I saw Oasis this past weekend in Toronto1. The sound was okay and the band was great. It was amazing to hear Supersonic live again. After doing a little bit of historical research, I determined it was my 5th time seeing Oasis. The first time was in 1995 at Hammerjacks, a small Baltimore venue that … Continue reading Oasis Live ’25 →
Mabel-lon EP tracks 22, 23, 24, and 25.
This song was the result of a patch I designed over the course of the week. I added some speech to text covering events that occurred in our parties second game in using the Winterwold RPG system.
My friends and I recently finished an RPG game that used the system Winterwold, written by Peter Kisner. I wrote this song about it. There are lyrics, but they are heavily processed. I repeat the lines, “We are searching for some people who disappeared. There was some mist.” The mix is pretty muddy, but this … Continue reading Song for Winterwold →
I started a blog devoted to film. Today I wrote a post called Smoke-Blown Hair and Monocles: Morality & Indifference in Heathers (1988).
While I remain in very good touch friends from way back, of which I am very grateful, it’s been much harder to keep in touch with college/grad school friends. We are scattered all over the country, now middle-aged with many different threads pulling at us, demanding our attention. I went to college in the email/IM … Continue reading The Disappointment of Social Media →
At some point in March, I was concerned that I wouldn’t have any good movies for my monthly post to discuss because I watched too many bad films. It did work out in the end; here’s the list of suggested watchings, as well as the ones you can dodge. Ones to Watch Dream Demon (1988) … Continue reading Movie Roundup for March ’24 →
I made a GIF from Little Old New York (1923), where Marion Davies dances a jig. The movie is batshit bananas, but I think it is good St. Patrick’s Day viewing.
In the dimly lit room, filled with the clutter of half-finished projects and tools scattered across every surface, tension hung in the air. The device on the table, once a beacon of innovative design, now lay in a state of disarray, its innards exposed like the secrets of a fallen empire. “I just don’t see … Continue reading According to Leadership: How Solutions Should Work →
Keeping with my January post, here are my memorable viewings from this past February. In the order they are discussed, these films are: The Creator (2023) Lemora (1975) Le 15/8 (1975) Parasite (1982) Angels Egg (1985) Brief Encounter (1945) The best movie I saw on the big screen was The Creator (2023), which I viewed … Continue reading Movie Roundup for February ’24 →
The most memorable films I saw this month were: The Casandra Cat (1963) Decision at Sundown (1959) Ninja Hunter (1984) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) Heavy Metal (1981) – Rewatch, but in 4k I only got to the theatre once and caught Poor Things (2023), which has received more … Continue reading Movie Roundup for January ’24 →
About 15 years ago, my brother gave me the bag on the right side of this picture. He’d had it for about five years and did an upgrade. I didn’t have much money then and was using my old laptop bag, and I was so thankful when he gave me his old side satchel. I … Continue reading New Bag →
Anki is an Open-source flashcard application, with desktop and mobile versions, and a sync state function between devices. The idea is simply to outsource physical flashcards into an application which then automates “spaced repetition”. The purported result is better memorization in less active time studying. The flashcard process goes like this: Attempt to get it … Continue reading Anki: The Path…
To understate it: I’m a sword guy. Always have been. Thinking as far back as I can, I can’t quite put a finger on where it first started. He-Man, the LEGO Castle set 6080, and The Legend of Zelda being obvious suspects. Suffice it to say I’m into swords and things sword-adjacent. The typical course … Continue reading The Oakeshott Typology →
Patch Notes M32 EG > SubH VCO Sub M32 KB > SubH VCO 1 SubH SEQ 1 Clk > M32 Tempo
Roughly one year ago, I wrote some thoughts about music.1 Shortly thereafter, I finally paid for PLex Pass. I had asked Mike and Tom if it was decent and they seemed a bit on the fence; if I didn’t have a big Plex collection, it probably wasn’t worth. I broke down and bought the lifetime … Continue reading Plexamp →
https://www.protozoic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Bear-Sled.mp3 It’s cold out.
https://www.protozoic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mirror-People.mp3 mirror
https://www.protozoic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/3rd-deck.mp3 3rd Deck
This is about a dinosaur.
Here is a cool music-vid from some people I know in the place where I live. It’s called “Lovey Dovey,” and the band is nightmayor.
Here’s a short song I did this morning.
I’ve written elsewhere on this site that one of the most significant discoveries I made late in life was making chicken stock. A couple of years back, I experimented with making several different whole roast chicken recipes and learned to make stock while doing so. Every time I roast a chicken now, I make stock. … Continue reading Chicken Stock →
Tim did a lot of work getting this site functioning correctly again, so I thought I’d do a quick post about what I’m looking forward to here in the last stretch of summer. After this week-ish, I have a vacation with my wife, and then I have to shift gears to get ready for work … Continue reading August Bloggy Thoughts →
The chickens have come home to roost. After not upgrading the Protozoic server for roughly five years, running an end of life version of WordPress because I couldn’t upgrade PHP, I finally had to pay the piper. Protozoic has been running WordPress since 2004, and all (well most) of the posts are stored in the … Continue reading Site upgrade →
On record – Roger Ebert’s review of David Lynch’s Dune (1984) is one of the more damning statements about the film. In a populist way, it’s arguable that Ebert’s sentiments lay part of the bedrock for the decades-long debate of whether or not Lynch’s Dune is a misunderstood masterpiece. Ebert complained about its story, undeveloped … Continue reading Dune (1984) – More Pugs Please →
Evil Toons is another film that isn’t soul-like, though there have been moments in the soul series that I’ve felt are spooky, and the “spooky” line delivered by Madison Stone (who plays Roxanne) was my favorite bit. Clip and review below. Evil Toons (1992) – 1/4 – Though the second half of its name is … Continue reading Evil Toons not Souls-like →
Demons (1985) and Demons 2 (1986) are not Souls-like, but there was a moment in Demons 2, where a group of bodybuilders is trying to escape a demon horde and they go down a spiral staircase. If you played any of the Souls series, the phrase “a spiral staircase moment” most likely conjures an image … Continue reading Souls-like Demons 1 + 2 →
Posted on Tuesday morning.
Last night, I watched C.H.U.D. (1984). As kids, my brother and I saw it or C.H.U.D. II (1989), the latter featuring the ignominious Bud the C.H.U.D., and we identified something noteworthy enough in the films to continue referencing them in various ways over the years. Before revisiting it, I couldn’t recall anything from either film … Continue reading Souls-like C.H.U.D. + Review →
The following video resulted from a workshop and deep listening exercise held on 3.10.23 on South Puget Sound Community College’s campus as part of the Digital Humanities Lab. The workshop was led by Jessie Lenderman, an instructor at the college who is a filmmaker and documentarian who uses inter-disciplinarian practices to inform her work. In … Continue reading Deep Listening – Frog →
As indicated above, the disc reader on my PS5 broke. Game over, it’s now the big sleep, and the disc reader is in dirt nap mode pushing up daises. I’m upset by this because I’m one of those rare people who was very excited to have the ability to watch BD and 4k discs on … Continue reading My PS5 Disc Reader is Toast →
Recently I went to an escape room with some friends. I’m not good at these things, primarily because they privilege a particular type of observational ability. Knowing this, I expected to be little help, and besides figuring out a set of magnets was placed on a board, I wasn’t. Thankfully, our group wasn’t made up … Continue reading Thoughts on an Escape Room →
I shot this on a Jazz DV151, which I got 10+ years ago at a Walmart for $20 dollars. The song was a weird accident, but I liked it whatever was happening.
Somehow I missed a ton of great music in the last decade. I blame it on a couple of things: The decline of radio. It got so bad that I just stopped listening around 2012. Thus it became much harder to discover new stuff that way. I moved to Ohio in 2012. This is coupled … Continue reading Music discovery →
Loss of Mt. Rainier is a film I made a while back. It is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Loss of Breath”. In addition to being very happy with the way it turned out, I had a great time making the film and got the chance to work with a lot of … Continue reading Loss of Mt. Rainier →
Here are some brief thoughts on Halloween-ish offerings I watched this October. We still have a couple more days left, I know, but in case anybody needs something to watch… My rating system is the same as an earlier post1. The Main Halloween Watches Next of Kin (1982) – 3 (S, M, V) – There … Continue reading Horror Movies October ‘22 →
I have a post/essay that I’ve been sitting on for a long time about a better review system. I always think I’ll post it, but I don’t, and I’m not posting it now either. That system is called the “Sphere Review System”. I do have a new system, explained below, that draws on some of … Continue reading Giallo & A Review System →
During the pandemic I stopped watching movies and became obsessed with a video game called Dark Souls and getting good at leaping up on a wall in Oolacile. If what I’ve written makes no sense or sounds pointless to you, it was, but believe me, at the time, nothing was more logical or rational1. The … Continue reading Best “Best” Film I Watched Summer of ’22 →
I was messing around with Adobe’s ability to add grain to digital images. This is an interesting concept to me, because why other than for reasons of texture/aesthetic, fidelity, masking a filter, or technological nostalgia. For this image, I rode the grain right up to where I thought I started to notice it and then … Continue reading April & Globe →
I’ve always wanted a cichlid, and this is my first. It is a gold ram cichlid named Evil-Lyn. I realize this isn’t the best picture, but I’ll hopefully get a better one at some point.
An orange rubber duck in a tub.
Poem 8.18.22
This song is about a meeting.
Another sound/music-scape.
It’s May, and time has gotten ahead of me. I’ve been doing stuff, mostly tinkering with a written story, and also planning to shoot a short film this summer. We will see how that goes. Here is something I recorded yesterday. There is a melody I guess, though I programed it very haphazardly. The piece … Continue reading Green Bird →
I have been doing these for a while with my friend; he produces them. We agreed that if we hit episode 30 we would start promoting them. Here is episode 31. Caveat, I am not a dad of a human child; I am only a dog owner.
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Five years ago – give or take – I had some changes in my life, amongst them one was drifting into a career that was far more stable and rewarding than a lot of other things I’d done previously. With these changes (the career was not the only one), a lot of my creative endeavors … Continue reading Posts-n-2022 →