"The monarch has his hands in many sinister soups."
-- The Monarch
Okay, so as if I didn't have my hands full with enough silly things, I've recently started making YouTube poop. For anyone unaware, YouTube poop is the "art" of taking some sort of source material, such as an episode of a TV show or a bit of a movie, and editing it in a funny way and then posting it on YouTube. I did a few of them using iMovie a few months ago, and they've been sitting on my hard drive since then. More recently, while I was staying at a motel room in Portland and found myself with a few hours of downtime a night, I downloaded Sony's Vegas software and started experimenting with it, and created my first "professional" poop. Anyway, as of a few minutes ago, all three of them are available on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SHquoons?feature=watch
I haven't done much recently on the musical front, however I wanted to feature my most recent release, Songs That Didn't Need to be Covered...or Did They? which is probably going to be a Volume I. Anyway, it features the best of a batch of cover songs I did and released on my website as well as partially on a podcast I made an attempt to start. It is quite delightful and you can listen to it HERE.
In other random news, I have decided to post the entire text chapter-by-chapter of the first decent book I've written, Imaginary Diseases Book I, as a series of posts on this blog. Then, when I eventually get it published and it becomes a worldwide hit and I make like mad dollars and shit, you can be among the handful of fortunates who can gaze down contemptuously at their friends and tell them that they read this New York Times bestseller back when it was just a post on some crappy little blog. I just need to transfer the file from one computer to the other, maybe do one more quick proofread, and then it's up on the internet.
Stanley "Frankfurter" Jones II is going well and is going to be a delightful game. The high-budget low-budget look of this really adds to the funniness of it I think. I'll probably have a playable demo of the first little sequence up shortly, and I might try and do a trailer or something at some point when production is a little further along. It is probably going to be released in chapters, both to compensate for the fact that due to the high-res graphics the game is going to be bigger in terms of space than a point-and-click adventure probably should be, and to help keep people interested by having more frequent releases.
Haven't done anything with Ravensbrook in a while; I'm going to have to get back to that one.
To conclude, here are a few brief, random thoughts about things I've been reading/watching/playing/whatever recently, which I feel slightly obligated to include since this is technically supposed to be a blog for reviews of things:
Elysium (film):
If missing your own point were an Olympic event, the creators of this film would not only take home the gold, they would flaunt that very gold in the faces of the millions of starving Mexicans populating dystopian Los Angeles.
Kick Ass 2 (film):
If I were to describe in detail everything that Chloe Moretz's performance in this film made me want to do, I might finally achieve my dream of having my website receiving hundreds of thousands of hits. Unfortunately, most of them would probably be from the FBI. Seriously, though, this movie was good. I don't think there was any aspect I didn't enjoy. I especially like the way it somehow manages to simultaneously be a complete fucking cartoon, and at the same time a brutally realistic depiction of what would probably happen if you actually put on a costume and tried to fight crime as a superhero. The whole thing is very cartoonishly surreal in a way that I think the Scott Pilgrim movie was trying to accomplish but couldn't seem to pull off quite as well. I need to read the comic at some point.
Higurashi When They Cry (game, anime, manga, and probably some other adaptations I don't even know about):
This is pretty much one of the best things I've ever played/read/watched. Seriously, I've not been this engaged in an anime-type fandom in a long time. I wish I'd known about this back when all the other weebs were into it, so I'd have had people to discuss it with. The anime is basically the readers digest version of the story, and is probably the weakest of the adaptations of it. So, I would definitely recommend starting with the games or the manga if you have no familiarity with the story.
Plinth (band):
I found this group because this guy named zippy72, who bought one of my records on Bandcamp, had this in his list of artists he supports (along with me:) ). I haven't had the chance to listen to more than a few songs, but what I've heard is AMAZING. Seriously, play this shit in a pitch dark room: http://iamplinth.bandcamp.com/album/wintersongs
Kujibiki Unbalance (anime):
This show is weird. The three episodes that they made as supplements to the Genshiken universe were good. Unfortunately, instead of finishing the series that they started making with Genshiken, they for some reason decided to make a completely different series, that was supposed to be a re-boot of the original (that they never even completely made in the first place). They really should have just made the original show. This new one is okay, but it's not great. Why didn't they just make the original show? That show was good. They should make it.
Southern Gods (book):
I haven't actually read this yet, so I can't review it. However, I picked it up completely at random and read the back of it, and bought it immediately. Here is a sample: "A Memphis DJ hires recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram to find Ramblin' John Hastur, a mysterious bluesman whose dark, driving music - broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station - is said to make living men insane and dead men rise." I am really excited about reading this book, and plan to start it pretty soon here. Thought I'd alert people to its existence.
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