DIRTY DANCING (1987) soundtrack: Be My Baby - The Ronettes / Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons / Do You Love Me? - The Contours / Love Man - Otis Redding / Wipe-Out - The Surfaris / Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen / Hey! Baby! - Bruce Channel / Cry To Me - Solomon Burke / Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - The Shirelles / Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia / She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze / I've Had The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
Do yourself a favour and watch The Artful Dodger on Disney+. 8 episodes of pure enjoyment. Succint, perfect, sticks the landing. The soundtrack from first episode to last had me kicking my feet with joy. So clever, so tightly written, a great little piece of Dickensian Australiana.
It's been raining a lot here lately, the clouds turn to this really nice sea-green color, so I wanted to make something inspired off of that! The music used here is "Learning Spy". I was listening to it while coloring n thought it suited the rain-vibes nicely.
the stanley parable merch is so funny im really gonna drop 20 bucks on a cassette tape which i dont even have a player for that tells you how to set up a copy machine that doesn't exist
a lot of you guys comment on the hourly tunes that you like having a break on your dash to listen to some nice music, so I'm thinking of maybe posting all the winter AC tracks here throughout december. it'd work out to 5 tracks a day, one every 4-5 hours, and it'd be after all the tournaments are over since I don't plan on running any more after the current ones. just a nice way to close out the blog I think :)
Whatever they do with the mustangs, I desire the full gallop to be full throttle! I need to be able to have the Spirit soundtrack blastin’ and my mustang to be galloping powerfully in tune! It is a MUST I tell you!
There's a bit of PuffballsUnited's (4 hour long) developer commentary on CtM where he comments on just how slick an animation of Sven is in Special Brovert Ops, and it's been stuck in my head ever since. It's probably the most expressive bit of animation in the series in only 2 seconds. Like. The limb exaggeration. The curve he moves on. The personality in switching from talking to a colleague to surprise to being scared out of your wits to threatening an intruder. It's better than what you get from entire teams working on films.
It was really fun to work through the breakdown of the scenes here, even if animation is a bitch and you work at a rate of slower than 1 hour to 1 second. Perhaps one day I will practice it more.
Listen, I love star crossed lovers bound to find each other again as much as the next girl but Allison and Scott were only ever going to be high school sweethearts. They were walking, talking, kissing, foils of each other. Both of them grew into this world at the same time on opposite sides of the fight. Scott getting comfortable in his skin meant that he wanted to reach out and take care of the people surrounding him. Allison on the way to getting comfortable with her identity turned to making certain that she would always be able to take care of herself, and putting a wall up around her.
Scott had incredible chemistry with Isaac and they obviously meant a lot to each other but nothing about their relationship every felt healthy or balanced enough for them to be in any kind of stable romantic relationship.
On sort of the same note, Kira and Malia also had chemistry and were adorable but there was a kind of power imbalance between them and they didn't meet each other at the right time in their lives for them to be able to grow compatible together romantically.
Malia and Scott were there for each other in a rough time and supported each other when there was nobody else and that's really all there was to it for them. I honestly would have rathered that Scott had been allowed to be single for a little, but it wasn't the worst relationship I've ever seen and they were good together while it lasted.
And then there was Kira. Who, while she was growing into her own powers she was always so aware of those around her and trying to take care of them. AND in a world of craziness and violence Scott and Kira were always so so so soft and loving around each other.
Kira doesn't get the love she deserves a lot of the time because she came directly after Allison, which, especially when you're first watching the series, is a HUGE blow and a lot of people see her as an Allison rip off. Which is valid because Allison is framed as the love of his life as first love often is.
But I just think that, the way they both were able to embrace change and took a selfless outlook on life, given the time, they would've grown into an inseparable power couple. They were effectively gentle parenting their entire friend group at the strongest point in their relationship and I just think that they both deserved to be in the kind of relationship filled with trust and a partner who took care of them in the way they needed it.
There's just something that is so important to me about the way their relationship was never put on full display or made into a spectacle. Scott's intensity was toned down comfortably by Kira's calm, Kira's quiet was brought out by Scott's friendly personality. They balance each other out in a really healthy way and ideally they should've come back to each other in the end. Scira my loves you deserved the world and to be together again and to be safe <3