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[seventhe]

DUDE JAMES WE HAVE TOTALLY FIGURED OUT THE CHORDS TO DICK IN A BOX

THAT IS ALL


Chords:
Fm - Gm - Cm

Bass part:

Ab - F -- Bb - G -- C - [some fancy shit]

We think, anyway


P.S. FUCK YOU, FALL OUT BOY, FUCK YOU. WHY DID I THINK IT WOULD BE FUN TO PLAY THIS SONG. James (or random F-List), do you know the chords to the middle part? (The song in question is Thanks for the Memories, and that was probably the most embarassing thing I've ever written in this LJ.)

P.P.S. We can now successfully play "Hot in Here," "Thong Song," "It Wasn't Me," "No Diggity" (ONE CHORD GUYS) and "Gettin Jiggy With It" - I LOVE LIFE

Comments

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Hence why I just sit around and geek lots and wear costumes and make shinies and stick to writing what I do know. XD

I tend to agree there. As puffed up as we get about good fanfic, you can't hide the fact that a very large portion of it is just really badly written porn, self-insertion, and general wank.

It does tend to make me sad when franchises expand and it's at that level. But I've been surprised in the good way (for instance, I couldn't stand the Batman movies until Batman Begins came out, but then, it can be argued it went back to the comic book source more).

And I really think the only thing that separates "bad fanfic quality" and "good stuff" is intent. Like how it's obvious they're making movies from video games just for money, or the phenomenon that happened with the first Star Trek movie; they figured they could slap anything together and the fans would eat it up, thus starting the odd chain of the odd numbered movies having lots of suck (though I did like Star Trek V if only for the line "what would God want with a spaceship?").

So if the intent is money? Suck. If the intent is the love of the source, or wanting to write something good, it tends to be better. The best fanfic I've read toes the line between universality in theme and love of source material to produce something that could stand on its own.

I mean, I know someone that adding a description of the background to a story once submitted fanfic for a creative writing class and didn't get marked down (they also changed the names, hence the need for the background).

...I'm babbling. In the middle of writing a geeky essay, so, brain's fixated on certain things.

~Cendri

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Batman Begins has an issue with repeated attempts to create witty catchphrases, even at the expense of any logical sense. If you watch it a few times, you can spot it all over the place.

I can agree with you there. Anderson made NO attempt to hide that his primary goal in making Apocalypse was to hoist his own crap into the spotlight at the expense of anything Resident Evil. It's why he always had Jill acting like a bitch with a superiority complex that constantly needs to be rescued, mostly by Alice. Jill is widely viewed as the penultimate female icon of the series, so throughout the movie, Anderson was trying to get Alice to usurp that place in the minds of fans. The only thing they got right was the look, and even that's arguable. I feel bad for Sienna too, since some people blame her for the awful characterization of Jill forced on her by performance by the script.

The class might have been lenient too. In creative courses, they try to foster creativity and avoid 'punishing' people for something that isn't distinctly right or wrong. If it's bad grammar or saying it's daytime one place and nighttime in another, that might be cause for marking down, but outside that is murky territory.

I understand on being in the middle of writing something! I don't mind.