| Bob's Furniture |
[Jan. 14th, 2010|05:02 pm] |
Haha jesus has it really been that long since my last post? Shit. I'm better now, mostly.
I think I still need to do the annual "year in shitty music" roundup, and I may as well do one for the WHOLE DECADE too. Literally nothing else has been going on except I started playing WOW. Unfortunately. |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2009|03:14 am] |
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Haha you can smoke a q-tip like a joint its pretty awesome |
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| Waves Break |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|05:07 pm] |
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Well I can confirm that the last nine months of my life have been a complete waste, whether or not that extends to the previous eight years is still up in the air. I'm just fucking speechless. |
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| Chasing Ghosts |
[Sep. 21st, 2009|09:33 pm] |
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Sick to my stomach. Feel like I've made a gigantic mistake. |
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| Pookie Weekend |
[Sep. 8th, 2009|03:44 pm] |
I had a very fun time spent with pookie this week(end) |
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| Origins of Fear |
[Aug. 31st, 2009|02:00 pm] |
Okay Pookie said I should make an entry about how I came to find out about all these ridiculous bands and it's something I was always sort of interested in doing so here we go. I won't be including anybody I found out about from the radio, MTV or friends because that's boring.
When I was younger and first getting into music I would get soundtrack albums for birthday/Christmas gifts, I guess because no one knew what kind of music I liked and soundtracks are just a big mish-mash of different shit. Probably the two that had the biggest impact later on are the soundtrack to Batman Forever and Friends: The Original TV Soundtrack (yeah). Batman Forever had "Crossing the River" by The Devlins, which also led me to Colin Devlin's solo career. Friends was even better though, since it had "Good Intentions" by Toad the Wet Sprocket which led to a huuuge obsession with them, Glen Phillips' solo career and the remaining band members' subsequent band Lapdog, not to mention Glen's multiple side projects (Plover and Mutual Admiration Society to name a couple). Friends also had two songs by Paul Westerberg, the former frontman of the Replacements, both of which I became totally obsessed with as well. The weird thing was I didn't get into any of these until yeeaars later (2002 for the Devlins, 2005/2006 for everyone else).
Other, far less influential soundtracks: Tangerine Dream did the score for Risky Business. Electrasy appeared on the soundtrack for the criminally underappreciated animated film Titan A.E., which I had because Lit was on it (found out about them from the radio obviously). The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine both appeared on the soundtrack for Lost in Translation. Polaris, Drop Nineteens and The Magnetic Fields all appeared on the soundtrack to the Nickelodeon show The Adventured of Pete and Pete.
The other chain that netted a lot of favorites is the "Antarctica Connection". Someone told me to go to epitonic.com in early 2004, so I did and found the Antarctica song "Absence" and really liked it, and I got their album later that year. From there I found out that Antarctica members Chris Donohue and Glenn Maryansky had founded a new band, Ova Looven, which also included guitarist James Minor, formerly of National Skyline. Maryansky and Minor went on to form another band, Blacklist. Former National Skyline member Jeff Dimpsey previously played in the band Hum, and Antartica member Eric Richter had played in Christie Front Drive. To top it off, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness released a single on Ova Looven's label Artikal Records, and the one-man-band Obfusc frequently collaborates with the Looven. I think that's everybody. Oh wait, someone said in a review that Ova Looven sounded like New Order and Underworld (they don't), so I checked them out as well. SHIT.
I found out about Black Lab from some old Third Eye Blind b-sides filesite since 3eb members Brad Hargreaves and Arion Salazar played on their song "Keep Myself Awake".
Found out about Elliott from The Emo Game. They covered the song "The Fan and the Bellows" by The Chameleons, a band also frequently lauded by the aforementioned Blacklist, and my resulting post-punk obsession also led me to The Sound. Also found out about A Northern Chorus and Gracer from a post on an Elliott board saying that they both sounded like them.
Found out about Ozma in 2001 from a forum post on the site for David Willis' webcomic It's Walky, saying that their song "Rain of the Golden Gorilla" reminded them of Walky and Joyce. Okay. If it weren't for Ozma I probably never would have listened to Weezer, but more importantly it led me to MP3.com, through which I discovered a number of bands particularly through the power pop and emo charts. Headboard, Rufio, Dashboard Confessional and what would become Cowalker, to name a few. Tucker from Cowalker, who I later became friends with on Xanga, said Denali was one of his favorite bands so I checked them out too, which also led me to Maura Davis' subsequent projects Ambulette and Glos. The Juliana Theory is also included among the MP3.com emo charts, but the story is even funnier in their case since I recognized their song "We're at the Top of the World" from the Disney Channel Original Movie Motocrossed, about a girl who pretended to be a dude so she could race in a motocross. YUP. Also found out about Prozzak from the Disney Channel, in that case the Lindsay Lohan joint Get a Clue. Pretty embarrassing. Whoa. When drummer Neil Hebrank left TJT, he joined The Fold which was totally reformed not long after.
Found out about Dark Star from a forum post on SA saying something like "This is by far the best album I have ever bought on a whim without ever hearing about the band". It's true.
Similarly I discovered The Pineapple Thief from SA in a thread about "bands that sound like Radiohead" (they don't for the record), which led me to their most recent album at the time (Holy shit), Variations on a Dream. In reading a review of the album the author stated that it was the second-best progressive album of 2003 after Porcupine Tree's In Absentia. I also discovered Bruce Soord's previous band Vulgar Unicorn through TPT, and of course there's Steven Wilson's solo work and his side project Blackfield.
Found out about The Shins and Frou Frou from the trailer for the movie Garden State, which led me to Imogen Heap's solo work. Likewise discovered Explosions in the Sky from the trailer for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, although the song in question was actually from the Friday Night Lights score.
Discovered Modest Mouse from "Gravity Rides Everything" appearing in a Nissan(?) commercial years ago. And while it's technically MTV, I found out about The Marvelous 3 from a commercial advertising the Hey! Album, and I followed them through to Butch Walker's solo career.
Started listening to the Gin Blossoms and Jupiter Sunrise because I was trying to impress two different girls, ending up liking them both. The former much more than the latter.
Yeah I'm done with this |
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| The Value of the Dollar |
[Aug. 18th, 2009|02:21 am] |
I just spent $60 on a 48-count set of Prismacolor art markers on Amazon. They were on sale, they're normally $180. The 156-count, which is apparently the largest they have, is fucking 700 dollars. I know they're supposed to be great markers but holy fuck.
In the same trip I paid $5 over MSRP for Universe Hot Shot and twice MSRP for Universe Ratchet. Also I managed to get Revenge of the Fallen Jetfire for just a little over retail price, but he's supposed to be super rare so I feel like that's justified at least.
Just shy of $200 total. There goes my monthly shit-I-don't need budget and then some.
(Okay I don't feel as bad about the markers as the Transformers)
Edit: Those aren't the only things I bought, so don't go thinking I spent $140 on toys. Shipping was $40 too, since everything but the two Universe figures are being shipped separately for whatever reason. |
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| I guess I'm more or less obligated to do this now |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|04:18 am] |
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| | Ova Looven - Those Who Never Wake | ] |
It's been up for like a week at this point but Ova Looven has ANOTHER new song up, "Those Who Never Wake". It's actually the first new song since "Permanent Sensory" about a year and a half ago, since "Lost Extensions" was part of an older song and "Close Your Eyes and Daydream" was technically a remix (although I still say that so little remains of the original song and so much was added that it's more like a cover).
I've gotta say, I'm not that impressed. It's certainly not a bad song, but it really doesn't bring anything new to the table. I almost think the signature icy guitar that appears in virtually every song of theirs is becoming overused. Throughout 58:34 and as recently as Gravity Has Expired, the guitar was almost always used for background atmosphere rather than acting as the driving melody as it does here.
Moreover, this song drifts almost into pure rock territory, since barring the occasional glitchy-staccato percussion, there are virtually no electronica elements to found. It's definitely driven by a drum machine, but the drums sound like regular old snare and bass drums. Part of the charm of Ova Looven was that they used almost exclusively electronic instrumentation but generally maintained an alternative rock sensibility and song structure. It's kind of weird to go back and listen to 58:34 after the more recent stuff, since it's virtually techno dance music in comparison. It's like the band is going full circle and becoming Antarctica again. Which isn't bad, per se, I'm just going to miss the electronica shit.
All that said, the song definitely gets a thumbs up on its own, but if it's indicative of the atmosphere of the forthcoming album as a whole I'm kind of disappointed. And speaking of the album's release, this is a pretty good sign! If National Skyline and Blacklist finally released full-lengths this year, Ova Looven can too! Come on James Minor*, you're my good luck charm.
*Guitarist of Blacklist and Ova Looven, former guitarist of National Skyline
BTW You can pretty much disregard any negative statements in this post since I would literally eat the shit out of Chris Donohue's asshole |
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| Comic bullcrackerery |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|10:14 pm] |
Came up with a pretty interesting idea for a comic (well, for any medium, really) last night while watching the first part of that awful, awful "Impact" telemovie. Present day, astronomers discover that some horrible catastrophe will befall the Earth in just a month's time. Let's say a hundred-mile wide asteroid is going to strike the planet, it doesn't matter. It cannot be stopped, and when it hits, not only will all life on Earth be wiped out instantly, the planet itself will be totally annihilated, there's no going back. There's just enough time to mobilize an escape plan for a very small amount of people via some jury-rigged spacecraft. Maybe they're going to Mars, maybe they're just voyaging on endlessly through the cosmos; again, it doesn't matter.
What does matter is that obviously 99.999999% of Earth's population is going to be killed. Who is chosen to continue the human race? Members of the government? The military? Scientists? Young people? Just a bunch of randomly-chosen individuals from around the world? Rather than centering on the disaster itself, it focuses on the challenges of the chosen few, their struggle for survival, and how they deal with losing everything they ever knew and being tasked with ensuring the future of humanity.
Part of me just wants to end it there and have it be a story about the human condition against a science fiction backdrop, but I don't trust myself not to go full-out scifi and have the survivors be adopted by some Star Trek/Stargate-esque network of intelligent extraterrestrial species (realistic ones, not rubber forehead ones) and having to cope with being an endangered species in an alien world. I don't know if I want the story to be that hopeful.
( Once I start writing I just can't stop! ) |
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| Gobblin' up the tiniest pieces of shit like they was candy |
[Feb. 4th, 2009|04:41 am] |
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| | Ova Looven - The Killer Six Lost Extensions | ] |
New(ish) Ova Looven song up on their MySpace, "The Killer Six Lost Extensions".
Basically it's the outro loop of "The Killer Six" from Gravity Has Expired for six minutes, but with some added effects mostly involving some FUCKING AWESOME guitar wankery. With this and a few photos being posted the other day (the first activity on the account in over a year that I'm aware of) I'm hoping this is a precursor to the new album's announcement/release, but I'm not holding my breath.
I have no idea what this song is. Was "The Killer Six" originally supposed to be 15 minutes long and this part was cut out of the album version because of time restraints/just being too long? Is it just a remix/revisitation of the original recorded after the fact? Is it (best possible answer barring a new album) the harbinger of a possible extended CD release of Gravity Has Expired (which was only available on vinyl and is now out of print)? I do not know! But I ain't complaining!
Chris Donohue (I presume) is disheveled and sad :(. |
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| 2008 was a pretty bad year for new music (for me) |
[Jan. 27th, 2009|04:08 am] |
Okay, it's almost the end of January but I wanted to "briefly" do some reviews on the new music I got in 2008. All in all a pretty bad year, especially compared to 2007, which saw new releases from some of my favorite artists. This year it's mostly new stuff from bands I've more or less stopped caring about in recent years. And except for, like, Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Eminem's Best-Of and Alisha's Attic (which I am embarrassed to admit liking - fortunately no one in the U.S. knows who they are) I didn't even get into any new artists this year. Not great! But here we go anyway.
( Whoops I guess it's not so brief after all ) |
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| Radio Atlantic. |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|04:04 am] |
Just as a forewarning this post is going to be excruciatingly long and I doubt anyone reading this will care about it. It's pretty much just for my own amusement when I'm reading it a few years from now.
So as some of you may know i have been "writing" "music" under the moniker of Radio Atlantic (or Stereo Atlantic, depending on how I'm feeling that day) for like ten years at least. The thing is, while I love music, I'm not a musician. My method of "writing", at least over the past few years, has been to basically freestyle melodies into a mic for ten minutes with some kind of "style" or "mood" in mind. Usually at least some good material will come out of this. Sometimes I just come up with a tune in my head out of nowhere. I have never in my life sat down and written a song from scratch. Because of this most of my "songs" are just melodic pieces, usually just a chorus without a verse or vice versa. Then I've got some that are just lyrical concepts without music. It's fucked up.
Now, I own a bass guitar and a really shitty keyboard. I could probably play a simple bass line if I wanted, but I have absolutely no desire to pursue it or buy any accessories/pedals/whatever for it. Over the past couple months I have been trying to teach myself a bit on the keyboard, chords and such. I can play "Collapse the Light into Earth" by Porcupine Tree in its entirety, but it's only five chords over and over again. I can play a bit of "Transatlanticism" by Death Cab for Cutie too, but my chords are voiced totally wrong and I don't care enough to figure out how to play them correctly.
Ideally I would like to get some sort of MIDI keyboard and record stems and mix them on the computer (which is something I actually do have experience in, having dicked around in Audacity and done rudimentary remixes/mashups of songs (I posted an extended version I made of "Strip the Soul" by Porcupine Tree here earlier this year), so it's not entirely a pipe dream. However, it's a money issue again. I don't know why that is, since I have a decent-paying job and don't have to pay rent for the time being. I am, for some reason, more eager to spend my money on fucking Transformers than instruments or decent art supplies to make a comic or ~~follow my dreamz~~
But the reason I even bring this up is because, after being totally apathetic about it for the bulk of college, I have recently regained interest in writing songs. I have written a few since April or so, and they're generally more substantial than the little snippets of earlier songs. So I think I may try and do something with this "band" of mine soon. It's one of my many New Year's resolutions, none of which I will follow up on.
( So here's the part where I get totally self-indulgent and even the most generous reader should stop. This part is purely for my own amusement (read it anyway). ) |
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| Ova Loathin' |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|12:38 am] |
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| | Ova Looven - Permanent Sensory (again!) | ] |
Welp after a year or so Ova Looven finally changed their MySpace description from "New Full Length 2008" to "New Full Length Sometime Soon". So that's balls.
At least they/he did those two Obfusc remixes earlier this year so they're not totally dead. It's just weird that they'd put up a song presumably from the new album and then not say anything at all about it for the next year.
Also Artikal Records hasn't been updated since April 2007. I'm thinking that I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness single is the only non-Ova thing they'll ever release, since Blacklist has been dead for the last year as well.
In vaguely related news Third Eye Blind (which used to be my favorite band) put out an EP last week which is the first thing they've released in almost six years. I might actually make a separate post about it since it's surprisingly good (well, musically, not so much lyrically).
In totally unrelated news I am ashamed at myself for having ignored The Office for so long.
Oh also I got a job. |
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| Toot Toot |
[Oct. 2nd, 2008|09:32 pm] |
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| | c'lapse da lite inta earf | ] |
CORRUPTION ON WALL STREET
NUCULAR!!! |
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| Whorphan Works |
[Sep. 29th, 2008|10:47 pm] |
Man I don't know shit about this Orphan Works thing (which is coming up again for some reason) but I find it ludicrous that anybody seriously thinks such a bill will pass. Because, you know, the U.S. government exists solely to oppress its citizens.
As long as I'm talking about politics, toot toot all aboard the Sarah Palin hate train. Seriously I am terrified of this woman. She honestly believes that on Palm Sunday Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a Protoceratops. |
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| owie (lol) |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|09:55 pm] |
Apparently I have an inner ear infection and swimmer's ear simultaneously
MY EAR HURTS A LOT
IT FEELS LIKE THERE IS A CUP IN MY EAR
...A CUP OF HELL |
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| WE GOT DODGSON HERE |
[May. 14th, 2008|08:50 pm] |
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| | Dawson High? Fag. | ] |
Haha Wayne Knight's Wikipedia article is great:
...Knight was cast as the bumbling overweight InGen Corporation's chief programmer for the park and spy for Biosyn, Dennis Nedry...
...During the mid-to-late 1990s he simultaneously played prominent supporting roles on three different TV series on NBC playing the part of the obese mail man Newman in Seinfeld...
...Knight is now currently voicing the portly black cat Mister Blik on the Nickelodeon cartoon Catscratch. He also voices the heavy dragon Dojo Kanojo Cho in the Kids' WB! animated series Xiaolin Showdown. He also voiced Evil Emperor Zurg on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command on Toon Disney and Disney Channel, Al McWhiggin, the plump toy store manager of Al's Toy Barn, in Toy Story 2. Tantor the morbidly obese elephant in Tarzan and Demetrius the rotund shopkeep in Hercules and also made guest appearances on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as the over sized Jack-O-Lantern and Brandy and Mr. Whiskers as Mr. Cantarious the unusually large snail. He recently voiced the blatantly fat Bug Juju on Tak and The Power of Juju.
I'm pretty sure it's vandalism but it's been up a while and no one's caught it. Which is kind of sad actually. |
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| Now what |
[May. 12th, 2008|12:15 am] |
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| | Jupiter Sunrise - Kaye | ] |
Man the one thing I'm not going to miss about college is living in an apartment with a bunch of noisy faggots
Actually I'm not going to miss anything about college but especially not that
edit: Okay I will miss popcorn chicken tortilla salad bowls but that's it |
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| It sure is! |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|01:23 am] |
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| | Dark Star - Bigger Than Love | ] |
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| SNOZZIT? |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|06:06 pm] |
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| | Ghoog Udaulz - Luck He's Tar | ] |
lol i just sneezevomited |
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| Clash |
[Mar. 23rd, 2008|06:44 am] |
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| | M. Twenty - You Won't Be Mine | ] |
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| Chug |
[Mar. 21st, 2008|11:14 pm] |
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| | GGD - Amigone | ] |
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| Filling the Hole |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|01:26 am] |
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| | GUESS | ] |
(I am talking about Porcupine Tree in this post)
Aw hell naw I just cut an 18-minute version of "Strip the Soul" based on the demo version from Out Absentia. It required reincorporating ".3" (which was removed from Strip the Soul and extended into its own track on In Absentia) into the middle of the song and splicing the clean studio versions of both songs into the demo. There's still unaltered parts of the demo in my version, and although there's a fair bit of noise in the demos (plus they're 128kbps) I crossfaded between the two long enough that the difference in quality between the two isn't really noticeable unless you know it's coming.
Mostly I'm just really happy with how well it turned out. I've re-mixed (not remixed) songs before for my own amusement - splicing the two versions of "Wayward Pilot's Mission" by PRG and trying to make some sort of uber-False Cathedrals with the Photorecording versions of the FC songs, for instance - but this is by far the biggest project I've done and the only one where I've had to actually save the song as an Audacity Project in case of fuckups.
My favorite part (7:20 - 7:40) was changing a guitar part from 3/4 (as in the studio version) to 4/4 (as in the demo) by crossfading between the two versions on EVERY SINGLE beat (okay it was two measures long but still). There's a little bit of popping still, which is due to a bizarre glitch in Audacity when cutting out parts of the waveform, even if it's silent. But it came out way better than I thought it would.
So I think I'm going to attempt to make an uber-version of In Absentia like the aforementioned uber-White Hot Peach and uber-False Cathedrals. I want to splice the studio versions of "Trains", "Wedding Nails" and "The Creator Has a Mastertape" with the extended parts of their demos, and reincorporate the b-sides into the album. I dunno if I'll stick the other demos from Out Absentia on there since they are, as I said, not the greatest quality. Plus, with demos and all it would probably end up being something like 20 tracks and 2 hours' playtime which is probably overkill.
Anyway here's a link to the file in case anyone cares enough to download it IT WOULD BE NICE OF YOU. Its 24mb which is pretty big I guess.
Wow this is by far the most self-indulgent post I've made in in my long, sad history of self-indulgent posts. |
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| Out of the paleo-loop as usual |
[Dec. 8th, 2007|12:53 pm] |
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| | Ova Looven - Permanent Sensory (lol) | ] |
So T. rex has three fingers now? What the hell?
STOP RAPING MY CHILDHOOD, SCIENCE |
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| I'm OVA LOVIN' it |
[Dec. 6th, 2007|03:29 pm] |
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| | Ova Looven - Permanent Sensory | ] |
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHIT new Ova Looven song on their myspace
I was getting worried we wouldn't hear anything about the FULL-LENGTH for a year after it was originally promised like what happened with Gravity Has Expired
It's funny though because the connection here during the afternoon is so shitty I can't load the whole thing at the moment, so I'll probably have to wait until late tonight to hear the rest of the song. But what I can hear sounds pretty Ova Looveny. Not enough guitar though, the amount of guitar (and entire analog bass line in The Last Song!) on Gravity Has Expired made me think the band was shifting back to a slightly more electronic version of Antarctica. I'm not complaining though. Plus this is just one song.
P.S. For those not in the know, 1 part post-punk + 1 part shoegaze + 1 part IDM + 2 parts synthpop = Ova Looven. |
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| holy shit |
[Oct. 10th, 2007|03:35 am] |
Unbelievable.
Hey, anybody want a free copy of Half-Life 2, the best game ever made according to everyone?
edit: I'm averaging about 25kb/sec downloading Portal and Episode 2 right now. Fantastic. But at least Steam's working now! Right? lolz
fake edit: OH SHIT! Portal is at 1% now after about half an hour! |
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| arghin' |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|10:59 pm] |
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FUCK, STEAM, FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK |
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| An Indecent Proposal |
[Oct. 7th, 2007|05:00 am] |
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| | Blur - The Universal | ] |
If I were to post the script for the first chapter of Drome: Shattered Paradise would any of you actually read it and possibly critique it so I can get some outside input on how shitty it is, or does no one even care about that shit at this point?
P.S. It's cheesy as fuck also SELF-INSERTION LOL (not really)
P.P.S. The whole script (a first draft at least) will be done by Thanksgiving. I am absolutely 100% serious about this. I have never been so serious about anything in my entire life.
P.P.P.S. Therefore it's actually fairly likely Drome will appear in its intended graphic novel form online in early 2008. Depending on how busy I am with my LAST SEMESTER IN COLLEGE (HOLY SHIT), that is. |
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| Iss tha muh'fuckin' REE-MIX |
[Sep. 18th, 2007|12:22 am] |
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| | Alabama Zone | ] |
Hey.
You know, I used to think that 3D animation was a scourge upon the earth and was going to ruin traditional animation forever. While that's still true, the newest target in my sights is the more recent and growing trend of 2D Flash-based animation anywhere that isn't the internet. I mean, Code Monkeys? Slacker Cats? It's not that being animated in Flash necessarily makes it shitty automatically (though it does), it's that any uncreative schmuckass can make a HILALIOUS show on a ten-dollar budget. And boy do they ever.
I don't mean to pull a Kricfalusi here, but fuck, when garbage like Hoodwinked or Valiant or whatever assy non-Pixar CG film invariably grosses higher than, say, Curious George (which is the only 2D animated film I can even think of that's been released in the past few years), it's not just me. Thank god Disney took their head out of their collective asses and decided to go back into traditional animation. I hope the Frog Princess or whatever doesn't suck ass and ruin everyone else's chances.
TITAN A.E. WAS A GREAT MOVIE - EXCEPT FOR THE CG! IT EVEN HAD LIT AND ELECTRASY ON THE SOUNDTRACK WOW
As a totally unrelated sidenote, if you say "Reesie's Peesies" in front of me you are fucking dead to me.
Also I have been doing this since the last time I updated boy am I going to regret posting this. IF THE INTERNET WANTS TO HEAR MY VOICE WHILST PLAYING DOOM FOR SOMETHINGAWFUL.COM THIS IS ITS CHANCE |
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| 3rd Annual Happy Bearffday |
[Mar. 24th, 2007|09:11 pm] |
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| | Glen Phillips (oh god help me) | ] |
No response 100% guaranteed this year
bonus retarded tiger image:
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| 8o |
[Feb. 16th, 2007|11:57 pm] |
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| | Shitty stand up comedians (redundant) | ] |
Okay it is midnight on February 17 and I am going to stay up until the new Ova Looven record gets put up in the Artikal store so I can order it as soon as possible and hopefully get all the extra shit they say they're going to give to the first 60 people to order. I think it's a 58:34 CD and then there's some vaguely described "online remix album" involved so I guess that might be cool but it might just be the Q and Not U remix thing. I don't know.
TRIP REPORT!
12:30 AM - It's been half an hour and no dice. I'm ready to give up!
1:15 AM - Yeah I wasn't really expecting it to go up at midnight but I don't know if I can take the chance of going to bed now.
2:33 AM - Okay Chris Donahue is obviously a faggot. I am going to bed and they better not have put the damn thing up for sale before morning unless they plan on selling <60 copies (the alligator's mouth is pointing away from the invisible variable). If that happens I think they'll find they're not my second-favorite band anymore. I want an Astrid remix dammit (meta-humour).
12:50 PM - BOUGHT. I got up like 9:30 and it still wasn't up so I went back to sleep and just got up again so hopefully it hasn't been up for that long. There were two packages, one with the FUCKING AWESOME POSTER and one without. The choice is obvious. I hope I still get the extra stuff but probably not. I guess I'll have to wait and see. Also they'd better have shipped the damn thing while I'm home next week because I really don't feel like waiting until April break to listen to it. Assholes.
So I guess that's it. |
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| Jesus Camp |
[Feb. 10th, 2007|12:21 am] |
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| | Toad the Wet Sprocket - MMMBop (Live) | ] |
Let's meet at my house on Sunday before the game.
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| The War on Terror |
[Jan. 31st, 2007|03:56 pm] |
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| | Drop Nineteens still | ] |
They just found a "mysterious device" with Ignignokt on it in Boston and now there's like a citywide terror alert this is hilarious
Edit: AS MANY AS 10!!!!!! |
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| Fuck cartoons |
[Dec. 9th, 2006|09:52 am] |
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| | Tom Kenny's horrible voice | ] |
What the hell I'm watching "My Gym Partner's a Monkey" for some reason and there's Curb Your Enthusiasm music all over the fucking place. |
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| Prehistoric Pork |
[Nov. 15th, 2006|10:31 pm] |
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| | Toad/Sprocket - Don't Go Away | ] |
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| Three Days Earlier Than Last Year; Vermont Sucks |
[Oct. 22nd, 2006|09:25 pm] |
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| | From Autumn to Asses - They're the Best at Ruining My Life | ] |
It's fuckin' snowing. It's fuckin' snowing.
CD is literally killing me, BTW. I didn't bother updating Friday because I am dying. |
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| Grapes are already a fruit btw |
[Oct. 12th, 2006|12:42 am] |
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| | The Pineapple Thief - Crash (The 8 Days Later One) | ] |
Does anybody seriously think grapefruit juice tastes good? I mean, Jesus Christ. I almost gag every time I masochistically drink it. Also, it has to be straight grapefuit juice, it can't have oranges or some shit in it too. Not even cran-grapefruit, because even though cranberries are pretty bitter too, they somehow nullify each other's shittiness. It's not even an "acquired taste" like tea or coffee or beer, it's just plain fucking disgusting. FUCK YOU. |
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| Wednesday Morning Up Date |
[Oct. 11th, 2006|04:32 am] |
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| | Primitive Radio Gods - Smoke to the Boss (Ironically) | ] |
Coma Divine: Absence
The Deadwing layout makes its triumphant and long-awaited return! Goodbye, shitty Sweet Venus one.
I listened to some Isis samples on iTunes and besides the fact that almost every single song sounded the same, they were gentle like a mother holding her newborn baby in her arms, slowly rocking back and forth, back and forth. I will probably actually make it home before Thanksgiving so I can check the other "METAL" fags out, although I expect nothing but disappointment. Also give me the name of an album or something by "Gospel" because doing a search for "gospel music" or "gospel band" is pretty ineffective and they're not on Wikipedia as far as I can tell. |
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| The quintessential and probably last post named "Coma Divine" |
[Oct. 9th, 2006|05:01 am] |
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| | Toad the Wet Sprocket - Before You Were Born | ] |
Oh shit, here we go!
It will update MWF as long as I can manage, which probably won't be for long. I am procrastinating on this, my own project, way more than I ever have on anything I didn't want to do. Go figure.
And I didn't touch the site all week like I said I would. Surprise! On second glance, though, the template layout doesn't look that bad. It just needs a logo and some more links for "about" or "cast" pages or whatever.
Oh well, it's up. Finally. Bitches.
I'm sorry the first page, being a chapter title, is kind of a cop-out, and Wednesday's page will be the one I posted last week. But hey, Friday brings never-before-seen material! Yay!
Hexen II is kind of a mess.
I have to take a shit now, bye. |
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| Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln |
[Oct. 3rd, 2006|10:52 am] |
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| | The Magnetic Fields - Why I Cry | ] |
So I had to write a paper on "a person" for my writing class. I did it on Paul Westerberg, naturally, because I'm a fucking tool (I've been suprisingly light on the Westerberg gushing on here besides the icon(s), you guys are lucky). So anyway, the professor looked over our first drafts on the weekend and left me a couple awesome comments.
When I mentioned The Replacements, he wrote "A great band IMHO" in the margins. Awesome #1.
Then at the bottom of the page he wrote "TRUE STORY: my brother sold his bass to the Replacement's [sic] bass player [Tommy Stinson]." AWESOME #2.
He was already in the running for being the best professor I've had here, but this seals the deal. Any semi-old dude that likes The Replacements is a-okay in my book (although I guess he wasn't that old when they were around). He even wrote a book about ghosts! Here's to you, Alan Boye. Don't fuck me over with a research paper later on.
Lol you take english? You fag. |
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| Wow this is a big surprise |
[Oct. 1st, 2006|11:33 pm] |
Yeah so I think I'm going to delay the launch on the website for a week or two while I do up a template that isn't just one of the premade ones that they (Drunk Duck, who I think I made a big mistake signing up with) offer you.
I will still post the individual strips here on the intended date though, because you (two) guys (girls) have been patient enough as it is. So I guess I'm still sort of coming through, right?. I mean it's not like anyone's waiting for the site itself, which is going to be shit either way.
I should probably come up with a CD-related LJ icon because although Steven Wilson came up with the name he doesn't really have anything to do with it beyond that. I'm using tags now though! |
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| Another Dilemma |
[Sep. 29th, 2006|09:25 pm] |
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| | Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways, Phase II | ] |
Okay I've been finalizing the first strips for publishing (!!!) on the site next week and now I'm conflicted as to whether I should run it in color or black and white.
Here's an example of the first actual strip I have done in both (it's just a redraw of the original, so nothing new yet). Click for big.
 
So here's the thing. While I planned on doing the strip entirely in color, I'm not a good colorist at all. When I turned the color layer off in Photoshop I thought the black and white looked better.
So here's the pros and cons:
For color, it's potentially prettier to look at and even though the environment in the comic is pretty bleak it might add some definition to it? I don't know. But it adds an hour or two to the process of making a strip, which already takes two or three hours as it is.
For black and white, it's mostly just saving time. It's obviously more bland than color, but I can add more pencil shading to future strips to add a little more definition than this particular strip has. I added a wrinkled paper texture to the panel for ambience and more definition, but that can be easily removed if anyone thinks it looks like shit.
There's also a grayscale version, but it's just a desaturated version of the color one. So, even though it might look the best, it doesn't save any time at all and is basically pointless.
So. I want to know which of the two anyone else thinks LOOKS BETTER (i.e. don't tell me what I want to hear). I know I have delusions that more than two people actually read this but if anyone else happens to be reading this for whatever reason let me know what you think because it would bring some happy sunshine into my miserable life for a couple minutes. So, even if you never comment on my self-aggrandizing artistic masturbation, do it anyway this time. Pretty please with sugar on top?
I'm going to be away for the weekend so my next exciting post will probably be a link to the site. I can't believe I'm finally coming through on a deadline. How uncharacteristic of me. |
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| Metalocalypse |
[Sep. 28th, 2006|02:37 am] |
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| | Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Layby | ] |
Okay here's an interesting request.
So my search for finding a good 80's punk band like the Chameleons were fruitless, because I think the type of music I was thinking of never existed or at the very least was not actually punk.
And, more importantly, I need to get out of this faggy quasi-folk rut I've dug myself into with the Westerberg and the Toad (the Wet Sprocket).
Now I want metal. METAL. Yeah, that's right. But I'm extremely picky.
I just listened to Blackwater Park by Opeth and I'm thinking oh shit this is awesome. I've listened to Opeth before and liked them alright, except for one thing which I'll get to in a second. But this song was OFF THE HOOK. I'm pretty sure I don't not like metal in general. But here's the thing.
As soon as Cookie Monster makes an appearance, it's total shit and I cannot listen to it ever again. Cookie Monster ruined Cave In's last album for me. I don't mind regular old screaming, hell, I love From Autumn to Ashes (but that's because I am an emo fag). But Cookie Monster is a big bag of wrong.
So here's the criteria: I want the more melodic (I guess?) metal type of stuff. Gateway metal, not death doom grind apocalypse. Obviously. Examples would be Deadwing- and especially In Absentia-era Porcupine Tree and most of Opeth's latest stuff. I don't know what else there is, that's the problem. But it must have actual singing or maybe no vocals at all and must not have Cookie Monster in it AT ALL. Well-known bands are fine and probably better, actually, because I'm not going to work my ass off looking for some shit that I won't end up liking.
fake edit: Some Dream Theater stuff is kind of close but generally not metal enough. Also I don't really dig entire albums of 15-minute songs anymore, the novelty has worn off.
fake edit 2: Probably not any of that Scandinavian shit either, simply out of principle.
I'm sorry I'm so pathetic guys :'(
It's pretty obvious who this post is directed to! Don't be an asshole and ignore me! |
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