Conclusions

I finished my finals today. Why do you care? Because that means more "content" soon.

Bunnies etc

This is full of bunnies, monkeys, rabbits, mice and other assorted things, but all that aside it contains lots and lots of exceptionally well-produced and oddly soothing flash games with sultry jazz piano loops over the top. Huzzah.

Because it is

The nerd in a shoe has adequately summarised the state of the electronic entertainment industry.

Error

Wasim expresses my feelings on Microsoft Office products in general in his latest post.

Oh wow.

Kim Coates is my favourite actor in the whole world and he is great and nobody can mess with him. Apparently he is currently featuring in CSI:New York which I am unable to watch. Oh, well. Expect to see more about Kim Coates on this website because he is awesome and you cannot deal with him.

UPDATE: This just in. Derren Brown is Kim Coates. No really. Look:

Yeah, mind control that. What? You can't? Cellular phones! Man, Kim Coates would so take Derren Brown in a combat situation. He'd be all like, "Yeah, we're gonna call this, I don't know, I guess, a victory for me" and Derren Brown would be like, "You're thinking of the number six," and then Kim Coates would totally throw him off a balcony into some water. Except that would never happen because they are the very same man.

Not Brahe

Those who like their music blissful and yet simultaneously infused with pseudo-mathematical glitchoterica might like to consider Defunktion's upcoming "resident", a Mr. Tycho, who, whilst potentially constrained by his evident Boards of Canadian heritage can feasibly offer some breezy enjoyment of an afternoon. He also seems to be this, but to be honest I shouldn't really be writing anything today and so have even less viable time to explore that particular avenue after wrestling with the Flash player on his first site. Perhaps someone else will report back.

Wasim

Wasim has a blog now, perpetuating the constant absorption of various human personalities into the terrifying Dionysiac void of the internet. He talks about sweets, and then other people talk back to him.

Cuboidal

Yes,this man is wearing a box on his head with an image which would appear to be from Quake printed very large on the front. You didn't eat bad Shreddies again this morning.

He's in this band who I haven't heard, but they look incontrovertibly silly. They're playing in London or something - naturally.

Creative Commune

I'm clearly now an official part of the INTERNET as Boing Boing now links to my site because of the Grandtheftendo thing (thanks Oli). They did get the name wrong, though, but that's nothing I'm not used to.

Retroid Prime

This project has a beautiful but ineluctable futility which bespeaks a geekiness transcending almost all understanding. GTA on the NES.

Binster...again

Binst has ANOTHER new track going on - very suitable for summer.

Unlikely

I won't expect any kind of port of this particular title to the PS3. This game excites the "so irritating you feel that as a superior human you should immediately defeat it" gestalt.

Consoles consoles...CONSOLES!!!

Ian has written a column about the Console War currently causing people who care about such things to whip themselves into a gigantic froth. As always, I will wait for other people to buy them and then go round their house and stare at the flashing lights.

NOT BROKEN I AM BATMAN

Everything is fine now. I misconstrued sarcasm as objective critical comment, as you may witness below. Please return to your posts.

I AM BATMAN

Broken

I don't care any more. It seems to be fine here but people assert that everything is broken. If it's broken for you, and also, more helpfully, you know what can be done to rectify it, then email me.

We have implementation

Blogger makes me suffer. Thanks to Martin for the background image - I moved stuff around as well AS YOU CAN SEE. There should be some content and links to MP3s etc. on the left-hand side when that content actually exists.

For those of you utterly uninterested in the trials and tribulations of formatting, look down the page and you can read some fun stuff about music and Tony Reali. Woo. Everything will be ok soon, I promise.

Comments

In other news, COMMENTS are now enabled on an experimental basis - comment away.

Youth Movie Davies Blues Explosion

Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies have an irredeemably stupid name but make great music that I've enjoyed since I was lucky enough to play a gig with them back in the days of yore (2001). They've managed to engage in what might be described as the slow equivalent of a meteoric rise, which is...I guess...I don't know, a "hailstonic rise," since that time, and now they're doing all kinds of exciting things that a band might be expected to do, like going to the pub.

Don't say "post-rock" too loudly, but they're post-rock, which for me means long and silly songs with silly time-signatures and lyrics that don't make sense. All in good taste, though.

Two things

Truck is now apparently sold out, which, I think, has occurred even earlier than last year. Total insanity. You'll have to argue with them about it, I'm not responsible...although guest-list applications will be considered as long as large offers of money and biscuits are attached along with a full CV and covering letter.

This incredible project being orchestrated by Penguin has been brought to my attention. You get a bunch of samples from audiobooks, use them to make hillarious post-modern techno and gleefully submit said techno to their site. Every track posted up there so far is utter drivel, so the crown (a bag of pencils and your picture in Penguin Distributers' Monthly or something) is there to be had.

Why?

No, really. Why?

Blippy, arty, naive, zombie, pens

Binster is being startlingly prolific at the moment. Not only did he produce me a nice background image for this here site (implementation pending), but he's also fiddling around with this very odd instrumental Freezepop-sounding thing. Go check out his work in progress.

Also, I should thank Rich for the banner at the top of the site. Thanks.

Kirsten got annoyed that I didn't link to her, so BEHOLD her world of acceptable muso-journalism and naivepop.

I read on a forum somewhere about a guy using Ableton to DJ, where he had all his track pre-warped and used 6 channels as "virtual decks." I was musing how great this would sound with drum and bass, where you can just stack suitable tracks together until it becomes stupid - it is something to try in the future.

Partially enjoyed Derren Brown's zombie arcade game stunt on TV last night - totally immoral but I suspect there was some judicious use of editing to make everything seem more macabre.

This, on the other hand, is just silly.

Blogger: The Backlash

Rik was talking smack about my blog today. He claims that its appearance is too generic, something which I am slowly taking pains to rectify. He is covering the election on CUR1350 on Thursday, so tune in and abuse him if you are in "the area."

Pincer/staple-removing

I realise that the last two posts have been entirely asinine, and have consisted solely of pictures which, in my persistenly obscurantist manner, I find funny. That's probably something you're just going to have to deal with.

I think Tony Reali (pictured) is a plastic android programmed to kill or disable at short range using a combination pincer/staple-removing attachment with which he can grasp your septum and hold it until you pass out.