I've been listening to Ladyhawke's song Magic, courtesy of Youtube.
First time I listened to the song, I likes the beat. And the chorus was alright.
But listening to the song on Youtube and not over the radio, I can really pick out the lyrics.
And they don't make much sense.
Let's go through the song, shall we?
(kovideo.net supplied the lyrics, with little formatting but thankfully no god awful 'send this song to your cellphone' ads. Also, they didn't capital the I's.)
(We start off with a great intro. The music and beat is awesome.)
You came to my show, and I saw you in the crowd (Ok, not bad so far)
I didn`t know your name, I didn`t know your name (Hmm. Well, it's still ok.)
I asked all my friends who you were and your story (Good rythum with the words,)
They told me the same, they told me the same (Ehh, she did this again.)
I`ve left my heart to you, but it`s not fair (The last four words sound like they're a little off, but nevermind)
Coz you`re taking me for granted baby (Bonus points for adding 'Baby' in there)
I made a start with you, but it`s not fair (Again, the last four words...)
Coz you`re over the atlantic baby (Wait, Atlantic?)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (Seriously, what does the Atlantic have to do with anything?)
One life here with me and it`s magic (Are they over the Atlantic somewhere? Like, in a plane?)
One journey for you, but it`s worth it (Is the objct she seeks at the Atlantic?)
One life here with me and it`s magic (Aargh I'm so confused.)
You stayed in my head where I saw you all the time (Dreams, I'm sure.)
I didn`t think you care, I didn`t think you care (Or nightmares.)
I found you one day with a mouth full of attitude (Yep, teens will do that.)
And you stole me away, you stole me away (Why would she repeat the last four words twice? It butchers the rythem for me.)
I`ve left my heart to you, but it`s not fair (Fankly, this is a pretty good verse.)
Coz you`re taking me for granted baby (I guess you could call it the Pre-chorus.)
I made a start with you, but it`s not fair (Or, I suppose, a Post-verse.)
Coz you`re over the atlantic baby (Although that doesn't carry nearly as much punch as the former.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (When she says 'you', does she mean the listener, or someone else?)
One life here with me and it`s magic (Is it someone else, fine.)
One journey for you, but it`s worth it (If not, how could she possibly know it's worth it? she doesn't know me.)
One life here with me and it`s magic (At least I hope she doesn't.)
Coz your over the atlantic baby (Cue wierd techno mix.)
And you`re taking me for granted baby (And odd voice remix.)
Coz you`re over the atlantic baby (For all three lines, they each have 'Baby' as a suffix. That has to be a top score.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (How could there be multiple journeys?)
One life here with me and it`s magic (Define 'magic'.)
One journey for you, but it`s worth it (Is it, like, great sex?)
One life here with me and it`s magic (Or more of a romantic, blissful living thing?)
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (Wait, haven't we been here before?)
One life here with me and it`s magic (Like, four lines ago?)
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (I'm so deep I can't see the light at the top.)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic (It's just a tiny white spec.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic (I can't see the bottom; it's just so dark.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic (I can no longer see the top. I'm begining to worry.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic (Oh god.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (Was that my cable snapping?)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic (Yes.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (Yes, it was.)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic (Sh*t.)
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (OH GOD OH GOD I'M GONNA DIE DOWN HERE!)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (*cries*)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (*more hysteric crying*)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (*even more hysteric crying*)
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you but it`s worth it (AAAAAA)
One life here with me and it`s magic (AAAAAAA)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (AAAAAAHHHH)
One life here with me and it`s magic (HHHHHHH)
One journey for you but it`s worth it (HHHHH-)
One life here with me and it`s magic (*SMACK*)
Bedrock--Bedrock--Bedrock--Bedrock--Bedrock--Bedrock--Bedrock
(Note: the song doesn't go on for that long. I'm just making it bigger than it really is.)
Most artists I know only repeat the same line (sometimes lines) about three or four times, max. That's the same two lines six times.
So that's 'Magic'. More proof that the subject matter doesn't exist and never will.
And I'm not too sure were I was going with that last statement, but I'm not going to cast it away because I spent five minutes on it.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Exhaustion
I'm just so sleep deprived.
I haven't done much in the way of 'work' this week (christ I loathe that word) and please excuse any punctuation problems in this post. I haven't got a decent night's sleep in just under a week.
I've really been enjoying COD4 Multiplayer, primarily for one reason;
The 'Kill Cam'
I have no idea why nobody else thought of this. It shows the last five seconds of the other player's movement before he (or she) killed you.
It's ingenious, fankly. It's easy to say "Aww, what a fu***n' aimbotter", but the Kill Cam, 85% of the time, shows the other guy is just as frantic as you are (were, sorry).
10% of the time, the bastard knows where you are and is waiting for you, and 5% is an aimbotter (usually, servers with hackers usually lack Punkbuster, Kill Cams, and fun of any sort).
And anyway, you can usually spot an aimbotter. They carry a LMG and always get headshots.
I haven't done much in the way of 'work' this week (christ I loathe that word) and please excuse any punctuation problems in this post. I haven't got a decent night's sleep in just under a week.
I've really been enjoying COD4 Multiplayer, primarily for one reason;
The 'Kill Cam'
I have no idea why nobody else thought of this. It shows the last five seconds of the other player's movement before he (or she) killed you.
It's ingenious, fankly. It's easy to say "Aww, what a fu***n' aimbotter", but the Kill Cam, 85% of the time, shows the other guy is just as frantic as you are (were, sorry).
10% of the time, the bastard knows where you are and is waiting for you, and 5% is an aimbotter (usually, servers with hackers usually lack Punkbuster, Kill Cams, and fun of any sort).
And anyway, you can usually spot an aimbotter. They carry a LMG and always get headshots.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Music #2
Man, I'm weird.
(And I wouldn't have it any other way, thank you.)
So, my music preferences are all over the place. I only like a certain number of bands or artists, but some bands/artists made a piece of music I really like.
I like Bach Tacotta and Fugue in D Minor.
And I quite like Inside the Fire by Disturbed.
They're, like, at the opposite ends of the spectrum.
I really like instrumentals, though. The music from Modern Warfare 2 is still awesome. The Transformers score is awesome, and anything that Hans Zimmer does is awesome (Dark Knight and MW2 just to name a few.)
(And I wouldn't have it any other way, thank you.)
So, my music preferences are all over the place. I only like a certain number of bands or artists, but some bands/artists made a piece of music I really like.
I like Bach Tacotta and Fugue in D Minor.
And I quite like Inside the Fire by Disturbed.
They're, like, at the opposite ends of the spectrum.
I really like instrumentals, though. The music from Modern Warfare 2 is still awesome. The Transformers score is awesome, and anything that Hans Zimmer does is awesome (Dark Knight and MW2 just to name a few.)
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Ahh, video game violence...
Where would we be without you.
So... Modern Warfare 2 again comes under my blogs spotlight.
I don't know how old this is, but Fox came out with a segment of news that states, and I quote, 'Lets you play as a terrorist, and kill people'.
And I'm hearing this, and my mind is screaming 'MASS EFFECT SYNDROME! MASS EFFECT SYNDROME!!!'
For those who don't know, Mass Effect Syndrome is when a very stupid number of people (mostly the population demographic I like to call 'Concerned mothers') gather together to slander a perfectly good game.
Mass Effect was target because of a thirty (or less) second sex scene which showed about 3 seconds of ass and was put in a very dark room.
Worst still, it wasn't even a part of the game; the sex scene was completely optional.
So, anyway.
The best part about this video was the line 'A fair and balanced debate'. That made me vomit a little in my mouth, because I knew he was lying through his teeth.
He had never played the game, the stupid prick that said it's so violent and evil never played the game, and the poor bastard that stood up against these two asshats was eventually shouted down.
Halfway through explaining the deal with the mission, he starts loosing it. Now, the two bastards against the gamer start ripping him apart.
I love how they can just ignore any number of people, whether it's one person or (and I'm pulling numbers out of nowhere here,) six million gamers that bought the game and know the real story, and be totally convinced that they are right and nothings changed about their previous opinions.
I suppose Infinity Ward should have been prepared for this sort of thing. That mission, entitled 'No Russian', was just a little disturbing for me to play. I mean, mowing down a full airport of civilians with a LMG isn't what I'd call fun.
But even then, it's nothing terrible. Eventually you get out of the terminal and out into the light, where you take out armed police carrying riot shields and one gets sucked into a airplane engine.
Anyways,
The accusation that it allows you to be a terrorist couldn't be farther from the truth.
In actual fact, you are an undercover CIA agent, trying to get close to a very nasty man by the name of Makarov. The best way to do it is to help him mow down a airport, but he know's your american and betrays you by shooting you with a pistol, and you get blamed for everything, which is the major cause of the conflict in MW2.
Oh, right. ^ SPOILER ^
Seriously, how could they call this 'too violent'? Prototype had you viciously ripping, shredding, maiming and absorbing various members of the military, plus Blackwatch, and lets not forget civilians and the many infected that appear as you get through the game.
Why wasn't there a media sh!tstorm about that? No, Prototype wasn't nearly as anticipated or advertised as well as MW2, but still.
I'm not saying Prototype isn't fun - it is. Hugely. And so is MW2 (if I hadn't already made myself clear).
So... Modern Warfare 2 again comes under my blogs spotlight.
I don't know how old this is, but Fox came out with a segment of news that states, and I quote, 'Lets you play as a terrorist, and kill people'.
And I'm hearing this, and my mind is screaming 'MASS EFFECT SYNDROME! MASS EFFECT SYNDROME!!!'
For those who don't know, Mass Effect Syndrome is when a very stupid number of people (mostly the population demographic I like to call 'Concerned mothers') gather together to slander a perfectly good game.
Mass Effect was target because of a thirty (or less) second sex scene which showed about 3 seconds of ass and was put in a very dark room.
Worst still, it wasn't even a part of the game; the sex scene was completely optional.
So, anyway.
The best part about this video was the line 'A fair and balanced debate'. That made me vomit a little in my mouth, because I knew he was lying through his teeth.
He had never played the game, the stupid prick that said it's so violent and evil never played the game, and the poor bastard that stood up against these two asshats was eventually shouted down.
Halfway through explaining the deal with the mission, he starts loosing it. Now, the two bastards against the gamer start ripping him apart.
I love how they can just ignore any number of people, whether it's one person or (and I'm pulling numbers out of nowhere here,) six million gamers that bought the game and know the real story, and be totally convinced that they are right and nothings changed about their previous opinions.
I suppose Infinity Ward should have been prepared for this sort of thing. That mission, entitled 'No Russian', was just a little disturbing for me to play. I mean, mowing down a full airport of civilians with a LMG isn't what I'd call fun.
But even then, it's nothing terrible. Eventually you get out of the terminal and out into the light, where you take out armed police carrying riot shields and one gets sucked into a airplane engine.
Anyways,
The accusation that it allows you to be a terrorist couldn't be farther from the truth.
In actual fact, you are an undercover CIA agent, trying to get close to a very nasty man by the name of Makarov. The best way to do it is to help him mow down a airport, but he know's your american and betrays you by shooting you with a pistol, and you get blamed for everything, which is the major cause of the conflict in MW2.
Oh, right. ^ SPOILER ^
Seriously, how could they call this 'too violent'? Prototype had you viciously ripping, shredding, maiming and absorbing various members of the military, plus Blackwatch, and lets not forget civilians and the many infected that appear as you get through the game.
Why wasn't there a media sh!tstorm about that? No, Prototype wasn't nearly as anticipated or advertised as well as MW2, but still.
I'm not saying Prototype isn't fun - it is. Hugely. And so is MW2 (if I hadn't already made myself clear).
Stupid Game Advert
So... I just saw this.
It's so short, it just skims over my mind. It has no effect on me whatsoever.
Apparently, both the girls are porn stars (or at least one of them is, I can't remember) and the one who dressed up as red riding hood is pissed because she thought it was something for a movie.
Anyway.
The reason it has very little impact for me is due to many reasons.
1. It's way too damn short; 40 seconds length, including the criminally short gameplay footage and the ERSB rating at the start.
2. Disappointingly politically correct, but I guess this is a trailer for a game, after all. That kids are likely to play.
Oh wait.
3. Because of it's PC rating, they have to cut the kiss thing short. And it was a damn shame, too.
4. It doesn't even have the Evony syndrome, because both woman aren't showing much - if any - cleavage or parts of their body.
There's... nothing to look at.
5. There's a fat guy in the background and he does all the talking.
Pretty much a 50. cal round to the head instantly for attracting your male audience, on top of everything else mentioned.
Terrible ad. At least Evony had a shred of dignity left. A shred so thin it would make a strand of hair look fat, yes, but still.
For an ad that starts off the way it did, it failed spectacularly.
It's so short, it just skims over my mind. It has no effect on me whatsoever.
Apparently, both the girls are porn stars (or at least one of them is, I can't remember) and the one who dressed up as red riding hood is pissed because she thought it was something for a movie.
Anyway.
The reason it has very little impact for me is due to many reasons.
1. It's way too damn short; 40 seconds length, including the criminally short gameplay footage and the ERSB rating at the start.
2. Disappointingly politically correct, but I guess this is a trailer for a game, after all. That kids are likely to play.
Oh wait.
3. Because of it's PC rating, they have to cut the kiss thing short. And it was a damn shame, too.
4. It doesn't even have the Evony syndrome, because both woman aren't showing much - if any - cleavage or parts of their body.
There's... nothing to look at.
5. There's a fat guy in the background and he does all the talking.
Pretty much a 50. cal round to the head instantly for attracting your male audience, on top of everything else mentioned.
Terrible ad. At least Evony had a shred of dignity left. A shred so thin it would make a strand of hair look fat, yes, but still.
For an ad that starts off the way it did, it failed spectacularly.
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