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Games Designer, Publisher, Web Developer, Dad.

Song for Keef-Update

Thanks for all the people who have given me songs for keefybabe’s compliation so far.

This is how it looking so far;

1. Lawnmower Deth – Ooh Crikey [Richard Bartlet]
2. BBC Radiophonic Workshop-Dr. Who Theme
3. Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner – Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins
4. Nasenbluten – Cuntface [Cloneboy]
5. Madness – House of Fun [Gillywoo]
6. Lawnmower Deth – Seventh Church Of The Apocalyptic Lawnmower [Richard Bartlet]
7. Village people – YMCA [LittleRach]
8. Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser[Glennkenobi]
9. Stephenwolf- Magic Carpet Ride[deputydoug]

Note there’s still a couple of tracks I’m still tracking down.

If you stil haven’t sent me a song, hopefully the above list should give some inspiration 🙂 Either post here or email me at newtus at ntlworld dot com.

Nikkyboy has sent some cracking images of Keef for the cover, but if you have any more send them on.

Gah its Monday morning

My lungs and body is aching from the tail end of yet another cold. However from Rach’s experience it is short sharp and eck so today should be the end.

As well as gaming nonsense spent most of the weekend enjoying having Rach about the house, since it was the first entire weekend she’s had off since she started as a Midwife a month ago.

Work is steady but calm. Got quite an exciting piece of work to do which will see me flex my programming muscles, getting me away from the awful process of procuring content and reviewing (which in this place is like extracting blood from a stone). I’ve also got to procure a major piece of software, which should see me be able to put another point on my CV.

This weekend I have been mainly seeing this message…..

…on my computer screen.

Yup I’ve been wasting more time and money playing Call of Duty 2, and the above is one of the many user-friendly messages the game gives you at any applicable time. Its abit like the Microsoft Office Assistant has snuck into the game engine, “I see you’ve found an MG42 you might want to press F to use against the mass of Germans rushing your position”. Playing wise its like the first game on steroids. bigger maps, frighting amounts of enemies and more explosions. The big strength of the original Call of Duty games was the fact that you had an AI squad fighting alongside you. This time there’s more of them, and overall it plays less like a game of Tag (“Hey Jenkins your it, go over there and blow up that bridge while every Jerry on the map tries to shoot you) and more like a game of British bulldog (“Hey Jenkins, lets all rush the bridge while the whole of the third Reich charges to met us!”) where if you go too far ahead you suddenly find your self surrounded by big burly Germans pummelling you to death with the butts of their rifles.

My only gripes with this awesome game.

  • Its too short
  • Russian campaign far too short
  • What’s with the fat comedy Germans? (I kid you not)

Here’s some images of playing catch the grenade in the Moscow level with my Russian chums

A Song for Keef

IF YOU ARE SEEING THIS YOU ARE ON A CUSTOM FREINDS LIST, AND YOU ARE NOT keefybabe

As you probably know its keefybabe’s birthday next week. I’m going to be putting together a compliation CD and thought it would be nice if other people apart from myself contributed.

So post me a Artist/Song title, and I’ll try to track it down.

Also I’ll be doing a proper CD covers, using my mad photoshop skillz, something along the lines of my previous keef pictures. However being a creative type I’ld like to do a new image(s) for this project, so if you’ve got any pictures of Keef , the siller or embarassing the better, do pass them on.

Let other people know who aren’t on my friends list or don’t use LJ and ask them to email me their song and/or pictures at newtus AT ntlworld DOT com

Cheers

Calling Dr Rock!

Woke up early awoken by my cat Holly gently clawing my face! Swearing and feeding ensued along with the realisation I still ached from Saturday night and worse than this the crap music that they were playing at Sandanestas was still echoing through my brain. The Streets , arrrghh! Franz Ferdinand, please god no! The Kaiser Chiefs, just say no to limp wristed indie gitar bollocks.

Temporarily brushed this aside by doing my morning Chi kung exercises, and while they nicely woke me up and started to sedate the pain I was resolved to a day of dull aches and poor temper. “Oh well these things will happen if you drink your shoe size in pints at the weekend” I thought morosely

Then an amazing thing happened. I brought my mp3 player back from the dead, by the simple act of feeding it a battery, and I causally put on the headphones the thump, crash bang whoop fish of System of a Down streaming through them. Suddenly energy and vitality started to return. Fast forward to a couple of tracks by britnoisemongers of yesteryear, Fudge Tunnel and Godflesh, and I was skipping round the room which was becoming more luminous by the moment. “Eh calm down lad, less giddy like, got to go to work” I thought as I quickly shaved before setting off.

On the train noise was the order of the day, with Strapping Young Lad’s latest Alien being enjoyed, a couple of tracks of the The Damned’s Machine Gun Ettiqutte all topped off with about 15 minutes of pure quality from keefybabe’s “Widnes Years”.

Feeling completely 110% now. I’m off to Vinyl Exchange (second hand record shop on Oldham Road in Manchester) this lunch to get me some Godflesh and/or Fudge Tunnel.

As the Damned once said “Noise is for heroes, we’ve got music for zeroes” Too effing right!