RPG updates again… a completely seperate page with some information on my game. I have transitioned the old RPG homepage into a Resource and update timeline that I will hopefully be keeping up to date in the future. I will likely post the occasional resources as I see fit. In other news, I believe I’m within a month of releasing a demo version of the first chapter of the game. I am currently awaiting another set of beta tests and a chapter title screen.
Dead Kingmaker Show on 4/20/2012
Just had our official first show last night. We were invited to play at a house party… what was supposed to be a lively party with more than 100 guests attending. Needless to say, since we have been looking for venues for awhile now, we accepted. And as our debut… an outside event, at a house party… on 4/20… It was looking like it would be a show to remember. We arrived and soon realized… that there were NO other bands to perform. We were essentially the only entertainment… aside from drunken volleyball and hackey-sack. And to top it off… there may have been about 30 people there… not 100+.
We had arrived at about 3:45… and we thought it would be cool to kick off our set at 4:20… for reasons that should go without saying. So we began immediately, setting up our gear on the makeshift stage. We were, essentially, in the middle of a field.
Around 4:19… we were nearly set up… and even though we weren’t actually starting our show at 4:20, it was soon thereafter. We played solidly for the next 35 minutes. When my throat started to dry up like a motherf***er. Being the vocalist, that’s a very, very bad thing. And all I had to quench my thirst was the long-time ‘ancient chinese secret’ of vocalists…. passed down for generations… it was a recipe that essentially, opened up your throat more and made your singing voice that much better… Take notes here, kiddies, because it helps…
Lemon water…. 1 part lemon juice– we’re not talking lemonade… I mean the fully concentrated lemon juice… like what you put on seafood… or use when cooking…
And then you pour in 3 times the amount of water, at least. Now…. this secret recipe works for everything…. everything except actually having a dry throat from thirst and dehydration, that is. So about 3 songs away from the end of the set list… my voice is drying up. I decided that the next 15 minutes is a cakewalk in my current condition… so I do nothing. I take a swig of my own ‘medicine’ and shut up.
Now. Things just compounded from here. Have you ever consumed anything bitter while you were thirsty as hell? It doesn’t alleviate a thing, does it? So while performing our song “Lucky Me”… I sucked. I was winded, and the slightly slower than natural tempo we were playing it at… made me work that much harder to carry out my notes longer.
After this, I had just about enough of the unquenchable thirst. In between songs I approached the mic, and simply stated “Excuse my voice… I’m thirsty as hell out here…”
And, as if that was the introduction to the next song I began playing the opening riffs of our newest song that is, as of yet, untitled. Midway through the first verse, one of our awesome listeners had brought two beers and a Pepsi our way (our badass lead guitarist doesn’t drink). I was laughing mid verse, but was able to finish the last song of our set in decent fashion. The sad part of this is… it was a beer… which wasn’t going restore my hydration to normalcy. But, our listener did her damnedest all the same, and I was soooooo grateful. So, seconds after finishing our 50 minute set and I had a celebratory Fat Tire. Which was even more amazing considering my drummer had to pop it open with his drumstick.
Throughout the next few hours of enjoying ourselves– though I never heard it personally– we were being told to get up there and play some more. And after telling everyone that “those were all of the songs we have at the moment”, they still insisted. Well, I was skeptical that they would indeed want the same songs repeated again, but after playing our set list a second time (with a tall glass of cold water), I can actually admit: It seemed to me that they liked the songs even more the second time around… as mind boggling as it is to wrap my head around, we got more of a reaction. Now, the reaction levels of an outdoor function, where the music is not the primary goal…. they are about 10% or what the reaction of a normal show would have… so it was ALL very strange for me… and having more cheers after hearing a ‘repeat encore’ was icing on the cake. Needless to say, my 4/20… was interesting.
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Lyrics: “It Could Be Worse”
“It Could Be Worse”
Could this be any more poetic
My, how the tables turned
You couldn’t see it coming
The day I took you on…
You told me once that if I
Showed my face out here again
You’d trample me dead
Well, it’s time to prove you wrong
With this blood & dirt
On your face
Broken jaw, hope it hurts
It could be worse
Can you taste it?
Can you taste it?
Well, how does failure taste?
Like iron & steel — it’s all too surreal
You’ve become imperfect
Just like everyone else
Suppose I said I waited
My whole life for this
Reminding you that you’re imperfect
As it seems, you wear it well
All this blood & dirt
On your face
Broken jaw, hope it hurts
It could be worse
Can you taste it?
Does it taste like irony?
This blood & dirt
On your face
Broken jaw, hope it hurts
It could be worse
Can you taste it?
Does it taste like irony?
New poem: Omega
Just wrote this. Decided to share it.
Ω
Mirror smeared and broken
Crimson flows in every crease
My fist used as a token
To chisel off another piece
Shall I sum it up for you, or not?
It’s the last, I swear– this time
Why pay a penny for your thoughts?
When you’re not worth a ****ing dime
Forehead kiss the glass
Image folded in a haze
While my memories amass
I guess that I’ve seen better days…
Hello World!
Yeah.
This blog is only here to introduce myself. I am Matt. This site will likely refer to me as Spider or just my username, and I’d appreciate if everyone would reciprocate that. Unless of course, you actually know me as a person. Which, according to Rules of the 21st century… means having met me in real life. Aside from that, I merely wish to mention that I will be using this site primarily to empty my thoughts onto ‘paper’ as it were. This will be used to spill my guts (in a not-so messy way) on many occasions, but I will do my best to include a clear title so that you may abstain from viewing that blog if it doesn’t sound interesting to you. I may also use this site, or a page on it, to advertise a venue my band will be playing at. I may include dates and times here… but you could check out my links to find Dead Kingmaker’s Facebook page for that information.
