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Through the hell and back again

Posted over 4 years ago
"Oh MOG, why?!", "No, please, no! Make it stop!", "What the F-Word?!", "Aaargh!", "Urgghh?!", "Grrrrr!!", "I want to die!", "I want YOU to die!"... Well, this post had many names before the fury passed on and I regained my conscience and clear thinking. It took me three days.

To make the long story short, publishing my first article here on MOG ("When even the dead dance":http://mog.com/Melies/blog_post/123404) was a royal pain in the ass.

Of course, it wasn’t just fault of the site alone - blame my sick preciseness (that’s not something you should envy) forcing me to re-make the whole text again and again (and again and again…) just because all gaps between the lines (or lines and pictures/players) were not the same size. Nevertheless, I really don’t thing writing the whole text right and solely in HTML code is the best solution. Temporary, maybe. Certainly not for everyone.

And that’s not because HTML is difficult or chaotic - in my humble opinion it’s the most elegant and accurate way to write texts over the internet and I use it in a daily routine. The problem is that almost every goddam site understands it in a different way! Naturally, the differences are not abysmal, but that’s sometimes the biggest problem – when I found out that the only thing I had to do was to write the whole code in one line (at least in the troublesome parts) I thought I would jump out of the closed window, crying a song (© Jethro Tull).

Anyway, enough of this sodding technical rubbish – let the soft rhythms caress our skin and mind :-) Here is a piece of music that saved my life during the bad times (after deleting and rewriting the whole post for the fourteenth time). Ooh, such a beautiful way to break my heart, pa pá páám…

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Comments (5)

  1. Dzendvokh
    Dzendvokh says I have never really gotten into Beck like I know others have, but I still appreciate his songwriting. I might just have to check out Midnight Vultures, cause he's sounding pretty good tonight. And a tip on the posting thing, If you only have one song, or even if you have a list of songs you want to post, you should still upload at least one through the regular way (rather than through the embed code which I think you are doing here) that way it will be counted. There can only be one song that is officially in the post. Mog is frustrating at times for sure. Thanks for the post.
    Permalink posted 11/11/2007
  2. Melies
    Melies says Yes, you are right, I used embed code because otherwise (using the classic ~ something ~ formula) the whole text became ten times smaller (?!). Why? I really don't know :-( Although in the end I made some changes that could return it to normal but I wasn't in the mood to edit it for thousandth time... I hope my next post will be finally normal :-D PS: Talking about Midnight Vultures - Beautiful Way is TOTALLY different from the rest of the album so don't be surprised. Personally I think that better way to Beck's world is through Odelay, Mutations or Guero - Midnight Vultures is more suitable for dance floor and what's more, it contains possibly the worst song he ever created - Hollywood Freaks. Brrr.
    Permalink posted 11/12/2007
  3. Bartleby
    Bartleby says I couldn't agree more with you on HTML and MOG. I'm still trying to figure out how force a proper text alignment for my posts. The frustrating part is how a post will display on your MOG and how it'll appear on the general "READ" section of MOG. I've given up all hopes of ever having it right. So I'll sit back and relax to your beautiful choice of a tune. It's true that Midnite Vultures is a more of a bouncy collection of electric tracks and your digging this up reminds that I need revisit it soon. (I've got a special fondness for this "Sea Change")
    Permalink posted 11/17/2007
  4. Melies
    Melies says The difference between the profile and the Read section is really a BIG problem - but I hope (knock, knock on a wood) that I have finally found out the proper structure: check out the "HTML code":http://www.kofex.sk/Other/WhenTheDeadDanceHTML.doc for my 'When even the dead dance post', maybe it will help ;o)
    Permalink posted 11/18/2007
  5. Neill
    Neill says

    It all works fine now...

    ;)

    Permalink posted 01/25/2009

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