add 124 commentary collection citations + lots of dates

also some new commentary yippeeeee

1 files changed, 82 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml
index f674d7bf..b59511ed 100644
--- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml
+++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-b.yaml
@@ -136,9 +136,12 @@ MIDI Project Files:
   Files:
   - 'Green Ghost - adamus (piano).mid'
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Monobrow:</i>
+    <i>Monobrow:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
+
     So my song, Cosmic Surgeon?  People told me to enter a contest that came up right around the time I finished it.  It was for the Homestuck Fan Album, which actually turned out to be 2 albums lol.  So yup, I entered, and I was one of the winners, in fact it's actually the first track (track 1 is an opener)... I'm kinda astonished by that today, but I guess it fits!
+
     About the song, I called it Cosmic Surgeon because of John and that big drill thing he did... And the whole cancer thing.. So I guess the song did kinda cater as a theme for him already.  What a coincidence that as soon as I make a remix, I can enter it into a contest right away and it actually wins.  When I wrote it, I just really wanted to capture how the entire comic made me feel at the time, especially after watching Cascade.  It's a theme for John, but I also think of it as kind of a real "Homestuck" theme for the entire thing, I guess, as a lot of people kinda obsess over Doctor...
+
     Anyway, I remastered this version of the song, and added a few other elements, and instrument balance, per a couple suggestions by Radiation Fox... So you can think of this as more of a Cosmic Surgen v. 0.1...
 ---
 Track: Orchid Horror
@@ -160,13 +163,17 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Chorale for Jaspers
 - Black Rose / Green Sun
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>David DeCou:</i>
-    ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgwWhsMYgXXX5g_F4Yl4AaABAg))
-    <blockquote>Probably one of my favorite songs on the album.
-    I'm curious, what songs are remixed in this?</blockquote>
+    <i>David DeCou:</i> ([YouTube comment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgwWhsMYgXXX5g_F4Yl4AaABAg), 4/13/2012)
+
+    > Probably one of my favorite songs on the album.<br>
+    > I'm curious, what songs are remixed in this?
+
     Thanks! The first five notes are from Chorale for Jaspers, and I used that twice in the song. I also used the chord progression that's often used in Sburban Jungle in the middle section with the drums, organ, piano and strings. (actually, a lot of homestuck songs) but the rest of it is original I'm pretty sure.
-    ([YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgzZnx3ouFO3y5zD49B4AaABAg))
-    <blockquote>I thought I heard Black Hole/Green Sun, and also, if you squint your ears just right, it sounds a bit like The Dangerous Symphony (not a Homestuck song)</blockquote>
+
+    <i>David DeCou:</i> ([YouTube comment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X2PbLNfQ&lc=UgzZnx3ouFO3y5zD49B4AaABAg), 4/15/2012)
+
+    > I thought I heard Black Hole/Green Sun, and also, if you squint your ears just right, it sounds a bit like The Dangerous Symphony (not a Homestuck song)
+
     Black Rose/Green Sun is a great song. I did use the same sort of chord progression that's in there. It shows up in a lot of Homestuck songs though I think.
 ---
 Track: Red Disc
@@ -187,7 +194,8 @@ Art Tags:
 Referenced Tracks:
 - Atomyk Ebonpyre
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Nathan H.:</i>
+    <i>Nathan H.:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
+
     This was the first entry I made for the contest, and likely the one that took me the longest to complete; probably because I was running into walls during transitions while trying to keep whole song congruent. Nonetheless, I think it turned out great. I had a battle between Hephaestus and Dave in mind as I wrote the piece, and took inspiration for it from the first few boss fights in the game Dark Souls.
 ---
 Track: Blue Atom
@@ -222,7 +230,17 @@ MIDI Project Files:
   Files:
   - 'Blue Atom - Unknown (piano).mid'
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21739915695/cyan-beastblue-atom-commentary), excerpt)
+    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt, 4/13/2012)
+
+    <b>Heh. Didn’t expect Radiation to actually put that in.</b>
+
+    “! - Blue Atom was, at one point, called ‘Jack and Jade’s fantastic corpseparty.’”
+
+    Only for a little while. I was trying to think when it could possibly happen and I thought the most <s>amusing</s> inappropriate time for the Jam would be for Jade to be jamming with Jack Noir just after Dave got all shot up and before he was revived.
+
+    *(Continued in [[track:cyan-beast]])*
+
+    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21739915695/cyan-beastblue-atom-commentary), excerpt, 4/24/2012)
 
     First off, people seem to have been saying a lot of nice stuff about the two tunes I wrote and I’d just like to say thanks!
 
@@ -232,13 +250,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     Technical note: Sometimes when I think I've finished writing something I'll find that it's a bit too long and something needs to change, this was one of those times. The sound you hear at 3:53 is the sound of me finding a way to avoid playing an extra intro/verse and tightening up the song a bit. Using almost the same build up heard earlier in the piece and changing the resolution at the end has the added advantage of (hopefully) making you think it's heading back towards the intro riff until the key shifts in the last bar and the song jumps straight to the final chorus.
 
-    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt)
-
-    <b>Heh. Didn’t expect Radiation to actually put that in.</b>
-
-    “! - Blue Atom was, at one point, called ‘Jack and Jade’s fantastic corpseparty.’”
-
-    Only for a little while. I was trying to think when it could possibly happen and I thought the most <s>amusing</s> inappropriate time for the Jam would be for Jade to be jamming with Jack Noir just after Dave got all shot up and before he was revived.
+    *(Continued in [[track:cyan-beast]])*
 
     <i>Petra K.:</i> (track artist, [Tumblr](https://sigimigi.tumblr.com/post/18631349704/i-havent-done-a-decent-watercolor-painting-in))
 
@@ -284,11 +296,15 @@ Art Tags:
 - God Cat
 - Rabbit
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21739915695/cyan-beastblue-atom-commentary), excerpt)
+    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/ducksual/21030369047/heh-didnt-expect-radiation-to-actually-put-that), excerpt, 4/13/2012)
 
-    First off, people seem to have been saying a lot of nice stuff about the two tunes I wrote and I’d just like to say thanks!
+    *(Continued from [[track:blue-atom]])*
 
-    I wrote some track commentary for my tunes, thought I’d post it here as I don’t know when/if all the submitted commentary will be posted. Feel free to ask me stuff if there are things about the songs I don’t cover that you want to know about or if you have any recording questions.
+    Side note, the working title for 'Cyan Beast' was 'Heir of the Dog'. Which is probably worse.
+
+    <i>David Ellis:</i> (composer, [Tumblr](https://ducksual.tumblr.com/post/21739915695/cyan-beastblue-atom-commentary), excerpt, 4/24/2012)
+
+    *(Continued from [[track:blue-atom]])*
 
     This piece started as an offshoot of a song that was very loosely based on John and Jade's three year voyage between the two windows. I felt that the theme that became the chorus to this piece needed to be at a higher tempo than the rest of that song so I took it out and based this tune around it instead. It was originally titled 'Heir of the Dog' as I was still thinking it could be either a Jade or a John piece at the time and wasn't certain who I'd end up submitting it for (also because terrible puns).
 
@@ -324,7 +340,7 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Aggrieve
 - track:carefree-action
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Ryan Ames:</i>
+    <i>Ryan Ames:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
 
     I don't want to clog up the audio post so I figured I'd make a separate post for my reasoning behind the different parts of the song!
 
@@ -411,11 +427,16 @@ Sheet Music Files:
   Files:
   - 'Emerald Terror - Phantasmicka.pdf'
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Elisa McCabe:</i>
+    <i>Elisa McCabe:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
+
     First of all I have this unreasonably intense love of Jake that I can't really entirely explain. Uh. So I definitely wanted to do a song for him. The main idea I started out with was that I'd do a song with two parts, the first part representing Grandpa Harley, then I'd have it morph into the second part, which would be for post-scratch Jake. I first thought of having a literal record scratch but man that sounded dumb :] I referred to the first part, to myself, as Grandpa Harley, and the second part as Hellmurder Island.
+
     For the Grandpa Harley part, I spent about half an hour listening to/watching ragtime piano and vaudeville acts on youtube, to refresh myself on the types of intervals and suchlike that they used. Then I just made it up.
+
     I wanted to make Hellmurder Island really dramatic. I had some (not particularly complicated) scenes of Jake running around on his island that I was making it a soundtrack for. Like...the first section is just...running around in the jungle. Then there's him standing at the top of this huge waterfall, and some birds take off, and the last part is him fighting something or being about to enter the SBURB session. Whatever shit is about to get real for him. :3
+
     The song is mainly influenced by ELO's 'Jungle', haha. Mainly in the way it goes, "duh DUH, duh DUH!" I love how that sounds. I tried to do more jungley percussion but it didn't end up sounding that good. I made the drum track in this app, which I pretty much use for all my drum tracks cuz it's awesome.
+
     I did everything except the guitar - which was my bandmate playing - in Garageband using my midi keyboard and various soundfonts. I'm so in love with the one that does the main melody. It's a flugelhorn. It just sounded so much like Jake to me!
 ---
 Section: Additional Mayhem
@@ -442,6 +463,7 @@ Duration: '2:27'
 URLs:
 - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/squiddle-song-2
 - https://youtu.be/eWNMf4-ZMOQ
+- https://soundcloud.com/isthatwhatyoumint/squiddle-song
 Cover Artists:
 - Maya Kern
 Art Tags:
@@ -506,10 +528,26 @@ Lyrics: |-
 
     it's time to make new squiddle friends
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Maya Kern:</i>
+    <i>Maya Kern:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
+
     well i really love the squiddles? and the squiddles album is one of my favorite albums.
+
     but i think a lot of it is because i'm not super great at writing music on demand? like, i write music all the time, but only when inspiration hits. and since there was a deadline, i didn't quite have that option. i had tried writing a very different song before that with... not great results. i mean, it's not a bad song, but it's very unspecific and was not a good homestuck song.
+
     so then i just decided i would write something silly and the squiddle song came out! because silly, i can do
+
+    <i>Maya Kern:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/isthatwhatyoumint/squiddle-song) / [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/mayakern/15420603007/isthatwhatyoumint-squiddle-song-for-lack-of-a), 1/5/2012)
+
+    my first (and maybe only?) entry for the homestuck music contest!<br>
+    i will be incredibly shocked if this makes it in hahaha
+
+    <i>Maya Kern:</i> ([Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/mayakern/18598207373/isthatwhatyoumint-im-a-good-artist-okay-time), 3/2/2012)
+
+    <img src="media/misc/squiddle-song-tumblr.png" width="250">
+
+    i’m a good artist
+
+    okay time to pick the giveaway winner!
 ---
 Track: Pendulum
 Artists:
@@ -817,7 +855,7 @@ Cover Artists:
 Art Tags:
 - Jake
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer)
+    <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
 
     Dapper Dueling was inspired originally by a Steampunk band named The Cog is Dead - after listening to the song I just linked, I tried to take down the general feel and basic instrumentation, and then work on my own from there. Instruments used in the piece are:
 
@@ -835,7 +873,7 @@ Commentary: |-
 
     Let me also point out that it made me extremely happy to see in canon that Jake bounces from side to side before he is about to fight; it was the exact image of him I was hoping for.
 
-    Also, while composing, I imagined Dapper Dueling to fit a fight scene similar to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCMfprPJoA), from Sherlock Holmes (2009).
+    Also, while composing, I imagined Dapper Dueling to fit a fight scene similar to this ([dead link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCMfprPJoA)), from Sherlock Holmes (2009).
 
     <i>Max Wright:</i> (composer, [YouTube description](https://youtu.be/clnLNQkB5O4), excerpt)
 
@@ -924,19 +962,32 @@ MIDI Project Files:
   Files:
   - 'Dord Waltz - adamus.mid'
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>Elaine Wang:</i>
+    <i>Elaine Wang:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt))
+
     Fun facts:
+
     "Dord" is a rather amusing typographical error that occured back in 1934 when someone in the Merriam-Webster editing staff misread "D or d", intended as abbreviations for density, as "Dord" and... made up a pronunciation for it. (Whoops.)
+
     Given Roxy Lalonde's penchant for drunk typing^W^W lexicographical creativity, I thought it was appropriate. The accidentals, at least as much so. As for the waltz part of it... well, I have no idea either.
+
     It was written as a Roxy song. It will now be a Roxy song until the end of the Internet.
+
     I came up with the title first and the music second. The accidentals were there the first time I put down the notes. (They are going to stay there.)
+
     The above is not normal for me. I have more recently taken to using random word generators to title my music, because I often struggle with that.
+
     I am told that the song has some similarities to Endless Climb. That part is most definitely not deliberate. Not going to rule out subconscious influences though.
+
     The album art is by merrigo. She (?) does cool work. Go look at her tumblr too.
+
     "Dord" is a real thing that happened in the Merriam-Webster in the 1934 edition. Read the article for more information.
+
     A dord is also a kind of instrument. There's none of them in the song, just so's you know.
+
     Although if you're willing to play Dord on a dord I can send you sheet music.
+
     Full disclosure: I'm not actually finished with the Dord sheet music. Remind me in two weeks and I'll probably have something.
+
     The above two points also apply even if you aren't going to play Dord on a dord. (I have no idea what the range of that instrument is, so whatever.)
 ---
 Track: Rustless Fall
@@ -979,9 +1030,12 @@ Referenced Tracks:
 - Harlequin
 - Toccata and Fugue in D minor
 Commentary: |-
-    <i>James Roach:</i>
-    As a lot of you know, my track Pipeorgankind was featured in last night's Flash! I used melodies and themes from several talented musicians to create this track, and orchestrated/arranged them for fun! I never thought it would become anything!
+    <i>James Roach:</i> (via [early commentary collection](https://hsmusic.wiki/media/misc/commentary-collection.txt), around 11/29/2014)
+
+    As a lot of you know, my track Pipeorgankind was featured in last nights Flash! I used melodies and themes from several talented musicians to create this track, and orchestrated/arranged them for fun! I never thought it would become anything!
+
     I thought it might be fun to show you all the nods and themes I used in the track! (though unless otherwise stated its Showtime, throughout)
+
     - 0:00 [[Showtime (Original Mix)]]
     - 0:35 [[Warhammer of Zillyhoo]]
     - 1:05 [[Explore]]
@@ -994,4 +1048,5 @@ Commentary: |-
     - 3:32 [[Harlequin]]
     - 3:43 Zillyhoo/Toccata line
     - 3:56 I wrote in a Breath, (or whats called a Grand Pause!) since John was the Heir of Breath!
+
     Thanks for all the overwhelming encouragement and support! I wouldn't be here without you guys!