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grindmonkehBooks read thus far this year...
The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures... - Stephen Sansweet
The Orc King: Transitions I - R.A. Salvatore
Lord of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - by Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
My wife bought Gunslinger Born for me for Valentine's Day to add to the list of scholarly reading I've done so far this year.
I took four days off last week and now this week I'm doing everything that the incapables couldn't. It's the kind of work I enjoy, but I have a seemingly endless list of it. I was off work for three days taking online classes/training for an asset management application (Zenworks) that we'll fire for effect in the next couple of weeks. The class was 9 hours a day with a couple of ten minute breaks and an hour lunch, with a lot of boredom (lectures) and a lot of application labs, all in the comfort of my own home and pajamas.
Bran IM'd me about an hour ago and let me know that Mason has tonsilitis. She picked him up from school and he's likely spent the day in bed playing the Simpsons game (Wii!) we got him for his birthday yesterday. I've been playing a lot of Super Paper Mario lately on the Wii...World 4-1. On the PC I've been playing Quake 4 (which seems to be a whole lot of the same same same as far as the Single-Player goes), Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (trying to get alternate endings), and Dark Messiah (just installed actually). I picked up a Razer Barracuda AC-1 soundcard from Woot.com for a steal and it smokes my Audigy2 Value, even without EAX support. My only concern is the lack of ASIO driver support within studio/recording applications, but I haven't had a chance to hurtle that yet. To digress, I had my tonsils removed when I was a kid and won't be bedridden this time by the plague-farming little brat. So I'll have to come to work instead of staying home and playing on my pc or the Wii. Triumphant!
This has the potential that I've described of the Guitar Hero series if only it was EXACTLY like this and not a silly game with a five button guitar. The only problem I see is that the catalog of songs is unrecognizable and likely mediocre in quality due to an understandably low budget and high licensing costs. Activision or another competitor may come along with their fat wallets and devise a plug-in (or wireless) interface for consoles and pick-up the A-List of classic and modern rock anthems which will yank the proverbial rug out from under this developer. But what do I know...maybe they'll get picked up by a mighty developer and lifted into their well deserved echelon among the greats.
The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures... - Stephen Sansweet
The Orc King: Transitions I - R.A. Salvatore
Lord of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - by Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
My wife bought Gunslinger Born for me for Valentine's Day to add to the list of scholarly reading I've done so far this year.
I took four days off last week and now this week I'm doing everything that the incapables couldn't. It's the kind of work I enjoy, but I have a seemingly endless list of it. I was off work for three days taking online classes/training for an asset management application (Zenworks) that we'll fire for effect in the next couple of weeks. The class was 9 hours a day with a couple of ten minute breaks and an hour lunch, with a lot of boredom (lectures) and a lot of application labs, all in the comfort of my own home and pajamas.
Bran IM'd me about an hour ago and let me know that Mason has tonsilitis. She picked him up from school and he's likely spent the day in bed playing the Simpsons game (Wii!) we got him for his birthday yesterday. I've been playing a lot of Super Paper Mario lately on the Wii...World 4-1. On the PC I've been playing Quake 4 (which seems to be a whole lot of the same same same as far as the Single-Player goes), Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (trying to get alternate endings), and Dark Messiah (just installed actually). I picked up a Razer Barracuda AC-1 soundcard from Woot.com for a steal and it smokes my Audigy2 Value, even without EAX support. My only concern is the lack of ASIO driver support within studio/recording applications, but I haven't had a chance to hurtle that yet. To digress, I had my tonsils removed when I was a kid and won't be bedridden this time by the plague-farming little brat. So I'll have to come to work instead of staying home and playing on my pc or the Wii. Triumphant!
This has the potential that I've described of the Guitar Hero series if only it was EXACTLY like this and not a silly game with a five button guitar. The only problem I see is that the catalog of songs is unrecognizable and likely mediocre in quality due to an understandably low budget and high licensing costs. Activision or another competitor may come along with their fat wallets and devise a plug-in (or wireless) interface for consoles and pick-up the A-List of classic and modern rock anthems which will yank the proverbial rug out from under this developer. But what do I know...maybe they'll get picked up by a mighty developer and lifted into their well deserved echelon among the greats.
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Date: 2008-02-13 02:00 pm (UTC)http://www.hansfjellestad.com/film/
LORDS OF CHAOS [in development]
Screenplay by Hans Fjellestad, Ryan Page & Adam Parfrey
Set inside the notorious Norwegian Black Metal music scene of the early 1990s (and based on true events) this narrative feature follows a group of dedicated musicians and their charismatic figureheads - Count Grishnackh and Euronymous - as art transforms into brutal violence in the streets of Northern Europe. Amid escalating murder and mayhem, this is the story of the rise and fall of two self-appointed Kings of Rock, with the heart of a Sam Peckinpah western.
It's an interesting read for metal enthusiasts. The subjects interviewed (mostly Varg Vikernes intensively) are so full of self-contradicting b.s. about their beliefs and motives for doing what they do - that it's hard to take anything seriously about them other than their musical talents (which are questionable as well based on your taste for the whole aesthetic).
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Date: 2008-02-14 04:39 pm (UTC)http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1797440
(Sorry, the damned thing won't embed like it's supposed to :P)