Wicked Game, seriously
I am a massive Chris Isaak fan, let’s get that out of the way first. I was also a massive H.I.M. fan back in the day (pre-Warner Bros, phone advertising era) & they were known for doing a great cover of this.
So you know how people have movies that they like to watch once a year or so? I’m like that with songs, only I cover them instead of watching &/or listening. I’d like to say that each recording gets better, but the recordings kinda peaked in 07 & now when i play this back all i hear is the damage 10+ years of smoking has done to my voice.
Maybe next year i’ll quit smoking & take some singing lessons to get it back into shape, but until then you’ll have to put up with my vocals sounding like this:
It’s “Take 2” because the mic wasn’t on during the first take (i facepalmed so hard).
Song By: Chris Isaak
Weird borders around the video by: Adobe Media Encoder
Cameo by: Flat Eric
Youtube’s suggested tags include “sad” “take” & “out”. I’m guessing it would’ve read “sad, take him out” if i didn’t already have him in the title.
a bit of Kraftwerk…
I lost all the original footage i shot for it (mainly using the DX11 & some sequencing), so here’s a completely different version from the one i should’ve uploded while it still existed.
Man Machine, using Korg DS10 for the Nintendo DS & the Monotron analogue ribbon synth (also from Korg).
Who’s on at 6 (Summer Break version) W/Tardis & Whatnot
I buried the audio for this in another post, so here it is a gain, but with a video with (not a lot of) things happening.
“Well, i’ve got my health” *falls over*
Last week I was talking about being relatively healthy (apart from the smoking & beeing a little underweight). Today, i woke up with pains in my neck, back & shoulders + headache, a throat infection of some sort & sore eyes. I’m not sure how to explain painful eyes, but it’s that pain you get when you look up using your eyes & not your head.
All of this tends to happen every summer, making me the only one walking about with 4 layers of clothing & a hat when it’s 22C outside. I’m guessing it’s because the warmer temperatures provide a great environment for bacteria to grow in. People tend to get colds & shit in the winter because they go from cold-as-fuck outdoors into a nice warm house & wrap up with blankets (yielding another great environment to grow bacteria in).
DISCLAIMER: The above could be completely wrong, I never took biology.
I was wondering why people don’t create warm environments & grow strains of bacteria to sell on, for about two minutes, then I remembered science(!) (and that chemical warfare isn’t just a Dead Kennedys song). You also get shit like Yakult. “top up your good bacteria” says the advert, like the bacteria in your system is loosing a war, screaming out for reinforcements (I guess that’s what a lot of diseases are). Then you get antibiotics (the cure? No, not that one!), like saying “fuck it” & dropping an A-bomb on the war going on inside you. Then you get stuff like Olbas Oil that kinda makes the bad bacteria run to the hills for an hour or two, which is not bad if you’re still figuring out if you want to send reinforcements or nuke the fuckers. If having a sore throat were Modern Warfare, Olbas Oil would be like the spy-plane to the antibiotics’ chopper gunner. I’d say nuke (again), but antibiotics aren’t always a game ender.
Being ill is fucking confusing.
I’m off to eat yoghurt while rubbing Olbas Oil over my throat with one hand & playing Call of duty with the other. I’ll post an update later in the week (assuming I’m not dead from a mixture of the sore throat & my terrible understanding of biology).
Once More Unto The Reach, Dear Friends
As an Xbox Live subscriber, I get sent emails about all the promotions, updates, quizzes and other boring shit that every other Xbox user gets. This one takes the biscuit though:
I held out on the reviews & suggestion (note the singular) from a friend because i’d played Halo 3 a few times & it just wasn’t my type of FPS.
I guess it’s nice of Microsoft to check the list of games i own & suggest stuff for me to play, even if the only suggestions are from franchises they own. “Try the demo & if you like it, get a discount” is a good deal & i was about to download the demo before I scrolled to the bottom of the email.
“JUST £39.99“
Just £39.99? the game has been out for over eight months now & downloading reduces manufacturing costs (as well as your carbon footprint), so where’s my kickback?
“£39.99 is £10 lower than what it sells for on the games on demand service” you may say & you’d be right. Why does it sell for £49.99 then?
They don’t have to make a case, print covers or burn and label any discs. They aren’t throwing in any DLC…
Donkey Kong Country cost over £50 back in the day because they had to shove more microchips into the cart in order to have the GFX look like they did & it was still seen as an outrage back then. I seem to remember Nintendo being in court over price fixing back in the day as well, so how can Microsoft charge £49.99 for a game that isn’t in demand any-more (all the hardcore HALO fans bought it during the week it was released, they made $200 million in first-day sales alone), doesn’t include any dlc, doesn’t come with a case or instruction manual (well, you can download PDF manuals from the xbox site) & doesn’t allow me to trade it in down the road?
This took forever to build
More pics when i find a nice white & black backdrop, the tumble dryer just doesn’t have that Aperture feel
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