This is a poem by Glenn Hunt, the same guy who did the Molson "I am Canadian" rant. It's used in a recent Lexus commercial, and it, more than anything I've ever written, defines what Paradox is a god of.
Moments
A Moment If You Please
Moments Can Be Short
Moments Can Be Long
There Are Moments Of Joy
Moments Of Sorrow
Moments Of Passion
Moments You'll Never Forget
Moments You've Already Forgotten
Moments You Didn't Get
There Are Awkward Moments
Senior Moments
Moments Of Truth
And Momentary Lapses In Judgment
People Who Ask For A Moment
Share A Moment
I Need A Moment
You Got A Moment?
Wait A Moment
You Can Take A Moment
Make A Moment
Spoil A Moment
And If All The Stars Line In The Right Moment,
That Moment Can Be Perfect
Moments Can Define You
Moments Can Delight You
And Moments Can Change Your Life
Heres To The Moment
And Squeezing All You Can
Out Of Every Last Single One Of Them --
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
The Works of Christopher Angel

The Scientist
by Coldplay

Come up to meet you, Tell you Im sorry, You dont know how lovely you are
I had to find you, Tell you I need you, Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, And ask me your questions, Aww lets go back to the start
Runnin in circles, [sounds like] Comin our tails, Heads on the science apart
Nobody said it was easy
Its such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Aww take me back to the start
I was just guessin, At numbers and figures, Pullin the puzzles apart
Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart
Tell me you love me, Come back to haunt me, Oh when I rush to the start
Runnin in circles, [sounds like] Chasin our tails, Comin back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Aww Its such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
Im goin back to the start
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo

It's certainly got lyrics that would ping on Doug's gate-home-search radar, but I'm more inclined to have it be a research tool song - he plays it, and any research or reverse-engineering type problems he's working on get repeated intuition rolls the way Good Morning gives wake-up rolls - and the answers he receives usually come from looking at one or more of his initial assumptions in a different way.
There's several Tsunami Bomb songs I've listened to and liked this evening, too, but Bob has said that he doesn't much like punk. Tsunami Bomb is kind of Girl-Band punk, but still punk... yet how can I resist songs li8ke 4 Robots and an Evil Scientist?
Also, though most of their stuff has no lyrics (and is serious WTF techno) Converting Vegetarians by Infected Mushrooms has enough of a vocal component to qualify, thoguh I'm not sure what it would do - though I suppose turning everyone in his AoE off of meat for the duration is the obvious... or on to it, for that matter.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Re-reading NXE, I realized that we're never quite given a description of the Madman Omar's sign on DJ's door (at least, up to halfway through Symphony of Terror; I can't remember if it does past that point). So I decided to make it.

I think it's in line with something that DJ would have found in his travels, ne?*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

Or, How To Start A Revolution Without Really Trying.
United 93, by Echo's Children
From pocket, purse and seatback, the telephones arise
Victims of a hijack, calling home to say goodbyes
Learn it's no coincidence; the networks all have shown
Lives and buildings pulverized in fire and falling stone.
Exactly what took place in there, there's none alive can say
We only know the outcomes of decisions made that day
We bow our heads in silence, honoring the free,
Remembering the heroes of United 93.
Someone must have realized; they haven't got a qualm
To kill our friends and neighbors, they'll make this plane a bomb
We've got to take the cabin back; if that much can't be nailed
God knows how many people will be dead because we failed.
The bastards are outnumbered, and all they've got are knives.
We haven't much alternative; surrender won't save lives
Our families, our children; their grief we cannot spare
The fields ahead are empty; let us end the struggle there.
The rest of us are thinking how best to manage strife
A blanket makes a blindfold, a pillow slows a knife;
The next poor chumps who try it, will find we've paid the fee
For lessons from the heros of United 93.--
"Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of General Zod has been approved."
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/JB...index.html
The above links to an interesting set of MIDI-converted piano rolls. Down at the bottom of the page you'll find this:
VOICE -
Hark the roar of canon's angry thunder over no-man's land today.
As before, we'll tear their ranks asunder as we plunge into the fray.
All the world is watching while we battle for the cause of truth and right.
Strike for home and native land! Great Jehovah gives command
Charge! Charge! Charge!
Come on boys, charge ... and we shall conquer the Hun;
Ere day is done ...the battle shall be won;
The foe shall reel ... before our steel ... and tyranny shall bend the knee
to libertee-ee.
Neath our own flag ... so poudly floating on high, we'll show the world ...
that we are ready to die
with ringing shout and cheer that knows no fear we'll fight for those ... we
love.
My flag that floats proud..ly from yon lof-ty spire,
has kin-dled in all our hearts true free-doms de-sire.
My coun-try for e-ev-er and ev-er shall be
a re-fuge and ha--ven un fettered and free.
I love you America! Oh! Thy sacren name ...
thru love and devo-o-tion my life you can claim.
My coun-try for-ev-er my flag gives to me
that priceless in-her-i-tence sweet lib-er-ty.
- PIANO -
- VOICE -
Hark the roar of canon's angry thunder over no-man's land today.
As before, we'll tear their ranks asunder as we plunge into the fray.
All the world is watching while we battle for the cause of truth and right.
Strike for home and native land! Great Jehovah gives command
Charge! ..... Charge! ..... Charge!
Come on boys, charge ... and we shall conquer the Hun;
Ere day is done ...the battle shall be won;
The foe shall reel ... before our steel ... and tyranny shall bend the knee
to libertee-ee.
Neath our own flag ... so poudly floating on high, we'll show the world ...
that we are ready to die
with ringing shout and cheer that knows no fear we'll fight for those ... we
love.
-END -
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I've recently been listening to a large amount of music during the day, with the acquisition of a new audio player. Came across this in the playlist, and it got me to thinking. I know you wanted more metasongs and other-person power songs, Bob, and this looks like a good possibility.
The Touch
Stan Bush
You got the touch
You got the power
After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run,
You're a winner
You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool
You're at your best when when the goin' gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
You got the touch
You got the power
When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm
You got the heart
You got the motion
You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch
You never bend, you never break
You seem to know just what it takes
You're a fighter
It's in the blood, it's in the will
It's in the mighty hands of steel
When you're standin' your ground
And you never get hit when your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end and you're takin' it all
You got the touch
You got the power
When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm
You got the heart
You got the motion
You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch
You're fightin' fire with fire
You know you got the touch
You're at your best when when the road gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
You got the touch
You got the power
You got the touch
You got the power

I see several possibilities for this one. First, it might just grant the target some range of powers. Given the lyrics, it could be a standard brick powerset (possibly including a metal transformation as well) or you might have some flame powers given the "fightin' fire with fire" line. However, I could also see this as something similar to 'I'll Play For You.' If played first, the next song played can be transferred to a target instead of affecting Doug, as long as it's one of his offensive powerset songs.
-Feinan

Can someone please answer this for me?
In several fanfics I've seen references to palaces or castles established for each senshi on their planet or one of its moons. Is this canon or fanon?
Thanks.

-- Bob
---------
For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

After many fruitless searches, I FINALLY found a copy of the techno verison of The Phantom of the Opera that was used in the Magnetic Rose AMV - it was (incorrectly) attributed to Nightwish, but wo cares - it rocks almighty hard regardless of the metadata. As for what it might do as a power song... some form of mind control, or possibly illusion projection if Doug saw the AMV as the first exposure to this version. It's simply unthinkable that it could not be a power song.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

...but this one might work well for leaving an early-1990s setting. Assuming, of course, that Doug would be caught dead playing a New Kids On The Block tune.
Step by Step
(No, it isn't in my collection. They just played part of it on the radio.)

-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Hello folks ...
Has anyone heard from these fanfic authors lately?
1. Darren Steffler (Twisted Path)
2. Animeaddiction (Hung Nguyen)
3. The writer of 'Knight of Shadow'. Don't know his name.
4. Akun (Dungeon Keeper Ranma & Ukyo)
5. The writer of 'Ranmazoku'. Don't know his name either.
6. The writer of 'Not a Dirty Word.' Can't remember either.
Thanks.
I would appreciate any help that I can get.
Take care ...
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