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| Broken Mirror jan 2009Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:05:16 -0800 by alllkaiserBroken MirrorSo, this is my best attempt at playing Broken Mirror, a piano version of the song Small Two Pieces Restored Pieces, written by Yasunori Mitsuda and performed by Joanne Hogg. This version was arranged by Jay Semerad and released on the One Up Studios album Xenogears Light An Arranged Album, which they included a copy of the sheet music with if you bought it. I believe that takes care of all the credits. I hope you enjoy seeing rural Japan in the background. The rice fields sadly are out of season, so they're quite ugly right now, and as you can tell, the day was quite cloudy.I've been learning this song for about a year, now. It's by far the most difficult song I've ever really attempted to learn, and some would say it was a waste of time to start learning it so early in my relearning of playing the piano in general (I've sunk so much time into this song). As you can tell, I still have a long ways to go in learning this song, but I wanted to put up this rough draft and write to you some of the meaning that this song holds to me.However, I reject that this song has been a waste of time. It has been a friend when I've had so few others. To me, this song has a much deeper meaning, and every mistake and trial has been a pleasure for the joy of every tiny bit that I learn to play it better.This song has a twofold meaning, and each side is deep and rich. The first side is from the original song, and if you search for Small Two Pieces Xenogears on Youtube I bet you'll be able to find and listen to it if you want to. As for me, I never played Xenogears (though I did play Xenosaga), but I've always been a fan of Mitsuda's music, especially when you get the voice of Joanne Hogg involved. So I downloaded this song and listened to it some.Southbound on the 101. I was driving from San Luis Obispo to Redlands. I believe it was Christmas of my first senior year of college. I was listening to a custom CD mix of video game and anime music of my own design and coasting through the emerald hills of the central coast, not a car in sight. Run through the cold of the night... These words began to play. And as I listened to this song, it was as though the lands had become resurrected as shall come at the end of the age, and I was travelling along the roads of the new earth to come. I saw myself as travelling with God Himself as company through paradise, not a care in the world, and the two of us were together in a land renewed. To my left stretched miles of vineyards. And vineyards differ from wheat in that wheat is a crop grown for nourishment and survival, while wine grapes are pure luxury and abundance, as shall be that earth. I wept as I drove in yearning of what is still to come, even as I was given as true an earthly imagining of it as many-a-person ever gets. That's what I describe my visions of Heaven that I have received until now: imaginings. Because they are not visions in the truest sense, for my eyes have seen naught but the creation in front of them, but all the same, I have imagined Heaven in such a way as to bring forth true tears of joy and yearning. I want to be there.The second meaning of this song to me is thus, and this is of the piano version that I am learning: It is a reminder of all that I have lost and all I have yet to gain. I started learning it shortly before going to San Luis Obispo in February of last year (2008). And I listened to it continually when I was about to leave that place. To me, this song reminds me immensely of that place and the people and love I experienced there. It reminds me of those that I left behind. The storm-like intensity of the middle is a constant reminder of the cost of the answered call. And as I listened to it here in Japan, it was a comfort. As well, that meaning of Heaven is intermixed, for it shares the same melody, after all. In the last notes, every time I play them, I think, Let the last note of my life sound for You, Lord.Broken Mirror is like an unatainable goal for me, for it seems impossible that I will ever learn it. It should take 5 minutes to play. It used to take me 15, but I've managed to get it down to 7. So I hope you will forgive me for posting it here prematurely, before it was ready, but a year is long enough, I think. Leave a comment if you would like for me to post more of my video game music-playing. I plan to post To Far Away Times, another masterpiece by Mitsuda, as soon as it is ready. I finally found a version easy enough for me to learn within a few months, and with that one as well, a clear imagining of Heaven is intermixed. Related: broken mirror one up studios xenogears small two pieces restored shards piano | |
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| Das Boot (1981) - Convoy attack - English subtitlesTue, 06 Jan 2009 19:58:41 -0800 by AL3J4NdR001Das Boot (1981)This is, quite simply, the best movie about naval warfare to ever grace the silver screen. Yeah, it takes an investment of more than 3 hours to watch the thing, but you come away so mesmerized that it feels like the time passed in a blink of an eye. It's a stunning portrayal of how the wartime tables turned on a confident German U-boat fleet of wolfpack hunters, as Allied fortunes turned and the wolves became the hunted, forced to flee, and hide, and endure the terror of incessant depth charge barrages. It's an emotional roller coaster that takes you from the elation of triumph to the humility of survival and the ultimate despair of defeat. It's also a movie that's powerful in its depiction of enemy combatants not as monsters, but as human beings who feel the same things we might feel. A masterpiece! Related: das boot 1981 convoy attack sub subtitles english audio german movie film boat u-boat world war ww2 naval wolf hunt submarine destroyer torpedo fire! alarm! | |
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| The Unborn - Trailer 2 (HD 1080p)Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:37:41 -0800 by race2aTrailer for The Unborn in HD starring Cam Gigandet and Meagan Good.Info: Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body to inhabit. And sometimes it actually succeeds. Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves. Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spirtual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop. With Sendaks help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany - a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born. Related: the unborn cam gigandet meagan good universal pictures hd trailer 1080p | |
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| Paul's Gaming - Dead Space part29 - Asteroid BlastingTue, 06 Jan 2009 19:20:56 -0800 by pieceofpiesoftwareAfter a little stroll outside and avoiding asteroids, I get to use a big gun and enjoy a feeling of nostalgia, as I play a kind of mini-game of asteroid blasting!Also, another new enemy, Octopus!~NO SPOILERS PLEASE!~Here's how this playthrough is going to be... For once, I'm going to upload as I play. So ~NO SPOILERS PLEASE!~Usually, I play through the whole game, and upload it 1-2 months later, but this time, it'll be more or less real time, so that you can give me advice if I get hopelessly stuck, or am just not doing things that way I could/should be.~NO SPOILERS PLEASE!~Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the playthrough of this seemingly (so far) awesome game. I know I'm going to enjoy it! Related: improv video pauls gaming game comedy humor silly funny scary third person survival horror monsters aliens dead space playthrough isaac clark ads aids automatic defense system survivor some bloke | |
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| Paul's Gaming - Dead Space part28 - Some BlokeTue, 06 Jan 2009 18:41:06 -0800 by pieceofpiesoftwareWhile still trying to do whatever I'm trying to do, I see another survivor! But he runs off... Twat!~NO SPOILERS PLEASE!~Here's how this playthrough is going to be... For once, I'm going to upload as I play. So ~NO SPOILERS PLEASE!~Usually, I play through the whole game, and upload it 1-2 months later, but this time, it'll be more or less real time, so that you can give me advice if I get hopelessly stuck, or am just not doing things that way I could/should be.~NO SPOILERS PLEASE!~Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the playthrough of this seemingly (so far) awesome game. I know I'm going to enjoy it! Related: improv video pauls gaming game comedy humor silly funny scary third person survival horror monsters aliens dead space playthrough isaac clark ads aids automatic defense system survivor some bloke | |
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