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| What a happy balloon! |
CURRENT MUSIC:
Shouji Meguro - "Theater"
Persona 4 Original Soundtrack
This is what I meant back in April when I said "the [music] alternatives I had lined up seemed to be a bit more... let's just say 'questionable.'" If you were smart enough to open up a new tab/window for the above link, YouTube should have "Theater" primed and have it playing right about... now. If you just raised your eyebrows in sheer surprise over what you're listening to, then the music has done its job.
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| "Heyyy; this is my kind of dungeon!" |
If I ever make movies where some sort of club is featured, expect this to be the background track. Hell, expect it anyway - it's catchy enough to be background fight music (in the right scenario, of course).
Junichi Nakatsuru - "Mother Goose 1"
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War Original Soundtrack
Ever have one of those days where you feel like laying low for no apparent reason? I'm not talking about the "laying low" you'd expect people to do when they're avoiding the cops - I'm talking about those times where you just don't want to be with people on that particular day. It's not that you're hiding because you've done something or didn't do something - it's just that you want a day to yourself and you felt like not telling anyone about it. Yesterday was one of those days, and I spent it working on some things (yes, that also meant the video blog), and as most of the things I work on are usually kept secret, I felt that this track was good ambient music to work alongside.
In the game, "Mother Goose 1" plays as you escort a C-5 Galaxy that is on a top secret mission. As their mission requires the utmost of secrecy, they're forced to turn off their IFF transponder (Identify-Friend-or-Foe, the system that tells other military personnel and hardware if a target is friendly or not). This becomes a major problem when they have to fly through an airzone protected by a network of allied anti-air missiles. They get hit, and while the plane is still flyable (albeit barely), their radar system gets crippled and they can no longer detect the range of the AA defenses. That's where you step in, flying lead through the AA network as the Galaxy follows your every move.
While it's no musical action sequence, it does raise the tension quite seriously. I mean, picture it - you're flying a damage plane and you have to mimic the exact route that a nimble fighter jet marks out for you. Oh, and you don't have any electronic equipment to help map out said jet's route, so you can't see if you're flying in safe air or air that's being monitored by anti-aircraft missiles. More importantly, you can't tell the ground forces that you're on their side because your mission parameters say you can't. "I never thought the skies over our own country could be so unfriendly" indeed.
Afternoon, everyone, and welcome to another entry on The White Knight Chronicles. I dare say that this is going to be a decent entry (all of this month's are, really), so relax, take a load off, and enjoy your short read.)
Feeling Forecast
(Y'know... 'cause I'm totally a legit meteorologist and stuff.)
It seems that the rest of this week is going to play host to good feelings. I'm getting that vibe in the air... y'know, that feeling of joy and bliss just emanating from the land and the people inhabiting it. What, you don't feel that? Ah, well. Maybe you're just not adept enough at picking up this energy. (Or maybe I'm crazy. Let's go with the former option.)
That's a good thing - we've been needing good feelings and energy for a while now. All this time I've been wondering when it would be okay (last week was mostly cloudy, and that kind of fogged up my emotions), and now... it is.
Okay, I'll be honest - it seems like I'm just talking out of my ass here, but who knows? Maybe I'm not - you just have to see for yourself whether the rest of the week is going to be okay or not. It might be for you and it may not be for someone else. It's only a matter of time before we find out, though.
Project Video
(The fact that I couldn't come up with something witty here depresses me.)
As I said two days ago, I'm working on a new video blog. It's making any downtime I have seem like it's flying really fast. That's a good thing considering how much I hate stagnant times and boredom.
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| Geez. This is going to take more work than I thought. |
I have to think about all these things and somehow create a finished product by the deadline imposed by me. Whoo. I don't think I'm going to finish, but I think I'm going to finish! How do I fit my entire message in less than eight minutes!? Who placed that video track here in the credits!? Let the crazy begin...
...sheesh. I don't know how I keep myself sane with all these deadlines and projects I keep imposing upon myself. One would've guessed that I snapped already by now - and I probably already have. Ah, well - such is the life of someone who likes doing things in an effort to keep himself from being bored. Because as we all know, boredom equals death. Sometimes. Maybe. I'm not sure.
In all seriousness, though, I really need to hang out more with people - most of the footage I used for those old vlogs came from those moments when I got to be with my friends. However, life loves getting in the way - doing anything nowadays requires a large sum of money, which can only be attained by work, which can only be done with the time you don't have. Life lesson here, huh?
Angelic Poetry
(It's like "Show and Tell" - only I don't know why I tell you about the things I show.)
Since the trending thing with me lately is to showcase random archived documents I've found while sifting through my hard drives, I figured I'd do that yet again. This time, however, I'm showcasing an old poem I wrote a while back. (Yes, people: I write poetry. Deal with it.) I think it was for a school assignment where we had to create a poem about something - anything. Granted, it's not my best work, but it's something interesting - and I like to think I am interesting. You should, too. =P
"My Angel"...yeah. Again, not my greatest, but it did the job for the assignment. Which is good, because apparently it did well despite me thinking it was pure crap. (Mind you, this isn't a case of "artists are their own worst critics" - this is more of a case of "compared to other things I've worked on, I know this sucks," so please don't mix that up.)
Josh D. "Whitey" Blanco
Another day out of the grindstone
I finally enter my home
frustrated, grimy, weary and drained
I see the gateway to relief
my room, my bed
dive into the cold pool of sheets
and begin to relive the day
I blink, look at the ceiling
hear a melody of words
asking if I was alright.
I face the open door
to find the statement's owner
see my seraph
gazing back at me
She stands in the doorway
serenely cute as ever
curtly smiling my troubles away
motions for me to be at ease
and becomes my true confidante
as I stay on my bed
and talk life's problems away.
She stays calm
observes
becomes my voice of reason
when logic and reason fail me
and advises me
guides my thoughts
keeps my sanity in check
She takes a seat next to me
leans down to my face
whispers to me not to worry
and while I, the realistic cynic,
want to counter her words
her enticing eyes
persuade me to believe her
As she leans closer
her melody continues
sings to me it'll be okay
as saccharine curls intoxicate my psyche
until the lines of reality and fantasy blur into one
her ethereal kiss
and the aftertaste of hope
She is an apparition
an angel in my mind
but formless in reality
a representation
of what I look for
who I hope to love
my soulmate's spirit wandering free
A Potential Life Lesson
(And to think it was there all this time...)
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| A Casio Exilim... and to think 7.2 megapixels was "good" a few years ago! |
If anything, this goes to show that "looking under your car seat once in a while to find treasure" should be a proverb to be upheld by everyone. I mean, if I found a digital camera of all things while I was hunting for a pen I dropped, this makes me wonder what you could find.
Well, that's it for now. This was a random entry, but it's still something. Until the 'morrow!
Oh, and one more thing: OONTZ. =D
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