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Draculas in Italy!! Cover Your Neck!

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P1011070

Above is Gruppo Romm Draculas, the Romm (Gypsy) band that I met while in Florence. They were /incredible/ musicians and, though I didn't get too much chance to talk to any of them, they seemed very nice. The instrument between the stand-up bass and the accordian is a cimbalom, which is something like a very complicated xylophone... Well, perhaps more like a harpiscord (as that's a little more like how it sounds). I loved to watch that guy play. :D I have two CDs from these guys so I'll be uploading lots of tracks. :D

Classico Romm
Classico Romm

Though I met them in Italy, they told me that they're from Romania. Romanian Romm. I couldn't help but think of Pietro and Wanda. But, of course, that wasn't the only reason I was interested in them. It's incredible music. To the left is one of the tracks I've been listening to a lot. I was a little surprised to actually them playing this when I saw them. (It just seemed too... Perfect? Borderline stereotypical? Hehe.) Well, they /were/ called The Draculas. ;)



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Thoughts on Speed

Okay, well this writing thing happened a bit sooner than I'd anticipated (since I'm still in the process of studying for my exams) but I got a bit of inspiration.


Yesterday I had the opportunity to grab some comics, among them a couple of the old Quicksilver monthly series. I've been collecting them off and on - not exactly /avidly/ - but... well, I just can't help myself when it comes to a Pietro or Kurt-centric book. Especially not when it's in the 25 cent bins.

Reading through them got me thinking about the pitfalls of superspeed. I've contemplated it in the past, of course, and I've tried to bring it into RP a bit, but it's inspired me to highlight it a bit more. Especially as Pietro comes into his own in fighting ability - something which I've occasionally worried about in regards to the possibility of quasi-twinkishness - I think it might be good to play out the obvious disadvantages that his powers put him in. Why? Because it helps to balance him, of course. And I can't deny the appeal of embarrassing Pietro from time to time.

So, I'm thinking that - perhaps as a result of training - his powers are somehow intensifying. I'm not really going to make him /faster/, though I figure that training has increased both his speed and his accuracy at this point. Rather, I'm intending on making his power more pervasive. It /does/ crop up in his speech (more often as of late, in fact), but in terms of other ordinary things - for example, eating or walking - I can see it causing him much more difficulty than it does currently. Also, I've touched a few times upon his impatience, as everything happens relatively slowly compared to the speed of his brain functions and movements. I'd like to explore this more - and by bringing him up to a new plateau on terms of powers, it might force him to contend with it more.

This was primarily inspired by a scene in which Pietro is having dinner with his wife Crystal and the other Inhumans. To summarize, he was very uncomfortable - as he was well aware that Crystal's family hates his guts - and as a result there's quite a bit of internal bitching that's fairly amusing. Heh. When it comes time for the meal, he's having a difficult time staying still - as he says "it takes the staff three lifetimes" to serve them - and when he finally gets to eat, he struggles to pace himself for the sake of politeness... and still finishes before anyone else has taken a bite. Heh. I might scan in the page and the page following as his embarrassment is really rather funny - and it makes a good point on his frustrations/source of his occasional bitchiness. Heh. After he finishes eating, he attempts to occupy himself by catapulting peas into his mouth and generally moping as he waits for the others to "lazily chew their cud".

... As a side note, this same issue has a line that made me literally LOL. Pie's talking to Wanda and the dialogue goes as follows:

Wanda: Pietro! Are you /still/ pouting?
Pietro: Well, /someone/ must. There's enough forced cheerfulness around here to appall a Spice Girl.

1 comment Tags: speed, powers, character development, rp, pietro

Yes. /Another/ Song. ;)

"Violins" by Yellowcard

Violins
Violins
Yellowcard

**originally by Lagwagon

I am just another fool, and I have to, keep telling myself that
I am just a hypocrit, and I have to, keep calling you one
And I forgot to bite my tongue, as my assumption, was the mother of all mistakes
So I assume the role, open my mouth, and clumsy words escape

So why you, wanna to be there, when you could be here, you are slipping away

I awake with your replacement, a bottle in my grasp, in an unfamiliar place
Because you put me out, the butt of a sick joke, into this ashtray life
As you come and go, and I forgot to service you, and we broke down
And you can't live with my mistakes, but I assume false grace
Open my arms and grasp at something true

How are you, how have you been, girl I miss you, wanna see you again
So why you, wanna to be there, when you could be here, you are slipping away

I bring out the worst in you, and you try to let me know
You bring out the worst in me, anxiety, anxiety
I'm trying to let you go, you say I'm giving you the creeps
So I assume the role, open my claws and grasp for your heart

How are you, how have you been, girl I miss you, wanna see you again
Into you like a mortal stake so vindictive
Your love's slipping away

Violins, into this ashtray life
Violins, the butt of your sick joke
Violins, I'm trying hard to let you go
Violins

Post a comment Tags: music, pietro

Comic Silliness

Dammit, I'm way too addicted to this thing. I have a small folder of my favourite Pietro-excerpts from the comics and although there're some that better fit the situation he's found himself in with Rogue, this one just amuses me to no end.

Piano
Piano


Hee. God help the Brotherhood if XMR_Pietro ever takes up guitar or drums - which I was actually considering, given his interest in music. ;P

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SONG: "The Way I Feel" by Rancid

Just seems a little appropriate at the moment, given the situation that Pietro and Rogue are currently in...

The Way I Feel
The Way I Feel
Rancid
"The Way I Feel"

Pick me back up just to throw me back down
apoogies too like when you're up against the wall
compassion heals while duplicity kills
you say I'm different the only thing different is

The way I feel about you
Na na na na na na na na na na

You moved up the ladder at a very rapid speed
we moved methodically
and calmly when you got to the top you see enemies

if I knew back then what I know that
it would all turn out like this
I'd sit back and I'd watch you squirm
cause you say I'm different

the only thing different is
the way I feel about you.....
1 comment Tags: music, pietro

Song: Teenage Lobotomy" by The Ramones

Teenage Lobotomy
Teenage Lobotomy
The Ramones

Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy!
DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie
Guess I'll have to break the news
That I got no mind to lose
All the girls are in love with me
I'm a teenage lobotomy

Slugs and snails are after me
DDT keeps me happy
Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum
Gonna get my Ph.D.
I'm a teenage lobotomy 


Post a comment Tags: music, ramones, pietro

Thoughts on the Speedster...

Yay. More posting.


I've been thinking a lot about this interesting little situation that's cropped up between Pietro and Rogue - probably too much, since I started daydreaming while drawing at work the other day (but it was such a /slow/ day!) - and I'm still not sure how he'll react when he inevitably finds out about The Kiss. For all his predictable qualities I find it funny how /unpredictable/ Pietro can be. I think he's finally starting to break down that wall he's put up - that facade of being a complete ass. Not to say that he isn't an ass, of course. Just not a /complete/ one. But it's easier to write oneself off that way and easier to deal with the consequences that come from it versus those that come from serious, sincere relationships.

After all the fighting - physical, verbal and emotional - I think he's starting to get tired of the posturing - or at the very least, he's finding himself in need of a haven of sorts. To this point, Wanda has been the only one around whom he's felt even marginally comfortable enough to voluntarily show 'softer' sides of himself - signs that he actually thinks (some) things through under that narcissistic, quasi-apathetic exterior. I've also come to the conclusion that the more out of place, unfamiliar or otherwise off his game he feels around someone the more he swears - it's a sort of balance mechanism, a subconscious defense.

So now that he's starting to let himself open up to Rogue - even a tiny bit - that means he's going to feel all the more betrayed when he finds out about that one little kiss. For reasons I'm still discovering (yes, my Pietro-muse feeds me hints from time to time), he's resisted the undeniable urge to screw around since he's hooked up with Rogue. And for a guy who's basically been in relationships /for/ the nookie, that's saying something. So to find out that she kissed this random guy - because to /him/ Nikolai /is/ random (no offense to the char or player :) ) - it'll be like a slap in the face. And I speculate that it will hurt Pietro's pride on some level to think that she 'beat him to it' on the screwing around issue - yes, that's a twisted concept of masculinity he has going on. I still don't know if he'll try to 'level the playing field'. So much of his reaction depends on /how/ he finds out. But in any case, I think he's going to be positively sick for a while after everything is out in the open (well, /however/ much comes out).

[Edit: Now without that weird snippet about the 'Soundtrack of my Life'. Thought I'd taken that out already. *laughs*]

2 comments Tags: character development, rogue, rp, pietro

Setting the Mood...

Figure I'll kick this thing off with a bang...


Here's a video that I love and that reminds me a helluva lot of Pietro - and not just because it's Sid Vicious. ;)
[Edit: Okay... Well, I can't figure out how to embed it in this post, but the video is in my Vox library now, sooo... *points that a-way* :) ]
[ETA: I figured it out. Obviously. ;P ]

Post a comment Tags: music, punk, first post, video, sid, pistols, pietro …