My Chopin-styled track was largely a failure. Compositionally, it's one of the best things I've done, and the original piano version (which you can listen to here) works pretty well in spite of FL Studio's substandard piano sounds. However, the task set for me was to produce such a song using only electronic sounds, which is where I fell down; I ( Read more... )

On Friday night I was sitting at home drinking Whiskey (As you do), when I got an IM from a girl from Cambridge on OKCupid. I recognised her as having sent me a message back in 2004, which I think impressed her. We talked for about two hours, and it was pretty interesting conversation. I probably won't hear from her again, though. Strange how that ( Read more... )

Oh, hello! What? Put that down! Ah ( Read more... )

I got a bus home from work today; I don't much mind the cold (I walked in the morning, after all), but I left work a bit late, and if I'd walked I wouldn't have gotten home until about 7pm. Because buses are crap, however, I got home at 6:55pm.

Anyway, I was sitting next to a girl who was absorbed in her phone, and after a while I idly caught a ( Read more... )

My friend sent me a text message this morning to tell me that he'd reached level 65 with his Death Knight, from a starting level of 55, at 1am, roughly 24 hours after he started playing. I'm going to assume he was playing constantly for those 24 hours, and he'd been awake for about 16 hours before that, so that makes an impressive 40 hour stretch! ( Read more... )

Oh. Hello ( Read more... )

I'll tell you something for free: I really don't like this hot weather. It's slowly killing me! My need for a haircut is kind of reaching crisis point, but I just felt so hot and sweaty in town today that the last thing I wanted to do was get my hair cut. And this is on top of my natural fear of hairdressers ( Read more... )

...That I never thought to do this before: I posted in the indie games forums that I've been frequenting since discovering Dyson last week, offering my services as a musician. The forums are full of people working on games of all kinds, including some of the big names on the indie games scene. Already someone has asked me to work on a future ( Read more... )

What a boring time. Yesterday I bought two CDs (In spite of my resolution to stop buying so many CDs..). Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother (I used to like these guys back in the 90s, and I recently heard one of their songs, which reminded me of how great they are), and 65daysofstatic - One Time for All Time. I was suitably ( Read more... )

I've been spending a bit too much money lately. I blame Warp Records; a lot of their CDs are selling for around £7 in HMV and Fopp. In the past month, I've bought 3 albums by (Chris) Clark, all of which are superb, a pretty sweet mix of Warp tracks by PC and Strictly Kev, and yesterday Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters, a two-disc collection ( Read more... )