Stopping Procratination

If you're anything like me (lets both hope to God that isn't true) then procrastination is probably no longer an obstacle when it comes to working. Its most likely a lifestyle by now. I've gotten so accustomed to either putting off work until the very last minute or relying on a combination of luck and improvisation to get most of my tasks done.

Everything I've been doing recently, from school papers to articles, has either been the result of an intense caffeine session or an exercise in escapism. As my dad loves to put it, I'm getting older (thanks dad!) and this sorta shit just won't fly anymore. I can't keep relying on lady luck (who, admittedly and thankfully, has been more of a "lady-tonight" than a "stuck-up-bitch-who-never-shows-up") and one-liners to save my ass from another deadline yet again (I'm running out of said one-liners). Things have got to change, 'yo.

So I did what my generation does when we need answers to possibly life-altering questions.





Which led me to Steve Pavlina's blog. The guy's got a lot of self-improvement articles up there that a.) Doesn't sound preachy as fuck, b.) Doesn't make use of a lot of exclamation points, i.e. "Change your life NOW!", and c.) Doesn't ultimately try to convince me to buy a goddamn book.

Seeing as how I spent the entire day sleeping and ingesting caffeine (I couldn't let good coffee go to waste) I'm probably just gonna read this 'till the wee hours of the morning.

While putting off more work, of course.

Is reading about procrastination a good excuse to procrastinate? Probably not. But to hell with it, I'm-a do some self-improving NOW!

This is gonna be an awesome game

So Audiosurf's coming out Friday and I'm pretty excited about it. It's basically what would happen if Tetris, Wipeout, and your own personal iTunes got drunk and started messing around each other. In your room. During your party. While you were still going out with Tetris. That Russian whore.

Ahem. Anyway, Eurogamer explained it perfectly during their IGF review.

The program analyses the track before you play, creating the pacing and the gameplay space that you’re going to be surfing through. This means that as the music peaks, so do the visuals that surround your game. If you’re in a particularly intense section, then the chances are that the music will be rising as you play. When the music hammers home its major releases, so the neon track scintillates around you. As you’ll see when you have a play of Audiosurf (because I’m sure every gamer and his roadie will want to take a look at this), it’s a deeply impressive effect, especially when the program takes just a few seconds to figure out how to deliver your MP3 back to you in audio-visual gameplay form.

Something like this:





The possibilities are frigging endless! Am I the only person currently browsing his iTunes playlist looking for music to generate into experiences? Right now the top songs I can think of are

5. Beating Hearts Baby by Head Automatica
4. Digital Love by Daft Punk
3. Stellar by Incubus
2. I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) by Meatloaf (The ending riffs would be INCREDIBLE)

1. This:



It's gonna be a TRIP.

Scott is Free

So I'm trying to find this quote by one of my favorite writers to kick start yet another blog. Unfortunately, my google powers really aren't working tonight and after a few hours of searching I've decided to just fuck it.

The thing here is that I haven't written anything in a long time all because of a variety of reasons I won't even begin to list down. Let's keep this short and sweet: I want to write again. In a blog.

Sometimes - and this is something I've only realized recently - it's a simple as that.

Would've been nicer to start with that quote though. It always reminded me of great times. Which is pretty ironic right now because I cant repeat the damn thing for the life of me.

But this is great. Trying to remember little odds and ends always gets you started on that imaginary trail in your head. That trail where you don't always find what you want but most of the time you usually get something nifty out of it.

It's great therapy.



Every once in a little while.

Scott's free. And there's a whole world waiting to be explored again.