Everyone and his grandma has heard of people playing live Nintendo music – from the occasional clip of individuals performing a tune, to entire live concerts. Not to mention the awesome metal covers by Minibosses! While all of this is extremely cool, I just saw something to put ‘em all to shame:

[Apparently I can't get the embedding to work correctly, so here's a link to the video clip instead. I'm really ashamed of myself.]

I admit it: I’m a pathetic little fanboy. I can’t stop grinning at the sight of the illustrious Mr. Hubbard himself chatting away about composing on the C-64. That’s something I never got into, myself – I never had any good software for it, so I never did more than the occasional sound effect. The idea of using a minimalistic piece of SID music and expanding it into full-blown orchestra composition is quite interesting. It reminds me of my own thoughts about achievement through restriction…but instead of remaining at that level, it is extrapolated into something much more.

Anyway, for those interested in the background to that clip above, check out the c64 orchestra page. Or check out the Edge article where I found the link originally. You’ll find other cool links there: for example, a mention of the Swedish book Otaku Sweden! Go! Go! and a link to some comments about this book that deals with famous Swedish chip musicians.

I know what I want for my birthday.

Last week I attended Sweden Rock Festival - a place filled with excellent hard rock bands and drunken debauchery. Now, why should you care? That’s what I asked myself: “Sure I have a blog, but I can’t just fill it with incoherent ramblings about Deep Purple and Alice Cooper and other great bands; there has to be some substance as well or people will just get bored.”

That’s when it struck me: there was one topic that span throughout the entire festival; one topic that could bind everything together.

The power of steel, and the might of our ever-present Sword…of Doom! 

Just look at how happy I made everyone who got to pose with the Sword…of Doom!

Sorry, but I had to censor a few of the pics.

I know that I’ve probably screwed up the layout of this page with all these pics, but I hope you feel the power of the Sword…of Doom anyway. Unfortunately I can’t show all the wonderful pics of people posing with the Sword…of Doom; these are just pics of unknown people who can’t complain that I’m showing the world lousy pictures of them.

Oh, and since http://www.tshirthell.com/ is all out of the t-shirt below, I just had to make one myself. I rock like a big stone.

And pink is cool, dammit!