Everything posted by Daniel.
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UNKNOWN PLEASURES [VI]
Confirmed one of my favourite songs of all time; I've played it almost 100 times since last year, and have finally decided to enter it. I had to upload the track myself; but at least now the tags are all correct and I purchased it from iTunes, so I assume that means the quality will be good too for the audio snobs among you :D
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'Born This Way' Boot & Immune.
01 Marry The Night | 15 + 02 Born This Way | 15 04 Judas | 21 - 05 Americano | 33 07 Scheiße | 42 13 Heavy Metal Lover | 19 + 17 The Edge of Glory | 25 -
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Game of Thrones
*Big Spoiler* To be honest, this show is already pretty fantastical as it is, I don't think we will get much more outside of the already estabished mythology. I agree that they should have killed Jamie by now; they only needed him alive to bargain for Ned's release, but he's been executed now anyway; plus, Robb and Catelyn are determined to go to war against the Lannisters and don't want to reach any sort of peace settlement, so I can't see the point of keeping him alive? Also, Daenerys's dragons look pretty dangerous already, and they are only babies. I can't see them waiting long before attempting to cross over.
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Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 & 2
Hyperbole :P
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BJSC XXXV - Semi-finals
On my first listen through now and Stay Away has already wormed its way into my brain; I'm obsessed.
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Game of Thrones
I can see Daenerys becoming just as insane as her father personally. I'm buying the first book on saturday, my exams are finished, so I will have the time to get stuck into them. Thankfully we didn't jump on board at the beginning; the book fans have been waiting as long as a decade between installments, and I thought Stephen King was bad :lol:
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BJSC XXXV - Predictions
Well, Jeffree was a bit of a flop, regardless I adore the song, so I will go down with the ship as they say.
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Game of Thrones
Season Two Teaser #1 SwvtkirHz5s&feature=player_embedded Those dragon screams give me chills! And sadly, it doesn't return until Spring 2012, even though they are already filming in Belfast. I'm going to start reading the books to tide me over. Also, here's an interesting interview with excutive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss about the seaon finale and the challenges they face shooting the new season. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/19/game-of-...-season-finale/
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Game of Thrones
Ahhhhh the ending gave me chills, it was fantastic! The whole episode was bar that dodgy scene with the old guy and the whore. There was no need for me to worry it turned out because every storyline had some sort of send off that ramped the stakes up and every character seems to have an exciting storyline coming up (Sansa really impressed me this episode). I was slightly disapointed with the lack of Cersi though, and the year wait is going to kill me; thankfully shooting for Season 2 begins in the next week or so, so hopefully we might get it earlier than Spring 2012.
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Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger
So, this has about as much swag as an Alexis Jordan track; I thought she wanted to be the next Nicki Minaj or somes balls out rapper or something? I'm actually glad she hasn't attempted to rap (yet); the song itself is just a so-so pop track that is all over the place with a grating chorus, and seems as desperate as Notorious did to make her sound hip and trendy. And no matter how good her Radio 1 interview is, it won't make up for the abomination that is her twitter account.
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'Born This Way' Boot & Immune.
01 Marry The Night | 10 02 Born This Way | 10 03 Government Hooker | 10 04 Judas | 11 05 Americano | 13 06 Hair | 9 07 Scheiße | 11 08 Bloody Mary | 10 09 Black Jesus † Amen Fashion | 7 10 Bad Kids | 11 11 Fashion Of His Love | 11 12 Highway Unicorn (Road to Love) | 11 + 13 Heavy Metal Lover | 12 14 Electric Chapel | 10 15 The Queen | 2- 16 Yoü & I | 11 17 The Edge of Glory | 11
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Much Music Video Awards 2011
To be fair, Gibson did direct the video so she had a right to be on the stage too. As for the performances, Edge of Glory was good, and the set as always is impressive, but there wasn't much variation on the Paul O' Grady show. Born This Way on the other hand, was a truly excellent performance; the visuals, the set pieces and her entrance and use of stage: plus, I'm a big fan of the long, blue hair look.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
It's doesn't require much intellectualising to see that there is a concept of her merely "celebrating" her final moments of life in the place that defines her as a person and artist, it might be a boring video concept that didn't pan out, but there is a concept. A rather neat concept in fact. And how are we supposed to know that the original concept would have worked any better? We don't. As for a rush job it doesn't take much filming to get all the dancing-around-the-street material needed for a video like this. This was the direction she decided to go in, it didn't need any more time, what would they have done with an extra third day? Shot some more of her prancing about. It is what it is. You like it or you don't.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
I'm actually appreciating this video now, it reminds me of retro 80s videos; early Madonna but more specifically Billie Jean. The lighting and smoke is fabulous at creating an otherworldy tone, her last moments of celebrating her "glory" in the place that she truly loves before she crosses over to the other side; celebrating in the place that gave birth to her literally and creatively, and the place where she will most likely die. And when GaGa does die, I can see this being the video that is shown on news coverage, and the video that is looked on most fondly and iconically; for the fact that it's just her. The video clearly has faults: it's rough round the edges; there's no progression to a big climax, only a subtle end; GaGa's prancing around can be a bit eye rolling at times, and the whole debacle surrounding the shooting taints it. Regardless, I can appreicate what GaGa is doing with this video and it's actually quite beautiful in its simplicity. It wears its heart on its sleave and it's the most honest thing GaGa has ever done. It didn't need mermaids and doctors to get this across, she changed her mind. Sometimes a cigar is a cigar.
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Belle Amie - Girls Up
I have no idea, I only vaguely remember them.
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Belle Amie - Girls Up
* slight hyperbole. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by this (I assume first single); it's pure generic pop of course that even The Saturday's would find beneath them to record, but it's perfectly listenable fluff and the video gets the job done. I have no idea when this is being released, but I doubt it will do much in any event. bShXffrkJbE#at=92 ENJOY.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
That is a HOT MESS right there. Oh, GaGa :(
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
HA! To be fair, this opinion is in a very small minority right now. This pretty much sums up this sordid affair.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
I think what we just witnessed was GENERIC GaGa. Bummer.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
This has made the whole thing worthwhile.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
Well, more power to him! Care to copy and paste :D I don't like Gibson anyway, so it wouldn't be a huge loss in my book. But for her standard to drop so low, it's just sad. Surely she saw how bad this was, surely they could have done reshoots?
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
Actually the stans are going nuts, it has been INSTANT backlash, and I haven't seen anyone try to defend it so far. Although, it was GaGa and Gibson that wrote the original treatment, and it was going to be a joint direction by them the same as Judas; Kahn came in at a late stage, so the vision for the video was already laid out. Clearly, for some reason, the original treatment was scrapped. I get the feeling though that Gibson also left GaGa in the $h!tter, I mean what cherography was that?! Did they have a falling out too, there's no excuse for that part of the mess.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
GaGa fans are going into meltdown right now, it's painful to see so many mini explosions and tantrums. Something clearly must have gone seriously wrong on set for it turn out this $h!t and low-budget looking. It's a bunch of nothing, Keri Hilson's performance on So You Think You Can Dance was more exciting. I agree with triangles, that the original treatment must have been scrapped during shooting, probably the same time as the director walked out. There was nothing "fishy" at all; so disapointing after the performance in France hinted at so much.
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
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'The Edge Of Glory' • 3rd Single Thread
Watch So You Think You Can Dance? here, she just said it's coming up after the break and they also have a big, exclusive bit of GaGa news aswell. Exciting! http://tvpc.tv/Channel.php?ChannelID=3073