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April 04, 2001 - The City of Lost Children ...is one of the more unique movies I've seen the last few years. If anybody read that Millennium update about me moving, I'm kinda in the process right now even though it's been backed up a bit. So with that in mind, I'm extending the Doom3 Music Contest (the one from the update below) another 3 weeks. Besides, I'd like more than just a few entries to judge ;) C'mon people, you know you want that autographed picture of Adam...
March 04, 2001 - The dissipation of common sense and sarcasm It's probably safe to assume everybody has seen the Doom3 footage by now. I was surprised by the surprised reactions: were people really expecting anything less? This is more like what I expected Quake 3 to look like. Anyways, now that everybody has seen previews of what the game might bring us, it's contest time: there have been numerous discussions, arguments and flamewars in the Doomworld Forums over what musician or band should do the music for Doom3. There have been many insults thrown at other people's suggestions citing why those suggestions wouldn't be a good choice, yet not many people have gone into detail about why their choices would be the best choice for an artist to do the Doom3 soundtrack. So this is the contest: pick a musician or band that you think would supply Doom3 with the best soundtrack based on the recent game footage, and offer reasons as to why your choice is the best choice. You can go about this however you want: write an essay or editorial, construct a webpage (samples are a plus), make a flash animation, do some kind of power point presentation... it's you to you: whatever you think makes your point the best, go for it. Some things you may want to include are your musician or band's past experiences with music which would "qualify" them for the Doom3 soundtrack, what musical expertise they have that makes them better than anybody else out there. What are they capable of? Are they a rock band who also does horror soundtracks and could mix the two to form the ultimate Doom3 soundtrack? Prove your reasoning by citing examples from material they've written and released, and explain what makes it special and/or relevant to Doom3: this will be the major factor in judging the winner of the contest. Post or mail us your own soundclips if you want. Whoever convinces us that their choice is the best choice for Doom3, using whatever methods they want to, wins. Wins what? Given the vast array of community members, I can't think of one good prize that would suit everybody, or that somebody might not already have, or that another person might not care for, etc. so I've come up with a few options, of which the winner can pick one:
1) Up to $50 worth of items from the amazon.com
stores (cds, videos/dvd's and books are the primary choices available here). Naturally, the contest will be judged with all personal opinions and biases aside. The judges are people we've picked who are very musically educated and enjoy music from classical to country to death metal to industrial to plain old noise and everything in between. Just note that it's pretty much up to your musician or band's performance to win; the most well-done entry won't win us over if the music is horrible, but may be used to determine a winner if two or more persons select the same musician or band. Entires will be posted here. The deadline is one month from today; April 04, 2001. You may enter only once. Mail me with any further questions. Sound good? GET BUSY!! ;) And yes this contest is just an excuse to have some content on the page, which brings me to my second item of business: Chief and I have been overly busy recently, which leaves room for a few new reviewers to join the team. If you're interested in reviewing WADs here (we'd like at least one review per month), mail me with a sample review (pick anything you find lying around, even a doom/doom2 level if you're that short on wads) and also tell what you look for in a "good" WAD and what you think makes a "bad" WAD. Simple, eh? :) That's all for today. Doom Millennium updated too.
December 25, 2000 - You speak my language Ok, I figured I would put in a nice and cheery Xmas update. Then I realised what a bad idea that was. Well, my favourite bands are Manson and NIN so you can guess what I think of anything remotely religious. Today will be just another day except for the fact that people are basically mindless sheep told they should give people presents and be nice on this particular day. Weird shit. In a way I am lucky to still be able to type. I could be a vegetable right now (and that's not because I am a vegetarian). A pack of hoons threatened to beat me up with stick like weapons. No really. They screamed out of their car for me to get off the road, so I did what came naturally, and gave them the finger... what followed was them getting out from their car and opening their boot (trunk) to get the weapons out. Then they went on how they were going to kick my arse with them. It's kind of funny because if they knew how I wouldn't hesitate to kill them given the chance they probably would have just left. I was with 3 other people and we stood our ground and stared them in the eye and they eventually got back in their car and drove off. Of course, it's fair to say they made a fairly BIG mistake that they will regret soon enough. I guess that's just an example of the Xmas spirit that takes over all of us at this time. Photo time... I am the captain of this team (it was forced on me...) and we went totally undefeated and won the Grand Final blah blah. We started more fights and scared away more teams than anyone else. I am on the far right if you don't know what I look like yet. Anyway, I just can't wait for all this Xmas shit to be over and everything can be normal again. I might even do some reviews. Currently all my time is taken up with the gym, work, and spending money on cds, dvds and books which to me is a good thing.
December 17, 2000 - The Sun Fired Blanks I'm baaaaack! But just for a short while. I guess I've been out of the loop for a little while now. I got a full-time job and all that and I've been working a bunch of 11-13 hour days and all that jazz. I started The Barnacle a while ago; it's my "personal" page so I'll keep all my non-Doom ranting there instead of here from now on. I know, I know, like anybody cares... I've had enough available time this weekend to get a review of Dark Castle by Virgil The Doom Poet written up: quite a drastic improvement over his last WAD reviewed here, to say the least. Go check it out. Guess that's all for now. Seems I'm getting a little nicer with these recent reviews. Doesn't hurt to give compliments I guess ;) Or be selective in review choices either. I'm gonna try and get a few more by next weekend too, provided I get a little free time. Everybody bug Chief for reviews; he's on holidays and is more occupied now than when he had school and work. Kinda like how I always get more done when I have 3 hours to do it instead of 8. I hate that.
December 07, 2000 - Alcohol kills pain, cigarettes relieve stress Damnit, I am getting really old now. I turned 20 just a couple of days ago. Pity you guys couldn't make my party... Paul Corfiatis has been nice enough to review the 10 Sectors Megawad!! So check out the review and thanks Paul!! That's the end of any Doom related news I have. I am officially a health addict. I've joined a gym (goodbye precious money) and am getting into weight training now amongst other things. So I go there every second day and usually spend two hours doing weights and mainly cardio. If you can afford to join a health club then go for it since you won't regret it. My car is running like new. Unfortunately (sarcasm) a neighbourhood war has erupted... about 6 houses aren't happy with the way my brother and I drive through a certain corner and roundabout. Well, they approached my dad about it. Bad news for them because they don't fully appreciate who they are dealing with and how crazy we are - especially that we don't get told what to do by those losers. Imagine a fat old man who resembles porky pig and every time you drive past he just stares straight at you... that's the kind of person we're dealing with. Since I have brand new tyres I can't really do burnouts around that corner if I try so their point is moot. Not to mention you can't break the speed limit going through a roundabout unless it's really wide but this one is average size. Usually I'll just stop out the front of their house and draw their attention with my exhaust... or kick it straight past them. Other fun things to do include pulling into their driveway for no apparent reason, or if it's night time... flash your lights through their windows... The ironic part is we weren't that bad till they complained. Now I have to go figure out how to spend my birthday money before xmas hits. What a dilemna.
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