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Ralph Ineson was a superb casting choice for Cid in Final Fantasy XVI. He’s also a regular in Eggers’s films, appearing in Nosferatu, The Northman, and The Witch. An incredibly sonorous voice. He’s a standout in a game of great performances, giving Cid immense gravitas

@_7homas777 I like his early stuff with Misfits. Horror Business, Astro Zombies, etc.

DANZIG kinda suckks - SAMHAIN is great; but the Rick Rubin produced stuff just sounds like AC/DC with some generic White bluesman laying down vocals. DANZIG isn't COOL either - he's got a horseshit 'rock star' attitude and he got the style of a total GOON. Last time I saw dude play was like 20 years back in Milwaukee. He was threatening to NOT play the set because people were SMOKING. That's some punk bitch shit right there. I'm NOT some big heavy metal guy or whatever. I like ELVIS, JOHNNY THUNDERS, HANOI ROCKS, PRIEST - shit like that. And of course SKREWDRIVER, SKULLHEAD, BFG and all the classic RAC bands. But that's road music and my daily travel jams. At HOME its Classical music. MY themesong is ORGASMATRON - by the GOAT, MOTORHEAD. Danke - for the montage.

Final Fantasy X - Suteki Da Ne (Isn't It Wonderful?) Composer: Nobuo Uematsu Arranger: Shiro Hamaguchi Vocals: RIKKI

Mutsumi Inomata, Tales of Destiny

@froidglaciale Thank you. And yes, 2channel I’d say has more immediate relevance to the just the film rather than the anime. The forum style with anonymous spectators flooding the protagonists with messages reminds me heavily of the ending of the first half of the film

Digimon is particularly fascinating because it shows the Japanese optimism towards the internet and technology as a whole. A lot of Western cyberpunk portray digital worlds as a kind of cold simulation or prison. Japanese made it into an ecosystem with kawaii creatures

The Japanese have retained much of their animism, breathing life into everything accompanied by all sorts of rituals and festivals. The internet presented in Digimon is computer programs given life and going to war against viruses at the behest of children. It’s very Japanese

The Digimon film comes from the brief period in time when receiving thousands of messages from strangers could still be imagined chiefly as evidence that the whole world was watching and wanted you to succeed. It’s very Japanese

-“active nihilists,” he obviously is not claiming that they possessed Nietzsche’s vocabulary or had secretly read The Will to Power. He is applying a later concept retrospectively. You can argue whether the examples fit, but their unfamiliarity with Nietzsche is not itself an-

-Mishima’s need to “nationalize” Nietzsche, present his thoughts through a Japanese lens through which he labels historical Japanese figures. “They could not have known this themselves” is a rather cheap objection by Starrs. When Mishima calls historical Japanese figures-

Happy 25th Anniversary to Final Fantasy X 💙

Final Fantasy X released 25 years ago today on July 19, 2001! #FF10

From the same album, another standout would be Karmic Mandala. The Glassian repetition that’s become a staple of his work gives the song a circular, meditative quality. I’m enraptured by this melody

More recently Glass has worked with Tibetan singer Tenzen Choegyal. One of the standouts of their collaborative album I found to be Snowy Mountains. Once again, Glass returns to the Tibetan spiritual world

Philip Glass - Mishima/Closing I’d put Glass very highly in terms of modern composers. Director Weir had been using existing scores from this film as temporary tracks while editing The Truman Show. He became so attached to this song that it was included in the film