Feb. 3rd, 2015

no_apologies: (Excited Charlie B. Barkin)
(The following I've mostly copied and pasted from my other current blog, at my website.)

Yay, I'm making time to update again!

I'd first like to list some songs that sound good when heard twice as fast. I was on YouTube again when trying this.

"Enter Sandman" and "Master of Puppets" by Metallica (If you need to hear something really, really energetic to wake you up, that should do the trick! XD)

"Don't Speak" by No Doubt (It sounds funky in places!)

"Say it Ain't So" by Weezer (This track sounds funky in places too!)

"Diary of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin (This song at 1.5 playback speed is just awesome to rock out to.)

When I heard the following twice as fast, I cracked up.

"Original Prankster" by The Offspring (Hearing Dexter Holland rapping twice as fast in this song is hilarious. I could not stop laughing! I'm chuckling right now as I type this part.)

"Like a Surgeon", "Word Crimes", and "Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic (The third song's tempo is so Dance-y!)

I'm thinking I ought to share this whenever I do another podcast for my website. It would be something entertaining. I think some of my buddies around Proboards and Newgrounds might enjoy this. I'll do this, in addition to a list of topics I'll write down to talk about.

Luxliev I have not heard from for some weeks now, he might enjoy a podcast like that too. I know I mentioned him before on a previous podcast. If you missed that and can't be bothered to find it on my site's previous blog posts, I'll state that he is a musician and composer I found on Proboards one evening. He does game remixes as well as his own stuff. I just knew he has the potential to get better and gain a number of listeners, so I offered to give him advice. :)

I must say he's getting better at his own original music! I'm very happy for Lux. His remix of J-E-N-O-V-A is pretty good too.

Doing my own remix of that would be such a challenge, I just know it. I know I heard this awesome guitarist on YouTube, on his channel called Artificial Fear. His rock remix version amazed me so much! It's THE BEST! It's even better than the rendition in the Advent Children movie. All fans of Final Fantasy 7 really should look that up and listen to it!

It may be a really long while until I blow myself away doing my own version of it... I still want to make room for the Darius Twin Boss Fight remix I started weeks ago. (Darius Twin is a 2D scroller spaceship fighter game on the SNES. I enjoyed playing that so much as a kid, and I've taught myself on how to play the melodies from some of the game's music on two of my keyboards.) It's been fun on the RP sessions but I know I'm on a roll there!

...I also started on a new original project over the weekend, something with a hip-hop like beat to it. There's so few hip hop artists I actually like, that do not rap about money, sex, drugs, and gangs. (Hip hop instrumentals are what I like more.) I rarely listen to hip hop at all--but the elements to this genre are fun to experiment with.

Seriously, I am not putting the music on hiatus anytime soon. I've made at least five that sound really good. (For all of you on Dreamwidth, I'll put a list of hyperlinks to them.) I have a handful of ideas for other music projects in my head, and I just need to be persistent with myself to keep on making tunes.

Catching up with favorites and friends on SoundCloud and Newgrounds is something else I'd like to do at some point. I know I have some buddies at NG. Some are super talented at what they do. They're amazing. Step, theeketel, Pandasticality, VideoGameManiac...

Coming up: a second separate post that's a questions meme. I found this on my Dreamwidth.com friends list.

Yet, before I do so, here are links to five of my completed music tracks I've been thinking about when writing part of this entry.

The Underground Machine (Newgrounds wouldn't let me put in the full title, Presenting the Underground Machine, so I had to shorten it. Why that title? Well, first let me say that I'm visual in my mind when writing and doing music. I imagine some kind of underground dance party music machine that's sort of defunct. The voice part kind of sputters and that cool guitar part is trying to be showcased, and the operator is trying to stop the voice part but is having a bit of technical difficulties at first on doing that... I think this is the first time I've mentioned this anywhere online ever. I don't know why, lol.)

That Big Loud Bass (This one has gotten over a hundred listens on my SoundCloud page! Also, a bunch of downloads. People who go there really like this one, and I understand why. The beats and low bass, and that snare are what I love most about this track. To pick up on the really low bass, you'd need to put on headphones to hear it clearly.)

Windows Sounds Mix (This one's actually a medley of mostly Windows sounds to different beats. Be sure to read the description about it. I say much more there, and the link to the track that inspired me to do this is on it. I might need to improve on the transitions here one day, but that will likely happen whenever I'll have less ideas I really want to get done!)

Mortal Kombat Komputer (My first video game remix ever! Oh my gosh, I really did an epic job on this one. This turned out to be longer and better than I first expected. In fact, this wasn't how it all first turned out, which is why I labeled it as version 1.2. I varied and cut back more on the percussion on this more than the first. A few of my friends at NG had given me some really good advice, and it made a huge difference. You're welcome to hear the first version if you want, but 1.2 is as good as it gets!)

Sonic.EXE Comes Out to Play (This has been my latest track, a tribute to a cool Creepy Pasta character! Creepily awesome! I say more about this in the description under the audio player.)
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1. How old will you be in 3 birthdays? 34

2. Do you think you'll be married by then? Probably not

3. What do you look forward to in the next two months? Warmer weather!

4. Do you prefer shoes, socks or bare feet? I tend to move around the house barefoot more than in socks.

5. When was the last time you cried? Perhaps 3 or 4 years ago when I had problems with an ex-friend who wasn't much of a friend to me to begin with.

6. What was the last thing you drank? orange tangerine juice (Juicy Juice brand)

7. What is your favorite ice cream? Egg nog flavor!

8. What is your favorite number? 666669666666696666669666 :-P

9. What is your favorite colour? I have two: yellow and hot pink

10. What jelly do you put on your PB&J? Any kind, whatever brand that was on sale at the grocery store

11. What location(s) are on your bucket list? England, and Disney World...

12. How many glasses of water do you drink during the day? There's water in both juice and tea, so I have three to four small to mid-sized cups of that a day.

13. What do you drink in the morning? Fruit juice!

14. Would you rather kiss someone with or without tongue? I wouldn't know, for I'm not in a deep relationship with anyone right now.

15. Do you sleep on a certain side of the bed? The right side

16. Do you know how to play poker? Would Mario Picture Poker or Bejeweled Poker on my Nintendo DS count? XD

17. What is good about Friday's? Boardgame meetups!

18. What plans do you have for the weekend? Working hard, and maybe work on my music more.

19. Do you eat out or at home more? At home.

20. How big is your TV? The biggest TV at home is 50 inches wide.

21. Have you ever stolen a street sign? Nope. I don't do stupid things like that.

22. Do you keep a piggy bank? I have this old Sonic the Hedgehog bank I keep around as just a collector's item.

23. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Not currently in any relationship to want to do that.

24. Have you ever been in an ambulance? Yeah, so long ago. My mom and I as a kid were in a car wreck. We both survived through it without any permanent damage.

25. Do you prefer ocean or pool? The pool. I get itchy if I wade in the ocean water for a while.

26. Do you prefer window or aisle seat? Doesn't matter to me much

27. Do you know how to drive a stick shift? No

28. What is your favorite thing to spend money on? Books, music, movies on DVD, anything affordable that looks cool or visually pleasing to me.

29. Do you wear any jewelry 24/7? I rarely wear jewelry at all.

30. Do you speak any other language? No. English is my fluent language, though I do know a few Japanese words after watching a bunch of anime, and reading manga.

31. Can you roll your tongue? yup

32. Last person you laid in bed with? Haven't slept with anyone, ever.

33. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? There's this fluffy cat one I usually sleep with that has the same sad cutesy eyes as Shrek's Puss in Boots does! Puss is my most favorite character from those movies, and I named my plushie after him. I bought him at a Six Flags shop, soon after I first noticed him.

34. Do you still have clothes from when you were little? nope

35. What is the colour of your bedroom wall? White

36. Do you shut off the water when you brush your teeth? Yeah, I prefer not to waste water.

37. Do you hate someone? No, because hate is such a strong, negative word. I only dislike certain people.

38. Due you currently have a crush on someone? No

39. What are you currently listening to? No music, just the silent hum of my laptop.
no_apologies: (Light Yagami)
I just joined [personal profile] kalloway's supportive creative community [community profile] onedeadplotbunny. It looks very interesting, and I think I might need some help to inspire and motivate myself on going back to writing at least one of my Death Note fanfictions. I have one on fanfiction.net called Collide, about this suspenseful concept I've completed 14 chapters for. I'll copy and paste the summary I wrote... (It's self-insert ish, just to give a heads up. Ish, because I'll be writing changes for my own original character as I write more for this.)

Summary )

So far, this has been written really well. It's believable too. Over 50 people on fanfiction.net love this story. It's been two years since I last wrote anything for it, but I hadn't forgotten all about it! I'm just slow in making room for it. >.<

Also, I think I might want to get back into writing character prompts for my muses again. So far it's one word prompts for my two Durarara ones; Anri Sonohara, and Izaya Orihara. I've felt inspired between two people on my friends list. You know who you are. ;)

Victim, Slash, and Knife I think would be good for Anri. Knife and Crime would be good for Izaya.

If anything else comes to mind, I'll edit in those future story ideas.

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