The Doctor, Daleks - and recording news
Well things have been hectic and things have been busy so I haven’t really had time to blog as much as I would like.
Lord what a hopeless geek I am – spent last night watching the first of the New Seasons of Doctor Who. It sped up the plots and just added some more visual flash without really losing the best part of the series - the good writing and a profoundly humanist world view.
There was a long 15 year break in the series so they decided to shake the Doctor Who Universe up a bit – The Time Lords are no more – Gallifray (god it’s appalling that I know that) their home planet is a burnt out cinder – destroyed in the last great time war between the Time Lords and The Doctor’s most famous and least human of foes – The Daleks (who were also wiped out – apparently).
As a side note there is a weird link between Doctor who and Battle star Galactia (at least the old series) Originally, as scripted, the Cylons were supposed to be some sort of , well disgusting, living creature housed in the Cylon body – censors nixed that idea and the cylons became robots.
Daleks are a mutated creature living in the armor that surrounds it – unlike the cybermen (oh god this is sooo geeky I can’t stand it) who are a bit more like the Borg than anything else.
Anyway of the three disks worth of shows I’ve watched my favorite remains Dalek – there is a huge sense of shared history in the scenes between the Dalek and the Doctor and a staggering sense of loss – and thanks to some more modern CGI effects we learned how Daleks climb stairs – and we were presented with the Dalek as fearsome killing machine – not some goofy machine that screams exterminate! Exterminate! In a massively distorted voice that remains pretty damn cool for my money.
There is a long essay on the Daleks and their odd attraction and their utter simplicity and how it relates to the current kill everybody who isn’t us mood in some of the more extreme elements of our body politic exhibit – and Rudy Giuliani who is pretty much running for president on a Dalek platform – the only thing he doesn’t do is yell “Exterminate!” a lot but give him time.
Anyway before I utterly geek out – I have to watch the rest of the series and see what they do – and get back to the studio Saturday – cause we need to mix down the last three songs we did – one doesn’t look to be much trouble but the other two (which includes Stacy which for us has been a utter pain every time we’ve recorded it – why I can’t say it’s such a bone simple song – some eccentric stops and starts but hell we’ve been singing the silly song for about two years now we should have it down yes?)
And feedback folks – how do you like the new stuff? Let us know – the band has worked very hard on this and some warm fuzziness would be appreciated.
Pics from the studio tomorrow for sure
Later
Peace, Love, Exterminate!
Lord what a hopeless geek I am – spent last night watching the first of the New Seasons of Doctor Who. It sped up the plots and just added some more visual flash without really losing the best part of the series - the good writing and a profoundly humanist world view.
There was a long 15 year break in the series so they decided to shake the Doctor Who Universe up a bit – The Time Lords are no more – Gallifray (god it’s appalling that I know that) their home planet is a burnt out cinder – destroyed in the last great time war between the Time Lords and The Doctor’s most famous and least human of foes – The Daleks (who were also wiped out – apparently).
As a side note there is a weird link between Doctor who and Battle star Galactia (at least the old series) Originally, as scripted, the Cylons were supposed to be some sort of , well disgusting, living creature housed in the Cylon body – censors nixed that idea and the cylons became robots.
Daleks are a mutated creature living in the armor that surrounds it – unlike the cybermen (oh god this is sooo geeky I can’t stand it) who are a bit more like the Borg than anything else.
Anyway of the three disks worth of shows I’ve watched my favorite remains Dalek – there is a huge sense of shared history in the scenes between the Dalek and the Doctor and a staggering sense of loss – and thanks to some more modern CGI effects we learned how Daleks climb stairs – and we were presented with the Dalek as fearsome killing machine – not some goofy machine that screams exterminate! Exterminate! In a massively distorted voice that remains pretty damn cool for my money.
There is a long essay on the Daleks and their odd attraction and their utter simplicity and how it relates to the current kill everybody who isn’t us mood in some of the more extreme elements of our body politic exhibit – and Rudy Giuliani who is pretty much running for president on a Dalek platform – the only thing he doesn’t do is yell “Exterminate!” a lot but give him time.
Anyway before I utterly geek out – I have to watch the rest of the series and see what they do – and get back to the studio Saturday – cause we need to mix down the last three songs we did – one doesn’t look to be much trouble but the other two (which includes Stacy which for us has been a utter pain every time we’ve recorded it – why I can’t say it’s such a bone simple song – some eccentric stops and starts but hell we’ve been singing the silly song for about two years now we should have it down yes?)
And feedback folks – how do you like the new stuff? Let us know – the band has worked very hard on this and some warm fuzziness would be appreciated.
Pics from the studio tomorrow for sure
Later
Peace, Love, Exterminate!
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