Amateur Filmmaker, Author, Cartoonist, Musician and defictionalizer (Finding truth in fiction), mostly here to promote my music to indie developers that need it.
Some people fear certain songs for certain reasons. Such as idiots that think death metal is the cause of massacres. However there are also songs, that actually genuinely scare people. Some for reasons that they can't really explain, while others depending on the theme they were going by, hit close to home for people.
I myself am no exception. There are songs I simply can't listen to because they genuinely scare the crap out of me. Songs I will not say, because I will take that to my grave, but you're welcome to guess.
However as time goes by I come across songs that others are genuinely scared of, yet don't affect me in the slightest. Here are a few.
The first Lavander Town from Pokemon Red and Blue:
When one listens to this song, all they can feel is pure dread. Not just because of the scary haunting music, but the overall depressing theme it's conveying. Which makes sense. Lavender Town to many kids growing up in the 90s and 2000s, was the first time we were ever exposed to genuine death in a video game. Now dying in a video game is no big deal, as most of the time, it's the character getting knocked out or turning into an item or leaving. Nothing that would scare or traumatize any kids playing it. Said game companies even dabbled with how far they could go in killing off a character with either not killing them at all or killing them in such an over the top way, that no one is bothered by the fact they're dead. Some like Friday the 13th just cuts the bullshit and says you and your friends are dead. Pokemon however, up until this point has been pretty up beat. Just a kid collecting strange animals and fighting other kids with animals, in a relatively harmless way. That is until you face off against your rival in your 4th battle. For Red fans, your rival being Blue and vice versa. During which despite what you do, you end up critically injuring his Raticate. You meet him later at Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town. The place where all the Pokemon that passed, are buried and their trainers attend to pay their respects. He says. "Hey, Red! What brings you here? Your Pokémon don’t look dead! I can at least make them faint! Let’s go pal!" While it's been widely debated, it implies that you killed his Raticate and he's out for blood. So on top of the dreadful music and your grieving rival out to get you, this music should be scary. Right? Surprisingly this one doesn't scare me. It's Pokemon Tower Theme on the other hand does. If anything, it just makes me feel sad. Yet I enjoy the song none the less.
The second Mu Training from Earthbound:
Now Earthbound has a lot of tracks, that range from classic rock, blues, trippy, to even piss your pants scary music. However while many cite Giygas' Theme as the scariest, which I agree with, this theme has been known to scare people just as badly. For context, you are just introduced to your fourth party character Poo. A monk who is tasked with helping Ness, Paula and Jeff to fight Giygas. However before he could teleport to their location, he was tasked with completing his Mu training. In which he meditates until he finds himself in a certain state of mind. Where he meets an ancestral spirit who does horrible things to him. Such as breaking his arms and legs, taking out his eyes and ears and finally consuming his mind. Now to an outsider that doesn't know shit about spirituality, meditation or the concept of Mu, this would scare them shitless. However, for some reason, I feel an eerie calm and peace that comes from this. Mu, is derived from the Japanese term of the same name. Meaning nothingness. Specifically basing off the idea that nothing happens after death, that we just rot as we can't see or hear or feel anything. That alone could scare people. Yet some sees the nothingness as the ultimate peace and quiet. The solitude one seeks, after a lifetime of misery. Maybe that's why it doesn't scare me.
Then we have the last, but certainly not the least one. The Drowning Music from Sonic The Hedgehog:
If you grew up between the early 90s to the near late 2010s, you'd heard one variation of this song or another. I first heard it, through the second game of the series. Sonic The Hedgehog 2, which introduced Tails. At the time, I had no idea the bubbles underwater were meant to keep the little blue blur breathing. I thought they were merely background decoration. So naturally the song and me dying afterwards, took me by surprise. However while others have been known to fear this song so much, that some even have a specific brand of PTSD based on it, this song never scared me in the slightest. If anything I'd drown Sonic a million times just to hear it again. I think if someone was really good at remixing it, it'd make a hell of a beat to be honest.
So what kind of songs do you like that others find scary? Let me know.
I guess Putin's wife wasn't enough to satisfy the Russian Army. Since some of them took it upon themselves to rape female Ukraine civilians.
Now before I gave this army leeway because like every other military force some soldiers volunteer while others have no choice. That leeway is over and I'll tell you why. Whether you choose to join the army or whether you're drafted, you hold yourself and your fellow soldiers accountable, for every action one or a bunch do. I other words even if you yourself, aren't the rapists, you saw what they did. You knew what they did and you neither spoke up against them or physically tried to stop them. Ergo, you deserve to be castrated as painfully as humanly possible. One small piece at a time. These aren't the actions of soldiers fighting for a cause only they believe in. These are the actions of criminals who use politics to justify their sick urges. Is that what you fucks get off on? The murder of innocent people and the rape of who's left?
You're fucked. You are so fucked that words cannot describe.
For those in the group that still have religious beliefs. You are going straight to Hell. Or your equivalent to it.
For those that don't. One or more of your victims will eventually set you on fire. Eat shit and die you pathetic excuse for a military.
Do you know what this means? Ladies? Gentlemen? That Technicolor Rainbow in Between? That Russia, more specifically the Russian Government is officially FUBAR. Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Since Russia is no longer a member of the Human Right's Council, they are stripped of the benefits and privileges that come with the territory. More specifically, it means that any protection and power, the UN would have provided them in the past, which has let the country as a whole get away with a lot of shit since the Start of The Cold War, is no more. It means the more rational part of the world has turned their backs on him. More specifically, it means open season. To put it plainly, if Putin doesn't stop this war now, then the world is obligated to end him and ANYONE that supports his regime.
Needless to say, I nearly fainted. If there was any sort of proof that some deity out there exists then this is it.
Putin, you really fucked up this time and in the words of Timberland "Too Late To Apologize"
In celebration of this I made a little gif:
Much of why I had him thrown out Jazz style was because I wanted to mix two of the most hot button topics ever, this conflict and Will Slapping Chris rock. Mainly because I think I may have inadvertently predicted this would happen. With that stuff slowly overshadowing the Conflict, my urgent bulletin, telling people to contact the UN. So I thought it'd be appropriate for them to get mixed in light of this.
Also come on, who wouldn't want old Dickless Vlady getting yeeted.
The only regret is that it took this long for them to do it.
That said, while it may not seem much in the long run, if his spies are his arms, then his ambassador's seat on the council, was his balls. If he had any to begin with. Point being, is that we dealt a major blow to that son of a bitch faster than his wife gets off on a Russian Soldier.
Hopefully we as a world can cut off other parts. Until his head (Office), remains.
Over the years. Like every human being that grew up in both the 20th and 21st century, I have watched a lot of animated stuff.
Like many cartoons we all watched I got my start on comedy cartoons that had dark humor violence and politically incorrect jokes. However, be it comic, manga, cartoon or anime, there is always something that catches our eyes. Things that often cannot happen in real life we just wish could happen. Like pulling large weapons out of small pockets, instant unzip disguises or violating the laws of physics by running through paintings of scenery. Myself, I love this moment so much I wish it could happen in real life. From old cartoons like Looney Tunes to modern cartoon comedies like Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, my favorite cartoon moments are what I like to call "Unnatural Rain". Where things other than rain, snow or hail fall from the sky. Money, food, treasure. You name it. Grantef even if it did happen it would cause a lot of accidents, but it'd be worth seeing let alone collecting it's spoils.
What cartoon thing do you wish could happen for real?
One thing I noticed in Death Note is, whenever Light loses his temper he's always yelling in his room. I'm surprised neither his mom, dad or sister overheard him.
The short end of it, was that Poland kicked out 45 Russian Spies disguised as Diplomats. While I should have been happy, I was worried, that there could be more in the countries surrounding Ukraine as well as in Ukraine. Including but not limited to the countries formerly of the Soviet Union.
Now before I say more, I have to admit. I know next to nothing about Politics, everything I see, rant or get pissed at are based on the eyes and ears of a person who simply tells it like I see and hear it. So needless to say, I had no idea regarding the rules of Diplomatic Immunity.
With that said, I just saw on a headline bulletin of CP24 that not only was I right, but there were some in Countries I should have expected but didn't.
Just recently Today 4 countries have kicked out "Diplomats".
First the Netherlands. They kicked out 17. There were 75 in total, so there's still 58 to go. Not much but a start.
Second Ireland. 4 Got kicked out.
Third Belgium. 21 Got kicked out.
And fourth, The Czech Republic. Just kicked out 1.
That is at least 43 Russian "Diplomats" that we know of, almost 2 shy away of the 45 in Poland. Add them together and you have 88 Russian Spies all over Europe that got kicked. Maybe more soon if the Dutch Government deals with the remaining 58. 146 People in total so far. That's literally enough for a small army if all banded together. I feared they were gonna pull some kind of Blitzkrieg, but I never thought they'd go as far as the UK. It's a good thing everyone caught them when they did. So on top of spying on Ukraine from the outside, they were staring at everyone else. Probably to exploit some weaknesses or get some intel on the countries that would go against them. Even worst so far the one who has the lowest score of expelled "Diplomats" was a former Soviet Country. So needless to say odds are not only could there be other "Diplomats" in that country, but also the surrounding countries as I said before.
As said before I advise all citizens of your respective countries to speak up to your governments and barring that the UN. Just recently even the UN is getting sick of Putin's shit. Just recently they started isolating Russia out of their meetings. So needless to say, all bets are off. Keep the fight going. Let people know you won't be satisfied until all these spies are off your land and this conflict ends once and for all. With the World's boot planted firmly up Putin's ass.
As for you Putin. You lost an arm when they found your thugs. You'll be losing more limbs when the world finally brings them down. If they're is anything resembling dick or a set of balls down there, which I certainly doubt there is, it will be cut off too. I told you. I told you, that people weren't gonna stand for your shit any longer. That the world is gonna slowly close on on you. You should have listened. How many more of your guys gonna get thrown into the wolves before you realize you should stop and surrender?
Also to my more North American Friends and Fans, I suggest you get in on this too. If they've gone as far as the UK, it's safe to say we have spies in Canada and the US. Call your local government, let them know how upset you are at this and get all these bastards out.
I thought I'd talk about a topic aside from the current conflict. Mainly because with the way things are going I fear this little thing may overshadow it, due to humanity's urge to gawk at celebs at their perceived lowest.
First a little context. One of my favourite events to watch even if I miss episodes sometimes, is the Oscars. Not just to see who won, nor just because of their unique openings per host. But mainly due to the surprise events that often throw people off guard. My personal faves being the following:
Sacheen Littlefeather, a native american actress, who got infamy for attending the 1973 Oscars. Godfather won Best Actor with Marlon Brando's role as the iconic Don Vito "Vito Corleone" Andolini. She went in Brando's place to reject the Oscar, because at the time Brando was protesting against the way Natives were portrayed in Hollywood movies:
The Academy, the same one that claims to be tolerant now, booed her off stage.
The next is Hugh Jackman's 2009 Oscar Opening. In it he pokes fun at himself, the movies at the time, but more spectacularly how expensive Oscar Openings can be. So in one of the few times you see a rich actor go cheap, he created an opening made of Cardboard, other junk and dancers he hired from Craigslist:
Needless to say, it was considered one of the best Oscar Openings of all time.
The third fave is the 2013 Oscar Opening hosted by Seth MacFarlane. Now this one took a lot of flack, for the wrong damn reasons. People seem to forget that regardless of how in poor taste the jokes are, the Oscar Openings are always staged. Meaning if anyone was reacting badly during a skit, it was because they were in on the joke. None so blatant however is this opening. In it, the premise is that Seth is about to do an opening number, based around his usual humour and love of musical numbers ala Family Guy. William Shatner as Captain Kirk travels back in time and tells him exactly how he's gonna screw it up, so he changes his tune for each time. My personal favourite of the opening being the "We saw your boobs." number. As it was meant to be an affectionate "Take That" to every Oscar Winning Actress whom has shown frontal nudity in their films. This was before the Weinstein thing happened, so needless to say nude jokes were still funny then:
Needless to say, it was considered so bad that the Oscars don't even have it on their Youtube Channel.
However my new personal favourite moment right now is the incident that happened recently in the 2022 Oscars. Two events stuck out for me.
The first was that then host Amy Schumer was planning on getting the Prime Minister of Ukraine to attend the Oscars via sattelite in an effort to get Hollywood on the ball in showing their support. Now this is a good idea on paper, however I'm glad it fell through and I'll tell you why. Holllywood has made a lot of great work for over the past 2 centuries. However, what many try to deny even to this day is that it's a Soulless Industry that doesn't care who they capitalized on. As good as Schumer's intentions were for it and as passionate as Sean Penn is in vowing to smelt his Oscars over it, you two would have been very guilty of Glamourizing the war for nothing more than money, fame and an increase on your social points and you should be ashamed of yourselves for doing that. This isn't a fucking spectacle where you choose who wins in a category, it's a fucking real war, with real people all fucking dying and I'm sorry, but you all would have blown it and Ukraine would have suffered endlessly for it because you'd be sending the message to America and the world, that the conflict shouldn't be taken so seriously. So fuck you for trying.
The second as I said before is less important compared to this, but due to the human race valuing gawking at celebs than paying attention to the what's really happening to the human race and this eventually going to overshadow said conflict if we're not careful enough, I am gonna put my two cents on this in hopes it puts this to bed.
Chris Rock, whom hosted the Oscars in 2016, once again is invited, but this time to present the award for Best Documentary Feature. Like many comedians that are tasked with presenting, Rock can't help but tell a joke or two. In this case it was at the expense of the baldness of Jada Pinkett Smith. Nicknaming her "G.I. Jane 2" to boot. Jada suffers from a condition called alopecia. In layman's terms it's a condition that involves hair loss. So needless to say the joke was in poor taste. So when I saw Will Smith walk up there and slap Rock square in the face telling him "Leave my wife's name out of your fucking mouth." I cheered. The rest of the world doesn't seem to think so. The Academy, fellow attendees and previous as well as many many net bots out here, condemned Smith's actions. Claiming he should be able to take a joke. The Academy even stated that they will start an internal review on the matter. Will just around that time, won Best Actor for his performance as Richard Williams in King Richard. Famed Tennis star and father of Venus and Serena Williams. This was his first ever Oscar, something he literally spent his whole life trying to do. Needless to say I think he's earned it, but if the Academy can see fit to it, they can take that Oscar right out of his hands if they wanted to should the review be against him.
Most of you may go against me for this, but I think Smith had every right to slap the ever loving shit out of Chris Rock.
First of all let me go on record and say I have nothing against Chris Rock as a comedian or an actor. And this guy has told his fair share of politically incorrect jokes from the 90s to now. Including but not limited to Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism. You name it he's covered them all. That is not the issue here.
Second of all, before anyone says it. I am well aware of the alleged marital problems between Will and Jada. That too is also irrelevant and I'll tell you why. Unless criminal behaviour and domestic abuse is at play to the point where the cops are called, a person's marriage and marital problems are their own business. I don't give a fuck if you're a celeb or some average Joe. It's not anyone's business and nor should it be used to condemn Will for his actions for it has nothing and I mean NOTHING to do with it. That it not the issue here.
The main issue here is why Will did what he did and why anyone that's condeming him even on this site, should owe him a fucking apology.
The first thing people are gonna point out is that before Will slapped Chris, he laughed at the joke too. However if you look closely, you'd see Jada's hurt expression. Needless to say until he walked up, he didn't see her face until after his laugh, realized the joke may have really hurt her and did what he had to do to make her feel better. One of the main issues of marriage is the big question "Does he/she still love me?" Which is often the key to a lasting love or a messy divorce. If this event doesn't show that in spite of what they went through together, that Will loves his wife, then I don't know what is.
Then you have Chris Rock's side of things. People don't think he did anything wrong. Now if this was the first time he went after Jada I would have agreed. When he was hosting the 2016 Oscars, he started cracking jokes about Jada skipping the ceremony among most things. This was around the time Jada boycotted the Oscars for not having enough POC actors, actresses and filmmakers getting as much a chance of winning as white filmmakers. I'm not gonna open that can of worms, but the point of the matter is, Rock made fun of her more than once. I always thought between those moments, be it by Jada or Will or god forbid even Jaden Smith, Rock was warned not to do it again. It wasn't until I stumbled upon People Magizine's Online Article recapping the events that I was right:
Timing. The right timing of Jokes, is often the key to a laugh or getting booed off the stage.
Good Spirits. Even in your darkest jokes as long as their in good fun everyone should laugh.
Most importantly. It's all fun and games unless someone gets hurt.
Chris Rock broke all three of those rules. The Joke he told was improperly timed, due to Jada recently talking about her condition. The joke was not in good spirits, because Rock told it in resentment of her boycotting the Oscars one moment and showing up in this moment. Many comedians like to point out what they view as hypocrisy. In this case he's basically low-keyed called her a hypocrite for not showing up when he was hosting, yet showing up when Will may win. Lastly, she probably was still very raw when she found out about her condition so needless to say, had she had some time to mentally and emotionally recover from it, she'd probably take the joke in good humour. However, needless to say, Chris should have known better than to cross that line especially considering that he's basically insulting the wife of a guy whom he worked with on Fresh Prince. Up until then I thought those two were friends. It was at that moment in my eyes he stopped being a comedian and started being a bully and well deserving of that slap.
To make things worse, Will was forced to apologize for the event. Will? Don't apologize. Unlike most of the times you get blamed for everything in Bel Air, for once, this was not your fault. You did the right thing. The only wrong thing about this, is that, like many celeb controvery it forces real world problems to take a back seat? Don't believe me?
Look at all the youtube comments of people condemning Will, be it on the slap or on his other videos. Especially the ones that are on Smith's personal Youtube Channel. Some of them claim he ruined their childhoods, by doing that. Dude, my childhood image of him got shattered when I heard him dropping F-bombs in the first Bad Boy's movie. Big fucking deal. Others have claimed he needs to take psycho-therapy. For slapping a guy? Jesus Christ, if it were that easy I'd slap everyone I know just to get on psycho pension if it ever existed in Canada that is. Then there are others that boast that they would have taken it better than he and Jada. Bullfuckingshit. The only reason you take that joke well is that it's not directed at you. Contrary to popular belief, I can take a joke even if it's personally directed at me, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna ignore it if it hurts me or ignore the fact that said joke could hurt someone else. If Chris Rock started insulting your own vulnerabilities and shortcomings, you'd all be up and arms lynching him like fucking Klan members. Ya that's right I said it. As opposed to your digital lynch mob of Smith. Fucking Chicken hawks. Let's see someone insult you, your loved ones and see how long you last without wanting to slap someone. Spoilers. Less than a second.
However the worst one was these comments I've stumbled upon:
I didn't blur out their names because I want people to know who theses scumbags are. These are two of many comments plastered on Will's page right now. Comparing him to Vladimir Putin. No even, more fucked up. Saying he's worse than Putin.
If there was another example of how fucked up, stupid and deserving of death the human race has as a whole, look no further than these comments, because the new hip thing on the internet now is to condemn people for crimes that are grossly minor compared to the real crimes happening out in the world. And you think I'm bullshitting when I said this will overshadow the conflict. These two here are already laying the ground work for that by saying Putin's crimes, including ordering the slaughtering of civilians, men women and FUCKING CHILDREN!!!!, is not as bad as Will Smith slapping a guy for insulting his wife. To them and anyone that agrees with that bullshit, FUCK ALL OF YOU!!!
It's literally been two days since this happened and people are still using it to take priority over what's important. I'm here to say, don't. Celebrity drama of any kind, regardless of my two cents of the matter should never take priority over the suffering and dying of actual people. Turn the TV off, swipe the page away and get some fucking work done to improve your lives and the lives of others.
