The Vineyards

Courtney mentioned two months have passed since the last post. I had no idea. I will write a quick post, then, just so no one can say I went for more than two months in silence. Perhaps later I will edit or remove this one and add a few backdated posts so future printed versions of the Vineyards do not have the big gap.

She also mentioned I sounded quite grumpy in that last one. Quite odd: when this is the only pinhole someone has to form an image at me, these images come out distorted. This would be something to ponder and write about, but it feels too much like a deadmemes subject, so I will leave it be. Suffices to say I am not grumpy in general, even if some posts here seem to point otherwise.

Now, let me start by saying

Stevie Wonder's "Superwoman",
Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and
Black Sabbath's "Changes"

are the worst songs ever.

It is not a matter of not liking the genre or the artists. I am not here saying "all hip hop should burn!" or "Britney Spears must die!" or anything like that. If I did that, it would be just personal taste. There are many bad songs in the world, I know this much is true. Most of them, however, are simply "bad". These three songs, however, are beyond bad, and they are bad beyond my own opinion. They fail in any area: the themes are explored poorly, the melody is uninspired, the lyrics are awful (Gaye's in special: "I'm horny, fix it"), and the sum of all parts comes out as extremely annoying (here Stevie wins, "Superwoman" stays in the head for weeks).

In face of Stevie Wonder's "Superwoman", Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and Black Sabbath's "Changes", everything made in the 80's ("I am a man who will fight for your hooo-nor"), every hypothetically virgin teen diva and every garage band in a coma copying Coldplay is redeemed and forgiven, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police being the exception.

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My innocent mention of that thing whose initials, in Portuguese, are "RPG" turned into more search results pointing here than Gregory Grey ever did. I feel cheated, but also extremely puzzled. I might go back and edit that post sometime to put Grey back in my top 10 search results. GPR is fine and good and I liked it a lot more than gym, but it does not deserve to hold 8 out of 10 search results in my stats.

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I gave up on Midgaard for the time being, because Asgaard needs more attention than it right now. Two out of three boots do not go past the first screen (after the remaining hard disk is detected); very often it shuts down on its own; it takes longer to move a file from E: to C: than it does to copy said file to Olympus (via a http server, because they refuse to acknowledge they are in a network at all, and fail to see even themselves in it, let alone each other); the video card is faulty, which gives everything a strange feeling of frame-skipping and prevents me from watching anime et al; even Firefox makes me wait some 20 seconds each time I decide to scroll a page more than ten lines down. Midgaard, therefore, will have to wait: even if I did manage to run a Ragarok Online server in it, I doubt Asgaard could take the client as it is. Little point.

Three topics, because I had to use the quote that follows the one from the previous post. I am done for now.

Posted by Etienne at May 12, 2005 06:35 PM