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Geoffrey Taucer

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  1. He's green. I don't think what color he is under that will make much difference.
  2. It's true, though! Those four have both the face and more importantly the menacing presence, something that very few actors can pull off properly.
  3. Oh my god the fake accents are PAINFUL! The problem with making a Zelda movie is that if it's not completely and totally epic, it fails utterly. I imagine this is similar to the challenge faced by the writers and directors of the Lord of the Rings movies -- had those been anything less than brilliant, they would have been critically panned and forever remembered as an insult to the books, even if they had been average or even above average movies in and of themselves. Zelda is the same way. If it's not perfect it will be horrible. It cannot have even the faintest amount of success without an all-star cast, brilliant special effects, and an award-worthy director. Ganon looks awful -- because he is slightly sub-perfect. In my opinion, there are very very few actors in the world who could pull off that part. Jack Nicholson could do it. Clint Eastwood could do it. Perhaps Willam Dafoe or Hugo Weaving. But that's it -- nobody else on the planet could hope to do that character justice. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Zelda should never be a low-budget indy film. It should either be a spare-no-expense masterpiece of epic proportions ala Lord of the Rings, or it shouldn't exist at all. Also, Link runs like he's constipated.
  4. Wow. Did you seriously join just to post that? You need to work on your diplomacy. A simple "actually, that's not quite righ: here's why" in the project or feedback thread would have been plenty, and we probably would have taken you far more seriously. But if you're just gonna come in like a crazed monkey and sling shit all over the place, expect to be treated like a troll. Not that I'm calling you a troll or anything....
  5. I'm not sure, but I'm assuming you're being sarcastic here. There is such a thing as good hip-hop. I've heard plenty of it. There's a local jazz/blues/hip-hop station that plays some seriously sweet stuff. You just never hear that sort of hip-hop on hit music stations.
  6. There are genuinely people (mostly girls between the ages of 9 and 15) who genuinely like bland, generic, written-to-a-formula pop. But I think a lot of people have never heard anything better. If your general frame of reference consists of Miley Cyrus for "rock" and 50 cent for "hip-hop," then yes, Nickelback and Kanye West look like fucking geniuses. As an experiment, I've tried introducing OCR tunes to a number of my students, and I find that very frequently their reaction depends on who's around. When I have one girl over by the stereo and the rest are over at the bars on the other side of the gym, they'll say some of these mixes are the coolest music they've ever heard -- I have a number of girls doing floor routines to remixes this season. But if I play the same tune for them when all their friends are around, they'll say they don't like it and ask me to put on some Jonas Brothers or Coldplay or some other shit like that. To me, this demonstrates that, at least for some people, it genuinely isn't about the music at all -- it's about listening to something their friends think is cool. And the funny thing is they don't even realize they're doing this most of the time. It's subconcious, reflexive even. I'd say my biggest objection to contemporary pop (especially hip-hop) is that it usually has about two seconds of actual music written for the whole song. Where a (forgive my elitism) realcomposer might come up with a short riff and think "this is a good start, I could develop this into a full song," a typical pop producer would say "I'm done. Loop it for five minutes and we'll call it a song."
  7. I would say that this at once both revived and killed it. It gave it a one-time revival by being the most epic rickroll the world has ever seen. But now it has reached it's climax, and we can let it go. This is how the life cycle of a meme SHOULD work, though! It starts obscure, then gets bigger and bigger until something as epic as this happens. Then we can let it die.
  8. Wow. This could not possibly be any more epic. THe only downside is there's no reason to rickroll anybody ever again. This cannot be topped.
  9. Awesome. I love the whole thing. I've never been an SF player, and I don't own an Xbox, but after hearing this I'm tempted to change both.
  10. A WHAT?!? We can't have a girl at MAGfest. The world will asplode!
  11. I've been sick the last couple days, and haven't worked out much. My shoulder is slowly but surely healing. It's killing me not being able to do any heavy arm/shoulder strength; I'm looking forward to getting the go-ahead from the doc to start training rings again.
  12. Wow, very beautiful. I'm generally not a particularly big fan of solo piano arrangements, but I really like this one. Definitely among my favorite piano remixes.
  13. So I hear System of a Down did the soundtrack for the new Street Fighter!
  14. It would be great if we had the option of getting them in either format; mp3 or flac
  15. Haha, you don't have a brother, do you? But he's cool, don't worry. But I still refer to him as "bitch."
  16. Huzzah! Moved to project forums! We're kicking around several ideas for names. We seem to have it narrowed down to just a few.
  17. I might be comming up early enough for the New Years bash if somebody will let me bum a room with them -- and I might be bringing my brother.
  18. Are you bringing stevo or is he comming separately?
  19. Fuck 80s guitar rock. Go back to synth funk ala genesis.
  20. Awesome stuff, as always. I especially love your singing. Your voice has a gritty quality that adds so much emotion to your music. I'll definitley buy that album when it comes out.
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