Blasting the Silence
God, where have I been?
It's been near on a month since my last post (speaking of, thanks for all of the encouragement on the dating front, guys! More on that in a minute.) and I feel remiss for this. There's been a bunch of stuff going on, so I think I'll handle all of it in lovely, lovely bullet-points!
It's been near on a month since my last post (speaking of, thanks for all of the encouragement on the dating front, guys! More on that in a minute.) and I feel remiss for this. There's been a bunch of stuff going on, so I think I'll handle all of it in lovely, lovely bullet-points!
- I'm still dating the woman. Her name is Kristi. Things are going fairly well there, taking into consideration the sort of baggage I tend to travel with. I'm getting better at not freaking out completely and pulling away and screaming when someone tries to get emotionally close to me. That's mostly because she's a great girl and I'd like to not do such things to her. So there's that.
- Oh, man, Criminal Element. I got in some really fucking good writing over the past day or two. Edited some sections, rewrote a section. Now I just have two chapters that I need to expand from notes into actual, "i'm a real writer" text and the Shotgun Bible should be ready to go.
- Speaking of Criminal Element, I had the great honor of doing a podcast interview about my game on Rob Bohl's Independent Insurgency. The podcast isn't up yet, but should be soonish, so I'll post a link as soon as it does. You can check out previous podcasts over here. It was the first time I'd ever been interviewed about the game and, if I'm going to be honest with myself, I'm not sure if I did my best work on "selling the game", but it was a great conversation that Rob and I had, and I think it might be an interesting thing for the people out there that are interested in any kind of game and design, or who just want to see what the hell I've been working on for the past five (!) years. A huge thank you to Rob for having me over his place and giving me a chance to talk about my game. (Sorry I couldn't meet up with you at PoliCon man. You're still doing DexCon, right?)
- I should mention that I was sorry to miss PoliCon to Don as well.
eruditus , sorry man. Work's been a bear, but that should be clearing up sharpish. Still up for some DexCon, yeah? - I'm being transfered from my current location at the Major Video Game Retailer I work for to one that is further from home, in a mall, and is open considerably later than my current store. I'm not terribly happy about this...
- ...though I might have another job prospect lined up that will amend that situation quite nicely. I'm not wanting to say too much, in fear of jinxing it, but hopefully I'll be able to be more lose with the tongue in the next couple of weeks.
- Thanks to the kindly intervention of
feanor1138 and
feanorsgrrl , I was able to see the current "it" noir movie at the Philadelphia Film Festival. "Blast of Silence" was a fantastic, bizarre, lurid crime novel committed to film, with a slick, seedy monologue laying over top of the whole thing that sounded like "Donald Westlake's Choose Your Own Hitman Adventure". I found it completely different from what I expected and absolutely enjoyable. Criterion Collection has secured my twenty-odd dollars for their upcoming release. - A lovely flub committed by my bank has left me with a negative balance in my checking account, when I should have something that is very much in the positive. I've been afflicted by this for near on a week now. I'm not happy, to say the least. I should have enough gas in my car to at least travel to and from work tomorrow, so at least I have that on my side.
- I bought Rock Band for my 360. My band is called "Parker Black and the Magnificent Bastards". This automatically makes my fake band more Rock n' Roll than Fall Out Boy. I've also four-starred Run to the Hills on Vocals at Medium. This makes my fake band more Rock n' Roll than Daughtry. Info on a Rock Band based party action soonishesque.