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[Apr. 1st, 2008|08:46 am] |
So, in the spirit of the day, a serious post, my first of the year in all calenders.
Of these three bands, which is the bigger sell out?
1. Metallica
2. Aerosmith
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers
I would include Green Day, but their last album didn't suck enormously like the others. |
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[Sep. 3rd, 2007|08:28 pm] |
Songs entitled Beautiful. And blind links. Everybody likes blind links.
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W?T?F?
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#7 is from Edmonton, but if I were to recommend just one, it would be #5, because it made my brain hurt. In the good way. |
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[Aug. 18th, 2007|06:07 pm] |
( videos )
Edit - I was trying to remember this song when I was looking, but was drawing a blank on the title and the singer earlier. Sadly, no embedding for this one. Beck - Loser . |
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[Aug. 6th, 2007|03:15 am] |
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In keeping with my recent tradition of only posting in months that begin with A. |
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[Feb. 7th, 2007|11:01 pm] |
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Holy shit, it's 2007? |
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| Music |
[Dec. 17th, 2006|09:31 am] |
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According to the handy-dandy counter in winamp, I still have 29 1/2 hours of music videos on my computer, totaling 17.1 gigs. That's not bad considering I haven't added any in years and I know there have been some removed since.
Under the Canadian copyright system, under an agreement the music and movie companies agreed to but want thrown out, any signal you can legally receive is yours to do with whatever you want, as long as it's for your own personal use. I can't legally distribute it, even for free, because I am not licensed to do so, but there is no limited use bullshit that they want to put into the act. If the canadian copyright system gets changed to the way the media companies want (You can record it for a single viewing/listen only, and then must immediately erase/destroy the copy) there are going to be a good deal of upset Canadians.
Now, I haven't read the specifics of the Canadian copyright agreement for quite some time, so I may be off here, but that is how I remember/understand it.
A quick google search tells me I'm very close, and also that the record industry mouthpieces in Canada are lying bastards that should have their tongues cut out and displayed in town squares.
From CIPO (The Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
Not infringement:
quoting a few lines of the article in a research paper (fair dealing);
playing records at home;
giving a public performance of a play by Shakespeare (no copyright exists/public domain);
obtaining permission from the author and paying a fee to him or her (if requested) in order to use an article; and
borrowing a musical tape from a friend to copy onto a blank tape for private use (a royalty payment to the owner of the song rights has been paid when the blank tape was purchased).
I have to assume music videos fall under the music part, instead of the movies part, but I couldn't see any specific instances. Anyways, copying music is not illegal if you are fortunate enough to live in Canada. That doesn't mean I'm going to go on a downloading spree, because that is illegal under the act. You have to copy the original cd/tape/record/8 track/whatever in order for this exception to apply, or have legally received the transmission from someone legally entitled to transmit it. Still, though, it makes me wonder if the US copyright law has the same sorts of exceptions.
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| Games |
[Dec. 16th, 2006|04:45 am] |
Since I downloaded Dosbox .65, I have been playing some of my old Dos games, and it has (repeatedly) brought up a very serious question.
Why do all the new games suck?
I thoroughly enjoy Madden 2007, with its crisp graphics and sound, realistic weather effects, and high impact gameplay. Despite this, or maybe because of it, it is actually less realistic than most of the football games released 10 years ago. The ref gets in your way, but never gets knocked down. You can absolutely destroy another player if they have the ball, you have the ball, or you're lead blocking, but you bounce off the every single time if one of these 3 conditions isn't met. A defender cannot simply knock a player down away from the play, or after the play, thus there is no unnecessary roughness penalty. There is no ineligible receiver penalty. There is no illegal formation or illegal man downfield penalty. AND, my biggest pet peeve of all, they totally fucked the pass interference penalty.
Wondering why I enjoy it? It's a video game, not a football simulator. The only thing that makes it frustrating is EA Sports and their illegal claim of "If it's in the game, it's in the game".
The original DOOM is still the single greatest FPS shooter ever made, despite the overabundance of obnoxiously bright greens.
Greatest RPG of all time? Ultima V, which, incidentily, I have never managed to beat without cheating. Why is it the greatest? There are meaningless characters inhabiting the towns that may or may not have relevance to the game later on, and if you kill someone 2 minutes into the game that it turns out you need 40 hours into it, you have to start all over again because you have utterly, completely failed, and you're forced to live with that knowledge.
In Oblivion, which I also enjoy up until about 15th level when everything in the game becomes more powerful than you are, if a person is important to the main storyline, or any active quest for that matter, you cannot kill them, no matter how many times you strike them down, no matter how many hundreds of arrows are sticking out of their bodies. They simply stand back up after 5-15 seconds and come after you again. Beautiful graphics, sound, spell effects, great ragdoll effects on the dead bodies, but absolute shit storytelling. In morrowind you could kill them, but it told you immediately after they were important and you should reload. Then again, in morrowind you could win without doing a single second of the storyline, which makes it the best of all the Elder Scrolls games.
So, my favourite games of each type I play are:
Sports/football:Joe montana's football
Sports/Hockey:Hockey '95
RPG:Ultima III or the original Pool of Radiance
FPS:Doom(obviously), then the Rogue Spear series (for MP)
Side/Up scrolling shooter:Tyrian or R-Type
Giant robot:The original Mechwarrior
Fighting: Soulblade/Soulcalibur 1/2/3 (I bought the PS for soulblade, the Dreamcast for SoulCalibur, and the Gamecube for Soulcalibur 2. I'll probably end up buying the PS2 or 3 for Soulcalibur 3.
Miscellaneous: Gauntlet (either of the first two), golden axe, aliens, victory road, contra, shinobi.
well. Enough ranting for now.
Edit: There's never enough ranting. I completely forgot the strategy category, so...
Strategy: UFO (X-Com 1), Dune 2, Archon, and Battle Chess
And, the greatest game of no partular genre, Another World (Out of this World). |
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[Dec. 11th, 2006|10:30 am] |
So, I'm flipping through late night infomercials, and one for the Sonic Blade kitchen knife comes on. As I watch, and they talk about how it easily cuts through meat, bone, and even rock, I start thinking, "Shit, it's portable, it's rechargeable, it would be perfect for getting rid of bodies."
Is that everyone's first thought? Should I be worried that it's been nominated for product of the year and thousands if not millions are going to be sold? Anyways, for all the hired killers on your christmas lists that you've been struggling to find a gift for...
wwm. |
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[Nov. 8th, 2006|08:44 am] |
I had forgotten how much of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) oblyvia I still have on my computer. I don't mean, "how many of her things" or something similar. I mean it as I said it. How much of her. There's a good deal of it that I've already put on disk and sent to her, and a good deal of it is just mp3s and videos, but there are little pieces of her scattered all over 2 of my 3 hard drives.
There are fragments of songs she wrote, that were/are in the preliminary stages. There's one I don't think I had heard until today when I was checking files to see which of them were the little guitar loops I had been playing with.
I still have her family pictures, including bassman42 at a very young age (no I won't be posting it. It was before they invented colour, and he doesn't need to be reminded about how he used to run around in a black and white world).
The previously mentioned mp3s and videos, some of which I don't like but can't bring myself to erase.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and, of course, Labyrinth. I musn't forget to mention the Bowie. Hours and hours of it. Thankfully I like just about everything he's ever done. Mick Jagger, if you're wondering.
Some time tommorow I'll see about writing down the words in the song. It might be called '5 years', but I couldn't find anything similar in her poetry. Not that she's posted everything she's written, but it seemed too complete to net get mentioned somewhere at least.
Oh well. It's late and I don't even seem coherent to myself, so, I guess, that's all for now.
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| Deathboy - End of an Error |
[Nov. 2nd, 2006|06:29 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Deathboy - Smile you Fuckers | ] |
I finally got Deathboy's second album today, and since it cleared customs as a commercial sample (essentially a promotional copy) I'm going to do a review of it.
A thorough review.
Including things that have nothing to do with Scott deathboy Lamb, the band (also Deathboy), the album End of an Error, the label, Line out Records,or even this album.
The first Deathboy album, "Music to Crash Cars to", released by the independent label Wasp Factory Recordings took a mere 2 business days (ordered on a friday, received it on tuesday) to make the 8000 mile journey. The second album took 7 business days (9 total). Both were sent out the day the order was received, both were shipped in bubble wrap lined packages.
Cover art and general appearance of the second album is superior. Production, done by Deathboy, Rico, and John Fryer (No link for him, sorry) is exceptional. The sound overall is more polished than first album, though still distinctly Deathboy.
As far as reviewing the songs, I will say only that Slip, amphetamine zoo, and angel on my shoulder are my three initial favourites, in that order.
So, ratings wise, for both albums
Shipping (label) MTCCT 5/5 EoaE 5/5 (Both shipped same day)
Shipping (Packaging) MTCCT 5/5 EoaE 4/5 (My EoaE cd arrived with a crack on the cover)
Shipping (mail) MTCCT 12/5 EoaE 4/5 (2 days by mail? God himself would be hard pressed to do better)
Packaging (Cover art) MTCCT 4/5 EoaE 5/5
Packaging (Insert books) MTCCT 3/5 EoaE 4/5 (I'm not a big insert fan, so this might be harsh)
CD (Production) MTCCT 3.5/5 EoaE 5/5 (MTCCT is lowered .5 by l-o-n-g pause before bonus song. Good song, annoyingly long silence)
CD (Song content) MTCCT 3.5/5 EoaE 4.5/5 (There isn't anything on MTCCT that I dislike, but only 2 songs I really like. Decimate and Parasite, for the record. On the EoaE cd, money and confidence is the only one I'm not entirely sold on, and while I don't dislike it, I'm not sure if I particularly like it either.)
SO overall that would be 36/35 for MTCCT, helped greatly by phenomenal shipping (realistically 29/35), and 31.5/35 for EoaE
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[Oct. 29th, 2006|09:18 am] |
I had just been thinking that, due to daylight savings time ending, theres actually a possibility that right now it is both yesterday and tomorrow somewhere. I actually think I'm too far from the dateline for that to really work, but it was an odd middle of the night thought I felt like mentioning.
Also, despite being thought up by a Canadian, time zones are stupid. Does it really matter if the sun rises at 8am or 12 am? It rises and sets at a different time every single day every non-equatorial place regardless, so does the number assigned to it make any difference? The same could be said to the named day assigned to a particular date. Right now, it is 2:27 am MST, on october 29 of 2006. Most people would call it sunday morning. I call it Saturday night. Does that make me wrong or everydody who disagrees with me on this point wrong. It's a trick question, if you disagree with me you're automatically wrong. Subjective reality is one of the only benefits of insanity.
wwm.
[Edit] Now that I've found a full version of the quote I was looking for:
Another favorite (John) Heisman story was the speech he used to make before a season began. Heisman would face his recruits holding a football. "What is it?" he would sharply ask. Then he would tell his players, "a football was a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn up tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing." Then after a long pause he would say, "better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." |
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[Oct. 29th, 2006|06:45 am] |
I'll have to measure again in the morning, but seeings how we had 7 1/2" of snow by 2 this afternoon, and it snowed at least 6 more hours after that, we probably ended up in the 8"-10" range in this last snowfall. I'm not sure how much they got in the city, but this is enough to be a nuisance, at least until I get the chains on the tractor.
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[Oct. 22nd, 2006|06:37 am] |
(Now I'm) Banished to the endless night (*night)
Can't come back until the stars are right (*right)
Yes, a Cthulu chorus for the unified Failed Bard story I started half assed working on. Starred (*) bits are either reverbed echo or simply repeated softer. That would all depend on the bits around it I suppose.
I had "In a bar in Waterdeep I start my little fable" stuck in my head while playing Madden (2007, enjoyable but seriously flawed). Then "Me of course, Tyr, and the Dwarf were sitting at a table". They're 14 syllables but probably 16 beats with a pause somewhere after little and sitting. There's still going to be a serious clash of styles when all the parts get hammered together, so I'm hoping I can pull off the poems within poems aspect.
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[Oct. 21st, 2006|04:06 am] |
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Well, I guess it's time for my monthly non-update. |
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| Zizou |
[Jul. 16th, 2006|11:34 pm] |
This piece, from the Jamaica Gleaner News, is probably the most interesting of the articles I've seen since the world cup.
My opinion on it is probably harsher than most peoples. In the old testament, on which all western laws were originally based, what Materazzi did was a crime punishable by death. What Zizou did was not a crime at all.
( full article behind cut ) |
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