Persistence of Memory

I listened to the Black Mages version of the Necron battle music (Grand Cross — FF IX) and... just didn't like it.

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I just finished watching a playthrough of Chrono Cross (I lent my game out and haven't seen it again), which led to adding more music to my playlist. I'd forgotten just how much I liked the music from Hydra Swamp, and especially 'Dragon God', which is an excellent boss battle theme. Mmm! Maybe I should try to double the length of it...? Maybe I should, since three minutes just isn't long enough. Sorta made me want to play the damn game again, actually, even though the battle system makes me uneasy.

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Okay, so I like this track a lot... but I'm not sure what the heck one of the instruments is (or is mimicking). Anyone care to guess?

It's found here, #332, The Extreme Deep. I think it sounds like something in the zither family...? I guess...it could be a steel guitar?

You know, the steel stringed thingie.

So, I've been writing walkthroughs for myself. You know, so I know exactly what prompts to pick, how to set up my armies, etc., without having to do the work from scratch every time, and correcting errors in the usual ones from a place like GameFAQs. And making maps! Whee! Maps that sit on the page and can be swapped around if there's more than one necessary for an area.

And duel prompt tables! It always bugged the heck out of me that people list the prompts by type, not alphabetically.

Anyway... I realized what people meant with glaring obviousness when they complained that Suikoden IV was a short game. I managed a mere two pages for that one (at around 100 inches per, not counting additional length when the prompt tables are expanded). Whereas, working on Suikoden V, I'm already mostly through page four, with a possibility of page five. (I felt like crying at having to go through another strategy battle so soon again, though, so I took a break before storming... Stormfist.)

I also added some additional tracks to my playlist from S5... some of them finally grew on me. Specifically: Godwin Family Castle, The Extreme Deep, Traces of the Sindar Civilization, and Wandering the Labyrinth.

So, yeah... got distracted again.... and again... so, whatever.

I have come to the conclusion that Gackt is like... the poster boy for the bishonen movement. Now, I only know who he is due to a song of his, Redemption, being used in FF VII - Dirge of Cerberus (see mostly crappy video at YouTube), because I love the song... and oddly enough, I only ever heard it because I was at YouTube watching the cutscenes from DoC because I don't have the game and have no intention of ever getting it. But I did want to see the story, so to speak. (And man, do those people use the word 'however' about eleventy-billion times!) Of course, having listened to a sampling at YouTube of other tracks of his, I can't say it's anything to write home about. *shrug* Some of the costumes are awfully nice, though. He must spend a fortune on them.

But back to being a bishonen poster boy... I was looking at photos of the dude (here) and half the time couldn't decide if he was male or female. That earring doesn't help. Naturally, I ganked a ton of the photos to my hard drive as reference material for some day in the future, when I feel inspired to, oh, draw something, and use some of those poses. Maybe. Dunno.

But don't worry, ladies! He's not gay!

Supposedly he was the inspiration (model?) for Cloud and Tidus. I think I can see why.