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so, all those videos i was watching on youtube the other day ... that i'd wanted to write about, each one ... well, already one of them has been taken down due to the owner of the media complaining to youtube. : /
i decided i'd post one of them in each entry and write about it, like maybe one every day or every week or every however often i update ...
i titled this entry "simple hesitation" (star trek: ds9 reference there, in case you're of the majorit y of people who wouldn't catch it...) because i wish i had just done the damn thing that first day, so at least maybe someone other than me could have seen the video that was taken down ... and also because not being able to watch it again myself will be a bit of a hurdle in trying to recall everything i felt and thought that i wanted to share ... but this is a recurring theme in my life ... a couple of different recurring themes ... hesitating and losing the moment, and only being able to (try to) remember sensations i wish i could feel again ...
anyway ... i was originally going to title this entry "in the beginning" or "genesis" or some other reference to, well, beginnings ... because the first video i wanted to post happens, in an anachronistic kinda way, at the beginning ...
um, i suppose i'll mention here, first, that when i originally thought i'd post all these tons of videos together, there was some stuff i'd written about lots of stuff in general, that i am not now sure where to place ... maybe if i get to the end of this series of entries i'll include what i'd already had in mind for the all-inclusive entry that won't be happening now ... or maybe i'll wind up having bits and pieces of it show up throughout ...
ok since i've already broken the flow so badly i'll lay down a bit of background to "the beginning" ...
at some point very early in my life, the magazine nintendo power had a deal where if you subscribed you'd get a free copy of this game, "dragon warrior" ... that was the first console rpg i ever played. i think then that same year, the game that changed everything for me came out ... the first "final fantasy".
anyway ... the man who has done the vast majority of the music for the final fantasy series, nobuo uematsu, has probably singlehandedly had as much influence on my life as any person i've actually met. he is a true dreamweaver, which is basically the highest compliment i can pay to anyone. he turns dreams in realities, through his music. he takes what can't be defined, what can't be quantified ... raw emotion ... and he translates it into music, seamlessly. it's like magic to me ...
ok, enough background. this is a piece of music from that first final fantasy, released in the united states in 1990 (it was released in japan in 1987) ... as performed fairly recently (within the past 2-4 years, i think ...) by uematsu-san's progressive metal band, the black mages.
and you know ... while i'm at it ... here's the original 8bit music, just in case you didn't watch the whole vid and catch the bar or two where he evokes the original version:
:/ ok, i couldn't find a clip of the original nes theme that just starts right away ... if you wanna hear it, skip to 6:21 of this video ... and, yeah, i watched almost this entire thing. brought back a ton of memories. i'd recommend you watch the whole thing, too ... just of ton of amazing music ... and one that finds incarnations in nearly all the games, starting around 5:38