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  1. Random artists off the top of my head... Morrissey - Let Me Kiss You Violent Femmes - Country Death Song The Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out The Dandy Warhols - As Cool As Kim Deal Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lbs
  2. Er...no. There is a globally recognised template for scripts and screenplays. Margins, fonts, font size, layout all has to be exact...
  3. Skummy

    Top 100 Albums.

    I think The Libertines second album was superior to Up The Bracket, and showed a more mature, better rounded sound, and much better production values, I think people just expected more of the same, and that wasn't what they got. Whereas Up The Bracket was altogether punkier, The Libertines beared more resemblance to a Las album than anything else, IMO.
  4. I was just about to complain that The Ninth Gate wasn't up there, when I noticed it in the second part. That angers me even moreso.
  5. Brian Wilson - Smile Not the masterpiece I was hoping for, but a decent enough album. It's kind of like compacting the entire Beach Boys back catalogue into one album. Improves with repeated listening. Joy Division - Best Of It's the best of a fucking great band, so obviously it's good. Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy Shit, but it was only £1.99 so I'm not complaining. And it pads out my Manics collection. Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic Wonderfully surreal, and more simplistic than later Lips stuff. Like a Syd Barrett for the 1990s. Manic Street Preachers - This Is Your Truth Now Tell Me Yours A little hit-and-miss, but it's got the sublime "Born A Girl" on there, which makes up for any of the bad stuff.
  6. Not true at all. One of the worst mistakes to make in a screenplay is to be overly descriptive. Just give the basics and stage directions, leave the detailed description for storyboards. A full-length screenplay will take a good hour or two to read, so it's best not to make it overly wordy. http://www.screenwriting.info is a fairly good website to start with, and if you've got the cash, I heartily suggest The Guerrila Film-maker's Handbook and The Guerrila Film-maker's Blueprint, which cover every part of the film-making process from screenplay-writing, storyboards, directing, filming, post-production, even catering.
  7. But that's the point! I don't really agree with this, but there's a couple (most notably The Wedding Present - Come Up And See Me and John Cale - Heartbreak Hotel) that I'm really glad, and somewhat surprised, to see up there.
  8. I suggest "Only Tools & Corpses" by Gorerotted. Heavy as hell, but with a healthy dose or irony too. Plus I know the drummer. They rock hard.
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    Music Stars

    I dunno if Jeff Buckley could've fitted into that mould, Springsteen and Dylan have just got something that Buckley didn't really have. I can't say what it is but I think Jeff Buckley was just destined to be another son of a folk singer like Rufus Wainwright is. ← I think Buckley could easily have been as big as Springsteen or Dylan in time, his voice was one of the best I've ever heard, he was a fantastic looking guy, incredibly charismatic and his song-writing may not have been the best, but was more than adequate and would have definitely improved in time. And although Tim Buckley has a bigger following now than Loudon Wainwright III, as far as I'm aware, I think Jeff could have easily risen out of his father's shadow moreso than Rufus Wainwright, as Jeff's style was further removed from Tim's than Rufus' is to Loudon's, and he looked more likely to expand in different musical directions. ← I can't really see the comaparison. Buckley was much too arty to be linked to Dylan and Springsteen. I'd compare him more to Nick Cave. But I prefer Cave by shitloads to Buckley, I find Buckley extremely grating. ← I'll agree that Buckley was incredibly arty, and therefore not as potentially arty as the likes of Dylan and Springsteen, but then Springsteen himself has always been, in my eyes, a frustrated folk artist at heart and the likes of "Born In The USA" really hurt his career, artistically, if doing the exact opposite financially. As for Dylan, he's beyond comparison, really. But the comparison I'm drawing isn't one based on musical similarities, it's purely contractual. Sony signs "heritage artists" based on their potential to do big business in the long-term, and Dylan and Springsteen were two such artists, and when they signed him, Buckley was supposed to be the same, hence the artistic freedom he was given over Grace and over the production of My Sweetheart The Drunk.
  10. I seem to remember finding a program similar to this a while back, but it being difficult to use, I don't know if this is the same thing or not... What exactly does this entail you having to do? EDIT: And I've been on the official website and everything, I just want to know if anyone here's tried using it, and how good they thought it was
  11. As far as I can remember, it was usually just a case of... Ash: What's that? Pokédex or new character: Oh, it's a <insert name and description of Pokémon here>
  12. Skummy

    Music Stars

    I dunno if Jeff Buckley could've fitted into that mould, Springsteen and Dylan have just got something that Buckley didn't really have. I can't say what it is but I think Jeff Buckley was just destined to be another son of a folk singer like Rufus Wainwright is. ← I think Buckley could easily have been as big as Springsteen or Dylan in time, his voice was one of the best I've ever heard, he was a fantastic looking guy, incredibly charismatic and his song-writing may not have been the best, but was more than adequate and would have definitely improved in time. And although Tim Buckley has a bigger following now than Loudon Wainwright III, as far as I'm aware, I think Jeff could have easily risen out of his father's shadow moreso than Rufus Wainwright, as Jeff's style was further removed from Tim's than Rufus' is to Loudon's, and he looked more likely to expand in different musical directions.
  13. Skummy

    Music Stars

    Jeff Buckley. Although judging by a lot of the unfinished tracks on "Sketches For...My Sweetheart The Drunk" he was about to disappear up his own arse, he still had more than enough potential to become a massive star, and even before he was signed, Sony saw him as the next "heritage artist" like Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen.
  14. I'm working on a series of photo-manipulations, based on the lyrics to "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths, and I wanted opinions on what I had so far... The first image...not a lot going on here, and intentionally so. The lyrics in question are a fairly innocent statement, and I feel the photo reflects that, a calm social environment, but blurred as if a dream sequence, perhaps? Fast-forward to the fourth image in the series, the second and third aren't done yet, and the image is slightly darker, slightly more cryptic in meaning... Basically I'm a commentwhore, so give me opinions, bitches
  15. I remember one of the scenarios on one of the expansion packs for RCT, where you were given an unlimited amount of money. I adored that scenario, and I'd play it constantly and try and build up a dream theme park. I always built up different themed areas, like a Space area and a Dinosaur area...
  16. Speaking of Audioslave's cover of White Riot, I heard that many moons ago on MTV2 and haven't been able to track it down since, but I thought it was superb, much better than some other covers of there's I've heard. Also, online band/music project Species 8472 covered Audioslave's "Shadow On The Sun" in a kind of Celtic folk style with absolutely gorgeous female vocals, it's amazing, and a cover I always forget about it until I hear it, and then I'm amazed every time by how good it is. Apparently the woman they got to sing on the track had never heard the original version, either, she just sang it from the sheet music.
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    Love songs?

    I agree wholeheartedly. Not just the chorus, but the whole thing is poetic genius, it's just that many of the verses are overlooked due to the sheer captivation of the chorus, which is entirely unique and so amazingly powerful. Also, I'd like to throw in All My Love, All My Kisses by Buddy Holly as a great love song.
  18. Skummy

    Core

    It tells you what album each song is off on SmackDown Vs. RAW :thumbsup: You get a little scrollbar thingy on the Menu screens saying the name of the artist, the song and the album. It might be just during Season, it might be on every menu, I can't remember.
  19. Skummy

    Clever BBC

    No, they didn't send one to Queen. Read the article, it says that their Queen documentary was a success so they're commissioning a lot of similar ones. Chances are they had a template for the letters they were sending out and forgot to edit the Bob Marley one.
  20. Skummy

    Love songs?

    *worships* I heartily endorse this suggestion :thumbsup:
  21. Skummy

    Transformers

    Why does Megatron bother transforming anyway? He turns into a gun, when he already has a gun available to him prior to transforming...
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    Transformers

    From what I've been led to believe, it's part of their genetic code to scan the area for the most dominant lifeform, and then to develop the ability to transform into that lifeform in order to blend in to the environment. When they crash-landed on Earth, their sensors came to the conclusion that vehicles and machinery were the dominant lifeform, partly due to their abundance, and partly due to the Transformers' own robotic genetic make-up, thanks to them coming from a robotic planet. Or something along those lines.
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    RPG Maker 2003

    The game isn't freeware, it was commercially released in Japan and translated into English, then put up for free download on the Internet.
  24. Rock Manager. Okay, it's fairly shite, but it's fun for about two days.
  25. To add a cover version that isn't exactly brilliant, but is an interesting take on the original, I suggest Scissor Sisters' version of Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand, or Will Young's version of Hey Ya by Outkast...
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