Fan Art – Jerulith by 324b21

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A product of procrastination. I love Jerulith. This woman has spunk.

Woohoo, this stuff never gets old. It will never, ever be at the age where it is playing lawn politics with the neighborhood children, or mis-remembering the amount of snow, incline, and distance to their local school.

It will not be asking you to turn that blasted music down, or complain about its trick back or male pattern baldness. Old, your artistic contributions will not get.

So with that said, here’s another great piece from 324b21, the hardest working artist in show business. And it’s of Jerulith, which is both timely and brand spanking new.

Fan Art – Sleeping Super Mutant by 324b21

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More New Vegas/ Skyrim crossover feat. Jinks the hipster courier with the gang. this is taken from the sleeping giant quest or in this case, i think it would best be called the sleeping mutant/giant mutant/behemoth.

Here is some art from 324b21 that may even be a teaser for a future comic. Things of this ilk are good since I’m eventually going to be working on Fallout NPCs, quests, and wikis in the coming months and years.

This is also why the podcast will have an old timey radio theme, complete with pictures of goofy white folks hanging out and acting suburban. After all, there are no radios in Tamriel, Two-Tails deactivated them all with his machine hand. In post-apocalyptic America, however, there are radios, radio shows, and hickory.

Song Profile – Mogo’s Mead

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These days, saying you like one type of music is like saying you like one type of video game. It’s just not possible. And as time goes by, the choices are only getting more diverse. It seems like every day the industry invents a new genre or I am discovering an old one. Every day is a buffet.

New Wave? Why not, I like the 80s. Math rock? Sure, I can add and substract.  EDM? Sounds future, gimme. Chiptune? It’s on like Kong, Donkey. Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G? Hell yeah, that’s my jam. Gimme gimme gimme.

The same isn’t true for karaoke. For me, karaoke songs have to fit a strict, authoritarian guideline. It has to be dorky, fun, and so pop the speakers are fizzing . Karaoke is not the time to be singing Stairway to Heaven or some depressing song about drug addiction or showing off your inner hipster. You sing songs you wouldn’t be caught dead listening to on the street, because all the good songs make for poor karaoke music.

Karaoke is the bizarre anti-verse where every day is backwards day.  It’s a place where Backstreet Boys >>>>> The Smiths, where Vanilla Ice >>>>> Wu Tang Clan. The closest you can come to merging good and good karaoke is Joseph Gordon Levitt singing the Pixies’ Here Comes Your Man, and even then that movie is kind of depressing (there’s also this, but this song is so old it’s automatically cheesy). If I had to take a guess, I’m not sure if there isn’t a more perfect karaoke song than this one, because it has just the right amount of dorkiness, energy, good vibrations, and as a Japanese song it manages to do so without a whole lot of irony. It’s a song I would never listen to willingly but I would dial up every time I stepped into that box.

That’s how I feel about Mogo’s Mead. A lot of the songs on the 3DNPC soundtrack fill me with feelings, especially with regard to certain quests and the like. But if I were a resident of Tamriel, I wouldn’t dare karaoke anything save Mogo’s Mead. Even A Warrior’s Life, a song that is tailor made for a drunken male chorus, is a song about the dead and loved ones lost. It’s got an element of buzzkill.

Mogo’s Mead, on the other hand, is guaranteed happiness. It’s written and composed by Arisen1, and it’s her writing that keeps it free of all the cumbersome, dour tripe that are a staple of my song lyrics. It’s light, feathery, and pure pop.

It’s a good time, and when I listen to it, I can’t help but have one.