Posted: 21st April 2008
Best. Game. Ever.
I was recently introduced to the game Audio Surf (well, I actually found a link to it somewhere and read an article about it, forgot about it and then remembered it when being shown it the day before yesterday), that is kind of similar to Guitar Hero etc. in that you have to hit notes according to a songs tempo etc.
The difference with this is that it’s kind of like a racing game in that you have to avoid the gray blocks and hit the coloured blocks.
It also lets you play the game using any song on your computer (as long as it isn’t protected by DRM), as it analyzes the song to generate the track (kind of like a rollercoaster).
It is lots and lots of fun, especially with any dance, drum n bass, rock song!
Posted: 12th March 2008
How many people associate certain songs, artists or albums with certain periods of their lives or even just a particular moment?
I know I do, and I guess that lots of other people do too but it is something that I find rather interesting. I listen to a lot of music, I’m usually listening to music unless I’m somewhere that requires me to have full use of my hearing or if I’m sleeping. I’ll be the first to admit that my music tastes are a little bit rubbish, but I’ve been branching out a lot more in recent years (I’m fairly sure I’ve blogged about this in the past).
So, back on to the subject of this entry… There are albums that remind me of periods of weeks because during that time all I listened to was that album, or there are songs and artists that remind me of particular people either because they recommended them to me, discovered said artist/song at the same time as me or the song itself has some kind of association with someone (their name is in the title/lyrics somewhere etc.).