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just a winnemucca trucker with a load of black sheep
2004-05-20 11:02:00
It's a good thing that I'm not a member at MITAC yet, and that there's nothing really exceptional showing this week; I wouldn't want to miss anything, but I *can't* miss a double CD-release party for My Pet Demon and Life In Vain. Ya gotta have priorities.
These, by way of transition, put working on the video well below laptop-customization efforts. I spent most of last night trying to get this used Phillips toaster working on my work box, and the rest of it attempting to get Skifree The Movie (aka Snowbeast) working on my bro's rig. He ended up watching Satanic Rites of Dracula instead. And the CD-burner's still not working.
What little was not consumed in these fashions was spent listening to Treibhaus (cool, even though it's like the other side of the planet from what the drummer does in Running Wild) and reading Pieta, which I'm chagrined to find only two volumes of, and the first of these potentially not even fully translated. This sort of thing reminds me why exactly I got into manga in the first place; the promise of comics is delivered on artistically, and the story matches up. A lot of the time manga just gets by on cool factor, or sells itself on story (Maison) or art (X) alone, but Pieta hits on all cycles at a greater depth than Bremen, one of the last I'd run into to work this well. Like Cerebus before Sim got crazy-political, only, obviously, with totally different plotting and story.
The new video already has like twice the hits of #87 in its first day of release. I guess that's what direct downloads buys you. Given that #30 was also downloaded 27 times in its first day of release, links to #64 and #66 (also up on Globocide) will be postponed until the rate calms down a bit in order to save farlo's bandwidth from being completely toasted. I really ought to do some webdesign and throw a KK page on my engin account, but with everything else I've got to do, it just keeps getting pushed off and off.
Kind of like buying the new Exodus and Death Angel CDs; between releaseparties for bands I actually know members in, slave labor, and more partying, this weekend looks like it will continue to hold bad chances of support for the reviving Bay Area thrash scene. Just like those ops that I've been putting off, though, it'll eventually get done.
--Kai out
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and delete all emotions inside of me
2004-05-19 10:20:57
Video is finished, post-processed, uploaded, advertised, et al, and barely a second too soon from work perspectives. Today is documentation and trying to get at source. I've got most of what I need written out, but I still need to take some time and put together a real design document.
Current video: Nightingale, "The Glory Days" to Prince of Tennis. Progress check: 15%. Expected catalog number: #89. The guy who was parodied back in #85 is graduating come December, and needs a better sendoff than a 2-minute gay joke. And I don't have much videographically better to do. The reason for the odd percentage marking is that right now, I don't have enough space on the drive I'm using for the purpose to hold all of the source I'm going to be using. I haven't run into that situation since #82 and #83.
Offtopic:
Early Reins has been licensed, and by whom? *Media Blasters*. Did I call it back in November or what? Now I can unjustifiably claim credit for its US release and score even more valuable Nerd Points. PH33R. After the video above, it'll be about time for another KK work, though, and I'll do my best to make sure it's on the outer limits of being allowable for distro anywhere. Poor visual fidelity + bodies on meathooks = good stuff.
--Kai out
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doing dirty deeds
2004-05-18 15:04:36
I still can't find what the song is supposed to be in the current video. If push comes to shove, I'll just list both songs that it can be considered part of and throw an explanitory note in. Regardless, the video is nearly complete; I'll probably be able to dust it up tonight without undue expenditure of effort.
There's a good chance that there may be two versions of the current video, taking inspiration from some of my one-clip attempts in one take. Serendipity is an excellent tool that not enough people let themselves use.
I was going to nab the new Death Angel Friday night, before club started, but ended up buying Running Wild's best-of by mistake. Of course, this wasn't too mixed of a blessing, because this did include the full version of "Conquistadores", "Little Big Horn", "Treasure Island" (must push this off on some One Piece fan), "Port Royal", and "The Ballad of William Kidd". Despite the pirate obsession, Running Wild is really good at writing kickass metal songs, and even if they do tend to all sound alike, the riffery is cool enough to make it worthwhile. Death Angel and Exodus can wait until next week.
--Kai out
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my soul and my spirit will go on
2004-05-13 10:48:10
finished:
* the process of acquiring the rockin' new DragonForce
* ~1000 pages of miscellaneous reading matter
* a six-hundred-word weird story called "The Door-To-Door Serial Killer"
* AzuDai again
started:
* action/suspenser Circle Tiger (maybe a novel, maybe shorter)
* shorter creepout story (originally from 1998), "A Cracking of Bones"
* loan consolidation procedures
um, put off and, like, not worked on at all:
* BT plugin
* the damn video
* all the ops I owe people
It's coming; work will impose more structure on my life and allow for fewer opportunities to put this stuff off if I want to get it done at all. I may even cut it together over the weekend; it's not like it'll take a lot of work, and that's the main reason that it hasn't been strenuously attacked yet. Nan'to ka naru saa.
--Kai out
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to turn back time
2004-05-11 11:20:34
Rumors of my demise have been significantly exaggerated. I am now ensconced on the East Coast, six days from starting at my job (GUI design hey hey), and poking along on a new video, hopefully to be listed and upped before then. I also finished "aldri han skogge greven" and may be recording some more music in the imminent future.
The new Hypocrisy is decent but a little transient (despite Dan Swano writing two thirds of the lyrics); the new Suffo is just as brutal as expected; Nebular Moon isn't quite as much shelfcore as I originally considered them; and My Pet Demon has a new single out called _Crime Pays_ that's pretty cool. I don't have the new DragonForce yet. Midori no Hibi gets big ups -- especially since MITAC is running it again this week, and I'm still behind on Patlabor.
Oh yeah, and I passed my exams, so I get to go back to school in the fall. Huzzah.
--Kai out
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