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Aug. 4th, 2011 12:52 aman entry title and not a band… maybe. last.fm tells me they don't exist, but they could be from the Gambia and make trip-hop with a game genie, a test cartridge for the NES, and a copy of Mario Paint.
I still wanted to say that. For the record, it's because I thought it would make a great title while trying to find stuff about the Critic-O-Matic and I put it in my notes file after a list of bands, including ones with such evocative titles as Monkey Power and Rancho Relaxo. I checked out a few of the bands in the list. Korine Conception makes me think of Sigur Ros (kemenangan naik?). Actually, it makes me think of the vocals to Sigur Ros attached to some other band I can't quite place. Swirling Light is noisy with a really serene voice so drowned out by the guitars I can't tell what sex the vocalist is. A third person gender-neutral singular pronoun would be really useful right now. You don't say "it" when referring to a person, unless you're Chattypatty from City-Data and the person you're referring to is Thai. Do you?
Something like nǐmen (for those of you who don't speak Chinese, it's a plural of you) would be good too.
Voight-Kampff empathy tests at airports, except they're probably not asking about tortoises, they're asking about couscous or something. There's a good reason the last time I flied on a plane was in 1988.
Stepper's Heaven is back! And they had a dog with them. Woo. I didn't have much time to listen to them or some guy playing a … I don't know, it made me think of a saxophone but was long and straight… bass clarinet? soprano sax? yeah, I think it was a soprano sax… outside Charles/MGH.
Of opera
Russian really doesn't translate well into English. Either that, or they hired the same people who translated Final Fantasy IV.
The difference between the Figaro operas (which were also performed in English, probably so the audience could see the humor within) is like the difference between the translations of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI.
I'm imagining Bugs Bunny trying to cut Elmer Fudd's hair. And wondering why "Kiww da wabbit!" wasn't an encore.
There's a robot opera called Death And The Powers. Alas, it's not actually performed by robots or other synthetic voices.
I repeat: The Dream of Perpetual Motion is utterly fucking amazing. Heavens know we could all use a Critic-O-Matic (inside is a blindfolded girl floating in water, there are electrical nodes that measure her physiological responses and the machine uses the data to analyze style and marketability and spits out a grade)
It's funny in the way the Ambergris cycle is (the first two books are) and the way I try to be.
A guy said something I could only kind of hear about the wall in the Esplanade's bathroom. Maybe he wanted power over walls or something. The other guy said maybe he would if he said his prayers and ate all his vegetables.
I've never seen a defense of Ayn Rand's writing style in Atlas Shrugged and I doubt I should be surprised. It reads like she was paid by the word and on the occasions where she actually had a decent metaphor or simile, she ruins it with a combination of bad writing and overwriting. Even when she doesn't overwrite, she still phrases everything awkwardly.
My cousin said Donald Trump trademarked his toupee and made tons of money off of it. That's probably not far from reality. I'm pretty sure he was born rich but I can't be arsed to do any research on that, when I could be reading The Dream of Perpetual Motion
The last of the video game questions, I promise.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Final Fantasy VIII… except I wouldn't say I love it. It is a reasonably good game, though.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
FFVI, probably.
And finally:
Burning question: If you could go back in time but couldn't change what happened and nothing you do there will ever make a difference, what would you take with you?
I'd bring a flash drive and get some stuff off of IUMA before it goes kaput along with the song Flowergarden by Chris Child that either nobody has or nobody wants to send me and isn't on his website for some reason.
I still wanted to say that. For the record, it's because I thought it would make a great title while trying to find stuff about the Critic-O-Matic and I put it in my notes file after a list of bands, including ones with such evocative titles as Monkey Power and Rancho Relaxo. I checked out a few of the bands in the list. Korine Conception makes me think of Sigur Ros (kemenangan naik?). Actually, it makes me think of the vocals to Sigur Ros attached to some other band I can't quite place. Swirling Light is noisy with a really serene voice so drowned out by the guitars I can't tell what sex the vocalist is. A third person gender-neutral singular pronoun would be really useful right now. You don't say "it" when referring to a person, unless you're Chattypatty from City-Data and the person you're referring to is Thai. Do you?
Something like nǐmen (for those of you who don't speak Chinese, it's a plural of you) would be good too.
Voight-Kampff empathy tests at airports, except they're probably not asking about tortoises, they're asking about couscous or something. There's a good reason the last time I flied on a plane was in 1988.
Stepper's Heaven is back! And they had a dog with them. Woo. I didn't have much time to listen to them or some guy playing a … I don't know, it made me think of a saxophone but was long and straight… bass clarinet? soprano sax? yeah, I think it was a soprano sax… outside Charles/MGH.
Of opera
Russian really doesn't translate well into English. Either that, or they hired the same people who translated Final Fantasy IV.
The difference between the Figaro operas (which were also performed in English, probably so the audience could see the humor within) is like the difference between the translations of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI.
I'm imagining Bugs Bunny trying to cut Elmer Fudd's hair. And wondering why "Kiww da wabbit!" wasn't an encore.
There's a robot opera called Death And The Powers. Alas, it's not actually performed by robots or other synthetic voices.
I repeat: The Dream of Perpetual Motion is utterly fucking amazing. Heavens know we could all use a Critic-O-Matic (inside is a blindfolded girl floating in water, there are electrical nodes that measure her physiological responses and the machine uses the data to analyze style and marketability and spits out a grade)
It's funny in the way the Ambergris cycle is (the first two books are) and the way I try to be.
A guy said something I could only kind of hear about the wall in the Esplanade's bathroom. Maybe he wanted power over walls or something. The other guy said maybe he would if he said his prayers and ate all his vegetables.
I've never seen a defense of Ayn Rand's writing style in Atlas Shrugged and I doubt I should be surprised. It reads like she was paid by the word and on the occasions where she actually had a decent metaphor or simile, she ruins it with a combination of bad writing and overwriting. Even when she doesn't overwrite, she still phrases everything awkwardly.
My cousin said Donald Trump trademarked his toupee and made tons of money off of it. That's probably not far from reality. I'm pretty sure he was born rich but I can't be arsed to do any research on that, when I could be reading The Dream of Perpetual Motion
The last of the video game questions, I promise.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Final Fantasy VIII… except I wouldn't say I love it. It is a reasonably good game, though.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
FFVI, probably.
And finally:
Burning question: If you could go back in time but couldn't change what happened and nothing you do there will ever make a difference, what would you take with you?
I'd bring a flash drive and get some stuff off of IUMA before it goes kaput along with the song Flowergarden by Chris Child that either nobody has or nobody wants to send me and isn't on his website for some reason.
