Haven't written in a while because I've been busy with all sorts of things, including work. Work is moving along, and that's not bad. On the one hand, a wage slave doesn't care all that much about what comes out in the end, but on the other hand — according to GOST, you have to do it so you won't feel ashamed.
Since life is full of contradictions anyway, I go with the middle-ground option: I do what I can, if I can do it better I try, and if I can't — I don't.
I have a policeman in my kitchen who, whenever you slam the fridge door too hard, yells in the cheerful voice of American televangelists: "Warning! Step away from the refrigerator!"
And yest'day, he suddenly ground out something unintelligible with a terrible growl, I actually thought the spirit of Cthulhu had possessed him. I even got scared that maybe now I wouldn't be able to open the fridge at all.
I usually don't participate in tests, don't post links, and don't comment on the current situation in society and LiveJournal. But lately, I've started doing all of that. So here's some more:
A rap about Putin's third term — absolutely wonderful.
I asked about some music a while ago.
Well: it's from an old cult game called Zeliard, created in 1987 and released in the West in 1990. Interestingly, people still play the game to this day, and enthusiasts are creating Zeliard 3D — a complete reincarnation of Zeliard using modern technologies.
As for the music itself. I asked because I wanted to check whether it's really as catchy and melodic as it seems to me, or if it's just the well-known nostalgia effect ("back in the old days!") and a case of when stimulating one sense awakens pleasant associations and memories. And even phantom effects on the other senses ("tangerines" - New Year's).
I understand, of course, that the sound of primitive synthesizers (the AdLib computer card in this case) might appeal to very few people, but surely you could have praised the killer melodies, right?
Especially since the pathetic four-voice polyphony, the sparse sound with almost no effects, and the short length with constant loops can easily pass for minimalism (almost nothing but the bare skeleton of the melodies is left of the music)
But no, the mean spectators left a bunch of negative comments. Evidently, to an unprepared ear without any extra context, this music still sounds plastic and lifeless.
On the other hand, for a mobile phone — it doesn't get any better than this. It's just a pity that people rarely call me.
You can download it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061104011254/https://queststudios.com/quest/zelcd/zelcd.html
And it's also a shame that the Great Master of FidoNet Hypertext has been completely tormented, the fiends. He won't be delighting us with his high-quality nonsense anymore.
Odds and Ends
2006-11-03