all made up with nowhere to go

I am still reading Eroica. I'm on volume 15 now, but only because several of them are missing from the scanlation site I'm on. I thought I was starting to get fed up of it, because Dorian's behaviour in the first part of The Laughing Cardinals was grating on me (especially on the heels of what he does in Seven Days in September, which is actually pretty inspired), but I think it was down to being dog-tired.

I haven't slept well the past couple of nights because of nerves about going for a blood test/flu jab combo (I hate needles). It went OK, but I think the worry kind of carried over. Also my arm was sore from the flu jab, because the nurse injected me right in the top of my shoulder, which was weird (usually they do it in the muscle, but the puncture mark is literally on the joint, so ????) So I couldn't lie on my right side comfortably. I slept better last night, so hopefully this will continue!

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I found a site that procedurally generates music: www.abundant-music.com

A warning, though, if you load it in Firefox, it's likely that the sound player won't load. It's fine in Chromium, though.

It's really interesting, and I kind of sort of want to mess around with it to see how it works and so on, but I don't know as I have the patience.

In other musical news: I'm going to start on transcribing Only A Star, Only The Sea so I can do my own version of it (remix it/arrange it, I guess). As it turns out, that's actually a version of Cold Blue Light on the original Halo 2 soundtrack, and a version also features on the original Halo soundtrack (Pillar of Autumn Suite (has sounds from the game mixed in, which is weird - the bit I mean is the opening part, anyway, up to 1:54) ). Apparently there are also versions in 3 and 4? (I don't know about 4 - nothing on that soundtrack sounds particularly familiar to me, but I haven't listened to it as much as the others. I haven't caught it in 3, yet).

(Listening now, I actually prefer Cold Blue Light to Only A Star, I think. Weird, given they're really the same tracks as each other. And both of them are versions of the opening track from the Pillar of Autumn Suite. But WHATEVER).

So I'm going to go and do that. And see if I can get my head around the new version of Musescore...


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ETA: Here, have L'Enfant by Vangelis, because I'm just so pleased I managed to work out what track this was after hearing a tiny snatch of it on the documentary I'm watching.

I've heard it so, so much in my life (my dad was BIG into Vangelis) but never known its name. I'm so pleased I managed to figure it out! [/eta]