Posted by Johnnie
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:10:00 GMT
Now, look. I’m on your side. You know that. I’m all for encouraging creativity and new talent. But, please, I’m begging you …
Stop making machinima movies with Carmina Burana as the soundtrack!
O Fortuna is a great piece of music. I’m not saying it’s not. Very evocative, very dramatic. I can see why, when you dragged that mp3 into your video editor, it seemed like a good idea. It’s bound to make your halfass movie feel like proper Dramatic Stuff.
Don’t make that mistake, please. O Fortuna is so over-used, it’s not even funny. It was already a cliche after The Omen. By this stage, it’s even a cliche as a machinima soundtrack. There are plenty of other great pieces of classical music. Why not look at Wagner, or Elgar, or one of the really great choral composers like Bach or Handel?
Come on, people. Put some effort in, please.
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Posted by Johnnie
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:05:00 GMT
My boss just PMed me:
[14:46:22] Matt says: I have a not-for-sale promo CD of a short album about love from 1996. Would you like it?
Are you fucking kidding me?
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Posted by Johnnie
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:51:00 GMT
I was in a pub last night (which, apropos of nothing, served the most piss-poor watery excuse for beer that I’ve ever had the misfortune to encounter), and they were playing Christmas carols. Loudly, consistently. The Most Annoying Christmas Tunes In The World Ever 3 on constant loop.
Now, check the timestamp on this post. It’s almost exactly two months till Christmas. If it’s now acceptable to start the relentless Christmas cheer at the end of September, that means I’m going to be forced to listen to Slade for a sixth of my life. That’s too much to ask of any man.
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Posted by Johnnie
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:48:00 GMT
As if we needed any more proof that genius is a fickle mistress, elusive and intermitent, I present Guns ‘N Roses’ Sweet Child O’ Mine:
She’s got eyes of the bluest skies /
As if they thought of rain.
Brilliant. That’s a fantastic lyric. There are people who would die happy if they wrote a lyric half that good. What have you got next for us, Axl?
I hate to look into those eyes /
And see an ounce of pain.
Ow. Sorry. You were doing so well, too. Next!
Not many people have heard Axl Rose’s original lyrics for this verse, which were cut at the request of Geffen Records (and the rest of the band):
She’s got eyes of the bluest skies /
As if they thought of rain /
I hate to look into those eyes /
And see an ounce of pain /
Metric weighing vexes her /
And makes her head go “ouch” /
I want to make the sex with her /
Upon our tour bus couch. /
Ooh, yeah, baby /
Lick my love pump, etc.
“Must make it rhyme! Else it’s not poetry!“
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