-I'd Rather Not is getting to have a VERY deep lore. Ancient Gods, Space, IndieGoGo? What's next?
-Kudos where Kudos is due: At least Rick Scott (AKA Governor of Florida Voldemort) said "YO, PREP FOR THAT SHIT" instead of saying "Just pray" like he did after the Pulse Orlando shooting.
Eh... I've usually had bad luck with Ultracon, and it kinda continued this weekend in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. I only went on Sunday because I assumed I had a work thing, but because of aforementioned hurricane, work thing got cancelled.
By Sunday everything was dead, so instead I held a little mini-show and walked around with my guitar/mini-amp rig. It was all right, but again, Sunday wasn't very busy. Hopefully Ultracon fills out this space better next year.
THIS WEEK'S JAM
I've been looking toward early protopunk to get help with the song for Kaladesh, and how can I forget this fucking barnburner I first heard in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith? You;d imagine these early punk groups to not have as much bombast as they do, but here we are, guitars, pianos and David Johnansen's vocals are out in full force.
FUTURE CONS
My last two cons of the year are Anime Iwai and Holiday Matsuri. Anime Iwai is basically Chibi Pa 2.0, and the people that work there behind the scenes are pretty cool, so it's bound to be a Good Time.
Holiday Matsuri was a big surprise last year, because it's on the cusp of becoming a big name con like Supercon and MegaCon, but it's still small enough that you can get around easily. My show slot is not very good, but I'll still enjoy myself regardless.
YO DICKBUTT, WITH ALL THESE CONS, WHERE'S YOUR RECAP VIDEOS?
It's next on the list, right after "The Inventor's Fair" is uploaded.
-As of this past Friday, the Giant Bomb Shenmue Quick Look ended, and BOY WAS THAT ENDING THE EPITOME OF NOT WORTH IT.
Hope they do Shenmue 2.
-The game I was talking about where your uncle is a cosmic horror is called "The Uncle Who Works At Nintendo" It's pretty interesting, and I might play it on stream one of these days.
Something Awful: So what exactly is your uncle's role in the Nintendo organization? Guy Whose Uncle Works for Nintendo:
My uncle is one of the main guys. He invented Mario. He lives in Japan
and he knows the president of Nintendo. The president of Nintendo is
named Ryu Nintendo and he invented the first Nintendo, which was a robot
that did math. My uncle works on all the games and makes up how the
levels look, and he knows all the cheat codes and can get extra men in
any game. He gets to play all the games before they come out and he
gives them all to me when he beats them.
This was kind of out of nowhere (got the announcement last week?), and I won't be there on Saturday, but how can I turn down a show on the 1 year anniversary of Status Quo Radio?
Last year, the rooms got shuffled around and I wasn't able to get a show, hopefully the hurricane doesn't fuck with things.
THIS WEEK''S JAM:
Todd in the Shadows covered this on a recent episode of his series "One Hit Wonderland", and despite his opinion of song, I was into it when he did a piano rendition in the intro. The original version is right in that spot of more punk-y new wave, but Authority Zero did a version with the energy and bounce that I was looking for in the song.
1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF STATUS QUO RADIO
Status Quo Radio is out there. It took me 5 years from a concept of a Team Fortress 2 album to what we have today. It was this project that as it went along, I added more to it: my frustrations, my fears, my politics, and while I can still say it was influenced by the video game, it's not so obvious you could play on Nerdist as "#EPIC Team Fortress Song!", it'd get big for a week, and then fade out. That's not what I want.
I'm not a hack like Brentalfloss or Natewantstobattle* where I'm compelled to do something based on the HOT NEW THING because it's already an effort to bring myself to work on music in the first place because, hey, I went and got myself a real job and my free time is trying to hold on to my will to go in tomorrow. Since I can't be relevant, I'll work on being good.
Looking ahead, I'm still going to make music of course, and do the Magic The Gathering songs, and everything else, but I don't know if I can bring myself to do an album without a "point".
But for now, I'll be proud. I'll be thankful for DJ Roborob, who I met by chance at Omni Expo 2 years ago, and was a great partner in mixing, mastering, and getting this thing finished.
I'll be thankful for Arcanon who did the drums for a few songs and helped make the beats that much better.
I'll be thankful for David, Jesse, Rhythm Dadstard, who contributed vocals.
I'll be thankful for anyone who listened and liked it.
Thank you!
*No disrespect, both are very talented and most certainly not hacks, but I'm trying to get some heel heat.
-My intro is of course referencing, a Bad, Bad Man by John Cena:
-In my door-jump scare searching escapades, I found a website called "Where's The Jump?" that highlights when jump scares come in movies. An interesting idea, and I'm curious to see how the jump scare rating corressponds to the movie's quality. Some of you are going to whine about it because it's the same line as-
-Tom is a hot dog salesman from the game Shenmue, who drunkenly shambles across 7 different stereotypes and then recommends you see a Travel Agency to know about Chinese people:
-John: Do I have a curfew? RB: John., you're a grown ass man, you can do what ever you want.
John: Will Ine-san give me a daily allowance? RB: You're a grown ass man John, you need to work for it.
-This and another episode was where me and John went back and forth on a question where I end up repeating the same thing. I think the "cartoon in the real world" scenario. I'm a big fan of comical repetition
-ANDY AND JOHN OPEN UP A BURGER STAND: One day in 1980's Japan. John and Andy opened up a burger stand. "This will be a fine burger stand!" said Andy. "We got burgers, we got homebrewed beer, what more could the people of 1980's Japan want?" "I KNOW RIGHT" said a very shy, reserved John, his voice like whispers on the wind. "WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SO MUCH MONEY! LET'S GET STARTED!"
John lit up the grill with a smile on his face, and Andy looked at the bottled beers like they were beautiful babies
Suddenly, a hot dog truck pulled over across from them. A strange man with sunglasses and dreadlocks stepped out, and started dancing. "Oh hi Mark! You guys want a hot dog?" he said, dancing. "How's your sex lifes?"
This man was very strange. "HEY, ANDY! THIS GUY IS SO STRANGE!" "I know, right! Hopefully he doesn't cut into our business!" "MAYBE WE SHOULD WORK WITH HIM?" "You know what, John? That sounds like a fine idea! If we work together, we can all be successful!" "AND WE CAN GET WHAT DRUGS HE'S CLEARLY ON!" So Tom, Andy and John all worked together and made a lot of hungry people in 1980's Japan happy, all while getting super fucking baked.
Ryo's father also wasn't dead. ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 182
-Millennial Weddings:
If we can bother to afford them, what kind
of traditions will we pass down that our kids will think is lame? Our
generation, because of aforementioned financial issues, are questioning
the big to do. While we keep the legal and religious ceremonies, the
fact that it needs to be a lavish affair are-
No, wait, what kind of DJ brings a fucked up file to their party? Like, what happened? Did this guy NOT check?
-Since this episode was recorded, Green Day released this video for a song WAY more coherent:
-Stars Playing Rock Band- The Protomen, as mentioned:
Rush, also mentioned:
Alice Cooper, Death In His Eyes: I CAN'T FIND IT GRAAAAH
