Monthly Archives: March 2006

Haven’t Done Much Music Lately

But I did come across a free plugin for lo-fi wavetable synthesis, AKA Nintendo sounds. I made this from memory. Some people may recognize it as the level 1 music from Beetlejuice for the NES. Others will close their browser and proclaim me to be a freak.

Others will also remember the mental image of [...]

They Are Night Zombies and all that jazz

So, I knew that Night of The Living Dead was in the public domain, but I did not know that it’s available on the Internet Archive as a DVD-Quality download! Check it out.

Not to be cheesy, but this really is an important film and if you haven’t seen it this is the perfect opportunity. [...]

Memories From College Days: I Lost My Indie/Hipster Cred A Long Time Ago

Flashback – CMJ Festival 2003 at the Kindercore Showcase

Paraphrased

Record promoter guy: Jen! Jen: (Record promoter guy)! How’s it going. RPG: Listen…Elliot Smith died today! Jen: …what? RPG: He killed himself… Jen: … (Jen turns to Dan) Jen: Dan…Elliot Smith killed himself. Dan: …who the hell is Elliot Smith?

You Should Spend Money On This Because It’s MAGICAL!

The Academy awards aired a few weeks ago. I didn’t catch much of it, but what I did see almost always contained the theme for the night.

That theme, of course, was “PLEASE SPEND MONEY AT THE CINEMA!!!”

It’s kind of amusing that they’re on the verge of begging and pleading with you to come to the [...]

There’s a reason I haven’t been posting much lately

And it’s because I bought myself a Gamecube.

I got a pretty decent deal on Ebay. The package included:

• Platinum Gamecube System • 2 Gamecube Controllers (1 indigo, 1 platinum) • Resident Evil • Resident Evil 0 • Resident Evil 4 • Serious Sam • Sonic Mega Collection • Super Smash Bros. Melee • Star Fox Adventures

Yes, this is totally a big RE setup. [...]

Camino

I want to tell you about Camino.

Camino (originally Chimera) is a browser for Mac OSX that’s been in development since 2002 by the Mozilla team, the same team that develops Firefox. When I first started using a Mac full-time my original browser of choice was Chimera. A few weeks later Apple released Safari, and I’ve [...]