trent strikes again

from the slashdot article this morning - i note that cleveland's bad boy made good has followed up with his claim that he would release every track off 'year zero' in remixable form. [scroll to the bottom to find the links].

i will note that if you are not using garageband (i.e. not using a mac) then you should act quickly. the posting for 'survivalism' doesn't seem to exist anymore and someone on his webpage has decided to cut bandwidth costs by posting .torrent files of the rest of the files rather than using the movies.apple link that is there for the garageband format.

it does strike me a bit odd that the garageband files are being hosted by the apple movies hosting centre (check the link if you don't believe me) but then again - an artist deliberately releasing the broken out tracks to their songs is a bit weird too. especially for someone not as experimental as say 'bjork' or 'bare naked ladies'. though i will point out that bnl wants you to pay for the tracks which as a semblance of sense as well.
if you're interested in what is being done with what's being released you should check out the official ninremixes.com site.

and if you still don't get what the hubbub is all about then check out the myspace.com page http://myspace.com/nin where the whole ablum is listenable still.
the whole release of this album strikes me as being very strange. nothing like it that i can think of, has happened before. especially with the alternate reality game and the fake websites and all the general ambience of the release. from the obligatory wikipedia link apparently trent has gotten tired of fighting with the record labels to release his stuff and went sideways on the whole process.
i'm very happy with what i've heard of the album from the myspace page and all the weird little side effects. especially that it's no longer just about his emotional torment (though apparently he hates 'emo music' and he's the godfather of that genre if you ask me) but about a concept.

well, perhaps it's all too good to be true. time will have to tell.

*update 23:46 local time*
well it appears that i scooped even digg.com because they started posting an article talking about the irony and weirdness of the .torrent files from the nin website.

digg article

my favourite was the person wondering if there was an embedded watchdog sentry on the whole thing. now there is someone more paranoid than me.

fett's vette

can't get this song out of my head.
all last week i was going around singing "my backpack's got jets/i'm boba the fett/i bounty hunt for jabba hutt/to finance my 'vette"

so here is one of the many youtube videos made in honour of the song.

at least mcchris has a since a humour and won't be trying to sue anyone for being creative with it.

and, at least george lucas realizes that his fans actually aren't doing anything wrong by creating tribute songs to one of his creations.

oh, and because i would be wrong to post without a wikipedia link: boba fett

i mean really. did you expect me to not have a wiki link to boba fett?

here's the vid:

visual novel theory

admit it...you've wondered if a visual novel is the same thing as a game haven't you.

it's kept you up late at night - tossing and turning.

you've been a worry to friends and family as all conversations work their way to the existential crisis of 'are visual novels games? or are they not?'

apparently the question bothered mikey over at renaigames.net so the author decided to work through some catharsis with the question.

for the rest of you, those who don't remember my last post on visual novels: here is the totally expected wikipedia link.