hiiiiiii! so the plan has changed for the album. like, a lot. im not going to give too much away right now tho. firstly, the album isnt getting delayed or anything like that. secondly, i have a solid name for it now. thirdly, the scope for it has both decreased and expanded. that wont make sense right now but i promise it will in a few months. fourthly, i still dont have a release date, however i do have a release range, hopefully. the album should release any time between now and december. im giving myself a big range in case something comes up but it should be closer to now than to december. and finally, one song has been removed from the album. that doesnt mean you wont hear it. again, itll make sense in a few months.
okay, bye by
hey all! short update today
my copy of spore arrived! its the galactic edition, so its also got a natgeo documentary with will wright and a "the making of spore" dvd alongside an art book. honestly makes you think about how soulless triple-a game releases are today, i mean i spent half the price of the average nintendo game now and got like five times the content. thats a bit sad but hey i physically own spore now!!
also also also i promise ill release that album soon!! all thats left to do is collect all of the songs spread across the three hard drives, and then ill decide whether im happy with the length. if i am then ill release it, if not then ill make some more songs (been wanting to do more creative shit anyway) and then release it. sooooo all that to say it wont be long!! hopefully ill have a release date by the end of the week.
okayyyyy,,, i should sleep now probably,,,, bye bye,,,,,!!
it has been over a month
ok so. a few things have happened over the last however many days. first things first, i have an instagram account now. its @violetbackedstarling9. dont expect a ton of activity but there will be some. second, ive released a new song!! its from that album i was talking about last time. its called "www." and its pretty short (actually exactly a minute, or 59 seconds depending on where you're listening to it) but its still fun, and its more of a teaser for the full album anyway. its out on all music streaming platforms, as well as bandcamp and newgrounds. (check out my newgrounds page!!)
unfortunately i havent had the time to work on life in death stuff for a bit, but we should get some more done this weekend. i would say look forward to that but unless we release a song you wont actually be able to see any progress so... sorry about that ig
i love webcore so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i am slowly collecting every spore game. rn i have spore hero and spore galactic edition should be arriving soon. probably gonna pirate the mobile games or something because i dont think you can legitimately get them anymore, and the weird dragon city-esque facebook game is (as far as i know) lost to time. if its archived anywhere, please tell me in my guestbook
right i need to get back to creating that new music page you see in the navigation bar. bye!!
uh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
so uh... i forgot again. this keeps happening. part of my goal with this was for that not to happen,,,,,
i guess i just havent had that many thoughts ive wanted to write down. i guess ill write about the music i work on ive got a decent amount to say there
so ive got a few projects going on right now. the first is an album by just me, under the name violetbackedstarling (already got a few albums out). this new album is nearly done but not yet, i need a few more songs and i need to transfer some older ones from my old hard drive. other than that, ive had a concept for an album but ive yet to actually create nearly anything for it so i might just not do it. the concept wasnt super interesting, i just wanted to make as sonically dark an album as i could, but my first attempt was bad and i dont actually have individual song ideas, so i guess we(apostrophe)ll just wait and see if i want to do it some other time. now aside from my own solo projects, im also working on an album with the band im in. we(apostrophe)ve finished one song and are one drum section away from finishing another, but our drummer hasn't been available in a while so we haven't been able to. in the meantime we(apostrophe)ve been working on this new song and i think its been going pretty well. although many shoutings have happened during its creation (thats normal tho thats just how we work ig)
i love music <3
ok good bye!! bye bye!! bye!!
damn 6 days. a new record! lets hope its the last
i put generation loss: the social experiments on a dvd and i think thats pretty cool
okay so theres a football game at school today and ive never really cared about football but one of my friends will be there so im going and ill just treat it as a social event ig
so in chinese class i had to do this online pronunciation thing. but i was doing it in a loud classroom through shitty chromebook speakers into questionable speech recognition so. it didnt work very well
glorpus gleebus
ive made four levels for my tomato game so far, the vines are a bit annoying because you cant jump off them, only fall, but its still kinda fun so
i renamed my artist profile on spotify/youtube music/deezer/tidal/utorrent/whatever music distribution service you use (except apple music because they dont like me) so now im violetbackedstarling. its named after my favorite bird, the one with the violet back
i should finish reading the book of bill and continue reading house of leaves probably
ok bye bye now
I FORGOT A DAY NOOOOOOOO
okay so ive started to learn gbstudio more, making a tomato based platformer rn (if you die you become natural ketchup)
pikmin one and two and pikmin three, pikmin new play control for the wii
so. bee movie game is not good (surprising)
homestuck
i got back my old hard drive today (its not actually old, its from three years ago but i only lost access to it late last year) which means a few things. one, I can continue my game projects. two, i can continue my music projects. and three, i have my unofficial homestuck collection save data once again. the descent continues
i sure am glad this entry has one consistent theme and isnt jumping all over the place
watched the emperors new groove today. i think its a good movie idk im not a film critic
an aaron paulson short is looping in the background while im writing this
right i should probably go to bed gn
nearly missed this one
i get to go to school later on wednesday so i started learning gbstudio this morning. by 'started learning' i mean i opened the program. i actually started learning it after school. prolly gonna make something tomorrow, something like a platformer because they don't need as much planning as an RPG
i also wanna learn devkit pro but its complicated and confusing and all of the tutorials are from the 1980s (hyperbole)
i put in indents space by space on every new line even though html removes them automatically (why??)
so a phone is like. a REALLY good way to emulate a ds/3ds. you can download citra (if you're on android) and then just turn your phone sideways. it's better than a computer or something because it retains the ds touchscreen and is roughly the same size. if you need roms... there's this guy named vimm. he has a dot net. and if you cant find what you're looking for, (or the download has been taken down), r/roms megathread is a bit harder to navigate but it has pretty much everything (no-intro is a fucking hero)
ok this has derailed into a 3ds emulation guide. it was not meant to be. this tomfoolery must end now
and the fight for blog post consistency continues! it probably wont for much longer but hey, small victories.
so today was pretty uneventful, except for the fact that i am now the owner of a copy of bee movie game for the nintendo wii. this is a wonderful development
ive gotta remember to sign up for my schools fall play auditions. i should probably read the source material again too. i need to read more anyway so it works out
i will be linebreaking every new idea. fuck proper punctuation
so my fall down the will wood rabbit hole has begun. rn I only know the basics (the main character, i/me/myself, and laplaces angel) but i like those so hopefully ill like the rest
ok i dont have that much more to write today. but i need a good ending sentence... hmmm... okay how about this
so ive decided to keep a little blog thing on here! i cant promise ill write everyday but i can try!!
as of today im in my second week of the school year. im taking all the core classes because i have to + chinese and drama. since its only been four days ive only partially memorized the numbers in chinese (iirc they're 一 二 三 四 五 六 and then I forgot 7 8 9 and then 十) and ive learned some of their connotations. i keep forgetting where my math class is (note to self: its d16) but i always find my way anyway
ok but i need to talk about my life skills class. my actual teacher is fine, he seems like a decent guy. but. the classroom. so my teacher only teaches in that classroom for one or two periods a day. the rest of the time its another teacher whom i will call mr. w (because his last name starts with w lol) and he has made some. choices when it comes to room decoration. the first thing i noticed was the red flags such as a sign that says "you will not question my management system while im teaching" which feels a bit strange but ok. the second thing i noticed,,,,, was a daily wire cup that said "liberal tears". wuh oh at this point I start to notice more things such as a massive flag that says "nobody cares, work harder" with a skull and crosswrenches (crossbones but they're wrenches)
the gym room feels liminal as shit. its got dim white lights and blank walls, save for athlete of the year posters spanning over 70 years. also you have to go down a bunch of stairs so it feels like you're underground even though you're not.
all of my classes have People in them! not necessarily people i know, but still People!
ok! thank you for reading! bye bye!! :3