Monday, March 7, 2016

Music Roundup Monday: "The Captain is Too Old to Die Young"

I got picture frames for all of my posters today. Now my apartment doesn't look like a college dorm anymore. Well, at least not as much. Also, I'm going to make a lightsaber this weekend. Just a cheap one, out of plumbing parts. Or something. I dunno. Anyway. Music. 

The Dreadnoughts - "The Skrigjaargen Polka"

Leonard Cohen - "The Captain"


Motorhead - "Brotherhood of Man"

Honeymoon Suite - "New Girl Now"

Sandrider - "Crysknife"

Brother Dege - "Too Old to Die Young"

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Cool Stuff Sunday: "Star Wars. And Some Other Stuff, I Guess."

I am writing this while asleep. Metaphorically. Literally. Wishfully. Something. Whatever. I should try automatic writing. Just put a pen in my hand and go to sleep. Wake up wondering why there's ink in my ear. 

Daisy Ridley has insider info about Star Wars: Episode VIII!

This dude's Starkiller cosplay is...killer. 

How to make your own lightsaber for cheap. 

These Star Wars posters are great. The first appearance of a Star Destroyer in every movie. 

Mark Hamill is vicious

The Knights of Ren are cool and I hope they're still cool when the movie is over. 

Apparently Deadpool is getting an X-rated cut. Apparently. 

Literary criticism of the Mr. Men books is a thing now, I guess? 

I always said Dark Souls was a Gothic series, and Miyazaki himself using Gothic/Romantic terminology to discuss the series only further proves I'm totes right. Seriously. "Sublime" is a key word for Romanticism and its Gothic offshoot. 

You can make music using only Windows XP and Winows 98 sounds. Why? No idea. 

I'm pretty sure Keanu Reeves is actually just John Wick in real life

Pirate skeletons under a school? Probably a sign you've got ghosts. 

Want to read about Celtic treasures? HERE

Is the next Battlefield game going to be set in World War I? Let's hope so

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Friday, March 4, 2016

Last Month's Movies: "Oh, You Vampire of the Soul..."

Just got back from my company's holiday party. Yes, our holiday party is in March. It makes sense, okay? Anyway, while I munch my Taco Bell cinnamon twists, here's some movies.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

OverAnalyzed: Muffled Voices in Dark Souls

The Souls series does a lot of things right, including sound design. Someday I'll write a longer piece breaking down sound design in detail, but for now I want to focus on one element in particular. Voices. The voices of those who wear helmets. See, the thing about helms which cover the face is that they muffle the voice. It's easy to forget that. But FromSoft didn't. If a character, say Siegmeyer of Catarina, wears a helmet, their voice has a muffled and echoing quality to it. It's a small thing but it's so incredibly indicative of the work FromSoft put in. 

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Wandery Wednesday: "Incandescence"

I am angry. Very. Sickeningly. Angry. Incandescent. At a lot of things. Events at my alma mater which have made me realize how truly screwed-up many things are in higher education, particularly in how sexual assault is handled. The political system and the fact that one of the two major parties has a frontrunner endorsed by the KKK while the other is split between an impractical socialist (whose ideals I respect nonetheless) and a career politician who embodies The System. My own failings as a human being. The horrible nature of the world. 


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Your charnel mouth spews hatred
Like Satan's bile.
No. 
That's an affront to the father of lies,
To associate him with the foulness you spread in the name of faith.
Judas Iscariot is morally superior to you,
He who betrayed the Christ
For thirty pieces of silver. 
You'd sell the Christ
For thirty seconds of primetime. 
The woman at the well was more an authority on the sanctity of marriage
Than you who blatter about "family values” while indulging in perversion and abuse.
A millstone awaits,
You who shelter molesters because "they repented;"
You who destroy the earth because "the earth and all that is on it is ours;"
You who pick and choose which scriptures to interpret literally and which to ignore, stoning gays but wearing polyester;
You who sacrifice the young and impoverished upon an altar of your greed, an Abraham to generation of Isaacs with no angel to intervene; 
For all your hypocrisies too numerous to name--
Jesus wept. 


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And yet. The light is winning. The light will always win. It must. 

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Poem: "For the South"

When the blood-gold
Piled on my lawn
Is swept away by white,
I turn to the south and shiver.

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Oh, hey! I finished the cycle! Look at me go.