Progress Quest.
Monday, October 15th, 2007So I had planned on publishing the first screenshot from the new iteration of Wilfred the Hero two weekends ago. I didn’t get around to it because I was too busy travelling to a disaster of a rock show that I had been hired to run the sound at. I spent the rest of the weekend drinking my sorrows away in an apartment I had kicked and fought to have not been drug into, though after arriving and getting sufficiently stupid, I had a pretty good time and I’m glad I went. Last weekend revolved far too much around fetching a free couch, so nothing happened then, either.
I plan on putting up an entire soundtrack for download within a few weeks. There’s a pet project I’ve been working on for the past year for a friend, and I’m nearly finished! It’s the same soundtrack I had posted a preview of a few weeks ago, and I must say that overall it’s going really well. The music is pretty spare and subtle, but gorgeous in my opinion. We’ll see what you think. I might also be putting it up on internet merchants like iTunes for purchase if anyone feels generous.
I think that I have or will be abandoning a comission for a soundtrack that I had been trying to write. Everything I’ve done has been a train wreck (three tracks exactly, and I admit that in one of those three the only redeeming quality was the African drum performance but that was a loop from a sampler CD). I haven’t been paid for what I have done so far, and it’s impossible to communicate with the director. He doesn’t know what he wants and he doesn’t know how to ask. He wants me to write shorter pieces because he doesn’t have much capital but he complains that the music doesn’t “go anywhere”. What’s worse is that he has *some* music education, which allows him to sling jargon around but in fact seems to give him less insight into what he wants. Maybe he should just license the World of Warcraft OST instead. None of this matters however as he contacts me exactly once per two months and last time we talked I think he was either drunk or dying from ebola. If you are reading this, shape up because I am not able to work under these conditions!
I am moving, next week, from Apartment #2 to Apartment #1. Apartment #1 has wooden floors, a basement, an extra room clearly engineered for composing music, a three-season porch (but who says you can’t use it during the fourth season of the year?), tall ceilings, and windows — that last feature being something sorely lacking in my current prison cell full of cats apartment. This new apartment also has upstairs neighbors that are not the worst fucking neighbors on the planet, which is seriously the major impetus for my moving into a more expensive apartment. It is awesome that I do not need to borrow a pick-up truck to move.
I have recently been playing Halo 3, Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, Heavenly Sword, and Folklore. All four are excellent games and well worth your hard-earned and quickly-squandered discretionary income. I do not recommend actually buying Heavenly Sword, because I played through the entire four-hour game in one period of not getting off the couch. I have also been playing Dragon Warrior III, the remake for Game Boy Color, on an emulator on my hacked Playstation Portable. It’s pretty much what you expect from a Game Boy remake of an NES game emulated on a hacked PSP. I attempted to to play Final Fantasy 9 (do you know it’s one of the highest-rated games on Metacritic?), but I think my disc is damaged and that I made a bad ISO. Maybe I’ll try torrenting a copy and playing that.
You guys need to hack your PSPs, because an unmodified PSP is just not the same.
Maybe I’ll put up another photo of my faggish sweaters or my apartment soon!
