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The Green Knight - Wow. After I watched this the first thing that came to mind is that this is one of those rare beasts, what I would consider a "perfect" film. I don't mean that it is the "best" film I've ever seen or even "favorite" film (though, probably my most favorite film I've watched in some time), but that it perfectly executes on every level the thing that it is supposed to be: cinematography, sound design, direction, action, script, plot. There is not a thing I would add or take away. It is by turns lyrical, phantasmagoric, tender, lewd, terrifying, funny, morose, and liberating. It reminds me of a Romantic poem (and by that I mean something written by the Romantic poets, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, etc.) where each word is both carefully placed but also feels naturalistic, with both emotional overtones and subtleties that belie a very thoughtful underpinning. What a weird, beautiful, strange thing. I loved it.
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God dammit. Told myself I was done after Black Friday but had to snag the Pro because, even at a novice stage, the ability to run this as a plugin is... like, it's kinda everything isn't it?
Looking forward to firing this up later tonight/this weekend - btw, welcome any recommendations for tutorial vids/insights/etc. @thefxbip had already turned me on to some things (thnx brother) and my buddy put me on to this guys vids (who does a nice job going from the basic ideas of synthesis through more complex things) but always welcome new inroads for creativity/understanding how this stuff all works...
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20 minutes ago, Soloman Tump said:
Yep, pretty much this.
Although Prometheus is better than Covenant, so you best not even try to watch that one,
God, Covenant was such a shitshow. It somehow completely misunderstands what made Alien/Aliens great horror in the first place. .. a tepid piece of forgettable hogwash. ...
Prometheus: There's a whole thread on this somewhere here but I'll maintain that while Prometheus is an utterly shitty hi-brow sci-fi film, it's actually a pretty great B-movie horror flick. If you go into it expecting things to happen like they do in a crappy horror flick, then the behavior of all the characters suddenly make sense, and the GAPING plot holes don't seem so bothersome. Examples:
Spoiler- characters decide to boink seemingly out of nowhere, leaving off monitoring the scientists stranded in some sort of sci-fi storm. In a hi-brow sci flick you're like... this makes no fucking sense? In a B grade horror movie having two characters randomly shag each other just means you know your in the right place, and that one or other of them is probably going to die in a horrible way. Also, leaving your mates in an isolated/shitty situation is, like, par for the course in a horror flick
- a scientist decides to lovingly approach a creature that CLEARLY is going to attack him. Thoughtful sci-fi lovers will decry this as idiocy. B-movie enthusiasts would wonder why a character WOULDN'T go into the dark basement after the lights just went out.
- The amount of Checkov's guns this flick lays out in the first 1/4 is so hamfisted that every twist/turn is telegraphed a bazillion miles away. Which should irritate the fuck out of you, unless you accept this is (I'll admit, totally unconsciously) playing by horror movie rules and conventions.
Basically, what I'm saying is that Ridley Scott accidentally made a pretty decent bad horror movie. Just drink/smoke any time some character does something stupid and you'll have a great time.
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Not exactly a video game, but not sure best place to post this. Took a break from studying this weekend and booted up the Kid A mnesia Exhibition thing. It's FUCKING AWESOME. I mean that not just as a Radiohead fan - on its own it's truly spectacular, even if you're not a huge fan of the music. It's a work of art, and a realization of what heights can be achieved in a three dimensional space when the right people are involved. It's free and, honestly, I think a lot of people here would really enjoy/appreciate this just for the concept and execution alone.
For fans of Radiohead specifically:
SpoilerThis really captures the labyrinthine/byzantine ziggurat/vaguely House of Leaves thing they were going for during this era. Tons upon tons of easter eggs throughout and the How to Disappear Completely segment is stunningly beautiful, worth the price of admission alone (which is.. free so...I guess just taking the time to download?). Remember how Meeting People is Easy captured the general spirit/vibe of the OK Computer era and gave it a visual representation? That's what this is, for the Kid A/Amnesia time period. An incredible gift, weird, paranoid, unsettling, beautiful. Amazeballs.
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On 7/18/2021 at 10:02 AM, thawkins said:
Piracy is even kind of good for them because people can try out the software and sometimes end up paying for the full version, why would they break that flow.
Just biked in to say that I think this is an underrated truth of the music making industry. Over the years I've (NEVER IN CASE THE INTERNET IS LISTENING) torrented/Limewired a LOT of stuff (including Ableton) ... but in the end I've ended up purchasing pretty much everything that I ended up routinely using. Recently had to replace my failing laptop and realized... I am now like 99% legit. Everything I'm installing on the new rig I own outright, with a small % of things I'll pick up on Black Friday sales to round things out.
I think I'm probably not alone here - pirating is kind of like taking software on an "unlimited demo" run and I imagine that a decent percentage of people end up actually shelling out for their software... or, at least, a % that is high enough that the company makes more $ than if they engage in hugely draconian anti-piracy methodologies.
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7 hours ago, usagi said:
you are a very generous man.
hahah. yeah. I'm getting soft in my dotage. My tolerance for generic hollywood bullshit has definitely risen exponentially w/ age ....
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Confession: I watched Red Notice
Darker Confession: I... ok, fine, I liked it. It's exactly what you expect (heist movie with the Rock being the Rock, Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot being hot). It's pretty to look at and action-y and heist-y. It's mindless entertainment but not a bad way to kill a Sunday afternoon. ..
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25 minutes ago, Silent Member said:
I watched the two first episodes of Blade Runner: Black Lotus, animation is shit and the characters look like they're culled from the Sims. Stupid action scenes and bad acting. Thanks, Obama.
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My toddler discovered youtube reels or whatever tf it is (basically, tiktok) and I walked by the livingroom and she was stuck on a vid playing this song. Mind you, it's only like 30 seconds of the track looped over and over. And the only distinguishable words I could make out initially was "hit the bong... hit bbbbbbong."
Now my daughter is walking around saying "hit the bong" randomly. And, I'm also in love with this song even though it's terrible. I guess that's a win? *shrugs*
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mmph, also watched Ten Rings. Find myself extremely conflicted about this one. It was a treat to see a superhero who "looked like me" as well as a movie that brought up issues that I felt really resonated with me. There's that almost casual line at the beginning in the restaurant where he says something like "you remember what it was like" when discussing being targeted as a minority as a kid that... just the way he says it, and the way it's delivered as such a matter of fact way I was, like, yes. exactly. this is exactly what it feels like/what that conversation would look like. And, also, those issues about being a generation or two removed from those who immigrated and dealing with this tension between the tradition of your original culture and the pull of, now, being "American" too. And there was Tony Leung who just fucking kills it in every scene.
But then there's the whole "oh right we remember this has to be a Marvel movie so gotta check the hero's journey tickbox, have a final battle, cg shit blows up good." At times it feels like the film is an homage to asian cinema but at others it seems like it's just at the edge of being a diluted, westernized idea of it. Sometimes the CG looks downright bad, which is weird given the Marvel budget for such things (and their insistence on having to use it). Frankly, I'd have loved to see this film if it somehow hadn't been forced into the mold of the Marvel schema, but then we wouldn't have the film at all I guess?
I guess I'd say that I mostly enjoyed it, but moreso in the first half than the second. I think if I didn't have a cultural affinity for it then I'd probably feel the way I did about Black Panther: a pretty good Marvel flick that goes steadily more flaccid until the last act where it just starts feeling like someone flinging around their rubber cgi noodle at a green screen to decreasingly meaningful effect.
7.5 activated Wangs / 15 Wong's Singing Karaoke
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1 hour ago, zero said:
reviews are starting to trickle in for this, and it's not sounding good.
Yeah, I'll reserve final judgment until I actually watch it but... yeah, definitely sounds like a mixed bag. Started re-watching the original anime just to remind myself of the "feel" of the series... that might've been a mistake
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On 11/12/2021 at 12:46 PM, logakght said:
I just got it so haven't bought anything yet. I do plan to get RE4, Superhot and terror games like Freddy's and such. What I'm actually doing is getting a new PC to play HL Alyx and in general Steam games tho.
Ahh, cheers. I lust after HL Alyx but realistically will be some time before I can really justify plunking down the cash to have a rig that can play it (though, who knows, in a few years, Moore's law will maybe make it less challenging?). Def curious to hear what you think of RE4, it's getting great reviews....
17 hours ago, yekker said:Tetris effect VR. Heard it's good.
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22 hours ago, logakght said:
Bought an Oculus Quest 2 and it's really a lot of fun. Gonna buy Resident Evil 4 VR.
Any particular games/experiences you're enjoying? I'm getting a Quest 2 in a couple of months and want to start pre-planning my descent into total withdrawal from actual reality....
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15 hours ago, Nebraska said:
this started off pretty promising, then it just walked off a cliff and into the void. firstly, none of these actors can sell their act, but things are made much worse when the dialogue is so bad. also- the casting is pretty bad. besides the guy playing scott fischer who (i guess kinda looks like him?) i couldn't fathom for even a second why these people were chosen for their characters.
i'll guess they had a pretty tight window to turn around a profit and just went with what they could and cobbled some music to stitch it all together.
Saw you are on an an Everest kick. Took a while to track this down but wife and I watched this documentary a few years ago. Remember it being highly compelling (suspect better than the IMAX film) and includes interviews with the climber/documenter and members of the party that survived. Honestly would watch this over a dramatic re-enactment any day, extremely well done/enjoyable and pretty fascinating insight into how people's minds work in very extreme situations...
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2 hours ago, pokk said:
I used to get very strange looks and kids shouting "what the hell you listening to?" on the school bus while hammering out Elephant Song on Bubblebath 4 on a Sony Walkman, man those walkmans would go well loud haha.
Man, I absolutely adored my old Sony Discman. Have great memories of wandering around Brooklyn listening to Drukqs and Go Plastic, blasting that shit loud as hell against the clang and thunder of the streets.
3 hours ago, pokk said: funnily enough there is a moment check I always say when I meet fellow RDJ fans, "pre or post Come to Daddy?" and it always kicks that off into interesting directions. I haven't actually bought anything of his since Window Licker actually, although really enjoyed the Soundcloud stuff a few years back, mainly as I realised something about my own process compared to his, which has since changed, those Soundcloud tracks/versions/variations showed not only did he write loads of stuff, but he wrote the same track or variations or with similar/same sounds over and over. I definitely spent many years always starting from scratch on everything, but since hearing those, basically spend more time trying to write the same thing over and over and that is already different enough. It's not "quality not quantity" but "quantity makes quality" I feel. Anyway, Aphex Twin, the early stuff, is basically in my DNA, but yeah, respect due to all his stuff obv.
On the quantity makes quality tip: https://medium.com/@codenameyau/the-power-of-iteration-adc5f14e4f0a
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Nice handle! Welcome, read the rules, etc. Nice to hear a bit of your backstory - always interesting to hear about people who discovered electronic music in places where there wasn't much of a scene for it - particularly when you factor in that in the early 90's there wasn't an internet. Feels like, back in those days, coming across new CD's/vinyl was a joy of discovery - like unlocking a secret treasure chest.
Enjoy your stay, have fun!
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Dune Went to see this in the theater. First time out doing something like this since the pandemic started, such a weird relief to do something as basic as just... sitting in a theater and watching a good movie. And it was very good. It didn't blow my mind as the next coming of the Kwisatz Haderach (haha), but what it did do is somehow very faithfully (though it has been some years since I read the novels) translate Dune into moving imagery. There was not a moment I felt was wasted and I'm still agog that any studio would lay down the amount of money it must have required to make this very weird sci-fi film (particularly when it is oh so clearly a true "part I of II.") My only regret is that I didn't see it on IMAX because there is an awesome sense of scale that I feel like must be even more impressive on the largest of screens. Something to do w/ combination of practical and CG... really well carried off.
This may sound like damning praise but I'm also just kind of amazed at how it didn't fuck it up. It's definitely Dune. It's definitely awash in complex tendrils of political intrigue and alien cultures and it would be so easy to tip too far into the weeds or pull back too much and miss the trees - somehow it doesn't do that. The world building is excellent and, honestly, I feel like even if I had never read the books or seen the OG Dune I still would have "got" what was going on. A beautiful marriage of design/cinematography/script/acting. Something greater than the sum of its parts. Never seen Chalamet but he's a great Paul, and even all of the secondary actors crushed it (w/ the exception of the ecology chick... only acting weak spot in the entire thing).
Mortal Kombat It was.. ok? Some nice nods, Kano was a fucking hoot all the way through. Felt weirdly too short and overly long at the same time. I'd totally watch a sequel though (as long as I didn't have to pay for it).
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On 10/24/2021 at 11:47 PM, snack master said:
after mucking about on the v-synth for a bit, i recorded some bits and arranged them into a track:
DOPE. I particularly like the breakdown/lead-in that happens around the 2:00 minute mark -> that deep bass. Could see this as a soundtrack piece to some dystopian/Cyberpunk future flick. Aces!
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4 hours ago, vkxwz said:
Are you talking about gwety mernans? Ive had the same thought, not that I think that's the intention.
Yeah, that's it! Not completely convinced myself (re the perspective from the womb) but it's what it conjures in my head. Crystallized after I heard the ultrasound of my baby's heart for the first time (I was like... this sounds really familiar? oh right, Aphex - then I thought about what it must be like to be there, floating in the darkness w/ all warm and thoughtless with this liquid heartbeat sound and it felt like this track totally nails that.... whatever that actually is like though... who knows!....)
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On 10/13/2021 at 1:51 AM, cern said:
Yo I just had that beast on like 10 mins ago I'm not joking I had goosebumps the whole minute in the ending.
That track just fucking leave me to tears in my eyes.. The perfection of a electronic music track right there!
Just listen to the ending part on Piano!
@Scarb0rocking this transcription like a pro. Ziggomatic 17 features what may be my favorite moment in all of music (7:11ish - the "pause") and is easily my favorite Aphex Track/track of all time. Drukqs, easily my favorite electronic album ever, ever.
Fond memories: I actually kind of came LTTP with the whole Warp catalogue/electronic music in general - I'd been aware of Aphex peripherally due to friends who were cinephiles and voraciously devoured visual media and turned me on to Chris Cunningham (Windowlicker + Come to Daddy still are phenomenal vids that, I think, have stood the test of time). I had another good friend who sat me down and got me good and ripped and played me the vid for Come on My Selector and then the fan created video for Exploding Psychology which, of course blew my mind - after which he played me WAP155 (aka "Do You Know Squarepusher") - that's probably the moment I realized I HAD to know more about this music. It was so otherwordly but also utterly familiar - like someone was writing music that spoke to an internal language in my head.
A few days later I was rummaging around in the local record shop and ran into another friend (remember he was rocking his Gaiman "Sandman" shirt) who I knew was a music head. I asked him about which Aphex albums to get and he pointed me towards the RDJ album - Drukqs was relatively new and I figured I should probably grab it too, just to see what the most current music was like.
I still remember ripping the plastic off the CD, and loading that sucker into the car for my first playthrough. Listening to Jynweythek on an Autumn day with the sun on the decline was just perfect. That track is so atmospheric, so rich in texture that it really focuses your mind/pushes you into the zone. Kind of locks you into the frame. Then, Vordhosbn. Those first 30 seconds just wrecked me, and as the song just kept going I started laughing hysterically. I was like "THIS IS IT. THIS IS WHAT I'VE ALWAYS BEEN LOOKING FOR" in terms of music. The incredibly dense, hyperspeed programming just made 100% sense to my brain. Basically, something that moved just at the limits of what my mind could process using all of it's attention, while also being human, groovy, emotional, textured and ultra musical. It goes on from there. There is not a corner undiscovered in the span of tracks (dark ambient, classical piano, random Bjork talking about something, tracks where it sounds like people being tortured, a song that I've determined is based around the ultrasound of a baby and seems like it's from the perspective of an infant in the womb, and those hyperspeed works of staggering genius like MSMSMM that don't seem like any human could have written them).
Here's the kicker/irony: Being so new to electronic music I just assumed that there was a TON of music out there like this. Turns out, I just hit the jackpot on the first pull.
That's fine. That this album exists at all is some sort of divine blessing, and that it made its way into my hands and my heart is truly something I'm eternally grateful for. I won't go so far as to say the album saved my life, but it certainly gave me great comfort through many tough times (including the soon thereafter death of my father, and the many strained years of life that followed). Ziggomatic in particular made me smile on days I thought all I could do was cry - and cry on days when I needed to be reminded of the fragile beauty of existence, and what wonders can be created by man (when so often all we seem to make is chaos).
Thanks for the memories, here's the many more!
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On 10/23/2021 at 6:15 AM, Rubin Farr said:
There’s a lot of Biblical ambiguity that makes for a good discussion afterward.
Just finished up, agreed def good fodder for thought/discussion. It's an incredibly clever premise that holds a mirror up to religion/humanity an in interesting way - still feel like it wasn't quite as well executed as it could have been, but ultimately very well done. In particular:
SpoilerI actually felt ok about the ending - in particular, the monologue about what death is (remembering that we're part of this vast oneness, and then forgetting as we assume human, linear time perspective) feels very Buddhist and I was a little surprised to hear that voiced by a Christian character. I also really liked Bev literally trying to dig her way into the beach to bury her head in the sand, as juxtaposed by the Muslim father/son praying to the rising sun. Plus, humanity, when faced with great power burning everything to the fucking ground seems about right. Sun still gonna come up in the AM, regardless
8.5 Stephen Kings/9.56 Shirley Jacksons
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^ Looks dope AF.
About 1/2 way through Midnight Mass. As a lapsed Catholic, uncanny how the mass sections bring back deeply ingrained childhood memories (could still do most of the recitations be heart). Going to reserve final judgment until the end but sometimes I get the feeling that the show isn't as clever/awesome as it thinks it is. Some of the monologues seemly overly long (unnecessarily so) - some of the directions seems great, but then there are things like that long one-shot in EP 2 on the beach where I'm wondering... but why? It doesn't seem to really serve any narrative or aesthetic purpose and is it just there because long one-shots are cool?
Probably my perception is skewed coming off of True Detective who has a one-shot that is probably one of the best I've ever seen (and serves to build necessary tension during a plot point where you actually know the characters will survive) and whose long-winded speeches actually feel totally earned.
Still, a very good show, but even mid-way when things are starting to ramp up I still find my mind wandering and thinking
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hahaha ok, I'm on board now. At first I didn't quite get the weird filmic quality in the credits but if this is any indication of the amount of creativity and style they are going for, I'm good. Definitely not a carbon copy of the OG, really does feel like they are going for a "spiritual successor" and swinging for it. Having their little argument at the end feels so spot on Bebop too...
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On 10/15/2021 at 7:26 AM, Silent Member said:
Finally started Death Stranding, if I had known this had cosmic horror elements I would've started years ago, but at least now I get to enjoy the updated PS5 graphics. Lush, awesome and some silly silly Kojima stuff.
The ultimate Icelandic landscape QWOP mailman fever dream delivery simulator.
Cheers - this post reminded to re-investigate the game (was on Xbox so long I tended to willfully overlook Sony exclusives). Kind of grateful, as the megalushness is pretty mindblowing on the PS5, plus the Dualsense stuff just... feels next-gen.
Not too far in but really digging the aesthetic/artistic vision thusfar (though, glad I read ahead a little and was prepared for up front gaggles of cut-scenes and a meditatively slow pace). Feels like Sigur Ros should have been asked to do the soundtrack tho amirite?
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VCV Rack 2 free and Pro (VST) Released!
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After what has seemed like my 14th crack at it, things finally clicked last night. Basically, I've just been practicing building a basic synth from scratch (VCA, ADSR, VCO, Seq-3, sometimes VCF) - trying to get myself to really lock in those basic concepts. Build it. Tear it down. Build it again. Getting old sucks, because I feel like I would have grasped this much quicker younger, but the flip side to that is this HUGE payoff that learning something new brings when you haven't really been challenged in that way for a while.
Sry, digressing, just really excited to feel those things slip into place in the brain. After I got a basic sequence up and running added a quantizer to lock to scale and then (again, took ages to get my head around this) started pushing CV messages from the 2nd row of the sequencer to various things (e.g., attack and sustain, effect levels on a reverb, etc.). wow. just like. WOW. woOOOOOOOWWWWWW. Taken years to understand why people were so keen on modular but starting to get it (sounds like @sheathemanis already there!). Fucking amazing.