44563704834603794472020-07-13T16:30:00.001+01:002020-08-28T16:26:40.876+01:00Everything there is to know about Total Eclipse Of The HeartTotal Eclipse Of The Heart might be my favourite song of all time. It was the first record I owned that I truly fell in love with, and all I had was a 7" single that my family got from collecting cereal box tokens (<a href="https://www.discogs.com/fr/Adam-Ant-Bonnie-Tyler-Snap-Crackle-Pop-Record-From-Kelloggs-Rice-Krispies/release/3052279">wanna see it?</a>). It's probably rare now. It was the B-side! I was probably 7 years old. Is that weird? Haha. I didn't even hear the full album version for another decade or so!<br />
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Where does the history of Total Eclipse Of The Heart start? Well... I'm going to start in a controversial place. I'm going to start with a 1960s band called Ford Theatre from Boston, MA, and their instrumental track "Theme for the Masses" which you can hear on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5kYdrW7nDEZWINRAvkL6Np">Spotify</a>. It's fairly obscure, a short prog rock track (under 3 minutes is short for prog rock!) and its melody sounds quite similar to parts of Total Eclipse Of The Heart. The basic melody but especially, the instrumental bit in the middle of the song. "Theme for the Masses" was released back in 1968.<br />
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We cross over now to Mr James Richard Steinman, the composer of Total Eclipse Of The Heart. What was he doing in 1968? He was a 19 year old student at Amherst College, MA. He was in several bands on keyboard. He was involved in several college theatre productions as a musician, a composer, a director and an actor. He co-hosted a weekly radio show until it was cancelled for obscenity. And he was a writer, reviewer, and later Arts Editor for the Amherst Student newspaper. I know this because Amherst put all their archives of that student newspaper <a href="https://acdc.amherst.edu/">online</a> and I read through them. If you want to easily access what he wrote, that's available <a href="http://jimsteinman.com/amherst-archive.html">here</a>. Student-era Jim Steinman was also really into The Doors, and Brecht and Weill, the film Bonnie & Clyde, and... lots of things. Did he ever write about Ford Theatre? Never.<br />
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The bigger picture though - Jim Steinman, at the ripe old age of 19, had watched his generation (boomers as young adults) evolve from the "peace and love" hippy generation into something more disillusioned, nihilistic, violent, and drug fuelled, as they began being drafted for the Vietnam war, as they rioted in the streets following the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. He listened to local radio gleefully covering the suicide of another student by jumping 19 floors to his death - the station's reporters glad to be the first to report an event they found so exciting. "If it gets any lighter we won't see a thing."<br />
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He put everything of the contemporary world into a musical he wrote, called The Dream Engine. In the audience one night was Joe Papp of the New York Shakespeare Festival, who was so impressed with the show that he bought the rights during intermission.<br />
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Back in the 1990s, I received a copy of an audio recording of the musical via Jim Steinman's fan club, when I was around 19 years old myself. Most of it went completely over my head, since it's so in tune with 1968-1969 America counterculture, and I'm some random English person. You can hear it for yourself if you download it from <a href="http://jimsteinman.com/comeinthenight.html">Jim's website</a>, and some helpful people on YouTube have mirrored it there too.<br />
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What does this have to do with Total Eclipse Of The Heart? There's a song called Come In The Night that I want to draw your attention to. <a href="https://youtu.be/c-BvVNmAh4k?t=137">Here's the audio, via Youtube</a> - about 2 minutes 17, the "turn around" bit comes in. The sound quality is bad, I know. If you'd like a better singer and better sound, check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td7NH2iU43U">Andrew Polec's version</a> from the 50th Anniversary version of The Dream Engine. There's that melody - recognisably the "turn around" section from Total Eclipse Of The Heart. (Or is it Theme for the Masses?) "Turn around, there's a black day dawning. Turn around, there's a corpse in mourning. Turn around to your tin can graveyard. Turn around to your tin foil saviour. Turn around, bright eyes! Turn around bright eyes!!" and so on. <a href="https://jimsteinman.fandom.com/wiki/Come_in_the_Night">Full lyrics here</a>.<br />
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I want you to always remember, the root of the song Total Eclipse Of The Heart comes from, also contains the lyric "How do you bury the skull of your country?" from a young man rebelling against his own nation willing to dispose of his life, and dispose of his friends' lives.<br />
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So, that's that. What happened to The Dream Engine? Well, it had several rewrites and several false starts. At one point, it was to star a young <a href="http://jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/arena-stage-1972-cast.html">Richard Gere</a> (who was another Amherst student. This was before he was particularly known). At one point, they were trying to court <a href="http://jimsteinman.com/dreamengine/david-bowie-1973.html">David Bowie</a> to star in it. David Bowie and Jim became friends, but never ended up working together. The Dream Engine morphed into Neverland, morphed into Bat Out Of Hell 2100, morphed into Bat Out Of Hell The Musical.<br />
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Anyway. Fast forward from 1969 to 1980. By that point, Jim Steinman is known as the writer for the hit Meat Loaf album Bat Out Of Hell, and he writes the score for an anti-Vietnam film called A Small Circle Of Friends. You can hear the excerpt that sounds like Total Eclipse Of The Heart / Come In The Night / Theme For The Masses <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LI35VKBIgk">on YouTube here</a>. It also has a little of the melody of "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" in there.<br />
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Did Jim hear Theme For The Masses at some point in 1968 and knowingly pinch it? I have no idea. Do I think that if he did nab that melody, he had completely forgotten that he didn't write it by 1980? Almost certainly. I mean, by then he probably thought he's just reusing a theme from his college project. Do I think there's a scandal brewing? This song is so embedded in our culture now, that surely the folks of Ford Theatre (or their descendants) must have heard it, and it surely must have already been quietly resolved by now? Anyway, the rest of the song ("And I need you now, tonight! And I need you more than ever!"), the haunting piano intro, the lyrics, the drama, that's definitely all Jim Steinman, I'm fairly certain of it.<br />
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Jim Steinman reuses his own music <i>a lot, </i>which irritates a lot of "fans" but I think it's just how his brain works - obsession, perfectionism, won't let him let go of something until it's satisfied. Hence he released a musical that took almost 50 years to get a general release... and he still wasn't done tinkering with it for another year or so. Hence there are three separate songs Jim Steinman wrote called "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste". He won't let something go unless either he's satisfied it's done, or he isn't allowed to continue.<br />
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Fast forward to 1982. Jim Steinman stated that he wrote the song Total Eclipse Of The Heart as "Vampires In Love" for a musical based on Nosferatu, during an eclipse. So I tried looking up eclipses visible in New York in 1982 and discovered the exact eclipse this song must have been written under. Although the song is often played during total eclipses of the sun, that's not how it was written. It was written under a lunar eclipse. <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/new-york?iso=19820706">July 6th 1982</a>.<br />
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This is another thing I always want you to remember. This total eclipse of the heart is darkness within darkness. The blood red glow of a shadow.<br />
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"[...] with 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was 'Vampires in Love' because I was working on a musical of `Nosferatu,' the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in dark." - Jim Steinman (<a href="https://www.playbill.com/article/rando-steinman-talk-about-dance-of-the-vampires-at-press-preview-sept-18-com-108366">source</a>)<br />
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Sometimes I see claims that Jim Steinman wrote this song for a Meat Loaf album. But I haven't seen any actual evidence of that, I think it is just wishful thinking from Meat Loaf fans.<br />
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Move to 1983, here's a video clip of Bonnie Tyler and Jim Steinman rehearsing together (Jim does actually mention that the song was written under a lunar eclipse). "Everyone's invited to an exorcism tonight." At the end of the video, the TV show sadly overdubbed the finished song over Jim and Bonnie performing the song. Jim effectively miming to Rory Dodd's vocals. I would love love love to hear the original sound on this footage. Jim playing the piano like he gets electric shocks from the keys. Playing it with his elbows, scaring poor Bonnie half to death. I'd love to hear that. What exactly is he playing?<br />
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You might notice that they rehearse the song in G major. But the finished record isn't. Jim said on Facebook (around 6 years ago) "I wrote it in G major then sped the tape up in mastering! Although it's possible I worked with Bonnie and told Roy Bittan that it SHOULD be in A flat major..." <br />
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It is definitely sped up, it's between keys. So I tried taking a copy of the song and slowing it down by 5.3% so it's roughly in G Major (using Audacity), but then Bonnie sounds artificially low compared to her voice in this rehearsal footage. I'm not good enough at music to work this out.<br />
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There's <a href="http://jimsteinman.com/btyler-cannons.html">an article</a> about the recording and production of the song, thanks to Neil Dorfsman who was one of the song's sound engineers. It doesn't mention speeding anything up. But it does mention that Jim Steinman would have put more cannons in there if he was allowed to.<br />
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Shall we talk about the music video? Let's talk about the music video! My first reaction to it was that it's hilarious, and terrifying. As far as I can tell, Bonnie had a terrible time of making it. Running barefoot in snow is not fun! It was filmed at a disused mental asylum outside London called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium">Holloway Sanatorium</a>. You can <a href="https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/holloway-sanatorium/">read the papers of the patients online</a> nowadays, which I find really weird. It's directed by Australian director Russell Mulcahy, who did a ton of hit music videos and also went on to make the Highlander films. Here's a quote from him about the music video (<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zrBolXPYq40C&pg=RA3-PA9-IA9&lpg=RA3-PA9-IA9&#v=onepage&q&f=false">source</a>) :<br />
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And then the song was a number 1 hit around the world.<br />
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Where should I go from there? Cover versions? The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2nLYE6Ve5s">Nicki French</a> dance version was a big hit but, meh. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBi0I4Sutg">Baby Pink Star</a> version music video was filmed in Sheffield next to where I used to work. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk">literal version</a> is hilarious, at least for the first time. Same goes for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l3O2ncmkjA">Google Translate</a> version (plus Malinda Reese is a far better singer than the literal version singer) - I love that even through the craziness of Google, it's still a vampire song. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGvcXMqLe0">Protomen</a> version is probably the most amazing cover that didn't have any direct Jim Steinman involvement - especially when they do it live when you think it's going to fade out but it comes back huge with a really long "turn around guy" solo at the end for several minutes. It's like our collective Rory Dodd fantasies come true (but without actually being Rory Dodd), hahaha.<br />
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And finally, the Tanz Der Vampire / Dance Of The Vampires version. In 1997, Jim Steinman worked on a musical version of the 1967 Roman Polanski film Dance Of The Vampires, otherwise known as "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or, Pardon Me, Your Teeth Are In My Neck". Jim had six weeks to score the entire show, so he mostly used songs he'd written long ago - including Total Eclipse Of The Heart, which he didn't expect they'd actually accept into the show, as it was already a huge worldwide hit. The song was split into a duet, and new lyrics were written in German by lyricist Michael Kunze. The original cast for the show starred Steve Barton as Graf von Krolock - a Texan stage actor who originated the role of Raoul in Phantom Of The Opera back in 1986, but could speak German fluently and sing it beautifully. You can hear Steve Barton and Cornelia Zenz sing Totale Finsternis on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGyiPbDUdPs">original cast recording</a>. He also recorded an English demo with Elaine Caswell which you can hear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6aqYv1Wmc">here</a>. Sadly Steve Barton passed away before the show went to Broadway, and... uh, that's a long story. But the show has been a big hit everywhere that isn't Broadway, and there are so many versions of Totale Finsternis from the various casts of the show and celebrity recordings. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETg9eU1A0w">10th Anniversary</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7M5ZU0niWA">Russian</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkDmKFMbiI">Hungarian</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNKybgmyM08">Japanese</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czSpRoZH_k0">Jan Ammann</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IFFC582WXg">Helene Fischer</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qfpNPdiFLY">Veronica Appeddu and Mark Seibert</a>. And <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHBm3MvzU2E">Rob Evan & Morgan James</a>.<br />
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If you've read this post and are wondering "after everything you found out, do you still love this song?" I reply, yes, I do. This crazy old song about dark, obsessive love that you can't get rid of? The somewhat dark history of a dark song which I'm obsessed enough to track through a huge pile of 50 year old newspapers, the song which still has the power to emotionally floor me after 37 years? Of course I still love it. And I doubt there's any escape. And I'm not sure I care whether there is one.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-60488795276121718482020-04-24T23:00:00.001+01:002020-04-24T23:00:05.998+01:00Love Never Dies reviewThere are spoilers in this review. It's of this Melbourne production of Love Never Dies which is free to watch this weekend:<br />
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This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical isn't <i>bad</i> bad in the same way as some of the others, it just makes me feel ill watching it.<br />
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I think maybe the show would have been better if the characters weren't supposed to be the ones from Phantom, because it makes all of my red flags go off seeing Christine so quickly welcoming of the phantom just because he says he feels great pain without her and they reminisce about their "one night" together.<br />
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I mean, I am still thinking of him as a real horror; manipulative / stalker / threatening / murdering.<br />
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And both phantom and Raoul - when confronting each other - treat her as a possession, and Raoul has become just angry and useless... there's no-one really to root for out of the two of them.<br />
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And I would not put a child in the trust of a twisted and murderous man just because he's biologically his father.<br />
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It's not that the show is <i>bad</i> bad, it just makes me feel like everything the show wants me to get on board with is wrong. I'm sitting there going "no, no, no, no, no" at every moment that I think is supposed to be positive.<br />
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I think if you looked at the book for this musical in isolation, this phantom would be no more of a horror than a grumpy goth with bad skin.<br />
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So... either you have a phantom who is far too horrible for you to want him to succeed, or a completely declawed phantom who is just bland.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-3557428796874597642020-04-15T17:44:00.002+01:002020-04-15T17:45:25.659+01:00A word I don't likeI don't mind the word "moist" at all. I am not sure why people don't like it. But I really don't like when people are doing a cooking show or cooking instructional video and use the word "slurry" to describe mixing something into a paste - because it just makes me thinks of farms and how they smell.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-51140464592625822982020-04-12T23:16:00.000+01:002020-04-24T23:24:01.989+01:00Currently playing : NierI'm currently playing Nier (not Automata) on Xbox 360.<br />
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I really like it. It is a beautiful, sad game, with beautiful music and good artwork.<br />
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I finished the game with one ending last night, and decided - rather than play and get the next ending to the game, I would start over again from nothing.<br />
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There's an achievement for completing the whole game under 15 hours which I'm aiming for. I'm skipping all the sidequests, which means sadly I miss out on Devola & Popola singing together.<br />
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It is unrelentingly sad, just chock full of sad stories, sometimes unnecessarily sad. <br />
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For example - when you go to turn in your final fishing sub-quest, there's another man standing in the quest-giver's place. He tells you that the old man who gave you the quest died then says no-one in town really liked him anyway. I mean, come on, writers, you didn't need to do that! This has no impact on the overall story of the game, they just decide to throw in things like that all the time.<br />
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But the sadness is a good outlet for me in this world we're living in. It's easier to put your heart into a bunch of fictional grief and feel that than look at the world today pretending along with everyone else that the daily massive amounts of death aren't that bad.<br />
<br />tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-65718780414396047002020-04-11T15:38:00.000+01:002020-04-11T15:38:00.202+01:00What's The Buzz - Jesus Christ Superstar - sounds like invincibility to meAndrew Lloyd Webber has been releasing musicals for the public to enjoy for free for a short window of time during this lockdown period. This week, it is appropriately Jesus Christ Superstar.<br />
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I say "appropriately", but really... he's made Jesus Christ available for 48 hours from Good Friday until Easter Sunday, which is <i>the exact opposite</i> of how Easter is supposed to work.<br />
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Anyway. I started watching, and this song "What's The Buzz" starts up.<br />
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Sorry, that's all I can think now. (Yes I know Jesus Christ Superstar came first)tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-26653551836239881122020-04-03T04:05:00.000+01:002020-04-03T04:05:47.242+01:00Persona - Poem for Everyone's Souls & Elvis Presley - My BoyI noticed a thing.<br />
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The melody for "Poem For Everyone's Souls" - which is the music for the Velvet Room in all the Persona games - and the chorus to the song "My Boy" by Elvis Presley really sound a lot like each other.<br />
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<li><b>Plastic Josh</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/plasticjosh">https://www.twitch.tv/plasticjosh</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://www.streamersonglist.com/s/plasticjosh/songs">https://www.streamersonglist.com/s/plasticjosh/songs</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6FfAxaRvMrikzkied5Kduv">https://open.spotify.com/artist/6FfAxaRvMrikzkied5Kduv</a><br />UK musician - guitar (both acoustic and electric) and piano, has a voice of gold. Wide range of music - if I said it was "the kind of music Q Magazine likes" would you know what I mean? Does a fantastic Gethsemane. Made me actually enjoy Radiohead songs outside of Creep. Especially look out for streams where his brother comes along to join him singing on duets. He has his own band "Plastic Sun" and their original songs are great (but a right bugger if you want to sing one in the shower)</li>
<li><b>lara6683</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lara6683">https://www.twitch.tv/lara6683</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/lara6683">https://www.youtube.com/user/lara6683</a><br />Songlist: <a href="https://goo.gl/6AVr4n">https://goo.gl/6AVr4n</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2v5wjWQZ9ViJUXAetTQcZ6">https://open.spotify.com/artist/2v5wjWQZ9ViJUXAetTQcZ6</a><br />Many years ago, maybe a decade by now, I enjoyed listening to some piano covers of video game songs by someone called Lara de Wit. Then about 2 years ago, YouTube decided I ought to listen to a "mega medley that was supposed to be 5 minutes" that goes on for about an hour and a half. By someone called lara6683. And she was just taking suggestions from chat and playing a seemingly endless medley out of it all. Just out of memory. Then after a while, I found out that Lara de Wit and lara6683 were the same person. Her thing is that she's really, really good at learning new songs by ear. If you pay her a bucket of money at the start of a stream, she is likely to live learn a song of your choosing. She's also very good at taking songs and mashing them together on the fly, her improvisational / arrangement skills are fantastic. She is very popular and often gets over 1000 concurrent viewers. Song requests are generally sub-only and at her discretion - so 100 people might request and she'll pick an hour and a half's worth of songs out of the list. </li>
<li><b>ortopilot</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ortopilot">https://www.twitch.tv/ortopilot</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CckGnXzzJ9GARII95dDek">https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CckGnXzzJ9GARII95dDek</a><br />Another UK musician, this one's a Northern English singer / songwriter who plays keyboard and guitar and is an absolute wizard with a looper, and makes some solid, funky music. His sound setup is studio quality. His streams are generally a good time.</li>
<li><b>supershigi</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/supershigi">https://www.twitch.tv/supershigi</a><br />
Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/supershigi">https://www.youtube.com/user/supershigi</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RnGA202UcoKq6KjzQCbNR">https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RnGA202UcoKq6KjzQCbNR</a><br />Laura Shigihara is one of my favourite video game composers. When Plants vs Zombies came out, I loved the soundtrack so much I went and bought it separately and listened to it over and over. In the game To The Moon, her song Everything's Alright is the most perfectly fitting song within a game I think I've ever heard. So when she started streaming, it was like a goddess coming down to earth. She plays keyboard, has the sweetest, gentlest voice, and is generally a super nice person.</li>
<li><b>Spence Elliot</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/spenceelliott">https://www.twitch.tv/spenceelliott</a><br />This guy is seriously as though one of the Beach Boys was born 50 years too late, or something. Has a great voice, plays acoustic guitar and piano. He specialises in 1960s - 1970s music, mainly folk but also rock and stuff. All his song requests are paid. He's really, really good. And really welcoming and friendly too.</li>
<li><b>Contracrostics</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/contracrostics">https://www.twitch.tv/contracrostics</a><br />Exceptional classical pianist named Matt, from the USA, who has an amazing antique grand piano right there in his house. When he plays, it's like a story. It's beautiful. He'll only play what he wants to, but he's got a ton of classical sheet music, and I've never disliked anything he's played. He doesn't always stream music though - sometimes he plays games. He's a really chill guy and it's nice to watch his gaming streams too.</li>
<li><b>knumb the geek</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/knumbthegeek">https://www.twitch.tv/knumbthegeek</a><br />Soundcloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/knumbthegeek">https://soundcloud.com/knumbthegeek</a><br />"Folk-punk" American musician named Kevin - amazing on fiddle, also plays guitar and mandolin. Often uses a looper. Sings enthusiastically, though he kinda sounds like Goofy (but, a smarter version). Has a really great, contemplative, wild, brutal, and sometimes funny set of songs on his playlist, some of which he's written himself. Oh and a bunch of American and Irish traditional tunes too.</li>
<li><b>Mermaid Unicorn</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/mermaidunicorn">https://www.twitch.tv/mermaidunicorn</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6gfQSJ07CJAEvOwKz4sX2f">https://open.spotify.com/artist/6gfQSJ07CJAEvOwKz4sX2f</a><br />Canadian musician Alanna Sterling is one of the greatest talents around at the moment, I'd say. I'm not going to list all the instruments they play, let's just say "all of them", because it basically is. Their song "Monsters Under My Bed" was probably the best original song I heard in the whole of 2019.</li>
<li><b>Jonathan Ong</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jonathanong">https://www.twitch.tv/jonathanong</a><br />YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwbNxgXSHBjGBUjKHVZS7ZA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwbNxgXSHBjGBUjKHVZS7ZA</a><br />Dr Ong is like a mad scientist of music, from Australia. He's an amazing, outstanding pianist. He also plays flute and saxophone and otamatone. His stream has "The Most Keyboards On Twitch" (TMKOT) - he has dozens of them, all doing different things - and he seems to have an unending desire to acquire more of them. He also has a baby grand in his room which he usually plays. He'll play intricate classical pieces just to warm up, before playing whatever pop / rock / video game music / memes people hurl at him to play for the next 5 hours or so. I especially love when he covers either Muse or Nier on piano. People often pay him to make loops of songs, he'll listen and create his own version, layering and layering and layering. He has really funny animations and overlays too. I've seen him play a piano with 102 keys (and he broke it just through playing it, I don't think he's allowed back there anymore). I've seen him play for so many hours he literally stopped to go and superglue his fingers back together, and he came back giggling like a maniac. He's just started on some serious compositions too, which are really fine.</li>
<li><b>Texasraw</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/texasraw">https://www.twitch.tv/texasraw</a><br />Nice to see an older musician on Twitch. He's from Texas as the name suggests, and he plays hit rock songs from the previous century on electric guitar & kick drum. He's really good but I also feel like he's a bit underappreciated.</li>
<li><b>Lemonagogo</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lemonagogo">https://www.twitch.tv/lemonagogo</a><br />Singer / guitarist from the US, has a really nice, soothing voice. Her knowledge of 80s pop music is pretty legendary. </li>
<li><b>Venusworld</b><br /><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/venusworld">https://www.twitch.tv/venusworld</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4BQv8prfL0d4D0qR0q474d">https://open.spotify.com/artist/4BQv8prfL0d4D0qR0q474d</a><br />also Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nuyPqafby01SAz10TFNU5">https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nuyPqafby01SAz10TFNU5</a><br />Venus is a singer / songwriter from English, so posh she could play Mary Poppins without having to affect an accent. She writes some surprisingly dark songs, my favourite of hers is "Before You Go". Her community are really supportive and sing along in chat when she sings original songs. She previously recorded under the name Sophie Janes before settling on the name Venus, that's why she has two Spotify channels.</li>
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I'm listing nationalities mostly so you get an idea for the timezones they'll stream for. Though some just seem to be on at whatever time they feel like (e.g. Jonathan Ong, Contracrostics, Johnny Kuik). All the Germans speak perfect English because of course they do.</div>
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Also worth a mention: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/savingmusiclive">SavingMusicLive</a> - this is where a lot of charity music streams are held, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/gluecks">Gluecks</a> (German, pianist), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jonnykuik">Johnny Kuik</a> (UK keyboardist, plays along to a lot of anime music and East-Asian pop), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/pealeaf/">pealeaf</a> (Canadian, pianist), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/meriamber">meriamber</a> (Australian, songwriter - writes some hilarious songs), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/danchapman">Dan Chapman</a> (amazing vocalist, songwriter, guitar & keyboard), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/andrewtelles">Andrew Telles</a> (piano, keyboard), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/tammy_blackmedia">Tammy Blackmedia</a> (singer-songwriter, guitar & keyboard), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/callsignscarecrow">CallsignScarecrow</a> (UK, vocals, guitar, large beard), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/egglyberts">Egglyberts</a> (UK, pianist), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lizsinger">Liz Singer</a> (vocalist, covers musicals and pop music, heck of a belt), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ka_klick">ka_klick</a> (US, guitarist, sings nerdy songs he's written), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/meganlenius/">Megan Lenius</a> (US singer songwriter, her song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq--sfiHlbM">Allison</a> is brilliant), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/umilele">Umilele</a> (Ukraine, ukelele), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/kristikates">KristyKates</a> (US, guitar, vocals, generally very nice person), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/theluckmusic">theluckmusic</a> (wow these voices! Guitar, keyboard), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/jadothmusic">JadothMusic</a> (German, singer / guitarist), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman">pianoimproman</a> (piano, keyboards), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/matthewkheafy">matthewkheafy</a> (US metal musician Matt Heafy from the band Trivium), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/luckreunion">Luck Reunion</a> (Willie Nelson, Paul Simon & co are going to do a live concert soonish)<br />
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And, I don't know if they're gone for good, because they haven't streamed in ages, but these folks are great: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/kylelandrypiano">Kyle Landry</a> (pianist), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/ihazabeard">ihazabeard</a> (vocals, guitar), <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/bagelrabbit">BagelRabbit</a> (violin improv)</div>
tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-41034413856829356842019-08-27T14:04:00.001+01:002020-08-05T09:46:46.628+01:00I Drove All NightThis is one of those songs that I love but also rant about.<br />
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It's a great song. There are so many great versions; Cyndi Lauper, Roy Orbison, Celine Dion... I really like the version by The Protomen too. It's like the Roy Orbison version, but ramped up and more epic.<br />
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BUT!<br />
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I just want to say to the two guys who wrote this song... "No, it's totally not alright".<br />
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Seriously, if I was dating a guy and I thought he was 200 miles away but he got horny and drove up, snuck and crept in to my bed and woke me up by [surprise sexy times] I'd wake up terrified assuming it's an intruder and lamp him. If it didn't end in fatality it would end in <i>"We need to talk"</i>.<br />
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And you know! You know by listening to the song the guy knows he's doing something terrible, or he wouldn't have to ask "is that alright?" so much. No it's not alright!<br />
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And I don't know if this is just what I get out of it, but I feel like he thinks he's <i>earned</i> his sexy times just because he drove so far, and he's going to be mega pissed off and act like a pest if he gets home to "go away, I'm sleeping!". There's definitely a sense of entitlement I get out of these lyrics.<br />
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The fact it's sometimes covered by women doesn't make it better. It's still creepy.<br />
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And I know this was written before mobile phones so phoning to ask "is that alright" before driving all that way isn't that simple.<br />
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This song... I have so many problems with it and I don't think of it as romantic at all, but I still like it, and I really like the various artists who've performed it. I suppose that's a bit weird.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-35344204322525350792019-07-04T11:56:00.003+01:002019-07-04T11:56:37.727+01:00Perfect balanceI just looked up how many people there are in the world. There are 7.7 billion people. I also saw that in 1960, there were 3 billion. So if Thanos did his thing, he'd have to come back and do it every 40 years or so to really achieve "balance".tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-53005727977562522512019-06-28T01:49:00.002+01:002019-06-28T01:49:41.990+01:00Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night is a really great gameI kickstarted Koji Igarashi's new super-not-a-Castlevania game "Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night" 4 years ago and got my copy last Tuesday. Played it *a lot*.<br />
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It really is a great game. I think it's possibly better than a IGA-era Castlevania game because there are so many weapons to use, leading to so many play-styles, and I do like variety. Other than that - same basics you would expect from an "Igavania". 2D platformer, explore a huge castle, fight some bosses, collect enemy drops and skills, use new skills to explore further... and yes there is a "backstep" button. :)<br />
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The story of the game is alchemy / anti-church / experimenting on children / post-apocalypse (hmm, that makes it sound like Bat Out Of Hell 2100. It's not anything like Bat 2100!), but you can happily ignore that if you like. There are both English and Japanese voice options. I played in Japanese (honestly I don't think the English dub for Symphony Of The Night is worth celebrating, I know it became a camp cult hit for its awfulness but I have no attachment to it).<br />
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You can also change the colour of blood in the options. I like that you can do that, and I turned blood purple. There are lots of little Easter Eggs too. And cool weird things like... enemies that look like giant heads of people's pets (I think this was a kickstarter reward!)<br />
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The only thing I didn't think was great in the design of the game was that with the art they used in the game (which is beautiful); sometimes it was hard to see what's foreground and background, but I got used to it after a few hours of playing.<br />
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I started the game pretty much as soon as I could, so I started playing on version 1.01 and a few hours later they released version 1.02, but I read that it messed up the save file so I decided to finish the game as soon as possible and not update until I was done. Well, I don't know if that was the best idea, because version 1.01 was patched because a few of the last boss fights in the game didn't show up on the in-game bestiary list.<br />
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So I updated the game with patch 1.02 and started a New Game+ and completed the entire game again. There were a few things changed with the patch. I think poison was nerfed, I beat a lot of the bosses first time round using poison and keeping my distance, but that seemed less potent in version 1.02. Also I thought the secret boss fight with the vampire librarian was much harder in version 1.02.<br />
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I got the platinum trophy on PSN for completing every trophy on Sunday night after 5 days and 5 hours of intense gaming (the time taken is logged on psnprofiles). I think it was a really great game. It's updated to version 1.03 now so everything I said specific to patches is probably irrelevant now too, haha.<br />
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I didn't fight IGA because his secret boss fight (not very secret) wasn't patched in to the PS4 version yet. I'll have to return at some point!<br />
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Conclusion: well worth waiting 4 years for this game, even though I finished the whole thing twice within 5 days!tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-80463336901545135272019-05-14T16:46:00.001+01:002019-05-14T16:46:09.487+01:00Dear world: Meat Loaf's name is Meat Loaf. It's that simple!One thing that's really getting to irritate me a little more all the time, is how everyone who wants to talk about Meat Loaf is obsessed with either the "origin" of his name, or will insist on calling him Marvin Lee Aday.<br />
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If he's in interview, it's often one of the first thing they ask, or if it's an article, they'll be all "Oh but Marvin Lee Aday is his REAL name".<br />
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But I know a few different people who have had troubled backgrounds who decided to legally change their name, because they desperately want to be disassociated with that family name, they want to leave that behind, they want to be themselves, they want to be judged on their own merit.<br /><br />
And to dredge up the old name like that, it's a thing you don't do. It's just uncomfortable, rude.<br />
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The old name is dead. The new name, that's who they are.<br />
<br />With Meat Loaf, that's his name. His real name. It's also the name of his stage persona, but it's also his actual name. People who know him just call him "Meat" in his life. It's not the same as an actor who acts under a stage name.<br /><br />Meat changed his name legally several times - he changed it to "Meat Loaf", but he said - he had trouble passing through customs (and for someone was was seemingly on endless world tours, this is a problem) - so he legally changed it to "Michael Lee Aday". The system is happier with this. But everyone on a personal level calls him Meat.<br />
<br />So every time I hear those same words from an interviewer "so the name Meat Loaf...", I cringe a little. No wonder he makes up a new "origin story" every time.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-30727683511225204922019-04-25T13:23:00.000+01:002019-04-25T13:23:31.316+01:00Is Steve Steinman related to Jim Steinman?I see this question a lot. The answer is no, he is not.<br />
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In 1993, a Yorkshireman named Steve Murray was on the TV talent show <a href="https://vampiresrock.com/stars-eyes-1993/">"Stars In Their Eyes" as Meat Loaf</a>. Later, to help promote his tribute act, Steve changed his stage name to Steve Steinman. Under companies house, his business "Steve Steinman Productions" names Steven Murray as the <a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08762616/persons-with-significant-control">sole officer</a>.<br />
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He has never worked with, or had any association with, Jim Steinman.<br />
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Steve has in fact said a few unkind things about Jim Steinman's Bat Out Of Hell in promotion of his own work.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-8062031985364787362018-09-08T11:59:00.002+01:002018-09-08T11:59:41.339+01:00The dream I just hadMy brother told me to write down if I dream anything. And I hardly ever dream anymore. So... that was months ago, now. But I dreamed a little dream last night.<br />
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I was with a group of Egyptologists, and they'd discovered some ruins... there was a pattern of markings on the floor, moving out of a circle in the middle. In columns like the pattern on a dartboard, I suppose. Each set of markings was a concave etching of some food, with some characters etched deeper into each one. The Egyptologists had figured out the text and had created little trundling machines with arms at the front, sort of like crab claws, but on both sides?<br />
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So - we had to let them run over a wide circle, over a pile of rice, but needed to keep picking them up and pulling them back so they wouldn't go to the centre. So that's what we did.<br />
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Then something happened and we got called away! I don't remember what for. But we came back and the trundling machines had got to the centre, and had formed a kind of circular pyramid of rice together. Well, a cone shape, but I thought in my mind - round-based rice pyramid, with a smooth gradient. I picked one of the trundle bots up, and accidentally disturbed the pattern, rice spilling out. So I moved the trundle-bot back and put it down to "sweep up" this rice, hoping this would be alright.<br />
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And then! Drama! Up / behind us there was a lorry, broken through a barricade on the road above, it came hurtling down, across the sand, and smashed into a warehouse door, breaking through and disappearing. We ran, across the sand, keeping an eye on it. Out from the door of the warehouse, two men came out, carrying guns - one pointing at the other, and the other pointing at the crowd.<br />
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Suddenly I noticed I was on a beach with all these people, and I was backing off, trying to get out of the line of sight of this gunman. I noticed other people on the beach were raising their hands, so I joined in, still slowly backing off. Then I noticed one of the people on the beach with his hands raised was my dad, who was smiling and happy to see me. (My dad being on a beach is a very unlikely occurrence, let alone him smiling while being on a beach)<br />
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So I stayed by him, but suddenly I remembered the trundling machines, and needed to get back to them... but how to? With these crazy gunmen on the beach?<br />
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Then there was some banging, which sounded like someone knocking at the door at my mother's house, so I woke up... before realising I was in my own house, so the sound meant nothing.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-92177725316383743212018-04-12T10:56:00.001+01:002018-04-12T10:56:28.663+01:00Thoughts about sensesQuite often, I wonder about how other people perceive the world, on a really fundamental level. Like, some people are colourblind and some people can see extra colours most people can't. Some people don't seem to have working tastebuds, and other people have the burden of being supertasters. And some people don't care about flavour so much as they enjoy texture. Notably either Ben or Jerry - one of the two ice cream guys, decided to put chunks of things in because texture was far more important to him than flavour. And then there are such things as synaesthesia, which actually seems kind of like a super power if you're a musician. So what if all senses are like that and we just haven't noticed yet or invented language to describe it? And someone could live their whole life sensing things a little differently to everyone around them and they wouldn't know because it didn't come up in conversation, and people tend to assume everyone else is the same and usually have a general fear for not being normal. What if all these differences are actually fairly commonplace? Like, [A] can't distinguish red/green and [B] can't smell the difference between basil and coriander. And [C] can't taste the difference between sugar, aspartame and stevia. I don't know what I'm getting at other than - it's not useful to assume your perception of the world is 100% the same as another person's.tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-7290094575074213222017-11-24T14:59:00.000+00:002017-11-24T14:59:37.663+00:00This year's Steam Awards nominationsThis is how I voted. If it were possible, I would have voted POLYBIUS on PS4 for the "Mom's Spaghetti" award, because it's the only game this year to really fit the description of having a really intense subconscious physical reaction to a game. But, these are Steam awards. So I nominated Scoregasm since, well, that's a physical reaction too, right? Hahaha.<br />
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The “The World Is Grim Enough Let's Just All Get Along” Award<br />
- <b>Zaccaria Pinball</b><br />
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The “Choices Matter” Award<br />
- <b>West Of Loathing</b><br />
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The “Haunts My Dreams” Award<br />
- <b>Chime Sharp</b><br />
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The “Mom’s Spaghetti” Award<br />
- <b>Scoregasm</b><br />
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The “No Apologies” Award<br />
- <b>Space Giraffe</b><br />
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The “Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War” Award<br />
- <b>Saints Row : The Third</b><br />
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The “Suspension of Disbelief” Award<br />
- <b>Roundabout</b><br />
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The “Soul Of Vitruvius” Award<br />
- <b>Bayonetta</b><br />
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The “Defies Description” Award<br />
- <b>Mu cartographer</b><br />
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The “Labor of Love” Award<br />
- <b>Pizza Express</b><br />
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The “Whoooaaaaaaa, Dude! 2.0” Award<br />
- <b>Mibibli's Quest</b><br />
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The “Even Better Than I Expected” Award<br />
- <b>Enter The Gungeon</b><br />
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The “Nicest developer” Award<br />
- <b>HEIANKYO ALIEN / 平安京エイリアン</b>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-63133583161594383362017-06-13T11:48:00.000+01:002017-06-13T11:48:04.631+01:00Neverland Chronicles, June 2100 editionSome fan material I wrote, in response to the Obsidian Times newspaper which is given away free at performances of Jim Steinman's <a href="https://batoutofhellmusical.com/">Bat Out Of Hell The Musical</a>. I think mostly I wrote it because I felt that the Obsidian Times contained information which didn't seem true to me (as a fan of the show) and wasn't funny enough, or contain enough references for fans.<br />
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I picture this incarnation of the Neverland Chronicles to be left-leaning, vaguely tolerant but distrusting of Falco, an underground publication that's at times gossip rag, other times vaguely high-brow, and never really taken seriously enough to get into real trouble.<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6wQHfPogTpca1p3ZzYwRVBWY0k">Neverland Chronicles, June 2100 (PDF)</a>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992221599292350087.post-61558647676208258102017-03-20T16:13:00.000+00:002017-03-20T16:13:50.734+00:00Let The Revels Begin...Obsessed with <a href="http://batoutofhellmusical.com/">Jim Steinman's Bat Out Of Hell Musical</a> and can't think about anything else.<br />
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It's time for a sequel to the <a href="https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_1/tpj0501-0012.html">Perl Poetry Competition 2000 Best Of Show</a>.<br />
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To celebrate the new lyrics to <a href="http://mljs.evilnickname.org/jimsteinman/musicals/batoutofhell2100.html#allrevvedup">All Revved Up With No Place To Go</a>, some ES6 / nodejs poetry. :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">let revels;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">let cages;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">let flags;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">let endOfWorld = false;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">revels.begin();</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">cages.open();</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">flags.furled = !flags.furl();</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">var strat = { </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> eyes : "blue",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> hair : "blonde",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> heart : "black",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> gender : "boy"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">}</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">while(!endOfWorld){</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> strat.kill(spawn('time'));</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">}</span>tenshi_ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04574835769810425440noreply@blogger.com0