Tyrphanax

A fantastic album from some of my formative music years (and my sweet Goth phase). Bodypop is the European synthpop album from 1982 that you always wanted, except it dropped in 2006. That said, there’s still a bit of And One’s Industral vibe from their earlier albums around, but not much. And it’s full of great songs: Military Fashion Show is a fantastic song, Enjoy the Unknown is almost pure Depeche Mode while So Klingt Liebe is nearing Soft Cell, Body Company is just fantastic, and Traumfrau is one of my favorite songs to this day.

10/10 Album
8/10 Art (I dig the minimalism, but it’s a bit disjointed)

Also there’s a Boba Fett sample in the album I’d never noticed before.

Hey man, you want an authority figure to defend a wall against TFN. I figure Germany would know best about walls.

Just doing my homework.

It’s the German version.

8/10 Album
6/10 Art

Life Isn’t Easy in Germany - And One

pittrek said:

I’ve just seen it. It’s an interesting story, which is good, but it looks and feels like an opening of Season 6 and not 4, or as a pilot to a brand new series, which is bad.

It does feel a bit disconnected, but I’m sure they’ll fill in the gaps as we move along.

TV’s Frink said:

If they got the worst of both generations, it would have been unfair because the Millennial team would have 10x the number of contestants.

JEDIT:

Sure enough, playing up to the stereotypes, the Gen Xers pick the scuba gear that requires more work to see the benefit, while the Millennials go for the chickens so they can just sit back and eat.

I think they just had a larger pool to pick from with the Millennials.

D- is generous.

Joke is generous.

C post.

lol!

I meant to post about this last night and forgot. I was doing the usual “help the parents fix the TV” thing and I accidentally flipped over to that channel and saw the opening.

It was pretty goofy-looking. It looks like they got the worst of both generations for the show, or at least the most ridiculous stereotypes from each generation.

One kid was born in 1997 and was an adult. I thought they stopped making kids in the early '90s?

And just finished the first episode of the new series.

Pretty good. Nice to see everyone again, and it’s cool to think that they’re finally allowing more magic into the universe.

Though having just come off the finales of Jessica Jones and Daredevil Season 2, AoS will always feel like the little brother to the Netflix series’. It’s not bad, but it’s not the same.

Finally finished out Jessica Jones after a long break and was blown away by the finale.

The marathoned Daredevil S02 and was blown away by the finale.

I dunno how Marvel is crushing it every time, but they truly are. I can’t wait to see Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the Defenders shows. Not to mention the next seasons of the current series’.

It’s almost like film ratings are totally subjective.

She is not.

doubleofive said:

What’s the deal with Tyrphanax’s user name? Is he some kind of dinosaur? “ROAR, I’m a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar weapons, but somehow a dinosaur!”

Usually I get “nasal medication.”

JEDIT: Holy shit I will not be slandered in such a way! Screw you, Turd Vision Stink, and screw you, Double Blow Skive!

God dammit.

The Iron Man 1 theme is the best choice, but I agree that the Iron Man 3 theme is very good. I’d leave the original theme as his main theme and maybe bring in the IM3 theme for special occasions.

Otherwise, I’d generally default to the themes from their first film. If I was musically talented at all, I’d develop them from film to film.

doubleofive said:

How could he not be done if he’s already done the crawl for Jedi?!

EXACTLY.

doubleofive said:

So the project isn’t dead?

But seriously, I’m so excited about this.

Yeah, it’s the little stuff like this that is stuff that would likely be totally ignored by an official restoration and what makes Revisited so good.

I think at this point we can all just take a step back and say: “Are you done yet?”

=P

Another brilliant fix. Looks incredible, Ady!

Finally sat down and watch the Every Frame a Painting video, and wow. Some of that stuff is blatant ripping off another composer. I can’t even believe that.

But what really blew my mind about the video was that they completely skipped over the lack of themes for the characters. I could forgive the rest of the “bland, uneventful, safe” music in the films if the characters just had themes or motifs that ran through all the films and then all came together in the Avengers films.

Dude dropped that Spider-Man theme though. Good show.

I then started the video Mala linked, but heard in the intro to it about another response to the Every Frame a Painting video, and decided to watch that.

This video contends that temp track copying and the play-it-safe mentality has been around forever, and that the transition from analog to digital is a bigger factor in why all the big blockbusters today sound mostly the same (thanks to Hans Zimmer!). It’s very interesting, but again, he fails to mention what I’ve always felt is the real reason Marvel music isn’t “hummable” or memorable.

Finally got down to Mala’s video, and this guy gets it. This is the exact reason that nobody knows the Marvel music: there’s no continuity. At all. Every new movie comes with new music and established characters don’t have an established or developed theme, they have a new and often totally different theme each film and it seriously makes it like you’re seeing the character for the first time each time.

For all the things Marvel is doing right, they’re doing this so incredibly wrong, and it’s actually a really big deal. If it were up to me, I’d rescore the entire franchise.

At least you didn’t draft Kaepernick!

Heyo!

I saw that image a lot when I was growing up, so it’s very nostalgic for me.

Perhaps the idea was to make Tony really unlikable but right, and to make Steve really likable but wrong to make it more confusing? You don’t want to agree with Tony but you know he’s right, and you want to agree with Cap but you know he’s wrong. I mean, I definitely agreed with Tony the whole way through, but I also felt a lot of sympathy for Cap’s position (not to get political, but the story often felt like a gun control argument).

In the end the whole deal is kinda Cap’s fault for being so stubbornly unwilling to talk (the What If…? story about what might have happened had he not EMP’d Tony’s armor at the plant certainly frames it that way), and Tony, even though he was right, seems to feel that he was right at the cost of his soul and a lot of his friends (Happy, Pepper, Cap, Peter, Thor [eventually], and a lot more).

Goliath’s funeral was definitely one of Marvel’s signature heavy-handed allegories, especially if you remember the reactions of his family at the funeral.

suspiciouscoffee said:

I too reread the comic before the movie, and once again after. I think the movie, in many ways, was superior to the comic. With the movie, I was emotionally invested in the characters. In the comic, the characters were all angry caricatures of themselves, with the exception of Peter, who is fine, and Tony, who is now The Ethical Savior of the Marvel Universe. The movie did not provide any clear answer as to who was right, but the comic is pretty clearly trying to say that Tony and his side are right.

Wow, really? I came away from the comic thinking they played Tony off as some kind of suddenly-insane Nazi (which annoyed me). I still think he was right, but I feel like the writers (Mark Millar especially) really didn’t like him and went out of their way to make him unlikable.

I also thought that the whole event started to drag after awhile and it was just people fighting for no reason anymore. This might have been the point, but it still got a bit drawn-out near the end.

I did appreciate that the movie was more ambiguous about who was right, though.