Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

I love it when, on a whim, I search for an insanely specific mashup for no real reason despite not expecting there to be any results that are even reasonably close to what I searched for, and it turns out there are such results after all.

Recently, I was on YouTube and out of nowhere decided to search for "enya smw soundfont" just to see if anything would come up - despite highly doubting* I'd find anything even remotely similar to a Super Mario World-style cover of an Enya song, especially since I think I've even searched for that exact query at least once before and nothing interesting** came up.


GUESS WHAT???




Okay, sure, I searched for Super Mario World and got Super Mario 64 instead, but still... this implies that someone thought it would be interesting to remix Enya songs in the style of a Mario game, and that person ISN'T ME.

Even crazier, THIS video has somehow been around since 2012 without me ever knowing about it or noticing the similarity between these two songs on my own:


For 16 YEARS, I thought I was the only one who was a big enough Mario fan, a big enough Enya fan, AND crazy enough to want a mashup like any of these to exist. Finding out that these videos exist (and especially reading some of the comments on them) feels so weird... it's like I'm reading conversations between lots of copies myself from alternate dimensions. :P

Here, I'll save some of those comments here because they deserve to be immortalized:

"Enya's Island" also known as Ireland.

Make sense that She owned a castle which can make her a boss.

You have no idea how happy this makes me. I thought this and needed it to be made, turns out it already has been. Thanks for this.

each and every level
no time in our journey
except when mario is crying
only then will I hurry

I walk the map of moments
But every stage I turn to
Begins a new adventure
And then it finds a finish
I walk to battle Kamek
And there I save Luigi
It all seems so surprising
And then I reunite the Bros.

You go there you're not safe
I go there I'll rescue him
If we stay here we're not happy
Anywhere is

Did enya plays Mario bross? Lol xD

They both were published in 1995 O.o What came first? The Enya or the Yoshi Egg??

Simple: Enya. She wa born long before Yoshi was

Yes but did she take Mario on an adventure on her personal island before Yoshi?

HOLD IT! The question in the original message was in fact "Which came first, the Enya or the Yoshi Egg?" He never mentioned the original release date of Anywhere is, he was asking if Enya came before the Yoshi Egg, and Enya was certainly alive BEFORE the release of Super Mario World, the first appearance of Yoshi, and, therefore, the Yoshi Egg!

So... it really is Enya's island.... O.o o.O

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Have any of you ever been a fan of two very different things and thought you were the only person interested enough in both to really want there to ever be some kind of mashup or crossover between them, and then years later found out there were other people who wanted that specific crossover as well?

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*Okay, yes, Character.AI exists now and is still the BEST THING EVER because it makes it possible for an AI simulation of Enya to talk to AI simulations of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rosalina, Lubba, and like 200 other Mario characters I still haven't yet had her meet. But that's because there are users on that site who are Mario fans OR Enya fans. I would be surprised if I went to a random user's profile and saw Enya AND Mario in the list of bots they made, or even if anyone besides me had ever made that one Enya AI talk to a Mario character. Hence why I still thought it was far-fetched to expect there to be actual results for "enya smw soundfont" on YouTube.

**Well, there is this video I discovered about a decade ago, but that's Mario Paint Composer. That pales in comparison to someone editing Enya's head onto Yoshi or someone adding Mario references to the lyrics of an Enya song or someone suggesting Enya could be a boss in a Mario game because she has a castle. :P Also I managed to find 8-bit covers of several Enya songs, which I like, but those aren't Mario-specific so that doesn't really count either.

So since I'm running out of T-shirts that fit and was thinking about asking for new T-shirts for Christmas anyway, I've been looking through to find some new shirts I want, and I happened to come across this:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/431942-thank-you-mulder

I can't believe this is actually a T-shirt!!!! I've had a userpic similar to this for 12 years (that I can only use on DW and not LJ right now thanks to the stupid paid account payment situation) and NEVER expected anyone else to make a Mario/X-Files mashup AT ALL let alone one so similar to my userpic. I love it!!!!!!


Now, if only someone would make an "Enya is part Yoshi" T-shirt... :)

About time I posted another one of these. If I'd stuck to my intended schedule of posting my Miiverse backup entries once a week, this would've been posted between June 24 and 30, 2018.

I'll get caught up someday...

At least I can prove I'm still capable of posting entries that don't mention the Quidd drama!... wait a minute... DANG IT! :P

← June 2013 01/01/2014 →


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/17/2013 8:45 PM

For my birthday I got (along with other games and things) money to get NSLU from the eShop, so I'm gonna do that now… If I'm not back in an hour, send a not-being-distracted-by-Miiverse after me XD

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(I wonder what I was doing if it took me three whole days after my birthday to post this. Probably playing Kid Icarus: Uprising - I got that for the same birthday, but didn't get to post about it on Miiverse for a while because there were no 3DS game communities back then except for Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.

Also, I think this is the only time I posted about a game that was out by then, but that I didn't have yet. I may be wrong though.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/17/2013 11:14 PM

Got NSLU and liking it so far! I wish there were an official in-story explanation of why Mario's not there, though, if only so there wouldn't be fan speculation... But I'm liking the game :)

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(That's how you know that this post predates Game Theory's "Mario is Mental" videos - I found some other Mario-related fan speculation annoying enough that I had to post a mini-rant about it.

Also, like the next few, this ended up in the NSMBU community instead of NSLU because for whatever reason, New Super Luigi U didn't give me nearly as many opportunities to post from in-game, which was the only way to post in the NSLU community at all.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/17/2013 11:32 PM

My sister is REALLY enjoying playing as Nabbit and being invincible :)

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/20/2013 12:47 PM



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(Despite making a lot of posts/drawings about things that happened to us in specific New Super Mario Bros. U levels, this is the only time I ended up doing so about a specific New Super Luigi U level. And I don't even know what level it was except that it was clearly a castle.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 07/20/2013 2:08 PM



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(This is the second of my only two Miiverse posts to have no words, and technically my last post in the NSMBU community since the next NSLU-related post actually made it to the NSLU community.)


New Super Luigi U Game Posts
Matt 07/23/2013 10:28 PM

Beat the game!
Why is it that this is the first time I've gotten asked to post to Miiverse in NSLU?

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(Again, this is my first AND last post in the NSLU community. I think we continued playing New Super Luigi U for a while after this, but not long enough for us to get around to 100% completing it unlike with NSMBU. I should finish that someday. This was also my last Miiverse post of 2013 - it would be about 5 or 6 months [139 days, to be exact] until I finally started posting again, setting another new record for my longest hiatus.)

For whatever reason, I only made two Miiverse posts in March 2013. I have no idea why I posted so few of them that month even though it was when I was still pretty obsessed with Miiverse, or why I somehow still ended up two weeks behind my self-imposed schedule for these Miiverse rerun entries regardless.

*rereads my LJ entries from March 2013*

...okay, I guess that answers my first question, at least.

Well, whatever, here's my Miiverse posts from March 2013. :)

← 02/22/2013 - 02/24/2013 04/08/2013 - 04/19/2013 →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 03/09/2013 8:47 PM

Beat the game!
I guess copyright info is too important to pop out of bubbles blown by Baby Yoshis...

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 03/14/2013 10:10 PM

Got all five ★!


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(And then after this, it was another 25 days until my next Miiverse post, setting another new record for my longest hiatus from Miiverse.)

Yep, this one's also late... On the plus side, stay tuned - in the next Miiverse backup entry after this one, I finally post in communities that aren't NSMBU or Nintendo Land a couple of times! :)

← 01/06/2013 01/10/2013 →

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/07/2013 8:08 PM

Tropical Refresher


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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/07/2013 9:39 PM

Swim for Your Life!
DEAR FISH: Eat Bowser instead! I hear he's delicious!

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(This is the closest I ever came to actually following the "DEAR BOWSER:" prompt that comes up sometimes.)

New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/08/2013 11:14 PM

Flight of the Para-Beetles
This was a lot easier this time, considering! Also, Parabeetles make such cute noises :)

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/09/2013 7:47 PM

Fuzzy Clifftop


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I was supposed to have posted this one last week. This feature just keeps steadily getting less and less regular...

← 01/01/2013 01/05/2013 3:30-5:30 PM →


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 9:12 PM

Dragoneel's Undersea Grotto
Considering how hard Dragoneel is to avoid, how did we beat it with 3 Star Coins on 1 try?

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 10:18 PM

Which-Way Labyrinth
Sorry, Boos! In Soviet Russia, Baby Yoshis scare YOU!

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(Huh. Apparently my first two [and only two, I think] Soviet Russia jokes on Miiverse were a mere four days apart. I thought there was a longer time span than that between them.)


New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 10:35 PM

Flight of the Para-Beetles


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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/03/2013 11:13 PM

Seesaw Bridge
This level seems even harder the second time around…

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 01/04/2013 10:45 PM

Spine-Tingling Spine Coaster


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Why am I still calling this Miiverse Backup Twuednesday if half the time I'm not sticking to my planned update schedule of every Tuesday or Wednesday?

Oh well, here's the last four of my 33 Miiverse posts in 2012! :)

← 12/30/2012 midnight-9:30 PM 01/01/2013 →


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 9:40 PM

Octopus Dance
Finally made it to Stage 3!

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:02 PM

Pikmin Adventure
1-player mode as Pikmin: In Soviet Russia, Olimar follow YOU!

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(This is probably the first Soviet Russia joke I ever made - not just on Miiverse, but ever. I used to find them overused along with many other Internet memes that I hadn't heard of before 2008 or so and didn't understand, but then when I discovered mezzacotta in 2011, I really liked how certain characters make surreal Soviet Russia jokes - with this one probably being the most famous - and decided Soviet Russia jokes in general weren't so bad after all. Most of the Internet memes that annoyed me back then are a lot funnier than certain more recent Internet memes...)

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:32 PM

Balloon Trip Breeze


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/30/2012 10:56 PM

Yoshi's Fruit Cart


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It's Tuesday so here's some more archived Miiverse posts. Getting close to the final battle in New Super Mario Bros. U in these reruns! :)

← 12/29/2012 4:00-5:30 PM 12/30/2012 midnight-9:30 PM →


Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 5:31 PM

Takamaru's Ninja Castle


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/29/2012 6:19 PM

Yoshi's Fruit Cart


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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/29/2012 10:46 PM

Snaking above Mist Valley
I spin-jumped into a Paratroopa trying to clear the clouds away. Oops!

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/29/2012 11:40 PM

Red-Hot Elevator Ride
Easy level... all you have to do is dodge PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE.

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Yay, my first few Nintendo Land posts! And you get to see what is probably my first attempt at drawing my Mii!

← 12/26/2012 12/29/2012 4:00-5:30 PM →

Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 8:19 PM

Nintendo Land Plaza
So far I've only played Yoshi's Fruit Cart, Pikmin Adventure & Balloon Trip Breeze, but enjoying it!

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:02 PM

Octopus Dance


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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:06 PM

Octopus Dance
I'm bad at this :(

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Nintendo Land Community
Matt 12/28/2012 9:24 PM

Metroid Blast
The controls are gonna take some getting used to...

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New Super Mario Bros. U Community
Matt 12/28/2012 10:44 PM

Switchback Hill


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