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It's a bummer that you haven't found the song yet...but not much to go on really.  If it was so catchy, I'm surprised you don't remember more words than that?  Maybe you can hum it out and record the melody somehow?

I want to see it...hopefully since my wife has tomorrow off, we can cruise over to the theater and check it out.  Hope it's good ^^

The five point stuff is very interesting... *scratch head* and somewhat confusing I must say.  Anyway, pretty cool stuff! good tutorial, already had Scott's website bookmarked but never read that ^^

following the suggest of "study" dott style, i tried to reproduce the mansion hall in line art, just to understand how it work and how it could looks in line art:


not really so bad... isn't it?

Not too shabby, something is off and I'm not sure what, (left window is a bit far from the door...maybe the wall is not seeming to curve in towards the camera enough?) but from just reproducing it looks fine-ish.  Actually yes, I think based on what Crazy said about "fish-eye" lens, then it is feeling wrong because the wall doesn't seem to be (at least as you have it here, now) bending enough.

On further examining, I guess there's a difference from just placing the objects from a scene, mostly correctly, to feeling where the objects go because of a conscious understanding of the pull of the lens.   Maybe it would help to see more of the scene though, since it is after all just your interpretation.

He's neat, just a little plain.  Why are his arms out like that?  He must be super nervous, maybe you could relax the pose a bit?  Cool though, I like it.

Well it's just that while it looks somewhat similar, you seem to have changed the type of material used for the huts, the ground is different, the tree types have changed and so have the bushes.  Just an observation...I for one would be interested in a revised MI, if it was done right.  Good start, keep at it.

All those demos are gonna be on one album? That's like 71 songs!  :o

Nope not at all.   For instance Memory At Dawn is 1 record, Pale Reflections is another record, To The Markings Of Reality will be one record, etc.  For the most part, the concept called Novellice (the one I hope to turn into a graphic novel someday) already consists of over a hundred songs, maybe close to two hundred.  I could put together an album with over 71 songs if I wanted to, but that would probably be too much for most people to handle on one record.

wow, that's alot of demos. I may have to download them all...

by all means have at them.

Oh I also went through and reorganized them and stuff. 

Is the full album going to be free to download? How long is it in total?

All the demos are free for now.  There's a whole lot of them on myspace now to download.  I am going to sell a record consisting of the seven "To The Markings Of Reality" tracks with vocals added and an eighth track called "Waiting At Falpoint", but it's not really done yet.

Hey thanks Ghost

Yup the audio quality isn't exactly top notch, but for working in front of my computer with a single radioshack mic, awful signal to noise ratio (all the tracks require a heavy bit of noise reduction to be tolerable) which stacks the more tracks I use, and with the acoustic moving around every time I record, it makes it hard to get the same sound consistently.  :/ It's crazy hard work actually.  I'd have more to say but I just got out of the hospital this morning and I have to rest

Anyway, a complete track list...hmm.  I could post a list I guess.  There's actually a lot more than this, but I can't be bothered to type it all up :p Since I already did this for Columbia Records tho, it was easy to copy/paste

A Call To The Silent
   I: Eyesight Interruption
   II: Shifting
   III: The Horror Of The Gelatinous Cube
   IV: Step Lightly In This Euphoric War Zone
   V: Screaming For Mercy In A Quiet Log Cabin
   VI: Follow 'long Red Light Footsteps

A Guest At The Wedding Reception
Beneath The Weeping Willow's Roots Lay Evil Rest

Bezaliel And The Quiet Ends
   I: For Her Wings With Ashes
   II: The Massacre Of The Misperceived

The Bloodied Blade Of Tein
   I: Waiting At Falpoint
   II: Two Hands Apart
   III: Forever Always Ends Abruptly

Blue: Benight As Soft Fluidic Sadness
Blue: The Better Half
Catastrophic Came The Voice Reply

Continuous Abuse Of The Physical And Nonphysical
The Dead Ladder: A Lingering Beneath These Branches
The Dead Ladder: Termination Letter
The Dead Ladder: The Timing Of Gross Malalignment

The Epistolary
   I: The First In Loss And Sorrow
   II: The Second With Struggle And Fear
   III: The Third Through Living And Rebirth
   IV: The Fourth Of Love And Tear
   V: The Fifth For What I Will Tremble
   VI: The Sixth Rise The Battle Of Soul

From The Latter
   I: Fasten Down The Furniture
   II: Cutting Throats
   III: Intrusions Unaccounted For
   IV: The Kiss In The Latter Soft Eyes Of Poetry
   V: Writer's Block II

Just Behind Ten:Twenty-Five AM
Letter By Letter Behind These Eyelids

Memory At Dawn:
   I: Mercury And The Lull Between Horrors
   II: The Horror Clothed In The Nightmare Of Syr
   III: I'll Love You When The Dead Walk
   IV: The Haunting Of The Girl You Slaughtered In Fifteen-E
   V: Dear Friends...
   VI: Feelings Before The End
   VII: Burn The Villas, Kill The Courtesans
   VIII: Lovely Red Puddles
   IX: Remorseful Daylight
      I: The Peaceful Children
      II: A Rotting Nail Through The Mouth
      III: And With Their Necks Cut Clean...
      IV: Bloody Artist Colored Canvas
      V: Heavenly Kisses From The Lips Of The Damned
   X: Tapping Into The Memory At Dawn â€" The Blindfold, Blade, And Bait

On A Cold Night In The Blackest Of Rain
Our Midnight Rest

The Pale Reflections
   I: Fate, The Author, And The Will To Destroy
   II: The Implications Of Words And Flesh
   III: Eavesdropping On Gods
   IV: Reality Veiled In Scientific Circus
   V: The Girl Keeps A Pet
   VI: A Thoroughly Heartfelt Excuse Narrowly Avoided
   VII: Overused Redundancy
   VIII: An Ice Cold Kiss Goodbye
   IX: Passive Mode Kill Level
   X: Reflections Through A Facade
   XI: Story Eat Story
   XII: The Dramatic Murder Of The Girl In Fifteen-E
   XIII: The Last Trip Changes The Outcome
   XIV: Existence Through The Eye Of The Mirron
   XV: In These Pages Burning
   XVI: Writer's Block I

Packaging Of My Apology
Pen To Paper Romance
Tears Through Katrina

To The Markings Of Reality
   I: The River Of Fate Kissed Our Path's In Death
   II: We're Only Dreaming
   III: Of A Twenty-seven Year Regret
   IV: In The Broken Air Of Sorrow's Weeping
   V: A Lost Painting
   VI: The Unspoken
   VII: Asleep In The Mirron


If you actually want to hear those tracks, you'll have to head on over to myspace:
www.myspace.com/novellice  <-- just go down past the myspace player to find all the acoustic (and some electric actually!) demos.  the quality ranges...listen at your own risk ^^

[Song:]

Song: Everything Evil by Coheed And Cambria

Comment: I just love the way this song builds and runs in sections, telling the story a bit at a time.  The performance is a classic one, and took place just as they were introducing new songs from their second record into the setlist.  The video is edited at the break, so it feels a little weird but they just goofed around for a bit so no worries.

How I discovered it: I heard Devil In Jersey City on the radio, and brushed them off.  Few months later on, a student of mine brought me a couple of their tracks from the same album and I was amazed at their guitar lines.  Didn't like the vocalist though But, he grew on me over time, and now pleased to say he's one of my favorites (second only to Sting - sorry Claude).

Fun Fact: The band lost their original drummer recently, as well as bassist Mic Todd.  Basically they missed a tour.  So they recruited a new drummer - Chris Pennie to take over on drums and another guy on bass.  What's funny is that the new bassist didn't stick around for more than one short tour and the original bassist is back for the next album.  So he hasn't really missed out on anything - though the fans react like he's been gone for ages.  I find that to be funny.

Yeah the drums are all at the same level, I didn't really want to play with that too much because I really don't know what I'm doing with drums in general.

Hmm, I hear what you're saying Nikolas, I do...but I really only want acoustic guitars on these tracks.  It's just how I've been recording acoustic demos for the last year or so, and I've grown very fond of it. 

Yup almost every song I've written has some kind of vocal, lyrics, etc.  Most of them aren't recorded...well simply because my vocals need so much work (or at least I think so).  I'll give you a sample...

Finally I'm Lost
or this one (since it's the only other one ^^)
The Walk

Both of those are cover songs, just to let you know.


I will do electric versions of most (if not all) of my songs at some point, but I do not have proper equipment at the moment.  There's a lot I can do to get very nice sounding electric tracks - but it's soooo much work!


Thanks for your thoughts Peder!

This isn't prog-rock, but more like electronica of some sort...this is done I guess, I'm not too good at figuring out electronica
Even Steven Steals From A Bad Man

Thanks again for all your replies!

Removed - request outdated. =]

Remove every component and start small.  Slowly build back your system until you have the MINIMUM components to boot.   Test it several times, until you're sure that the problems you were seeing before are not present.  At that point, go ahead and start adding back any extra components (sound card, video card, modems, etc) one at a time and test your machine again.

As others have mentioned, a bad cable can easily be your problem - so swap with another (if you don't have another, buy one, they're cheap and nice to have extras) one and test again.

This is what they would do if you took it to a shop, so save yourself the money and do it yourself.

Wow I think your response to Nik was completely unacceptable.  To boot, I'm not sure this thread belongs in here.  Shouldn't this be in another section?

And if you're looking for suggestions, maybe post what plot ideas you have for a specific game in the Critics Lounge.  "funny police game" is just not enough information to start giving suggestions.

I've thought about it, sort of.   Police Quest is my favorite series, so if I was going to do a remake - it'd be either 1 or 2.  Course I'm with 2ma2 on this, why redo a game where everything is the same and there are no surprises?  There'd have to be enough changes to keep it interesting, especially while making it.  I don't think I'd even think of reusing any of the backgrounds, using only the original PQ1 as a basis for the remake.   The driving sequence was cool, but that'd have to be redone quite a bit I'd imagine.

But, I'm not making a remake anytime soon...I've just "thought" about it.

Thanks for your comments Oz.  I hear what you're saying, but I've already planned out lyrics and everything - so probably not going to shorten it.  As far as length goes, this is the longest song as one track yet from me, but the seven part To The Markings Of Reality was intended as one song and so it's quite long.  For prog as a whole, I'd say this song is very short :/

I'm not sure about the very last section though, the riff that ends the track.  That's the only part, part-wise, that I might do away with or rearrange in any way. 

As for other instruments, I'm gonna stick to just guitars for now but I do like your suggestions.  I've messed around with piano on some other tracks, and they were pretty sweet, but I don't know if it's really my area.  If someone wants to add a piano part who knows what they're doing, that'd be cool.  Actually you know it's that kind of stuff I'd like to have a producer for when making a finished record, because I would never in a million years think of adding those things.   I'm good at rocking out on guitar Not so good at deciding what little things might help a track.  I do experiment with other sounds, but mostly just with the electronica stuff. 

I know the first section of verse/chorus - break - chorus - verse seems odd.  I thought about doing it the typical way, but meh...done so many times, I felt it was worth changing it up.

As for adding drums: What I do is I'll write a song acoustic guitar only, and then I'll do the parts maybe again with a drumtrack - and then I intend to double everything for the electric version but with heavier guitars.  As for the guitar, there are three guitar lines tops.  I like layers of guitars, as do most if not all of my fans - so I can't do away with them.    It's just part of my style and some people like it, some don't.  I can't help that

Here's another track, to give you an idea of what I sometimes do as far as drums go:
To The Markings Of Reality VI: The Unspoken

Bands like The The were WAY before internet was around, so that doesn't really count.

As for the name, if your music is great, you don't need to worry about your name so much.  There are new successes every day with good, stupid, ridiculous, awesome, fantastic, boring, or odd names of all sorts.   The best band name in the world will not sell your music, but sometimes it's worth putting a little bit of thought into. 

Also, googling a band name isn't necessarily that important - if you're good you'll get noticed by playing shows, and odds are you'll be looked up on myspace first anyway.

Mystery Machine makes me think of Scooby Doo.

Looks pretty neat   Hope it comes out soon...

Thanks Tartalo Nice of you to listen to it.