And Then I Died vs. And Then I Died
28 May 2012 1 Comment
in The End
[I can't explain why exactly, but I have lots of feelings about these two songs and how they relate. The following is all the original writing until you hit another one of these.]
Welcome to another new “feature” on the Wrock Snob that will undoubtedly only last for a single outing! This is an idea I’ve toyed around with for awhile, where I take two songs, sometimes similar, sometimes not, and I compare and contrast them. First up, I’m comparing “And Then I Died” by the Moaning Myrtles with… “And Then I Died”… by the Moaning Myrtles…
Huh.
Question Thursday: Songs From Gringott’s Vault
14 May 2012 Leave a Comment
So, MoM just released a “new” album, Songs From Gringott’s Vault, which is, besides the last song, are entirely re-releases of old songs, to make a “Best Of” album. [So, this sentence was written during one of the many long 'pedia-droughts,and during a time when I periodically asked questions of twitter, along the lines of "Funniest wrock song?" or "Wrock song that makes you cry?" or stuff like that. And I was considering starting my own Question Tuesdays thing, but it just never got off the ground. I really wasn't trying to beat the "I Hate MoM" horse into the ground, especially since that's not even a real horse, but the question was going to be what songs that were left off the "Best Of" album do you wish were included?]
Extended Thoughts: Ministry of Magic
09 Apr 2012 2 Comments
[This is an interesting little hobbit of an article, and the only Extended Thoughts in my big Drafts folder. It's all original writing (the last revision of which was on 1/1/11, if you can believe WordPress, but I think I must have started writing this before then, because by that point Magic Is Might had been released) until you hit another one of these bracketed sections.]
Ministry of Magic. What is the big fucking deal?
The Best Wrock Snob Comments
07 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
[Heh, this is a pretty funny one. I remember that there was one particular comment that was really quite amusing, and not even in a "Oh Look At What This Simpleton Said Let Us All Laugh At Thon" way, just... funny, and this was the impetus for this planned article. However, one thousand four hundred comments is A LOT to look through, so this never really got off the ground, beyond the title, and now I don't even remember what the original comment was! However, fear not, for I have a plan! Hit the jump to check it.]
Scream
07 Apr 2012 4 Comments
in The End
[This is my earliest draft, and it is also just the title. That's it. I had planned to do a series of shorter articles high-lighting a particular single song, but that never really got off the ground - one of the many casualties of the MiM Year. The following is a very brief summation of what I intended to say.]
So Here’s The Plan (An Explanation For The Rest Of The Site)
07 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in The End
So, if anyone was awake for my hissy-fit on twitter last night, I basically talked about how, since I’ve been distancing myself more and more from the fandom, I might as well make it official. So, I am officially announcing the beginning of the end for the Wrock Snob. I have TONS of articles in various states of completeness, ranging from ninety percent done to just blog titles and a phrase or two. My goal is to now go through these articles and spruce up what I can, and just post the skeletons of all the ones I can’t, and then finish off with a few “post-mortem” articles. My hope is to finish with a list of my top X favorite wrock songs of all time. I think that’d be a nice place to finish things off, and a good first thing for new visitors to the site to see, and THEN they can scroll down and see that 87 percent of this site is really just unfiltered bile.
So, while before this point, I pretty much never apologized before hand for a lack of quality in the articles, since I really hate that practice, I must now ask you to judge the following odds and ends with a bit of mercy, seeing as the majority are not in any state fit for human consumption. Thoughts and plans for the articles are often half-finished, so if you find yourself offended by something, try not to be. I present these dregs and drabs as more insight into my mind so historians can better understand my legacy, and also as novelties for the curious. I will note when an article is actually fairly complete and stuff like that. So… yeah. Have fun.
The Number One Thing I Wish People Got From The Wrock Snob:
07 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: and so it begins, errr ends
I have been accused from time to time of being solipsistic and thinking my opinions are better than everyone else’s. Here’s the thing you need to realize – my opinions ARE better than yours. They are more factually correct. They are truer. It’s just that simple. Thank you for your time.
THE WROCK SNOB IS NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
01 Apr 2012 1 Comment
I have seen the light! Wizard rock isn’t about things like critical discussion or fan engagement or music – it’s about HAWT BOYZ and those bitches who take them away from usssssss! As part of my turning over this new leaf, I am pERMANENTLY shutting down The Wrock Snob. Now, please enjoy all your WROCK news and views at The Wrock Completely Indiscriminate Fawner!
GIF REVIEW: A War Amidst Pop Songs
20 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Reviews
Good news: actual content!
Bad news: it’s mostly just amusing gifs! The mouse-over text does contain some slightly more in-depth explanation, but not much. Also, WordPress is a doop and insists on resizing some of the gifs, which ends up messing with the gif’s ability to animate. I have marked these gifs thusly, and you can click on them to bask in their low framerate glory. Welp, without further ado – The Mudbloods’ A War Amidst Pop Songs.
Wrock Snob 2011 Stats!
31 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Not Actual Content Tags: harry and the potters, helper monkeys, hot bed, sydney opera house, syndey opera house, trivial pursuit
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
The above was all auto-generated text. This isn’t really an article, sorry, but the stats are pretty interesting, especially the location ones – PROOF (as if we ever needed any) that Sweden is a surprising hot-bed of wizard rock. Remember – Harry and the Potters are on TRIVIAL PURSUIT in Sweden. So, if you like numbers, well, those sure are a lot of numbers. Real 2011 in review article later someday maybe?
