Author: Gareth

Transmedia developer — writer, consultant, game designer, graphic artist, and publisher. A sharp tongue, a sharp blade, and on a good day, a sharp mind.
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Friday Music

To start off with, a track specifically for Laura and Yosa, as promised: Malvina Reynolds – “Little Boxes”. Currently being used as the theme to Showtime’s Weeds, and sung to unsuspecting children in times past, giving them a healthy disdain for suburbia.

The coolest bit of music in the score of the recent film version of Constantine: Brian Tyler and Klaus Bedelt – “Constantine End Titles.” Phrases from this music are used throughout the score, so the end titles are essentially a distillation of the entire thing, and I find it nifty.

Blast from the past time: Jesus & Mary Chain – “Head On.” Hadn’t heard this one in a while, and I’d forgotten how good it was.

Goofy blast from the past, especially for my UK readers: an early-seventies novelty record, utilizing a “trippy” version of the famous Doctor Who theme, with Rex-Harrison-esque spoken word by the star of the show: Jon Pertwee – “I Am The Doctor.” Love those lyrics!

While we’re on the subject of music tie-ins to odd TV shows, here’s the full vocal version of the music that served as the theme to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Julee Cruise – “Falling.” I’ve always liked this single version, rather than the instrumental that started the show.

I’m sure some of you know this, whether through familiarity with the (fairly obscure) artist, or via the Volkswagen commercial from a few years back that used it: Nick Drake – “Pink Moon.”

Really obscure track here. As far as I know it was only used on the soundtrack to Silence of the Lambs (it was the music that played during the “I’d fuck me” mirror scene, that he did the bizarre little tucked-under dance to): Q Lazarus – “Goodbye Horses.”

One of my favorite tracks from Rob Zombie–you’ve gotta love any song that uses a sample of a porn orgasm as a rhythm instrument. Rob Zombie – “More Human Than Human.”

Lastly, because it was requested when I had posted the original Seals & Crofts version a few weeks back: Type O Negative – “Summer Breeze.” If the original brings to mind jasmine-scented evenings in July, this one is more the searing heat off the River Styx, blowing through the streets of Pandemonium.

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Meme-break

(From )
3-3-3

Getting to know you.
1.) 3 events from your life that have made you who you are, and how you think they changed you.
Weekends at my Grandma’s house…where she introduced me to the works of Tolkien, and my uncles introduced me to Star Trek. I was doomed to a life of geekdom after that.
The births of my children…everything changes for you. (A cliche, but true) For example, I realized during the birth of my first (16 years ago today, in fact) that I had been silently praying to the Goddess, without thinking about it….which made me realize that my faith was real, and not “just a phase.”
The realization, while hanging out with , that it was possible to fall in love with a friend.

2.) 3 things that you would have trouble living without.
Creating (whether writing, music, performing, etc.).
People I care about obviously rank pretty high as well….but Creating is pretty much the biggie. I’m not going to bother to list anything else.

3.) 3 things about yourself that you don’t like. Would you change them?
My appearance. When I was young, I felt too gangly and gawky, and then, as I got older, I feel like the fat guy. I wish I was happier with how I look.
My rashness. I tend to act without thinking things through….usually comes in the form of speaking without thinking. The positive side of that is “quick-wittedness”…the negative side of it is having to deal with the consequences.
As it says in the Style Council song: “My Ever-Changing Moods.” Fairly sure I’m a manic depressive, at least to some extent. High highs and low lows. Don’t want to medicate, out of fear of what it will do to my creative side…I’ve seen too many friends on psychoactive perscriptions stop being themselves.

Getting to know all about you.
4.) If money were no object, what would you like to be doing with you life right now?
Not worrying about money, primarily.

5.) If you could choose two celebrities to be your parents who would they be?
Odd question. I’m pretty happy with the parents I’ve got, so I’ll pass.

6.) If you were to design a crest that described you, what would it be?
The crest that I had in the SCA was: Per Bend Sable and Azure, a Stag’s Head in Display Regardant Argent…which, for the non-blazon folks, means a field that’s diagonally black and blue, with a white stag’s head and antlers facing you in the middle of it.

The World.
7.) What about society as a whole gives you hope?
Pretty much nothing at all.

8.) What about society gives you fears?
The fact that ignorance is not only encouraged, but admired and rewarded.

9.) Things that you would like to see change in the city/town in which you live.
I’d like to see it secede from the rest of the state, with which it shares no similarities in culture or politics.

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Meme-break

(From Mike)
3-3-3

Getting to know you.
1.) 3 events from your life that have made you who you are, and how you think they changed you.
Weekends at my Grandma’s house…where she introduced me to the works of Tolkien, and my uncles introduced me to Star Trek. I was doomed to a life of geekdom after that.
The births of my children…everything changes for you. (A cliche, but true) For example, I realized during the birth of my first (16 years ago today, in fact) that I had been silently praying to the Goddess, without thinking about it….which made me realize that my faith was real, and not “just a phase.”
The realization, while hanging out with Laura, that it was possible to fall in love with a friend.

2.) 3 things that you would have trouble living without.
Creating (whether writing, music, performing, etc.).
People I care about obviously rank pretty high as well….but Creating is pretty much the biggie. I’m not going to bother to list anything else.

3.) 3 things about yourself that you don’t like. Would you change them?
My appearance. When I was young, I felt too gangly and gawky, and then, as I got older, I feel like the fat guy. I wish I was happier with how I look.
My rashness. I tend to act without thinking things through….usually comes in the form of speaking without thinking. The positive side of that is “quick-wittedness”…the negative side of it is having to deal with the consequences.
As it says in the Style Council song: “My Ever-Changing Moods.” Fairly sure I’m a manic depressive, at least to some extent. High highs and low lows. Don’t want to medicate, out of fear of what it will do to my creative side…I’ve seen too many friends on psychoactive perscriptions stop being themselves.

Getting to know all about you.
4.) If money were no object, what would you like to be doing with you life right now?
Not worrying about money, primarily.

5.) If you could choose two celebrities to be your parents who would they be?
Odd question. I’m pretty happy with the parents I’ve got, so I’ll pass.

6.) If you were to design a crest that described you, what would it be?
The crest that I had in the SCA was: Per Bend Sable and Azure, a Stag’s Head in Display Regardant Argent…which, for the non-blazon folks, means a field that’s diagonally black and blue, with a white stag’s head and antlers facing you in the middle of it.

The World.
7.) What about society as a whole gives you hope?
Pretty much nothing at all.

8.) What about society gives you fears?
The fact that ignorance is not only encouraged, but admired and rewarded.

9.) Things that you would like to see change in the city/town in which you live.
I’d like to see it secede from the rest of the state, with which it shares no similarities in culture or politics.

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