[OOC][Fun] Music thread? Music thread.

[Black Aeronaut]

First thought: What's black and white and hard to read in San Felix?  Your text.

Taken care of.

Bwa-huh?  The heck happened?  I thought I removed the text formatting on that before changing the font to Courier New.

I do like your idea for an AMV.  It reminds me that I need to write two in-character songfics.

I've waited a lifetime
For the age of wonder
A place that I remember
In a splinter of time

Ah yes, the sunlit garden.  Or was it the Dream Time?

You'll have to clue me in on that one - that's obviously a reference to something and it's too vague for Google.

On Mars, great basins are slowly starting to fill with water as magitech constructs contain the atmosphere, engage the magnetosphere, and stabilizes the orbits of its moons

This, so much.  Was Picard put in charge of the magnetosphere project?  I know Negima did this but I really want to avoid adding Negima to the story because of the rampant ...  uh, untruthiness.  I just read this today, in an article on Gritty from Philadelphia of all things:

In his landmark critical text on fairy tales and their efficacy in working with children titled The Uses of Enchantment, author Bruno Bettelheim writes of these ancient stories, “The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.”

Gritty is true in a way that Negima isn't.  I think we've done a good job at picking true stories.

I'd need to look into that.  I don't think I ever even got one-third of the way through Negima.  (I think I stopped somewhere about the arc where the great tree in the middle of campus is making true love happen between couples.)

In regards to Picard?  Oh no.  The honest truth is that while he's settled down quite a bit since his time on the Stargazer, he's always been an Adventurer.  (Yes, I capitalized that on purpose.)  Picard's place is on the Frontier... With a possible forward-deployed base as a home port in the Briar Patch.  

If anything, this should be Captain Montgomery Scott's baby.  

Back on topic, it's hard to see it being used as an anthem -- there's really not much in the way of dynamics in the song, or narrative flow.  But it can certainly be a leitmotif.

I wasn't aware that an Anthem had to be narrative.  From what I've been able to glean from a skimming of the wikipedia article, that's mainly as a result of the first Anthems being liturgical songs.  Other much more contemporary songs have been used as anthems for sporting events, such as Queen's "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".

And as for dynamism...  I think that can be part of theme.  We aren't interested in change so much for the sake of change, but instead progressing ever forward.  You want a good engine for that.  And most engines don't change much during operation - it's a steady mechanism, moving through its cycle over and over again.