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[jaybe11]

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[theda-rison]

Thursday Night Link Roundup - September 10th (ish)

Ever have a week-long depressive funk and you can’t tell if it’s because of hormones (surfing the crimson wave), injury (somehow fucked up my foot in a week when all I did was sit on my ass??), or friend group drama (oi), or just all of them happening at the same time.

But yeah, I had a bit of a week filled with the Sads. How are you guys?

Our first video: Star Trek Voyager Is Good, Actually by Renegade Cut.

I appreciate the hell out of this video. Voyager is one of my favorite Treks, for a lot of the reasons that are in this video and it was nice to see someone else appreciate it. I… hate Discovery. It’s all flash and no substance and people running around yelling “I love math/science!” and a severe lack of ethical quandaries. I know that not everyone likes the whole… “we’re basically in an ethics class” part about Star Trek, but like… maybe don’t watch or write Star Trek if you don’t like it? 

Star Trek is supposed to be Spec Fic, not… you know.. Star Wars.

Also Janeway is my favorite captain and you can fight me if you don’t like it.

Another video from MelinaPendulm, Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy + BOOK RECOMMENDS.

I’ve written all the authors and books/short stories/etc. she listed down, and I need to get a bunch and read them before I go back to writing again. I’ve been doing a lot of writing and story planning lately and no book reading and need to like… make a list of things to read and then make some time.

From Hello Future Me, On Worldbuilding: Class, Wealth, and Power. The beginning totally threw me off and I started laughing and had to start it over lol.

This is another one of those dense, dense videos that I need to go back and take notes from. 

Then he almost killed me a second time when he slipped into “YES! COMRADES!” again lol.

I don’t even know how to introduce this one. It’s from cosmavoid, and it’s “David Lynch being a madman for a relentless 8 minutes and 30 seconds”

I just like… aspire to be this weird? I know it’s probably odd to have such an aspiration, but like… I guess we both have Monica Bellucci dreams, and think that both wood and Laura Dern are pretty fucking amazing.

Mood.

I actually had another video for the fun bit this week, but I had to put the newest King video by Daniel Thrasher instead, “When the king takes a piano lesson in medieval times”

“Now shut up and let me finger your button-box!” A phrase I never could have even imagined to possibly exist.

Songs of the Week:

GlassDuo - Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdoTdG_VNV4

Honestly, someone in the comments said this song was made for the glass harp, and like… when you’re right, you’re right.

Grantwoolard - Classical Music Mashup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OYkWSW7u4k

This like… I don’t know. I was listening to it in bed one night after falling down a classical music hole and it sort of blew my mind. I do wish some of the combinations went on for longer though, but I suppose “I love this, please make more” isn’t really a criticism, lol.

bill wurtz - and the day goes on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZr6P1csiY

I don’t know how I missed this when it came out two years ago, but it’s such a nice little ditty. Like, reassuring somehow? Anyway, “speaking of genius, here’s Bill Wurtz.”

[raffleupagus]

@cosmavoid sneakily uploaded another video in his secret, clandestine YouTube operation

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

What nonfiction kaiju eiga books do you recommend?

Age of the Gods - A History of the Japanese Fantasy Filmby Guy Tucker

A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Seriesby David Kalat (I’ve only read the 1997 printing; the second edition adds information on the Millennium series, and apparently includes substantial revisions to the rest of the text)

Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G"by Steve Ryfle

Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! by Stuart Galbraith IV

King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson by Ray Morton

Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monstersby August Ragone

Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters by David S. Cohen

Godzilla: The Art of Destruction by Mark Cotta Vaz

The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films by John LeMay

And keep an eye out for The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Godzilla by Ed Godziszewski; I’ve heard good things about that one, but have never been able to obtain a copy. (Thanks to Toho, only about a thousand were printed.) Godziszewski and Ryfle also have a book on Ishiro Honda coming out in October, which I’ll likely add to the list as soon as I finish it.

Finally, while I can’t recommend Godzilla on My Mind by William Tsutsui as highly as the above titles, it was myfirst book in this narrow genre and still makes for a good read.

[ultramanbelial]

Please make a post about Geed episode 10, I'm genuinely mad about it and you're very good at articulating these problems (like with your Origin Saga post)

hurgh sorry for taking so long to answer, irl and my brain have been kicking my ass. geed 10 roasting will be coming up shortly

[nuclear-warrior]

@cosmavoid has such a brilliant way of talking about toku that their excitement and enthusiasm becomes so infectious.

[thesixth-pulsar]

I guess this is just a series for me now

@monarchofficial

[kaijusaurus]

Are you going to G-Fest this year?

I’m not, no. My first time going in 2014 was absolutely incredible, and last year was a lot of fun too, but ultimately it’s just too much money for what amounts to a five day trip. Seeing and hanging out with good friends aside, there’s not a whole lot pulling me back to G-FEST at the moment. I’ve had my great experiences, and meeting Takarada last year was a proper “bucket list” moment for me, and it was my main reason for going back. I’ve no doubt I’ll be back at some point, but not in the foreseeable future.

[bog-o-bones]

when ur corns hurt

[mechagodzilla]

cosmavoid replied to your post: wait anamanaguchi actually did shit with hatsune...

I almost went to that concert, it would have been so lit

they toured too?? i just heard the one song

[tyrantisterror]

Since @cosmavoid‘s video got me thinking about it, I think it should be mentioned that Tron: Legacy continues the fairly subtle religious subtext from the original Tron.  In the original we have, among other things, a stealthy perspective flip of the story of Jesus, in that a human walks among their creations - beings that are so minute in power compared to him that he didn’t even realize they were alive until he walked among them - and eventually sacrifices his life in their plane of existence to save them all, basically giving us a perspective flip on the “the gods secretly walk among us” story wherein humans are the gods and their creations are the mortals.

Tron: Legacy, then, plays out like a sort of twisted Paradise Lost, where the Satan figure is made explicitly in the God’s image, while Adam is a normal (and, in the Tron world, god-like) human, and Eve, rather than being the key to mortal-kind’s damnation, is instead the apex of the mortal world - the first mortal to ascend.  Hell, part of the reason she ascends - why she’s MORE than the average “mortal” in her plane of existence - is her curiosity and desire for knowledge, the exact trait that damned Eve in Genesis and Paradise Lost!  

The same basic archetypes are present - God, Satan, Adam, Eve, and even the choirs of helpful angels and wicked devils in the forms of the other programs, but the way the story plays out is utterly different, and in a way more hopeful because the God figure is a flawed human being rather than an omnipotent and omniscient super being.

It’s kinda neat.

[torley]

David Lynch being a madman for a relentless 8 minutes and 30 seconds | cosmavoid - YouTube Consumer Culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0

[raffleupagus]

Happy birthday Raff!! Cake every night! Spagetty every day!

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[astoundingbeyondbelief]

this saved my life

[monarchofficial]

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[biorante]

the mysterians (1957) requested by @cosmavoid