Tuesday, 12 July 2011
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TODAY
Hoo. What's up? I feel energized. The problem with feeling energized is that it is difficult to sit still and do stoopeed school work- and when that's done, I have other sitting work to do. I should be out side sword fighting and swimming and running! *complain, complain, complain*
On the Music Division side of things, K.H.D. has released both an album and an EP since I last posted here. The album is an other compilation of squeaky clean remasters of previously unreleased tracks. Despite how frequently he throws releases at me, his work is actually getting better in stead of stale. He is a hard core force to be reckoned with feared. Since the "O" manuscript is finally complete, I have begun to pay the Shyft back catalog some long over due attention. Two years ago, in 2009, I rearranged and remastered Beat Shyfter and Drudge, the very first and second Shyft/Shyfted Minds releases. Now, I turn to SHM003: Random Overload to begin the same process. This is for three reasons, one: it feels like the right time to face that nostalgia, two: it has been eight years since the original version's release and I can't stand to think about how long I have put this off any more, and three: I rake my early albums for fitting music to use as themes for characters and scenes from "O". Now that the "O" manuscript is done, and by the way-
THE MANUSCRIPT OF MY FOURTH SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY NOVEL, "O", IS NOW COMPLETE
-I need to start thinking more about the sound track that will be a companion album to the book (and some day the film, cause it'll happen). Beat Shyfter and Drudge together contain six tracks that will appear on what will technically be a compilation known as the "O" Original Sound Track. Four more tracks have already been selected as theme music for the story from SHM003 and SHM005. Aside from that, I also need to spend time on editing the manuscript of course. My editor is almost finished with her work on it, and then I have to go over her fixes and suggestions while applying my own fixes and tweaks. It may be a long process, but I suspect that I got the story (not including punctuation and grammar) at least eighty five percent correct the first time. My path is clear, how ever. The difficulty will come after this book is published. Then what do I do? Continue working on an other story? Go on an other music spree? Spend all of my free time on promotion? The future is uncertain.
I finished the "O" manuscript just in time (along with two weeks' worth of school work so that I didn't have to bring it with) to head up to Bluefin Bay resort on Lake Superior with my family and my girl friend. The weather was awesome up there. Climbed a mountain. Climbed the rock along the shore for at least a mile. Got stuck at one point and had to brave the freezing waters for approximately one hundred twenty feet. After my brother and I found a pair of cute little water falls, we had to swim back. It was fun. It was great to be able to spend a whole week just lazing about and running around. Now I'm back to the routine and garrarrarrarr.
I got an invite to Google+. I haven't really checked it out yet, but I really, really hope that it over shadows Facebook because I'm sick of Facebook's crap and Myspace continues to be even worse. If Google wants to run a social network, Google will do it right. Right now I have two friends on there. There are apparently already over ten thousand users, though, so per haps that is soon to change.
I finally got around to listening to the 8bitpeoples discography in reverse chronological order. There is some good stuff on there. I particularly like Starscream, Random, Nullsleep, Trash80, and- holy crap- Rainbowdragoneyes. I checked out the side project of Rainbowdragoneyes, Magic Hammer, which has the outstanding description of being happy hardcore/power metal. It's not, though}=<\ It is eurobeat with extra guitars and drums some times. It even follows all of the eurobeat lyrical cliches. Still good, though! I found the last two projects mentioned while observing Red Ankh's competition at http://signmeto.roadrunnerrecords.com/, where I recently made an account for Red Ankh to see how it might help the project's fame. It seems like a really good idea for RoadRunner to create a music community like that, and it certainly makes it easier and more fun for their A&R department to pick up new acts. Note to self: get back to work promoting Red Ankh on there.
A few months ago my brother participated in a Nerf blade war. I thought it was a dumb idea, since I expected Nerf swords and axes to just fall apart after a few minutes of smacking them together. Apparently, they can hold up in an eight on eight battle (and these guys were all athletes; they were swingin hard). I foresee a larger Nerf battle occurring in the future. *now owns two Nerf maces* The beauty of using these soft, durable toy weapons (as apposed to wooden and polypropylene ones) is that we don't need skilled fighters in order to have a good time, a large scale battle won't be dangerous as hell, and you can hit people in the head without killing them. The main down side to bokken duels is that it takes a lot of practice and endurance training to have a good time. I don't know many people who have the eight years of experience that I do. Nerf may be a decent supplement, and the weapons are as cheap as bokken.
Over the week's end I was introduced to the fact that people have developed punctuation symbols to denote irony or sarcasm in a sentence. I had never thought of that, and it seemed rather intriguing. They of course never became used in a widespread manner, and were actually barely used at all, by little more than the writers who came up with the idea. A punctuation mark to denote sarcasm could be mighty helpful in text messaging, but what about fiction dialogue? Is it really necessary? Are the question mark or the exclamation point really necessary, then, if a question can simply be followed by 'he/she asked'- which is usually the case, any way. One guy allegedly came up with a whole handful of marks, such as the 'doubt point' (
), 'certitude point' (
), 'acclamation point' (
), 'authority point' (
), 'indignation point' (
), and 'love point (
) (I found that bit on Wikipedia). Those points even have their own unicode, I guess. I just copied and pasted them as text characters! As a writer, this concept excites me, but I worry about over doing it- and I am especially concerned about these foreign characters being difficult for readers to remember/follow. Much more recently than the percontation/irony point and the others I listed above, some body decided to create their own symbol for sarcasm, which looks like a saggy boob. Not only is it dumb looking, it also costs money, has to be installed, and only works on certain platforms (on some of which the symbol will only be useful if receiving parties have the application installed, too). Now that is going too far, and still- a backwards question mark might look too much like a question mark to reasonably be considered a whole new mark. Any way...Initiate self quote of the week:
'Every thing has been said before; every mountain has been conquered, so how do I live an original, fulfilling life? That's easy: in denial before a young audience.'
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