I was negligent about blogging my PAX experience last year. This year, I would like to avoid that, so before going to bed, I give you the highlights of my Friday at PAX 2009:

• Played the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo. I couldn't even hear the dialogue, and it still convinced me it's time to break down and get an Xbox 360.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ( Read more... )

If bands were fossils, XTC would be a transitional form between the Beatles and They Might Be Giants.

Via bedsidestory (personal communication) I have discovered that 1) I was completely unaware that Messiaen had composed a Turangalîla Symphony and 2) I have an opportunity to redeem myself.

Anyone else care to come? It's this Sunday at 7:00 in Benaroya Hall, so it would probably be better to get tickets sooner rather than latter.

I wasn't imaging things when I said the music in Tsubasa Chronicle sounded just like the music in Xenosaga. Yuki Kajiura did the music for both!

Inspired by manterre, I have conducted an analysis of the (pure) elements present in my music collection (approximate numbers only):

• Hydrogen: 1
  
  
• Carbon: 2
  
  
• Neon: 2
  
  
• Aluminum: 1
  
  
• Iron: 15
  
  
• Silver: 10
  
  
• Platinum: 1
  
  
• Gold: 12
  
  
• Lead: 1
  
  

Perhaps the hydrogen is eternally anxious because it is always alone; so very, very alone ( Read more... )

Having noticed that "Cast Your Pod to the Wind" doesn't really

(This post was just interrupted by a phone call from my father and I can't believe I just did it, but I turned down a Wii!)

have any album art, and I was wondering whether I should give it The Else's art or something else.

What are you trying to pull here! I know that music! I know that music! But not from Suikoden. No, oh no. I know it from... Castlevania! Aha, Michiru Yamane, just as I thought...

You can't slip by me, Michiru-san. Okay, so you did in Curse of Darkness, but you weren't quite in form with that one, and I just couldn't believe it was you. Though I ( Read more... )

So I was cleaning my room today and made some interesting discoveries.

The first was actually on my hard drive. In picking some menial chore music I decided to listen to some extraneous material that came in a torrent of game soundtracks beginning with the letter B (speaking of which, certain parties may be interested to know that the G torrent ( Read more... )

I tend not be very adventurous musically, in as much as I tend to listen mostly to artists which I've already heard; hence, the large number of soundtracks in my collection. The fact that I hate most modern pop music has done little to encourage musical exploration on my part. Recent developments, however, have been causing me to think I should ( Read more... )

This is the best idea ever.

And unrelatedly, this is also awesome.