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lemontines-writing-corner · 1 year

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wally darling x TV head! reader oneshot

authors note: wally darling belongs to @/partycoffin!

Quick summary: You’re a fanatic about the culture of vaporwave that your whole wardrobe is literally 1980’s-2010’s internet style more bright neon like clothing. Even your room is so vibey! Average regular person who explored the Welcome Home Website until you spotted something odd…

You honestly lived a normal life. Spend your time working as freelance artist with a vintage semi modern like aesthetic, mix of three actually. 80’s, 90’s and early 2010’s, it peaked your interests with internet culture, how it all started and began.

Everyone always see you either walking out of the 80’s, or some other days the 90’s, or the 2010’s! Everyone probably knows you have an interesting fashion taste, but that’s because you like being colorful!

When you finished the last of your commissions, you decided to chat with your online friends as they recommended you to check out a website they found.

you: what is this website?

⭐️ aster_diaster ⭐️: idk I found it on the Reddit forum, some puppet show forgotten and there it’s a restoration website. I thought you might like it ;P 🌀🌀🍎🍎

you: oooh !! I’ll definitely check it out 😁 thanks !

Without any hesitation you clicked on the link and was introduced with a puppet sitting on the rock, you thought nothing of it as you smiled admiring the art and layout of this website. You didn’t think much of looking at the clues, because you thought it was just a website. Your internet friend didn’t give a in depth construct about it. So your initial thought was a forgotten puppet show restoring all its lost media.

“I do hope there’s going to be lost episodes releasing”, you mumbled as you scrolled through the guest book, adorned by the drawings and submissions people sent. You yawned and clicked off the website and decided to open up youtube to play something what YouTube has given to you the first song that came up was Do Ya Like x Resonance

Just as you were about to login for Pinterest to look for inspiration and save a few pins to have an idea to draw something, a notification popped on the right side of your laptop.

⭐️ aster_disaster ⭐️: 🍎 voywex. try replacing it at the end of the link from the website I showed you 🌀:)

You: oh alr-

what’s with the weird emoji uses???

⭐️ aster_disaster ⭐️: nothing much. Ha. Ha. Ha. Im waiting 🌀🌀🌀👁️

You rolled your eyes thinking they’re just playing with you, “tomfoolery” you muttered to yourself as you clicked on your history and clicked back to the website, “this is gonna be a rickroll I swear.”, or so you thought.

Upon typing the letters you were greeted with a pair of eyes staring right through your soul and told you to be quiet, then it blinked as it’s eyes then showed the two spirals. You were about to click it off as it typed on the text box quickly, “wait! Don’t go please!”, you were honestly scared but his eyes were hypnotic, the spirals started to pull you in as the spirals expanded.

You didn’t remember a single thing. Not one thing at all, but all you heard was a voice. “see you soon neighbor~” .

You suddenly woke up in the middle of the woods, hyperventilating you touched your chest and checked your pulse, you looked around to notice that everything is so colorful a bit too unreal. “I must be tripping…” you said to yourself as you stood up not even realizing how odd you looked.

“Maybe I should…explore the place?”, you started walking down the pathway as you saw a ray of houses the only one that stood out was the house in the middle surrounded by other houses. “Wait…I know this place”, your eyes widened and walked down the pathway.

There home looked at you all curious, you waved back at home as home swinged its window to say a hello, “ok….I must be dreaming am I?”, before home can even respond, you ran and went to the nearest person who is in the neighborhood.

Which was Eddie, you bumped into him as he looked at you with a shocked look and you all distraught and confused, “sorry….”, you began to pick up all his mail as he came along to pick it up as well, “no worries neighbor! Say I never seen you around here, are you new?”

Before you can say anything you heard someone screeching from behind as you were caught with a butterfly net, of course that caused one of your antennas to snap off which your screen had bugs. You were blind and tried to navigate your way to get out of this mess.

“I caught the bug! Eddie look!” Julie pointed as Eddie was in shock, “Julie I don’t think it’s a bug” Frank crossed his arms as he observed you, “they don’t have bug like features compared to Howdy”, your voice had a static as you spoke, “h…hey…I’m..n…not…a…a b…bug…h…help me” you struggled as Eddie took the butterfly net off you.

Barnaby suddenly chimed in to see the commotion, “what’s going on there fellas?”, he looked over and saw you, “oh boy new neighbor!!”, without a doubt without letting anyone speak, he picked you up and hugged you, “boy oh boy! My names Barnaby pal! What’s yours!!”.

At this point you were overwhelmed with all of this and struggled to get off. You can’t see anything nor speak because of the bugs on your screen. “I think they need to be put down”, Eddie responded as Barnaby realized what’s going on, “oopsies, sorry pal” he smiled a bit and set you down.

Frank then grabbed a piece of your antenna and put it where it belonged on your head as the bugs on your screen was gone. Now you can see and speak well, “I’ve never seen a neighbor with a head like that” Julie looked at you as everyone collectively agreed.

“What are you even talking about”, your eyes turned into three question marks, signing that your confused, “Well you’re no bug, you’re more of a tv head…” Frank circled around observing you and touched your tail, “you have a plug as a tail” he seemed interested as everyone looked at you like as if some artist drew a beautiful piece.

“Listen, I’m too overwhelmed with all of this mess. I just need to get home. This is not the time to watch me like I’m some circus animal”, you felt frustrated and overwhelmed.

“Indeed. But this is your home neighbor, I’m sorry for the behavior everyone had given you (y/n)”. You turned around and saw Wally as your screen had three explanation marks, “Sorry Wally, we were all excited to see the new neighbor”, Julie looked down as Wally walked towards you facing in front of them, “apology accepted Julie”, he smiled and looked at you.

“Indeed they are a strange one, they have a head of a tv”, you then touched your face as you were in a limbo, you couldn’t say anything and stayed in pure shock. “No worries neighbors, me and (y/n) are going to have a quick tour around the neighborhood, we don’t want to overwhelm them so for now we take baby steps”.

Before you can retaliate, everyone nodded and waved a goodbye to you as Wally looked at you…a little too comfortable as you blinked, “Uuh…so when am I going home?”, Wally hugged you as he himself is intrigued by you and your tv head self.

Boy oh boy. This might take awhile

authors note: I gave up halfway so I’m sorry if I didn’t make it that interesting-

Also Howdy and Poppy aren’t in this fanfic because I just only thought of the character of who would be outside most of the time

Here’s some concept art as an apology 💔

#welcome home puppet show #fanfiction #welcome home arg #welcome home fandom #wally darling #julie welcome home #barnaby welcome home #tv head #barnaby b beagle #julie joyful #sally starlight #howdy pillar #frank frankly #eddie dear #welcome home x you

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thatnimrodmusician · 1 month

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im back with another playlist but this time its for charles

ferrari (the neighbourhood) - i love the neighbourhood and he IS ferrari

white ferrari (frank ocean)- he owns a white ferrari

ferrari (james hype) - i had to , its so him.

charles leclerc (alexander lewis) - literally named charles leclerc

die for you (the weekend) - "even though we're going through it and if it makes you feel alone just know that i would die for you"

monaco (lagos) - price of monaco fr

strawberries and ciarettes (troye sivan) - "headlights on me racing to 60"

king of my heart (taylor swift) - because he really is king of my heart , but also "cause all the boys in their expensive cars with their range rovers and their jaguars"

shut up and drive (rhianna) - the whole song is so f1 coded

miss americana and the heartbreak prince (taylor swift) - "my team is losing, battered and bruising, i see the high fives, between the bad guys" (specifically about 2022 ferrari)

skyfall (adele) - we've all seen the sunset lap x storm lap edit

the adults are talking (the strokes) - charles actually said this was his hype up song

we are (one ok rock) - "they think we are made up of all of our failures" + "anything they say will never break our hears of gold, when you're standing on the edge, so young and hopeless, got demons in your head."

out of my system (louis tomlinson) - i actually dont have a justification for this, the vibes are just there.

life is a highway (rascal flatts) - he's literally mcqueen.

dont blame me (taylor swift) - charles is very rep/lover coded

style (taylor swift) - "you've got that james dean daydream look in your eyes"

red desert (5sos) - you cannot tell me this is NOT the ferrarixcharles song - 'what a blessing to feel your love"

gold rush (taylor swift) - "what must it be like to grow up that beautiful?"

red (taylor swift) - "loving him was red"

starboy (the weekend) - "100 on the dash keep me close to god we dont pray for love we just pray for cars" and "p1 cleaner than your church shoes"

softcore (the neighbourhood) - "i might need room or I'll break, are we too young for this?"

art deco (lana del rey) - "you want more" + "you're so art deco"

here with me (d4vd) - "i dont care how long it takes as long as I'm with you I've got a smile on my face" (this is so charles and ferrari)

nights and days (citycreed) - "summer breeze and burning trees, by the fire just you and me"

daylight (taylor) - charles is just so lover + sun of maranello

hall of fame (the script) - no explanation necessary

history (one directon) - "we can live forever "

diamonds (rhianna) - "at first sight, i felt the energy of sun rays"

ghost (justin bieber) - "i miss you more than life"

long live (taylor swift) - no explanation necessary

#charles leclerc #formula 1 #charles leclerc playlist #f1 playlistt #f1 music #cl16 #taylor swift #so many taylor songs #playlist #leclerc #il predestinato #Spotify

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guynamedultimax · 11 months

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Giving Sonic characters an anime fighter-style makeover + dream roster for said anime fighter

So not too long ago, probably a year-ish, I wanted for a Sonic fighting game with Arc System Works graphics and gameplay (basically Guilty Gear Strive but for Sonic characters) and I was like "oh, imagine if it took place in an AU which is basically just my own take on post-SGW Archie but with characters from EVERY continuity and they all wear outfits that make them more urban or smth" I didn't have a lot of ideas for this AU but basically one of them was to make Sonic wear something like a bomber jacket that's more reminiscent of plane pilots (considering the fact that he was the original owner of the Tornado). I should have the drawing somewhere in my room, I'd just have to find it. I then kinda took a step back when I saw this:

(if someone is able to find who made the image above please send me the link to credit them, I know it's a Twitter image but I forgot the account)

This is a scrapped alt for Project M (for those of you living under a rock, the ORIGINAL Smash Bros. Brawl mod that made Brawl more like Melee and added Mewtwo and Roy back in the game) with Sonic wearing an outfit which is VERY CLOSE to that of his "humanized" version drawn by Uekawa. And after seeing this I'm like "y'know, he could wear this in Kingdom Hearts AND Guilty Gear and not bat an eye" (despite the fact that Guilty Gear designs have a shitload of belts).

I'd say a design like this could fit the vibe/aesthetic I'd be going for in a project that's essentially a Sonic fighting game in an AU which is made up of elements from all continuities. I know I also kept searching for a Shadow "equivalent" to this and I am so, SO torn between making essentially something similiar to the outfit above (so essentially either one of Shadow's outfits from Rivals) OR ramp up the edginess and make him wear something on the lines of this:

Horrible 90's Attire but it's Sonic Adventure 2 by Yanimae on DeviantArt (https://www.deviantart.com/yanimae/art/Horrible-90-s-Attire-But-it-s-Sonic-Adventure-2-705847763)

The cast would generally all have a clothes revamp and I'm gonna go over some of the most obvious ones:

-Tails should absolutely wear something that screams "I'm the smart prodigy" and I'm thinking he should get the bomber jacket I was gonna give to Sonic before seeing the PM scrapped alt -Treasure Hunter Knuckles like this is so obvious it's not even funny he fits perfectly with the tone, that's one of the top tier things Sonic Forces: Speed Battle did so far -same for Secret Agent Rouge (or alternatively her stealth outfit from Rivals 2 and Sonic X) and DJ Vector these are actually banger alts

-Amy wearing something on the lines of her Fleetway Comics outfit but with the colors of her more known outfit would rock ngl

-Eggman wearing an outfit similar to the one he wears in the first movie (so something like this https://twitter.com/RendersSSBU/status/1252674435342938113 ) -Metal Sonic having a new coat of paint that makes him more loyal to the Eggman Empire (essentially Chrome Metal from Speed Simulator) -Espio in his Ninja attire from Rivals 2 -Silver wearing some kind of Tron-esque time cop coat showcasing more that he's from the future or smth

-Blaze essentially wearing a more "regal" version of her regular outfit -Cream & Cheese dressed up like girl scout cookie sellers (its cute and it fits their personality) -ANGLER BIG ANGLER BIG ANGLER BIG ANGLER BI- -Omega possibly also receiving a coat of paint that shows he works for G.U.N with the rest of Team Dark

-Scrapnik Mecha Sonic and Scrapnik Mecha Knuckles enough said

-Surge cosplaying as Scourge. Hear me out on this one it makes SENSE-

This was more or less the roster I came up with for the fighting game itself

Mighty, Sage, Mecha Sonic by ShadowLifeman on DeviantArt Ray by Prime-01 on DeviantArt Nack, Bark, Mephiles, Infinite, Honey, Mecha Knuckles, Fleetway SS by ??? Classic Sonic by Kidd Kai on DeviantArt Bean by E-122 Psi on DeviantArt Zavok by Solbliminal on Twitter

Everyone else is from official SEGA art or from artists who worked with SEGA, template used from the DBFZ roster

Here's also a few details on each character and on some of the thought process behind this roster and/or gameplay:

-I considered a three button system a-la BlazBlue with an equivalent for a Drive that I haven't really developed in my brain, plus a Ring mechanic like Sonic Smackdown, where if you get hit with a strong attack you lose Rings and if you get said Rings you can heal back some of your health -The starting roster would mostly be Teams Sonic, Rose, Dark, Chaotix, Silver, Blaze, Gemerl, Eggman, Sage and Metal Sonic, with the final boss possibly being Mecha Sonic, the rest would be split among a few seasons of DLC -The only real characters I forced myself to include were Mimic and Rough & Tumble because I was running out of space to make a symmetric heroes-and-villains roster (and I originally considered for Surge & Kit to be a 2-in-1 deal like some of the Chaotix that would "mimic" a playstyle meant to evoke playing as both Sonic and Tails in Sonic 2) -Sonic himself would have a mix of moves between Frontiers and Smash Bros., but 90% of his Smash moveset would basically be used for Classic Sonic in general since he's 90% ball anyways there

-Everyone would have a movelist as big as that of the average Strive character (which makes sense when you look at how many unique techniques each character actually has from the wiki pages lol)

-Charmy and Ray are "built-in" assists like Android 17 for base DBFZ but I couldn't come up with full movesets for them sadly

-Super transformations are extremely hard installs to pull off (full meter stuff + super specific button inputs too) that make you utterly broken for a short amount of time at the cost of all your current red health (these include Super Sonic (both classic and modern), Super Shadow, Super Silver, Burning Blaze, Neo Metal Sonic and Super Mecha Sonic, possibly even Excalibur Sonic with the regular BK Sonic being instead used for the base form)

-I originally planned for Jet to call for Wave and Storm in battle but then I realized you could more or less flesh them out to be a bit more unique compared to him.

-Zavok is Ginyu from DBFZ, if you know you know

-Mephiles and Infinite LOOK LIKE they have the same "kit" but Mephiles' playstyle and game could and should definitely fit a shadow manipulator like him while Infinite is more of a guy who attacks aggressively at any distance

-Honey and the Hooligans would be essentially "translated" versions of their movesets from Fighting Vipers and Sonic the Fighters into an anime fighter environiment

-Emerl and Eggman Nega are alternate costumes for Gemerl and Eggman respectively (I did not use actual Emerl as the base because Gemerl has a cooler design and he does show up in comics these days) -I considered Lanolin to form a full Diamond Cutters team with Tangle and Whisper but I realized she hasn't done much so far action-wise to include her, so both her and Belle (for the same reason) could be assists for Whisper and Tangle respectively

-I ALSO considered Marine to be playable but she hasn't shown any actual powers beyond that one thing in the end of Sonic Rush Adventure which nobody ever really understood what it was- I recall Ian Flynn saying in the Encyclospeedia that it's water powers? eh, nobody really trusts that book anyways

-I'd find cute if other characters showed up in taunts and animations for the playables (like Chip for the Werehog, Vanilla for Cream, Froggy for Big, Tikal for Chaos, etc.) -Fleetway Super Sonic would essentially be the game's Omega Rugal (the extremely hard DLC boss you have to beat to unlock for playable use). Also he's voiced by Jacaris because I cannot picture any other voice for him at this point now sorry

-Instead of making Mecha Sonic and Mecha Knuckles full blown villains I'd make them anti-villains/anti-heroes where in the game's plot they don't immediately side with the heroes because they just wanna live in peace on Scrapnik Island

-Didn't add Archie characters because of space but if I DID do it, I would've done Sally (and made her another Ginyu with the rest of the Freedom Fighters) and/or Eclipse the Darkling

-Other scrapped characters from even earlier takes on the idea are Tekno from the Fleetway comics, Shade from Chronicles (deleted because of a horrible human being) and Longclaw from the movies

-Plot would happen in an original universe, again, but heavily focused on games and IDW, and essentially be dealt with like how Guilty Gear Xrd handled it (with multiple iterations of the same game progressing the plot): in the first "Phase", the one with only the base roster, Eggman is attempting to mess around with Ancient technology and data from the Starfall Islands to replicate the Phantom Ruby's powers, somehow "resurrecting" and/or "summoning" in the second "Phase" past villains, which causes the heroes (and, begrudgingly, Eggman, Sage and Metal) to call in for reinforcements/allies, and to search for the Chaos Emeralds so that they could stop the villainous rampage, with everyone mostly deciding to gang up on Mephiles, Infinite and the Deadly Six as they pose the bigger threats when combined together. A third and final "phase" would focus on the aftermath of the event (but more so specifically on Starline and his Imposters because I want them to get better in the public eye, I know a lot of people don't like IDW but I love the idea of Sonic having a more detailed Rogues Gallery in official SEGA-endorsed media)

Oh and that edgy Fist Bump remix from the Sonic Sessions is absolutely the intro theme to this game i'm not sorry.

That is all, thank you for coming to my rambling and stay hydrated. Just don't drink Dasani, it'd be like drinking poison (if you know you know)

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dieletztepanzerhexe · 1 year

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Figure 3. I Rock art anthropomorphs in rhe ‘X-ray style’. 1. Aya Bay, Lake Baikal (after Okladnikov 1974); 2. Mount Ukir (after Khoroshih, cited in Mikhailov 1987); 3. Bolshaja Kada (after Okladnikov and Martinov 1972);

Figure 3.2 Rock art images of shamans from the Altai region. 1. Karakol (after Martinov 1985); 2. Altai (after Gurkin, cited in Ivanov 1954); 3 4 . Shalkoby (after Okladnikova 1989).

3.3 Fine line engraving of a shaman on a stone plaque from the Altai. (after Grichan 1987).

Figure 3.4 The Niukzha rock art panel, Olekma River basin: a shaman is flying among the celestial bodies (after Okladnikov and Mazin 1976).

Figure 3.5 Rock art images of shamans. 1. Oglakhty, Middle Yenisei River (after Miklashevich 1998); 2 Middle Yenisei River (after Kyzlasov and Leontiev 1980); 3. Mokhsogolokh- Khaja, Middle Lena River (after Okladnikov and Zaporozhskaja 1972).

Figure 3.6 Paintings on shamans’ drums (after Ivanov 1354).

3.7 Rock art anthropomorphs in head-gear with rays. 1. Painting from Shishkino, Upper Lena River (after OMadnikov 1977); 2. Lake Maloye, Middle Yenisei River (after Sunchugashev 1990); 3. Chasovnya, Middle Lena River (after Okladnikov and Zaporozhskaja 1972); 4. Kozlovo, Upper Lena River (after Okladnikov 1977); 5. Suruktakh-Khaya, Yakutia (after Ivanov 1954).

Figure 3.10 Shamanizing in a yurt. Rock art panels from the historical period, Shalkoby, Altai (after Okladnikova 1989).

“Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism” by Ekaterina Devlet

#shamanism #archaeology #anthropology #petroglyphs #shaman #rock art #prehistory #central asia #siberia #altai #my upl #ekaterina devlet #yakutia #sakha republic

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kamenstranger · 10 months

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So, over the next few days I plan on archiving some older reviews to have them available here. These are going to be selections of my favorite reviews and by extension, some of my favorite pieces of art and media. First up is my favorite Showa Ultra: Ultraseven. The review was originally written Dec. 27th 2019 and is presented as is, with some exceptions to the images used due to limitations and such. I'll also be cutting the presentation section that went over the case, discs, and episode guide because I don't really think it matters much.

Well now, this was a surprise even to me. I didn't expect to be reviewing Ultraseven this soon, but I received a Christmas present from my lovely friend, Rosy. This is one I've been looking forward to a lot- as Seven is a fantastic series with a notable reputation for being among the best. However there's never been a particularly good release of the show outside Japan, with the Shout Bluray A:Not being a proper transfer due to those shady as fuck dealings with Chiyao. and B: Having questionable subtitles.

But now, just like with Ultraman, we can finally have a proper release with approval from Tsuburaya. One interesting thing to note about the series before going in is that this did not start off as another Ultra show, that happened very late and lead to some interesting tidbits that you'll notice throughout the review. It's also worth noting that even after becoming an Ultra series it was not treated as a sequel to the original. There's no mention of Ultraman, the SSSP, past monster etc. The closest connection is that there are references to the M78 Nebula. Otherwise this was originally a stand alone series.

Our primary protagonist this go 'round is Dan Moroboshi. Right from the start Dan is very different than Hayata. Rather than already being a member of the primary defense force of the show, he presents himself as a wander and ends up joining after providing useful information and assisting with an alien threat. Dan also isn't a host to Seven the way Hayata was to Ultraman, he's just Ultraseven in disguise. This also means that any injuries Seven suffers also gets reflected upon Dan.

Unlike his predecessor, Dan has access to and makes liberal use of powers in his human guise. X-ray vision, the ability to see things that are invisible, keen hearing etc. He's also very observant of his surroundings, similar to an amateur detective in some respects- noticing when a things are out of place. We hear his inner monologues as he pieces things together in his head or struggles in various scenarios. His alien knowledge proving most useful.

Over the course of the show more is revealed about Seven and his past. About midway through the series it's shown that when he first came to earth he rescued a rock climber after he cut his own rope to save his partner. Admiring the act, Seven modeled his appearance upon him. We later learn Seven was part of a wider force in the M78 nebula, but he isn't a fighter. This is even reflected in his fighting style which is looser than Ultraman's Greco-Roman wrestling. Seven instead relies best on beam attacks and even telekinesis.

Even the Ultra Rise is very different.

I think the oddest difference is that sometimes there isn't even an Ultra Seven form appearing in some episodes, just Dan. That would almost never happen today- but it's oddly refreshing to see how it all plays out. Granted, that doesn't mean there aren't giant monsters or even monster battles in those episodes. Dan carries several capsules that summon kaiju to battle in his place:

Miclas, Windom and Agira. Usually this happens when the key device used for transforming: the Ultra Eye, is taken, or Dan is in some way incapacitated where he's incapable of transforming.

Even then, episodes that do have Seven don't always feature a giant Ultra Seven. Seven will just be regular sized to fight smaller threats, which is really surreal. Hell, at least two episodes have him shrinking down to a miniature size.

But the single most notable divergence is that Seven doesn't have a time limit like Ultraman did, more so he has an energy limit. The less he does the longer he can maintain his large form, but using various beam attacks will drain it much faster. The Beam lamp upon his head more or less functions the same way as the color timer did, although interestingly enough it's not explained until I believe episode 39 and a few episodes prior is when I first noticed it began blinking after long battles.

Left to Right: Amagi, Dan, Anne Yuri, Soga, Shigeru Furuhashi, Capt. Kiriyama.

Speaking of notable difference, the main organization that Dan joins, the Terrestrial Defense Force, is a stark contrast to the SSSP. While the SSSP was more scientifically focused- at least in concept, the TDF and by extension their elite sub section: The Ultra Guard, are far more militarized with much larger numbers. While the focus remains on the elite Ultra Guard unite comprised of six members, the show predominately features background characters making the show feel much broader in scope. Here we have various guards, men in uniform, scientists, medical staff, freaking PR people, etc. A number of them are even named. They even have a major space station with various staff members. It feels like an actual organization- or at least a well funded one.

The cast of characters for the Ultra Guard aren't that much more defined than the SSSP members were and once again I don't have much to say, but they do try by giving some of the characters more focus in certain episodes. Shigeru Furuhash (who is played by Arashi's actor Yoshi Ishii from the original series) serves as this shows comedic relief and gets his own dedicated episode involving a bit of family history with his mother that, at the very least, gives him some backstory. Funny enough the episode that focuses on him is also very dramatic, must be a thing with their comedic characters. The same can't be said for everyone though. What is there to say about someone like Amagi beyond he's played by Bin Furuya the original Ultraman suit actor? Not much.

What the show does do is a better job with the camaraderie. The characters interact more and in general just have more personality, allowing them to work off of Dan during missions, they're just fairly shallow elsewhere. However one sticks out above the others and that is the Medic on the team; Anne Yuri.

Played by the very lovely Yuriko Hishimi, Anne has a good chemistry with Dan- and I don't mean that in a romantic way. They just function really well in the episodes they're paired together, more so than any other of the cast. She has a magnetically charming personality that simply can't be ignored. I found myself wanting to see more of the character as she had a lot of potential shown off.

Another thing that helps the cast is that the TDF aren't quite as limited as the SSSP were in terms of operations. Ultraman's strongest point plot wise was variety in it's format, which you think would be come more of an issue for a series like Ultra Seven with a much more focused area on defensive measures. However I believe Seven to be even more varied. The show regularly has a number of different conflicts and ways of going about handling them. For a show that has an alien invasion scheme every other episode, it does a great job of never being tiring. Some episodes involve conspiracies like TDF members being assassinated or the UG having to go undercover and trail a suspected Alien like a 60s spy thriller, or there's aliens hypnotizing children to use as soldiers. Of course there's plenty of other none invasion type episodes as well, ranging from experiments gone wrong, strange alien diseases and almost twilight zone-esque otherworldly divergences.

Seven also deals with a lot more morale complexity than it's predecessor did. Whereas in the original Ultraman there would sometimes be episodes which presented a monster in some fashion as to make them sympathetic or that their demise was bittersweet, it never became a major sticking point of morality. Ultra Seven isn't like that, the show will often raise the question if the actions taken are justified, and Seven's own choices sometimes weigh upon him. This was done in an attempt to appeal to an adult audience.

A lot of the conflict comes from ignorance, arrogance, and plain misunderstandings rather than just a desire for conquest. Perhaps a simple satellite being mistaken as a weapon causing a panic, that sort of thing. One most notable of these is episode 6 when a massive space colony looses control of their gravitational force and begins a course towards earth, the alien Pegassa simply assume humans are capable of controlling Earth's own gravitational rotation like they and many other races are with their own planets. But when they learn humanity hasn't advanced that far, they begin thinking of them as simpletons lacking in technology. Faced with the colony colliding with earth, the UG sends a rescue for the Pegassans with an offer to stay until they're capable of building a new home. The Pegassans refuse to answer- perhaps believing humans lack the adequate weapons technology to obliterate their base. Faced with looming impact, the UG has no choice but to destroy the fleet with the inhabitants still on board. The Pegassan species becoming a victim of their own hubris. While aliens were sometimes used to illustrate humanity's own flaws reflected back, the Ultra Guard themselves were not above being shown as foolish. Tapping into late 60s cold war cynicism, episode 26 has the UG building a new super weapon that's the equivalent of 8,000 H-bombs meant for destroying small planets, with plans for a MK 2 and 3 to go further, which horrifies Dan and leads to a lot of inner conflict with his fellow UG members.

It's not the only time either, and while the UG are of course meant to be a force of good, they're not at all clean.

Intentional or not, it's interesting to note that as soon as a military organization entered the franchise is also when the stories first began having more complexity with the heroes' actions. Frankly, the TDF engages in much more questionable acts than the SSSP ever did. Sure, they had a few missions that would cause the viewer to raise an eyebrow, such as removing a kaiju from it's natural habitat. But the TDF have quite literally wiped out entire civilizations. Some unavoidable such is with ep. 6 being very grey- but others, not so much. ep. 42 in particular has quite possibly the most horrifying example of this when a race of pre-human ocean dwelling beings called Nonmalt begin retaliating to what they view as an invasion by humans. They're woefully ill-equipped, having only a single monster and one captured British sub as a means of attacking a nearby harbor, the UG having no trouble taking it out. Up to that point it seems like your standard issue group of creatures becoming overzealous and impulsive- they never try to even talk to anyone about coming to an agreement or the fact that they weren't even known about by the humans, they just start making threats immediately. Then things take a turn. After their sub and giant monster are taken out, their underwater city is discovered. The captain of the UG, Kaoru Kiriyama, fearing possible future attacks obliterates the entire city without a second thought. The show never outright calls it the genocide that it is, but it sure as hell doesn't frame it as good either. Dan and Anne are horrified at the aftermath of the episode, clearly conveying all that needs to be said with their behavior. In the end, the audience is left wondering if the results were necessary and how truly just the UG are when, as far an anyone could tell, it was a defenseless civilian population.

There's a lot one could get into with colonialism with this episode. The TDF&UG are better equipped and prepared than the SSSP were- and more happy to use their weapons. They're not outright villains and they're certainly shown to have admirable qualities. But they've engaged with reprehensible actions. At the same time I'm not sure if I can say it's a nuanced presentation so much as different writers having very different stories they want to tell and the results being accidental when looked at as a whole. But it is interesting none the less. Stuff like that makes Seven far more intriguing than the prior series and the show challenges its audience more by having them.

Once again the effects are a fantastic aspect of the show and far more advanced than even Ultraman's sets were in detail. The first episode alone flaunts it's higher production standards with some truly astonishing displays. Everything just looks a ton better. The Ultra Guard base and gear is drastically more intricate than the SSSP ever was.

The level of detail and scope of these dioramas is gorgeous for the time, and even now in some instances.

The Kaiju and Seijin are of course still fantastically designed and iconic. Eleking, King Joe, Alien Metron, Pegga, Alien Guts, Pandon. Every single one of the above has a great appearance that immediately make an impact.

Seven also experiments a bit by having some none suit creatures, smaller puppets handled by wire work. They… are interesting to mix things up but none stick out to me. I honestly couldn't even recall he first alien in the series. It's clear their bread and butter is still suitmation.

Speaking of the Kaiju, the fights are sometimes shockingly violent. Ultraman had a few that got a little messed up, like ripping Jirass' frill off and taunting him. The second Baltan also got split in half, but was little more graphic than splitting Play-doh. Seven on the other hand can get bloody.

People talk about Leo being violent, but Seven has it's moments. With all that said, there are however a few oddities with the effects. As lovely as a lot of those sets and creature designs are, there are a couple pieces that feel out of place. One is the backgrounds having noticeable seams. To some extent the original series had this as well but they were more often hard to make out and very few, usually a single vertical line. Seven on the other hand has much larger and extravagant sets and the caveat is noticing when the walls for the background connect since they're much larger.

I'm not entirely sure what it is, but Seven does feature a noticeable uptick in image quality- though it's not a massive leap over the prior series, it is sharper looking and a lot more sticks out because of it. How much they stick out is going to rely on how you view the series. On my computer they're not as bad in most instances, my 42" TV on the other hand was another matter- the backgrounds often appearing as a mass of blocks with thin lines except during wide-shots.

The final issue I believe to be rear projection and it's not just typical rear projecting like when someone is driving in a Bond movie, there's this excessively odd look to the whole thing. It's muddy, there's spots, and there's lines like they either didn't have a single large screen or it was wrinkled to hell. It looks like shit quite frankly and is probably the worst effect I've seen in the Ultra series.

Regardless of a few growing pains, by in large Ultra Seven excels in the visuals and often improves on the ones that don't, with an unfortunate exception to the rear projecting which never really looks any better. Their endeavor with super imposing on the other hand is shockingly impressive. I only saw one egregious example, but every other was stunning for the time.

I've seen movies made in the 70s and even 80s that didn't blend stuff this well.

Likewise, the aircraft are more grandiose and as such need more wire. I get the feeling that they had perfected a lot of things with Ultraman and wanted to branch outward to more challenging and by extension more impressive effects, and I appreciate that endeavor. Aircraft move far more fluidly, are more complex and they even have the flagship craft of the series: The Ultra Hawk 1, separate into multiple aircraft and then re-combine, it is marvelous to gander at.

But by far the pinnacle of the visuals is with returning Director Akio Jussoji on a select number of episodes. If there is one defining thing in Ultra Seven from a visual standpoint, I would say it's the gorgeous sun sets and Jissoji is largely responsible for that iconography with his first contribution in episode 8- which is an absolutely gorgeous entry. He was hardly the only one to use it, as other episodes would often incorporate the orange glow. But there is little doubt in mind that Episode 8 set the precedent. But that is only a tiny part of it, as that episode features so many fantastic scenes and Japanese pop culture owes so much to the cinematography of this Jissoji directed episode in particular.

It truly is a collaborative effort. The impressive work of the set builders and the masterful capturing of those sets on film.

Jissoji also wasn't the only one to create some truly fantastic shots. Other directors like Toshihiro Iijima, Toshitsugu Suzuki, and Kazuho Mitsuta also contributed greatly to the series.

There is one more thing, and it's something I wondered a lot about before the set came out and that was if episode 12 would be included. It sadly is not. There's a lot to get into when discussing that infamous episode that I'm not going to get into here. There are plans for the episode to be re-fansubbed so I'll be doing a spotlight on it and talk more about it there. (note from 2023: still waiting) What I will say is the included episode guide completely avoids talking about it and I find it really strange to not even acknowledge why there's an episode missing. It's even worse on the Moviespree site because it appears as an unavailable episode on the site.

Lastly, I want to end this review on something I wanted to do for Ultraman but never got around to it and decided it wasn't necessary at the time. That is to give recommendations on my favorite episodes with a short synopsis.

Ep. 6 Dark Zone. D: Kazuho Mitsuta W:Bunzo Wakatsuki. This is the one I talked about in the review. It does a good job captivating you with the aliens and their plights, they're fairly friendly but things slowly turn over the course of the episode and the aforementioned hubris kicks in. This is also a good episode with Dan and Anne, showing that they two are willing to bend rules, if a bit too trusting.

Ep. 8 The Marked Town. D:Akio Jissoji W:Tetsuo Kinjo The famous Akio Jissoji directed episode with Alien Metron. I've already shown plenty of screen shots for this one in the review and I think that speaks for itself. The story is also wild with Metron experimenting with how Space Poppies affect humans by lacing cigarettes with the drug. Yeah, it's a space drug trip episode.

Ep 14 & 15 The Ultra Guard Goes West. D:Kazuho Mitsuta W:Tetsuo Kinjo. The first two parter of the series and the first time Seven struggles against an enemy: the robotic King Joe, all while the UG work on a new weapon to combat King Joe as he's completely immune to most of their conventional armaments and even Seven.

Ep. 26 Super Weapon R1. D:Toshitsugu Suzuki W:Bunzo Wakatsuki. This is where that morality really comes into play. Again, another episode I've talked about in the review and it is one I highly recommend. One of the things I didn't mention was the monster, because the test for the new weapon on an uninhabited planet- wasn't. It pretty much causes a Godzilla scenario with a radioactive monster spewing it's toxic fumes all over the place. The horrifying prospect of this is contrasted with some beautiful scenery. I brag on Jissogi a lot, but Toshitsugu Suzuki does a good job in this.

Ep. 37 The Stolen Ultra Eye. D: Toshitsugu Suzuki W: Shin'ichi Ichikawa This is a very somber episode. Dan gets his Ultra Eye stolen (No shit) by an alien who then sends a signal for pick up which the UG intercept but allow to go through. A reply comes back from the girl's planet only to reveal they've abandoned her as they launch an interplanetary missile toward earth. This one has a bittersweet ending and examines Seven's more alien nature and his relation to living on earth. Really great shot at the end of the episode of late 60's Japan and all the lights.

Ep. 39 and 40 The Seven Assassination Plan. D:Toshihiro Iijima W: Keisuke Fujikawa Another two-parter. These episodes primarily focus on the TDF and UG, one of the few episodes that really show off their full force against an alien threat. Seven gets captured by one of the most memorable creatures, Alien Guts, and is set to be executed. It's up to the UG to figure out how to save Seven. These episodes almost feel like a finale and probably were written as such before the series got extended.

Ep.43 Nightmare of Planet No. 4 D: Akio Jissoji W:Takashi Kawasaki & Shozo Uehara This episode has Dan and Soga on a journey in a new test rocket, but after being put in the state of deep sleep, the rocket heads off course and is drawn to an earth like planet ruled by Robots. The robots treat the humans of the planet at best as slaves. Segregating them to their own community and disposing of them at a moments notice, even using them as extras in crime shows and using live ammunition, regularly executing them for minor offenses. The entirety of the episode is cold and disturbing. The interior shots are often surreal and plain while outside is nearly lifeless. At one point Dan and Soga escape the robots by hiding in the back a truck full of fresh human corpses that were shot dead just moments ago. And yet the end of the episode is also incredibly fun, mainly because Seven gets to go absolutely ape shit, outright growing inside the robots' main HQ and then wrecking everything around it.

This episode hits basically every high point there is for me and very well may be my absolute favorite.

Ep. 48 & 49 The Biggest Invasion in history. D: Kazuho Mitsuta W: Tetsuo Kinjo These are the last two episodes of Seven and they're a really great send off. I don't want to get into spoilers too much, but I will say they do a much better job than Ultraman's Finale which frankly felt very flat and rushed. This really shows Dan struggling and going through absolute hell. A nice touch is the Seven Suit is falling apart by this point which actually works really well with the plot. There's a bit of closure with his team as well, something Ultraman never exactly got with the SSSP due to circumstance. Also, shout outs to Kazuho Mitsuta who directed these two episodes, they contributed greatly to the iconography of this series with that fantastic shot of Dan and Anne.

My overall feelings toward Ultraseven is largely similar to Kamen Rider V3. It keeps what worked in the prior series, builds upon that which worked, trims a lot of the fat and adds some new. Seven keeps enough of the core concepts and ideals of Ultraman to still be viewed as part of the same franchise, yet it's unique status as not initially being developed as part of the franchise or at the very least not a direct continuation. I believe allowed it to have the many differences that assisted in making it feel fresh. Familiar, yet not overly so, different, but not completely alien. A lot of franchises struggle with that balance, either repeating what's already been done or it's so different you can't even recognize it. Seven pulls it off beautifully and in doing so created an incredible nuanced entry. I highly suggest picking this up because it is absolutely one of the very best series and my favorite Showa Ultra.

#tokusatsu #ultraman #ultraseven #review #kaiju #tsuburaya #tsupro

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What "coffee table books" would they have/ what would they read at a doctor's office?

Xemnas - Bob Willoughby: A Cinematic Life - This comprehensive large-format monograph on renowned photographer Bob Willoughby's extraordinary, cinematic life is a tribute to his remarkable career. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Willoughby photographed many of the most significant stars of the era in film and jazz.

Xigbar - Terry O'Neill: The A-Z of Rock 'N' Roll - A chronicle of rock 'n' roll history as seen through the lens of master photographer Terry O'Neill.

Xaldin - VHS: Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era - Comedy writers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have spent the last 20 years collecting the best odd and unintentionally hilarious videotapes ever produced. Since 2004, they've resurrected them for sold-out audiences across the country as part of their touring show, the Found Footage Festival. Now, for the very first time, they've collected the greatest VHS covers into one handsome compendium -- along with their priceless snarky commentary throughout.

Vexen - Evolution: A Visual Record - Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth.

Lexaeus - The Art of the Cheese Plate: Pairings, Recipes, Style, Attitude - A perfect gift for any host or cheese lover, The Art of the Cheese Plate offers clear directions and expert tips for perfect cheese plates and creative condiments.

Zexion - The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms World Wide - A beautifully packaged full-color collection of literary tattoos and short personal essays, The Word Made Flesh is an intimate but anonymous confessional book, in the vein of thought-provoking anthologies like PostSecret and Not Quite What I Was Planning.

Saix - United States Coinage: A Study By Type - A definitive work on American history as illustrated by United States coinage.

Axel - Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be - A very funny collection of 100 X-ray images showing foreign objects ingested or inserted into human bodies, accidentally or on purpose.

Demyx - Underwater Dogs - The exuberant, exhilarating photographs of dogs underwater that have become a sensation.

Luxord - Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found - Milk, Eggs, Vodka is a celebration of the humble grocery list. Almost anyone will find themselves engrossed in this voyeuristic look into everyday life—less than healthy lists, lists for parties, lists with personal and often odd annotations on them...and the list of lists goes on. Besides over 150 found lists, the book also includes short essays on collecting, shopping, eating, and list making.

Marluxia - Queer Maximalism - Machine Dazzle is the much-in-demand designer and artist behind popular cabaret, drag, and performance stars such as Taylor Mac and transgender icon Mx. Justin Vivian Bond. For the first time, his over-the-top stage creations, made for himself and others, are collected here alongside stage environments, ephemera, and photos from his career.

Larxene - Women Before 10 AM - Following up on her highly praised bestseller Men Before 10 a.m., celebrity photographer Veronique Vial completes her wonderfully intimate and revealing portrait of the sexes with Women Before 10 a.m., a captivating collection of your favorite fashion, cinematic, and pop culture beauties, starlets, and models before ten o'clock in the morning.

Roxas - The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch - The Great American Cereal Book is the definitive compendium of breakfast cereal history and lore, celebrating the most recognizable brands and packaging, such as Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Grape-Nuts, and Trix.

Xion - Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak - The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time―with previously unpublished archival materials.

#organization xiii headcanons #kingdom hearts headcanons #someone-took-meep

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tagged by my darling @talkshowhost1996 (THANK YOU MARIA OMG <33) to post my favourite first listens of 2022, it's more or less the artists i knew from before, but dug into much deeper from the one or two songs that started me off on them

in order: elvis costello & the attractions - all this useless beauty // joni mitchell - blue // fear of pop - volume 1 // neil young - on the beach // nick drake - pink moon // the damned - phantasmagoria // frank zappa - sheik yerbouti // joe strummer and the mescaleros - rock art and the x-ray style // tim buckley - goodbye and hello

i tag: @starringvincentprice @ratscabies @aheathenconceivably @benfoldsenjoyer @cowboyinthesand and @gaypkins to do the same

#tag games

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X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents

When I saw this album on the list my heart grew three sizes and the rolling stone list bastards gained significant good will with me. This is possibly my favorite punk album of all time. It's got a sincerely rebellious attitude mixed with a heaping of camp. The day-glo aesthetics and prominent saxophone fly in the face of contemporary punk, but that little bit of deviance makes all the difference. The songs are so much more exciting for their quirks whether it's Poly Styrene's insane delivery on songs like I Can't Do Anything and Oh Bondage! Up Yours, or the 50s rock style sax lines on nearly every track. I permanently have the way she hits the R in rat on the line "Freddy tried to strangle me with my plastic popper beads, but I hit him back with my pet rat" living rent free in my head. It has to be heard to be believed.

The Cars - s/t

By all rights this shouldn't be a good album, let alone a great one. It's got this sterile synth new wave sound that is very 80s and for that it could be a little ahead of it's time. Now the hits on this album are huge, everyone probably knows Good Times Roll, My Best Friend's Girl, and Just What I Needed, but for my money I would suggest Moving In Stereo as the best track. It is more genuinely new wavey than the rest and has a synth line that I get stuck in my head every time. Usually I can actually pinpoint some quality of the music that I like, but for The Cars I think it might just be that they wrote magnificently catchy pop songs, and sometimes that's all you need.

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

White people love to put Eminem at the top of best rappers of all time lists. This is bullshit obviously, but talk to the real hip hop heads though and they'll all agree he still belongs in the top 10. While his subject matter is controversial to say the least it is undeniable that his flow is one of the best and being produced by Dre means that this album just sounds fantastic. And speaking of Dre, the absolute peak of this album is the duet on Guilty Conscience where Shady plays the devil and Dre the angel on the shoulder of several characters. It plays out masterfully. If you can get into the kayfabe then Slim Shady's antics can be appreciated as the joke they're obviously meant to be and while some of the murder fantasy stuff is a little tasteless even for me there's just as much that comes through as intended. The biggest problem is that the joke wears thin halfway through and become just bleak for a few tracks, but it comes back around by the end.

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

The creative strife between Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno came to a head on Roxy Music's second album. The tension between art rock and sleazy glam may not have mapped to the tension between the two Briyans but the tension is there nonetheless. Glam rock was always a little surreal and this album takes that and runs with it on tracks like In Every Dream Home A Heartache which is about fucking a blow up sex doll, and For Your Pleasure which outros for four minutes with increasingly spacey drum and keyboards. A proper sendoff for Eno, and a great finale to the album.

#500 album gauntlet #x ray spex #the cars #eminem #roxy music

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I posted 3,310 times in 2022

481 posts created (15%)

2,829 posts reblogged (85%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 1,673 of my posts in 2022

Only 49% of my posts had no tags

#queen - 402 posts

#freddie mercury - 301 posts

#george michael - 196 posts

#wham! - 164 posts

#brian may - 122 posts

#john deacon - 112 posts

#roger taylor - 108 posts

#andrew ridgeley - 92 posts

#elton john - 78 posts

#ofmd - 51 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#it's like being micromanaged but not from a manager but a subordinate who makes everything a personal insult and yet i can't say anything

My Top Posts in 2022:

Here's a random picture of George I stole from Facebook link to a clickbait slideshow website :)

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Does anyone have that picture of Fred in the studio around '77 with a camera, wearing like dunagrees and a scarf (i think???)

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What if Freddie's name was actually Fredward

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thank you so much@highlyycaffeinated! i hope you have a day as great as you! c:

rules: put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that play. tag a few people while you're at it

somebody to love - queen

i want your sex pts. 1 and 2 - george michael

long shadow - joe strummer

wrap her up - elton john, george michael

mammamia - maneskin

don't let the sun go down on me - elton john, george michael

heal the pain - george michael

death or glory - the clash

fat bottomed girls - queen

battlestations (<3) - wham!

tagging (no pressure); @thislookinyoureyes @whatmarisays @brian-ur-bruh @delicatelyfantasticninja @trinikins @ayyyokai @urlolaluna @queenies-of-the-universe @musiccat1971 @hazypoppy @wastingawayinquarantine @whitequeen-ofwillowgreen and anyone else who'd like to join in! (tag me if you'd like c: )

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My #1 post of 2022

I want to start a little game!

List 8 of your favourite artists, then for each one list your favourite album, then list your favourite song from that album!

I'll start!

Queen > Jazz > Fat Bottomed Girls

Wham! > Fantastic > Love Machine

Elton John > Honky Chateau > Honky Cat

The Clash > London Calling > Rudie Can't Fail

George Michael > Faith > One More Try

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros > Rock Art and The X-Ray Style > Forbidden City

Freddie Mercury > Barcelona > The Fallen Priest

Maneskin > Teatro d'ira -Vol. 1 > In Nome Del Padre

Tagging: @thislookinyoureyes @queenies-of-the-universe @delicatelyfantasticninja @whitequeen-ofwillowgreen @imtheinvisiblequeen @brian-ur-bruh @just-a-poor-boy-queen and anyone else who'd like to join in!!!

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Dark Horse Records hedrar den legendariske artisten Joe Strummer med samlingsalbumet Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years För första gången någonsin släpps en samling av Strummers arbete med Mescaleros. Den nya boxen innehåller ej tidigare utgivna låtar, demos och ljudupptagningar av den kompletta Mescaleros-katalogen, exklusiva nya intervjuer, opublicerade bilder och mycket mer. Boxen släpps fredagen den 16 september. Dark Horse Records firar vad som skulle ha varit Joe Strummers 70-årsdag, den 21 augusti, med Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years - den första heltäckande samlingen någonsin som lyfter fram Strummers arbete med post-Clash-bandet The Mescaleros. Samlingen innehåller remastrade utgåvor av alla tre av bandets studioalbum, samt 15 sällsynta och outgivna spår som spänner över de första demos Joe skrev för Mescaleros, såväl som Ocean Of Dreams”, med Steve Jones från Sex Pistols på gitarr, och uttag av flera spår av Joes sista inspelningar med bandet. Det rikt kurerade boxsetet producerades av Joes änka Lucinda Tait och David Zonshine och innehåller exklusiva nya intervjuer med Joes vänner, medarbetare och med Mescaleros bandkamrater ihop med aldrig tidigare publicerade handskrivna anteckningar, texter och teckningar av Strummer hämtade ur Joe Strummers arkiv. Boxen innehåller fyra CD-skivor med 72-sidig bok och sju LP med 32-sidig bok, specialutgivna förpackningar och exklusiva konsttryck. Det första spåret från samlingen är den tidigare outgivna versionen av ’The Road To Rock ’N’ Roll (Demo)’ - tillgänglig att streama redan nu. Videon till låten skapades med hjälp av Joes teckningar och nedskrivna texter som finns i Strummers arkiv. Joe Strummer är mest känd som frontfigur för The Clash men producerade några av de mest spännande verken i sin karriär med The Mescaleros. Strummer sade under den här perioden att: “All that’s happening for me now is just a chancer’s bluff. I learned that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I’m far more dangerous now, because I don’t care at all.” Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years belyser denna intensiva period av kreativitet från 1999-2002 och samlar för första gången extraordinära album som Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global A Go-Go (2001) och postumt Streetcore (2003), tillsammans med Vibes Compass, en helt ny samling av 15 B-sidor och rariteter, inklusive tidiga demos av några av de första låtarna Joe skrev för Mescaleros som "The Road To Rock 'N' Roll" , ”X-Ray Style”, ”Techno D-Day”, såväl som den tidigare outgivna ”Secret Agent Man” och originalinspelningarna från Joes senaste sessioner, inklusive uttag av ”Get Down Moses”, ”Coma Girl” och låten ”Fantastic”. Alla album är remastrade speciellt för den här releasen av trefaldigt Grammy-belönade Paul Hicks (The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie) och är förpackade med omfattande nya linernotes, outgivna bilder och fyra reproduktionstextblad med ackorddiagram från Strummers arkiv. "There's so much great music that Joe left us in his archive,” säger Joes änka och exekutive producent, Lucinda Tait. “We started this work with '001', so to focus on Joe's work with The Mescaleros was the natural second step on '002' because those songs he made with them just seemed to resonate so strongly and reinvigorated his connection with his audience at a level he hadn't experienced since his days with The Clash. “He was so excited to work with the Mescaleros and the reception he got from the press and fans was incredible, it gave him a whirlwind of energy and confidence and he was creatively fulfilled and happy. “His words are so beautiful and honest and together with the Mescaleros some fantastic tunes were created and to listen to some of the tunes recorded as outtakes for me was really special.” I år är det tjugo år sedan den legendariske Joe Strummer gick bort. Som punkpoet, musiker, kompositör, skådespelare och stilikon tillbringade Strummer sitt liv med att krossa musikaliska och kulturella gränser, dels som sångare i The Clash men också som soloartist. Hans låtar är lika angelägna och vitala idag som när de skrevs och Stummers politiskt laddade texter kastade ljus på sociala orättvisor och gav en röst åt arbetarklassens kamp och slog an hos legioner av fans och press, med Rolling Stones som kallade The Clash ”Värdens största rock & Roll-band”. Strummer sa en gång: “Without people, you’re nothing.” och genom sin konst spelade Joe Stummer sin roll i att forma världens musikaliska landskap och lämnade efter sig ett oöverträffat och tidlöst arv. Dark Horse Records George Harrisons passion inför att introducera världen för my musik resulterade i att han i maj 1974 startade Dark Horse Records. Bolaget hade en mängd olika begåvade artister på sin lista, inklusive George själv. Vid sidan av Joe Strummer innehåller det nylanserade Dark Horse Records även Billy Idol, Leon Russell, Benmont Tench med flera. För mer information besök www.darkhorserecords.com

För intervjuer kontakta: Anette Ståhl / Enmusa Music, tel: 0707-180 120 [email protected] För mer information kontakta Ulrika Hammar / BMG, Tel 0705-295 312 [email protected]

#Joe Strummer #Enmusa #bmgscandinavia

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Oscillating Octaves: A Sonic Soirée with Science and Art

Yo, fam! Strap in, because I’m about to drop a beat on the wildest party ever—the bash where acoustic science and visual art collide like avocados and toast at a millennial brunch fest. It’s not your grandma’s tea party; this is where learning science with art gets lit!

Picture this: an oscilloscope and a spectrum analyzer walk into a bar. No, it’s not the start of a nerdy joke; it’s our classroom, baby! These gadgets are like the DJ and VJ of our science rave, showing off what those sick beats look like when you throw them down in a lab instead of a club. When we crank up tunes, from Beethoven to Beyoncé, these tools don’t just listen; they show us the music. We’re not just rocking out; we’re watching the very anatomy of sound—visualized!

Now, let’s geek out a sec about what’s really going down when the bass drops. Every thump, every tweet, every sick harmony you can bust a move to is just a bunch of air molecules vibing hard. But with our techy plus-ones, the oscilloscope and the spectrum analyzer, it’s like having X-ray glasses at a dance party. You see, sound travels in waves, and these waves have all the ups and downs of a Kardashian love life—full of peaks and troughs.

Each musical note is like a different character in the Marvel Universe. Imagine hitting a middle C on a piano—it’s like summoning Captain America. Solid, reliable, totally heroic. Crank up the pitch to a high C, and now you’ve got Spidey swinging in—lighter, quicker, scaling skyscrapers of frequency. The oscilloscope traces these vibes in real time, showing us a live feed of sound waves faster than your Twitter feed updates.

And what about that spectrum analyzer? It’s the ultimate gossip columnist for sounds. It breaks down every note into its own juicy story, telling us who’s who in the harmonic get-together. It’s like those color commentary guys at sports events but for music. This device spills the tea on which frequencies are crashing the party and which ones are just wallflowers.

Let’s crank up a track and see these tools in action. Say we fire up some classic rock—Led Zeppelin’s "Stairway to Heaven." The guitar solo kicks in, and it’s like Thor going ham with Mjolnir, each note striking with cosmic power. On the oscilloscope, it’s a visual thunderstorm—waves going wild. And the spectrum analyzer? It’s mapping out every note, showing us a rainbow of sound frequencies, each color blipping in and out like lights at a rave.

But wait, there’s more! Ever wonder why some tunes just feel different? Why does listening to Billie Eilish feel smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy? It’s all in the waveform, baby. Billie’s beats are sleek, her bass lines clean—on the oscilloscope, they’re flowing like the River Styx, smooth and uninterrupted. Meanwhile, heavy metal is more like a Game of Thrones battle scene—chaotic, intense, with waves crashing like swords.

Now, let’s flip the script and get interactive. Imagine using these visual tools to create art. That’s right—turning science into sculptures and sound into splashes of paint. We hook up paint to speakers and play different genres. Hip-hop might throw up bold, aggressive splatters, while classical music paints a precise, orderly mural. It’s like each genre has its own brush style, and the canvas reveals the personality behind the playlist.

In the grand scheme, this isn’t just about jamming out to tunes or getting an A in physics. It’s about seeing the invisible, hearing the untouchable, and learning the unthinkable. It’s about breaking down barriers between disciplines like a Kool-Aid Man meme—oh yeah! We’re not just students or artists; we’re modern alchemists, turning vibrations into visuals, and classrooms into crucibles of creativity.

So next time you plug into Spotify, remember, there’s a whole other show going on beyond those earbuds—a visual concert, where every track is a brushstroke, and every beat is a burst of color. Who knew science could be so dope?

And that, my friends, is how we ride the waveforms—surfing the sonic seas, visualizing vibes, and throwing the ultimate learning party where art meets science in a symphony of sight and sound. Oops, I mean a wild, wacky wonderland of sight and sound (symphony is so last semester).

So keep your eyes wide, your minds open, and your playlists ready—because in this lab, every discovery is a drop, and every experiment is an encore. Welcome to the jam session of the future, where education is electric, and art is acoustic. Turn up, tune in, and rock out!

#learning #science #art #science education #education #music

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greensparty · 8 months

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Album Reviews: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros / Aerosmith

What a week this is that I get to do album reviews of two of my all-time favorite musicians ever!

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Live at Acton Town Hall, London

Following up The Clash is a very tough act to follow, but as I've said many times before, some of Clash leader Joe Strummer's solo work is just as good if not better than The Clash. It's a bold statement, but it's true. After Strummer died in 2002, I picked up the posthumously released Streetcore album he did with his band The Mescaleros. It was my #1 album of 2003 and one of the best of the 2000s. Over time I’ve discovered The Mescaleros and the band’s 1999 debut Rock Art and the X-Ray Style is quite good. In 2018 I got to review the compilation Joe Strummer 001 and was truly blow away by the sheer amount of 5-star music Strummer put out post-Clash. I mean Wow! In 2021 I got to review the single disc compilation Assembly, also quite good even though it doesn’t dig as deep. Last year I got to review Joe Strummer 002: The Mescalero Years, which compiles all 3 Mescalero albums and then some, as well as the anniversary re-release of The Clash's Combat Rock. All of these serve to remind us how ahead of his time Strummer was with his call for equality in his lyrics and using the punk sound along with world sounds, the music still holds up, especially in 2023!

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On November 15, 2002, Strummer and the Mescaleros did a benefit concert for striking firefighters at Acton Town Hall in London. This would be one of Strummer's final performances prior to his death on December 22, 2002 at age 50. The recording was directly from the mixing board. In 2012, this recording was released as a limited edition Record Store Day live vinyl. This week, Dark Horse Records, the label of George Harrison, now run by Olivia and Dhani Harrison, is releasing the live recording on vinyl and for the first time on CD and digital. In this concert, Strummer did tons of Mescaleros bangers, including more than a few new songs that eventually were released on the posthumous Streetcore album, and some Clash hits. But the real highlight of this concert was the last three songs, where Strummer was joined onstage by his old Clash bandmate Mick Jones for the first time in almost 20 years. To hear these two legends reunite for The Clash's "Bankrobber", "White Riot", and "London's Burning" is bittersweet. On the one hand they got to perform one last time before Strummer's death, but on the other hand it makes the listener wish this was the beginning of more performances! The recording sounds incredible. The vinyl I got to review was clear and there is also liner notes written by the head of the Firefighters' union and some cool photos too. As a longtime fan of Strummer and The Clash, this is such a cool treat for fans to get to have this performance in their collection! Dark Horse, keep the Strummer releases coming please!

For info on Live at Acton Hall, London: https://darkhorserecords.lnk.to/liveatacton

4.5 out of 5 stars

Aerosmith Greatest Hits

As fanatical as I have been of Aerosmith my whole life, this is surprisingly, the first time I have ever gotten to review an Aerosmith release on this site. You could say I've written quite a bit about them here. I've gotten to review side projects from guitarists Brad Whitford and Joe Perry. But I am super thrilled to get to review a new compilation from one of my Top 3 Favorite Musicians of All Time. In 1980, Aerosmith released their Greatest Hits album filled with 10 hits from the 70s. It is one of their biggest selling releases (12 times platinum). Even though it is such a big seller in the Aerosmith discography, it has gotten criticism among fans for the edited versions of several hits. It was re-issued in 1997 with more tracks. There have been other compilations since then, but this new deluxe edition of 44 tracks is coinciding with their upcoming farewell tour. My personal favorite compilation of theirs is 1991's Pandora's Box box set, which is a deep dive into their Columbia era from 1973-1982. Then there were a few compilations in the 00s that combined both Columbia (which they returned to in 1997 onward) and Geffen (their label from 1985-1993). This new Greatest Hits edition combines both Columbia and Geffen. There's various editions being released this week, but I got to review the 3-disc edition.

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For the most part, this compilation goes in chronological order of release. All the big hits are here: "Dream On", "Walk This Way" (both the original and the Run DMC duet), "Angel", "Love in an Elevator", "Janie's Got a Gun", "What it Takes", "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (their only #1 song I might add) and "Jaded". There's no real complaints about the song selections, although a number of them are radio edited versions. I think the problem for hardcore fanatics like me is that this just feels like another compilation and not really adding much to the story. I was impressed by a hand full of deep cuts, plus they have the live version of "Rag Doll". But they definitely glossed over this century for the band, i.e. only two songs from Just Push Play, no songs from Honkin' on the Bobo, and only one from Music from Another Dimension. I think more deep cuts would have been more impressive for die-hard fans, but in terms of the songs themselves and the sound quality, off the charts!

For info on Greatest Hits: https://store.aerosmith.com/collections/music/products/greatest-hits-super-deluxe-4lp

4 out of 5 stars

#album reviews #joe strummer #joe strummer and the mescaleros #mick jones #the clash #aerosmith #live albums #reissue albums #music nerd

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CELEBRAMOS el 70 CUMPLEAÑOS de JOE STRUMMER -icono del Rock y el Punk- con una CANCIÓN INÉDITA

DARK HORSE RECORDS

CELEBRA EL 70 CUMPLEAÑOS DE

JOE STRUMMER

(21 Agosto 1952 – 22 Diciembre 2002)

PRESENTANDO UN TEMA INÉDITO

“FANTASTIC”

PISTA TOTALMENTE INÉDITA ENCONTRADA ENTRE LAS ÚLTIMAS GRABACIONES DE JOE STRUMMER EN ESTUDIO, QUE SIRVE PARA PRESENTAR LA NUEVA SÚPER CAJA DELUXE

‘ JOE STRUMMER 002: LOS AÑOS DE MESCALEROS’

LA PRIMERA COLECCIÓN INTEGRAL DE LAS GRABACIONES DE STRUMMER CON LOS MESCALEROS. INCLUYE PISTAS, DEMOS Y SECCIONES INÉDITAS, JUNTO CON EDICIONES REMASTERIZADAS DEL CATÁLOGO COMPLETO DE MESCALEROS, NUEVAS ENTREVISTAS EXCLUSIVAS, FOTOS NUNCA ANTES VISTAS Y MUCHOS MÁS DETALLES

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Dark Horse Records está celebrando lo que habría sido el 70 cumpleaños de Joe Strummer (el Domingo 21 de Agosto), con el estreno de su canción inédita "Fantastic", disponible ahora en todas las plataformas digitales. La pista inédita se erige como una de las grabaciones finales de Strummer, con voces grabadas en diciembre de 2002 en los famosos Rockfield Studios en Monmouthshire, Gales, pocas semanas después de que Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros hicieran su último concierto en vivo en la Universidad de Liverpool el 22 de noviembre de 2002.

"Fantastic" también anuncia el próximo lanzamiento de Dark Horse Records/ BMG de ‘Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years’, la primera colección completa que destaca el trabajo de Strummer con su banda posterior a The Clash: The Mescaleros. Que llegará a todas las tiendas el viernes 16 de septiembre en 4 CD con libro de 72 páginas y 7 LP con libro de 32 páginas, todo en ediciones especiales e impresión de imágenes exclusivas de 12”x12”.

Si bien es más conocido como el líder de The Clash, Strummer produjo algunos de los trabajos más emocionantes de su carrera con The Mescaleros.

PHOTO BY ANTON CORBIJN

Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years destaca este intenso período de creatividad entre 1999 y 2002, recopilando por primera vez álbumes tan extraordinarios como ‘Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999)’, ‘Global A Go-Go (2001)’ y ‘The Streetcore póstumo (2003)’, junto con ‘Vibes Compass’, una recopilación completamente nueva de 15 caras B y rarezas, incluidas las demos de algunas de las primeras canciones que Joe escribió para los Mescaleros, como “The Road To Rock 'N' Roll” , “X-Ray Style”, “Techno D-Day”, así como la inédita “Secret Agent Man” y las grabaciones originales de las últimas sesiones de Joe, además de tomas descartadas de “Get Down Moses”, “Coma Girl” y la canción “Fantastic”. Todos los álbumes están remasterizados por el ingeniero Paul Hicks (The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie), tres veces ganador del premio GRAMMY®. Además dentro de este formato se incluyen extensas nuevas notas, imágenes inéditas y cuatro reproducciones de letras, anotaciones y tablas de acordes del archive personal de Strummer.

FORMATO BOX SET VINILOS

‘JOE STRUMMER 002: THE MESCALEROS YEARS’

Pre-Order https://darkhorserecords.lnk.to/joestrummer002

CONTENIDOS

‘Rock Art and the X-Ray Style’

1. Tony Adams

2. Sandpaper Blues

3. X-Ray Style

4. Techno D-Day

5. The Road to Rock 'N' Roll

6. Diggin' The New

7. Nitcomb

8. Forbidden City

9. Yalla_Yalla

10. Willesden To Cricklewood

‘Global A Go-Go’

1. Johnny Appleseed

2. Cool ’N’ Out

3. Global A Go-Go

4. Bhindi Bhagee

5. Gamma Ray

6. Mega Bottle Ride

7. Shaktar Donetsk

8. Mondo Bongo

9. Bummed Out City

10. At The Border, Guy

11. Minstrel Boy (full-length version)

‘Streetcore’

1. Coma Girl

2. Get Down Moses

3. Long Shadow

4. Arms Aloft

5. Ramshackle Day Parade

6. Redemption Song

7. All In A Day

8. Burnin' Streets

9. Midnight Jam

10. Silver and Gold

‘Vibes Compass’

1. Time And The Tide

2. Techno D-Day (Demo)

3. Ocean Of Dreams (feat. Steve Jones)

4. Forbidden City (Demo)

5. X-Ray Style (Demo)

6. The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll (Demo)

7. Tony Adams (Demo)

8. Cool ‘N’ Out (Demo)

9. Global A Go-Go (Demo)

10. Secret Agent Man

11. All In A Day (Demo)

12. London Is Burning

13. Get Down Moses (Outtake)

14. Fantastic

15. Coma Girl (Outtake)

FORMATO BOXSET CD

JOE STRUMMER TIENE UNA PLAZA CON SU NOMBRE EN PLENO SACROMONTE, EN GRANADA, ANDALUCIA.

2022 marca veinte años desde el fallecimiento del legendario Joe Strummer. Strummer, poeta, músico, compositor, actor e ícono del Rock y del Punk, pasó su vida rompiendo fronteras musicales y culturales tanto como cantante de The Clash, como en su carrera en solitario. Sus canciones suenan tan urgentes y vitales hoy como cuando fueron creadas. Denunciar las injusticias sociales, dar voz a las luchas de la clase trabajadora o las letras políticamente implicadas de Strummer tocaron la fibra sensible de millones de seguidores. La revista Rolling Stone citó a The Clash como "la mejor banda de Rock & Roll del mundo". Una vez dijo: "Sin gente, no eres nada".

A través de su arte, Joe Strummer desempeñó su papel en la configuración del panorama musical del mundo pasado y actual. Y nos dejó un legado inigualable y atemporal.

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