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Hello. I can not have gifs here anymore. Nor can I have music players. But I can ramble. And I am Fonic Awesome. And that's something at least. Thank you.
Becca aka Bobby
Straight Guys Are Hot
SGAH!
Fight Yaoi With Rock
FYWR
.:The Unsaid Works' EPIC:.
Finally, Getting Back to Good.
The only thing worse than your favorite character ALWAYS dying, is your favorite character never existing in the first place. XC
Best Disney sequence EVER! It just seems so much more thought out than others, and I love original Disney. Frollo is the best Disney villain as well. He may not be my favorite (may), but he is the most complex. And I LOVE his voice. I could listen to that guy for hours. His design is refreshing, and a little different than even the rest of the characters in the film. More raw. This sequence is not only beautiful and intriguing, but the song is as well. Again, more raw. I've alway been proud of Disney for not Disnifying this film.
Watch the animation. It's so smooth and detailed. Even for modern animated films, but especially for then. The way his clothes swirl and wave. Just watching his hem while he moves his arms. He shadows, especially at the end. His hair falling in and out of place, being out of breath. The expressions that literally flash across his face through the whole song. Beautifully illistrated conflict.
I never understood what the latin parts were saying, but they add soooo much to the sequence and the character. If you go to the original link, the "author" put up the full lyrics in their comments, including the latin translations. I strongly suggest it. The first part with just the chants was cut off this version, but the lyrics are still there. I could analyze this thing for hours.
Soooo. Haven't done this in a while. Well, I am doing completely nothing, so while everyone else has things they need to get up early for, I do not. I've always had trouble sleeping, and now I just don't want to go to bed. So when everyone leaves me all by my one and lonely, I watch tv! Yay :P. So, first, I watched Samurai Jack. You remember that, that really old tv show, same time as Powerpuff girls. I had never watched it before. So now it's on Boomerang at 11 every night. I've got a bunch recorded but haven't watched many yet. But I want to. That thing is really interesting. I LOVE the animation. It's hilarious! I actually like Jack, he's all stoic and moral. Though he manages to lose his shirt and/or hairtie every epiosode. But the most interesting is the dialogue. There is none. I've never seen such a silent cartoon. But it doesn't need it. It's still fun. Plus Mako does Aku. I love Mako. I love it, but I can't understand how it kept small people's attention. I saw your bother watching it, Dean. And no offense, but he didn't strike me as having a very long attention span. Anyway, unexpectedly good show.
Speaking of Boomerang, they play reeeeeaaaalllly old shows. Like, Birdman. I only saw half of that. It was horrible. XD But totally worth it for the "This looks like a job for BIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDMAAANN MAN man". Still cracks me up. And the original Scooby Doo. That thing fascinates me. I watched an episode the other day that ran before the Beatles broke up. And it's still going strong. There have been so many wanna-bes. Same formula, but none picked up. What is it about Scooby Doo that kept it going? I watched the new made-for-tv movie last month. The one about the beginning of the Mystery gang. Fred wasn't even blonde. Still bugs me. But I actually liked their Shaggy. He did good with the voice. It was Shaggy with his voice changing. Highschool Shaggy. That poor guy. Listening to him hurt my throat. The only thing is, since the What's New Scooby Doo, Shaggy's only role is comic relief. He's clutsy, dumb, and completely food oriented. While Shaggy liked food, he knew his limits. And he was intelligent. He used to be the one who figured out the small things, and he had common sense. And a mild temper. He used to be kinda cool. Velma was more clutzy and Daphne's the one who fell into all the traps. Even Fred used to say so. And Fred got a lot smaller and younger. He used to be more musclebound but still had dignity. And the thing with him and Daphne was always there but unsaid. That they kept, but not so well. There were episodes where Fred would split them up with him having the girls. Shaggy actually walked away muttering that "of course Fred gets the girls" under his breath. They had more demension back then.
I analyze everything. Sorry. I could go on and on about Scooby. But I won't. My mom started watching another crime show. =.=. but I can actually say that I like this one. I hate crime shows. They're repetitive, have horribly developed, unlikable characters, the absolute worst dialogue, and they fill up their time, (cause they never have enough story to fill it) with flashing lights, slow motion, close up replays of every possible way the person might have died, and everything's about sex and everyone turns out to be bi, gay, incestual, and all of the above. Not to mention, the layers are also doing the detective's job, while they do the cop's job, while they do the CSI's job, and everyone has a working knowledge of the most advanced lab work, which they all have in their offices including things that don't even exist. And they all know the chemical, sedimentary, or bio make up of everything on earth.
Anyway, this one is Criminal Minds. It's not cops or lawyers, it's profilers. That is cool. They focus on their job and only their job. You focus on saving living people rather then digging around in dead ones. And human behavior. That's always been fascinating. If I didn't have such an empathy problem, I might seriously consider Profiler as a proffession. And it had Mandy Patinkin. I like him. I've liked him since Inigo Montoya. He's good. Always gets the wise, paternal (if slightly akward at it), thoughtful roles. Like Rube (DLM). And then there's Ried. I know he's the typical favorite character, but the guy does such a good job with him. Usually his type of character would be unrealistic, obnoxious, and kinda bland and stereotypical. But Ried's awesome. He's so cute and moral.
Somehow, realistic. All the characters are. They have developement and dimension. Good show. Not flawless. Still solving crimes. But the best I've seen. And my mother watches many many.
And TCM. Best station ever! This month is Bogie month.8) Lots of Humphry. I was watching for hours on Wednesday. It was his really early films, including The Petrified Forest. So he was the bad guy in all of them. Evidently, for the longest time people thought he could only do bad Duke Mantee types (Petrified Forest). They never even dreamed he could pull off a leading man or love interest. He was almost another Peter Lorre. But then they put him in Casablanca. Voila. Though, I must admit, not my favorite of his. That girl was just dumb and both guys deserved better. But I watched three in a row. And even though he was a villain, he was still a sympathetic character. You liked him. They were all kinda sad. First, it was sad and then he died, then he was really sad and then he died. Then him and Edward G. Robinson were having a bad time and then they both died. Good movies, though. Some things I recomend for anyone to see:
Secret Agent (Peter Lorre Hitchcock); All Through The Night (Bogie, Lorre); A Slight Case of Murder (Edward G. Robinson); I Was A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Paul Muni?); M (Lorre); The Petrified Forest (Bogie, lots of talking); Arsenic and Old Lace(Lorre, Cary Grant). Dean, you might like Bogie in Maltese Falcon or the film, Dead End. I'll let you know when I have more.:D
I know. Too much Beatles. But this for the skill just as much, if not more. This is amazing! You've got see it!
Well, Cass is on her way to Uruguay for a year and a half. I'm tired. This is going to be annoying for a while. Didn't even get to finish our video game. Now we've got to wait 18 months to find out if we save the world. We did watch the Mr. Stain epilogue, though. Let's just say Stain never dissapoints. It was really, really wierd. Even for Stain. And yet, the entire thing is still endearing. I really like that stupid show.
Speaking of shows, I really like Burn Notice. For some reason, I always enjoy it more in the summer. Last summer I think it was my job. You sit in a police station proof-reading 79 page policies in a corner, windowless room long enough, you really crave something sunny, stupid, and without police policies. Yay Burn notice! But it on a break then, so at least I get it now. It's a really good show, too. I wasn't originally expecting that. I think you would really like it, Dean. It's not really Supernatural, no tragic brothers. But there the characters are all brats, and bad things happen to him. I know you like tragic brats. You give it a chance. It grows on you. And the actors really are good. I especially like how Donnovan never looks sincere. He's got a good voice too, recognizable and good inflection. I think we should get him for EPIC.
I've been looking into buying the original Hulk series too. I love old tv/movies. Man, I has Cass watch some with me, and now she call herself a Bill Bixby fan. He is the reason I started watching it. He had the subtlties down. I love that. Very few actors can get all the little things. Hugh hjackman is another one. And Alan Rickman. Watch him in the background of movies, when it's not his scene. He adds alot more to the character than I think they direct him to. Anyway, The Hulk is a very good little show, it's 20 years off air, and it's still $100 at the cheapest. That's a pain. I think you would kinda like that one, too, Dean. You'd at least appreciate McGee. He's awesome. And never not a jerk. I could go on and on about this show, but I'm not going to.
Well, lots of tv. Um... well, my dad watches Burn Notice with us, and he sits back there and laughes every single time (no exaggeratin) Bruce Campbell opens his mouth. So for father's day I got him a mousepad that says "Trapped in Time, Surrounded by Evil, Low on Gas." Evil dead series. I admit I haven't even seen the whole thing. I've seen most of Army of Darkness, and the first one. Never even seen the second. They're all rated R. I don't really watch R movies. I'm too cool.
But Army of Drakness was funny. There's an Evil Dead Musical also! Sounds hilarious, but I'll probably never go. The funniest thing, is Campbell is so campy in all his roles, but the interviews I've seen him in, he's so down-to-earth. He seems like a pretty cool guy. This is the guy that made a spoof on his spoof starring himself as himself. Also looks really funny, but probably R. He knows how to make fun of himself, and that's always a good thing.
I have a cough again, which means my voice is dead again. My voice is so fragile, I'm literally incapable of screaming. If I talk loudly for more than sentences it leaves. If I talk normal for a longish amount of time, it leaves. And when I do the voices for our video games, it leaves. We play multiplayer, alot of "Tales of". When we bring them over, we usually get great voices, but they cheap out. They don't voice as much as they did in Japanese. So, somehow, I got the job of voicing everyone line that they don't. That counts the townspeople and everyone. And I have to try to sound like the voice actors or make up my own for the extras. Jade (TOA) and Raven (TOV) are impossible. I can do pretty much everyone else. Inflection, pitch, and everything. But you try voicing Moses, norma and the stupid otters for 5 hour s at a time and then going straight to Tear or Kratos or Miew or Yuri. I get raspy and then everyone sounds like Norma with Moses' accent because it's alot of fun to do, but you get stick. Or going from Tear to Chloe. Or Kratos to Will. Zelos to Moses. And make them as different as the actors do. And then I lose my voice and I can do Genis and Karol real good. If anyone understood any of that, you play too many video games. So every time that I lose my voice, I have this cough for about a month and a half. Ten my voice never comes back all the way. This has happened a number of times now. I don't have the range or the control that I used to. It's sad. It makes me sad. I kinda thought that voice acting would be really fun for a while, but who's gonna hire you when your voice can't hold out, you can't yell or scream, and you don't swear. I auditioned for FullCast Audio once, got a callback. He said I was one of the best auditins he had that day. But I had the voice problem on the callback from other things and he didn't like that.
So..... I'm going to stop now. Lots of rambling. But if anyone reading is going to Boston soon, don't drive, be extra careful not to get by a car, try the GoBoston cards, and go to The Tomb. It's fun.
Goodbye.
