Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event

Goodnight, sweet prince.

2009-01-19T11:20:00.002-05:00

I have decided to retire this blog. It's been real blogspot, but I've met a younger, sexier, looser gal and her name is Tumblr.

From now on you can follow me around the internet at:

http://dauragon.tumblr.com

-Dauragon

This time last year

2008-12-31T13:55:00.002-05:00

I had only been on 8bc for just over a month.

I only had 3 songs uploaded to 8bc and no releases.

I was envious of everyone who went to Blip 07.

My girlfriend was making things very difficult.

I had no idea what a NSF was

I didn't own a DMG or Nanoloop

IRC was some NERD ASS SHIT

I had just started saving up for blip 08

I still took photos (for ART)

My hair was shorter

My pants were baggier

I had just bought my current pair of shoes.

I still had my busted ass blackberry

I was wondering what 2008 had in store for me.

Stuck

2008-12-30T18:24:00.002-05:00

Is how I feel right now, until I get a new cart.

Oh well, all this non music time gives me more time to beat my giant stack of unfinished videogames, and do some more writing.

Also check out my tumblr. It's basically the same thing I do here, but with PURTY PICTURES.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

2008-12-26T17:20:00.002-05:00

Quoth the Oliver on the subject of nanoloop 1.5 carts:

"Well, I planned to release 1.5 in early december..

The actual release, however, depends on the PCB manufactorer. The latest news is that they could not finish the new boards before their holiday and thus can not deliver before mid-january. But earlier this week they said they would now try to drill the holes in that unlucky first batch of PCBs, with a loss of accuracy though. The hole's size and exact position are not too critical, so chances are good that this original batch can be used. According to the manufactorer, it will be sent to me tomorrow so that it will arrive tuesday. Unfortunately, I'm going on holiday myself on wednesday, so that's too late for a december release already.

So:
If the batch arriving tuesday is OK -> release around jan. 10th
If holes are not OK -> release in second half of january

This whole desaster teached me to never annouce even the vaguest release date again for future products."

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

Long Overdue Update

2008-12-23T15:20:00.002-05:00

Went to The Blip festival. It was awesome. Met a bunch of people. Took some pictures that I need to get developed.

Lost my Nanoloop cart, Hard drive exploded. Switched To Linux. Musically on hold until I get a new cart.

Getting ready for Christmas, and then Magfest. And then school, and 8 Static 2.

Fun times

TURKEYS MUTHFUCKA!

2008-11-27T18:44:00.002-05:00

DO YOU EAT THEM?

also: blipfest is in one week and I am super stoked.

I just saw the Polysics

2008-10-31T01:34:00.001-04:00

They were fucking amazing.

That is all.

Words can not describe

2008-10-26T17:32:00.000-04:00

How awesome it was to experience this:

Halloween Pulsewave "Mystery Guest" REVEAL from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.

Memoirs of The Elderly/ Halloween Pulsewave

2008-10-24T19:41:00.006-04:00

My buddy Edgar Nielsen put my song "Lock Stock and a Big Bucket of Chicken" into a short film that is now being showcased in the From Here To Awesome film festival.

Check it out here

Said song can also be downloaded here

Also this weekend I shall be in NY for the Halloween edition of Pulsewave:

So if you are in new york and wanna see one of the most epic chipshows of all time swing on by! And be sure to tell everyone that Dauragon sent you so they can go "Dauragon who the fuck is that?" Fun times will be had!

8static

2008-10-20T07:45:00.003-04:00

On Saturday I went to see Graffiti Monsters , Cheap Dinosaurs, Animal Style, Glomag, and Bitshifter at 8static in Philadelphia.

Shit was rather awesome. I didn't get pictures and video of everyone cause I was too busy enjoying myself, but here goes:

Glomag @ 8static from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.

Bit Shifter @ 8static from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.

Philly is a pretty cool city. :)

Alright guys and gals

2008-09-23T21:03:00.003-04:00

Do yourselves (yes, all 4 of you) a favor and bookmark this page.

Good day!

I Am Learning Stuff

2008-09-16T13:12:00.005-04:00

Baron Knoxburry has alot of shirts

2008-09-07T21:39:00.000-04:00

Newest Addition to the family

2008-08-27T21:52:00.002-04:00

Sent to me from my good pal Mdotstrange. It's nice and gritted up and I LIKE IT.

Hexagram

2008-08-22T10:26:00.004-04:00

Getting pretty hyped for the new Deftones album. Been listening to this a whole lot over the past month.

The self titled album is grossly unappreciated.

It had to be done sooner or later

2008-08-20T10:24:00.002-04:00

Taken by 8GB at Barcade in New York City.

Lovely!

New Release: Baggage

2008-08-20T08:19:00.002-04:00

Five Songs.

Raw. Unrefined. Imperfect.

Baggage dropped off at the goodwill that is your ears.

Out with the old, in with the new.

Download it here.

When Girls Telephone Boys

2008-08-18T13:29:00.003-04:00

Possibly my favorite Deftones song. Been bumping it a lot lately:

Who ever said "absence makes the heart grow fonder"

2008-08-15T10:23:00.000-04:00

Is a fucking liar.

:(

Videos From Philly

2008-08-13T09:06:00.000-04:00

8gb at 8/8/08 from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.

Animal Style at 8/8/08 from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.

Nullsleep at 8/8/08 from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.

08/08/08

2008-08-11T09:26:00.002-04:00

Went to philly. Met some peeps. Heard great music.

Twas fun. :)

Stuff You Should Listen To: Vol. 1

2008-08-06T15:10:00.005-04:00

I sit here at work, fairly bored flipping through songs on my ipod to play at very low volumes and I am suddenly compelled to needlessly bombard whomever stumbles upon this wee blog with my music taste.

Things that have been on heavy rotation on my iPod:

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

In my humble opinion THE perfect, quintessential Hip Hop Album. If you ever wanted to explain what Hip Hop was and what it is SUPPOSED to be, this album should be the top example. The beats get you on your feet, the incredibly tight bass lines rock you to the very core, and the lyrics enlighten, empower and amuse you all at the same time.

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

Yeah, I liked it. I liked it ALOT. Sue me. I honestly enjoy this album greater than most of what Trent Reznor has done since The Downward Spiral. It is by no means a return to form, but more of a return to basics. It doesn't try to blow you face off with sound, nor make your parents cringe with lyrics about religion and hot sweet animal lovin. It just takes you fun little musical ride that you will want to experience again and again and again. Download it for free (if you haven't already) here.

Portishead - Third

As soon as I heard the opening *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tiiish* of cymbols in "Silence", the first song on the first new Portishead Album since 1997, I knew I was in for something very special. This album is a massive departure from the Portishead of the 90's. Gone are the super slick jazzy beats and triphop turntableisms. Gone are the breaks and sharp venomous lyrics we grew so used to from Beth Gibbons. Here instead, is the dirty, gritty, pulpy, scratchy, unnerving soundtrack to the greatest pulp drama never made. Rarely does a musical work have the same resonance with me as a film or a novel, but after the droning guitar of final track "Threads" ceased, I couldn't help but just lay there on my floor and allow what just heard to soak in fully.

Various Artists - The Liverpool Chiptune Compilation

A hotly anticipated compilation of chiptune cover of songs made by bands from Liverpool. featuring chip musicians such as Nullsleep, Goatslacker, Seed AI, AutoDaFe, and Bud Melvin. Not much I can really say other than this compo is FANTASTIC!
A stand out track for me would be "While My Gameboy Gently Weeps" by Seed A.I, a cover of one of my favorite Beatles songs. Download it here.

Thats it for now. I may do more of these in the future. Now it's time to return to *shudder* work.

Things to come

2008-08-04T11:08:00.003-04:00

Over the past few weeks i've been debating on registering my own domain name and setting up a little website where I can gush and show off all of my various overly ambitious projects in one place. Doing so would give this blog a new home, and maybe a change of pace. It would go from a more personal blog to a more progress oriented blog centered around my various "art" projects.

Lets see how this goes.

Anywhoo, more music news;

As I stated in my previous post I recently received a music program for the Nintendo Gameboy called Nanoloop. It's basically a 16 step sequencer that produces sound from the Gameboy hardware. Here is a video of some one fooling around with a nanoloop demo:

It's a real blast to mess around with. I can wrap my head around the interface quite nicely (which makes nanoloop far more usable for me than other "tracker" style interfaces used by programs such as LSDJ and Famitracker), and it makes pretty unique sounds.

You can hear a little track I made after messing around with it for a day or two here.

exciting things ahead!

Fucking Kittens!

2008-07-28T12:20:00.001-04:00

I have recently acquired two kittens and they are KYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE. The little buggers eat and poop like it's going out of style though O_O. They also keep me up at all times at night, but I love them to death!

They couldn't have wandered into my life at a better time. Right when I was getting ready to die from boredom and loneliness, these little fur balls come around and supply me with limitless duty and entertainment. Keeping them from running out of my room (my grandmother wants to make the rest of the house kitty safe first) is pretty much a full time job.

Alright so what have I been doing? Ahh thats right. MUSIC!

I'm currently kicking myself out of a musical drought by working on a small split album with fellow chiptune hombre, Big Chip. It will be raw, it will be nasty, and there will be lots of nekkid *bitches.

In terms of musical equipment, a few weeks ago I ordered and received an R4 flash cart for my Nintendo DS, which allows me to use all kinds of home brew programs on it. There are lots of really cool DS music programs out there!

I have also just now ordered a gameboy program called Nanoloop

So in the near future my musical set up shall be:

Laptop w/ Fl Studio
Nintendo DS w/ Nitrotracker/Glitch DS/ Protein DS
GBA/Gba SP w/ Nanoloop

Experimentation is fun kids!

Untill next time,

-Dauragon

* Dauragon does not endorse the use of the terms Bitches to describe people of the female gender in a derogatory manner. Don't hurt me ladies.

Life update, and such..

2008-03-02T13:47:00.003-05:00

So, just to keep a proper log of things, my live has been split into two very distinct parts. The internet land world place, and the "Real World". Internet land world place first.

On the internet, The following has been done:

Released my first 8-bit album, Bass_Avenger

Started writing several short stories/scripts that I plan on bringing to life at some point.

Launched my little gaming blog, Disk Read Error

Met lots of really awesome and inspiring people from 8bitcollective

In the real world, my life has, for lack of a better term, gone to shit.

I was unable to register for classes for the spring semester because of near soul crushingly painful financial aid fuck ups, which lead to me owing Montgomery College over 4 grand.

I'm still jobless, because getting a job is such an unnecessarily hard process when you don't want to flip burgers.

Overall between those two things I have been pretty depressed. The problem is that the depression keeps me in the house, which in turn hinders my job searching ability, which in turn beckons forth more chastising from my mother and grandmother, which in turn flares my depression. It's OK though, cause I will be trying my hardest to break the cycle over the next few weeks. This can't continue, It's not good for me physically or mentally.

So yeah, thats what I have been up to in the first few months of 2008 :D

Do you like movies?

2008-02-21T02:51:00.001-05:00

Bass_Avenger!

2008-02-04T19:04:00.000-05:00

Hey if you have the time be sure to download my first chiptune effort album:

The debut album of Dauragon C. Mikado. 7 tracks of sweet sweet hippity hoppety blippity bloppety awesomepants!

BEATS SO GOOD, MAKE YOU WANNA SLAP YO MAMA! XD

Spur of the moment Blog Talk Radioing

2008-01-29T02:26:00.000-05:00

Episode 3 of Dauragon's Lair

more episodes to come :D

Guns. Lots of Guns.

2008-01-18T17:08:00.000-05:00

You'd think The Matrix couldn't get any cooler. You'd be wrong:

Life is like a box of chocolates

2008-01-11T03:54:00.000-05:00

So, like always, I am sitting in front of this computer when I damn well should be sleeping. Alas, sleep does not come easily for me. I lack what people would call an "off switch". My cranium, for better or worse, runs at full speed for around 22 hours out of 24 each day. You would think "well golly, that much make you one sharp block of cheddar!", but I'm not so sure if that is true. One thing is for sure it makes me more paranoid than a pothead at a traffic stop.

Anwhoo, apart from my sleeplessness, life has been turning out to be pretty great recently. My grandmother called me today (er......yesterday) and told me that the people whom I owe student loans from now recognize that I have transferred schools and they are no longer poised to rape me up the ass with a tire iron, and snatch my first born straight out of my future wife's womb.

..........at least not YET

I have been playing an ungodly amount of Halo 3 lately because of my recently acquired replacement Xbox I received from Microsoft (and an extra free month of Xbox live, THANKS MAJOR NEILSON!). So lets just run down the major differences between my old and new xbox.

My old xbox 360 was basically a portable room heater that just so happened to play games. Seriously, I would play Viva Pinata for 30 minutes and that bitch would be hot enough to cook an egg. So you could imagine how hot it would get whilst slaying hundreds of zombies at a time in Dead Rising. I'll give you a hint: SUPER FUCKING HOT. So hot, that it fell victim to the dreaded Red Ring of Death (or RROD to us geek types who love to abbreviate everything). For those who dont know, the Red Ring of Death is the slang term for red flashing led's that circle around the power button on an xbox 360. It's basically the xbox'es way of saying "OH FUCK!!! MY KIDNEYS!" and a cue for you to rue the day you spent 400 dollars on this machine. I worried not though, because Microsoft recognized that they make a major oopsee in the design process of the 360 and decided to set aside 1 billion dollars to repair (read: replace) peoples 360's free of charge. So I immediately went on to xbox.com and made a request for a box (read: coffin) that I could ship my xbox away to magical repair land (read: giant furnace somewhere in texas) with. I shipped my xbox away, and lo and behold, several weeks later a brand spanking new xbox 360 was at my doorstep. This 360 has a HUGE heat sink (for the less technical types, a heat sink is pretty much a fat slab of metal that sits near the processor to suck up all the heat it generates) that you can see through the vents, and supposedly a smaller processor. All that matters to me is that this new system runs COOL. I recently played 4 straight hours of halo (I'm getting a job....I swear...), and my xbox didn't go a degree over a weee bit warm. It's amazing. Needless to say, I have been a happy camper as of late.

I guess thats enough geek-a-tude to last a few weeks, and I probably should sleep a bit.

Good day everyone. ;)

another late night, another cup of coffee

2008-01-08T03:26:00.000-05:00

Sometimes my mind wanders.

Drifts away to far away place.

A Place that isn't here.

A place where I am perfect.

Where I can please everyone.

Where life isn't so hard.

Where academics aren't everything.

Where student loans are paid off.

Where the caliber of my success is only limited by my imagination.

A place where I am not separated from the one I love.

A place where people believe in me.

But eventually,

It wanders back

Sleep

2008-01-06T03:11:00.001-05:00

Is for the weak

Good Conversation is Fun

2007-12-29T22:31:00.000-05:00

Some of my best moments are in text form
SonofMikado is me.

Names have been changed and blotted out to protect the innocent

[23:26] SonofMikado: gah, so many emo kid "writers" on Deviantart
[23:26] SonofMikado: guah
[23:26] *Randompersoniknow*: lol
[23:27] SonofMikado: its frustrating
[23:27] SonofMikado: all their stories are like:
[23:27] SonofMikado: Boy meets girl
[23:27] SonofMikado: girl likes boy
[23:27] SonofMikado: boy likes girl
[23:27] SonofMikado: girl's parents divorce
[23:28] SonofMikado: girl kills her self
[23:28] SonofMikado: boy shoots half the football team
[23:28] SonofMikado: boy kills self
[23:28] SonofMikado: the end
[23:29] *Randompersoniknow*: not very creative
[23:29] SonofMikado: and im like "oh my fucking christ, that has been done sooooo many fucking times!"
[23:29] SonofMikado: i know
[23:29] SonofMikado: like
[23:29] SonofMikado: a real "sad" story would be like:
[23:29] SonofMikado: boy meets girl
[23:29] SonofMikado: girl has brother with down syndrome
[23:30] SonofMikado: boy has alcoholoic father who is cheating on his wife with a cheerleader from boy's high school
[23:31] SonofMikado: lol
[23:31] *Randompersoniknow*: ...that's just twisted
[23:31] SonofMikado: yeah but thats the problem with the emo kids
[23:32] SonofMikado: they cant think outside of themselves
[23:32] SonofMikado: and thats why the stories are so linear
[23:32] *Randompersoniknow*: true
[23:32] SonofMikado: tragety comes from all angles
[23:33] SonofMikado: gah, my spelling
[23:33] *Randompersoniknow*: lol
[23:34] SonofMikado: oh and also, in those stories the couples allways die
[23:34] SonofMikado: allways
[23:35] *Randompersoniknow*: yea one day there will be a story where the girl kills herself and the guy moves on with his life
[23:35] SonofMikado: and they think they are so damned smart when they kill of important characters
[23:35] SonofMikado: but it strikes no emotions that way
[23:36] SonofMikado: kill off a main character and its like "damn........oh well what happens next?"
[23:36] SonofMikado: like,
[23:36] SonofMikado: Deathly Hallows
[23:36] SonofMikado: which death was the most tragic in that whole story?
[23:37] *Randompersoniknow*: dobby
[23:37] SonofMikado: EXACTLY!
[23:37] SonofMikado: because that came out of fucking nowhere
[23:37] *Randompersoniknow*: it really did
[23:37] SonofMikado: of all the characters to die, Dobby the motherfucking house elf
[23:38] SonofMikado: THATS how you tell a story
[23:38] SonofMikado: but none of those kids understand that at all
[23:38] SonofMikado: like, in the story i outlined earlier,
[23:39] SonofMikado: it would be tragic if the girl kills her self,
[23:39] SonofMikado: but it would be more tragic if the girls mentally challenged brother die's in some way
[23:40] SonofMikado: because, he did nothing to anybody
[23:40] SonofMikado: and when you read it you go "holy hell? why him!?
[23:40] SonofMikado: "
[23:40] SonofMikado: heh
[23:41] SonofMikado: and you would read the page several times just to make sure you didn't misread it
[23:41] *Randompersoniknow*: you're right
[23:42] SonofMikado: sorry, im like ranting
[23:42] SonofMikado: lol
[23:42] SonofMikado: those kids kinda pissed me off
[23:42] SonofMikado: :D
[23:42] *Randompersoniknow*: when don't you rant?
[23:42] SonofMikado: hah god, that so true
[23:43] SonofMikado: but see, i have and advantage over most other people who rant
[23:43] SonofMikado: i know exactly what the fuck i am talking about
[23:44] *Randompersoniknow*: that is true...most of the time hahaha
[23:44] SonofMikado: haha
[23:46] SonofMikado: but yeah, those kids writing "tragic" stories have no fucking clue
[23:46] SonofMikado: those stories are about as tragic as a lifetime movie
[23:47] *Randompersoniknow*: hey! those lifetime movies suck you in!
[23:47] SonofMikado: yeah
[23:47] SonofMikado: if you are a woman
[23:48] SonofMikado: who is suckered in to flat romance
[23:48] SonofMikado: HORRIDLY FLAT romace
[23:48] SonofMikado: *romance
[23:49] SonofMikado: :D
[23:49] SonofMikado: *braces for impact*
[23:49] *Randompersoniknow*: hush you...those lifetime movies suck..but after 5 min of watching you need to know what happens next
[23:49] SonofMikado: haha
[23:49] SonofMikado: dude, after five minutes i know how its going to end!
[23:49] SonofMikado: lol
[23:50] SonofMikado: ok, lifetime movie in a nutshell
[23:51] *Randompersoniknow*: well duh! but still...they suck females in!!!
[23:51] SonofMikado: which says alot about females
[23:51] SonofMikado: *rimshot*
[23:51] SonofMikado: i kid i kid
[23:51] SonofMikado: but anywhoo
[23:51] SonofMikado: there is allways a mother
[23:51] SonofMikado: probably middleaged
[23:52] SonofMikado: her daughters a whore
[23:52] SonofMikado: and her husband is some random dirtbag
[23:52] *Randompersoniknow*: ...........you know what? i'm about to block you
[23:52] SonofMikado: lol
[23:52] SonofMikado: im sorry :D
[23:53] *Randompersoniknow*: no you're right about lifetime
[23:53] *Randompersoniknow*: but you don't need to tell me
[23:53] SonofMikado: oh and every other male character is a child molester
[23:53] SonofMikado: lol
[23:53] SonofMikado: ok now im done
[23:54] SonofMikado: but yeah, flat flat flat flat flat romance
[23:54] SonofMikado: hate it
[23:54] *Randompersoniknow*: it's still romance
[23:54] *Randompersoniknow*: that's all girls care about
[23:55] SonofMikado: yeah but its horribly unimaginative, flat, kinda hearless romance
[23:55] SonofMikado: the characters only love eachother because the script says so
[23:55] *Randompersoniknow*: ....i'm tempted to block you like in 5 seconds
[23:56] SonofMikado: what!!?
[23:56] *Randompersoniknow*: ...shush about lifetime movies
[23:57] SonofMikado: im just saying that when i see romance, i prefer the actual heartfelt, living, breathing kind
[23:57] SonofMikado: the kind that makes you uncomfortable as hell when you watch it, because its true in every way
[23:58] *Randompersoniknow*: .....you're such a girl
[23:58] SonofMikado: naw
[23:58] SonofMikado: if i was a girl i would settle for sappy crap like the notebook
[23:59] SonofMikado: i wouldnt apreciate the intricate love story woven into"Cinema Paradiso"
[23:59] SonofMikado: or the difficult as hell relationship in Four Eyed Monsters
[23:59] *Randompersoniknow*: becareful, if you keep thinking this way you might get your period
[23:59] SonofMikado: lol
[23:59] SonofMikado: right
[00:00] *Randompersoniknow*: don't say i didn't warn you when your penis falls off and you see a vagina instead
[00:00] SonofMikado: lol
[00:00] SonofMikado: hey I'm allowed to have emotions
[00:01] SonofMikado: im also allowed to apreciate and understand the horribly complex event of love
[00:01] SonofMikado: which makes me hate that canned romantic crap
[00:02] *Randompersoniknow*: ...........please say something manly just for my own sanity
[00:02] SonofMikado: XDDDDD
[00:02] *Randompersoniknow*: please?
[00:02] SonofMikado: er.
[00:04] SonofMikado: wood cutting is fun
[00:04] SonofMikado: and so is football
[00:04] *Randompersoniknow*: wood cutting???
[00:04] *Randompersoniknow*: the fuck???
[00:04] SonofMikado: how much manlier can you get than chopping fucking wood
[00:04] *Randompersoniknow*: there went my sanity
[00:05] *Randompersoniknow*: hope you're happy
[00:05] SonofMikado: ahah
[00:05] SonofMikado: when the fuck did you ever have it?
[00:05] SonofMikado: long as ive know you, you been riding first class on the crazy train
[00:05] *Randompersoniknow*: well the very little i had just went right out the window because of you and your gayness!!!
[00:05] SonofMikado: *known
[00:05] SonofMikado: gayness XD
[00:06] SonofMikado: im sorry, i'll just be all big tits and explosions from now on
[00:06] *Randompersoniknow*: only for a moment
[00:06] SonofMikado: so you can complain about me being a typical male douche
[00:06] *Randompersoniknow*: while i try to regain my sanity back
[00:07] SonofMikado: "w0000t footballl!!!! tits!!!!" "ugh. you are such a man....god"
[00:08]*Randompersoniknow*: sorry all this long weekend i had to watch romance movies because of my friends
[00:08] SonofMikado: "i like to watch the sunset sometimes" "what are you, GAY?"
[00:08] SonofMikado: XD
[00:08] *Randompersoniknow*: and all i wanted to watch was hot fuzz
[00:08] *Randompersoniknow*: ...but NOOOOOOOOOOo
[00:08] SonofMikado: haha
[00:08] *Randompersoniknow*: stupid girls
[00:08] SonofMikado: of course not
[00:09] SonofMikado: dude, its pretty much a well know fact that girls have a god awful taste in movie
[00:09] SonofMikado: *movies
[00:09] *Randompersoniknow*: ........are you saying i have horrible taste in movies?
[00:09] SonofMikado: how many chicks do you know who saw "Pans Labrynith"?
[00:09] *Randompersoniknow*: i did!!
[00:09] SonofMikado: besides you hun
[00:09] *Randompersoniknow*: i have it actually
[00:10] SonofMikado: besides you
[00:10] *Randompersoniknow*: .....my roommate and my twin ***** want to see it...ok so my smart friends that are girls want to see itlol
[00:10] *Randompersoniknow*: the rest don't
[00:10] SonofMikado: righ
[00:11] SonofMikado: how many chicks do you know who saw "Step Up"?
[00:11] *Randompersoniknow*: .....like everyone
[00:11] SonofMikado: case
[00:11] SonofMikado: in
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Catching the Big Fish

2007-12-29T20:32:00.000-05:00

"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch the little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and pure, They're huge and abstract. And they're beautiful."
- David Lynch

Lately I have been having many creative outbursts. Hundreds of crazy ideas for characters, plot points, settings and music have been dancing around in my head but I've been having a hell of a time trying to get them out of my head and onto paper. Then in between these outbursts I will have no inspiration at all. This frustrated the hell of me,

so I bought this book:
This is a fantastic read, and it is fairly short so whenever I am in a rut I can read this whole thing over in one go.

David Lynch is truly an amazing person, and this book is a must read for any aspiring artist, in any field.

I am pretty inspired to continue writing.

Yep, im still alive

2007-12-26T14:34:00.000-05:00

Haven't posted in a while, mostly because I've been neglecting this blog for my deviantART and myspace pages. I haven't had the urge to write an honest to goodness blog lately.

So, things I have been doing lately:

I have been getting into Chiptunes lately. It a really neat way to make music. You can find the stuff I made here and here.

I've also been playing Super Mario Galaxy a lot since I got it Christmas. It's a super excellent platformer that is, in my opinion, on par with Super Mario 64 in many ways. Which is a great thing because my Wii is gonna get a lot of love while my Xbox 360 is away being repaired.

Other than that, nothing new.

Stay tuned for more musings.

Something has gone horribly wrong with my internet

2007-10-25T23:50:00.001-04:00

I am currently writing this post with my cellphone (thank god for
moble gmail) because my phoneline has been horribly damaged by rain
and needs to be repaired. This weekend is gonna be teh suck

Back on track!.....sort of.

2007-10-19T21:11:00.000-04:00

So a few awesome things have happened since the last post. I got a new phone. A Blackberry 7520. I bought it off of a friend of my mom for $100, so I'm pretty happy about it.

So since I have recovered my telephony device, I will get started on my Blog Talk Radio show, and this time I shall get SERIOUS! I will make direct posts about that show on my other blog :D, but for now I will just give a brief insight into what the blog is about.

I will be called Dauragon's Lair, and it will basically me cramming as much info and insight into the land of videogames, music, movies, and all things that are on or against the mainstream in a couple of hours. It should be a fantastically awesome show once it really gets rolling, but for now you will have to deal with me getting used to all of the controls and such.

So yeah, exciting times ahead!

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Listening to: Nirvana - Come As You Are
via FoxyTunes

Ok......change of plan

2007-10-08T22:35:00.000-04:00

So my plans of getting a new phone have failed horribly.

I ordered a new phone from Sprint for 170 bucks. I when it arrives, I call sprint, and they tell me that in order to activate my phone they would need to add 2 years to my contract. I tell them that they can shove this phone up their greedy anuses, hang up, and promptly call their return offices. The send me a package I can use to mail the phone back to them and I am in the process of sending it back (where hopefully it can find its home in some executives bum).

So yeah..........Fuck cellphones, I'm using Skype

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Listening to: Deftones - Bored
via FoxyTunes

Lost my Phone

2007-09-21T20:35:00.000-04:00

Buying a new one,

No blog talking until it arrives

Things Will Pick Up Soon

2007-09-18T16:22:00.000-04:00

I'm currently getting a bunch of things together, a lot of my artistic type ventures have fallen waaay WAAAAY behind, but I plan on updating a bunch of things. Look out for the Re-launch of my Blog Talk Radio show.

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Listening to: Random - Micawber's Moan
via FoxyTunes

2007-08-14T20:46:00.000-04:00

Image of the night:

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Now playing: Leo Laporte and the TWiTs - TWiT 109: The Numinous From The Quotidian
via FoxyTunes

Deep Thoughts :D

2007-08-08T10:49:00.001-04:00

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.– Jack Handey

I do believe this is how I'm going to run my blog from now on

APPLE JACKS!

2007-08-06T13:34:00.001-04:00

Potter up for an award

2007-07-31T14:57:00.000-04:00

I read an article recently that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is in for a literary award. As a rabid Harry Potter fan, I seriously hope that it does not get it (but of course it will).

Why you may ask?

because I am already tired of stuck up, pretentious, burnt out, jealous authors and literary critics (A.K.A authors who didn't make it) bitching about the books success and labeling Harry Potter as the "DEATH OF LITERATURE" for the past ten years. Unfortunately, winning an award will only make it worse.

My Favorite article about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2007-07-30T10:31:00.001-04:00

HARRY POTTER IS DEAD!

"Will Harry Potter return? I see the eighth book in the series coming out some time in the 2030s. Harry is balding, divorced, embittered. He has had it with Muggles, but is too old for Quidditch. He reflects on that first kiss with Cho Chang, and wishes it had led to something more.
I’m sure JK Rowling has it in her to write the definitive novel of midlife crisis."

xD

Harry Potter and the Prenuptual Agreement :D

Harry Potter, and my broken fandom

2007-07-23T00:10:00.000-04:00

Amidst all of the Harry Potter mania that is unfolding as of late, I have some what of a startling announcement.

I have no desire to read the last Harry Potter book.........

"But Dauragon, you are the biggest Harry Potter fan in the world!" you might say.

"But Dauragon, you have been counting off the weeks, days and hours on your Griffindor watch! why don't you want to read book 7!!?" you might ask.

The answer to that is quite simple. The ending to the Harry Potter saga was ruined for me the day before it came out. I am not the only one, it seems, as many Potter fan's anticipation have been crushed since by people spamming the leaked ending all over the 4 corners of the internet. Gamefaq's, Youtube, DeviantArt, Myspace (the place where it was all spoiled for me), Digg, and pretty much any other website with some kind of user input have all been stuffed to the brim with spoilers. This is what happens when a series becomes a giant behemoth, with tons of hype and speculation surrounding it. Fans clamor to see it early, but when the mean spirited non-fans get their hands on the leaked copies, they find a sort of sadistic humor in spilling the beans in as many places as humanly possible.

In short, Harry Potter was ruined for me because it simply got to big. There was no possible way that the ending to something as massive as the Harry Potter franchise wouldn't be leaked, especially in this era of the information super highway. Its just a sad turn of events for me and many others, who have also spent the past ten years following Harry and gang through their many misadventures, only to be robbed of the personal satisfaction of finding out how it all ends.

I might still pick up a copy of Deathly Hallows in a few days, but at this instant, the thrill is gone........

I try not to make posts about trivial things but...

2007-07-16T10:25:00.000-04:00

I FOUND MY BLUE RING!!!!!!!! xD

Anyone who hung around me senior year knows that I kept a ring sizer from the senior rings catalogue. Then towards the end of the summer it broke, and I put it away so I could fix it whenever I found some super glue. Midway through college I came across some super glue, but I couldn't find my ring! I just now found it in one the hundreds of hidden pockets in my computer bag. So yeah.... w00t, my ring is back and ready for some super glue!!!

Robots and Uncle Sam

2007-07-04T10:35:00.001-04:00

Last night I saw transformers. It was quite the sight. I had a few gripes (Megatron being a super awesome fighter jet instead of a big ass gun, Michael Bay's infatuation with the shaky-cam), but all my complaints went out the window when I heard Peter Cullen's mighty voice say "Autobots, ROLL OUT!"

That was nerd heaven.

That being said, was it a faith full recreation of the toys and series?

Yes and no.

Was it an enjoyable summer movie?

Hell yes.

Happy 4th everyone :D

Working

2007-06-12T22:19:00.000-04:00

So I have begun work..... and it is weird. When you are slammed with a semi-important project on your first day of work, and bombarded with tons of incoherent paperwork on your second.......its really hard not to feel incompetent. I almost feel like I am not cut out for this position. It's nothing I cant handle, but I cant escape the fact that I feel like total dead weight, at least for now. Hopefully I will get my bearings soon, and I will understand exactly what I am doing. I will feel much more comfortable then.

On the bright side,

IM GETTIN' PAID!!!!!!!! XD

I'll Sneak Up and Hit You like A Fuckin' Tornado

2007-04-25T01:28:00.000-04:00

My little sister has been 8 years old for a hour and a half now. :D

On to exciting things in my life. Yesterday, my ten page story was peer reviewed by my Intro to creative writing class, and it was very well received. I was surprised at the amount of positive feedback that it got. Like.....the good totally outweighed the bad. I couldn't believe it. Like, I've always fancied my self a good writer, but I never really received any commentary about it from my peers. So to hear seventeen people each point out several different things that they liked about the story, was very...awesome ^___^

On to the revision!!!!!!

Moving Onward!!!! :D

2007-04-19T18:20:00.000-04:00

So the massive amount of planning begins soon. I want to work on at least 3 different projects over the summer:

1.) Mood experimentation, Video
I want to experiment with creating desired moods by using different kinds of lighting and music.. Details of this project are explained here.

2.) Mood experimentation, Photography
Same as above, but with a still camera.

3.) Mindless Self Indulgence
This my friends is a secret =D

It's gonna be a fun summer XD

P.S.

Happy Birthday Mommy :D

The Beginning

2007-04-18T03:03:00.000-04:00

The beginning. Well, thats a good place to start right? Of course it is, but that not where this blog will start. This blog will begin at the present moment. The damn near 1/4 mark of my life (given i live to be at least 80 of course). As I approached my 19th year, it dawned on me that there are many many parts of my life that I wanted to change, to edit, to rework. I realized that there is a major chunk of myself that needs to die. The old me. The pessimistic, angry, pissed off, depressed, explosive, seething, crying shell of a personality must be left in the past. I realized that my life wouldn't be able to continue smoothly if the dark, brooding weight of my earlier self continued to crush down on my shoulders. The old me had to go.

So I create this blog in commemoration of the emergence of a new Parris.

The old Parris, whom everyone knew and loved, is unfortunately gone.

The new Parris is slowing emerging from the ashes, like it or not.