Posted August 7, 2010 at 3:27 pm by Severed Head
In the Future we will have such short attention spans that this will be the future of gaming.
See my top bands at least once
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Posted March 13, 2010 at 12:07 am by Severed Head
The doesn’t include the obviously un-doable aspect of the dead or broken up! At the time of original writing, my top 11 were:
The Offspring
Paul Gilbert (saw 3/14/07)
Static-X (saw 11/11/01… and 12/13/03, 7/24/04, 6/13/05, 11/09/05, 4/4/07, and 10/29/07)
Local H (saw 6/6/08 (in Hollywood!), 11/9/08 (in Tucson!), and 11/10/08)
Queen (saw as Queen + Paul Rodgers 3/31/06)
Radiohead (saw 8/20/08 (in Seattle!))
Cake (saw 9/13/01, 1/27/06, and 12/31/09 (in Seattle!))
Andrew W.K.
ballboy
Primus (saw 12/9/06)
Muse (saw 12/12/04, 7/22/06, and 9/20/07)
Andrew W.K. and ballboy are the only 2 bands on the list that I haven’t seen… For ballboy, a trip to Edinburgh may be in order! All of the bands I would still consider among my favorites, although I’m not sure if I would include Andrew W.K. up there or not. In terms of bands, the only one I could think of who could replace him would be Nick Cave… Whether I changed them out or not, I have not seen either perform. That said, Andrew W.K. is coming on the Warped Tour, but I don’t know that I would want to sit through a bunch of terrible bands to see him play a short set. I guess if he were one of my favorite artists, then I would. But that’s part of the question then, isn’t it? Either way, ballboy is going to be the most difficult one to see (or Nick Cave if he is added to the list)
Posted March 12, 2010 at 11:51 pm by Severed Head
1st Ending (Good ending) obtained (with Crono’s clone and a pyozo doll, Magus alive, 11 cats (!), going through the Black Omen)
I still have endings 2-13 to do, and perhaps the 1st one again, if I feel like beating it with Magus dead (so Frog can turn into Glenn!) and crashing the epoch into Lavos
Overall, this game is really fun though, and I think I’ll enjoy beating it that many more times. It makes it easier that each time gets shorter and shorter too… Unfortunately, I’m going to have to play the playstation port in order to really get the most out of the endings. This is unfortunate because it takes goddamn forever just to load menus and battles. Ah well.
Beat all of the Final Fantasy games
Posted March 12, 2010 at 11:32 pm by Severed Head
This only applies to the main series games… That is, no sequels, tactics, MMORPGs, etc.
FF I-Completed
FF IX-Completed
FF X-Completed
I decided not to finish all of the side quests. Just tonight, I decided that. While I do feel lame for leaving that out, it’s a huge commitment in time that I just can’t see myself having. Plus, there’s not a lot of point in most cases. In Final Fantasy X, I got all of the ultimate crap, because they were all do-able, and they were all somewhat fun, or at the very least, interesting. In Final Fantasy I though, it took so much time getting 100% bestiary and 100% item collection (for the record, this wasn’t even on easy mode). And some of these things don’t exist in certain ports of the game. For example, I want to get Final Fantasy II for the iPod Touch, and I doubt there’s something which measures the beastiary or item collection.
And screw the hard mode games and all that. I just want to beat each one. That’s it. I don’t want to re-do Final Fantasy IX with the twelve-hour run through to get a single item.
And for all of my geeky completist attitude, I still have Chrono Trigger to beat fully (though it sucks that I have to do it on the PSX version because it takes so goddamn long to load every fight and menu).
Learn the entire catalog of ballboy
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Posted March 12, 2010 at 3:57 pm by Severed Head
So, a while ago, I made it my goal to learn the catalogs of all of my favorite bands, and I thought it’d help me a be a better musician and guitarist overall. I made a list of what bands I wanted to learn the discographies of, but I did not fully define what I wanted to do to accomplish this. It’s important to set very specific goals, if not purely for motivation. So, I’ve put the artists’ catalogs that I want to learn in order, from least difficult to most difficult. It is important to note that Local H is excluded from this list because it requires a particular kind of guitar. More on this in a bit.
My goal is to try to get through an album a week, but, as I move on, I’m sure that will become more difficult as the albums become more difficult. For example, one Jimi Hendrix album could take months, and don’t even get me started on Paul Gilbert.
Still, as ridiculous as a goal as this is, whenever a musician has played with Paul Gilbert, they’re always impressed by his knowledge of the catalog of basically every band… And this isn’t just any old band too. This isn’t Nirvana and ballboy and The Offspring (like me). This is The Beatles (a ridiculous catalog), Van Halen, The Who, etc. I’d really like to get to that point. It really shows dedication. And I can acknowledge that it might not be until my 30s or later that I finish learning all of these. That’s why it’s a lifelist.
Anyway, here is the list of what I want to do… First, I want to go album by album for each band, starting with the earliest album chronologically and working my way to the most recent album. Next, I want to learn any b-sides or alternate/live versions (to a reasonable extent… I’m not going to learn every single guitar solo from every Primus bootleg I have, but I want to figure out their main structures and cues)…
Now, what it means to actually even learn a song becomes an issue. The following criteria are what I’m looking for:
Be able to play the main guitar parts (rhythm and lead)
If there is no main guitar, a guitar version. If it’s chords on a piano, I want to learn all of those on guitar. Or maybe piano. But the main chord progression. There will certainly be exceptions to this, and I’ll bring those up in upcoming entries.
The guitar solos (or the equivalent, if it is a flute or I don’t know… god knows what… Just a really important part)
For certain bands, particularly, Local H, a special guitar is required. When Scott Lucas plays, he has a bass pickup attached to his guitar, and has two outputs, one for the bass, which goes to a bass pedal and bass amp, and one for a guitar. I want to make a guitar with this set-up, and be able to play all Local H songs in the same manner, switching back and forth between the pedals. I feel this is the only true way of REALLY learning the catalog. Otherwise, I might be playing the chords in a different way than Scott does.
So, in terms of the actual method of learning all of this music, I have this order:
1) Play through the album while listening to it.
2) Notate how I played them, make it as short hand as I possibly can (a lot of the ballboy songs will be stuff that takes up less than a line like Cm-Eb-Bb=main riff)
3) Put the album on shuffle and be able to play the entire thing without sheet music
4) Be able to play through the album entirely without sheet music or a recording
5) Add all of the songs that I learned to a “Repertoire” playlist, and, after finishing an album, go through a fair amount of this playlist, and be able to play through it without sheet music. This will help to keep the older stuff I learned in my head.
Anyway, the first artist I’m working on is ballboy, and the first album is Club Anthems. Next up is A Guide to the Daylight Hours. I’m going to try to get both of them finished by the end of the next week… Hopefully with another album, even. We’ll see. Here’s the to-do list for ballboy:
Club Anthems
A Guide for the Daylight Hours
The Sash My Father Wore and Other Stories
The Royal Theatre
I Worked on the Ships
B-sides/Acoustic arrangements
Future progress on this lifelist item: 2, 3, 4
Letter to Jake about playing music
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Posted July 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm by Severed Head
I think maybe we should just start booking gigs here in Phoenix. I will find some that you and I can both make in terms of dates. If we get booked, I’ll really quickly record some shit and send it to you, and we’ll basically jam some songs off of that at the show since we won’t really have time to rehearse.
Just to get the ball rolling and play some fun shows. What do you think?
Harrison's Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: The Peace Sign and Shitty Drivers
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Posted March 19, 2009 at 11:42 pm by Severed Head
What the fuck? First, I’ll start off with what happened to me tonight, then I’ll go off from there about reasons why I hate this section of society. I’m looking to make this a regular column, where I basically yell at people. Tonight, I was driving home on a street which has a posted speed limit of 40 miles an hour. I normally go about 5 mph over, and feel that this is the perfect reasonable speed at which to drive, but I’m not saying that everyone should and different people have different needs. However, since this is such a small street, of two lanes, where most people are going about 2 over, I feel it is fucking ridiculous when ass holes try to go about 15 over. So this guy goes speeding past me on the right, and so I honked at him. He then, being the douche bag he is, gave me the peace sign. To some extent, this could be understood, if he was telling me to chill. He then proceeded to get as close as possible to the car in front of him so he could change lanes without braking. I saw the line of cars in front of me panic as this happened, because he did it so quickly, and without any consideration for the other drivers on the road. He eventually cut in front of them when given barely enough room, and went on his way.
To a red. fucking. light.
He sped up, and cut off like 3 cars and tailgated one so he could get THAT far ahead on his way to a red light.
I’m sure part of this is just the presence of douchebags and ass holes in this town, but a large part of this is also the WILD misinterpretation of the peace sign. It represents peace and harmony. Not being an ass hole and causing danger to a few lives. Nobody got hurt in this instance, and in most instances like this, nobody does get hurt, but it does cause panic and anger and frustration with nearly ALL of the people involved. Using a peace sign doesn’t excuse him from being an arrogant, selfish, aggressive driver. It means he’s an ass hole who doesn’t know what the fuck “peace” is. And this is representative of society as a whole. A majority of people want to go on with their lives peacefully without ass holes fucking with them, to put it simply and full of cuss words. But the problem arises when THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE ASS HOLES TO EVERYONE ELSE. It’s hypocritical, clearly, but it really shows just how goddamn ignorant everyone is and how inconsiderate people are, ESPECIALLY when it comes to driving in this town. People don’t want to be cut off, but expect to be ignored when people cut them off? No. I am going to honk my fucking horn at shitty drivers and call them on their bullshit driving. Someone has to. Everyone who doesn’t, I feel, is a goddamn pussy. We can’t let these ass holes take over the road completely, but the sad thing is, they do, and most people LET them. LET’S NOT LET THEM ANYMORE. PEOPLE NEED TO DRIVE CONSIDERATELY, AND IF THEY DON’T, HONK. MAKE A BIG FUCKING DEAL. It’s dangerous to EVERYONE involved, and it’s, as shown in this case, and I’m sure many everyone has seen, unnecessary in the long run. Hell, even in the short run, this ass hole was only got about 20 feet ahead of everyone else while risking their safety!
In conclusion: FUCK ASSHOLE DRIVERS
Posted November 16, 2008 at 9:37 am by Severed Head
At the age of thirty, will I activate an electric radio in my bath-tub, after reflecting on my sad, failed life? Or will I activate my memory and a bottle of expensive wine, and recall the night I sat down and finally Activated my ambition, turning it’s fantastical powers to a career with your fantastical company?
Stronger telescopes are directly proportional to my need for space travel.
Posted November 15, 2008 at 7:32 am by Crumb Bandit
Gasous planets found out side of our galaxy, first ones to be photoed. They are not stars, rather gaseous planets roughly the size of Jupiter. So in the case of gas mining, Gold mines to space miners, such as myself.
The article says that these findings raise possibility of earth style planets elsewhere.
Nothing gets me more excited than a journey into the last frontier which for my generation is what I consider to be the first frontier.
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Posted October 17, 2008 at 9:58 pm by Severed Head
FINALLY. 12 YEARS OF WAITING.
That is, Earthbound 64 was announced in 1996, but delayed and delayed and eventually cancelled.
Then, they finally went HEY LET’S JUST FUCKING MAKE THE GAME FOR GBA ALREADY SHEESH. This was a few years ago.
After continuing to be patient for a few years, the Earthbound community finally went “HEY NINTENDO OF AMERICA WTF” and then made their own Mother 3 translation ROM patch which was released JUST TODAY
CELEBRATE, EARTHBOUND FANS!
THE MOTHER 3 FAN TRANSLATION IS HERE