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Pierre Henry died. http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2017/07/07/01/37/grandaddy-of-techno-pierre-henry-dies-at-89 This makes me sad because he was my friends and I's introduction to early electronic and musique concréte back in high school. Most might know him for making the track that served as the blueprint for the Futurama theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqoYKvhbGG0

I do love this version:

Ugh. No. Stop.

But what about those Krispy Kreme donuts, though?

I can help you with RPG Maker if you want it. I know a lot about it regarding how to set up a decent story, good area design, etc... Unsure about area design for myself, but same here. Used RPG Maker before and consider myself a somewhat competent writer at least. If you need any help, I am always up for giving some thoughts!

He's a talentless hack ?. Silent bob and what's the one where Alan Rickman is a fallen angel - long time ago now and he's past it. Dogma, but Alan Rickman wasn't a fallen angel he played the Metatron. The fallen angels were played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Yeah I've not really enjoyed their movies since No Contry for Old Men, although I haven't seen Hail Caesar! yet. They're great directors though, but maybe they've run out of good stories to tell may seem like a quibble, but am gonna note true grit were released three years after no country for old men. true grit is not only excellent and vintage coen, but roger deakins were also clear at the top o' his game. fantastic storytelling. beautiful film. deserves to be on any top 10 modern western list. in the spirit o' full disclosure, Gromnir and cassidy is in full agreement regarding the big lebowski. HA! Good Fun! Yeah well, nobody's perfect and you'll have to own up to not liking The Big Lebowski when you meet your maker. I just hope for your soul that your good deeds outweigh that. Edit: Although, I guess we all have one of these. For me it's Kill Bill, I absolutely don't get the fawning over that pointless collection of homage - and I generally enjoy such movies (loved Turbo Kid for instance). When it comes to Kill Bill and Tarantino in general I find myself agreeing wholeheartedly with Mark Kermode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAPrGnSDxXI Also agree with many of Gromnir's list though I did love Birdman and The Big Lebowski, and do like plenty of Woody Allen films (also reckon he's talking about the Oscar-winner Crash and not Cronenberg's Ballard adaptation, the latter which is fantastic). I do take issue with the term "overrated", however, since it tackles the reception of a film more so than the film itself - everyone's in their own right to like or dislike something, and I don't think they are *wrong* to do so, whereas to say a film is blanketly "overrated" is kind of implying just that. I also take a lot of issue with the word "pretentious", just because I've seen it used too often to mean the same as "ambitious"... But it being Iñárritu we're talking about I'll let that slide. I just think Birdman is a very muscular piece of filmmaking, from the performances to the cinematography to the script to everything else - it struck a chord with me, something all other Iñárritu films I've seen haven't managed to do.

the mechanical drawbacks for a ska chanter would seem to be self-evident and straightforward: 1) phrases take longer to complete 2) no more than 2 phrases per chant When he runs out of empowers does he become a reggae-chanter?

A few tracks from some of the albums I've been listening while I set up my new apartment:

Possibly. I still think that Dardevil and the whole Defenders side looks much better though, while Legion is itself a Marvel show (granted, made by Fox). Next to these I think this one looks very lacklustre.

That would be less of a problem if it weren't that TV has gone way and beyond the 4:3 closeup-ridden sitcom look. With Twin Peaks, American Gods, Legion, The Handmaid's Tale, Fargo, Taboo and the upcoming new seasons for Game of Thrones and Stranger Things all within this year alone, I don't think its medium can excuse this sort of flat, cheap SyFy-esque aesthetic anymore, and less so when you plan to release it in IMAX and try to make of it some huge television technical breakthrough.

Yeah I've not really enjoyed their movies since No Contry for Old Men, although I haven't seen Hail Caesar! yet. They're great directors though, but maybe they've run out of good stories to tell Personally I enjoyed A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis more than No Country for Old Men. Also Bridge of Spies, which they penned.

Jeff Bridges would be a good 70s Peter Quill.

The whole thing is pretty silly considering the complaints predated any awareness about the character's role and how she was actually deliberately playing on the sexualization of women in videogames. If anything she's precisely embracing the feminist critique through her character.

I mean, at least we get to see Karen Gillan in a skimpy outfit? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, I guess that goes to show that cinematography is not about the cameras you use but the person behind them. That's an utterly stale, cheap and unremarkable look regardless of it being shot on IMAX - you reckon a bit more money and attention could have gone into the production design instead. Dreadful stuff.

Some pics from our shoot today...

Well, the instrument arrangements look neat. Would be great if they played something with it. I think I will just stick to Les Luthiers for hispanic bands that make their own instruments and joke around. At least they play actual tunes and are funny. Les Luthiers are great, had a chance to see them live a few times and even ran across them once or twice. Obviously, it's a very different matter: one is a (great) musical comedy group, the other is one of the most acclaimed modern classical composers of the second half of the 20th century (John Cage himself deemed him the best). Mind that I am not entirely in disagreement either: I think that out of the 80-minute piece I must have enjoyed about 15 minutes of it because it's where I felt the due actually arrived at something of a dialogue instead of scattershot sounds (I'd say the last minute of the above clip is damn good for example). But yeah, a bit too much filler for the good bits.

I was just reminiscing about this concert, which I attended a few years back. It was, uh... Interesting.

Frost/Nixon was a good one, and I heard good things about Rush too. In general however I haven't liked Howard's work too much.

I would agree with this - with the watercolour portraits I was sort of imagining the rest of the dialogue interface would be designed in that fashion, with a more rustic appeal. Also I do think we could do without the player's portrait in the conversation lest there are moments later in the game where we take over what our companions say in conversation: if the choices that are presented to the players are always for the protagonist then the player can already assume it's the protagonist speaking, thus making their portrait superfluous in the layout. If we *can* take over companions' dialogue choices and the portrait is there as an indicator of who we're speaking as at a given time, then maybe I'd suggest another way into including the portrait which isn't so vertical, maybe by putting both portraits to either side of the interface or resizing the lower one with regards to the upper one... As it is I do feel it's all a bit too cluttered. Anyhow, my two cents, hope it helps! Great work so far!

Listening to this... So far pretty decent stoner rock/metal from Argentina!