Hail Sagan
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one of my best friends who played a bunch of overwatch (and is now onto fortnite) actually uttered once something along the lines of "i fuckin' love the feeling of opening a loot box"
literally laughed out loud after reading this
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looks like maynard is still obsessed with this whole jesus guy thing that happened in the past
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New triple album is on the way according to Mr. Ceephax
looks like his favorite critter is back in the spotlight again as well.
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Endless Poetry
Picking up where the dance of reality left off a young Alejandro has left his more peaceful, coastal town of Tocopilla for Chile's far less hospitable capital city, Santiago. The stark contrast is made apparent right away, and while he and his father assault and humiliate a couple thieves they spot in their storefront Alejandro decides to steal a book from the battered thief lying on the ground. Oddly, despite all the hardship and development from the previous film the father is back to being his stern self again. The stolen book turns out to be poetry, but the father expects his son to study medicine and upon discovering his poetry quickly lets Alejandro know that the arts are for idiots and homosexuals who wish to lead a life of poverty before throwing his book off the balcony into the streets of Santiago. I won't spoil it but there's a scene where Alejandro is attempting to write his first poem that I found hilarious.
Later, at a family meeting Alejandro embarrasses his father in front of the family by admitting his dream of being a poet and after being laughed at disowns his own family. It is here that his cousin reveals his admiration of the act, and introduces Alejandro to an eccentric and eclectic group of artists
who see his potential and share his dream. And from there its basically the story of the boy taking steps towards understanding himself, gaining independence and becoming a man along with some existential crisis sprinkled in for good measure. Not gonna spoil it, though you can expect more of the same from the previous film though I felt as though the symbolism here felt a bit more convoluted than was the case in the dance of reality, which I admit I did enjoy a bit more than this. Still a great film with some truly beautiful and inspiring moments, and one I look forward to watching again in the future. I doubt it will happen and I haven't heard of any plans but I would love to see a third film, even if the rest of the family had to finish it for him. They've been with him on this entire journey. They could do it.
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have you explored his text "Psychomagic"? The title and cover font might put you off & its mainly an extended interview, but it goes into his methods, influences (he worships Leonora Carrington), life events, central & south American poetry/art, the role of healers & how he got drawn into psychotherapy..... it can drift here & there & you can never quite capture the mood of a conversation through certain styles of transcription, but recommended if Jodo gets you wet or at the very least moist
definitely time to roll out El Topo & The Holy Mountain again in the dark wintry months, so cheers for the inadvertent reminder!
I've heard of his "psychomagic" and have seen many references to tarot readings, the occult, meditation and different religions,etc. and you're right in that I'm definitely skeptical of things like that, but I still think that meditation is a powerful tool as are beliefs/spirituality and things of that nature. Methodology, be it based in spirituality or not, can be really interesting especially when you get inside the mind of someone like Alejandro. So yeah, thanks for the suggestion and maybe I'll just go ahead and grab a copy for future reading. I also saw he was behind some highly-praised comic books as well which sound intriguing.
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The Dance of Reality
I put this off for way too long as I was hoping I would be able to get it from netflix but they never decided to distribute it, or at least not in my area, so I broke down and bought the blu-ray. 23 years since Jodorowsky's last film and goddamn it was good. He's retelling his childhood here, and though I'm not familiar with his actual upbringing you get to see life through the eyes of a confused boy raised by a stern, communist revolutionary father in a country plagued by a financial crisis and living under a pinochet-style military dictatorship. Early on the father is an abusive figure, constantly torturing Alejandro in an attempt to make a man out of him, where the father himself also seems to be testing himself to prove his own manhood, which ultimately leads him on a path to assassinate the Chilean dictator. The mother, who delivers all her lines as an opera singer (apparently in real life his mom wanted to be an opera singer), is an exaggerated portrait of maternal love, and sympathizes with young alejandro as she too was a victim of the dictator in their household. All of this is communicated in a way you would expect, heavily steeped in symbolism and phantasmagorical in appearance. Alejandro himself makes a few rare appearances as a sort of spiritual guide to his younger self, offering words of encouragement, or letting the viewer know the importance of a particular moment in his life.
The whole movie is a family affair. Brontis Jodorowsky plays his grandfather and gives the most compelling performance in the film. Adán Jodorowsky plays a small role as a communist revolutionary and aspiring assassin himself but his main contribution is that he scored the film and it sounds great. Another of Jodorowsky's sons plays the Theosophist, and Alejandro's wife was a big part of the set and costume design which she did an amazing job with. All of his previous films have a magical quality to them but with this film it really jumps out of the screen at you. Visually, and even comically at times you might be fooled into thinking you're watching a Wes Anderson film until one of the characters decides to literally whip his dick out and piss on that idea.
Overall this film feels a little more lighthearted and vibrant than some of his previous work both in terms of tone and appearance, and the symbolism here feels much easier to interpret for the most part (wtf was up with the healing scene though?). The ending scene was really incredible, as you can tell he may have expected this to be his final film. It's not. He released another one that I have shipping to my house right now. I just googled his age and holy shit, he's 88 now. How can a man of that age with such a long break from film making be so fucking lucid and realize his vision with such attention to detail. He's a master.
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finally saw this today..i guess i have to read this thread and nod in agreement here or there.
not advisable. whether you enjoyed it or not i can guarantee you that having/reading drawn out discussions about it is a miserably lame experience.
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1 Jun 2018
be excited WOOFWOOFWOOFWOOFWOOFWOOF
Dogpocalypse won't live up to the hype dude. The unreal expectations that rests on its shoulders is partly to blame here but for the most part these dudes just don't have any magic left.
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lol.
I want to fix my OP but it's broken. Watmm pls
mods pls :(
did you pm them? Also, it sounds like the Trackermatte alias may be defunct right now anyways as Mattias said he enjoys making music as Rolando Simmons more right now. Maybe a Mattias Östling thread instead?
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bring it to me
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how many of these guys do they really think are out there?
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...and exhale! Breathing is good for the seoul.
WATMM Seoul™
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make it happen
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This thread is dead you lames
Lucky for you there's a Brain-kegger going down over at Mike P's soundcloud
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ah thanks man! It's among the least popular of my albums on bandcamp; I guess it's too metal for chiptune and too chiptune for metal or something. I still think it was a milestone in my discography and contains some of my best compositions/progressions, so fuck the haters lol.
Precursors sounded ambitious as fuck, and I completely agree with you thinking you're at the DMZ between metal and chip tune. And yes, fuck the haters. Fuck them right in their stupid faces, none of them, no matter which camp they subscribe to, will ever make songs that are as punishing as the fifth day, or as beautiful as new endings (which come to think of it should have been in my favorites of 2017 list).
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Despacito has 4.6 Billion views on youtube
the Bible is estimated to have sold over 5 billion copies since being put into production
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Seriously though... Mastodon for me these days... i know its a copout to call something 'corporate' but it has that feel. Those choruses... are too much for me to handle. I don't like the vocals in most of the new choruses at all... lyrically or sonically. It just sits in this weird space when i want it to be heavier, or i want it to be more interesting. A lot of people i know who aren't into any kind of heavy or alternative music like Mastodon... and not to shit on popular music... but there is something to that too.
and to Modey's earlier comment ... the songs seem constructed and a little bit contrived for me to enjoy. also, its just not heavy enough. Some of the riffing on the new album is excellent but every song is ruined by the choruses.
Corporate? They've been popular for a while now so the backlash is always gonna be there regardless but I guess I like the fact that they have involved everyone in the choruses, to me it just seems like a selfless band that draws from each other's ideas and talents to make something that sounds dynamic. Whereas the Hunter and OMRTS (which kind of sounded like a less interesting Hunter pt.2) seemed to showcase band members ideas in separate songs and allowed people to explore new ideas with the aid of the band, here it sounds like everything they tried and learned over those years was polished and featured the whole band working together towards a singular vision. I think it's more of a case of a talented band gaining popularity because they're good and have just been noticed instead of a band which was good and consciously made an effort to appeal to more demographics with the sole intention of selling more records.
As far as predictability and composition goes Modey ( who by the way, that precursors album was a really fucking cool https://pselodux.bandcamp.com/album/precursors ) knows more about that than I do and I feel like he has a point. Since Blood Mountain every release has featured a catchy, radio-friendly song on it. Luckily I have enjoyed all of them (Colony of Birchmen, Oblivion, The Motherload and Show Yourself) except for the Curl of the Burl. You can also always expect to hear one song featuring Scott Kelly, although that seems more like tradition and showing respect to a huge influence than formula.
they can't sing live for shit.
I've seen them 10 or so times since 2004, and apart from Brent they've all been doing great vocals consistently. Last time I saw them was two months ago, and even Brent was sounding alright now.
Brent has obviously always been the worst live, like comically bad sounding. I guess he has gotten better but that brings him up from a D- to a C- at best. Dailor has the voice of a fucking angel and deserves an award for even being able to sing whatsoever while performing some of the most physically demanding drumming there is. I'm actually amazed at how good he can sound during some of the songs that feature him like dry bone valley or steam breather. Troy is ok, but just can't seem to stay in key ever. Whatever though, not everyone is going to be amazing vocalists live, and if anyone shouldn't be it's Mastodon, considering originally their lead singer left them and they just said fuck it, we'll do the singing I guess. None of them wanted to sing to begin with and as far as I understand the only reason Troy became the frontman during those early records was because he felt it would be easier for the bassist to sing and play at the same time. In the studio they all do a really good job, Brent sounding the most improved when he doesn't have to worry about having a guitar in his hands.
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Mastodon these days is more lollable
and why is that? unless you're talking live vocal performances, in which case yeah, they can't sing live for shit.
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really love this! and all the other Rolando stuff i got at the same time when i first opened this thread the other day. (this is my first post on watmm, hello all...).. can't get enough of it atm..
Yuo're Life seems to be my favourite, at first.. Pingu Plush + Dreamwave + Axis of Evil, all in a row, are magic to me. World Building's great too, i just haven't fully gotten to know it yet.... lovely work the burglar!
*me, every night*
It has probably already been mentioned but in case it hasn't or it slipped under your radar he has released a ton of outstanding music under his Trackermatte alias as well
https://trackermatte.bandcamp.com/music
https://occultresearch.bandcamp.com
welcome aboard
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unless they have angle grinders.
apparently that's all the rage these days.
I wonder if these skunk locks are as effective as they claim to be.
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it's fun to listen to.
That's all I really care about when listening to them. Meir is definitely worth checking out. Plus I'm happy they sing in their native tongue, so much more interesting sounding and infinitely more tolerable than listening to some borks try to pen some dark and intimidating lyrics that translate into embarrassing clichés. Cheesy viking/black metal in the conqueror's tongue to cater to a larger audience? No thanks.
actually yeah I'll still listen to it.
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RE7 in vr. Shit is almost too intense. If I stop posting here, I gave myself a heart attack.
nothing in videogaming compares to how incredible this is.
speaking of which, I need to download the not a hero dlc and fire up the psvr again
New Tool record end of year?
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yeah, that song really didn't do much for me either.