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Static
2001-11-07 21:56:58
Nothing new right now. I've been working on RL stuff which I shouldn't talk about here, but I have a couple of tentative plans. I dug up the Revolting Cocks' "Stainless Steel Providers" -- this song SCREAMS to have something macho and fast-moving set to it. Suggestions are welcome.
No, not Initial D.
Please, not Initial D. - Hit 'em! 2001-11-02 18:53:25 The new video is live. I'm going to let some feedback percolate in before I consider making any changes to it. I think it's fine as it is.
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ROCKING YOUR LAME ASS.
2001-10-29 21:06:50
No, I didn't choose a Wesley Willis song, but I may do that in the future.
Eric B. and Rakim works. "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em" and Fatal Fury are a great combination.
I'm trying to tighten the editing on this one as much as possible. There are so many moments that work perfectly, and many that don't. Someone -- I think it was Louis Mayer? -- said that a great movie consists of "three great scenes, no bad scenes." A good model to emulate in any instance. All my favorite albums have three songs that kill and the rest are good to excellent.
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Where did all the music go?
2001-10-28 22:15:06
Was it David Byrne who once joked (with him, who knows if he's joking) that there are only a finite number of songs in the universe? If so, we're in a lot of trouble, because I think I used up most of the good ones at this point.
Either my musical tastes are nowhere nearly as broad as I had hoped they were, or I am just hitting a dry spot. I have at least two videos on the slate ready to be edited and I can't find a single damned song for either of them.
Part of this is pickiness, I suspect. I'm very, very choosy when it comes to the music I use. I don't like to repeat myself, I don't like to use the same blasted Linkin Roach Apartment Korn Bizkit Temple Garden Jam 182 crap that I can't get away from on the radio, and I don't get a buzz out of a lot of the music I run into these days anymore.
Another big part of the problem with all this noisy guitar junk these days is that it's a rehash of what bands like Prong were doing TEN YEARS AGO and getting ZERO credit and ZERO recognition for (not to mention SUBZERO SALES). Now every no-talent is strapping on a Boss FX pedal and trying to sound like Prong (or goddam Sonic Youth or freakin' Nomeansno) a decade too late. And of course all the music mags that wouldn't give these people the time of day are now falling all over themselves, pissing down their legs about how "influential" and "creative" they were, when they wouldn't even review the damn albums in the first place. And who's moving all of those RIAA-approved units? The weenyboppers.
Part of the reason I enjoy hanging out with anime fans is because they have a better chance of knowing about someone like Yoko Kanno -- and it's not far from there to someone like Mylene Farmer (who did the soundtrack to the Japanese vampire movie MY SOUL IS SLASHED, no shit), who is for my money miles better than any of the useless LinkinKornBizkit clones garbageing up the freak-wencies. I got a thumbs-up from a guy who admired me having the nerve to do an Aphex Twin video! Most people can't even SPELL Aphex Twin, let alone tell "Ventolin" from a broken elevator.
But the basic problem remains.
I haven't got songs for these videos. And without music, I'm nowhere and drowning when it comes to this whole project.
Wait...
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The Slate...
2001-10-26 22:59:19
Toshinden: Terrible anime with great fighting. No song yet.
Fatal Fury: Great anime with great fighting. No song yet.
I'm running really dry on songs and it's frustrating. My tastes are at odds with what's realistically possible. If I tried to do a video to Merzbow's "Soft Water Rhinoceros," though, people would probably dump gravel on my lawn and set fire to my rose bushes.
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