Sunshine Burn
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cport
May 29, 2005
Cool. I relayed the message to Brian and hopefully hes practicing as we speak. Speaking about speaking, I hope the Oblivion npcs have more intimidating things to say than in morrowind. Instead of shouting "you will die!" and running at you, unarmored, with a butter knife. I allways thought the Ordinators were the baddest-ass characters though, they would growl, "you cannot escape the righteous" as they unsheath their ebony mauls and they were hardcore enough with the skills and the raspy voice to make you truely say 'crap not again'.
malinkdogg
May 24, 2005
Telling you to practice every song is kinda like telling you to practice none of them, so for the sake of being somewhat meaningful, these are the top three songs I would like to hear you guys play:
Song Tree
Carry On
Northern Song
and f*** it,
Chair Song
malinkdogg
May 24, 2005
That's what's so stupid about it. It was like on Thursday night, and she was practicing alone for the service. She was the only one in there, but the pastor heard her from his office and fired her.
In the news, this woman here in Bozeman has her sons nes with a bunch of games (Mario 3, Mike Tysons Punchout, Marble Madness, and one of my favorites of all time - Battletoads), and she sold me the whole thing for 20 bucks. I've been wanting to get an NES with some vintage games for a long time, so I'm pretty pleased. Now all I need is Double Dragon, Excite Bike, and Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (it's a really really good RPG, even though the movie kinda blows).
"Are your muskrats evil, or are they good? Only God can tell."
"- Just don't step on them!"
cport
May 24, 2005
103YOW I think was subconciously drawn from that old woman on the simpsons who was playing Iron Butterfly's 'in the garden of eden'. The lyric spontaneously came into my head b/c of the tone on brian's keyboard- it sounded organish to me. Can you imagine getting fired for such precious little? I mean she was only trying to rock your f***ing socks off. Even if Sunday morning isnt exactly the most appropriate time.
Brian and I still like to do Evil Muskrat even though it was an improv song, 103YOW and 2 Goodbyes havent been sung since we got them down on tape years ago but I allways did like 2 goodbyes; maybe you can write a verse or two. Ill email brian and let him know which ones to practice, and ill do the same. And BTW weve got to work on some cool harmonizations like the breakdown from tribute where they start going a-capella.
malinkdogg
May 24, 2005
Oh, and Run to You. That's a good one.
malinkdogg
May 24, 2005
Ellen Reid, Amy's Song, Song Tree, Northern Song, Chair Song, Carry On, Lost in C, 2 Goodbyes, Girl at the Lake, Piggly Wiggly, You Shouldn't Do it.
I listen to the other songs, too, but I don't know if Tim's gonna be there to play or what, and also, 103-Year-Old Woman and Evil Muskrat etc. seem more like improv songs. I like to listen to them, too (especially 103YOW), but maybe they only have the magic the first Ebest Gazine time.
So, in 103YOW the music is supposed to be the old woman jammin on the organ in church, right? Even if it's not, the image cracks me up every time.
Anecdotally, this woman at my dad's old church got fired from playing the organ for playing a Doors song when she was practicing this one time - Cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon now touch me baby. Can you see that I am not afraid?
It wouldn't hurt to have the Tenacious D songs ready either.
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cport
May 24, 2005
lol. A typo! Im not really down with the backdoor action. Its funny that you mention the ebestgazine oldies because I was listening to a bunch of our old stuff last night. I think it would be much better with you singing the lyrics- then I could just focus on playing my guit-ar. If you wanna let me know which songs you definately want to do I'll start practicing them and I'll tell Brian to do the same.
malinkdogg
May 23, 2005
What I wanna do the most is an Ebest Gazine originals jam. At this point I can probably sing almost all the songs, and I could for sure with the lyric sheets. But for Ellen Reid, of course we have to do the Lanfear lyrics.
The way you said it it sounds like you like actually cheeks that are wide open, rather than a song that's called "With Cheeks Wide Open." Uhhm, either way is your decision . . . I'm just not sure which you meant.
cport
May 23, 2005
Well, well have to get a few of those jems on 'tape' once you get back into town. Brian has been telling me all about his brand new keyboard- im sure hes itching to try it out, although im not sure that he could fully appreciate the Lan/Reid piece. Cheeks wide open are definately one of my favorites.
malinkdogg
May 22, 2005
I remember the Lanfear Ellen Reid about as well as I remember "With Cheeks Wide Open." In case this answer intrigues more question, then I'll just say it means I don't remember it at all. Except that I believe it was vaguely sexual in nature.
cport
May 22, 2005
And that reminds me- do you remember our song version of ellen reid that was about Lanfear? what exactly were we saying about her b/c i think we made up quite a few verses, and right now i dont think i could even come up with one.
cport
May 22, 2005
Id rather be thinking about Congo than WoT right now.
malinkdogg
May 22, 2005
I don't know man. I don't think I think people young enough to enjoy the slops in WOT are reading fantasy books. All it would mean is that the only people who enjoy his writing are people who don't understand it. I just think he's like Mr. Van. He tries to appeal to women by telling them they're so much smarted than men . . . and making every other chapter about muscular or curvaceous women do something while sweaty and naked, wet and naked, or angry and naked - usually tangled with each other.
It's this crazy irony. Women are not stupid, and will not go hang out at his house because in his books they walk around sniffing in the direction of men.
Uhhm, and the writing isn't sensual like GRRM's, it's just creepy.
Oh man, and not only do people "narrowly" escape death all the time, but they come back FROM the dead. If the plot doesn't lack drive from nothing ever happening, it lacks it from an empty sense of vengence. I don't care if any of the bad guys (who all might
cport
May 22, 2005
Oh yeah and RJ never KILLS anyone. There are no surprises, no red weddings. Villans and heros always get ressurected/saved somehow its like a really really bad cartoon series where He-man somehow fights skeletor EVERY episode and yet he still escapes. C'mon give it some closure!
cport
May 22, 2005
lol thats jordan to a T. I wish Robert Jordan could just send me bullepoints for the plot, i dont think he could screw that up. On that point maybe hes writing for a younger audience- maybe youngsters (who dont know any difference) really think he is a good writer/ and he is just basically writing pulp fiction for the masses. At least George Martin has a direction, clear deskriptive language and a damn good storyline and plot which Robert Jordan lacks for all his commercial success.
malinkdogg
May 21, 2005
Yeah . . . stupid wheel of time. Aren't all the differences between men and women funny? Especially if they entirely consume all potential for a plot?
Dude, I don't even remember grolm but for very vaguely. Did you know it's possible to summarize the tenth WOT book in one paragraph without sacrificing any crucial pieces of the ghostly plot.
If Robert Jordan ever created anything as cool as wargs, he would screw it up by making them as powerful as gods. They'd be able to do stuff like have whole herds of wildebeests stampeding down the forsaken, but strangely, all the forsaken would be able to do is melt a hill right before they travel away to bore us again another time.
The part Jordan always talks about
when he gets passionately pissed about Congo is that very part - where the gorillas start committing suicide. He starts doing the whole screaming dickfor throwing the controller thing.
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cport
May 21, 2005
Ah Congo. I dont think we saw it together, but unlike Jordan, who emphatically hated that movie, I actually enjoyed it: except for the part where the CG gorillas started committing suicide by jumping into the growing pools of lava at the conclusion of the movie.
Speaking of third eyes, remember from the Wheel of Time series, those giant froglike creatures, or "grolm" that were chasing Rand and Lanfear through the parallel universe and who also accompany the Seanchan occupying forces? Perhaps the 3 eyes are signifigant: ie warg status, but knowing Robert Jordan its probably just some irrelevant detail.
malinkdogg
May 21, 2005
Uhhm, is that a reference to Congo? You mean I wasn't the only one to see the first foray into the next gen of cgi featuring gorillas? Actually, is it possible we saw it together, like with Jordan? I know I saw it with somebody.
Anyway, if you look closely you can see those gorillas have opened their third eye up on their foreheads, so I think they would just take over Amy's body along with a shadowcat or two and tear your limbs off.
Yeah, now that you mention it that model looks just like someone from Shrek, though I can't remember which one. Up until then, I just thought he looked an elderly Beatles fan from ~1965 who sounded like Professor X. The voice over was cool, but I agree they would have done much better to make him look like Longshanks. I love that guy. Well, we can hope that in his short time in the game he doesn't dance around singing "funny" songs with some characters from a Grimm's fairytale while making instantly dated jokes referring to US pop culture.
cport
May 21, 2005
On that note- I liked the way they improved the Clanfeari they move and look a little bit more like velociraptors. And was it just me or does the emperor in the trailer look eerily like one of the human characters from Shrek? That was kind of a let down- i kind of imagined him looking like Braveheart's King of England: malicious, and not ancient, but slowly dying and bedridden.
Ha! I didnt recognize those cliff racers at first- i just thought they were some abstract pattern or somthing. Better use some lightning bolts on them- vivec style.