Ha HA!! Now that I’ve been writing this blog for almost 5 years and have attracted a loyal cadre of what… 7 or 8 readers? I can put into action the next step of my evil plan, namely foisting my musical wankery on all of you. Recently, Dan and I have been trying to write a big, loud rock song about wakefulness-promoting drugs (Sample lyric: “Robots own the future anyway!”), but last night I was messing around quietly with my acoustic guitar and figured I’d try approaching the topic from the other direction. So, to that end, here’s the 1-track demo that I put together. The lyrics were kind of half thought out and half ad-libbed, as evidenced by the part at the end where I can’t come up with a rhyme for “around” and sort of trail of into a laugh and an “ah fuck…” Anyway, as with most music, this owes a lot to various other artists, but in particular I’d like to apologize to Iron & Wine for totally biting his sound, and I suppose to Robert Frost for some of the lyrics. Thanks guys!
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
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It’s always fun when gapingvoid.com appears to address me directly. (Previous example)
One time I had this philosophy teacher who said, “It doesn’t really matter what Socrates did on some random Tuesday morning,” or something to that effect. Well, here it is Tuesday morning, and these are the things I read on the inter-web so far today that I liked. I wonder what kind of things Socrates would blog about?
- Tomorrowland.org links us to his Amazon Listmania page which is hell of Zen. The #1 book on the list is by Terrence McKenna and features this great little snippet:
We in the West are the inheritors of a very different understanding of the world. Loss of connection to the Tao has meant that the psychological development of Western civilization has been markedly different from the East’s. In the West there has been a steady focus on the ego and the god of the ego—the monotheistic ideal.
Monotheism exhibits what is essentially a pathological personality pattern projected onto the ideal of God: the pattern of the paranoid, possessive, power-obsessed male ego. This God is not someone you would care to invite to a garden party. Also interesting is that the Western ideal is the only formulation of deity that has no relationship with woman at any point in the theological myth…
Only the god of Western civilisation has no mother, no sister, no female consort, and no daughter.
- Waxy.org directs us to this humorous article in The New Yorker, which features such dialogues as “A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table.” A brief sample:
MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
Okay, that is all for now.
Well to quote Diamond Joe Quimby, “Very well… If that is the way the winds are blowing, then let no-one say that I do not also blow.” In other words, curiosity got the better of me and I signed up for a twitter account. So why do you care? Well, because you have to join me, of course! And you’d better hurry up, before I lose interest too! What? You’ve never heard of Twitter?! C’mon… It’s all the rage!
[UPDATE] Oh, and I forgot to add that in the course of signing up and messing around with the app, I created a dummy account using a new potential pseudonym, Justa Testa. Is it good enough to join the ranks of such classics as “Eric Buyfont: International Man of Buying Fonts” or “Fuck Off: The guy who just wants the damn trial version already!!” Only time will tell…
Something about the new LCD Soundsystem album is hitting me in a really New Order way (some tracks, anyway) upon my first couple of listens. It’s maybe even reminding me of my favorite NO album ever. Can’t tell yet how well it will hold up to repeated listens (the first LCD album kinda got old for me after a couple times), but as for right now it’s definitely an early front runner for the Best of 2K7 list =)
We’re having a short film festival / contest at work tomorrow, so I created this clip:
You may recall the story of Mega Blast from a previous post here. The video was put together using free software that I just figured out how to use tonight, so you’ll have to excuse the extreme roughness around the edges. Also, it’s worth noting that on my local copy, the transition to the last screen actually does take place before the VO starts, but somehow that lost sync while uploading to YouTube. Oh well…
Browsing through the MAME archives today, and I figured I’d post some of the more ridiculously titled games here. The list is by no means complete, but hopefully worth a laugh:
baraduke (1985) – I think this is Marmaduke’s evil twin. He’s like Wario is to Mario.
bang bang ball (1996) – This sounds like an “adult” version of “duck duck goose”
battlantis (1987) – Potential Batman / Aquaman cross-over?
beast busters (1989) – It’s like Ghostbusters, but they kill them *before* they die.
beastorizer (1997) – Maybe it’s something you use in the kitchen?
bigfoot bonkers (1976) – I want to believe that this is a game where you hunt and hump sasquatches.
bubble memories: the story of bubble bobble iii (1995) – It’s actually just 2.5-hour long documentary, presented as a series of still frames.
caveman ninja (1991) – Really? It took them all the way until 1991 to put these two words together in a game title?
crazy kong (aka monkey donkey) (1981) – I just like pronouncing “Monkey Donkey” in various ways.
cyber-lip (1990) – Ouch!
derby quiz my dream horse (1998) – Hat Fart my Trombone Salsa
dwarf’s den (198?) – This is also the title of a reality show on TLC.
fancy world – earth of crisis (1996) – Something of wrong here.
fighting golf (1988) – They were at the alpha milestone before the “fighting” part got put in, I bet.
hard puncher (1988) – Precursor to “Advanced War Fighter”
finalizer – super transformation (1985) – Dammit, I totally optioned this script to Jean Claude Van Damme 10 years ago!
funky head boxers (1995) – I think I saw these guys play at a Ska festival in 1996.
Here is the mp3 of Bruce Sterling’s 2007 SXSW Rant:
Ready to drink from the fire hose? Hope so… =)
