Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Musica Nueva
Janelle Monae
She may be a little more R&B than some of your tastes, but she's pretty awesome. On top of that, she is releasing her albums as short suites which seemingly maintain one story across the whole piece.
She only has one of these short albums out so far but get this, it centers on the story of an android who falls in love with a human and is marked for death by the city in some crazy game show violence system of laws ("no phasers, only chainsaws and ELECTRO-DAGGERS!" said in the excited voice of a sports announcer -from the album's intro).
Checkout the video to get a sense of her sound.
I, for one, am hooked. "Y'all wanna shutup!?"
She may be a little more R&B than some of your tastes, but she's pretty awesome. On top of that, she is releasing her albums as short suites which seemingly maintain one story across the whole piece.
She only has one of these short albums out so far but get this, it centers on the story of an android who falls in love with a human and is marked for death by the city in some crazy game show violence system of laws ("no phasers, only chainsaws and ELECTRO-DAGGERS!" said in the excited voice of a sports announcer -from the album's intro).
Checkout the video to get a sense of her sound.
I, for one, am hooked. "Y'all wanna shutup!?"
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
As soon as I get back to DC...
It's going down. None of your will be able to defeat me in:
SUMITORI!
Download it and practice your heart out. You will need it!
SUMITORI!
Download it and practice your heart out. You will need it!
Ever Heard of Eternal Sonata
Ok, so I am generally uninterested in JRPGs. Final Fantasy is the closest I'll get and I haven't played an FF for at least a couple years (I may have glanced at 6, but that is only because we had a love child together and it is behind on paying its child support).
All this said, when I watched this episode of Unskippable, I had to ask, what the crap could this game possibly be about. The game in question is a little something called Eternal Sonata.
Now let me preface any further statements with, I am 95% sure that I will never play this game. The opening scenes displayed in Unskippable look like they redefine slow-pacing in a way that would leave Kurosawa antsy and restless. The majority of the 9:00 minute trailer is a description of some little seaside village and a pervasive species of wildflower that fills it. This said, when I went to read what the hell this slow ass game could possibly be about, I was blown away.
Here is my short description based on the short description in the Eternal Sonata Wikipedia article. At age 39 Frederic Chopin, the composer is dying. Within his fevered dreams, he creates a peaceful world for himself to live in. The entire game exists between Chopin beginning to die and entering the dream state and his death. The world is highly musical, with each chapter of the game being named after a Chopin composition. Death and disease are also major themes. In fact, the ability to use magic in this story is a sign of some terrible disease that people are ostracized for having...
I dunno about you guys, but this just sounds impressively awesome to me, especially for a video game. Its too bad its an RPG though. The artistic concept seems as if it could be ruined by me grinding for two hours to get a new pair of boots. If anyone ever plays it, tell me how it is.
All this said, when I watched this episode of Unskippable, I had to ask, what the crap could this game possibly be about. The game in question is a little something called Eternal Sonata.
Now let me preface any further statements with, I am 95% sure that I will never play this game. The opening scenes displayed in Unskippable look like they redefine slow-pacing in a way that would leave Kurosawa antsy and restless. The majority of the 9:00 minute trailer is a description of some little seaside village and a pervasive species of wildflower that fills it. This said, when I went to read what the hell this slow ass game could possibly be about, I was blown away.
Here is my short description based on the short description in the Eternal Sonata Wikipedia article. At age 39 Frederic Chopin, the composer is dying. Within his fevered dreams, he creates a peaceful world for himself to live in. The entire game exists between Chopin beginning to die and entering the dream state and his death. The world is highly musical, with each chapter of the game being named after a Chopin composition. Death and disease are also major themes. In fact, the ability to use magic in this story is a sign of some terrible disease that people are ostracized for having...
I dunno about you guys, but this just sounds impressively awesome to me, especially for a video game. Its too bad its an RPG though. The artistic concept seems as if it could be ruined by me grinding for two hours to get a new pair of boots. If anyone ever plays it, tell me how it is.
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