Midgar Swamp Updates

The personal blog of James Gowdey, aka CaptainCanada...a half-Canadian geek with a 4:47 mile, an obsession with DDR, and a whole lot of random links.

Saturday, July 14, 2001

It's a good thing that I've stopped using Napster. Some buffoon renamed a track from Kiroro's smash J-pop album "Forest," "Suteki Da Ne," into "Final Fantasy X - Suteki Da Ne," and I downloaded it. So there we go. I guess when I'm done it'll go in my regular MIDI section... if I finish it. Now that I think about it, I'd like to work on other pieces, like "Main - FF9" and "Bran Bal - FF9 piano."

Oh, NO!

I just visited Square Japan's FFX site, and listened to a snippet of "Suteki Da Ne."

...Crap. And I thought I was making a MIDI of the damn song for months. The one I'm making is probably a different Suteki Da Ne by someone else... but it sounds so much like the other Square ballads! ...Unless it's a fake... but I don't think that anyone would go through so much trouble.

I want to finish it up, though... it's a nice song, anyway. I'm just wondering... if this IS a Square song, where did such a high quality version come from before the release of the game/soundtrack?

That leads me to believe that it didn't come from anything Square.

Crap again.

Wednesday, July 11, 2001

WE ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING. Read the Final Fantasy Fan Day report. Photos are coming as soon as they are developed.

I plan on making a small IAQ in my free time (I have none). Fortunately, I now have a smaller part in my theater group because of problems in schedule with my other activities. That shouldn't affect the flow of material to the site (there is none).

For your entertainment, here's the farewell chat with Bob that I had. I think it touches on some important issues of the Swamp. I'd rather not say them directly here... it's best that you read the whole conversation.

And as I've mentioned, I've now got a spiffy GameBoy Advance. I have Mario Advance now, and plan in the near future to buy Sonic Advance (WOW), BoF, Yoshi's Island, and Wario 4. The cartriges are SO SMALL, though! A 32-bit handheld system is a good thing. More powerful than the SNES... neatos.

Sunday, July 08, 2001

Heh! I was wondering where Bob was. That silly Bob! Besides the fact that he's wrong, that's too bad. ...And my name's Jeffrey, not Jeff.

And now, another fun rant about homosexuality!

I feel more comfortable around gay and bisexual people than around straight people. Why? Because gay and bisexual people have enough courage to think for themselves, know they're gay or bi, and declare it. They're outgoing people, and nice, also. I thought my mom would freak out about this when I said it, but instead, SHE was the one that told me the preceding sentences.

Other news that's not content about RPG Humor ;( :

The nice gay people at SuperCuts (including Corie, who was in one of Steve's TFHs) cut my hair today, and experimented on this new hair gel with dye that washes out in the first rinse. They tested Blue and Green on me - I looked like... hmmm... how you say... Swampbaby. Picture coming soon hehe.

Visit #rpgcomics on tx3.nightstar.net - it's my new IRC hangout. Ian J., webrunner, and others are there. Here's a chat log from today ehe.