And how it has begun! ... just like every other time! We started filming for 9 today; we did what we could, but we didn't have enough people for one of the scenes, and it was a bit short, so we added a couple other scenes that need voices done, but one of our actors is sick, so that's gonna slow us down at least for today. Hopefully he's feeling better by tomorrow. At this point, I'd bet on a week till it's finish, give or take a day or two. It'll be done when it's done, but that sounds about right, but you never know. He could be sick for the rest of the week, which would suck, but again we'll have to see. For the first time, we'll have all 3 groups in one episode.
One thing we realized we had was a continuity error with a jeep, in that (in a later episode) we wrote them in a jeep, but they didn't actually have the jeep beforehand, so a slight modification will have to be made for episode 12, but that's no biggie. We're men, we have beards, we can handle it. Speaking of, mine needs a trim before I have a forest proceeding from my face. Though that might be kind of cool. Rock stars aren't restricted from have "great, big, bushy beards!" but we'll have to see how the retail world thinks of it. I have the frustration of being a rock star in a retail world. Apparently, unless you're the one they're selling, they don't want you to be a rock star (though most of what they sell barely qualifies as music, much less rock). But we'll see. The bottom line is beards rule, except for on girls. That's a major turn off for me, I ain't gonna lie. And I say that with all due respect. Ladies, don't grow beards. It's weird and gross. BEARDS ARE FOR MEN! Enough said!
We've run into some unpleasant conflict of interest with Machinima.com at the moment, which is where we get most of our views. They have episodes 1-5 on there, but when I contacted them about why it's been a month since they've posted any of our new episodes, they pretty much gave us the cold shoulder. So I'm gonna pull a persistent widow on them. For those of you unfamiliar with Jesus' parables, I shall enlighten you. He used this to illustrate persistence in prayer, but it works for this point as well. Basically, there was a widow that needed some sort of unmentioned legal protection from somebody, and there was a crooked judge who, as far as I can tell, was basically too lazy to do anything about it. This old widow, however, kept asking for him to settle her case until he gave it to her. She didn't take no for an answer, and the judge essentially said "I don't care about God or man, but this stupid freaking lady is driving me crazy! If I don't give her justice, I will literally go crazy!" and so he got fed up and worn out by her asking, that he just said "Fine! I'll do it, just shut up!" That's my plan with Machinima.com. They may hate me when all is said and done, but if they're gonna be punks about it, it's their own fault. Especially since most of the featured videos (I won't name any in particular) on their website are just aweful. Every once and a while, I'll stumble across a good one, but they're few and far between. And while they're promoting this just plain retarded videos, they're ignoring our series, which is relatively decent quality. I don't claim that it is the best at anything, but it's definitely decent. That's my rant ... I shall leave it at that!
-MR. PLAYLIST-
Norma Jean - Antimother; Redeemer
Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
The Lovely Rings of Light
So I was messing around on my xbox yesterday (and by messing around, I mean playing something in Halo, not dancing atop it) and it decided to crash. I thought maybe it was a bad HDMI cable, so I grabbed another one I had, and it crashed again. I tried a few more times, it crashed, then I turned it on, and what do I find? The infamous 3 rings of death. I have to say, in a 360 vs Ps 3 war, I'm all in on the 360, but this still is kinda gay. So now I've gotta send my xbox off to Microsoft. They're sending me a box with a pre-paid shipping label, so once that's there it's supposed to be 2-3 weeks for the new one to come. It's annoying, but since my little bro also has a 360, it'll only slow down production a little (hopefully). Episode 9's gonna be tricky because we have 5 people in the same scene at the same time, so we're gonna have to play with it. We'll get it working, though. The good news is that only my xbox is being shipped away, not my hard drive, meaning all the forge stuff we have set up for the upcoming episodes and all the profiles (we have, for the most part, one profile per character, except for those that have the xbox-live unlocked helmets, like Dar and Barlow).
As far as consistency in release dates, I think that's pretty much gone out the window at this point. It sucks, but what can you do? It wouldn't've worked passed Episode 10, anyway. The new Underoath album's coming out on Tuesday, I'm super stoked for that. You should all buy it, and especially NOT download it. I don't care what you think or believe, you are stealing from the artist and from the record company (who spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on the recording; trust me, those things don't come cheap). Really, downloading it is WORSE than walking into a store and stealing the CD, because the store has to pay the record company some money in order to get it there in the first place. That's my rant. In short, my xbox died, don't download music. God bless!
As far as consistency in release dates, I think that's pretty much gone out the window at this point. It sucks, but what can you do? It wouldn't've worked passed Episode 10, anyway. The new Underoath album's coming out on Tuesday, I'm super stoked for that. You should all buy it, and especially NOT download it. I don't care what you think or believe, you are stealing from the artist and from the record company (who spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on the recording; trust me, those things don't come cheap). Really, downloading it is WORSE than walking into a store and stealing the CD, because the store has to pay the record company some money in order to get it there in the first place. That's my rant. In short, my xbox died, don't download music. God bless!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I cannot self-terminate
So eight is done ... Tuesday is the new day of releasing things that are not released. At least until episode 11. The last couple are going to take a lot longer than the regular episodes. Instead of 7-9 minutes (5 or 6 pages), they'll be closer to 15-20 minutes (8-13 pages). And it isn't going to be 20 minutes of people standing around talking, like some of the earlier ones (mainly 4-6). A lot of stuff happens in the last episodes, and by a lot I mean a LOT. People die, get shot, get hit in the face, talk, yell, shout, cry, complain, argue, transfer money into Swiss bank accounts (no joke), threaten, sneak, blow up, meet, separate, run, walk, jog, power walk, go to the bathroom, the possibilities are endless (though not really, because unlike Back to the Future, the future has been written).
We're really stoked to get these last episodes out to you, and even more so starting on season 2. Episode 1 of the first season was our first stab at anything remotely like this, and so even though it was good, it definitely had its flaws, which we've learned from. The first episode of season 2, however, will be pretty epic, even though we haven't written anything yet, but we've got more ideas than we really know what to do with and especially how to organize. But yeah. It's gonna be good. While the last episodes are being developed, we'll probably be releasing a couple shorts on the way, since they're going to be a lot easier than getting that many people on the screen at the same time and not shooting each other and getting distracted, much less figuring out who's all gonna do what. Uh ... yes. I haven't started on 9 yet (we actually haven't filmed anything for it, and I think we're gonna add a couple scenes in there since it looks to be a bit short as it is, but that means more Dar lines, which is always fun for me, though I have to say it's a little weird for me to play like that since it's not intended to be "musical," but it's always fun to have such weird sounding riffs and licks that I wouldn't normally be recording). So ... I don't know what else to write. Watch episode 8 if you haven't yet, and there is a secret thing at the very end after the "To Be Continued ..." thing. Check it out, or you're a communist. Fricken commies. There's only two types of people I hate in this word: communists and people who discriminate against other groups of people. It's a stupid world we live in. I'm too lazy to do anything random right now, so you're stuck with Mr. Playlist.
-MR. PLAYLIST-
Dogwood - Through Thick and Thin
Norma Jean - Redeemer
August Burns Red - Thrill Seeker
Inhale/Exhale - The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred
Hillsong United - All of the Above
We're really stoked to get these last episodes out to you, and even more so starting on season 2. Episode 1 of the first season was our first stab at anything remotely like this, and so even though it was good, it definitely had its flaws, which we've learned from. The first episode of season 2, however, will be pretty epic, even though we haven't written anything yet, but we've got more ideas than we really know what to do with and especially how to organize. But yeah. It's gonna be good. While the last episodes are being developed, we'll probably be releasing a couple shorts on the way, since they're going to be a lot easier than getting that many people on the screen at the same time and not shooting each other and getting distracted, much less figuring out who's all gonna do what. Uh ... yes. I haven't started on 9 yet (we actually haven't filmed anything for it, and I think we're gonna add a couple scenes in there since it looks to be a bit short as it is, but that means more Dar lines, which is always fun for me, though I have to say it's a little weird for me to play like that since it's not intended to be "musical," but it's always fun to have such weird sounding riffs and licks that I wouldn't normally be recording). So ... I don't know what else to write. Watch episode 8 if you haven't yet, and there is a secret thing at the very end after the "To Be Continued ..." thing. Check it out, or you're a communist. Fricken commies. There's only two types of people I hate in this word: communists and people who discriminate against other groups of people. It's a stupid world we live in. I'm too lazy to do anything random right now, so you're stuck with Mr. Playlist.
-MR. PLAYLIST-
Dogwood - Through Thick and Thin
Norma Jean - Redeemer
August Burns Red - Thrill Seeker
Inhale/Exhale - The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred
Hillsong United - All of the Above
Thursday, August 21, 2008
If you're wondering why ...
Why I'm typing this and not working on Episode 8, it's because I'm doing something super important with my Xbox that video capture will interrupt. That's right. Downloading the demo for The Force Unleashed. If you dare criticize me for this, I will force your face off. Take that, loser. I saw the Clone Wars movie last night. It was pretty good, especially since we didn't have to deal with the original actor who played Anikan (how do you spell that?). I'm looking forward to the TV series. I hope it's cool.
Production-wise, things are pretty sluggish. I've been packing things, working, moving, unpacking things, trying to figure out where to put things, drinking the Dewskies (it didn't say that word was mispelled, so it must be a real word, score) and I can't even remember what else. Oh yeah. Watching movies. Trying to get through all the extended Lord of the Rings just 'cause. Not in one day, of course. If you watch it one disc at a time, it's like a normal movie. There. You can't call me a Lord of the Rings nerd now. Especially since I haven't read--and probably never will--the books. Take that, Alex Trebeck. As I glanced at the screen play, Episode 9 might need an addition or two, but we'll have to see, and if it does, it might be delayed even more. Yes. It's fun. Nobody reads this, so it's time to start speaking things that you wouldn't normally hear in normal places with normal people. This is neither a normal place nor am I a normal person.
Production-wise, things are pretty sluggish. I've been packing things, working, moving, unpacking things, trying to figure out where to put things, drinking the Dewskies (it didn't say that word was mispelled, so it must be a real word, score) and I can't even remember what else. Oh yeah. Watching movies. Trying to get through all the extended Lord of the Rings just 'cause. Not in one day, of course. If you watch it one disc at a time, it's like a normal movie. There. You can't call me a Lord of the Rings nerd now. Especially since I haven't read--and probably never will--the books. Take that, Alex Trebeck. As I glanced at the screen play, Episode 9 might need an addition or two, but we'll have to see, and if it does, it might be delayed even more. Yes. It's fun. Nobody reads this, so it's time to start speaking things that you wouldn't normally hear in normal places with normal people. This is neither a normal place nor am I a normal person.
DOONBAR
I can't believe thou hast left thine ship of space leave without us being presently on it! How could thou have let this foul deed become manifest?
GALACTICA
Me? Where were art thou?
DOONBAR
Neigh! Thou shalt not worry about it!
GALACTICA
Barrels of hay, what is this smell that I hath observed?
DOONBAR
Smell? Methinks I do not smell a thing!
GALACTICA
The smell hath come from over yonder! It resembles much the smell of--King Arthur! What hath thou been doing, thus?
DOONBAR
(Moans) My stomach is in peril! Do not fret a hair!
GALACTICA
How didst thou remove thine armor?
DOONBAR
Mind it not!
GALACTICA
Because mine hath not been removed from mine own body for many days passed, for I cannot depart from it!
DOONBAR
Egad! I said do not--Hold thy tounge! You hath not emptied thy bowls in many days passed?
[Short pause]
GALACTICA
It is not the necessity of the thing which I hath spoken
DOONBAR
O! Why hast Thou cursed me, O Lord?! I have been imprisoned in this castle of rings, with a fool the lies in the night upon his bed that is wet! A son of Nimrod!
GALACTICA
Thou hast incorrectly identified me as a son of Nimrod, surely I am a son of Abraham!
DOONBAR
Do not speak, fool! Can thou not give me even a moment of peace?
GALACTICA
Indeed, I shall submit my will unto yours, my trusted friend! But yet, I wonder, how long might a moment be? For if I do not know this, how might I be able to bestow unto thou a moment that is peaceful?
DOONBAR
May the Lord be my strength if I do not kill thou upon the ground where thou is standing! For my wrath is kindled against you!
[Galactica moves slightly to the left]
GALACTICA
Is this location a city of refuge before thou?
THE END!
-PLAYLIST-
Norma Jean - Antimother
Rise Against - Pray of the Refugee
Friday, August 15, 2008
Blog Blog
Blog is such a fun word to say. Blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog.
Yeah, that was fun. Ok, down to business. Sunday is moving day, so we got a head start on filming for episode 8 because I'm not gonna be able to do my Sunday/Monday (days off work) thing I usually shoot for. It's a pretty simple episode, so the two scenes we did were cake, and will be to put together in Liquid. Even though this may not be the most eventful of episodes (so far, I think 7's the only one that classifies as "eventful" at all), it's got some interesting stuff in it. Some new characters, and an official introduction to a guy we'll just call Smith for now, who pretty much annihilated (that is a hard word to spell, I'll tell you, and this thing doesn't have a spell checker) all of our original characters. So yeah. He's cool. Good thing he's not a real person, though. I wouldn't want to meet him. Other than that ... my life's pretty boring right now. I discovered that my guitar strings on my electric are super old, and I don't know how old super old is because I don't really keep track of these things. I bought new ones like 3 months ago, and they've just sat in my desk drawer, still sealed. I should get on that someday. At least they're not fricken $18 like bass strings. Those things are expensive. Coated strings would be cool, but then I'm just paying to be lazy, basically, and it's like $12 vs $5, but mostly they don't make the right gauge in coated (12 gauge, with the extra thick 6th string for dropped tunings, drop C in my case). I'm sure if anyone's reading this, you probably don't care about my string buying habbits, but this is my blog. I say what I want, foo'! :-) Plus, no one's reading this anyway, so whatever. I'm done because I think my guitar's falling off my leg, so yeah.
-PLAYLIST-
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Destroy the Runner - Saints
Blindside - Silence
Norma Jean - Antimother
Belle Epoque - Our Bodies
Yeah, that was fun. Ok, down to business. Sunday is moving day, so we got a head start on filming for episode 8 because I'm not gonna be able to do my Sunday/Monday (days off work) thing I usually shoot for. It's a pretty simple episode, so the two scenes we did were cake, and will be to put together in Liquid. Even though this may not be the most eventful of episodes (so far, I think 7's the only one that classifies as "eventful" at all), it's got some interesting stuff in it. Some new characters, and an official introduction to a guy we'll just call Smith for now, who pretty much annihilated (that is a hard word to spell, I'll tell you, and this thing doesn't have a spell checker) all of our original characters. So yeah. He's cool. Good thing he's not a real person, though. I wouldn't want to meet him. Other than that ... my life's pretty boring right now. I discovered that my guitar strings on my electric are super old, and I don't know how old super old is because I don't really keep track of these things. I bought new ones like 3 months ago, and they've just sat in my desk drawer, still sealed. I should get on that someday. At least they're not fricken $18 like bass strings. Those things are expensive. Coated strings would be cool, but then I'm just paying to be lazy, basically, and it's like $12 vs $5, but mostly they don't make the right gauge in coated (12 gauge, with the extra thick 6th string for dropped tunings, drop C in my case). I'm sure if anyone's reading this, you probably don't care about my string buying habbits, but this is my blog. I say what I want, foo'! :-) Plus, no one's reading this anyway, so whatever. I'm done because I think my guitar's falling off my leg, so yeah.
-PLAYLIST-
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Destroy the Runner - Saints
Blindside - Silence
Norma Jean - Antimother
Belle Epoque - Our Bodies
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
He's dead, Jim
Captain's log, star date 1,000,0001.084. I've been demoted to private, so hence forth, this will be private's log. My favorite VW Bug, Herbie, was ruthlessly and brutally slaughtered today by my favorite semi truck, Optimus Prime. It was a sad day, but at the same time it brought much joy to me. I can't explain it. It might have had something to do with the fact that explosions rule, but I can't be certain. Either way, it wasn't much of a fight, because Optimus Prime has that cool sword and Herbie just has doors. He flapped them all he could, but he was no match for the towering glory bot. It was something people would have paid thousands of dollars to see. I'm working on getting a fight together between Megatron and Johnny 5. The winner will go on to fight Wall-e, and I think we all know who's gonna win that fight. That's right. Bill Cosby. Anyway, aside from recording a line or two of Ryan (Doonbar) yelling at Galactica (and by line, I mean like one word) episode 7's done. Now it's on to greater things, though I don't exactly know what. They'll be great, though. I've also decided I'm going to completely rip off what Thrice does on their blog (www.alchemyindex.com) and include a playlist of what I'm currently listening to. Yeah, it's such a good idea. I'm glad they came up with it so I can steal it.
-PLAYLIST-
Norma Jean - Antimother
Belle Epoque - Our Bodies
Oceana - The Tide
Oh, Sleeper - When I am God
Thrice - The Alchemy Index, Vol. 1-4, Vheissu
Underoath - Define the Great Line, "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures"
As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Oh, and I also have a new song up at www.myspace.com/fromherewefall. Check it out.
-PLAYLIST-
Norma Jean - Antimother
Belle Epoque - Our Bodies
Oceana - The Tide
Oh, Sleeper - When I am God
Thrice - The Alchemy Index, Vol. 1-4, Vheissu
Underoath - Define the Great Line, "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures"
As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Oh, and I also have a new song up at www.myspace.com/fromherewefall. Check it out.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
2nd-ever Marooned blog!
Well, third if you count the last one. You'll see more like it until somebody comments and lets me know that I'm not the only reading this. :-) Episode 7's almost done. We're pretty stoked to get this one out to you guys (if you guys is greater than or equal to 1). I won't say anything specific, but the nothingness died with Episode 6. That's all I'll say. It may not seem like there's really any specific plot this far, but we actually do have a plot, a small one maybe, but something we're excited to expand off of in the second season (yes, second, thou shalt count to three, thou shalt not count to two excepting that thou then count to three; five is right out). I only said three because that was in the quote, don't dig too deep into it (unless it's just me reading this, then I'll read into that all I want; take that, self!). That's about it. No cats died today. Maybe tomorrow? We'll see.
Oh, and if you like hard rock, check out the new Norma Jean album. It's rad. Also, if you'd like to hear Galactica sing and other things, check out my little solo project thing I've got going on at www.myspace.com/fromherewefall, I put a new song up yesterday. So yeah. That's it. God bless!
Oh, and if you like hard rock, check out the new Norma Jean album. It's rad. Also, if you'd like to hear Galactica sing and other things, check out my little solo project thing I've got going on at www.myspace.com/fromherewefall, I put a new song up yesterday. So yeah. That's it. God bless!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Cat killer
So I killed three cats today. They were all sitting on my porch, and I happened to have an extra WWII Nazi grenade lying around, so I put it between them and they went away. The neighbors were a little upset, and the front of my house needs a few thousand dollars worth of repairs, but it was well worth. Since I don't think anyone actually reads this, I feel obligated to say whatever I want. Now I may not have actually done the thing which was previously stated that I had, but what to us and to you? That's all.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
First ever Marooned blog
So this is the first ever Marooned blog. I'll admit that I stole the idea from the guys at Civil Protection, but I think I can come to terms with that. :-) Episode 7 is well underway at this point, but Halo 3 keeps making me angry in some of the just dumb stuff in it, right now is tied to the fact that there's no black color, only dark gray. Normally, all we'd have to do is set the leader traits to make him black, but in Oddball, you can only change the traits of the person who has the skull (you may call him Burt if you wish), not the leader. Go figure. But now we have to make a custom power up, force it to make him black, but then it doesn't seem to work when he's also invisible ... argh. That's all I have to say. No one will probably read this, but that's okay because sometimes talking to yourself is fun and completely sane in every way. I'm gonna go grab some T-Bell and work on Episode 7 some more.
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