A Penny's Worth of Thoughts Vol. 6

Music.  One way or another, most of us can relate to a song or be inspired by an arrangement of instruments.  We use music to dance to, escape from reality for a little bit, or distract ourselves from what we are doing.  Like most other things, different aspects of it appeal to different people.

Me personally, I prefer the background music of games I play, not only because they are from some of my favorite games, but it never seems to surprise me when my mind thinks of a song to fit a situation I'm in, or which ones come to mind while I'm just sitting around.  Sometimes at work, after I've eaten my lunch and still have around fifteen minutes of break left, I find myself using one of the wooden tables outside to keep to the beat of a song I have playing in my head, most often seems to be one from Donkey Kong Country Returns.

The reason I bring this up in a Penny's Worth is because sometimes we tie thoughts or visualizations to songs as well, even without realizing it, and sometimes that can be influenced.  Here's how easy it is, using a song from OverClocked Remix: ChronoTrigger - Fight For Our Future.  On first listen, it's a battle song, you can see two enemies dueling it out throughout the song.  By the end, one of them has won.  And it's a remix of a battle song, so why not right?

Now listen to it again.  Do you hear the countdown timer to a long foot race at the start?  You can probably see two people ducking, jumping, and dodging around obstacles this time, am I right?  If I am, your mind was influenced by what I told you to listen for in the song.  If not, perhaps you were envisioning something else at the time.  Point is, sometimes a different perspective, even if it's just written words for a song, changes not only how you see things, but how you hear them.

Just a penny's worth of thoughts, for anyone who wants to read them.

August 17, 2011

Wasn't too bad of a day at work today, the mix was a bit wet, so the main issues were the press and the wet shaker.  Apparently some of the loads of char we have been getting have been pretty wet.  Also had a plus of filling up the blue silo.  Speaking of which, guess while I'm on it, should explain about the silos we fill up at the plant.  There are three of them: blue, silver, and big.  I'm not kidding, those are our identifiers for them.  Blue is the smallest of the three, and the big, to me, almost looks like one of the silos you'd see at a grain farm.  Anyway, wasn't too bad of a day today.

Today, I also got to thinking about a couple of things to do on the blog, some of which I'd like readers opinions on.  For starters, to help make the daily posts a little interesting, I had an idea of a "Song of the Day" at the end of each post, where I post a song that has been going through my head at work that day, if I can find it on youtube.  An example being the one below, an OverClocked Remix song: Skies of Arcadia 'Dungeon Cave (Buried Alive Mix)'.  OCR songs generally have the game they came from within the title.  Also got to thinking about having pages on the site for finding the Penny's Worth/Gamer Thoughts faster than looking through the archive, and one for fanart for the story, just in case any of you guys have any.  Not going to lie, I'm good at writing, not so good at drawing.  I'm also thinking about, if we do the live broadcast for the Gamer Thoughts, whether or not to implement the feed of the chat, means I could probably just as easy read the message of interest aloud.  I don't know, just some thing I got to thinking about.  Leave a comment with your opinions on any of it.  Now, for the Song of the Day example: