CN is the New MTV
Posted on October 29th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 8:15 pm
Remember when MTV ran music videos? And I mean, not ran them all the time, but also ran a wide variety of them? All sorts of genres and visual styles and from pretty much anywhere English was intelligible? Remember how it all started with one non-music show, and before you knew it, they were garbage 24/7, including the few music videos they aired? The M doesn’t even mean anything any more.
Cartoon Network (CN) is the new MTV. This is because they’ve just announced that they’ll be running 3 effectively live action films through out November: Small Soldiers, Honey I Shrunk The Kids and The Goonies. Now, I won’t call them bad movies (ok, Small Soldiers is meh, but Honey I Shrunk The Kids and The Goonies are enjoyable,) but they have absolutely no business being on a Cartoon Network. And maybe if no one watches it, they’ll see the error of their ways. Actually, they’ll probably just keep running them even they get horrible ratings (and they’ll probably do passably.) And if it’s successful, well, pretty soon I’ll be saying the same thing about CN that I said about MTV.
Remember when CN ran music cartoons? And I mean, not ran them all the time, but also ran a wide variety of them? All sorts of genres and visual styles from pretty much anywhere as long as it had an English audio track? Remember how it all started with a few live-action movies, and before you knew it, they were garbage 24/7, including the few animated series they aired? The C doesn’t even mean anything any more.
Or atleast it won’t soon enough.
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PS: New Remix
Posted on October 24th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:52 am
mc chris vs. ultraklystron – stop time (petit cassette mix)
gratuitous reference in remix name.
tada.
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This Year’s Anime For Karl? Finally?
Posted on October 19th, 2005
Filed under: Reviews — Karl Olson @ 1:11 am
Just watched the first episode of Paradise Kiss. You know, I’ve been waiting all year for an anime like this – something that’s really neat and fresh. I mean, maybe it’s just that in a sea of garbage, even the dimmest gem shines like a fine diamond. However, I really think it’s an issue of real quality. It is pretty well made, and it’s got a style and design that agrees with me (so pretty and elegant.) It has a sense of humor I can get into (great use of SD and even Looney Tunes-like humor.) It has good music. It has good characters. I mean, it’s a pretty straightforward fairy tale – buttoned down girl broadens her horizons and becomes a pretty model. It’s not necessarily life changing stuff, atleast not yet, but it’s got a level quality and style that’s just been lacking in this year’s batch of new anime. It’s nice to see a short show that’s not just fanboy fodder (KamiChu comes close to fulfilling that requirement, though it’s a little too light at points – kinda uneven – not like I can make great evaluation of it since noone is subbing it regularly.) Maybe it’s just fangirl fodder instead, but if it is, it’s at the excellent, worth-while end of that spectrum. Maybe it just hits a lot of the right notes with me personally, and it’s crap to most people, but I don’t particularly care if that’s the case. Never have been.
To put it another way, I’m really really looking forward to the next episode, and I already wish it was licenced so I could look forward to DVDs with high-rez video. Haven’t had that feeling since… well, Beck.
PS: My thoughts on the Boondocks here.
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Same Shell Different Ghost
Posted on October 13th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 2:05 am
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only thing left in my computer that’s still the same as when I first put it together is the case and maybe the floppy drive. Even the RAM, twice now (SDRAM -> DDR, DDR -> DDR that is not broken and a large part of my headaches from hell.) However, it seems to be working again now after all that hassle (and nLite slipstreamed XP.) Hopefully this is a trend that sticks around for more than a few hours. ^_^”’
In more interesting news, I help Zoe price a bunch of stuff for ebay and I got a couple doujinshi for my trouble (not that it was really any trouble; it was fun just to hang out and help out a friend,) though I would/should pay her for them. I got a fairly (barely?) clean PPG doujinshi, and an clean CCS doujinshi. Both are insanely cute, so yay for me. Even good wallpaper fodder with little help from GIMPshop.
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if only I could use linux
Posted on October 11th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:35 am
So, I swapped out the motherboard with a new one thanks to Fry’s exchange policy.
Still no dice.
Tryed different RAW borrowed from my folks computer
Still. no. dice.
Tryed installing Ubuntu Linux as a laugh.
Works perfectly it seems. Or atleast it can update without throwing corrupted file errors and blue screens.
But, no Reason on Linux. No Reason, no new CD, and no new music period. No music, Sad Karl.
Whoever actually helps me remedy this situation w/o buying more stuff gets a free copy of my next CD, autographed, if I actually get my next CD made.
Everything works, I just need it to work with Windows XP.
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Falling Apart Without Hope (DRAMABOMBARAMA)
Posted on October 10th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:31 am
I guess my computer wasn’t working as well as I thought. I kept getting corrupted file problems, almost like the motherboard can’t talk to the hard drives and optical drives right, inspite of trying to install on to a perfectly clean partition. It’s so infuriating, and outright depressing to have so much stuff go wrong. I mean, I still have the source files, and the mastered stuff on the Secondary HD is intact, but it just sucks so bad to be thwarted at every last turn. I mean, still, I could always swap some hard drives around and finish the CD on my folks’ computer while they are out during the day, but I really wish I could get my computer to work. It’s like a matter of pride, but yet I feel I may have resign myself to the fact that I just can’t fix it after a certain point. I hate that kind of thing. Maybe it’s just hubris and karma exacting what has been probably over due to me, and more likely it’s just a freakish turn of events – I’ve had too few computer problems so everything had to collapse in at once by raw statistical averages, but that really doesn’t make it any less negative, you know? It’s almost worse cause all it means that rather than getting used to some level of background maintainence, it blew up completely and I don’t have a clue as to how cope at all. Short of totally losing my HDs and my laptop going toes up, everything that can go wrong has. I’m sure those next up on the agenda.
Maybe I should just give it up for a while. There’d be a lot less of a headache with that. Of course, maybe then I’d just be hiding from my problems. Maybe after a certain I should stop blathering and starting thinking about my next step. Part 1: Ask my friends at BCC for help. Part 2: Exchange the board and proc at Fry’s and give it another shot.
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So I have tomarrow off.
Posted on October 3rd, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:02 pm
Should I:
1. Work out my issues with Java (namely Arrays of constructs from a custom class.)
2. Watch the live action Gundam movie my friends Dave and Justin lent me.
3. Write a review for Planetes volume 1 and 2 because the show is so darn great.
4. Watch Planetes episodes 7, 9 and 10 again because those episodes are so darn great.
5. Make the needed alternations to the new nerdcore CD that I can do with out my collaboratory artists.
Maybe I’ll try to do all those things.
BTW, speaking of my CD, Dave has come up with some out right awesome cover art for my new CD that I will be paying him for because that way he’s officially got a commission for his resume. But seriously, he made me look insanely cool.
Coin-figure-shuriken-in-one-hand-microphone-in-the-other-hand cool.
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Now crossposting to myspace too.
Posted on October 2nd, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 10:17 am
With the help of the original plugin author and by paying much closer attention to the instructions that came with the plugin, I can now crosspost to myspace. It’d be cooler if I had something cool news wise to talk about, though I guess I could be like “yay, I got a book that will help in Comp Sci,” and “w007, I watched PlanetES vol.2 yesterday and it was freaking awesome,” but I’m not sure that stuff is that news worthy. Though seriously, PlanetES was outstandingly excellent. “Should be on TV inspiring people to want to be astronauts (rocket drivers?)”-type excellent. I wonder if there is just something about NHK space anime having to be awesome, cause Twin Spica also ran on NHK IIRC, and it’s outstanding as well. It’s two for two atleast from what I’ve seen.
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again?
Posted on October 1st, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:31 pm
more mc chris – variety remix action here
A little more rough and tumble and simple on this one. 8-Bit-ish yet smooth though.