Wrock Snob ADVENTURES: Archive

The sax solo in Phoenix Song.

For me it’s the crescendo of Dumbledore, but both songs are music-wise, thematically related, and great. poserswillbeprosecuted: LIKE DIS IF U CRY EVRY TIME

Nov 29th

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Nov 27th

reorganizedtrenchcoats asked: YOU WRITE SO MANY WORDS. FUCK. but keep on keepin on bro, or whatever. cheers.

Nov 16th

#wiwya - LAST SONG NOT LAST POST

gonna do last post tomorrah (code for it’ll never happen) (hopefully it will) You don’t give a damn for me: Loving the guitar work just based on the first couple seconds. Ramble: based on the target demographic, I have a feeling that for a fair amount of listeners (if they buy the album), this album may be one of their first introductions to this style of music, and it’s a damn...

Nov 16th

wiwya - FUCK last one wasn't supposed to be 8 i...

getting tired and sleepy, let’s wrap this ish up apologies in advance for impending lack of quality I Don’t Want To Be Happy HAPPY ACOUSTIC GUITAR! YAY UH OH IT WENT MINOR MINOR IS SAD OOOH PIANO PIANO IS NICE Not feeling Matt’s voice (at least at first) on this one. It just sounds a bit gruff, not mixed great. PIANO IS SUPER NICE. Minimalist nothing super fancy, but...

Nov 16th

wiwya 8 - shit i totally forgot to put a number in...

so, it’s been brought to my attention that the correct lyrics in “oh, brother” are “mason jars and hurricanes”, which completely changes what I thought that section was about and going far, making the falsetto possibly more warranted. Regardless, I still think it was more silly than necessary, but maybe not as much as I at first believed. Still, if you go out of...

Nov 16th

wiwya - My Baby Eats Flowers Like They're Salad

SECOND BEST TITLE. WOAH that’s an intro. Quite a change from previous song. I spent far too long paused in between the two songs to say if it works… but I think it does. Okay, the guitar work is REALLY reminding me of something - too tired to figure out what. Just throwing it out there. Liking it so far. Heh. This one is making me smile. I love the vox on “explode”. ...

Nov 16th

wiwya 7 - oh, brother

Gotta say, despite what I may have intimated in an earlier post, in the few quiet spaces during the writing of these lengthy blather, I’ve had the chorus of “she kissed me during reality bites” stuck in my head. Again, I must reiterate that these are not reviews so much as reactions - I will probably never give this album a proper review, but I will try to do a revised and...

Nov 16th

wiwya 6 - Mom, your boyfriend is a douche

Opening guitar riff is good, and reminiscent of… something. truth/douche rhyme - totally okay because of the word douche. Douches make everything better. Or at least that’s what I’m banking on. …not too much to say on this one so far. Following the story, just sailing along. Digging it, not like a dugtrio, mmmmaybe like a diglett? Not sure tho. While I sympathize,...

Nov 16th

wiwya 5 - she kissed me during reality bites

SECOND BEST OPENING LINE EVER Am I the only one reminded of Hank Green’s “Helen Hunt”? Also, YAY ACOUSTIC! Ooh, loving what Matt’s doing with his voice here - very bluesy. LOVING the tempo change up after the beginning. Really draws the listener in. “get a ride from my mom - we’re not old enough to drive” Okay, hands up everyone who’s been in a...

Nov 16th

wiwya 4 - my so-called life

so far, (first half of first verse) STRAIGHT FEELIN’ YA HOMIE on this one. This was me. Yeah. Every… Thursday night? Thursday? Why? Is that when the titular show aired. Oh, it’s a msclrock song. Cool, I guess, never seen the show, so… kinda left in the cold here on this one. Again, song is fine. Good. Quite good. Kinda catchy. Solo is competent. I mean, I get it - we...

Nov 16th

wiwya 3 - worst best friend

downer tempoer opener good change of pace matt’s voice fits surprisingly well and adapts well to a more voice-centered, slowere, lower affair. Everything sounds good here, cap’n “she don’t like my… bag?” mess/sweat rhyme… eh, I’ll let it pass re plot development at the beginning - awwwwwwww (sad awww) ewww 8th graders NO DON’T DO IT Have...

Nov 16th

wiwya 2 - std puppet show

great title - gonna try tweeting simultaneously god the guitar work is so good in this album so far OMFG BEST OPENING COUPLET EVER SERIOUSLY BEST SONG EVER “AND THE CLAP IS COMING UP FROM THE BACK TO EDUCATE YOU” YESSSSSSSSSSSSS I KNOW WHAT I SAID TEN SECONDS AGO ABOUT WHOMPY AND FUNNY CLEVER LYRICS BUT HE’S MAKING HIMSELF A STRONG CONTENDER I LOVE THE CYMBAL BIT AND...

Nov 16th

When I Was Your Age, Part 1 - First Day of High...

Yo, Wrock Snob here. Gonna “review” each song of #wiwya here because I know I will gum up everyone’s twitter feeds to hell (AHEM, Richard…). So, I remember liking this song when I heard it live, but I could remember nothing about it beyond liking it, and the girl with the briefcase full of drugs, which is one of those truly odd yet oddly true details that really makes the...

Nov 16th

House of PlayStation

This is something I have long noticed, and always found amusing. Plus, the PlayStation was released in 94 in JAPAN, wasn’t released elsewhere until 95, so… yeah. However, one possible explanation comes to mind, besides Jo just not doing proper research on a throw-away line about a game console released half a decade prior: Because PlayStation was the only good name. Jo wanted...

Oct 19th

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One of the funniest, most fun wrock songs out...

Sep 11th

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Aug 7th

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Jul 31st

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New Release - The Deluminator, Szhom →

For the cereals, wizrrrrds. Check this ish out. fuckyeahwizardrock: Releasing today is The Deluminator’s first EP Szhom. I had the pleasure of getting a sneak peek at the EP last week and I can absolutely recommend this fabulous EP. Szhom has 3 songs, Your Broom Is Your Best Friend (which was featured last August in video format), I Love Ginny (about Harry realizing his feelings for Ginny),...

Apr 11th

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Mar 30th

Chrono Cross, Part 2

I like how you are given a lot more freedom to characterize your silent protagonist in CX. For example, there’s a mission rather early on where I have to break into a dude’s manor, and there are three different dudes to take with me/plot hooks/reasons for breaking into this dude’s manor. One reason is the “expected”/”right” reason - to find out what this...

Mar 29th

lenagabrielle asked: Nobody wants to hear video game reviews from the WROCK SNOB. Stop trying to be the video game snob. you're not.

And I bet I have more followers than you, and I made my tumblr about 12 hours ago. BAM!

Mar 29th

More thoughts on the magic system

Huh, so you DON’T start the game with every character knowing every spell. Darn. It was just for the first ten minutes. It was cool summoning meteors AND WATCHING THEM HURTLE THROUGH SPACE and then land on your opponent. Anywho, it’s not quite what I thought - you can only use a spell once per battle, but there’s no MP to carry over and refill, but certain spells can be used more...

Mar 27th

CHRONO CROSS: A GAME ABOUT GETTING LAID

So far, that’s all it seems to be about. #FUCKYES

Mar 27th

“The powerful nation of Porre”

– OMFG OMFG OMFG See, this is the cool thing about a semi-sequel - I know I can’t expect everything I know and love, so everytime just ONE of those things pops up, I have a mini-geek-attack and heart palpitations and shit. Also, BWAHAHAHA PORRE IS NOW A NATION?!?! Damn, did they overtake...

Mar 27th

“Yo, Serge, I heard you totally blew off Leena today! Good on ya - I had no idea...”

– WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT WTFCHRONOCROSS

Mar 27th

Chrono Cross, Part 1

Chrono Cross, which I will either shorten as CC, or CX if I’m feeling saucy, is the semi-sequel to the SNES game Chrono Trigger, which I hold up as the best RPG of all time, and one of the greatest (and influential) games ever made. So, I finally got tired of NOT playing CC, and downloaded a rom and an emulator. After an EPIC saga to get the damn things to work properly, I was finally able...

Mar 27th

flapjacksblog5 asked: I like candy, do you like candy?

Mar 27th

The Whomping Willows (Blog): The Future Of The... →

PUMPED for this shit. So, I assume this means a return to songs from, you know, the POV of the whomping willow? Finally? thewhompingwillows: It’s that time of year when people begin to look back on the present year and think about how it’s gone, how it’s changed them, and how they’ll proceed over the next year. As I’m one of those people who spends an awful lot of time thinking about...

Dec 19th

“The fan base that grows around Harry Potter is not only based on a couple of...”

– Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (via rereadingharry)

Nov 4th

Anonymous asked: INFINITUS POST?

Sep 11th

5 Things That Can Be Done To Make The Hunger Games...

Yo. So, during work today, I was thinking about Hunger Games, and about the movie that will be coming out in awhile. Now, I love Hunger Games, but I was too recently burned by a movie adaptation of one of my favorite television shows and one of my favorite, just, things, ever (The Last Shitbender), to be psyched for a Hunger Games movie (though the amazing Scott Pilgrim movie does give me a bit...

Sep 11th

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Rahm Emmanuel and Lady Gaga - The Connection The...

I’ve always thought that the phrase “Rahm Emmanuel works for Obama” sounded almost exactly like the string of gibberish section in Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”. Seriously, try it out: Rahm Ah Man-you-well Works for O-bah-maw Rahm Rahm Man-you-well O-O-O-bah-maw That is all.

Aug 14th

Jul 22nd

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Imbribements

So, if you were on twitter and following the correct people recently, you may have noticed that Wrockstock and I… had a bit of a thing. Basically, some changes to Wrockstock were announced, and I found one change particularly amusing, and I will quote it in full, no Shirley Sherrod shit here: 1. We will once again allow people to bring alcohol into the Room of Wrockquirement… but...

Jul 22nd

The Whomping Willows (Blog): Demons at the Helm:... →

After debating with the ubiquitous WrockSnob over the meta-ness of Demons at the Helm for a few hours last night, I’m thinking a fun academic blog is in order. In short, WrockSnob asserts that Demons at the Helm isn’t wizard rock, isn’t meta-wizard rock, and is in fact the worst wizard rock album…

Jul 5th

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Jun 30th

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Addendum To More Thoughts on Tumblr

WOAH HOLY SHIT WHEN YOU CLICK THE TITLE AT THE TOP THE DESCRIPTION, AND PAGE LIST, AND ASK BUTTON POPS DOWN THAT IS NEATO AND A HALF. Still, I am worried that many people would not think to click on the title, since the title is usually just text, or a link to the homepage of the blog. So, that is some neat trickery, but I still think it makes it harder for static content to be seen. Also,...

Jun 29th

More Thoughts On Tumblr

So, I’ve been messing about with themes and such instead of sleeping, and I’ve come to a few conclusions about Tumblr: First of all, the amount of freedom Tumblr allows developers when making a theme is immense. Unlike Wordpress, where there is a great deal of aesthetic variety, blog themes all have the same basic functions, and those lacking certain functions only do because those...

Jun 29th

wrocksnob asked: Why are you so awesome?

Jun 29th

Thoughts On Tumblr So Far

So far, Tumblr seems to be basically twitter, but no character limit, and you can do fancy things in the text. Whether or not that will prove to be compelling remains to be seen. As a tool to keep the wizard rock community alive, however, I’m not so sure it will, or could, amount to anything more than a free blogging service for people who don’t like Wordpress for whatever reason. ...

Jun 28th

Wizard Rock EP Of The Month Club

So, there’s been a fair amount of people wondering why I left off “THE BEST ALBUM EVAR” - The Mudblood’s quite good EP, A War Amidst Pop Songs. I think a lot of people can’t conceive of the notion of someone not absolutely adoring The Mudbloods, whilst I can’t conceive how any one could not love MC Kreacher’s Alone In The Dark. Different strokes for...

Jun 27th

Thoughts On BSG, Part 1

I like how on Battlestar Galactica, you can figure out how far the plot has progressed by how many Cylon models the audience is aware of. “Welp, now we have five, things are starting to pick up…” Wait, make that six, including the black doctor, though we can’t be positive that he’s not just an easily manipulated human.

Jun 27th

“Hooray, he’s kicked the ball. Now the ball’s over there. That man has the ball....”

– Moss, The IT Crowd (via marybethschroeder) Wrock Snob sez: Guess what I’ll be watching in a couple hours?

Jun 26th