Forsooth, this may be the final post for this blog! But i hope it's not.

Why? Cuz i moved to China and I can't access Blogger.com from there, thanks to the Great Firewall.

Oh well. Probably I'll find a way around it. BAI shouldnt be too hard to maintain w/ scott's help.

I've been playing Dungeon Crawl, as the image shows... it's super fun no matter how much you die. Losing is Fun. So if I lose access to this blog, that should be fun too.

I'm surprised at myself, but I've somehow remained clean and clear for 8 days and hope to keep it up. In my solitude, I play AOEIII:TAD (just torrented) and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (ditto). Off to China very soon. Got my stuff picked up by the moving men and got almost everything ready.

Did you see American Gangster? 'Tis great.

Christmas over.

I gave myself the one thing I really wanted: nothing. *being cryptic

Also I want to mention that this is awesome:

DWARF FORTRESS

A really low-quality graphics ASCII game but with an amazing worldcreation and RTS concept. I've tried to play it and it's just too crappy looking and hard to navigate, but you can read more about it at the wiki. Reading that makes me wanna design my own game in text form, even if I never make it.

Also I'm listening to an oldskool UK garage CD I just ripped from my buddy, "Sounds of the Pirates." Now THOSE are basslines.

2 more weeks till China. I've got just enough time to make it.

I sure haven't posted here for a while.

Update:

I am moving to China in 3 weeks. Still got a lot to do, but I am looking forward to it.

I'd like to say hi to my buds in Germany, the UK and Spain...

I haven't really started on them yet, but I have big plans for next year's writing: music, zine, and book writing.

And I found an interesting thing on wikipedia today which I'd like to share here:

In Fifty Degrees Below (page 99) Robinson discusses paleolithic activities that we, as humans, should return to in order to give us happiness, as our brains are hard-wired to enjoy such things:

walking
throwing things at things
having sex
dealing with the opposite sex
looking at fire
talking
running
dancing
singing
stalking animals
gathering plants to eat
cooking and eating
killing animals for food
experiencing terror

At a lecture on the Chicago Humanities Festival (Nov 5, 2007) he added a few more:

making your bed
looking at the moon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

I am back from my vacation in Canada which was great. Today I'm in a good mood for some reason. I still haven't rebegun writing yet (a familar refrain) but I really need to.

Also I bought a Famicom, shown above, and a few games, including Kirby. I'm gonna sample the crap out of it.

And I unearthed the first Public House cassette. I want to cover every song on it (there's only four). I'm on the case!

Did you know? The new superflat singles on blipsandifs are all gonna have vocals (cuz everyone dissed my last album for not having vox --- jerks).

Well, I haven't been back here in a while.

Work on Moonguitar has slowed down but many writing notes and motivation still continue.

I am going to visit Vancouver from August 8 to 24.

And when I read this quote from an interview with Tom Robbins, I realized I need to re-evaluate my priorities:

He found others of his tribe, meeting Timothy Leary with whom he'd later become friends. But he couldn't take New York for long. After a year, in the mid-summer of 1965, he was lying on a cot in his tenement room. "The place was stinking,” he says. “I was reading Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion. I could envision the Northwest and raindrops dripping off the firs and the ferns, so in the middle of the night, I just got up and left."

writing "moon guitar" continued today, much to my glee.

It's about 37% complete. I can say that because it has 100 intended sections, each of which is about half a page long. And I'm on section 37. Of course, one I reach the last section, I'm gonna go back and rework large chunks of it, but still.

I really wanna get this one done and move on to the NEXT one, which I'm overflowing with ideas for.