Friend of the blog slash Greatest Person, Stephanie, sent me this zine from 1990 for my birthday, which is today. This thing is an incredible gold mine of a 7th-grade boy’s thoughts on TNG’s alien races. Sample excerpt: “If I was getting married in a betazoid wedding I would be really worried because everyone would be looking at me, but there would be lots of naked women there, and I might get an erection.”
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
Back home for Christmas again, reading through my old bookshelves. This time up: Shadowrun, 2nd Edition! (Trivia: my first real post here was about Shadowrun and V:TES. There’s actually quite a few weird post pairs that share a tag in common.)
First off, I forgot how good the setting was. Now that I’ve been to the Pacific Northwest, the grunge/tribal/punk/cyber/enviro/magic mix makes even more sense. And this isn’t even one of the supplements with their witty “BBS” running commentary. (I remember one supplement that didn’t really have any new rules or material or anything, it was just a surprisingly good introduction to corporate finance with the commenters dropping jokes and plot hooks along the way.)
Second off, I never actually played the tabletop, so I’d heard stories, but looking at it now I really realize how terrible these mechanics are. Combat, magic, decking, rigging, astral stuff - all completely different systems, all of them atrocious. If you had a balanced party it must’ve been like playing four different bad games at once. Or one at a time. I think it’s the weird insistence on doing everything with d6s.
I still plan on creating a masterlist of the happycore singles and starting on the mixes/livesets, it’s just that it slows the browser something terrible to look back too far, and every time I try to clear out the tabs I already have open I end up opening more.
WHAT GOOD IS ALL MY MORAL SUPERIORITY IF NOBODY WILL GO TO THE DANCE WITH ME?
gpothat one time that dude suckerpunched me and I still took him out
So two apartments ago, I found the perfect couch on the street. I dragged it up two flights of stairs and I seriously couldn’t figure out how to turn it on the tiny landing to get through the door. I took it back down a flight of stairs, turned it on its side, dragged it back up, wouldn’t work. Down again, turned again, back up, wouldn’t work.
Then I took a break to come inside and vomit from exertion, no joke.
Came back out, with the couch halfway up the set of stairs, eating a Clif Bar. Had a flash of inspiration, took it back down, turned it *just right*, brought it up, and it just barely fit through.
When it came time to move out I couldn’t figure out the trick again.
Literal New Year’s Eve Party Promotion of the Day: Well, if everyone’s going…
back in la, i went back grappling with my dojo tonight
i don’t feel like i feel like I fell too far behind
but wow I feel like they got a lot ahead
(p.s. everyone on sunset in echo park after 11pm looks like 9th graders)
Getting out of LA was the right idea
the thing is people here are *very* invested in things that require personalities and persons but are not *about* either
also everything
In Redding, CA, halfway back from LA to Portland. Redding seems to exist on virtue of being halfway between a lot of things.
Cloudskipper - Accelerated
July, 2005
Okay so I haven’t found a place to post the livesets/mixes yet, (admittedly I’ve kind of slept on looking) so here’s one already hosted somewhere.
Maybe I’ll just put them on rapidshare, because who really wants to listen to a 70 minute track through the tumblr interface?
Anyway, this one’s from the mid-2000s, when people were putting the cheese behind them and refocusing on the “hard” in happy hardcore (or, you know, “UK Hardcore”, pf whatever guys). Still plenty of nice piano rises though. Get the file here.
Tracklist
01. CLSM - Free Your Mind (Breakbeat Remix)
02. Wizbit - Stay Lucky
03. Gammer, Abeyance & Shauny C - Have U Ever (Cube::Hard Remix)
04. Re-Con - Right Here
05. Scott Brown feat. Cat Knight - All About You
06. Asa & S1 feat. Lou Lou - Makin Me Wanna Dance (Sy & Unknown Remix)
07. Dougal & Mickey Skeedale - Really Love You (Dougal & Gammer Remix)
08. Yum-Yi feat. Becky Judge - Tantric
09. Uplift & Euphony - Hand Of God
10. Reese - Come And Go
11. Cortina - Music Is Moving (Gammer Remix)
12. Plus System - This Is How We Do It
13. Plus System - Neck Breaker (Essential Platinum Remix)
14. Brisk - Airhead (Brisk & V.A.G.A.B.O.N.D. Remix)
15. Dougal & Gammer - Crackwhore
16. Oli G feat. Jessica - Miasma
17. Stormtrooper - Universal Family
18. Robbie Long & AMS - Kill Bill Vol. 2
19. Nemesis & AMS - Don’t Give A Fuck