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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2009-02-22 07:54 am
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We're home, safe, and in a mental fog of exhaustion. Tim has become a FAT BARSTID in only two weeks. It's not hard to work out why: I've just watched him "sharing" a bowl of kibble with Frank. (Who is in good health, if hilariously shaved.) We're gonna need two bowls.
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[identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds just like our two. Fortunately, the one who eats more is easily distracted, so the one who eats less does get a share.

[identity profile] irritant01.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Post pics of Frank's hilarious shavings.

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes. They must be preserved for posterity.

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
OMG KATE. I HAVE MISSED YOU.

[identity profile] jblum.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like you've had a bit of a rough time! *hugs*

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing that a hearty dose of other people getting a clue and realising perception =/= fact will not cure. :P

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
HEY BABE HOW TF RU GUYS

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
WE R BEEN COLECKTIN MUNNIES FER POLYTICKAL ACKSHUN COMMITEE

LULZ

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
NOEL CLARKE SAID "YES WE CAN" WHEN HE GOT HIS BAFTA LULZ LULZ

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
ROFLCOPTERS I SAW THAT


Also, I present to you, the Doctor Who Theme played on TESLA COILS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJSH5Aw3yk

"ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation (an HVDJ set up) to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA System while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments.

These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt which put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers. The music consists of original highly dance-able electronic compositions that sometimes incorporates themes or dub of popular songs.

Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves are the masterminds behind the design and construction of the Tesla Coils while the music is developed by John DiPrima and Tony Smith."


It is possibly the most nerdgasmy thing I have ever come across.

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm, gigawatts. *uses appropriate icon*


[identity profile] jblum.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
We went to a car museum in New Zealand with a real live DeLorean.

And a Ford Prefect.

My geek life is complete.

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you touch the glory that was the DeLorean? :)

[identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah! Fun stuff!! =:o>

Pet peeve though: Why do so many people want to shove an extra, redundant and conceptually/artistically *WRONG* note into the downward run on the third line of the tune?

If you analyse Grainer's tune as writiteded, it's a musical representation of the original TARDIS crew's plight. Traditional tunes are all about the resolution to the tonic note, (and the harmony resolving to the root chord), and interesting tunes are constructed around how (and how often) they get to that point, whether it be at the end of every other line, or every verse, or not until right at the very end...

The tune of Ron Grainer's "Dr. Who", as original written and realised by DD, *never makes it home*. It's constantly swooping "forward", high above the tonic, and then dropping "back" way below... Sometimes it manages to make baby steps in the right direction - as in that distinctive yet much abused downward run - but then something goes wrong and it overshoots by a mile... (or, technically, a fourth. =:o} ) Even at the very end of the theme, although the bass line resolves to the tonic at last, the tune *doesn't*. It's left shivering out in the cold of the vortex, down there on the fifth note of the scale...

David Arnold, bless 'im for trying (and being so generous), was the first one to get it wrong in an "official" version of the theme, the one he did for Big Finish. And countless amateurs and cover versions do this same maddening thing, breaking the three note down-run with it's sustained "damn, missed again!" final note, into four equal-length notes, the third being an utterly *wrong* visit to the tonic. By rights the whole tune should just stop right there: "We made it home, guys!".

The only excuse I'll accept is if the performer of such a version cites "the Chase" in their defence. =:o}
Edited 2009-02-22 14:08 (UTC)

[identity profile] outsdr.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Good to have you both back. LJ is so much more boring without you.