Here's a song with a fairly terrifying power, by my estimation at least. I mentioned it in another thread as a 34 minute long song. There are two version though. The original is split into two parts, listed as Phase 1 and Phase 2, on opposite ends of the album. Each one is around 17 minutes in length, and only Phase 1 has vocals (about 5 minutes worth). The alternate version, on the other hand, is one looong 34 minute long song. Personally, I find it superior to the original, though the vocals are the exact same in both versions.
Sorry for the rambling explanations, but one more note: some people will not like this song. It's very much prog.
The Sky Moves Sideways
Porcupine Tree
Versions:
Phase 1 (original) - 18:39
Alternate Version - 34:37
We lost the skyline
We stepped right off the map
Drifted in to blank space
And let the clocks relapse
We laughed the rain down
Slow burn on the lawn
Ghosts across the delta
Swallowed up the storm
Sometimes I feel like a fist
Sometimes I am the colour of air
Sometimes it's only afterwards
I find that I'm no there
In the dream dusk
We walked beside the lake
We watched the sky move sideways
And heard the evening break
Power: I think that this would create very intense and realistic illusions of a possible apocalypse. First, day would become night and the stars would begin to disappear (a la Arthur C. Clarke, from The Nine Billion Names of God). Then, acid rain would fall in a scalding downpour that could burn straight through steel plating. Next, people would (seemingly) disappear at random, simply being there one second, and gone the next. Finally, the air would begin to swirl violently, and the earth and sky would crack open.
All of these would register on every sense a person has, completing the illusion. It could be very effective for incapaciting a group with absolute terror, though I think Doug might be too much of a nice guy to use it. After all, a half-hour can be a long time.
If y'all want to make any suggestions or changes, feel free.*********
I am a very sensitive person! I can go from laughing to crying with just a kick to the face.
- Dave Attell

Thank's to Zoner's linkage to this www.hitachigst.com/hdd/re...ation.html in his LJ. It got me wondering, a quick websearch led me here www.postdiluvian.org/~gil...house.html
So, would Doug have any use for those songs, outside of making Marllier dance.
--Rod.H

so I just rewatched the End of Evangelion movie (and let me tell you, a lot of the trauma goes out listening to the english commentary track. And to hear the eva expert plug alan moore's promethea is just too cool) and it just hit me:
the third impact was about achieving NIRVANA! Where all individuality is erased and we become one with brahma or buddha or, in this case, a giant white chick with perky breasts.
which, you know, is how i'd like to achieve nirvana.
ANYWAY
Since this step takes place after the AMG one, presumably OUR HERO DOUG would have learned a bit more about the nature of God, Gods, etc, etc, and thus would have some more insight into the actual processes going on in the Eva world. Where most people would see a giant spider with big eyes crying acid, Doug would see . . . a giant spider with big eyes crying acid WITH SIGNIFICANT ONTOLOGICAL MEANING!
So, again presumably, Doug's goal is not only martial training but also the sort of psychic (for wont of a better term) training that would enable Shini et al. to withstand or perhaps even thwart the movie ending.
[This gets into my idea that the movie ended as happily as it could but that's a different topic that i addressed earlier]
'Course, this raises some questions such as how Doug interacts with the Chilren, specifically Rei. His mage-sight would most likely allow him to know that she's a bit more than she seems, but does that mean that he would know that she's the harbinger of revelation (apocalypse)? And if so, then what?
umm...
-murmur
The reason why the subject line is the way it is is because of the fact that only shinji doesn't succumb to the whole rei-as-nirvana thing. So the question is: Does Shinji have Buddha Nature?

This is a plot bunny for a Sakura Taisen step that Bob is thinking about. It came to me while I was in the gym working out and I ended up talking and observing one of the fitness trainers.
Let me digress for a bit and describe her. Her name is Michelle. She looks about in her mid-20s to early 30s (she has a son in the Navy, so you can figure what her actual age is). She looks about 100 lbs (slim). But Ive seen her bench-press 350 lbs. She told me that there are significant differences between how woman should train for strength vs a man. Train like a man, and youll end up looking like a female version of the Governator in his prime. She told me that she wanted to be strong. But she wanted to still look like a girl.
Which brings me back to Kanna. Her father probably didnt know how to train a girl in the family style (Im betting only sons were trained in the style before Kanna, or if he had an idea, he wasnt about to mess with a proven training methodespecially if its the only one). Kanna would be under pressure to prove that a female Karishina could successfully become the heir and master of the family style, so I dont think shed say anything, even if she had an idea of how to do things differently.
So you have the powerhouse of the Hanagumi, who has been stuck playing all the male roles in the theater. Someone, if you take away her boobs, who can pass for a man. And would probably be the last Karishina because what normal Japanese man (let alone a martial artist) would marry someone as masculine looking as her? You have to wonder what thoughts she must think late at nite.
Now Doug might know a concept in body building thats definitely unknown in the 1920s.
Body sculpting.
Training your body to a specific shape (for a specific function).
If Doug can coach Kanna into redesigning her body into a more feminine shape w/o sacrificing much of her strength and gain speed as a result, Id consider that as a more than fair exhange. To be able to land 2 blows @ 90-95% of your former power in the same time it would take to land blow at full power is a more than fair bargain. I can visualize Kanna looking like Bloodberry of Saber Marionnette J as an end result.
Of course, now we come to stage 2 of the make-over.
Does anyone remember the plot to Bernard Shaws play Pygmalion? ^^
Or better yet Werner and Lowe's musical My Fair Lady?
Kanna cast as Eliza Doolittle(snicker)
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

A thought occurred to me while watching an AMG AMV.
We know that in the AMG universe, mortal reality is overseen and run by the giant computer Yggdrissil (Yggdrassil? Yggdrisil?). So how does it compute/perceive the presence of Doug, an extradimensional who, under the right cirumstances, can kill (and has killed) a God(dess) and is a mortal to boot? Would the system provide some sort of warning to its caretakers and three goddesses (and one god) in particular?*********
I am a very sensitive person! I can go from laughing to crying with just a kick to the face.
- Dave Attell

A while back there was a thread by, I think, Drenivian about converting Doug into tri-stat. I can't find it, and I don't remember seeing the conversion posted.
That's been bugging me for a while, so I decided to do my own conversion, using BESM becuase I don't have a copy of Silver Age Sentinels.

Home To Stay
by Josh Groban


I know you're gone
I watched you leave
I always thought
That it was me
You made it clear
With that last kiss
You couldn't live a life
With maybe's and whatif's
When every boat
Has sailed away
And every path
Is marked and paved
When every road
Has had its say
Then I'll be bringing you back
Home to stay
I have the cards you sent to me
You wrote of trains and Paris galleries
This spring you'll draw
Canals, and frescoed walls
Look how far your dreaming's gone
When every town looks just the same
When every choice gets hard to make
When every map is put away
Then I'll be bringing you back
Home to stay
And now I know why you had to go alone
Isn't there a place between
When every boat
Has sailed away
And every path
Is marked and paved
When every road
Has had its say
Then I'll be bringing you back
Home to stay
Reach out to me
Call out my name
And I would bring you back again
Today

I'd consider this the last gate song.
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

It's still Rock'n'Roll to me --- Billy Joel
Whats the matter with the clothes Im wearing?
Cant you tell that your ties too wide?
Maybe I should buy some old tab collars?
Welcome back to the age of jive.
Where have you been hidin out lately, honey?
You cant dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.
Everybodys talkin bout the new sound
Funny, but its still rock and roll to me
Whats the matter with the car Im driving?
Cant you tell that its out of style?
Should I get a set of white wall tires?
Are you gonna cruise the miracle mile?
Nowadays you cant be too sentimental
Your best bets a true baby blue continental.
Hot funk, cool punk, even if its old junk
Its still rock and roll to me
Oh, it doesnt matter what they say in the papers
cause its always been the same old scene.
Theres a new band in town
But you cant get the sound from a story in a magazine...
Aimed at your average teen
How about a pair of pink sidewinders
And a bright orange pair of pants?
You could really be a beau brummel baby
If you just give it half a chance.
Dont waste your money on a new set of speakers,
You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers.
Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways
Its still rock and roll to me
Whats the matter with the crowd Im seeing?
Dont you know that theyre out of touch?
Should I try to be a straight a student?
If you are then you think too much.
Dont you know about the new fashion honey?
All you need are looks and a whole lotta money.
Its the next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways
Its still rock and roll to me
Everybodys talkin bout the new sound
Funny, but its still rock and roll to me
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Effect:
- Everybody in AOE is dressed in 1960's style till the end of day
- *everything* Doug can hear, even life music, turns rock'n'roll, including classic, techno, you name it, courtesy of Doug's subconcious. He is bound to like it :-)
- since every bit of music is altered by Doug no song will have any effect on him for the rest of the day.

I don't know why I thought of the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" (lyrics), but I did, so...
First-order effects: melts ice (handy if Doug's going up against someone with "freeze" powers), disperses inclement weather.
Second-order effect: pisses off Wetter Hexe ("Looney, you
know I needed those storm clouds...")
-Rob Kelk
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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

This song came up in my mp3 player and I decided to pass it along. While I have no power suggestion for it at this time. It looks to have some potential.
"Defeat You" by Smashmouth
Born is a human with a kung fu spine
Equipped with a detector of whats on your mind
You jive you shuck you bob you weave
And when you're down you've got something up your sleeve
And you've got it good as bad as it gets
You make your own incisions that come with regrets
You're in it to win it and make every minute count
You put it all together and dish it out
Hey I know where you're from
It makes it that much nicer to meet you
Hey I know what you've done
It makes it that much better to defeat you
All that knowledge all those skills
All the gas it takes to get up top of the hill
And while the other try to take your spot
You wanna make them stop but you gotta make them stop
Would you do anything whatever it takes
Jacks in the road yeah fix the breaks
It the instinct that's got us locked up tight
And it's the madness that's keeping us up all night
Chorus
It's what we are It's what we are It's what we are
Born is a human with mechanics to win
Born is machine with a human tucked in
You jive you shuck you jab you stick
You're calling out for help when it gets too thick
Your honor your honor its not me
It's the invisible visible evil powers that be
Untraceable insatiable having to feed
Yeah you cry when your wounded and you laugh when they bleed
Chorus

The chorus is the section stanza of the song. Anyway enjoy.
Shawn Earl
Who's now finally glad he can stop writing by-laws and policy guides for a little bit after tonight.