Terrifically, horribly lazy
February 12th 2002 -
Yes I am. I’ve been playing “Icewind Dale” for a couple of days now (most characters are at 8-9th level) and I’m finally getting sick of it – so sick of it, that I don’t think I’ll be playing Balder’s Gate II for a while, nor Balder’s Gate: Dark Alliance, which is apparently just as much of a hack ‘n slash as Icewind Dale. I’m feeling pretty relaxed.
So what have ya done?
I’ve done a couple of chores, tried to help out Jon with his short film “Timeless”, which unfortunately has the cameraman breathing heavily into the microphone for a couple of shots. I tried routing the sound out of the computer, through my noise-reducing expander/voice optomised eq/opto-compressor/vocal saturator/opto de-esser, which is a terrific bit of technobabble, and then back into the computer. Turns out that my line-in for the PC is kinda lousy, so the whole thing picks up far too much noise on the round-trip, so no go. Bummer.
The “Disorder” story is coming along, but I keep reworking it as I keep finding out things about the Disorder. It’s not even a very long story, but I’m trying to capture a point of view of a whole order of monks in it – or rather, a dis-order – which is pretty hard to do.
Crimson Nightmares
I’m rewriting the script for “Crimson Nightmares” at the moment, too. We had a script meeting at Jon & Kate’s place with me, Ted, Kyla and Andrew Orman, discussed the script, and watched “Demon Lover Diary” again, which still amazes me. In the script discussions, Ted didn’t really want to do “Advent”, so it passed over to Andrew Orman, so it’s Andrew & Andrew to play Advent & Equinox. “Crimson Nightmares” is an old script by friends of Jon & Kate, already filmed, but rather badly. We’re going to remake it, but hopefully better – we’ll have more time and better equipment. As the script was a quick knockoff by Rupert Booth & Co., we talked about what needed to be done to make it more elegent, and the task fell to me as I’m the one who’s unemployed. I’ve got a big list of changes (also a big list of suggestions for edits to “Hand Relief”) which I’ll go through in the next week or so.
Firewire network
Bill had a go at getting the firewire network between the PC and the Mac up and going, but so far no good. The PC is the problem. Big surprise. Bill has some software that he reckons will do the trick. We’ll see.
Squash
And I’m just about recovered from squash, in time for another game tomorrow night. Here we go again…