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Friday, November 28, 2008

Khaos Records.

Current mood: anxious

Miami, baby.

Next album is going to be fully printed, and quite possibly for sale on itunes aswell.

Khaos are going to get onto booking gigs next week, and I'm working on two tracks for a promotional album which will be in conjunction with D.O.E and Khaos Faktory.
12:28 pm - 5 comments - 2 Kudos
Monday, November 17, 2008

The plan.

Current mood: calm

1. Get re-signed. Two companies are interested- one major label, one Indie. I'll go with the Indie label if possible- less pressure.
2. Release the album 'Change'. This one is going out through itunes and will require an initial investment, which I am very happy to go through with. This will happen simultaneously with:
3. Series of gigs to promote 'Change', which will result in:
4. Global spiritual and political revolution.
5. Buy milk.
4:51 pm - 3 comments - 4 Kudos
Saturday, November 15, 2008

My first tab on UG.

Current mood: blah

RECOGNISE.

It was an absolute fucking mish to work out, but enjoy. This marks the day when the median quality of UG's tabs slowly starts to rise.

Iiro Rantala New Trio- Shit Catapult

Enjoy.
7:17 am - 2 comments - 4 Kudos
Sunday, November 02, 2008

Oh what the fuck.

Current mood: annoyed

No more Tritech Records.

We don't have the money or the motivation and effort from the other bands to sustain it.

Back on the label hunt, wish me luck.
12:10 pm - 3 comments - 2 Kudos
Sunday, September 07, 2008

There's a revolution in my pants.

Current mood: cheerful

And you're all invited!


11:02 am - 10 comments - 2 Kudos
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

I hate sexists.

Sexist women, that is.

I was on the train coming back from college today, sitting on my lonesome, minding my own business. Two women, they must have been late 20s, came over. One sat opposite me, the other one next to me. This already scared me a bit, I was completely hemmed in, and I didn't yet know why they had chosen to sit there in a completely empty carriage.

Anyway, they sit in silence for a few minutes, then the woman opposite me says "my boyfriend is a fucking pervert". And that's where it started- just non-stop offensive, ignorant, and retarded statements from these two women. "All men are cunts", "They just want to stick their dick in something, that's all they want", "I hate them, they just watch porn, fuck us, and cheat", and it went on and on, and I felt extremely extremely uncomfortable.

I noticed that after most of the statements, they would quickly glance my way. I'm not sure if they were looking for a response, or a rise, or something, but I managed to just keep looking out of the window with a mixed expression of slight suprise, sarcasm and disinterest.

There seems to be a pretty widely held view that the male sex exclusively houses the sexist population. This used to be true, but through years of fighting, and countless waves of feminism, starting first with equal rights, then moving on to spiritual equality, I honestly think it has been evened out. Sure, there are still misogynists, lots of them, and it's terrible, but do you know what to call a sexist woman?

Misandrist. Start using it. 
4:08 pm - 10 comments - 7 Kudos
Friday, August 15, 2008

Shit A-level results, you say?

Current mood: disappointed

Music Technology- B.
English Literature- C.
Maths- C.
General Studies- D.

There is a module result missing for art, which is being sorted out at the moment, which puts me on a C. Hopefully I can get that up a notch.

Anyway, it looks like I will be going to college after all, as long as I work extremely hard and resit art. (Those are just my parents conditions though- I have an unconditional place on the course.)
11:24 am - 3 comments - 0 Kudos
Thursday, July 31, 2008

very temperamental internet connection.

Current mood: blank

I have a line problem, which means I get about 1 hour online a day, assuming I realise that it's working during that window.

Orange are refusing to help, and keep telling me it's a software or a modem problem, which is disproved by the use of two spare modems and two different computers with the same result. Because they won't help us further, we're going to get a new provider, but that could take a while. So I'll be on and off (more off than on) for a few weeks probably.
6:01 am - 0 comments - 0 Kudos
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Playing oblivion on an integrated chipset.

Current mood: accomplished

Was, I thought, impossible. But it actually can work pretty well.

I have a Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family. It doesn't have the pixel or vertex shaders required to play a lot of newer games. This is a problem that can't be fixed- these are hardware.

But you can emulate them with this extremely useful application I found after months of trying to solve the problem.

3danalyze

You just open this up, then run the game .exe file through it. This will work for some games that need the shaders, but it's not enough for oblivion. (I got silent hill 4 successfully running like this, in a high resolution, in highest quality graphics.)

The boxes I had to check for oblivion to run on my system were:

emulate HW TnL caps
emulate other DX8.1 caps
emulate bump map caps
emulate max. sim. textures

anti detect mode, shaders and textures.

Doing this will get the game to actually start running, visibly, in windowed mode, no problems yet. To play in full screen instead of windowed mode, you will need 'oldblivion', a patch for oblivion that makes it run on older cards. (This would seem like an answer to the whole problem, but the 'older cards' still need the shader hardware )

oldblivion

Ok looks finished. You can now start the game- if you have a good enough processor (I have 2.95GHZ and it's fine) then the game will run in normal speed, although it will slow down in large exteriors, or with lots of characters around. Play through the prison. Love this bit.

Oh wait- it crashed trying to load the sewers.

Go into your documents, then into 'my games', and into oblivion. There will be a file called oblivion.ini

Open it.

Change
bUseRefractionShader, bDoImageSpaceEffects, bUseWaterShader and bUseFaceGenLOD to 0, as well as bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen to 1.

You should now be able to successfully load the sewers and carry on with the game. Don't be alarmed by some of the walls flashing- this is obviously something we fucked up by forcing an amazing game to run on a rusty piece of shit. I have yet to sort this out.
3:07 pm - 4 comments - 0 Kudos
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Looks like I might not be going to college...

Current mood: crushed

My mum has just been telling me I'm going to have to find a full time job and a flat, and I can't go to art college, because I'm a useless waste of space, and I'm a massive drain on this family. I'm not sure what my dad is going to say on the matter, but I know he wasn't happy with the idea anyway- he's been trying to convince me to forget about going to college and university.

They're also mad with me because I can't get a part time job at the moment. I've done everything I can- send tons of letters and CVs. Connexions, the job centre, and jobseekers have told me straight that there are no vacancies anywhere in this area, yet my parents tell me it's because I'm unemployable because I'm useless, stupid and I look like a tramp.

They've also told me it's pointless to spend so much time on music, because it's never going to go anywhere.
12:04 pm - 8 comments - 1 Kudos
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