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For many, Super Mario 64 was the first glimpse or experience of gameplay in a 3D environment. The beguiling pre-rendered promo art sparked my interest before I ever picked up an N64 controller: the game went to the top of my holiday wishlist in 1996.
My personal memories of playing Mario 64 are somehow like those about a physical location — or perhaps more like an uncanny dream of a place that never existed — than like memories about a game. As a kid, I spent time running around Mario 64 just for the fun and mystery of the game’s expansive environments, which ranged from snow to desert to under the sea, just as often as I acquired stars within courses and hidden throughout Princess Peach’s Castle.
Super Mario 64 (partially found Spaceworld ’95 demo of Nintendo 64 3D platformer; 1995)
Mario 64‘s popularity has endured through the years. People have returned to the game again and again, or discovered it for the first time, including in a new form on Nintendo DS with additional playable characters and features in 2004 and as part of a limited 35th anniversary release for Nintendo Switch in 2020. Additionally, the community of Mario 64 speedrunners angling for new world records has resulted in the discovery of glitches and techniques that enable progressing through the game in creative ways.
The persistently fun, occasionally clunky, and strange charm of Mario 64, hazy memories of childhood mystery, and the drive of passionate players to modify and manipulate the game in seemingly unlimited ways have ensured that rumors, videos purporting to contain lost footage, and more have been circulated around online. The dark and weird side of all this has perhaps reached its ultimate form in the shape of the Mario 64 Iceberg.
The iceberg illustrates, tongue-in-cheek, the deepening levels of galaxy-brained obsession and questioning that spending a little too much time in the grasp of Mario 64 and its unanswered questions can lead to. Here, I will spend some time on 10 intriguing items about the game. This will include a few iceberg offerings as well as other tidbits that piqued my interest, and plenty of links to go around should you wish to dive deeper.
Wet-Dry World’s “Negative Emotional Aura”
“Considered one of the most bizarre levels in the game because of its strange atmosphere, Wet-Dry World is commonly associated with negative feelings and anomalous sightings.” – MIPS Hole SM64 Conspiracies
Wet-Dry World is a stage in the game that involves raising and lowering its water level strategically to access different areas divided into “Uptown” and “Downtown”, the latter of which is like an abandoned village in appearance. The lower or higher that you jump into the stage’s painting determines how high or low the water level will be when you arrive.
Skyboxes in video games form a background that helps to create the illusion of a more expansive world. The skyboxes of the courses in the Nintendo 64 original are a little uncanny to begin with, but there is something even more off about Wet-Dry World’s skybox.
This could be because Wet-Dry World’s skybox, shown at the bottom left in the collection of them above, contains an edited photograph of Casares, Spain that looks rather out of place in Mario 64. It is no surprise that this curious image ended up on the massively popular Twitter account Images with Elegiac Auras (“Images with haunting, unexplainable auras.”).
Wet-Dry World also includes doors that cannot be opened, which happen to share textures with those used in The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. In the massive 2020 leak of Mario 64 beta content, it was confirmed that an early version of Wet-Dry World did indeed share assets from an early Ocarina of Time town.
Lastly, one my personal favorite pieces of recently released “beta” material has been this alternative soundtrack interpretation:
Luigi / “L is Real 2401”
One of the best-known Mario 64 rumors concerns the idea that Mario’s brother Luigi can be unlocked as a playable character. The star statue in the castle courtyard, with illegible writing beneath it, has helped fuel this rumor, as many have interpreted this text as a coded message: ‘L is Real 2401’. A supposed letter from Nintendo of America clarifies that it has “no meaning”. Nonetheless, over the years there have been countless elaborate rumors about “how to unlock Luigi” include specific instructions on what order to get the stars in, playing the game without saving, and jumping into the volcano in Lethal Lava Land.
One of many fake screenshots circulated over the years.
It was confirmed that Luigi was originally intended to be in the game:
Yoshiaki Koizumi (Assistant Director of Super Mario 64): When we made the first prototype, Mario and Luigi were on a flat field…We ran it that way, but when we made the landforms, because of hardware limitations we had a choice between cutting Luigi or making more elaborate landforms. Then, in tears, we had to ask Luigi to leave. (Iwata Asks)
A kind of satisfaction was achieved at last in the July 25th 2020 leak, which included parts and color palettes for a Luigi model with different proportions from Mario.
Super Mario 64 DS
Super Mario 64 DS is the Mario 64 experience with a few additional bells and whistles, such as being able to play as other characters. Not Waluigi, though.
The white room mentioned above refers to a DS-specific secret star you can only get as Luigi after becoming invisible, walking through a mirror, entering the reflection of the door you originally came through, and entering into a white void.
I would add more, but…there is something about Mario 64 DS that makes it actually almost too weird for me to play. Perhaps I will summon the courage to reach for it next time I am in the mood to re-enter the world of Mario 64.
Camera Strangeness
Super Mario 64 introduced the camera as a friend and foe in video games
Throughout your Mario 64 journey, you are being filmed by one of the Lakitu Bros. Recalling the framing device of Super Mario Bros. 3 as a stage play with curtains, Mario being filmed as part of a live television broadcast is part of the game’s story from the very beginning.
Many Nintendo 64 players will be familiar with the trials and tribulations of early 3D gaming and finicky camera controls. A wrong turn when trying to perform a difficult wall-jump, perhaps, could send you into the abyss as the perspective swerved to a wall rather than to Mario.
Unused / Beta Assets
Early, harrowing penguin renders used on a Kellogg’s cereal box
Though touched on in other areas so far, the number of unused assets and (actual) beta differences in general is worth a special mention. The Cutting Room Floor contains a great run-down of these assets, including entirely different enemies, textures, and sounds.
The artist mushbuh has created a delightful hi-res interpretation of the beta enemy Motos (uncovered in the 2020 beta leak):
Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition
Chaos Edition is a romhack that activates / deactivates codes that modify how the game functions. All kinds of surprising effects can occur, including being chased by game assets, Mario’s head spinning through his body, growing unexpectedly larger, and starting a course embodying a sign-post instead of Mario’s body.
Super Mario 64 Theme Park Lost to Time – Reino Aventura, Mexico
I was pleasantly surprised to see a video had been made dedicated to an explanation of this strange theme park I had, up to then, only seen in pixelated, hazy photos circulating on social media that I initially presumed to be fake.
Parallel Universes
“A Parallel Universe, or PU, is an area in a Super Mario 64 map at which the game creates phantom collision for objects “outside” of the level. This is because some of the values for collision detection are truncated into the range of the real map’s coordinate system, allowing some space that is intended to be Out of Bounds to become habitable.” – Unofficial Pannen Wiki
If you ever want to end up utterly enmeshed in the programming and mathematics of how Super Mario 64 works, and see some baffling tricks, you must visit pannenkoek2012’s channel. I can’t promise that you’ll immediately understand everything you hear, but it is fascinating.
If you haven’t acquired quite enough stars to reach the final boss behind the Big Star Door, you’ll end up getting stuck on an infinite staircase. The effect is caused by Mario warping backwards repeatedly.
“The music which plays while climbing the endless stairs is a Shepard tone, a sequence of notes which are made to sound as if they are infinitely ascending in tone when in fact they are looping.” – Mario Wiki
“Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized” / 1995/07/29 Beta Mario 64 Build
Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized is relatively new on the block when it comes to Mario rumors. Part meme, part creepypasta, and part nostalgic indulgence in the conventions of a bygone era, it has captured the attention and creativity of the fan community.
Inspiration for the concept originated in the appearance of a “Wario apparition” voiced by Mario’s voice actor, Charles Martinet, at video game trade event E3 in 1996. Snowballing from the apparition as “a ghost that manifests itself in select copies of Super Mario 64, and will eventually manifest itself in the real world,” to “the belief that every copy created of Super Mario 64 differed from each other at release date” based on an advanced AI that adapts to the player, the idea has spawned a collection of videos and images purporting to contain beta footage from commercials and gameplay.
A compliment to these theories, and returning to ideas touched on earlier regarding Wet-Dry World, are the experience and presentation of liminal spaces and the concept of backrooms. The articulation of these spaces, and what they mean, does well to capture what the landscape and gameplay of Mario 64 has symbolized to so many of us.
“I know for me, when I was younger I always had this nauseating urge to just explore the rest of the world of the video games I played. The rational part of me knew there was nothing, but still I was drawn to areas I couldn’t normally reach, and I would stare at static skyboxes forever, just wondering what was out there. I get a similar feeling as an adult when I view these liminal images. I’ve seen posts about the uncanny settings of the Mario 64 backgrounds, and I think it’s because everything is so unexplained. Where am I? What are these huge sprawling wastelands of nothing completely surrounding the level? What else is out there?” – u/Starman926 in r/LiminalSpace
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p.s. Hey. ** _Black_Acrylic, I know the name Zazou, maybe because you’ve mentioned it. Cool attire (in the pic). Watch out for that guy on the far left. No, I didn’t know that Zidane had a successful start. I know about the Manchester City thing only because I came across a screen grab in my socials scrolling yesterday wherein Liam Gallagher semi-threatened to kill anyone who believed the charges. I’ll start following. ** James Bennett, Yeah, I’m really surprised I’d never read Ernaux before. I read ‘Do What They Say or Else’, which I think was her second novel. Her prose is super exciting and complex. I definitely want to study and try to learn something from it. ** Sarah Palmer, Hi! My pleasure of course. No, I haven’t yet done my Marais gallery rounds. Ultra-soon though. Hm, thanks for the Biennale report. I do hope to be able to get down there before it ends, although it sounds like it won’t be the end of the world if I can’t. Geneva, nice, you get around. Next for me, I think, are the openings of the new Pinault and Lafayette Anticipations shows. Although I’ll probably see the Kerry James Marshall show and etc. at MAM before then. I hope your remaining time there is very fruitful. ** Bill, I’m definitely a rubber and latex mask man myself. And of course they have to be a little fucked up, either deliberately or due to bad construction. You’re back way out east again? Amazing how much you get to travel. I’d be envious if all that jet lag wouldn’t literally kill me. ** Dominik, Hi!!! No, thank you. I think the French should cease their efforts to make proper mozzarella sticks and muffins and donuts and concentrate on figuring out how to make proper Mexican food. The London venue is an art gallery, but maybe they’ll hang a few scary paintings or something. There was a kind of soulfulness to postal mail and telegrams and so on whose absence from the world can feel quite melancholy. Good for love. I’m going to try to use him a role model. Love wondering if he accidentally bought decaf coffee because his brain just doesn’t seem to be functioning properly so far this morning, G. ** Carsten, I will say that it wouldn’t shock me if you liked Visconti’s early, pre-operatic films like ‘Rocco and His Brothers’ for instance. I think my personal surprise at the small-seeming scale of Euro castles probably has to do with growing up in spacious LA where giant mansions are somewhat common and possibly also because of having had the castles in Disney parks as a starting point. Big luck with the real estate agency. Grr. ** i🌙, Hey, i🌙! Great to see you. I’m good. Come back to Paris, yes. And the heatwaves seem to be history now. As I just mentioned to Dominik, my brain is still at least half asleep this morning for some reason, so I’ll read what you wrote a little later when I have deserving brain cells in place again. It looks lovely at a hazy first skim. I’ve read a few Marie Darrieussecq novels: ‘Pig Tales’, ‘White’, and ‘ Brief Stay With the Living’. I liked the first two. She seems like a sometimes quite interesting writer. Concussion? Glad that’s a memory now. And you’re 18! Wow, that’s big. I’m fine, and, yes, mostly film stuff: getting ‘RT’ out and starting work on our next one. No complaints at the moment. ** laura w., Hi. Color Bressons are still winning. I’m there. ‘Paris, Texas’ is worth watching for sure. I haven’t seen the new Japanese one. People say it’s a comeback, but they’ve said that before. Herzog’s documentaries can still be really good. But, yeah, he seems to have totally lost his feel for fiction films for a long time now. Yeah, Lynch deification, it’s true, although I guess because films are so mostly unadventurous and non-visionary these days, especially in the US, it’s hard not to get into really treasuring what he did. ** Steve, I should try to find out if the blog’s nasty habit of eating comments runs on a schedule. Doubt I could, though. Your old laptop is scaring me even in description. And it sounding Halloween-appropriate is not enough. ** HaRpEr //, Oh, sure, me too on a film’s interests being so up my alley that my forgiveness trigger gets pushed. I don’t know Mark Jenkin’s work, and I don’t think I’ll go out of my way to discover him, thank you. Moritsugu’s cool. There’s a director whose continuing existence proves that there still is an actual underground. The Nobel thing kind of put me off reading Ernaux, even though Claude Simon won the Nobel too in some seeming happy fluke, but, boy, based on one book, she’s really a prose master. ** caro, Hi, caro! It’s so nice to meet you. Thank you for being so kind about my work. How are you? What are you up to and all of that? If you feel like passing more about you along. In any case, cool, take care. ** Thom, Thanks, yeah, I tried to cover as many mask bases as I could without getting blah. I haven’t read that Roubaud book, but he’s pretty terrific in general. ‘Project for a Revolution in New York’! Now that’s a great book. Among my favorite Robbe-Grillets. And not just because of its spectacular title. Week ahead remains vague but with intriguing glimmers so far. Yours? ** Okay. If you’re of a certain inclination, you have a really excellent post in front of you today made for the blog years ago by the artist Marilyn Roxie. A treat instead of a trick. See you tomorrow.
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No proper Mexican food either? Sounds bleaker and bleaker…
An art gallery certainly has possibilities. Fingers crossed! That’ll be the only/last Room Temperature screening you’ll attend in person?
I was in a similar state yesterday evening. I don’t know what was going on; my brain felt wholly uncooperative too.
Love listening to Placebo’s new song, Od.
Hey Dennis,
Hahaha the Super Mario 64 Iceberg! It’s slightly embarrassing to say that my first experience with 64 was the DS version, but I was about 4 when that game came out and the earliest console I had played was a ps2 so the ps1/64/dreamcast generation were before my time. I actually don’t think I have ever properly played the original 64 beyond ports on the Switch. I’ve been meaning to play the mod B3313 that turns the castle into a giant liminal space, or at least more liminal than the castle is in general. I think every video you linked is from a channel I watch in my own time too. Especially pannenkeok2012, I love the “parallel universe” aspect of 64 and how absolutely strange that game is on a technical level.
Forgot to respond yesterday, but I would agree that he mainstreamified Backrooms, but the fact that the studios went to him to actually direct it instead of just taking his own idea of the Backrooms is the big difference between how the mainstream views the internet now vs the 2010s. Like to be fair Kane also didn’t create the idea of the Backrooms or “lore” of the levels, but his videos were the first ones to really visualize the forum discussions. People were talking about your novel The Marbled Swarm a day or two ago and it kept reminding me of “Marble Hornet” which was the first Slenderman youtube series and potentially the first proper horror series on youtube. They didn’t call him Slenderman though, Idk if Slenderman was even in use for that character back then. I guess comparing Slenderman vs Backrooms is possible as they’re both internet horror created from anonymous 4chan posts that went on to develop a story built by community rather than a sole creator.
Yeah Narnia was always in a weird position where it was the ugly stepsibling of Lord of the Rings as CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were friends/rivals; both were long stories about fantasy worlds that had allusions and metaphors to Christianity, though handled in wildly different ways — Hobbit/Rings is “fundamentally religious and Catholic” as per Tolkien but doesn’t really retell the Bible or have overtly Christian aspects, whilst Narnia is overtly a retelling of the Bible. Even the popular Narnia movies of the 00s only came about because of the success of Peter Jackson’s films and the biggest gripe I’ve seen with those (particularly the first movie which is pretty faithful) is that it leans into the action and LOTRs battle imagery far more than the novels went. But then how do you make a children series that is overtly just a Bible retelling adapt well into a film before it becomes one of those terrible Christian propaganda films? I guess you take it in a surreal or “cosmic” direction, which is anathema to that fanbase…
We’ve already spoke about her enough, and part of me still believe she might have some artistic merit left in her; even with some of her releases like Midnights and Tortured Poets that are pretty low on my rankings of her music and pop music in general, there are elements in them that tell me that she did have something she wanted to say with them, some artistry inside. But that last album was just a burnt out popstar who is forcing herself to release something out of a desire to break records and get chart numbers. Every song on that album just felt like something she had already said on a previous album, but done better. Even the pathetic failure of the “Showgirl” theme falls flat when her previous album with 31 songs and released a year prior had a handful of songs that already spoke about the personal vs private life of a celebrity, some literally about her mental state behind the scenes and her performed joy on stage… I saw someone online point on that Taylor is the same age now as Madonna was when she released Ray of Light, and I think that was the final nail in the coffin for me that she would ever have something to say beyond “buy my new album”.
Ha, these days it’s hard to hear “Luigi” without thinking of Mangione.
I’m here on a family emergency. I actually had to cancel a gig because I was called away. It’s most stress, but I think I’m used to the routine by now. Jetlag is still not great though!
I just saw a busker in a weird green frog-like mask with teeth, playing cheesy tunes on a keyboard on an elevated walkway. Scene from an indie horror flick?
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hi Dennis, thank you for your kind response. it’s so nice to meet you too. i’m 27 yrs old, originally from florida but i came to the city to go to Columbia, became extremely disillusioned with the academy, got super into the party scene, met my first love, lost my head, ended up dropping out and moving to chile for a bit. got married, few years later now i’m back in new york, getting divorced, and back at columbia to finish my degree. still mostly can’t stand academics with their endless monologues of abstraction but am taking some cool classes on african literature and sumerian architecture. feel really lost sometimes trying to “figure it out” in what has been a very cruel and disappointing world at times. i think when i was a child i felt like an adult and now as an adult i feel like a child. but i’m putting it in the poetry. i published a chapbook called belladonna last year and now i’m working on a larger collection mostly begging my muse to love me back.
how are you? what do you think about everything going on these days? also what other video games do you play? my favorites are bioshock and this gorgeous/devastating little cult game called the count lucanor.
xo,
caro
There’s a part of me that gets a bit squeamish about stuff like this. If I were to succumb to a serious video game addiction during my teens, I would have lost out on a lot of other pleasures.
Very enjoyable to look back on this now, though! Thank you Ms Roxie.
OK it’s looking good so far with the apartment. The agent quit the questioning of my finances & seems satisfied. She’s working out the contract, tomorrow we meet to sign, pay deposit plus 1st month & hand over the keys. Pessimist that I am I’m gonna hold off on celebrating until said keys are in my hands.
I don’t think I’ve seen any pre-“The Leopard” Viscontis, “Rocco…” included. I mean the operatic aesthetics actually make sense. I get what he’s doing in “The Damned” for instance & it’s certainly effective. It makes sense for “Ludwig” too, the most operatic of kings. And like I said, I’m curious enough about King Ludwig to give that one a shot at some point. Plus I read that much of it was shot on locations I know quite well. But yeah, generally I’m very allergic to melodrama, so I don’t know if I’ll make it through the damn thing, haha.
Re. Europe & the size of its sights: my best friend Chauncey did a mini-tour of several European cities a few years before his death & was also surprised by how small the colosseum in Rome was. But it works the other way too. When I first saw the Statue of Liberty I was shocked at its small size. It had always seemed so majestic in movies.
Maybe it’s the apartment business nibbling at my nerves but do you ever get hung up on one song for several days on end? I’ve been playing the Stooges’ “Open Up and Bleed” on repeat daily. It’s not new to me or anything, & the album it’s on (“More Power”, a compilation of scraps from the “Raw Power” era) holds many other gems, but lately that song is all I need.
yes the color bressons are still reigning, but i also haven’t gotten to either au hasard balthazar, diary of a country priest, or mouchette yet, so there’s hope left for black and white. earlier today, i watched the trailer for that madden film that i’m morbidly intrigued by and it hit like train. so much acting! so much color! so much excitement! it’s jarring.
the movie also looks awful, but i didn’t expect it to be good anyway. i’m hoping it’s at least fun, which it should be with nic cage and christian bale. in theory. i like herzog documentaries! my favorite is grizzly man which is a pretty basic choice admittedly but it’s hypnotic. the subject matter treated with extravagant seriousness but also everyone interviewed being insane in some way, it’s incredible.
reading jack the modernist currently. i will probably finish it tonight but it’s so fun. i feel like i’m being swirled around. every time i think i know where the book is going it switches up on me. i read about ed and liked it in the same way, i don’t know why it took me so long to get to jack the modernist. i saw your comment on annie ernaux and it’s making me potentially want to try again with her- i read look at the lights my love and hated it for its overly didactic viewpoint, but i still have most of her books on my radar, so. as far as nobel prize winners go: elfriede jelinek has one and that was very controversial. thanks for the super mario 64 post today, though i feel obligated to say the best 64 version was the ds version with the mini games 🙂
Hey. I missed 64. The first Mario game I played was Super Mario Bros. for the Wii. I still play the revised version they put out for the switch a lot. It is pretty beautiful to read about all of the mystery and aesthetic effects put into those games. There’s still that part of me that wants to think that every Nintendo game, no matter how lighthearted, is some cryptic, satanic puzzle. I feel the same about old disney cartoons.
I haven’t read any of Ernaux’s ‘novels’, the two I’ve read are rooted quite firmly in her own brand of autofiction/reflexive memoir, so I think I’ll check out the one you’ve mentioned.
I finished ‘Powers of Horror’ this weekend by the way and have been basking in it ever since. All of the chapters on Celine are brilliant. I’m trying to think about what it means for me whilst not reducing it to anything, maybe just going off of an idea and taking it in my own direction, possibly separate from what Kristeva intended. I heard that a lot of the New Narrative writers were really inspired by it among others, so clearly it lends itself as a resource to so many different artists.
Then I reread ‘The Flowers of Evil’ since I hadn’t read it in a long time. I think I chose a crummy translation, but I found myself put off by the self-aggrandising aspects, though of course it’s fucking Baudelaire and there’s great stuff in there. I definitely prefer his prose poems, a la ‘Paris Spleen’ though.
This is fun!
I broke my shuffle-film method to catch up on some new horror. I just saw Backrooms today with the one and half hours of free time I had and that last Mario hallway is looking familiar. Loved the animatronics, let’s all bring back the puppets! Reminded me of the ghost museum I went to in Nicaragua. (The Museum of Traditions and Legends, could be a good one if anyone finds themselves in Leon) Tonight I’m back on the shuffle method and watching To Die For (forgot how many people were in this) the other day was Missouri Breaks with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, had a blast.
I want to shout out Alex Osman again, Xanadu, Pennsylvania is brilliant. Prose style everything was so concise and the characters were alive. High rec to anyone who hasn’t read yet.
Also read Yeezus in Furs for the first time by Shane Jesse Christmass. The onslaught of images was, dare-I-say, life changing. Another slim volume that makes me think I have the greatest art in the world in my book case. New intro by Thomas Moore incredible too.
Oh and speaking of, just read ALONE for the first time and was just heartbroken at parts. Thomas, if you’re reading this you know I’m one of your biggest fans and this book was absolutely a feat and is just a part of me now.
Dennis, apologies for this turning into a writer love-fest but that’s what your blog brings out of me!
My brother loved Mario growing up and we had the N64 version. He perfected the “Wa-hoo!” There was something about the game like the writer says, that just flows so well and I can see us getting lost and staying in that world for hours, the music lasting forever.
Makes me think of one more free association: Prince “Joy in Repetition”
Here are the lyrics:
“The song’s a year long and had been playing for months
When he walked into the place
No one seemed to care”
Have a great week, Dennis!
hai :p. maybe i’ll have time to come to paris during the beginning of next year? like the first week. no pressure on the whole reading what i wrote yesterday thing. i hope your brain cleared up though. mine definitely isn’t doing that >_<. stressed with exams, they’re starting soon. now that i’m in 12th grade stuff is getting serious but i know ultimately that school is not that deep. i think im managing well though. so you didn’t like ‘brief stay with the living’? why is that? yeah the concussion was not nice but it was only a light one so i got over it pretty quick. i got over the whole thing kind of surprisingly quickly considering i got punched in the face. interesting! but good. xoxo
Hey Dennis! I’ll always love Mario 64, what a certain type of excitement… the “Watch For Rolling Rocks .5 A Presses” videos is seriously one of my fave videos ever… just like, exciting and oddly enthralling in a, like, sleepy way? Very cool post to restore, had no idea about the theme park…
Yeah that Roubaud I got is poetry I think? It uses the idea of multiple timelines/alternate universes to explore grief I gather? Will prolly hit this week, but I’m psyched to check out the novels especially. And yeah, just finished Revolution In New York and it just totally blows me away the way ARG folds these repeating scenes into each other. The way he positions plot points and character ticks and stuff In a non-plot non-genre way is sooooo cool…
This week I’m focusing on the Dark Rides music, doing one from yr last dark rides themed blog post, its like miners and neon blacklight colors and shit, Black Diamond I think? I think I picked two from that post but I forgot the name of the other one. Doing a 5 song EP sorta thing like “Dark Rides Volume 1″… other than that, fun short story stuff and sorta modes to try out. Always good projects happening… Hope its the same over there? K, bye!!