Work for the short is slow, but still underway. The bulk of the "filming" is done, just gotta do the editing and what not. Then I've gotta do some writing for the latter portion of the video, which will require more musicality than normal, which just happens to be my specialty. Stay tuned for more ... stuff.

-PLAYLIST-

Norma Jean - Meridional

Haste the Day - Attack of the Wolf King

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

Oceana - Clean Head

So clearly, the whole weekly post thing didn't work out. There's a bit of news, though, so I'll post that. We were really bored one day, and wrote and recorded (audio) a short. If there is one way to describe it, it would be: ridiculous. Whether that's good or bad is up to you. There's still work to be done on it, so it may be another month before it surfaces. Hopefully it's still current by then, but we're putting it out regardless.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!

So I just got off work, and I'm exhausted, but I'm posting this nonetheless. Forgive any stupid errors I might make in the process. While this has nothing to do with marooned, I'm still pissed about it and am going to complain. In regards to the series finale of Lost. Really? That's how you're going to end it? Could you have thought of a worse way to end it? I think the smoke monster killing everyone would've been preferable. Everything was on the right track until the last 15 minutes, and now you've gone and ruined Lost for me completely. All the mystery, all the coolness, gone. Of all the things, the flash sideways had to be freaking purgatory b.s.? You've got to be kidding me. All this time I had confidence that the writers could pull it off. But really? This is how you end it? No answers? Or what about the fact that half of your main characters get sent back to the 70's, and you don't even do anything with it? Seriously? Or the other half that got nose bleeds from hopping around time, what was the point of that? So you sent Locke back to the states where he gets strangled by Ben. You could've come up with a simpler way to do that. Don't get me wrong, I liked the time travel, but you didn't do anything with it. It turned out to be a waste. And why did you make Jacob just a regular human? You should've left him as some sort of deity of some sort like you originally lead us to believe. And why didn't you kill Kate? Kate is a stupid whore, you should've killed her. And why do all these murderers get to go to heaven at the end? How many people did Sayid, Gin, Kate, Claire and all the other people murder? Is there no punishment for wrong doing, every one gets to heaven and is rewarded for all the good deeds we didn't do? And why are you trying to force your Hollywood version of religion down our throats? It's like those stupid coexist stickers, that if these people had any idea of what Islam or Christianity actually was, then they would understand why those things don't work. I'm not trying to force my beliefs down anyones throats, I'm just frustrated with the fact that Hollywood thinks it can. BS if there ever was any. One day, I'll get over this. But that day is not today.

Look at me, I'm loling!

Video of the day

EDIT: TITLE

Well, my sister tells me that if I blog consistently, then somehow people will pay attention. I have my doubts, but it is a new week, and I feel like it, so here you go. Started some of the audio editing, and I have a picture. That must make me super cool. As you can probably tell from the picture, the editing is in the earliest stage, which is even more early due to the fact that Ryan's lines have yet to be recorded, as well as some Galactica lines (since I can do those any time).

PICTURE!

EDIT:

And, just for the heck of it,

PICTURE 2!

EDIT 2:

I've come across a few new bands, one in particular I really like, as well as some I've discovered in the last few months. So you get a playlist today.

-PLAYLIST-

Architects - "Hollow Crown" (stoked to finally find another good metal band)

War of Ages - "Arise and Conquer"

mewithoutYou - "Brother, Sister", "Catch for Us the Foxes", "A to B Life"

He is Legend - "It Hates You"

OIU(*#$R Y(#*YR )(W*RU#)DFO:HET

So a week or so ago, we got some voices down for the first 3 episodes, except for some Doonbar\K'nuski lines (and a few scenes where it was just exclusively Ryan's characters and 1 other character). It's the most progress we've made in a while, and it's been well over a year since we've had to do any voices. It was hard for pretty much all of us to remember our characters, but we got it in the end. While writing screenplays and doing voices is fun, I have little doubt that this will be the last type of this thing we end up doing this extensively, and especially the last machinima. Although it's nice to release episodes every week, this time around, plan on having each one released when it's done, otherwise you'd have to wait a while to see anything. We're not dead yet. Life always gets crazy, and it'll only get crazier from here.

Also, I don't have a time frame for releasing the full season thing. All I can say is it'll be done when it's done (the most reviled of answers, I know). I'm still sifting through them and trying to make everything flow a little bit better.

Titles Are for Lame-os

Wow, October was the last time I posted. Man, that was a long time ago.

Well, we actually sat down the other day and went over some stuff (Ryan's been busy and never had a chance to read over all the newly written stuff, so he did that). We came up with a few ideas, which'll be cool, but mostly just decided we like what we've got for ... the final episodes! We will be doing season 2, though it won't be as extensive as we originally had planned. If we stuck to that, it would've ended up being way too long, and we're having a hard enough time right now with just one episode. So we scrapped that, took from it what we could, and wrote 5 more episodes, making a total of 7 (episode 12 was rewritten and split into 2 episodes, maybe 3 if we can find a way to make it work). So it's not super long, but then again the first half of season 1 nothing happened. It's way faster paced and the episodes will be more focused, meaning not nearly as much filler time and more meat. It's all pretty rough right now, but the basic integrity is there in full. We want to get back in the swing of things, it's been tough with Ryan having a couple kids and me getting my music ready to send out to some record labels, but we'll get it done sooner or later. In the mean time, stay tuned. I have been working on refining the earlier episodes, so as to hopefully put them together into a single, seamless video as some have requested, but if people want, I can also release the modified ones individually, since I think they'll be more interesting to watch than before. Check our channel on Vimeo for episode 1, it should be up there soon, and that'll give you an idea of what I mean.