YTMNDs of the Week
Now that my Internet Love is very much alive and kicking, the flood of YTMNDead sites has ceased and people have begun to just start making stupid sites again. My buddy Aaron has sent me a couple of awesome sites over the last few days: Gumpin, ...but your kids are gonna love it, and ytmndwd: 100% Expert mode.
BRB getting Christine
Alright, I just got back from the Hamachi House, a fantastic sushi place around the corner from where we live. There is something so addictive about sushi - Christine and I have been mad for it lately. Thank God we're moving to a place in the North End that's also near a sushi bar! Before sushi, I picked Christine up from school - she got a 97% on her exam tonight! She's not just all looks, you know.
Me, I gotta give my YTMND of the week award to one that was just posted today - not only does it have Will Smith in it, which makes it an instant 5 in my books, but it's mashed up with something that is cosmically appropriate for this blog. Indeed, this YTMND was made for this blog. And so, I present to you, our YTMND of the Week:
This is a great mash-up, in my estimation. The eerie timeliness of its content makes it an all-the-more appropriate choice - the graphics are from Mario World, and the music is from Mario 3. There are actually quite a few fantastic Will Smith YTMNDs if you poke around.
Final Year Project: Making a Video Game!
This post, unfortunately, will not be long enough to address all of the outrageous allegations raised by the nefarious Torbox. I have a Hardware exam tomorrow, and I really must start studying for it soon. Alas, that requires my blog tonight to be shorter than I would like.
I would like to say, though, that I'll be starting up a team project in about 2 weeks - a five-week project where Brandon Tattrie, Emily VanZeumeren, Ella Silver, and yours truly are making a game! I'll be making a lot of blog posts on the development process during that time. Hopefully, we'll even have a game for y'all to try!
We're going to do a platformer, and I can tell you that it's gonna be a weird one. It'll be in Flash, so I'm hoping to have something that I can post here when the project is over. Maybe we can get it on Kongregate!
IMBC: Break Down Your Favorite Song
But I've been actually listening to a ton of Beatles lately, and I think I'd rather talk about my favorite Beatles song. The Beatles are my favorite band overall, and Tomorrow Never Knows is definitely my favorite Beatles song. Light years ahead of anything ever made before it, this song has been a massive influence on electronic artists and rock artists alike. It occupies a space in music all its own - hypnotic, transcendent, driving, John sing-chants his vocal a relentlessly groovy bassline, blending their Indian musical influences with some serious studio wizardry. When John sings, "It is shining, It is shining", listen for the incredible synthesizer swells and squiggles in the background. The pulsating backbeat and orchestral, trancey wall of sound can be heard in later genres as diverse as hip-hop, breakbeat, techno, and psychedelic rock. The Chemical Brothers owe their entire careers to this song.
Here it is. Lyrics are provided below.
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning