| May 22, 1999 |
4:40 p.m. Central US Time
Tonight on Monster
Vision...
TNT's Monstervision will show The Serpent and The Rainbow, a very good horror flick
involving a powerful drug in Haiti that turns people into zombies (not like the
brain-eating B-movie style corpses, but more of a clinical fashion) compels a Harvard
anthropologist (Bill Pullman) to visit the Caribbean island and conduct further research
with the assistance of psychiatrist Cathy Tyson. Based on Wade Davis' non-fiction account
of the voodoo netherworld in Haiti, this Wes "Scream" Craven thriller tosses in
plenty of nightmare-inducing surprises. It comes on tonight at 12:45 am
Eastern\Pacific Time (technically Sunday Morning).
| May 20, 1999 |
2:30 p.m. Central US Time
Revised version of Uplink
Lite.
Content-wise, there really is no changes to the new mod released over a week ago other
than the files have been moved to .pak format and a small bug fix with a .html page that
wasn't opening correctly after you complete the mod. It replaces the new uplink lite
on the files page. Thanks again goes to Spooky
(and his recently revised webpage).
| May 19, 1999 |
9:00 p.m. Central US Time
The Phantom Menace (part
2).
I know this'll sound obsessive, but in the same day I've seen The Phantom Menace twice.
I just got back from it. A friend had 2 spare tickets from people who
couldn't come, and he offered it to me. I said what the heck-- I still want to see
it again. Chances are, I'll probably see it again in this week, because I have a
friend who has a birthday upcoming. Also, check out the jokes page for a Star Wars
infograph parody on the Phantom Menace.
4:18 a.m. Central US Time
The Phantom Menace.
I saw the first public showing at the local Des Peres theatre at 12:01 am (just got back
home after discussing it for an hour with the guy I saw it with, Chris Lairmore).
It's good. Not great, but still worth the money. How much you like it is partially
depending on your degree of fandom. If you expect it to be the best film in the
series, or the best film period, most likely you'll be dissapointed. That's hype and
the media for you. Still, it is the best film I've seen in a long time. I'd
explain more but I'm tired and need sleep. Oh, and I got in, just barely, without advance
tickets. We originally got crappy seats, but apparently people didn't show up for
whatever reason in the best seats in the house and we just took those. =}
| May 12, 1999 |
12:16 a.m. Central US Time
Blah Blah Blah, yakkity
smack...oh, Quake III, sinus infections, and TPM.
Well, I know every fps gamer and their mother have known about it, but the Windows 95\98
Quake III Internet Test went public. Download it here. Sorry for the lack of
updates, I've got a bitchin' sinus infection. My head feels like a bruise and I
can't breathe...! For the first time in my life, I'm leaving the United States, by
going to Jamaica for three days for my sister's wedding. I'm leaving in a day.
Note now, that this isn't good, as my mom is coming too. She's doing
everything in her power to get me to cut my hair for the wedding, and that's not to be
taken lightly if you know my mom. "Guy's aren't supposed to have long hair," as
she's told me. I don't think I'll break--I've held up for 2 months already. =}
Tomorrow I'm probably going to skip a few classes to get the advance tickets for The
Phantom Menace. It's for a good cause, folks.
| May 9, 1999 |
5:40 p.m. Central US Time
Extra Crispy Chicken Uplink
Lite.
The aforementioned polished version of Uplink Lite can be downloaded on the files page.
| May 6, 1999 |
3:25 p.m. Central US Time
New Version of Uplink Lite
in the future.
A new, shinier, and easier to use Uplink Lite is being worked on here by a pilgrim of the name of Spooky. The latest version of Half-Life (1.009 as
of this typing), brought a user-friendly interface for Half-Life
modifications. The reason why I didn't do this when I first made Uplink Lite was
because this tool wasn't available to Half-life at the time. If you want to find out
what Uplink Lite is, go to the files page.
| May 2, 1999 |
6:51 p.m. Central US Time
Phantom Menace
Countdown....
16 days left... =}
Unreal Version 2.24v-- the end of
the world is nigh!
After months of saying "it's almost here," it's here. The main basis of the
patch for this game (released April of last year, I believe) was to fix the internet
multiplayer of the game, which was horribly laggy and unplayable, according to some, even
on a super-fast T1 connection. Amazingly, like the patch that came out 4 months
before this, this patch is still beta (not the official final release)-- which further
supports many people's thoughts that, like Quake II,
Unreal was rushed to the market.
| April 29, 1999 |
8:51 p.m. Central US Time
Bigger than usual update.
Quit that one-handed web-browsing *wink wink*, because I've got a bigger than usual update
for you, to make up for the days lost.
This week on Monstervision...
Well, first we'll talk about last week's one, which completely sucked, which is why I
never bothered posting it-- 'nuff said =} Now this weeks is a personal fav of
mine: Return of the Living Dead, a film both funny and
scary ala Evil Dead II and Army of
Darkness. Again, Monstervision
is on the TNT channel, Saturdays, 9:40 Central US Time.
Mayday! Mayday!
An update on the situation with my involvement with this TC (total conversion) for the PC
game Half-Life, called Mayday. I'm now the head sound
engineer, working with other members of the sound team to create dialogue for the in-game
storyline. My lack of updates the last 3 day's at the dwelling has been devoted to
this project.
| April 26, 1999 |
11:10 p.m. Central US Time
Star Wars Prequel Song:
Duel of The Fates!
Hoo! Here's a nice one for you people you have .mp3 players like Winamp (which plays cd-quality music that can be
downloaded, for people not in the know). The Phantom Menace is supposed to have 90%
new music, with the remaining 10% of the music score reminiscent to the old films.
The movie trailers for TPM do not have the new music: they use scores from the old films,
apparently because John Williams hadn't finished it at the time of the trailer's
release. Lucasfilm has already had the mp3, titled 'Duel of the Fates', pulled from countingdown.com, but as of this typing the
file is still available here
courtesy of TPM UK.
| April 25, 1999 |
4:15 p.m. Central US Time
The "Macintosh Q3A
Test working for Windows" rumor is false.
Well, as expected, the public release of the test
version of the game Quake III was released, for Mac's only. Linux and Windows OS
ports are expected later, although they did release a Win32 release-- but it's for people
wanting to host Macintosh games on a dedicated server. Meaning, you can't play it
yourself (for people not familiar with client\server stuff). There's been rumors flying
around on lots of pages that the Macintosh emulator for PC's called Executor can run the game. The Executor team looked
into this, and discovered that it does not. The reason being is that Q3 requires the
PowerPC compatible Mac, which Executor does not emulate.
| April 24, 1999 |
11:13 a.m. Central US Time
Half-Life Mayday TC And
Quake III.
I auditioned for a Half-Life Total Conversion that required some recorded lines of a
character off of the game. Apparently they must've liked it-- I'm in!
Saucy! Anyhow, here's their homepage,
if you're at all interested. They still need some programmers, model makers,
and level makers, so give it a try if you qualify. In other news, it looks as if the
release of the Quake III Arena Internet Test Version is close to imminent release (saw
this on bluesnews), with the mac version being
released first, then a Windows port. I just wanna fire 'er up and get a direct cable
connection going on with some Q3 deathmatch. =}
| April 22, 1999 |
3:00 p.m. Central US Time
Aliens Versus Predator
Movie Trailer!
I had heard rumors of this movie years ago, but I never gave it much merit since it was
put in the backburner so long (like the long fabled Doom, Duke Nukem, Freddy Versus Jason,
etc.) I guess Fox is trying to coincide the release of the game AvP (I recently
downloaded the demo, see below at April 14th) with the movie. They have the movie
trailer available for download at the official site.
| April 20, 1999 |
10:50 p.m. Central US Time
Say, you see that there,
Bubba?
Oh god. This was actually funny. There's a site that I found that can take any page off
the internet and dialectize it. All you have to do is put the url of the site in the
blank provided. Wanna see my
site in Redneck dialect? Go for it, it's pretty damn funny!
| April 19, 1999 |
6:36 p.m. Central US Time
Oy!
A great interview
in Time magazine with Star Wars creator George Lucas. It deals with Darth Vader and
a more in-depth look at how Anakin becomes him (note: no plot spoilers), as well as the
religious and personal aspects of Star Wars. A must-read.
| April 17, 1999 |
3:43 p.m. Central US Time
Pretty quiet...
Quiet day, at least it is for me. Wasn't much I could scoop up, but I did manage to do
some finishing touches on my title banner at the top (my two gargoylesque figures at the
top). Can you tell? =} I did read a short article over at The Phantom Menace UK Headlines,
which talks about how odd it is that that there are people under canvas outside
theaters in the US (see live-cam news post I made below) while there are others huddled in
shelters and refugee camps in Yugoslavia.
| April 15, 1999 |
9:10 p.m. Central US Time
TNT Monster Vision
I love TNT's Monster Vision, which
comes on every Saturday night on, you guessed it, TNT. Even if the movie sucks, J.B.
Brigg's humor, satire, and critique of a film makes it (more) worth to watch. This
week's movie is The Road Warrior (Mad Max II). I know, I know. We're all tired
of those "post-apocalyptic wastelands devoid of social order, swarming with
super-charged cars and people whose fashion sense derived from Judas Priest album
covers" type movies. Especially after Waterworld (shudder). But this is
the *original*, whence all other clone movies of it's type were influenced and ripped off
of. It comes on Saturday, April 17 at 10:00 pm ET/PT.
Countdown.com has a live web camera for people waiting in line the remaining month until the release of Star Wars at the Mann Theatre. It also has a counter that has the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the release of The Phantom Menace. (33 more days, 33 more days!!)
