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I was zombie Hannah Montana for Halloween. Most people first guessed I was zombie Britney, which works too I guess.

I also do this with some songs, especially songs that I really like and play repeatedly. However I used to do this much more when I was younger. I think growing up has killed my imagination and I don't have as many novel/stories in my head as I used to. ;_;

Oh man. Against my better judgment, I'm srsly thinking about this. I really shouldn't be taking on more projects but.... since you brought it up, I started thinking about it and now I have an idea for a remix that I'm excited about. Compoing over a week... I guess I will have to come up with something better than just throwing together something in an hour

Yay 24-hour comic! (I'm a fan of Scott McCloud <3) I actually recently did the 24-hour sketchbook with a friend, which was a spinoff idea where you fill a sketchbook of at least 100 pages in 24 hours. I guess I've always been a fan of the intense super-creative-output-in-short-deadline challenges, like NaNoWriMo (write a 50,000-word novel in a month), etc. I do think those kind of challenges are different in nature than the ones where you have a lot of time and can really polish off a piece. So you may want to try out running one separately to see how it turns out. In other words among your 3 choices I personally like the middle one. As for the IRC, like vilecat previously said, you could start a new IRC channel. OCR's IRC channel is on the server irc.enterthegame.com, so people might already be signed in there, just have to make a new channel for the FAC.

Wow. This is just beautiful, both the mix and the story .)

Yay I'm glad that helped. Looking forward to hearing the updated version

Yay! I'm glad you're subbing this. I think it sounds great as it is. The only thing I can think of to fix is the rain sample as you mentioned ; Did you try http://www.freesound.org ? That's the only thing I can think of for that. Good luck!

I haven't yet participated in any of the FACs, but I had been planning to do one eventually. I actually think the handprint thing sounds really fun, and will def require some creativity. So I will try to come up with something this month! Since I'm a newcomer here I don't know how relevant my input is, but here goes: I do the one hour compo competition every week, and I think it's been pretty successful in that we see a fair amount of turnout, and people seem to get something accomplished in the hour, plus we give each other feedback in the listening party. I wonder if some of these things could be applied to the FAC? Like you could have a IRC viewing party. And the thing about doing something in an hour is that it gives you a specific time that you need to get it done, and forces you not to procrastinate. (Music is different from art so that amount of time may need to be adjusted, but the basic principle can still be applied.) Not sure if that is at all helpful but yeah, just my 2 cents.

;_; Hmm I tried to post this, but it told me I had to lengthen my message to at least 10 characters. So: ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;

Yay happy birthday to both of you! <3 <3

I associate New Order's Best Of album, but especially Bizarre Love Triangle, with Super Mario Kart. I played that game a ton, and at the time, that album was one of maybe 3 CDs I owned (back in the days when people were switching from cassette tapes to CDs), so I listened to it all the time, including while playing Super Mario Kart. Ahh the good old days... now I'm all nostalgic

Hmm. Can you send me a copy of the sheet music for the flute part? I'm moving next week so if it's something time consuming, I wouldn't be able to do it, but you said it was not too long and not too difficult, so I could take a look at the music and let you know if I could do it.

Agreed, but then again Thursdays have always been the high point of my week because I don't work on Friday Woohoo compo tomorrow!!! <3

Hey that might be a lot of fun, too. I think just a DC area jam session would be fun, even if we didn't do any recording. So who else is in for DC area jam session/collab?

Hmm, I didn't get a specific number from him, but I believe the max occupancy of the place is like 150, and if we got about 75-100 people who all stayed a while and had a few drinks, I think he would be happy with that. I didn't really think about it, but 100 is really a lot of people. Esp. considering even a big event like VGL only got... OK I don't know the exact number of OCRers who went to the meetup but it was def. <100. This makes me think that in order to pull this off, we would have to bring in a number of non-OCR people, which means we would have to appeal to a wider audience. We could do this by encouraging our performers to bring friends and do as much promoting as possible. Or we could try to appeal to a wider audience so that the bar could promote the event as a "dance night" or "electronic music fest" or even "video game music concert," but then that would restrict what we could reasonably perform. So yeah, could be complicated. One more thought because Palpable just came here and to see what I was doing, and he had some input. The showcase I hosted was on a Saturday afternoon, and I think about 50-75 people went to that. They may be more flexible on what they do during the afternoons because there is less competition for those times. I personally think a nighttime event would be more fun, but if it's the difference between them letting us play there or not, then the afternoon slot would be better than nothing. Like I said, I believe max occupancy is ~150. It's actually a restaurant/bar with a little stage, so it's about restaurant-sized, one level. I would say it's about medium-sized for a restaurant in the suburbs with a big open space in front of the stage and lots of tables. They're also flexible about rearranging the layout, so if we wanted to clear more room for a dancefloor, or put in more tables for drinking and chatting, I think they would be open to ideas.

That's what I was wondering, and why I wanted to start a thread to gauge interest. I just hosted a showcase there on Saturday, and chatted with the owner a bit afterwards. I was trying to think of events that would draw enough people to be able to book a night, and I thought an OCR night would be a cool idea, I just don't know if enough people live close enough to attend and really fill out the room. I also figured that people who are performing can advertise and try to bring their buddies/fans even if they are non-OCR types, but again, if people don't live close enough they probably won't have a whole lot of buddies in the area who could go.

The place is called So Addictive Lounge and here is the address: 733 Elden St Herndon, VA 20170-4636 Not trying to steal ppl from other meetups ; Now that I think about it, it may make the most sense to do this in spring or summer of 2010 to space it as far away as possible from MAGFest and other stuff. When is the NC meetup?

I just had this idea, it's not necessarily a very detailed idea but I wanted to post about it to see how much interest there would be (if any), and to brainstorm a bit on what people's thoughts/ideas are if people are into the idea. Basically my idea was to have a DC area OCRemix meetup, and during this meetup, have OCRemixers give live performances of their original stuff, remixes, or whatever. Doesn't even have to be a live performance, just playing a set of electronic music with dance beats off of a laptop could be very entertaining too. We could even have a set of all just remixes from the site. There is this bar in Northern Virginia that I have played at and I know the owner, I could book us a night and we could have performing, dancing, mingling, drinking, and general merriment. In addition to the performance night, we could also have a super fun weekend of regular DC/OCRemix meetup activities. Anyway I just thought I'd throw that out there to see if there would be any interest in doing something like this. Who would be interested in performing, and what would you want to perform? Who would be interested in just going to see the show, and what would you want to see played? When would be a good time for the meetup? I know that a lot of people will be in the DC area for MAGFest, on the other hand, I don't want to compete with MAGFest with an event so similar, so I think it might be better to space it out. I welcome any indeas and suggestions, uh, as long as you're not mean to me

That sounds great! Now I can't wait to upgrade FL and see how you did all the neat effects ;

Oh man. I really want to go, but Palp and I will be moving the weekend after that too, so I'm not sure that we'll have time. Will have to think about it and talk to Palp about it when he returns from PAX.

Def. down for the listening party. I think I am pretty much free any time this weekend.

The last OHC was indeed epic! But even if not every OHC is as epic as the last one, I'm still completely hooked. I even changed my work schedule so I don't work past 8 on Thursdays, so I have enough time to go home and eat dinner and then COMPO!

Aww, you are still special, your track is the only time I ever sang in Latin! Thank you everyone for all your support and kind words, it really means a lot to us. Also, if you like our stuff please fan our page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flickerfall/14966722683 We need just 22 more fans to get our username!! Thank you! <3

Hmm, which song? Actually all the lyrics are on our website on the lyrics page. But yeah, not all of the songs are super happy sunshine and rainbows, we do have some relationship-angsty songs ; And the lyrics are at least somewhat based on my personal experiences, so I guess you can make of that what you will. Thanks! Is it mean/weird of me to say that I'm happy the music we made has an impact on others, even if the feeling is not exactly a happy one? ;