@Bundersvessel That’s amazing! So glad it’s been an enriching listen. The bag pipes in Salva create such an interesting dynamic with the guitars. It’ll be a mainstay for me as well. Cheers!
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C.S. Lewis
@GirlVersusGame it's funny that came into your head so clearly, as I have had 'Across 110th street' and 'Street Life' looping in my head since opening Jackie Brown. How an image or even just the film title can conjour up songs so clearly is kind of cool.
Tarantino is a master of soundtracks, it has to be said. I assume he is very anal about the songs he wants in his movies.
Despite him being widely known as a foot fetish guy. Oi oi! (there's my bad joke for the day 🫡)
@Ravix If Reservoir Dogs is anything to go by then definitely, he used a chunk of the budget on getting all of that music even when he was offered more well known music at much lower rates. He's always said that music was an extra character, I can definitely see it in his earlier work. Not many recent movies other than Drive understood that same sentiment, the industry is too compartmentalized and directors aren't established or aware enough to know how to implement a soundtrack and not just a score. It worked for Tarantino because of his low budget approach, being neurodivergent probably added to it, he may have identified more with the music before the actors themselves. Hence why he's always said music was an extra character, not score. Martin Scorsese was the same for many of his movies and he too is neurodivergent. You can usually tell a filmmaker like that by their soundtrack, it's less obvious in other fields but if a director is known to be that stubborn for a particular track or tracks then they most likely have the same thing going on.
Guy Ritchie is too. Look at Lockstock and Snatch, the first thing that comes to mind is the music, so that's my theory at least. A personality type like that sees the world differently, what I call hyper focus or that unconventional perspective. That opening shot of Goodfellas where it was one long shot, it's something he's known for and I think that's a trait of his same way of thinking. People then label that thinking as a style when really it's how that person saw the script/scene to begin with. It's the same material they are just looking the beginning, the middle, and the end before the camera even starts rolling and all at once in crystal clarity.
That's also why neurodivergents are drawn to the directors chair, they see it as a way to control and that control helps them to function. They see the world as overwhelming and as a kind of sensory overload, by controlling the scene they control that little piece of their surroundings, the pacing especially. I thought I might be neurodivergent too but after some testing, nope I just have unhealthy levels of perfectionism which creates all of that adrenaline and insomnia, neurodivergents need to control, I don't. Tarantino is known to be very hard to work with, he's not just a perfectionist he's a control freak and puts a lot of people in uncomfortable positions. I adore his early work, but now he's sort of let it all go to his head and I don't care too much for his newer films. He wasted so much of that ninety five million USD budget on lighting, I'm all for authenticity but that was a bridge too far. Lighting, permits, closing down sections of the 101 Freeway, that's what I mean about stubborn. He took that need to control to a whole other level.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@StitchJones That end track for Man on Fire is one of those rare pieces of music that I really like but find it almost impossible to listen to. If I'd heard it and never seen the movie it wouldn't be the case but the movie was so powerful and covered something so relatable. I haven't watched it since but really appreciate it for what it is, I've never seen any other movie handle that subject and get it so right. It's probably my favorite Tony Scott movie, even compared to True Romance.
Point Break made me think of Vast's track from Step into Liquid. It was a documentary from America about surfing. I tend to avoid sports documentaries but that was very good.
Thrice, Black Honey.
Possibly Fear Factories best track (possibly) Extreme precision and in-human drumming. I like how choppy the staccato is too, they do disjointed perfection like few other industrial Metal bands.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame Yeah, tbh I only like parts of the end-man on fire song. The whole song never plays in the movie. The part where she sings the verse and the drums get more uptempo isn't in the movie at all. I just like the melodic synth parts that are present in the intro, with the slow paced vocals. I wish somebody on youtube would make a vid using protools or something and just loop the intro over like for 30mins or so lol
We talked about Point break a few days ago. As you can tell i'm crazy about that movie and has alot of nostalgia since it came out when I was in high school. I mean my psn id has been "Bodazepha" since ps3 I guess. I've had every PS on launch day, but ps3 was the first with true online functionality right? Maybe ps2 had light online components, but I didn't jump on the PSN things until ps3, that I do remember
@DrVenture69 Wovenwar formed with the 2 guitar players from As i lay dying (phil and nick) after Tim (as i lay dying's singer) got put in prison for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. Wovenwar was only together for 5yrs, 2 albums and all went separate ways
Sooo, “irreconsilable differences” on the divorce form… or are they still together? (JK)
Just going to drop this here too. I like a bit of rock now and again
@DrVenture69 Sweet. I loved Alter Bridge when they first came out. Haven't listened to them in ages. I like how they spawned from the first breakup of Creed. Mark Tremonti is a tremendous guitar player. Have you listed to Tremonti's solo stuff? The band is just called "tremonti" and its really agressive metal, far from the sound of Creed/Alter Bridge. I never knew he was such a fan of the heaviest metal bands until he put out the "tremonti" records.
Tremonti and his wife are amazing human beings as well. They have a down syndrome child. They both started a foundation helping families and their down syndrome sons/daughters. They do so much for the down syndrome community. He invites some of the families and their kids to creed/alter bridge/tremonti shows. They can sit back stage and watch the performance. Some of the older ones with down syndrome really like his bands and they are so into the show. After performing, he goes back stage to spend time with them. The whole story is on youtube. Its such a tear jerker seeing people with those kinds of disabilities being uplifted by a man and his wife that want to give them some good times like they are normal. Because they are. They obv get looked at like they are clearly disabled, but in the end they are human beings too. They can be out there doing regular things amongst regular people. They just need a hand with it and the Tremonti family gives it to them.
Post all the rock, techno, electronic, easy listening you want, I don't care. I can listen to Slayer one day and then be all up in the electronic new wave synth music that you would hear in a club or in a forza soundtrack. The only genre of music that i can't listen to is Jazz and Rap.
@StitchJones Oh we did you're right, I'm still a little thrown off from Valentine's Day weekend, the mystery destination was Italy so not much of a time difference plus we stayed for the Winter Olympics. We're sanctioned from the sport but we still have a very big presence here, I wasn't going to miss it for the sake of some red-tape. I see certain roads being paved and it's a good thing for our athletes. I don't support a lot of sports but I've been skating my whole life so naturally I support this one. It's the only sport I feel a real affinity towards, as long as there is ice beneath me then I'll keep doing it. Have you surfed or is it just an interest as an observer? I've never tried. One wave and I'd be gone, I've watched others do it.
I don't believe I've seen any Fuel mentioned.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@StitchJones that’s really cool, it’s always great when you find out someone you like is a good person too (like Thomas Happ’s story, he did Axiom Verge’, that ones pretty sad because his had some serious medical issues).
I’ll check the band out tomorrow. The track i posted is actually the only Alter Bridge track i know, but I really liked it.
@GirlVersusGame I live by the Ocean, so its always been right there. When i was a early teenager I used to boogie board alot. Which is like surfing, but its not on a long stand up board. Its a shorter board and you lay on it like you would a sleigh down a snow hill. I always wanted to try regular surfing, but just never did. I started working in restaurants when I was 13yo. When I turned 18 and was legal to work more then 40hrs, I was working 70+ hours a week and in the summer, Six 13hr days because I'm near the ocean. Around here, June to August is crazy busy. That said, no time for surfing, starting a family, having a GF/wife, nothing. I was a workaholic. That ended abruptly just 3yrs ago. But I put 38yrs into the restaurant industry working like that.
I've always been a hockey addict though and used to play when I was younger. So I know what you mean about being out on the ice. There's nothing like being in a rink during a game of hockey. The pure fun, the sound of the skate blades carving into the ice, the ding of a hockey puck ringing off the iron and how it reverberates into the high ceilings of the facility is like no other sport or experience. Just IMO anyways. I had to give up hockey when I started becoming a hardcore restaurant worker because if a freak accident would happen in a league game or open hockey and it put me out of work for weeks/months, I just couldn't risk that. I gave up alot of life to work in restaurants. But I don't regret it. Keeping a roof over ones head is the #1 priority in life and sometimes depending on career choices it can become your life and all you know/do.
@DrVenture69 Here I'll post one for you. The only thing I don't like about his band is the singer. He's a good singer, but his style and tone fit creed/alterbridge style of music. Therefore IMO it sounds off when you have these heavy guitar riffs and a guy who sounds better fit to be singing easier rock. The contrast is kind of off putting. I mean the intro guitar riff in this song sounds kind of like Damage Inc. by metallica. Its very thrashy metal. And like I said, very far out in left field compared to creed/alterbridge
@StitchJones That must be nice, to see it every day? I've only lived by the ocean once and technically it was a sea that separated two countries by not very much. It wasn't a country or region known for tourism so I never saw anything like surfing or tourists for that matter. It was so old world that I wonder if they even knew what surfing was. In the mornings I'd often watch boats set out, fishing I supposed. When the sky was very clear I could see that other country too but I don't believe they had the best formal relations so seeing vessels cross was very rare. It was different, living by the sea. I'd watch it at night sometimes too and we'd often sail it. I think it would have been different if there were other people. I'd see cargo ships further out but that was about it. I can't say I miss it, the air made me sleep a lot more. At first I thought it was the climate, it was definitely the air. I never ate the local produce either, it was too coastal. If bodies etc end up the water those local fish would eat them, get caught, then you are eating people so no thank you. That goes for many coastal areas around the world, sadly people do end up in the water and fish do eat them. I love sea food but I don't want to be eating people either.
I think I've seen boogie boards before, they look familiar. Like a surf board that had a bite taken out of it. Thirteen years old sounds like Bob's Burger's, I'm sure you were never hungry. I didn't know people worked those kinds of hours, but if you were a workaholic I can see why. I know a couple of workaholics, they work hard and play hard, this kind of thing but in general I don't know what business is conducted around me unless it's big politics. We're into everything and I wouldn't even hazard a guess, nor is it my place to ask. I just know my only dream job would be a zoo keeper. Most jobs seem to ask for school etc, I never did those things. You must have really liked restaurants to work in one for that long. Would you work again or did you go for retirement? music/gaming etc.
Keeping a roof over ones head is the #1 priority in life and sometimes depending on career choices it can become your life and all you know/do.
I can't pretend I've ever had much exposure to either. I wasn't told 'you need a career', I was told 'you need a man', sort of like some other cultures do at the legal age, arranged relationships etc. More to bring Families together than anything else. I did sort of have a job for a time but it wasn't real, like the Truman Show and after that I decided I'd leave foolish ambitions be.
I loved the music industry and never questioned how a twenty something year old could automatically be given that kind of position, I didn't even know wages were a thing until someone at a show asked me what kind of earnings that area of the industry offered. I was so wrapped up in seeing my favorite bands to even think about it. I'd only held physical money once, some coins I put in a fountain. I don't think I've seen physical money since then, I certainty haven't held any.
I found out after someone realized my emails were bouncing. It wasn't even a real email account nor was I with that company after all, my access had come from another sector of the industry and when I found out I understood completely. It was part having a nice thing done for me, and part something else. I go to very few Metal shows now, I still know the guest-list staff, stage managers etc but that wasn't all that long ago and I'm still not sure what to feel about it. Maybe if it was a Truman Show restaurant I'd at least learn how to cook an egg or something. I've always wanted to try to cook something, maybe a pizza. My kitchen in the Sims burnt my house down so maybe not.
I've never played hockey but I've attended a couple of games, we're still team banned here for the same reasons. The next time we attend will probably be in Russia, it's not the most thrilling to watch (sorry) but I'm sure it's very different on the ice. That's why I like skating, it's a very different feeling to anything else. I started with ballet which I didn't like and was given leave to take skating lessons instead. I took what I learned from ballet into fencing, that was the compromise. I much prefer ice skating, ballet sounds wonderful but the pressure is too much. I was maybe five years old, that was just some basics and formal technique came after. You can in Russia start figure skating at five years old too. I was late to it at maybe eight years old. Then there was violin, cello, piano, what you call a workaholic it was kind of like that but with activities. Violin is for my Family, cello for my Partner and piano for me. In a way that's a sort of job, the lessons never end and perfection is key.
Martial Arts is for me too, I want to learn how to disable a real world threat. He flattened me last week, I kicked him in the groin (Systema/Krav Maga is about fighting dirty for survival) and he put me on my back, I felt it for two days. It was so fast that I didn't even realize he'd done a take-down until a couple of seconds later. I've you've ever been knocked unconscious in hockey you'll know what I mean. That happened last year, I had to stop lessons for weeks. I caught a strong elbow and he put me lights out. Now we're more careful. I can absolutely see why a hockey injury would put you out of work and that was a mat, I've had some bad falls in skating. Hockey guys hit each other like freight trains, that's bad enough even before you factor in the ice.
I gave up alot of life to work in restaurants. But I don't regret it.
What did you do in them? I'm trying to think of movies set in restaurants and I'm not having much luck.
Pirate Metal. Very good band live, that song is all about beer, which I aim to try one day. It smells funky.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame
"That must be nice, to see it every day?"
Honestly, I hardly ever see the Ocean anymore. And its not really my thing anymore either. Around here when you say "I live near the Ocean" That means the Ocean is near you, but you have to drive a bit. In my case, I live near the Ocean. I only have to drive about 15mins or so to get there, so its very near. So I don't see it from where I live. If you say "I live ON the Ocean" that means you have a property that is on the water overlooking the Ocean like you described. Then you would see it on a daily basis. Those kinds of properties are for the rich only. I will never know that life. Just the property tax alone on a house like that is prob more then a years worth of rent for my place. Usually around here, only the Dr's, lawyers, or successful business owners live in houses the are "on the water"
"Would you work again or did you go for retirement? music/gaming etc"
I got into a car wreck 3yrs ago. It was pretty bad but it could have been much, much worse. However, the injuries I sustained were bad enough to end my restaurant career. My body can't take the rigors of working a physical job like that anymore. So it ended, but not by choice. I would still be doing it and all the hours to this day, if some stupid driver didn't recklessly crash into me and change my life forever.
"What did you do in them? I'm trying to think of movies set in restaurants and I'm not having much luck."
I was a cook and we did our own prep too. I worked in the kind of restaurants were us cooks did our own prep for the regular dinner service and all the catering we did. When you are a cook making everything from scratch, its best to do your own prep. You trust the quality and know how much to make on a given day, not short changing yourself like a prep person would, because once they're done, they leave and don't care what happens during service after they are gone. Plus, the food comes out consistent 365 days a year when one or two people are the only ones handling the food.
The best movie about restaurants is called "burnt" with bradley cooper. I abso love that movie and its a great watch. But I have a biased opinion because I can literally relate to the subject matter.
Never thought I would be posting this in memory of bluepoint games and what seems like an uncertain future in this industry moving forward now. Anything can happen it seems
"at every occasion, I'll be ready for the funeral"
Amazing short-lived progressive, jazz-influenced instrumental metal band, for fans of Death, Atheist and Cynic, that deserves more attention, so I'm sharing their work here. Long live Exivious!
@StitchJones I see now what you mean by the ocean, I did describe daily. I think if you were a Doctor or a Lawyer you wouldn't be as interesting and would probably have very bland taste in music. Most of the ones I know do, bland in many things with very singular interests. I don't think you can put a price on that spark, I see it missing in most of the people around me. I can't say much about the rest, I've only experienced that one side and at the risk of sounding hypocritical I try to see both. In a way I can kind of understand an idiot crashing into you being life changing too, the idiot that crashed into me did it deliberately and everything that came after I was removed from that car spiraled into staying far away from being outside. Had that not happened it might be different, it's speculation, the mind is a strange thing.
A cook? I didn't expect that. I used to spend some Summers talking to cooks. They'd leave the freezer door open and I'd sit on a box just watching them work. It was mostly during heatwaves, I prefer the cold and that was the best way to stay properly cool. It wouldn't be for that long, I liked watching them work. It wasn't a restaurant but I did see and understand the kind of physical stress you mean, as an observer. Everything would have been made from scratch too. In this relationship we eat out so much that I don't see it as much anymore but back home I'd spend a lot of time around different people and watch them work. I once helped sprinkle sugar on Christmas cookies.
I see Burnt now, it's the same director as the show Metonymy recently mentioned 'The Pitt'. The last time I saw Cooper was in an advert for a Louis Vuitton watch, I don't think I've seen him in anything else other than The Hangover. Maybe I'll watch it, thanks.
Ludovico Einaudi, a Master of his art.
English rock from the 1960's, I'm not sure if they made it to America?
I've never seen Saosin get a mention, early 2000's Cali-rock.
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