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"TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Aug-25-19 AT 03:27 AM (EDT)
 
edit 2019.08.20: audio edition is here: http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/AUDIO/FI/OOTR/TFLF/2-20%20Chapter%2018_%20_The%20Real%20Relation_.mp3

I plan to drop this episode in the morning, before I leave for a doctor's appointment out of town.

In the meantime, here is Hōkago Tea Time feat. Miku Hatsune, somewhat informally covering Rush.


Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role, ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact

Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme

Living in a fisheye lens, caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend
All the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme

Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme
The real relation
The underlying theme

- Rush
"Limelight"
Moving Pictures (1981)

--G.
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  RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation TheOtherSean Jun-09-19 1
  RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Gryphonadmin Jun-10-19 2
     RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Droken Jun-10-19 3
         RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Star Ranger4 Jun-11-19 6
         RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Verbena Jun-13-19 8
  RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Peter Eng Jun-10-19 4
  RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Gryphonadmin Jun-11-19 5
     RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation zwol Jun-11-19 7
  RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation trboturtle2 Jun-16-19 9
     RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation Peter Eng Jun-16-19 10
     RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation SilenRevered Jun-16-19 11

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1. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   Good luck at the doctor.

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2. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   And we're live.

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3. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   And it's awesome.

TFLF is just a pure delight, and this once again delivers splendidly. It's been very satisfying to see the members of HTT growing, maturing, and just becoming more in tune (pun intended?) in even the short time period this series encompasses. Ditto with Frame Shift starting to be realized.

Super fun read once again.

-Droken

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riding is not for you."


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6. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   Second on those thoughts Droken, with a couple of my own to add:

"That sounded less Yandre in my head" --- completely broke me.

and:

When they finally called it a day, no one could be bothered to cook, so Kate phoned down a massive order to Celestial Pizza in Republic City—and despite Mount Weitang's distance from the city, they barely had time to knock the living room more or less back into shape before it arrived, hand-delivered by the restaurant's proprietor himself.

To which I go YES! because Zach is ALL about turning people on to really good Pizza. The fact it always keeps him in motion is just a really great plus!


Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
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8. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   >And it's awesome.

I really enjoyed this one, too. =)

>
>TFLF is just a pure delight, and this once again delivers splendidly.
>It's been very satisfying to see the members of HTT growing, maturing,
>and just becoming more in tune (pun intended?) in even the short time
>period this series encompasses. Ditto with Frame Shift starting
>to be realized.
>
>Super fun read once again.

I admit I've been reading less over the years in favor of tabletop and video gaming. But I still always find myself coming back to Eyrie. The stories here are just -fun- in a way it's hard to find elsewhere, without feeling overly simplistic.


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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
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4. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   "Without them, you won't be maintaining an inner safe zone, you'll just make yourself a hollow shell—the outward performance, with nothing inside it."

Yeah, I've seen that happen.

"Oh wow, poi," Yūdachi murmured...

In my head, this is Yūdachi beginning to understand her Admiral a little better.

Kaitlyn Hutchins shut the Cargobob's cockpit door...

I wonder when she picked up that particular skill?

**

And I'm out of commentary. It's good stuff as usual. (I'm not a reviewer by nature, can you tell?)

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   LAST EDITED ON Jun-11-19 AT 00:18 AM (EDT)
 
I noted in the annotations for this one that the kids from Dìqiú must need a glossary to understand what the hell "Smoke on the Water" is about. Since the fancy took me to post it, and a link to the Santana version so you can get a feel for what I was on about with the bit about Azusa venturing into solo lead territory, I figured I would do the same.


We all came down to Montreux1
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile2
Oh we didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers3
Were at the best place around4
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground5

Smoke on the water
Fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
And Funky Claude6 was running in and out
Yeah, pulling kids off the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
Swiss time7 was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race

Smoke on the water
Fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

We ended up at the Grand Hotel8
It was empty, cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this9
I know, I know we'll never forget

Smoke on the water
Fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

- Santana
"Smoke on the Water" (feat. Jacoby Shaddix)
Guitar Heaven (2010)

Originally recorded by Deep Purple for Machine Head (1972)

1 A small city in Vaud Canton in Switzerland (pop. of the combined metro area, around 90,000). It is, as the next line notes, on the shore of Lake Geneva. Deep Purple and a number of other bands were there in December 1971 for the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, which had started branching out to include rock and such-like acts in the '60s.

2 The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, which is, as its name suggests, a mobile recording studio. Basically, a large box truck with a studio control room in it, the idea being that the microphones and suchlike can be set up basically wherever the cables will reach, and the recording engineer works from the truck. Quicker and easier than having to tear down, transport, and set up all the mixing and recording equipment every time. The Stones originally built it for their own use, then went into renting it out to other bands as a sideline. Nowadays it belongs to the National Music Centre in Calgary.

3 The Mothers of Invention, composer and generally avant-garde musical personality Frank Zappa's band.

4 The Montreux Casino, where the Jazz Festival was held until December 4, 1971, when, during a performance by the Mothers of Invention...

5 ... someone in the crowd fired an incendiary device (some accounts say it was a flare, others a bottle rocket or Roman candle) into the ceiling of the theater during the Mothers' performance, and the casino was completely destroyed.

(As an aside, December 1971 was a tough month for Zappa generally. Not only did the Montreux Casino burn down during the Mothers' gig, taking with it around $50,000 worth of the band's gear, but also a week later, a pissed-off fan pushed him into the orchestra pit of a theater in London during a gig there, nearly killing him.)

6 Claude Nobs (1936-2013), the founder and longtime manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival. He was also a volunteer fireman, fortunately for some of the concertgoers when the casino burned down during his festival.

7 Deep Purple's members had limited Swiss work visas, plus they couldn't afford to rent the Mobile Studio indefinitely. It's also a joke about "Swiss Time", a promotional slogan used on coverage of a lot of sporting events timed with Swiss-made instruments back in the day.

8 I'm unsure which Grand Hotel this refers to; there are at least two hotels in Montreux today that have "Grand" in their name. I think it's the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic, today part of the Marriott Autograph Collection. Whichever, the hotel was still under construction when Deep Purple rented it to use as a makeshift studio and finish their album.

9 What they got out of it was 1972's Machine Head, their most successful album.

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7. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jun-11-19 AT 11:57 AM (EDT)
 
On a closely related note, my new favorite Wikipedia disambiguation note is at the top of the “Smoke on the Water” article:

> “Some stupid with a flare gun” redirects here. For the Ass Ponys album, see Some Stupid with a Flare Gun.


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9. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   Who's handling the weapons familiarization for the band? That's a big ugly universe out there.....

Craig

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10. "RE: TFLF 18: The Real Relation"
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   >Who's handling the weapons familiarization for the band? That's a big
>ugly universe out there.....
>
>Craig

It's not as ugly as you might think. UF tracks the heaviest hitters in an international force that goes after the nastiest scum in the universe. Using what we see in UF as a guide to ordinary life in the 24th century is like using House as an example of everyday life at a major metropolitan hospital.

The guy who runs TOMODOG doesn't feel the need to carry a Jakobs Widow Maker just in case of Big Fire drops by. Cthia isn't bringing particle pistols to their concerts.

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   LAST EDITED ON Jun-16-19 AT 03:57 PM (EDT) by Gryphon (admin)
 
>Who's handling the weapons familiarization for the band? That's a big
>ugly universe out there.....

It's easy to forget that Mio is descended from a long line of swordspeople and knows Kendo, and Ritsu is a firebender. And that Yui's parents are Airpeople, which doesn't necessary mean she has martial arts training, but she could.
But Mugi has people for that sort of thing.

SR
Azusa is some kind of freaking special operative, though, so she's good
Why, no, i thought i remembered all of that right, but i still did double check


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