I love all types of art, my favorite medias are printmaking and pottery.
Music
Anything, I have a love for a lot of diffent musical styles. I collect physial medias as well, but currently my rotation is a lot of New Wave and post-punk.
Movies
Anything Vampire related or black and white. I honsetly have a bad taste in films, but the older the film is the better in my view. Current Favs are Death Race 200 and An American Werewolf in London.
Television
I do not watch a lot of TV. But I play a lot of video games. My Favs are VTMB, VTMR, Oblivion and Fallout:New Vegas.
Books
Scifi novels on space travel and horrors beyond human comprehension, but also the classics and a good western novel to round things out.
Heroes
Mae West and Jennifer Coolidge.
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Call me Frances, she/her, queer, college student. Profile is still a WIP.
I saw Coyote vs. Acme last night. I loved the film; it filled a 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'-sized hole in my heart that I didn't know I had. The movie was funny at moments and did a good job with honoring the Looney Tunes.
I'm so glad the movie saw the light of day. Also, I was very happy at how full the theater was; great turnout, lol. If you can, this is a film best watched with people.
Does anyone else have a so-called 'bad' album that they just love?
For me, it has always been the album Nachtflug by Falco; this is after his early fame from songs like 'Rock Me Amadeus' and 'Der Kommissar.' The album lacks a lot of what made Falco's early albums good, but so many songs on Nachtflug are earworms that it's hard to hate them.
Does anyone else have an album like this? It's not the artist's best work, and it will never be. But it's a favorite of yours?
One of my favorite things to do is buy records in the bargain bin that no one has any idea who they are. Sometimes the album isn't my style, but most of the time, the stuff on them is great. I have a lot of these albums with no one to share them with, so I might as well post them here.
McGuinness Flint's self-titled is one of those albums that surprised me; the cover of the record sounds nothing like the music; it's very of its time, a late 1960s folkish rock sound. They had one hit in the early 70s, but their self-titled album is the only album to ever chart.
"Heritage" and "Brother Pysche" on this album are the standout songs to me, calm to listen to. The song “When I'm Dead And Gone” was the only song by this band to ever chart; it doesn't stand out to me in this album. It just sounds too much like so many other songs of the early 1970s.
I have been buying second-hand disc versions of EA games, and it feels freeing. The digital launcher for EA games has always been a pain to deal with, and I get to play games without giving money to EA. For those not in the know, EA is now owned by the Saudi Arabian government.
Dragon Age: Origins just arrived, and I have been playing non-stop over these last couple of days. I also found my copies of The Sims 3, fun times lol.
I have been on a reading kick lately; I just finished 'In Dubious Battle' by John Steinbeck. The novel was a good read; it's a social commentary on what was happening in the U.S. during the Great Depression, much like Steinbeck's other works.
My next read is going to be 'Lucifer Hammer' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton both died on the 25th. It has been a rough week for me.
I grew up watching both of them in films, Patron in Steel Magnolias and Rhinestone along with her music. Curry was in so many things I grew up with, like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie, and the game series Command and Conquer.
I think it's important to see the dead and what they did rather than think of the fact they are no longer with us.
You can still see both of them live on the screen and hear them. And in a way that's beautiful. That even though they are no longer with us, their art will live on for people in the future to enjoy.
I have recently been revising films I watched in my youth. I forgot how good Hoodwink is; yeah, the animation is bad, but it's charming.
I watched so many 'odd' films as a kid. Another series I remember watching is the 'An American Tail' films. Something about animated mice makes great films.
Does anyone else have that strange film you watched as a kid? One that wasn't from any big studio like Disney. But it was instead from those smaller studios that people had forgotten about.
I have been thinking on the question, 'Can the art be separated from the artist?'. I'm in the middle of whether the art can be seen without the artist.
Does anyone else have an opinion on this? I believe it could be argued both ways, but I would love to hear another view on this topic.
People need to listen to more jazz. Two subgenres of jazz that I love are jazz fusion and big band/swing jazz. This post is one jazz fusion.
But was it jazz fusion? To put it simply, it is a fusion of different musical styles with jazz being the base. Jazz fusion always reminds me of the space age; if I were traveling the galaxy, this would be on the AUX.
Below is a small list of songs to space out to.
Mysterious Traveler by Weather Report Chameleon by Herbie Hancock Dreamflower by Tarika Blue Summer Nights by Lonnie Liston Smith Poxa by Cortex Paradise Beach by Wolfgang Mader/Andy Novello Along The Nile by Kimiko Kasai Portrait of Tracy by Jaco Pastorius
I have been sleeping on disco; for a long time I believed the style just wasn't for me. But I have come to the conclusion I was wrong.
Disco has a fascinating history; it is a counterculture in itself. But I have made a small list of songs that more people should listen to if you have a disco-sized hole in your heart.
Ma Baker by Boney M. I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor Funky Nassau by Ray Munnings Star Love by Cheryl Lynn Born to Boogie by Steve Watson Disco Illusion by Stephen Encinas Just This One Night by Deodato Groove I Like by Veno Hi-Jack by Herbie Mann Gonna Get Over You by Frances Joli
I discovered an album with a very goofy look to it. It's called The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroad by Lift To Experience, and I fear it has become a personal favorite album for me right now.
The album sounds nothing like it looks; the sound is best called god-fearing shoegaze. It's a concept album about the second coming of Jesus Christ, but if Jesus just went to Texas. The concept sounds nuts, but just hold on.
I am not religious and also had no idea this album was religious. But it is a 10/10 for anyone looking for a good shoegaze album.
It's this RPG/JRPG hybrid that was marketed as a 'comedy' RPG. The game is set in a sci-fi world, with the title 'Anachronox' coming from the planet the game starts on.
I would love to speak on it, but I haven't met anyone else who has ever heard of the game.
