This week's Tune for Tuesday, "Super Mario Galaxy" by Brian Tyler, is in honor of a fantastic movie I saw earlier today. I liked the previous film a lot, but this? The Super Mario Galaxy movie is EVERYTHING a good sequel movie should be: carrying over and improving upon everything positive from the previous entry while still incorporating constructive criticism in a reasonable manner. The Mario Universe (and the Nintendo Multiverse as a whole) is wild, and with this film especially I got the sense that the folks who worked on it genuinely love the source material. I am STOKED to see what else they have in store for us fans!
This week's Tune for Tuesday, "PROVANT" by Hiroyuki Sawano, is an earworm I've had stuck in my head from watching the fantastic anime adaptation of Fate/strange Fake. The timing also feels rather fitting, considering strange Fake began as an April Fool's joke that the creators quickly realized was too good not to expand upon. And with every episode I watch, I am more and more grateful the premise was fleshed out to the extent that it was.
This week's Tune for Tuesday, "Supporting Me" as performed by Mordra, is a wicked cover of a certain boss theme that has shown up several times in a series near and dear to my heart. Also, as a friend of mine has pointed out to me, January 27 is also the Biolizard's birthday, so I figured it was about time. Hope you all enjoy it!
This week's Tune for Tuesday, "Friends on the Other Side" by Keith David, is easily one of my favorite villain songs. Felt fitting to share it this time around, given what holiday is coming in a few days.
This week's Tune for Tuesday, "Moebius Battle" by ACE, is one heck of a fitting piece for spooky month. It's a fantastically intimidating boss theme from one of my absolute favorite video games, excelling in in both gameplay and narrative: Xenoblade Chronicles 3!
This week's Tune for Tuesday, "Hotel California" by the Eagles, is one that I've been meaning to share for a while, and given we're about halfway through spooky month (and that it started playing while I was driving earlier today), I figured it was time. After all, this song (and possibly a lot of its themes) are known for drawing in unsuspecting targets, seducing them so thoroughly that they remain unaware they are trapped until it is far too late.
This week’s Tune for Tuesday, “Molasses to Rum” from 1776, was selected for a variety of reasons. As a holiday meant to celebrate the creation of a “free” nation approaches, too many have forgotten or choose to ignore that when the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, while the group who signed it did have many brilliant men among its members, the group as a whole consisted entirely of extremely flawed human beings and hypocrites. They knew this was sort of thing was wrong, even then, but either only cared about or chose to focus on the profits, making each and every one of them complicit. It makes me all the more inclined to believe that these hypocritical men really did regularly consult members of the Iroquois Confederacy instead of doing it entirely on their own.
Another reason is that in the country I unfortunately reside in, so few politicians have the stomach to not only stand up to the tyrants in charge, but to speak up at all in defense of the common citizens they’ve sworn to aide. Nearly 250 years have passed since the Declaration of Independence, but like in the song itself, when the unsavory truth is being shouted at the top of one’s lungs for all to hear, can these cocky politicians do anything more than desperately yet meekly plead for silence, regardless of what they claim to be their political leaning?
