Jack Masters has a funny cartoon up on his page caricaturing the main Internet search engines. Yahoo! consists of signposts pointing in a dozen directions, Jeeves is servile but basically mentally defective, etc. The cartoon leads into a pro-Google, or rather anti-anti-Google rant by Masters that I've definitely been on the other side of. Yes, if Google starts to suck we'll stop using it and then we won't have to worry about it being all-powerful, and if separation of powers starts to slip we'll elect a more aggressive Congress that will stand up to the President. A few weeks back Masters posted a gnarly piece of electro-noise music that I really like. I sampled a couple of snippets from it for my song "Unfriendly Satellites," which I recently realized lacks a bass line and needs one rather badly--working on it. Regarding the Masters piece, can someone please explain the following exchange about it in his comments? I'm curious and baffled: earthbound called, it wants its background music back
# posted by applesos : 6:29 PM
i thought earthbound's background music was like... a choir... i only have one song from it
# posted by Jack Masters : 5:07 PM
Earthbound is a pretty amazing role playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It's notable for it's lack of conventional fantasy-themes (you play the game as a kid in a contemporary suburban town), playfulness, "cute" graphics (kind of rare at the time, i think) and really cool soundtrack. The soundtrack can be listened to via the instructions on this page. I just dled a video game music player and tried it ..... super fun!!!!!
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Jack Masters has a funny cartoon up on his page caricaturing the main Internet search engines. Yahoo! consists of signposts pointing in a dozen directions, Jeeves is servile but basically mentally defective, etc. The cartoon leads into a pro-Google, or rather anti-anti-Google rant by Masters that I've definitely been on the other side of. Yes, if Google starts to suck we'll stop using it and then we won't have to worry about it being all-powerful, and if separation of powers starts to slip we'll elect a more aggressive Congress that will stand up to the President. A few weeks back Masters posted a gnarly piece of electro-noise music that I really like. I sampled a couple of snippets from it for my song "Unfriendly Satellites," which I recently realized lacks a bass line and needs one rather badly--working on it. Regarding the Masters piece, can someone please explain the following exchange about it in his comments? I'm curious and baffled:
- tom moody 8-29-2005 1:13 am
Earthbound is a pretty amazing role playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It's notable for it's lack of conventional fantasy-themes (you play the game as a kid in a contemporary suburban town), playfulness, "cute" graphics (kind of rare at the time, i think) and really cool soundtrack. The soundtrack can be listened to via the instructions on this page. I just dled a video game music player and tried it ..... super fun!!!!!
- mbs (guest) 8-30-2005 6:53 am