Post AZD9DfPoWU7AMkZSy0 by michaelslade@mastodon.cloud
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(DIR) Post #AZD3ZpZmpIH0WcQABU by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T02:57:22Z
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A few years ago i had the idea for an 8bit Tom Waits video game that's actually a full retrospective of his works and i still think about it a lot.It starts off as a like a bluesy jazzy noir, then shifts to like a weird dreamlike quest across a country, then this whole section that's just like "What If CARNIVÀLE, but like… REALLY fucked up? Like I mean, what if CARNIVÀLE and TWIN PEAKS got pregnant in the Black Lodge, and SATAN was the baby's godfather," at the end of which you have to run a chase across a frozen pond in the shape of the name ALICE, and just when you can see the other shore ,you fall through the ICE, the you have a brief stop in Hell and Wonderland where you can only get to the BLOOD MONEY section if you make it all the way through the "Poor Edward" level and search for the secret doorway to hell inside the teardrop coming out of one of his Devil Twin's eye; but if you do, you wake up on a boat on a blood red and phosphor green and grey sea, sailing to a new land, which is exactly the land you came from, but Changed; you walk into a diner and spend one whole level just glowering at Iggy Pop until he blinks and leaves; then the rest of the game you teleport and fight and bindle beans cook your way from railyard to junkyard until you claim your crown as Hobo King.I think that'd be pretty fun.
(DIR) Post #AZD3w9wfm6ve4Nlz0K by AustinB@esq.social
2023-08-29T03:00:47Z
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@Wolven I’m not much of a video game guy, but I’d play that.
(DIR) Post #AZD4RSuJKDLbr8b0Ii by Fayedray@mastodon.social
2023-08-29T03:07:01Z
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@Wolven Have you read the Sandman series by Gaiman and company or Geek Love by Katharine Dunn
(DIR) Post #AZD4q77xRIAtXwjTiC by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T03:11:12Z
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@Fayedray yep! Also, a few friends of mine were the first theater company to get the rights to stage Geek Love as a play, and they used 'The Black Rider' as their pre-show, scene change, intermission, and cast bow soundtrack
(DIR) Post #AZD4uUOerlYasDd8ro by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T03:12:16Z
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@astatide same
(DIR) Post #AZD4wPTO8x34BLl6GG by Fayedray@mastodon.social
2023-08-29T03:12:44Z
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@Wolven Holy shit. that's so cool. 🥺 ngl I'm jealous of your experiences but also happy to know it is so loved (ehehe) and now I need to go see what that song(?) is about
(DIR) Post #AZD6GceGxzIqn73GMq by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T03:27:30Z
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@Fayedray the black rider is tom waits and william s burroughs making a weird russian-fairytale-infused carnival album about deals with the devil; theres a play, but I think it was only ever performed in Germany
(DIR) Post #AZD6Mlj488WKgJDyEa by Fayedray@mastodon.social
2023-08-29T03:28:38Z
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@Wolven Well shit at the risk of going insane I am listening to all of that
(DIR) Post #AZD6PEtIfMcJiMBnvc by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T03:29:01Z
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@astatide honestly that is EXACTLY the kinf of way people should be introduced to tom waits
(DIR) Post #AZD6UeGFlf1pqYVMiO by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T03:29:56Z
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@Fayedray 😃
(DIR) Post #AZD9DfPoWU7AMkZSy0 by michaelslade@mastodon.cloud
2023-08-29T04:00:37Z
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@Wolven Don’t forget a time in the early 80s when Tom was scheduled to be on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. When his time came, he forgot the words to the song he’d written and wanted to ‘take it from the top’. The Tonight Show didn’t do that. Ed revoiced the opening credits during a commercial and Tom was cut out with a razor blade. Probably better for Tom that he didn’t screw up his rep by actually appearing there.
(DIR) Post #AZDAePpaflvRnywk0u by greatjobadam@beige.party
2023-08-29T04:16:40Z
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@Wolven Where's the 'Add to Wishlist' button on this thing?
(DIR) Post #AZDAvML6uL1vtnljv6 by msbellows@c.im
2023-08-29T04:19:45Z
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@Wolven *BLINK*
(DIR) Post #AZDBq2mwGrFPlhoaA4 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-29T04:29:53Z
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I have no talent for actually building video games, but i do know my way around a weirdass story 🤷🏾♂️
(DIR) Post #AZGt47DtSTWz51G6BE by GetzlerChem@mstdn.science
2023-08-30T23:18:28Z
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@Wolven would play