Somehow transitioned from too any links to videos to too much gigantic video games art.

Whatever.

Free game

Just click it and see for yourself, it takes like 30 seconds.

http://probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter

Drawing is cool I wish I could draw,

I find this series fascinating (there are like 4 or 5). I like people that talk fast; I fell like they're not wasting my time. Also there are cool pictures and oh yeah it makes a supposedly difficult concept accessible and interesting.



Also I couldn't figure out how to fit it into the main body of the post but I really wanted to use the word "mathematic" somewhere around here.

Other features every DVR should have*: A "second airing" option in addition to "First Run" and "Repeats," for shows that air multiple times a night (i.e. every cable show). So I can record South Park one of the 400 times a week it airs without interfering with something else or recording a million reruns.

*In a previous post, I mentioned an "undo" button or recycle bin for when you accidentally delete episodes (which every single person with a DVR has done at least once), a feature that I estimated would take about ten minutes to develop and implement.

My continued attempts to crash your browser...

Here's something that's not a song.

I watched this on DVD (remember those?) earlier this week and it somehow became one of the best movies I have ever seen. It seems like it should be the most pretentious thing ever and yet you can't look away from the screen. Give it a shot, and if you get bored try skipping to the second half, which somehow makes the real world look more fantastical than any CGI (especially, it out-TRONs TRON. TRON is a verb, right?).

More downloads

Here.

About a third of these songs are identical to the blog versions. Most of the others had some small mixing/ editing/ volume issues reworked. One song ("♣ Noise") has a rewritten track (the piano solo). Another ("Effect & Cause") is a completely new recording.

I wanted to do every song; but I decided it was better to make as many as I can available now instead of waiting six months or tearing my hair out trying to rush and fix 30-something songs in a few weeks.

The songs that were left off were either weaker overall ("Beatbox 1," "LOST"), took longer to rerecord than I had time for ("Enter Sandman," "Sleep Now," "Grace"), or were reworked but I wasn't satisfied with the outcome ("Heavy Wood," "Sound of A Guitar Exploding"). Some of them ("Minor Thing," "Duel," "Teardop"), I had no idea where to start. And a couple ("Hayao," "Spellbound," "2-Note Shuffle") were basically cut for time or pacing reasons. It's a shame though, as I think some these, especially "Enter Sandman," "Minor Thing," and "Teardrop," could turn into really good songs. I'll probably talk some more about this later, if I can get back to them.

Oh, and please give me money. Or else

This is like the first post in six months that's not a song of the week

Here's the machine you use to make these:

Soundtracking Your Life is available for download--sort of

...OK, so it's not the final versions, just the demos* (i.e. the versions you've been listening to nonstop on this site and Youtube, with some modifications**), and it's not every song, just the eight that are finished so far, but it's free (but if you can please give me some money, they only give me like so many free downloads; also if it's less than thirty cents I don't actually get anything because of servicing costs).

As for the other songs, at least some of them will be up soon. Everything's in order, but it takes a long time to upload files. If you're impatient, keep checking here. It's easy to remember, it's the same as this site, but with "bandcamp" instead of "blogspot."

*Devotees may recall me mentioning this exact plan earlier.
**For more information on what modifications, I've written something up on the individual song posts:
1. "Dread"
2. "Rose"
3. "Two Warriors Meet on an Ancient Battleground"
4. "Leitmotif for X"
5. "Insanity in 9:8 Time"
6. "Rise"
7. "Fencing Wire"
8. "Angels Dressed in Black"

I'm leaving home for the first time to go to school in Austin tomorrow morning. I feel like Link about to leave Kokiri Forest. Possibly because I spent all day today doing fetch quests.

UPDATED, 1/18: I got back home late Sunday night. It's not that I lost so much as I realized I was playing the wrong game.