Posts tagged with “Temporary hypes”
Pandemic
Last week I went, reluctantly, to get a shot of that vaccine. It was incredible. It looked like:
These are the places zombie-outbursts occur.
Update: Speaking of which.
Super Mario!
I, pretty recently, completed Super Mario World on my GBA (Yes the old SNES version with Yoshi) for the second time. And when I say “completed” I mean COMPLETED. All Yoshi coins, all stages.
And so, today (as usual when I get psyched about something, this is already tweeted, facebooked and shared in Google Reader), I find this (via Today’s big thing).
INFINITE Mario Bros!
A, sort of, mash-up of graphics from different Mario titles, put together in a Java game, which randomly produces stages for you to play. For ever!
The original NES control and it’s Mario-setup, is so deeply rooted in my backbone, it is kind of hard playing this on my laptop, even though the stages aren’t that difficult (I haven’t got past the first world yet, maybe it gets harder).
But I love the idea of playing Mario for all eternity…
Oh, also there’s some kind of Infinite Mario AI competion going on, I didn’t really care to read about it…
Black metal
The last couple of weeks I’ve been looking into stories about black metal, Once upon a time in Norway. True norwegian black metal. Stuff like that. Fascinating stories about fascinating people in a fascinating culture..
Perhaps this is why I seem to have, pretty open heartedly, welcomed the following into my life and ipod.. And since no one seem to understand: I (yet again) felt the urge to write it of my chest (I’ve already tweeted it, facebooked it and told everyone I’ve met).
I was sitting, probably at home, browsing through my Google reader, when I came across a post from one of my favorite mp3-blogs. Gnaw their tongues is here described as “some kind of weird experimental black metal / noise hybrid thing, fucking EVIL music.”. A description which always gets my attention.
And this is truly evil music. I am not a person who is comfortable with phrases like: “good”, or: “evil”, but this music is evil. And it apparently poisons my mind.
It scares me, makes me feel uncomfortable and fascinates me.
Massive soundscapes, with what feels like, a constant layer of terrified (and terrifying!) screams and howls (at least it feels constant, or maybe just endless..). When there’s vocals, they’re distorted, harsh, in complete harmony with the rest of the horror unfolding. It may all sound like clichés (especially from me, king of exaggerations and temporal hypes), but I cannot stress the fact enough, that this is evil in it’s purest (audio)form. Horror. Darkness. The soundtrack to the end of the world, the musical theme of nightmares, it is fucking made out of serial killers! Quotes quoted from http://gnawtheirtongues.blogspot.com/: “The evilest sounding band in the history of music.”, “the aesthetic and general sense of utter misanthropy is abundantly clear”, “stab forth again and again until all the blood is spilt and total carnage is all that remains. Pure dread put to music.”.
Then, when it all comes to an end, I cannot think of anything else to do than to play it again… experience it again. And I feel sick. Awesome.
Hype of the week!
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