#the flight

[thinkingimages]

Gunārs Binde / The flight

"Tu skaties tālumā un aizlido man garām, it kā es būtu tavs pretvējš.”

You look into the distance and fly past me as if I were your headwind.

"Tu atskaties no tāluma vēl un vēl. Cik reizes tu atskaties, tik reizes es ceru.”

You look back from a distance again and again. As many times as you look back, so many times I hope.

[brokehorrorfan]

Alien: Isolation's soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time via iam8bit. It features music by The Flight (Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Lockwood & Co.) and Christian Henson (Triangle, Top Gear) along with original Alien themes by Jerry Goldsmith.

The album is pressed on Blood Green colored vinyl. It's housed in a jacket designed by Nimit Malavia. Priced at $33, it will ship in early 2025.

[sandmoonyelse]

The Flight...

[carlyleandco]

Me in public:

My headphones:

[jell-hell]

Cinematography in The Flight (1971), dir. Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov

[fancypantsrecords]

Various Artists - Horizon Forbidden West | Sony Classical | 2023 | Red Translucent Marbled + Light Blue Translucent Marbled + Gold Translucent Marbled + Orange Translucent Marbled + Blue Marbled + Grey Marbled

[thelowlandbench]

[thequeendomhq]

THE FLIGHT ~

NAME. UTP AGE & BIRTH DATE. 25+ SPECIES. Faiman FACTION. UTP. OCCUPATION. Smuggler

You were born amongst the Silver Elvhen in the bright city of Lórien’dal. This culture was all that you had known; a bustling, beautiful city that remained the jewel of the Silver Elvhen. Your mother had been from the south of Lysara, your father a Silver Elvhen, taken back to live amongst the people of the feywilds. Unlike those who are half elvhen, you never had a choice for immortality. The light had long left the Silver Elvhen, but you were welcome as one of them anyway. The winding streets and the enormous temples were enough to give you a glimpse of what the Silver Elvhen had created for themselves, and why they split from the High Elvhen so long ago. You had a special gift, a healer amongst those who needed it. It’s what led you to the border of Northreach, as close to Iskaldrik as you could get, where those who scrambled to flee from the Witchers would find you, instead. You would smuggle them beneath the watchful eye of the Nightingales who would steer you around the Lake of Sighs. Your work will never be complete; moving people across Lysara who need it is no easy job. But a healer you are, and a friend to all. A mortal life is all you have, and you will do all you can with it.

CONNECTS

THE REMNANT: Childhood friend.

NOTES

ABILITY: Healing Touch: The ability to heal an injury or sickness by touch.

this skeleton is currently closed.

[findusinaweek]

Music in AC Odyssey

I really wish someone with more musical knowledge would break down the leitmotifs in AC Odyssey’s OST. But I haven’t found anyone yet, and I’m tired and bold so here goes. 

“Legend of the Eagle Bearer” ties AC Odyssey with the larger Assassins' theme of “Ezio’s Family” from AC 2. This is continued in “Enter the Animus”.

The “Korinth” track and “Brasidas” track clearly are tied together, probably because that’s where we first meet him! (This is also why I headcanon that if Brasidas death was faked after Amphopolis, Alexios would take him to the city where they met. It just makes sense after listening to them together. I already picked out their house.)

There is also a clear Myrinne theme that I guess could be a larger familial leitmotif, usually with feminine vocalization or humming. The song that plays when you first start the game is (“Odyssey-Greek Version”) is similar. The game musically starts you out reminiscing and humming along to the familiar theme (and that hits me hard when Alexios hums it).

The song “A Happy Family” transitions from the family/Myrinne theme to cult of Kosmos leitmotif to some kind of inversion of the “Legend of the Eagle Bearer” main theme at 2:46 and I think it’s the best section of the soundtrack. 

I hate the Isu/”Enter the Animus” leitmotif, it’s jarring when I’m just wandering Greece. 

As for the world music:

“Ceremony and Celebration” is from the Epitaph of Seikilos, which is the oldest surviving complete composition that has musical notation (that we know of). It came from a stele, the lyrics translate as: While you live, shine/ have no grief at all/ life exists only for a short while/ and Time demands his toll.

“The Lost Shield” is my favorite shanty that I 100% badly try to sing along to when I play as Alexios. I think about Brasidas’ shield a lot too. 

I usually have an all female crew when playing as Kassandra and “Song for a Young Girl” has such beautiful harmony, I like to think we’re like sirens. Underestimated, beautiful, and then deadly. 

[sixinchesdeepinmud]

Lockwood & Co Soundtrack appreciation

Today I'd love to send virtual kudos to composers of the original soundtrack to Lockwood & Co - The Flight and Christoph Bauschinger. They created edgy and memorable score to the series and it's currently on my morning get Up kick ass playlist. The track that I love the most is probably Graveyard Fight. It's such a banger I can't help but listen to on repeat every morning on my way to work.

Then there's emotional wreckage in both Lucy and Lockwood & An Ending. I was listening to An Ending for an hour the night the show cancellation was announced and it gave me a good cry, not gonna lie.

And then there's the track called Surrounded by Philistines which reminded me of the glory days of the original CSI:Crime Scene Investigation. If I didn't know it was composed for Lockwood & Co, I'd easily considered it being composed by John M. Keane (head composers for CSI, FYI).

And I believe we will hear more such bangers combined with the 80‘s music in future seasons because it just fucking works.

[lisystrata]

Everything is ghostly in this raging world…

Everything is ghostly in this raging world…

Actor Vladislav Vatslavovich Dvorzhetsky (Russian: Владислав Вацлавович Дворжецкий) was born on April 26, 1939. He appeared in eighteen films between 1970 and 1978.

In 1964 he entered the actors' school of Omsk. After graduation in 1967, Vladislav was accepted in the company of the Omsk provincial dramatic theatre. In 1968 the assistant director from film-studio Mosfilm visits Omsk and Dvorzhetsky got his first role in a film as General Khludow in The Flight (1970).

In his next film he was the test pilot Burton in the Solaris (1972). Both films competed In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In spring 1972 he played the role of Alexander Ilyin in Sannikow-Land.

In 1975 he played the main role in the adventure film Captain Nemo based on the Jules Verne novel. In this role, I remember him from early childhood with his huge cosmic eyes and the tragedy of the Indian Prince Dakkar (Nana Saheb).

Vladislav is the older half-brother of another of my favorite actors — Evgeny Dvorzhetsky (Edmond Dantès / Viscount Albert de Morcerf in the music television miniseries "The Prisoner of Castle If" — a film adaptation based on the novel by Dumas).

Dvorzhetsky died in 28 May 1978 in Gomel, due to acute heart failure. At the time of his death, he was not yet 40 years old.

[abellinthecupboard]

The Flight

　　　“The will is given us that 　　　　 we may know the delights of surrender.” Blake with tense mouth, crouched small (great forehead, somber eye) amid a crowd's tallness in a narrow room. 　　　　　　　　　　　　The same night a bird caught in my room, battered from wall to wall, missing the window over & over 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　(till it gave up and 　　　　　　　 　 huddled half-dead on a shelf, and I 　　　　　　　 　 put up the sash against the cold) and waking at dawn I again pushed the window violently down, open 　　　　　　　and the bird gathered itself and flew 　　　　　　　straight out 　　　　　　　quick and calm (over the radiant 　　　　　　　　　chimneys—

— Denise Levertov

Note from the author: “The quoted words were spoken by Blake in my dream. This was London, 1945.”

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When your flying on a plane it’s best if you took a nap for the entire flight.

[carlyleandco]

The soundtrack is perfect, so atmospheric!!

The explaining of the world on ‘The Problem’ ingenuous???

[jell-hell]

Cinematography in The Flight (1971) dir. Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov

Commander-in-Chief Khludov's nightmares