CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP...
I mean, I'm Garian Cashman, resident of Topeka Kansas, USA, and now officially a student at Kansas University in Lawrence (Majoring in Physics) after 4 years of bummin' and slummin'. I've been playing guitar since 1997, and while i'm no shredder, I can hold my own and I'm starting up a band with one of my friends in town (as soon as he learns to play, anyway). I don't have home internet, but I often go to said friend's apartment to hang out, and when he's at work or asleep I'm usually on his computer, because I'm a jerk. But we often go hang out at a bar (The 20's) and chill out there, and less often we go to one of the local strip clubs. I was introduced to composing music on my PC in 2002, when I decided to look up OverClocked Remix, and a few people there directed me to Fruity Loops (now FL Studio), although a few people in the IRC channel introduced me to tracked music (namely Protricity and 68030 of Children of the Monkey Machine) as well as Jeskola Buzz, so I downloaded MODPlug and Buzz to see what the hullabaloo was about. I wasn't interested with MODPlug until later, because I didn't understand how to use samples at the time (so when my computer ate Fruity, I moved to Buzz). I'm not an accomplished Buzzer, though
. In 2005 I decided to get Impulse Tracker and DOSbox running, so when I can, I use IT to track (although I usually end up using MODPlug anyway). Recently I started using BeRo, but I find that its a little buggy at the moment.
As I said before, I was introduced to the scene via VGM proxy (actually, it went OCRemix, VGMix, Hellven, then Scene.org/Pouet), and I'm really interested in learning to code demos (haha I'm a sucker). Right now, the only thing I can code is weako console cruds, but I'm hoping that when I can get wxWidgets working proper (stupid gcc packed in with Dev-C++ sux0rz) I can move on a little, at least. What would really be cool is to do a graphical version of my "Periodic Reminder" element guessing/memorisation program. I published the source to that on my friend Doug's forum (at
http://forums.thasauce.net), because I'm weird.
My current music projects are nearly all arrangements from video games, 4 from Chrono Trigger (the Zeal theme [in Buzz], the Battle with Magus, and Robo's theme, and the Ocean Palace [a guitar arrangement!]), one from the SNES version of Shadow of the Beast (in IT/MODPlug, track 04 of the SPC pack), and one from Final Fantasy 6 (the Prelude, in Buzz). I need to write more originals, but if anyone wants some of my older originals, just email me at djpoachedeggs at yahoo dot com.
I love OHCs, even though I nearly always lose (its not my fault I'm not as good as everyone else!).
Oh, I plan on expatriating (possibly to Sweden?) when I finish with College, mostly due to the increasingly weakening Constitution and the ever failing Bill of Rights. And the prospect of Jeb Bush running for the presidency.
Sorry, its not short, but in my defence, I my internet access is sporadic at best. Cheers!
