Archive for November, 2006
A Musical Meditation – Music Moves Me
So, after yesterday’s post accidentally slipped into a maudlin meditation on my musical needs. I ended up sending an e-mail that carried on talking about music even more. I’m just reposting a chunk of what I said there here. Then I’m going to carry on talking about music.
That Okay with you crazy kids?
Good.
It just came [...]
Ponderous Ramble – What Motivates Me and Makes Me Who Me Are?
So, first up the good bit. I’ve finished my Nano. Well that’s not entirely true. I got to the 50K boundary after which I could call myself a winner. I dived over the cliff and through the finish line with a wonderful woman I have never met called CJ (I know her name but believe [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Mania Descends Upon Me – And I’m feeling good
So, lots of little bits make for a boring but necessary post. Well…I need it..and I feel I’ve been far to inactive the last week considering the number of hits I’ve had.
Anyway, Nanomania, depression, excitement, lack of sleep, being hellbound, birthdays, gigs, trying to be good, and cricket have led to a rollercoaster ride [...]
Transcription from a Train Journey – A Restoration of a Good mood
[The following is a transcript of notes made on the second half of a train journey from Brighton to St Albans. I'm gonna be accurate to the feeling of the moment and just write what I wrote in the notepad. However I find it difficult to read my own decrepit and malfunctioning hand writing at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 11 so far )Tiredness and Creativity – I am now an artist
Something different. Here we explore the link between me being silly and me not having had enough sleep.
Basically, after the previously mentioned gig, I didn’t get enough sleep and had to get the train back to Brighton. Lovely journey, because I was so happy to see everybody from back home. (Gig was incredible by the [...]
Lazy Lazy Lazy
Want to post but have to focus on Nano and other things. Too busy to write anything real but want to give you something good.
Raincoaster saves the day with an ‘inspirational’ (possibly demotivational…depends on your character type more than anything else) message from the grand lord of the depraved and deluded and oppressed and sub [...]
Attention Londoners and those that Love to Travel for Electronica and Art
Just a quick message that a friend of mine is putting a night on in London. Visual (moving and static) art with audio art (music mostly). Some really good people playing. I believe the phrase is up and coming, Ie nobody’s heard of them, but a lot of this is good. There is information here, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Capitalism, Bigotry and Beats – What’s Hip Hop really all about?
So, I decided I was going to write something today and couldn’t work out which one of the many that came to mind I should right about. The other two plans involve gender identity and me, and Freud and Bullshit. They will come soon, but right now I’m taking advantage of an opportunity to link [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 11 so far )Nanowrimo Disaster Averted (or rather rectified through mass of drunken effort)
Had a great evening writing at work after a lovely day meeting up with all the local nanomonkeys. Wonderful wonderful, until I got ready to go and ‘backed up’ my writing onto my pen drive. Only problem was I had actually been saving to the pen drive. So I deleted everything I had written. My [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 16 so far )Saddam must be Hung – Wait a second…Do I think that?
Just a quickie. Basically no. I’m sorry, I know the guy was a bit of an arse (and yes..I’m intentionally underestimating his arseyness here…it’s intentional) but I don’t think he should be killed….punished certainly…for the rest of his life..but not killed. Why the hell does everyone think its fine. Since when did it become the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 11 so far )Gender in Half Life 2: Episode One – Will Alyx ever get her hands dirty?
So this is half silly I know, but only half silly. As I was playing through Half-Life 2: Episode One (which incidentally, was brilliant, the game still looks gorgeous and runs smoothly, expanding the narrative and raising a few questions while not interfering with being a great game…my only gameplay criticism would be that it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 8 so far )Cipater – Autechre
Hmm, really crunchy beats (I mean seriously crunchy), with a nice smooth bassline underneath (very low in the mix) thoughtful whining noises ambulate around the main beat too. Very Nice
Its a bit like being in a quite funky trash compactor at a high speed and surviving the whole mechanism running through repeatedly. There may even [...]
Hooray for Rumsfeld and the Orchestra of Death – Finally the bastard conductor is out of the way (although he may just be first Violin)
So, I’ll start off by saying I know next to nothing about US Politics. But this bought a smile to my face. Everything I know about Rumseld indicates he’s an absolutely reprehensible idiot. I just found out that Nixon..that’s right Nixon…the ‘unholy pig fucker’ (HST) himself…called this guy ruthless and evil (or something similar)…I mean…seriously…jsut [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )Nanowrimo Update – Vikings and Vegetarians at a breakneck pace
Well, not quite breakneck. But certainly plodding along at a reasonable rate. The only stalls have been my hectic weekend (which seems to be overrunning) but I’m getting some done everyday, and I expect today to work out pretty well by the time I’ve finished work and then got back home and carried on through [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This has nothing to do with the Neverwinter Nights 2 Review ‘Scandal’
While the above is true, it was this series of events, as I read about them at Penny arcade, that got me thinking about RPG computer games and I what I like about the different types. From what I understand about this big old hoo ha (and I assure you I haven’t researched it thoroughly), [...]
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