butcherboy: PERFECT SONGS 2.. THE FINAL SHOWDOWN..

butcherboy 09.25.18	let's go..
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	I might take a while. This idea is amazing though and I'm going hardcore. I make mood playlists all of the time just for fun.
butcherboy 09.25.18	same here, Frippy.. take all the time
Frippertronics 09.25.18	oh good lord dare I do it to him like I did with the movies concept list? actually consider me lucky to be back lol
butcherboy 09.25.18	hahaha, go nuts!
Frippertronics 09.25.18	i will dedicate this to u, aeroplane
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	Just gotta choose the mood...
J() Alexander 09.25.18	You know, I'd try this, but honestly I can't even think of a "mood". Might as well make a playlist for fun, even if it doesn't make the cut.
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	How are we submitting this? Spotify playlist? YouTube? Just linking stuff?
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	I wanna do a competition soon, but I feel like I'm not well liked enough to garner up enough participants lol
J() Alexander 09.25.18	Just do it, man.
neekafat 09.25.18	I like u ars
Frippertronics 09.25.18	@Ars when butch, bgill, butch and uni and I did a thing last year, we did it via a Youtube playlist iirc
widowslaugh123 09.25.18	Ars I always thought you were sick just saying and I like your taste
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	Fuck it No instrumentals, i need no crutches! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHR78UZqJYCR9MA5vr7ydMFw6qFxi5d4W
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	Also thanks neeka and window haha
Frippertronics 09.25.18	Ars is quick to get his in I shouldn't slack this time
J() Alexander 09.25.18	How did he even made one so fast? I don't even have any decent ideas.
J() Alexander 09.25.18	Oh right, he does them all the time for fun, forget that I asked.
Frippertronics 09.25.18	going from the template we used last year, this nine piece soundtrack is a bit more loosely composed although with a consistent theme of regret, love and the suffering of others. "World" - meant as the mood setter, a urgent sense of melancholy dominates what is supposed to be introduction to our film, which is more of a cold open rather than being eased in with credits and the like. Our lead is out in the cold streets, breath hovering above in light puffs of steam, face red and cold to the touch. There is something amiss that we do not know of. "A Flower is Not a Flower" - whether our lead is wallowing in their sorrow or yearning for something more, we are unaware. A passion that overwhelms yet causes this person great distress. A wintry landscape outside the apartment window, snow gently falling beneath yellow-lit streetlights and faint boot tracks on the sidewalk. Our lead walks out the door and walks into the white streets and reflects on what was. "Modern Interior" - Our lead now wanders to a lonely theatre, slowly disused but still running. Black and white newsreels run, discomforting imagery of war and horror reign supreme. The warmth of the theatre is growing stronger. Our lead grows weary, wondering of the suffering of others in the world - why must they experience such pain, such atrocities, such unfathomable treatment. A sense of disgust prompts our lead to exit the theatre. "Wailing Wall" - This disgust deep inside the lead turns to self-pity, their thoughts constantly returning to people they once knew, whether they were better off or not than our lead was. Walking further and further, our lead approaches a dead end and can only stare blankly. Nowhere else to go, they turn back.
Frippertronics 09.25.18	"Cocktails" - Our lead, ever desperate, enters a smoky bar in an alleyway. Orders a drink. And two. Potentially three, then stopped. Something unintelligible is playing on the crackly phonogram in the backroom, the shellac disc having seen better days. The singer sounds like he had experienced a similar pain to which our lead may be experiencing currently. Our lead can only listen and ponder amidst the presence of strangers not listening and mildly inebriated. "Regrets" - Our lead approaches the docks and sits. This is where we finally reach the apex of their pitiful self-reflection, the culmination of what is bothering them. There is an intense regret inside this person, and redemption, to them, is not possible. Condemned to life of hopelessness and worthless dreams. "Love's Enough" - Part one of what is intended to be our lead's catharsis, the shedding of their former self. "Cross My Heart" - Part two, our lead reaches a conclusion. Unsure of their own ability to love another person, let alone themselves, they urgently try to convince themself of a better future, even if it doesn't turn out as expected. They don't know what awaits them. "It's Always You" - Our lead returns home, the lamp lit and the furniture left as it once was when they left that evening. A record sits on the armchair. Our lead picks it up and puts it on. And plays on. /end.
Frippertronics 09.25.18	hey sup I wrote a wildly incoherent guide to this concept, if some bits are a wee bit "theatrical" sounding (see: strings, arrangments, etc.) then...uh... that's how it's gonna be (you did ask for a soundtrack to a movie after all) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZelno4KxEGau33rXxvOg13OKL2o1v4VQ&disable_polymer=true
Papa Universe 09.25.18	One of these days, I'll make to the finale of something.
Frippertronics 09.25.18	until then, take pleasure in watching me fail spectacularly
Papa Universe 09.25.18	yay-ing, but in sorrow
butcherboy 09.25.18	going to start listening now, but it'll take me a few days to let it all settle.. hang onto your pantaloons..
butcherboy 09.25.18	oh, and Ars, since it's a playlist, i'm willing to take a few tunes i've heard before for mood cohesiveness, but i know six songs out of nine off yours.. PJ harvey, doors, tom waits, ccr all gotta goooooo!!! latter day soundgarden will not win you this tourney..
bgillesp 09.25.18	Bet these will be great. Makes ya nostalgic huh Fripp? Haha, I kid, but seriously if you did want to start back up w/ RR Papi and I would be down in a heartbeat
Frippertronics 09.25.18	I have been procrastinating hard with the one I have going rn, which I certainly do need to finish and will soon enough. I'd be open to reviving ours this fall when the time is right.
ArsMoriendi 09.25.18	Ugh I’ll try again later tonight
ArsMoriendi 09.26.18	Hold on.
ArsMoriendi 09.26.18	Act I: Creation "Teenage Lightning 2" The title card plays as we're taken to a network of wires and cogs. It zooms in at a lab for artificial intelligence. There, a wild eyed, but innocent scientist is putting together what look like a humanoid android. He's proud of his work, for the android is more realistic than any in the past. It may not pass the uncanny valley, but it's the closest humanity has gotten and he's excited. It speaks, it's elegant and kind and mimics human empathy perfectly. "Metal" Self awareness sets in as the robot, now named Adam, is raised by the scientist Dr. Joshua Godrick. He's taught about science, history, language, human psychology, all of the things that will help him integrate into society, and most importantly: about love. He is also told he must do his best to disguise his status as an android and that he'll need further modifications to look more human. "Electric to Me Turn" Adam is excited! Only 5 more days until he can interact with people outside of the laboratory! He wants to find friends, a love, and have first hand experience with those "dogs" his creator had mentioned. His curiosity is overwhelming.
ArsMoriendi 09.26.18	Act II: “Dogchild” Adam is finally out in the real world and he craves human connection. He soon discovers that strangers on the street aren’t as kind as Dr. Godrick or his colleagues; they’d rather keep to themselves. At least that one nasty woman’s puppy was friendly. He enters a jazz bar, knowing that bars are a place for social interaction, but he gets ignored when there. He feels a deep sense of loneliness and sulks. He exits the bar. “If I Had a Heart” He starts to feel inhuman and less interested in human connection, they don’t want him anyway! He was give the ability to utilize human senses f he wanted and he was incredibly curious about taste, so he enters an Italian restaurant. When there, he seems a woman also sulking, so he tries being social again and asks her what’s wrong. She was stood up and Adam shows compassion.They decide to have dinner together. Her name is Bethany. “Sparks” The date is going well and Adam isn’t like other men. He’s unselfish and intently listens to what she says. Bethany decides to open up to him and the dates goes well. Time lapses over months, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th dates are brushed past. Eventually they decide to get an apartment together. That was their first mistake… he has no public records as a human.
ArsMoriendi 09.26.18	Act III: The Great Escape "Strict Machine" He never told her he was an android, but now the government is out trying to find him and dismantle him and study him to make more in his image that will follow their orders. She decides to hide with him, run away with him. She doesn't care if he's an android, he's the best thing that ever happened to her! Better than all of the selfish humans. He cares about her more than himself! They're running and so far it's easier to escape than they thought. Adam can use his programming to find the easiest routes out of town, to steal a car, and maneuver it safely, but quickly! He's inhuman, but only in the good ways. This will be easy they both think. "Networking" All is going well with their escape until a radio broadcast announces that the government has kidnapped Dr. Godrick and are threatening to kill him if Adam doesn't give himself up. Adam's android heart is broken, Dr. Godrick isn't just his creator, he's his father. He needs to pull off a rescue and Bethany wants to help. Adam says he must do it alone since it's too dangerous of a mission for a an unarmed human. She reluctantly agrees and Adam breaks into the facility. He gets all the way to the holding room only to find it's a trap! But what, he's far stronger than the humans and has a backup system for his brain, these humans and their guns have no physical power over him, only emotional power! He breaks free and shields the Dr. as gunfire rains down upon him. One managed to hit the Dr. anyway in a fatal part of his body. "Go on live your life, don't worry about me, I already achieved my dream of creating life. I created you." "You and I" He escapes the facility and finds Bethany and they find a village in Ukraine with fake ID's Adam manufactured. Adam decides to be a carpenter and Bethany teaches chorus at another school. They adopt a baby boy and live happily ever after.
ArsMoriendi 09.26.18	Only 1 instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHR78UZqJYCTH7kgeP47nSQKp7DVxFMfT
butcherboy 09.26.18	results tomorrow, or the next day..
ArsMoriendi 09.28.18	Cool.
butcherboy 09.28.18	sorry, got busy.. tomorrow, promise..
Frippertronics 09.30.18	Cooler.
butcherboy 10.01.18	sorry, guys.. new job, getting into the groove of things.. it will get done when i'm home tonight (mostly because otherwise, i won't have time for a week)..
Frippertronics 10.02.18	tonight you
butcherboy 10.02.18	writing now..
Frippertronics 10.02.18	i am quivering in antici nice
butcherboy 10.02.18	and there we go..
Frippertronics 10.02.18	lord, you giveth and you taketh and by god, ars about done did me in
ArsMoriendi 10.02.18	Strict Machine is my least favorite of my choices too, I picked it because the lyrics worked too well for my theme though... oh well. Congrats Fripp. I might start a contest tomorrow even :D
Frippertronics 10.02.18	Have at it, my man. I may not do this next year because idk is it really fair to win three times in a row?
ArsMoriendi 10.02.18	I need incentive or an interesting theme though... All I've done before was the pitch contest, but that got tired the 2nd time I did it
Frippertronics 10.02.18	I still need to finish mine, which I just dropped for some reason. Should have it finished very soon, however. In a big music binging mood right now.
butcherboy 10.02.18	Ars, do it!! I want to play.. you tackled a much more difficult point of view than Fripp, and for the most part pulled it off in grand fashion.. it was good tourney, fellas..