Entries from June 2008

The Saxophonist

June 29th, 2008 · Comments · Music, Visual Art

Listening to KJAZZ tonight, somehow ended up with this. The power of dodge is merciful.

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He’s A Pirate

June 27th, 2008 · Comments · Life

One of my friends, the manager of the Ateneo Rowing Team, showed this to me. It brought back a lot of good memories.

If you’re interested in signing up, feel free to contact the current captain through the details presented. The Ateneo Rowing Team takes anyone from any level, from beginner to experienced.

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Honest Thoughts on Urduja

June 19th, 2008 · Comments · Movies

Urduja was alright. Not great, but not terrible either.
Wait, what am I talking about? For those who are only in-tune with what’s new from the other side of Pacific, ClickTheCity provides us with a good primer:
The Philippines has a pretty long history in animation, though few people really care to notice. Filipino animators have worked [...]

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Why is Everybody Kung Fu Fighting…

June 17th, 2008 · Comments · Movies

Disclaimer: Some spoilers may be up ahead.
The tagline said “Prepare for Awesomeness”. And yes, you had to be, because there was a smattering of awesome right there in the moviehouse.
Kung Fu Panda is the latest feature film from DreamWorks Animation. The whole thing is being billed as an homage to actual kung fu films, instead [...]

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New URL!

June 15th, 2008 · Comments · Life

I’m now operating this thing out of bluemechaoxide.net. Snazzy.
It’s like a new house, almost everything is new. Even the Feedburner account. So yeah, unfortunately those few people who have subscribed to me, you have to subscribe again.
Anyway, everything works like I want it to, so there’s really no complaining from me.
Update your RSS readers and [...]

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HOWTO: Fix Your Guitar Hero Strum Bar

June 14th, 2008 · Comments · Games

Let the playing commence again.
In a previous post I said I couldn’t play Guitar Hero anymore due to the fact that I wrecked the strum bar by playing one too many shreds. What was happening was not all clicks (physical upstrums or downstrums) were translating into strums in the game, virtually making the whole thing [...]

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Adventures in Impossible Constructions

June 11th, 2008 · Comments · Games

Echochrome. I’ve been looking at this PSP game for a while, and it looks very fun. With gameplay revolving around traversing geometric objects by turning them into impossible constructions, it’s just like my current obsession. It’s also remarkably similar to Fez, at least in terms of moving the camera around to create new dimensions in [...]

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I Dreamt I was Swimming.

June 6th, 2008 · Comments · Life, Visual Art

What does that mean? I found out. Emo haha.

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Game of the Month #3: Guitar Hero

June 2nd, 2008 · Comments · Games

I no longer play Guitar Hero. But that’s due in no part to it being a terrible game. I don’t play anymore because I wrecked my little plastic guitar by playing too much. Strictly speaking my fake guitar still functions, but the strum bar won’t register every single strum anymore; its sensors have conked out [...]

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