CONTORTED PASTA

It's a separate album, called Le Phare ... there are a couple songs on it that ended up being used for Amelie ('La dispute' and 'La noyee' and at least one other) but the rest is brand new (to me) Tiersen goodness! He's done a few albums, actually ... I have to pace myself so I can savour each one. : )

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fani.livejournal.com

Yay?Lol, I haven't read Monstrous Regiment

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SO MUCH LOVE for 'Going Postal'. I can't wait for 'Making Money'. If it comes out on a weekday, I'm actually going to take a day off work to get it, THAT'S how lame and obsessed I am. 8D ;)

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Making Mo... is that the title of the new one?? :D

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Yep! Which leaves it pretty easy to work out what the basis of the plot might be. I think a certain ex(?)-con-artist is going to be put in charge of a certain mint... :D

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I don't often use the copout capitals but ... OMG.

Moist is such a great character that it'd be a shame not to use him again, but the post office, the clacks, and the mint? Maybe it'll be someone new who also believes in angels. And not freedom of choice. : )

GLEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

I'm never going to get to sleep NOW...

GLEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[insane cackling]

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*giggles* That was my reaction too. I'm STILL geeking out over here. 8D Some people've been saying they think it's a shame Pratchett's books have started to veer away from his old classic characters, but hey, if he's creating NEW classic characters, I'm sure as heck not complaining. Maybe this is the start of a new subseries that'll someday stand up besides the Witches, Night Watch, Wizards and Death series.

Character development HOOOOO! Allow me to flail gleefully to the tune of your insane cackling. XD

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Mucho love of character development!! So awesome! And not at the expense of plot! At the PROFIT of plot! YAY plot and characters working in cosmic harmony!

I love it when writers write well.

OH SO HAPPEYY!

We can flail about in geekish glee together (...on opposite sides of the Atlantic...)!

[flail]

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Yeah, yeah - keep it DOWN, you two (or however many you are - you sound like a bunch of monkeys!) - SOME of us are still trying to get some WORK done (like, a billion gagillion cleanups - on the cintique - in photoshop - by Monday! Not that I'm at all bitter, mind you). :)

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You have a Cintique?? OK, any sympathy I had for you just went -right- out the window. Dude, I'm still inking a friggin' webcomic on a Wacom that connects via a serial port. *fistshake* ;)

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Yes, yes I do, compliments of the company,and I have gotten this baffled expression of, "what are YOU complaining about?" before. Don't get me wrong, I know it's a very expensive piece of equipment that can do some amazing things (great to watch DVD's on, too!), but I do have some "issues", although they may not be a problem for anyone else:
-The display is nice and big, but not quite as crisp or color-accuate as a regular monitor
-It's very big, heavy, and cumbersome - to really take advantage of the "spinning" base, you need a pretty big, clear space on your desk, and I have two desks, neither one the right size or height to use it properly (the worst was when I tried it on my animation desk - I was cramping up my back and my legs to achieve the right posture to use it - ugh! A tablet, on the other hand, can fit comfortably on your lap, be turned any which way, AND you have the advantage of not having your pen or your hand obstructing your view of your work, which can be a problem with fine details, or when you're clicking on small type (I tend to hit the wrong stuff a lot).
But the number one problem I have with the thing (and, more specifically, with Photoshop and Iview) is that for a few months I HAD to use them to produce my storyboards, under a lot of pressure and tight deadlines. Now, there are people here (you may be one of them) who would have no problem with that - they love drawing this way, they got used to it quickly, and would never go back. For ME to do continuity boards on the computer from start to finish was pure agony and frustration - I worked at a fraction of the speed I'm used to, my drawings were stiff, overworked, poorly staged, and I had tremendous problems with "flipping" the drawings so they flowed together properly. I'm accustomed to working very quick and dirty, needing only a pad of paper, a marker, and maybe a pencil to be as rough or as detailed as I wanted, making changes on the fly anywhere and being able to show them to people without finding and opening a file, waiting for the scene to boot up, dealing with network problems, power outtages, memory issues, corrupted files (despite all of the backups and safety precautions, we've had weeks' worth of work vanish in the blink of an eye whenever two people accidentaly tried to view the same scene at the same time!), etc.,etc. All of the bells and whistles that actually come in handy when I'm cleaning up a sequence, or making adjustments, are a nuisance at best when I'm just trying to rough out a sequence quickly. To compensate for the loss of productivity and quality in my work, I was literally living at work for weeks on end, barely sleeping, and getting no compensation for the overtime because my show didn't hav it in the budget. Those months represents an absolute low point in my life, not to mentin my work. There are several of us here who, after killing ourselves trying to learn this AND meet our deadlines have given up on generating artwork (from scratch) on the cintique, and have gone back to paper (primarily), and luckily the studio is supporting us in this. The reason I'm back on the cintique now is I have to go in and make changes to the awful sequence I started on the cintique previously, and after a few months of wonderful freedom, it is painful to go back again! Eventually, I do hope to get more comfortable with it (perhaps Disney will allow us to use better software for storyboarding, too, someday), especially if I have some downtime to experiment with, but as long as I have tight deadlines to keep, it is a heavy stone around my neck, dragging me down...! (yeah, I know, you STILL don't feel sorry for me, but I'm being totally honest here!)

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fani.livejournal.com

YAAAAYEEYYYY.

When does Making Money come out though?

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Probably in the fall, as has seemed to be the trend for the last however-many years. Taking advantage of the Christmas season.

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Okay, okay. I love...love...LOVE your icon. Now it hurts because I didn't think it up.

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Neither did I, I just jumped on someone else's bandwagon. ;) Try signing up to

userpics, it'll either ease or increase the pain depending on your perspective. Sometimes there's so much Awesome posted there, it hurts my retinas. :D

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I really love that Amelie soundtrack, too - very haunting melodies that stayed with me long after the film. I also need to track down more of his work.

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Wheeee, I've been looking forwards to seing you M.R. project!

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azvolrien.livejournal.com

Just because 'la noyee' doesn't have a banjo in it desn't mean you cannot in theory play it on a banjo.

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poisonedwriter.livejournal.com

If you love Yann Tiersen (I adore the Amélie soundtrack), I also highly recommend looking into the Triplettes of Belleville, composed by Benoît Charest. They're just as charming. Don't we all just love French music? ^_^

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Actually, Benoit Charest is Canadian. :) I like that soundtrack (and movie) but I find it a bit too jazzy for my taste, at least to listen to on a regular basis. Its main song SO should have won Best Song at the Oscars ... stupid RotK beat out everything that should have won.

[raises tomato shield]

French music does rule, though. I much prefer the musical selection on Radio-Canada than the CBC.

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I do agree with you on RotK. Thank God they weren't nominated in any of the acting categories and made way for at least some talent acknowledgement.

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Yesss, an ally!

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Don't get me wrong - I really, really liked "Return of the King" (and all three of the movies, although this might not have been the strongest of them) - but I TOTALLY agree with you about that category (and sweeping others that it didn't deserve - but I blame the idiot academy members, who always pull this kind of crap, like belatedly overcompensating for shafting an actor, director or deserving film in the past) - especially after watching that amazing performance of "Les Triplets De Belleville" at the oscars - SO cool!! Actually, I thought ALL of the other "best song" nominees were totally superior to "Into The West", AND they were used (I think - I can't vouch for the "Cold Mountain" songs, not having seen the film, although they were pretty) within the body of the film - in the case of "Triplets" and especially the "Mighty Wind" song (another terrific oscar performance!) as actual set pieces (not just lame montages) and/or plot points! WHY is it not AGAINST THE RULES to nominate songs that AREN'T EVEN IN THE MOVIES?? THE CREDITS and the SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS DON'T COUNT!!! It reminds me of the last time I felt so robbed, back 20 years or so, when there were all of these decent songs up for nomination, including "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors (another great show, with a huge puppet and the singer!), and I remember thinking, "Wow! This is a tough choice! But at least there's one lame-o song that DEFINITELY won't win"...and, of course, the winner was "Take My Breath Away" ("BOWM-BOWM-BOWM-BOWM-BOWWWWWWMNMNM...BOW BOW BUBBA-BOWWWWNMNMN..."), one of the goofiest-sounding songs ever, IMHO. Of course, I am a little predjudiced against the movie that featured it, Top Gun, the kind of cheesy, popular testosterone-pumped action/romantic drivel that I hate (well, OK, I never actually saw it, beacuase it sounded so silly and stupid - wait, give me a chance to take cover before you all start firing!)

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Yeah, I hear you. I really do prefer the songs to be part of the movie in some somall manner. and also, I feel that they should create a new category for existing songs that are used properly, in the body of the film. In that case, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" would be an excellent choice.

And yes, take my breath away (insert capitals and italics because I'm lazy... and just capitalized a letter so I shouldn't complain...) sucked butt-monkeys.

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"LOL" does not do justice to my explosive laughter at your description! And I totally agree - "Raindrops" is a perfect example of what you're talking about.
Your icon is also hypnotic...I am compelled to read all the funny dialogue...over and over...!

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I forgot to mention Spidey 2 was the movie I was thinking of. Darn that brain of mine. Ah well.

And yes, I'm fairly proud of the icon myself. It's my sister and me (now you have to guess which one is me... currently I'm wearing a red shirt, but the pic was taken.. ((pulls off socks to count)) four or five years ago.)

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Ah, I thought you were talking about "Butch Cassidy", but it worked great in Spidey! Oh, fudge, I dunno...you're the one on the right? Maybe?
Do you have rings on your ankles like a tree? I'm confused... :)

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Never thought of that.. huh. Yes. I am the idiot on the right, and I had to take my socks off to count on my toes.

It obviously wasn't my thinking day yesterday.

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Tha's funny! And hey - I guessed right for a change!

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Hi ya.

You could probably put a banjo into La Noyee. Banjos have gone into stranger things, and they sometimes work!

For the Dancing on the Edge scene (which I try to draw with no luck all the time) I like to think of the song "Jealous of the Moon" by the young Alternative Bluegrass/Blues/Jazz/Grunge group Nickel Creek. You can catch it here- scroll down to "Studio 330 sessions", select Jealous of the Moon. Hope you like it! The lead singer/mandolin player looks kinda like a certain character from one of your drawings, too! :-) http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/creek_nickel/videos.jhtml

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