I'm happiest when I'm being productive.
I love being creative and accomplishing goals. I hate that I need my job right now and that I don't appreciate it as much as I should.
It is a good job.
But working at the Revolver Games Studio is a better job with very real value. With all my friends.
I know I can do both. Make the cash and make my dreams come true. Perhaps accepting this kind of fate is part of being a man.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Well, gee...
Too many blogs, I think...
I need some structure...
I'm going to try... once every week... to just put up everything here... I guess you can say that Rainfall will be Mission Control for my weak online presence... yeah...
Intelligence Artifice - over at //comments
Managing Your Units! Part 2 - over at Bijoux Red Dev Blog
I'm gonna do the Twitter thing... cause I figure people who may be interested in the development of Bijoux Red can get some regular updates on how things are going... or something like that. And I'm gonna update our Facebook group... cause it's important, damn it.
The Mandarin's giving away free food in five hours... hooray... why am I not asleep!? And it's Canada Day. We need to find a Sound Designer pronto.
R
I need some structure...
I'm going to try... once every week... to just put up everything here... I guess you can say that Rainfall will be Mission Control for my weak online presence... yeah...
Intelligence Artifice - over at //comments
Managing Your Units! Part 2 - over at Bijoux Red Dev Blog
I'm gonna do the Twitter thing... cause I figure people who may be interested in the development of Bijoux Red can get some regular updates on how things are going... or something like that. And I'm gonna update our Facebook group... cause it's important, damn it.
The Mandarin's giving away free food in five hours... hooray... why am I not asleep!? And it's Canada Day. We need to find a Sound Designer pronto.
R
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Devil Got My Back
Beautiful, harmonic, story-telling guitars and clearly identifiable melodies.
Sweet and sad chord progressions.
Anything with an ugly-side.
Can you feel the good beneath the soft and sad lyrics?
Is that the sound of your soul being fulfilled? I don't think it has a sound if you can't make it, or if you can't hear it.
I can't remember a time when I couldn't speak my thoughts on the guitar. I'm no prodigy and my technical skill-level is actually quite mediocre at best. But I never hesitated from when I first picked up a guitar maybe 13 years ago now. I'm guessing. I don't want to count it out.
I can speak guitar the way I speak English. It's natural for me and there's nothing to think about or write. Chords have always followed each other naturally, just like words. I hope I have something meaningful to say.
I've spent a lot of time being insecure about my skill level with the guitar. I have no intention or motivation to become a better, more proficient musician. If guitar is a language, then I've spent my life paling in the shadow of the master wordsmith's wild rhetoric - on the radio, at a cafe, sitting across from me. After all, when is good enough.. no longer good enough?
If guitar is a language though, I speak it just fine. Simply and plainly, with a message and with an unending passion and I won't ever be silenced.
Three chords can set your heart ablaze. Don't take music for granted by trying to ascribe meaning to a collection of sounds.
After all, you can't read into chords. They're just chords. But you can hear them. And they have a lot to say.
'A' identifies me through my self-depreciating comments. If I died tomorrow, I wish people would remember me for my naive optimism. =)
Sweet and sad chord progressions.
Anything with an ugly-side.
Can you feel the good beneath the soft and sad lyrics?
Is that the sound of your soul being fulfilled? I don't think it has a sound if you can't make it, or if you can't hear it.
I can't remember a time when I couldn't speak my thoughts on the guitar. I'm no prodigy and my technical skill-level is actually quite mediocre at best. But I never hesitated from when I first picked up a guitar maybe 13 years ago now. I'm guessing. I don't want to count it out.
I can speak guitar the way I speak English. It's natural for me and there's nothing to think about or write. Chords have always followed each other naturally, just like words. I hope I have something meaningful to say.
I've spent a lot of time being insecure about my skill level with the guitar. I have no intention or motivation to become a better, more proficient musician. If guitar is a language, then I've spent my life paling in the shadow of the master wordsmith's wild rhetoric - on the radio, at a cafe, sitting across from me. After all, when is good enough.. no longer good enough?
If guitar is a language though, I speak it just fine. Simply and plainly, with a message and with an unending passion and I won't ever be silenced.
Three chords can set your heart ablaze. Don't take music for granted by trying to ascribe meaning to a collection of sounds.
After all, you can't read into chords. They're just chords. But you can hear them. And they have a lot to say.
'A' identifies me through my self-depreciating comments. If I died tomorrow, I wish people would remember me for my naive optimism. =)
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Recommended for YOU
In the way that a dentist may recommend Colgate for your gingivitis, Youtube seems to believe that it is in my best interest to view these videos!
A lot about the internet amazes. A lot of everything amazes me. Partly from being naive, and partly from being ignorant, I'm easily amazed by gadgets and websites and tech stuff. Anyway, Youtube has apparently been keeping an eye on me, and after months of confusing it with my eclectic video watching habits, the ol' bugger finally has a fix on the kinds of things I like to watch.
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RECOMMENDED FOR ME... BY A MORSEL of CODE ON THE INTERNET DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY MY PREFERENCES (Can we measure code in morsels? Or is that just for morsels of food?)
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1. Mega Man 3 Intro Jazz
I sure do enjoy those Mega Man remixes. But I tend to only listen to the same four or five songs over and over again. At least Youtube is trying to broaden my horizons... (?)
2. Gorillaz Safety Dance
Hahahahahahahaha. What can I say, Mike and I are obsessed with the Gorillaz video for 'Rock It'. But I probably won't be watching this one anytime soon.
(By the way... what's the possessive form of Gorillaz... Gorillaz'? Gorillaz's? Curse their clever mispellings!)
3. The Most Beautiful Symphonies
With an image of Beethoven on the thumbnail, in case you had to guess what this video was about. At least I trumped Youtube on this one... I'd never watch a video that equates to a symphony sampler made up of unsatisfying 30 second clips of otherwise beautiful songs. (If you're wondering how I know that, then you've probably deduced already that I ended up watching the video anyway... damn you, Youtube!)
4. How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 2
I love these videos and their host's dry, self-satisfying sense of humour. But you lose again, Youtube. Recommending for me a video that I already have on my favourites list is like telling someone, "If you liked The Empire Strikes Back... then you'll LOVE the Empire Strikes Back!"
5. Paco de Lucia - Tico Tico
An amazing flamenco/classical/etc. guitarist. Point 1 for Youtube's much appreciated recommendation.
6. Paco Cepero Concert - Aqua Marina
Point 2 to Youtube for finding this live performance of one of my favourite songs of all time. If you haven't figured it out yet, much of my Youtube experience adds up to little more than an interactive jukebox. If I'm not listening to music on Youtube, I'm researching it.
7. Bottom s2 ep3 "Burglary"
AND Youtube catches me with my pants down and my foot in my mouth (awkw~ard!). So I'm not JUST listening to music. I'm EVIDENTLY also watching dated British sitcoms starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson =)
I also watched that one anime about army girls running around in their underwear on Youtube.. who also transform into magic-using human/animal anthropomorphic versions of airplanes... weird, yea? =| they really do run around in their underwear ALL THE TIME though! I think it's part of the uniform.
8. Tal Tal Heights - Super Smash Bros Brawl Music
This is an appropriate description of me... number 1 and number 8... in that for me it begins and ends with video game music! And everything else is just filler ;)
Well played, Youtube.
Oh, and I'm gonna be posting up some new music soon, as well as news about Bijoux Red/Revolver Games ^ ^
A lot about the internet amazes. A lot of everything amazes me. Partly from being naive, and partly from being ignorant, I'm easily amazed by gadgets and websites and tech stuff. Anyway, Youtube has apparently been keeping an eye on me, and after months of confusing it with my eclectic video watching habits, the ol' bugger finally has a fix on the kinds of things I like to watch.
----
RECOMMENDED FOR ME... BY A MORSEL of CODE ON THE INTERNET DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY MY PREFERENCES (Can we measure code in morsels? Or is that just for morsels of food?)
----
1. Mega Man 3 Intro Jazz
I sure do enjoy those Mega Man remixes. But I tend to only listen to the same four or five songs over and over again. At least Youtube is trying to broaden my horizons... (?)
2. Gorillaz Safety Dance
Hahahahahahahaha. What can I say, Mike and I are obsessed with the Gorillaz video for 'Rock It'. But I probably won't be watching this one anytime soon.
(By the way... what's the possessive form of Gorillaz... Gorillaz'? Gorillaz's? Curse their clever mispellings!)
3. The Most Beautiful Symphonies
With an image of Beethoven on the thumbnail, in case you had to guess what this video was about. At least I trumped Youtube on this one... I'd never watch a video that equates to a symphony sampler made up of unsatisfying 30 second clips of otherwise beautiful songs. (If you're wondering how I know that, then you've probably deduced already that I ended up watching the video anyway... damn you, Youtube!)
4. How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 2
I love these videos and their host's dry, self-satisfying sense of humour. But you lose again, Youtube. Recommending for me a video that I already have on my favourites list is like telling someone, "If you liked The Empire Strikes Back... then you'll LOVE the Empire Strikes Back!"
5. Paco de Lucia - Tico Tico
An amazing flamenco/classical/etc. guitarist. Point 1 for Youtube's much appreciated recommendation.
6. Paco Cepero Concert - Aqua Marina
Point 2 to Youtube for finding this live performance of one of my favourite songs of all time. If you haven't figured it out yet, much of my Youtube experience adds up to little more than an interactive jukebox. If I'm not listening to music on Youtube, I'm researching it.
7. Bottom s2 ep3 "Burglary"
AND Youtube catches me with my pants down and my foot in my mouth (awkw~ard!). So I'm not JUST listening to music. I'm EVIDENTLY also watching dated British sitcoms starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson =)
I also watched that one anime about army girls running around in their underwear on Youtube.. who also transform into magic-using human/animal anthropomorphic versions of airplanes... weird, yea? =| they really do run around in their underwear ALL THE TIME though! I think it's part of the uniform.
8. Tal Tal Heights - Super Smash Bros Brawl Music
This is an appropriate description of me... number 1 and number 8... in that for me it begins and ends with video game music! And everything else is just filler ;)
Well played, Youtube.
Oh, and I'm gonna be posting up some new music soon, as well as news about Bijoux Red/Revolver Games ^ ^
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Lost in Paradise (Melody Sketch)
Lost in Paradise - Santo Anima Arrangement
Now, this isn't a proper arrangement or anything. The equalization is sort of wacky, and I didn't send all the tracks to a single bus, which is why, as Logan pointed out to me before (very accurately) the instruments don't really sound like they're being played in the same room. So why the half-assed work, you might ask?
Well, the guitar I was using to record is currently out of service, and until it's fixed, I'm using an old recording of this song to superimpose the melody onto. I sort of mashed up the recording originally when I was trying to make it louder and now I feel like until I can record this track anew it's not really worth fixing.
Well, now that I've unsuccessfully excused myself of all wrongdoing, I threw the flute/violin melody on top of this track so that I can have an audio record of what the flute/violin conversation of this song will sound like once it's completed.
Now, this isn't a proper arrangement or anything. The equalization is sort of wacky, and I didn't send all the tracks to a single bus, which is why, as Logan pointed out to me before (very accurately) the instruments don't really sound like they're being played in the same room. So why the half-assed work, you might ask?
Well, the guitar I was using to record is currently out of service, and until it's fixed, I'm using an old recording of this song to superimpose the melody onto. I sort of mashed up the recording originally when I was trying to make it louder and now I feel like until I can record this track anew it's not really worth fixing.
Well, now that I've unsuccessfully excused myself of all wrongdoing, I threw the flute/violin melody on top of this track so that I can have an audio record of what the flute/violin conversation of this song will sound like once it's completed.
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Music Sketchbook #3 - Works in Progress
Of these pieces, Veil of Darkness is the oldest. All three of these were recorded really quickly on just a guitar, as is my style, just to have a record of the basic chord progressions.
The Veil of Darkness - Ossuary Mists Arrangement
There's not much to say about this. There are mysteries, there are feelings of being lost and there are feelings of being at the mercy of others. It's a bad day for whoever has this song attached to them. Of course, this is the theme music for the tunnels underneath the subway passages of King City, where the innocent victims of war are buried.
I'm Not A Stranger, I'm A Coyote - North Cross Arrangement
An arrangement on Coyote's theme. The two distinct parts of this song make up two smaller songs, called I'm Not A Stranger and I'm A Coyote respectively. A more upbeat version of the former will be used for shopping at the Weathered Beat Caravan.
Are We On Top Of The World? - King City Arrangement
This is Visha's main theme, which will grow more prominent in the story as Visha's role grows. Until then, Imagine an overview of King City, looking down on the world from the clouds above.
The Veil of Darkness - Ossuary Mists Arrangement
There's not much to say about this. There are mysteries, there are feelings of being lost and there are feelings of being at the mercy of others. It's a bad day for whoever has this song attached to them. Of course, this is the theme music for the tunnels underneath the subway passages of King City, where the innocent victims of war are buried.
I'm Not A Stranger, I'm A Coyote - North Cross Arrangement
An arrangement on Coyote's theme. The two distinct parts of this song make up two smaller songs, called I'm Not A Stranger and I'm A Coyote respectively. A more upbeat version of the former will be used for shopping at the Weathered Beat Caravan.
Are We On Top Of The World? - King City Arrangement
This is Visha's main theme, which will grow more prominent in the story as Visha's role grows. Until then, Imagine an overview of King City, looking down on the world from the clouds above.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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