Wanna know a weird feeling? Going to a website you VISIT on a daily basis and seeing the name of the game you've been MAKING on a daily basis.

Yeah. I had to do a double take when I saw my project in the links on engadget today. I was definitely NOT expecting that.

The novelty of making a game for nintendo didn't really last long, and to be honest the entire process was rather lackluster. It's a GREAT job, but at the end of the day a job is a job is a job. However, seeing the results of your labour getting widespread international media attention is another matter entirely.

Today I had the pleasure of reading that I "(draw like) a three year-old hyped up on sugar with unlimited supplies of Crayola".

ahahaha

Under any other circumstances I would be offended, but in this case that's EXACTLY what I was going for with my art direction. hahaha Too awesome.

NNNOOOO, you're doing it wrong! If you're going to make it a 99 (and it better be DAMN good if you're designating it worthy of the 99) then it HAS to be FEST.

OPERATION PROJECT BLEEDING EARS FEST 99

or if you really wanted to keep the party thing, do it as such (though I think it's getting unwieldy at this point):

OPERATION PROJECT BLEEDING EARS PARTY FEST 99

There.

Hey Par check it out, the flight of the concords are playing there as well!

Oh yeah... It's business time!

For my own future reference, iTunes - Restore Deleted Podcast Episodes.

I think Jesse wanted the best of all worlds:
Operation Project Bleeding Ears Party '99 !!!1!

Sure I guess we can run with PROJECT:BLEEDING EARS until we can think of a better one.

I hate emoticons, but you have left me with no choice, Jesse.


:o


I am INCREDIBLY JEALOUS.

The Line Up
R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave / Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone / Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles / Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops / Dengue Fever / Siberian / Say Hi / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little Ones / "Awesome" / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States / 65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio / Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands / Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave Singers

All of that, plus a week of climbing before hand at Skaha. everything is falling into place.

how about PROJECT BLEEDING EARS PARTY!!!?

Wow, I wish I had noticed the multiple posts I made complaining about someone else's poor programming. Now I feel like an idiot.

I did find the existence of a "Department of Religious Affairs" interesting (albeit no more Orwellian than the Ministry of Fitness or the Ministry of Learning.) Not quite sure if, globally, such a government agency is the exception and not the rule, though.

Seems pretty brazen to try to redefine a major religion. (Not that that's stopped powerful people before, though.)

(Also, well done, Jess.)

I find it interesting that Jess' post indicates that it is TURKEY conducting this re-write:

"Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam - and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.

The country's powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran. "

...

"According to Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey from Chatham House in London, Turkey is doing nothing less than recreating Islam - changing it from a religion whose rules must be obeyed, to one designed to serve the needs of people in a modern secular democracy.

He says that to achieve it, the state is fashioning a new Islam.

"This is kind of akin to the Christian Reformation," he says.

"Not exactly the same, but if you think, it's changing the theological foundations of [the] religion. "

Fadi Hakura believes that until now secularist Turkey has been intent on creating a new politics for Islam.

Now, he says, "they are trying to fashion a new Islam." "

this is a new twist (for me) on the whole state-religion thing...