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Friday, January 1st, 2010

madmarty

7:52p 1/1-- Project 365 My Project 365 journal: tinyyellowduck Please friend it. The more people watching me, the more pressure I will have to keep going. There is bound to be excitement. And photography. Well, mostly photography, but probably some excitement too. Cheers.

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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

mr_utopia_man

11:21p Short Stories One more thing... completely unrelated to anything, but can some of you suggest some really good short story authors? Or specific short stories? I'm trying to find some stuff to (illegitimately) read at work. I've been slowly making my way through a 600-some page interview with Fidel Castro, which has been fascinating, but I'm really craving some short, profound fictional literature right now. Unfortunately, I'm not very knowledgeable in that field... I don't know what to look for. A friend of mine recommended Philip K. Dick a while back, so I think I'll be looking into him. I also want to take a look at some of Salinger's and Kafka's short stories. And didn't Lovecraft do short stores? If so, I want to read some of those, too. So... if anyone with more knowledge than me has anything to recommend, I'd appreciate it. And since I don't really know how to get to the libraries around here, I would also be grateful if someone could suggest a good place to find these short stories online... I imagine Project Gutenberg might have some of them, but it certainly won't have all (you know, legal issues and all that...). current mood: curious

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mr_utopia_man

1:11p Braid So a post about Christmas should be coming soon, but I just had an amazing, positively chilling gaming experience. Braid. It's a platformer puzzle game in which you try to find puzzle pieces by manipulating time. It's an indie game, so it has a very fresh feel... it just plays as though its creators really wanted to make it. Hard to explain, but very fun. Anyhow, as fun as the gameplay was and even with the high quality of the music, the thing that really blew me away was the story. It's revealed to you little by little through strange, seemingly disconnected bits of narrative at the beginning of each world. It's well-written, too. But then... the ending. One of those endings that abruptly turns everything upside-down and slaps you backwards. Like a short story you read only to realize at the very last sentence that you have somehow missed the entire point of everything that was written. It's going for $2.50 right now on Steam... probably the best $2.50 I've ever spent. And if you use the XBox 360, it seems to be available for that too, somehow. There's a free demo as well which takes you about 1/3 of the way through the game, so you might want to check that out first if you're interested. Well, I don't think this came across as very convincing... I know Eric has already played it, so maybe he can vouch for it a little more eloquently. But I felt the need to write about it. And now I must decide between getting ready for work and doing plot analysis. *sigh* current mood: thoughtful

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