Category Archives: Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Last Breath (from Heavy Rain) by Normand Corbeil

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

This is from the haunting soundtrack to the Quantic Dream video game, Heavy Rain.  This short piece of music captures the sad feel of the game and the madness of the Origami Killer.  This score was compared by the late Normand Corbeil, who also worked in film and television.  He’s probably best remembered for scoring the 2009 reboot of V.

I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve played Heavy Rain.  I’ve gotten the good ending but really, it’s the bad endings that stick with you.

Song of the Day: “2085” AJR

Posted on by casewright

Case Wright

The song is all about failure. He’s clear-eyed that he’s run out of time. There’s so many things that he could’ve done, but now he’s broken and on his way out. It’s hard to face when things aren’t going to be ok- even these guys feel like failures and they’re rich and surrounded by eager groupies. What does that say for us plebes?

I can only write this from the male perspective. Maybe you keep going to spite your enemies? Maybe you keep going because you still have stupid hope? Maybe you keep going because you’re scared you’ll survive – sort of? Maybe you just keep going because you can’t afford your preferred means to end it? Maybe you keep going because yes it will get worse and yes you are failure, but most people are failures and you figure that you’re not even the worst failure; so, maybe there’s room left to fall? Maybe, like George Carlin suggested, you just don’t have the time to schedule it in?

Whatever your reason, eventually the reason will resolve; so, you need someone to remind you of a backup reason or we will miss you.