Tom 7 Radar: all comments

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6233. Pianist (bas7-quebec14-1167940239.dsl.bell.ca) – 28 Sep 2007 12:48:54 Quake 3 Done! ]
Yeah but speeddemosarchive got links, but Ive never find something like that nightmare no death. So Ill post a link during the weekend Tom, with the pack zipped. And a torrent too. Now i got work, see you this weekend!
 
6232. Tom 7 (h-66-167-91-110.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 27 Sep 2007 09:24:42 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Cool... I'd like to have talked to him but we had a big party and I didn't want to miss my ride!
 
6231. Tom 7 (h-66-167-91-110.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 27 Sep 2007 09:17:45 Quake 3 Done! ]
Impressive! Speed demos archive might be interested in something like this; I don't know if they have any "speedruns" for Quake 3...

Can you post a rapidshare link or something?
 
6230. Pianist (bas7-quebec14-1167939776.dsl.bell.ca) – 27 Sep 2007 02:42:09 Quake 3 Done! ]
Hi there. I'm back. I've done good demos for you people. It's about nightmare. All levels, done, with a perfect. It means that I never die against all levels and yes I did it to nightmare mode. I got all the demos (dm3) 20mb (pack) zipped. If you interested, this is my email : systemabuse@hotmail.com and ill give you the link, this is the only one place I tell for now, to work harder on some levels.

For more info : Q3A version 1.32 ( harder, faster, not the same bot's loop...) You should try it to see yourself, and Q3DM18-Xaero= ouch as always ;-) Alright now I go sleep. I'll be back soon with a good link for fast download and an AVI version for burn it to cd and watch on tv ! Fun ! Peace all, I hope you'll find the records good ! ++
 
6229. Mathcheck (198.98.38.182) – 27 Sep 2007 01:57:20 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Happy birthday Tom 7!
 
6227. Graue (ip68-100-130-1.dc.dc.cox.net) – 26 Sep 2007 19:42:03 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
I'm glad I got to meet John. When I told him I sent the email about not buying CDs anymore but wanting to support him, he remembered that.

Now he knows I wasn't full of hot air (not that I usually am). And now I have a signed t-shirt, which is not quite on par with a Charles Rennie Mackintosh numbered lithograph, but still pretty cool!
 
6226. Sophia (76.24.8.10) – 26 Sep 2007 08:09:19 Song of the Month, June 2007 = So Begins Our Alabee ]
Yeah me too! I also missed that one, because I just didn't know about it until after it happened.
 
6224. Tom 7 (h-66-167-91-110.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 25 Sep 2007 22:58:30 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Oh, I thought that was the drummer we were talking about.
 
6223. Cortney (pool-138-88-179-211.res.east.verizon.net) – 25 Sep 2007 22:51:38 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
That's crazy, because apparently a former housemate of a CMU grad school friend is Ian, JV's keyboardist! It's a small world!!
 
6222. Tom 7 (h-66-167-91-110.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 25 Sep 2007 16:51:30 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Oh yeah? Well, tell him I thought he was pretty rad. Apparently another frien of mine was his drummer's housemate for a while, too...
 
6221. Karthik (cpe-071-077-011-035.nc.res.rr.com) – 25 Sep 2007 14:34:41 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
My friend Daniel is touring with John Vanderslice as his violinist/bass player/backup vocalist.

I saw their show here at Duke. It was quite fun!
 
6220. Tom 7 (h-66-167-91-110.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 25 Sep 2007 12:05:06 Song of the Month, June 2007 = So Begins Our Alabee ]
I wish J Mascis and Lou Barlow had notified me when they played their reunion tour show in Pittsburgh last year, whoops.
 
6219. Sophia (76.24.8.10) – 25 Sep 2007 11:15:07 Song of the Month, June 2007 = So Begins Our Alabee ]
So I'm just gonna keep this page alive as an ongoing Of Montreal journal, perhaps for life, ya know...

Funny/exciting combination of events yesterday: I happened to be driving in Newton yesterday afternoon (a suburb right outside of Boston), and a car passes me and I swear I see Kevin Barnes in the passenger seat. A couple seconds later, we're both stopped at a red light right next to each other, and I'm taking this opportunity to stare on over and evaluate the situation more, and this person is staring back at me (probably due to my odd glaring), and I'm thinking, jeez, that really seems to be Kevin Barnes, and I mean, he's kind of a unique looking person, but their tour doesn't bring them here for another 3 weeks, so this doesn't make sense. He has a doppelganger I guess?

Then I get home and I look at the myspace and there's a bulletin message from Of Montreal that half the band (Kevin and Bryan) will be doing a special special acoustic show in Boston tomorrow as part of a fundraiser event at Berklee. Ah ha! And how exciting! I get to see them twice in the next month! And I don't have to wait three more weeks anymore either! And that probably explains what he was doing about town.

Also, it was the first time I was actually glad that I use myspace. Although honestly, I might have even done some online searching about Kevin Barnes in Boston if I hadn't seen that, just to quell my puzzlement, and then perhaps I would have found out about the show that way, but still...

Funny cuz this comes the month after Broken Social Scene did a last-minute-announced "myspace secret show" in Boston, which part of what tipped me off on that one [activate grammar police repellant] was that I got off the subway that afternoon and, just as I got above ground, saw Kevin Drew and Leslie Feist walk by me on Mass Ave. Is this indicative of how out of the loop I've gotten on the music scene, that band members literally need to find me on the street in order to announce their presence in town?
 
6218. Tom 7 (h-66-167-91-110.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 25 Sep 2007 10:28:54 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
You're right: the recording is good but the quality of the compression is pretty shit when streaming.

My favorite is Life and Death of an American Fourtracker, but I like all the albums since then.
 
6217. Anonymous (port0232-acz-adsl.cwjamaica.com) – 24 Sep 2007 17:51:09 BAD SAT SCORES ]
Who's doing the test in October 2007?
 
6215. Anonymous (mxin1.gvt.com.br) – 24 Sep 2007 12:47:06 New! Escape 200704130 ]
i was in level 106 quath the quantity of levels
 
6214. Graue (ip68-100-130-1.dc.dc.cox.net) – 24 Sep 2007 02:13:35 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Codeine was colorful and lush on an album that up until then, on my first listen, was seeming like a grey and white muddle. I was on the road with my iPod on which I'd been playing Cellar Door a lot, and when I ventured into Emerald City, it seemed to lack the personality and visceral appeal of my still-favorite Vanderslice album.

Those songs have all grown on me quite a bit now, especially The Parade. I'm still lukewarm on Kookaburra; acoustic guitar songs like that just seem generic to me. But it was great live.
 
6212. Tom 7 (pool-141-156-134-83.res.east.verizon.net) – 23 Sep 2007 22:28:03 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Yeah, especially since I don't even know what you look like!

I only listened to the webcast for a few seconds through laptop speakers, so my opinion isn't very well informed. It certainly would make sense for NPR to make MP3s available for download, so I don't have to fire up wimply media player every time I want a listen. Lemme know if you post Kookaburra...

re Codeine: Weird, I just find that song so slow and didn't understand it at all. But the rocking live version was really good. Still, it's no White Dove!
 
6211. Graue (ip68-100-130-1.dc.dc.cox.net) – 23 Sep 2007 19:55:53 John Vanderslice at Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Hey, I was indeed at that show. Imagine us not finding each other in a crowd of hundreds of people!

I was right smack in the middle of the rocking out zone, wearing a University of Maryland 2002 t-shirt and a black bag I kept pointing very obviously at the stage.

It's weird that you think the NPR webcast quality is good. I was listening to it and the lo-bit compression grated on me so much it was starting to make me unfairly hate the songs! But it presumably has the last four songs, whereas I bumped the button and lost everything after "Underneath the Leaves". I do have Kookaburra and Time to Go on my recording.

Tablespoon of Codeine was my immediate favorite on the Emerald City album, while the others took time to get into. Go figure.

And yeah, that singalong Keep the Dream Alive was awesome, with Ian holding up the rainbow-colored toy xylophone. I wish I'd gotten that on tape.
 
6208. Tom 7 (h-68-166-207-75.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 19 Sep 2007 21:13:45 New! Escape 200704130 ]
I was out of disk space, but now it's fixed.
 
6207. Kacper (c-68-43-131-149.hsd1.mi.comcast.net) – 19 Sep 2007 17:35:11 New! Escape 200704130 ]
Nevermind. I got it after a few hours of waiting.
 
6204. Kacper (c-68-43-131-149.hsd1.mi.comcast.net) – 19 Sep 2007 11:14:52 New! Escape 200704130 ]
I need help. I'm trying to upload a level and it says this: upload failed: fail (bug) bad lev (or out of disk space).

How do I fix it?
 
6201. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 18 Sep 2007 16:34:52 New! Escape 200704130 ]
No, I don't have copies of any solutions except for the ones that are uploaded to the server (like the current best speedrun for a level), and those are a bit difficult to extract. I guess the lesson is to make backups on another computer! =(
 
6200. Kirima (11.166.79.83.cust.bluewin.ch) – 18 Sep 2007 03:36:02 New! Escape 200704130 ]
Hi Tom, ok, so that's no option... I thought you might have our files somewhere! So that was a big missunderstanding, unfortunately! My iMac is not accessible AT ALL, that's why I was asking! Thank's anyway.
 
6199. Tom 7 (h-68-166-207-75.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 18 Sep 2007 01:31:35 New! Escape 200704130 ]
I only have a solution file that you sent me a long time ago as a bug report. I can send it if you want. Is your old computer accessible at all? Maybe you can recover your .esp file and copy it onto a disk or USB memory stick?
 

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