Music, Music, Fallout

If you like music, you'll love that song.

It's October, by Eric Whitacre, if you couldn't tell. I love Eric Whitacre- they way all the instruments blend together. I love his chord structure and smooth melodies, just absolute musical bliss. To me, this is his best work. I discovered Whitacre in my junior year of high school, when we played a band arrangement of "Lux Aurumque". That piece as well is very beautiful. It was originally composed for a choir. One theme I've noticed about Whitacre is the chords. I just love his chords, love the way he uses the instruments, and conveys complex emotions through just music alone.

Well, I've declared it Eric Whitacre month for that song October. Just wanted y'all to know that, if you've never listened to anything by Whitacre, you should. Good stuff.



Also, it seems like my song is doing well. My good friend Eric asked "Onision" for a little bump to tweet the link to my song. Well, strangely enough, he did! And good thing, too. Because after that tweet it seemed like it quickly gained a hundred more views! Thank you everybody for your support.

I haven't been doing much work on FL Studio recently. I've been drained working on the Hunt for Bass entry. Now that I've got that out of the way, I think I'm just doing some more testing with some other synthesizers. I recently "acquired" another synth, Morphine. It's very complicated, but I've found a very well-made thunder storm effect that I would love to work into a song, along with my ability to make a siren sound-effect. I could probably work something interesting out with all of that.


As for personal news, I recently obtained all achievements for Fallout 3. It was an arduous task. Many raiders were decapitated, so many ghouls slaughtered, slaves freed and bottlecaps to be collected. Breaking into many buildings and pillaging for loot, and saving townsfolk from various dangers- from super mutants to ants, foolish "super heros" to raiders, and even dismantling (or perhaps even detonating) large nuclear explosives. It was a very long journey, and it has come to an end. And just in time, too!

Fallout: New Vegas comes out shortly, and I am ready to crawl all over the Mojave Wastelands to find my fortunes! Take Fallout 3, add iron-sight aiming, upgradable weapons, HARDCORE MODE, a vastly improved ally system, and the glamor of a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, and hopefully remove the tendency to glitch, and I can smell Game of the Year honors! The gaming scene is crowded with first person shooters, but I don't think any of them come close to what Fallout: New Vegas will be. What it may lack in action and the lack of multiplayer, it makes up for with a great storyline and gameplay. I'm hoping the story is as deep and open as Fallout 3 was. DLC will be released "shortly after" Fallout: New Vegas. The ending to New Vegas will be definitive; when you're done, you're done. Just like Fallout 3, without the Broken Steel DLC. And if you don't have Broken Steel, don't even talk.