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.
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.
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?
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.)
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.
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.
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:
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 )
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.
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.
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