It's past middle of November now and we still haven't moved into our new home, which should have happened about 3 weeks ago. Thus, the dream of a nice Xmas 2006 in our own house will probably remain a soap-bubble.
patient, young padawan, is the winner of the game, eventually.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Xbox Media Center 2.0 : awesome
After my xbox has gathered a lot of dust, i wanted to check out the latest XBOX Media Center (XBMC) . Once you have a nicely modded box, setup is easy:
Download archive, unpack, FTP to the partition where your secondary dashboard is. done.
From this point on, it's pleasure all the time. One of the best features is the capability of running custom python scripts...so that you can watch youtube clips on tv now.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Lyrics so far
this is the list of lyrics I have started writing up to now:
Playing it Safe
Fly
New Beginning*
Of Pawns and Queens*
Dreamer*
Holding Back (what walls can't hold)*
Julia
Got Hope
Untitled
Echoes
Full Moon Blues
Nearly Lost You There*
Shipwrecked*
Starred (*) = complete Lyrics, updated where red
Playing it Safe
Fly
New Beginning*
Of Pawns and Queens*
Dreamer*
Holding Back (what walls can't hold)*
Julia
Got Hope
Untitled
Echoes
Full Moon Blues
Nearly Lost You There*
Shipwrecked*
Starred (*) = complete Lyrics, updated where red
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
myspace account for audio projects
hiho,
i created a myspace account for making my audio projects available on the web. Stuff can be heard on:
http://www.myspace.com/dummyuser
i created a myspace account for making my audio projects available on the web. Stuff can be heard on:
http://www.myspace.com/dummyuser
Thursday, August 17, 2006
FFXII OST fails to impress
Yo, folks.
Being a fan of the games Final Fantasy 7,8 & 9 was easy for me. Great music, great storylines, fantastic athmosphere...Well, talk about music in this place.
Honestly, after Part 9, which had a pretty chacteristic setting and an enourmously adequate soundtrack, Nobuo Uematsu seems to have become less inventive. It seems he lost the love for the subject, with only a few really appealing tracks to occur in FFX ("to zanarkand",ending theme and a tiny amount of others). Also, a big part of the tracks has been handed over to other artists, similar as happened later in FFXI OST and "FFXI - vision of zilat" OST. In these two albums, I liked only one track ("recollection").
Part 12 has been given to Hitoshi Sakimoto, never heard of, and reflects the tendency already visible in parts 10 and 11: The attempts to sound perfectly symphonic overrule the ambition to write memorable melodies, simple tunes like "terra".
FFVII Advent children featured some of the piano collection's songs, but also didn't bring any new amiable stuff.Nobody exepts Aerith's Theme Part II, but this (p.12) is the first FF OST I'm not gonna keep...Really, really disappointing, same development as shines through with the FF game series...
Being a fan of the games Final Fantasy 7,8 & 9 was easy for me. Great music, great storylines, fantastic athmosphere...Well, talk about music in this place.
Honestly, after Part 9, which had a pretty chacteristic setting and an enourmously adequate soundtrack, Nobuo Uematsu seems to have become less inventive. It seems he lost the love for the subject, with only a few really appealing tracks to occur in FFX ("to zanarkand",ending theme and a tiny amount of others). Also, a big part of the tracks has been handed over to other artists, similar as happened later in FFXI OST and "FFXI - vision of zilat" OST. In these two albums, I liked only one track ("recollection").
Part 12 has been given to Hitoshi Sakimoto, never heard of, and reflects the tendency already visible in parts 10 and 11: The attempts to sound perfectly symphonic overrule the ambition to write memorable melodies, simple tunes like "terra".
FFVII Advent children featured some of the piano collection's songs, but also didn't bring any new amiable stuff.Nobody exepts Aerith's Theme Part II, but this (p.12) is the first FF OST I'm not gonna keep...Really, really disappointing, same development as shines through with the FF game series...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
First Impressions on The Captain And The Kid
there's a lot of stuff on the web about the new album (Basic info: see below). First of all, there's the lyrics on eltonography.com.
First impression: Good with exceptions.
Now eltonjohn.com has sneak-peeked two songs, "The Bridge" and "Postcards From Richard Nixon". I have checked out the first one already, and the sound is awesome. A grandload of Piano and a brilliant voice give the rather weak lyrics of this song a really strong intonation.
More to be added about Richard Nixon later today.
___UPDATE___
It's been released a while ago now, and I still listen to it frequently. Many opinions can be found in the alt.fan.elton-john newsgroup, mine as well.
Long story cut short : The album rocks!
First impression: Good with exceptions.
Now eltonjohn.com has sneak-peeked two songs, "The Bridge" and "Postcards From Richard Nixon". I have checked out the first one already, and the sound is awesome. A grandload of Piano and a brilliant voice give the rather weak lyrics of this song a really strong intonation.
More to be added about Richard Nixon later today.
___UPDATE___
It's been released a while ago now, and I still listen to it frequently. Many opinions can be found in the alt.fan.elton-john newsgroup, mine as well.
Long story cut short : The album rocks!
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