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what doesn't die
2003-07-10 14:42:35
I think I'm almost over whatever the hell bug's been getting at me the last few days. Every day I wake up and my neck hurts less, which is always a good thing. No progress on the video; Meg called while I was out doing dropoffs and I fell asleep by the phone after leaving a message, but I was too bombed to do any editing after running around Boston like that anyways. I may be able to steal an hour or so of prod time tonight, then finish things off Sunday, but that's probably just idle hoping.
On the other hand, this is actively cool:
http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.html
Super Hitler versus Super Stalin! With all kinds of really cool cultural notes along too! I'm willing to bet that most people didn't know that, to the people of the Soviet Union, Stalin sounded like the Norwegian batchelor farmers of Minnesota do to us.
--Kai out
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with death's own will
2003-07-09 10:37:14
Normally when nothing happens there's no need for an entry, but every so often there's an exception. Saw this on Blabbermouth, feel free to crosspost as long as you leave on the original-poster credits:
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a discussion between metallica albums
posted by: Blackenistheyend
7/9/2003 3:07:48 AM
St. Anger: Hey, what's up guys? I'm the new album. I'm really heavy and a return to roots.
Master of Puppets: Sounds pretty sweet
...And Justice for All: Yeah, let's hear it
*they listen to St. Anger*
Ride the Lightning: ... what the fuck?
Master of Puppets: That was a joke, right?
St. Anger: Uh.. nope, no joke guys. It's pretty sweet, isn't it?
The Black Album: No.
St. Anger: Aww, come on.. that's some heavy shit! You gotta love it
The Black Album: Ok... "The Unnamed Feeling" was pretty good I guess.
...And Justice for All: Umm... well, I kinda like "Some Kind of Monster" and "Dirty Window", but the rest sound like they were randomly thrown together
Master of Puppets: Yeah man, and the lyrics are shit. "I'm madly in anger with you"??
Ride the Lightning: What happened to stuff like "For Whom The Bell Tolls"?
Kill 'Em All: I am seriously considering kicking your ass right now, St. Anger.
St. Anger: Woah guys, hold on. Have another listen, maybe you'll like it more.
*they listen to it again*
Kill 'Em All: That's it, I'm kicking your ass for making me listen to that crap twice. NO LIFE TILL LEATHER, BEOTCH
*they all kick St. Anger's ass*
oh and by the way, Load and Reload couldn't make an appearance because the first 5 Metallica albums have restraining orders on them
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That's just so classic.
I'm going to have some time tonight to work on the video, so look fro an actual progress update tomorrow.....if I can get the images of anthropomorphic CDs beating each other up out of my head.
--Kai out
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faith in resident martyrs
2003-07-08 11:48:19
My brother finished his book last night, so I was proofing that instead of working on the video. If I don't get my life ironed out, I'm going to miss a lot of important deadlines in the near future, and the current project may never get done.
The book is all right so far, despite a lack of commas and a surplus of run-on sentences, and I expect it'll get better the further I get in. I don't know how publishable it is, but at least the style's original, instead of trying to imitate someone else, which happens far too often in modern fantasy writing. Worse yet, it's not even GOOD authors who are widely ripped off; nobody would much mind if a new writer cribbed his or her style from Tolkien or Moorcock, but when someone puts forward their authorial voice as a bad copy of R.A. Salvatore (as happens far FAR too often), it makes you want to kill yourself. Or the writer. Or Salvatore himself, most preferably.
Not going to club this week, partly because I don't have much interest in what they're showing, and partly because Life In Vain and My Pet Demon are playing that night, along with a to-be-announced band and the reunion of Halo of Thorns, which has got to be some of the worst news the NoBo metal scene has seen in a long while.
Halo of Thorns, as described a few dozen pages back, is a no-talent wannabe black metal band from Salem. They wear corpsepaint, use tons of keyboards, and dress all in black, but they don't have any idea what black metal sounds like, rhythmically or melodically. Anyone who lives by a steady diet of Emperor and Dissection, as I do, wishes to smash them in the face on hearing or seeing them. It was only with great restraint that I managed not to do so the last time I saw them. They are loser goth posers who don't belong on a bill with North Shore metal legends like MPD and Life In Vain (of whom Peter Iwers, bassist of In Flames, is apparently a fan).
I'm hoping that that unannounced band will be on the level of Ravage, One Way Down, Random Acts of Violence, or Cryptic Warning, which would help balance things out, but it's not good to hope for too much, and it's going to be a cool show as is anyway. Linkin Park themselves could show up at this gig and it still wouldn't suck.
--Kai out
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they blinded us all
2003-07-07 10:31:47
So I was down all weekend with the heat and related illness, so I got no work done. The current video is due for completion sometime around the end of the week, though I may have to do some audio editing if I can't get 100% overage. Time just keeps slipping and slipping away.
MITAC is going to be doing an AMV contest this fall, but their rules are kind of asinine, and you have to be present (or at least have somebody lie and claim to be in your studio) at the showing to win. WTF is with awards just for best comedy, best drama, best overall....action, horror, and artistic should at least be included in all modern enumerations of categories. I should really send them CSUN's rules from last year as a guideline to doing a club AMV contest right. Plenty of other contests to lose at before then.
Contest news:
I got into the finals at either Animethon or Anime Evolution; I forget which. Now looking forward to losing in Canada for the first time in my career. I really ought to mail Quu my AWA Pro entry now that I've decided what it's going to be, and look into buying a turntable now that I've got some spare cash. The one I was previously looking to use to remaster the audio on #75 from had a burned out motor; I was not thrilled.
--Kai out
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bullets in the fire
2003-07-04 14:20:44
been working all morning, on break. Meg's computer got fucked over last night (some idiot piled stuff on top & cracked the screen [laptop]), so tomorrow I have to back up all her stuff so there's nothing for the repair techs to ruin. Life wouldn't feel right unless I was under constant pressure.
Current video: Gamma Ray, "Fire Below" to Peacock King. Progress check: 57%. Expected catalog number: #79. I'm almost done clipping the second chunk, which I'll finish this afternoon into tonight, and hopefully follow with the third chunk. I'm hoping to finish sometime Sunday or Monday, then get started on another long project, which fortunately is just going to be a headache to coordinate rather than a time chewer like Project Haibane.
Too many good, outside-the-box, editors have been getting discouraged about the way things have been going lately in the 'community'. Many of them have other issues in their lives, but there ought to be something to be done. Maybe some kind of self-supporting clan or Verein for metal editors; those interested in organizing such know where to mail me at.
Back to work.....
--Kai out
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