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Impending New Year

Posted in Books, General News on 22:13, December 28th, 2005

Revelation_Space.jpgI think this is the last post in the year of 2005. Here’s short status report. No new games or records were acquired and played/listened. Though, I’ve got new books I ordered from the UK. These are the three books of my fave Iain Banks: Consider Phlebas, Algebraist and Dead Air. Looking forward to reading them. Currently I’m in the middle of the Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space hard sci-fi novel. Enjoying its scientific hue and vast scale of events in space and time. So here I am, fighting with flu and getting ready to meet 2006 in good spirit.

The Winter has come

Posted in General News on 14:26, December 2nd, 2005

And I didn’t even notice that. The torrent of days brought me to this dark season unawares. Well, from my last achievements I’d mention the completion of AOE3, very nice game and it was rather long which is nice. I have some more games to complete but usually I’m either too tired to play or just have no inspiration to do that. So I have nothing more to say, so I’m logging off for the time being.

Some movie

Posted in General News on 0:28, October 28th, 2005

Well I’ve just watched the DOOM movie. I liked it actually. It’s ok if you’re a complete gamer, I’d call it a comedy in fact. I had a smile on my face almost all the time. Everything: jokes, environment, monsters, weapons and some details closer to the end (won’t tell because it might spoil it) are pure fun. If you like FPS games, go and see it and have some easy fun. The only thing I’m sorry isn’t there is satanic/hellish stuff. That’d add a bit more fun into the movie, otherwise it turned to be yet another ‘kill the zombie’ hollywood stamp.

New Hardware

Posted in General News on 1:33, October 17th, 2005

At last, the time has come! I’ve upgraded my system after all these years of patient waiting. And this is rather powerful upgrade: I’ve changed motherboard, CPU, videocard, PSU and memory. I’m now proud owner of GF7800GT card with Athlon64 CPU! I tried Doom 3 and it just flies at 1280×768 with high graphic settings! And I can see all these funky effects! Now I’ll be able to play all the modern games without any discomfort and crashes and fps dropdowns :)

Autumn Evenings

Posted in General News on 21:32, October 15th, 2005

I’m visiting alot of cultural events these days. This autumn is quite hot in all aspects. Been on the The Living Jarboe show this friday. I never heard Swans or Jarboe before, but I’ve dowloaded one track to get the idea, liked it and decided to go to the show. It was quite okay one. The music is rather nice hard rock with some gothic touches. The Jarboe herself sang quite well. It was nice experience for me to visit the show of the band I never listened before. People around were happy to hear every song but I was just enjoying my state listening to loud and groovy music. Oh the band has 2 drummers! This is quite peculiar feature. I liked their synchronous play, it added alot of energy to the songs. Overall, I liked the show.
And today I been on the Indie-Vision american film festival. Got to see The Doom Generation. Well this is rather funny movie, it mixes trash horror, wild sex, violence and tender relationships of the lovers. Good one for the underground movie fans.

New photos

Posted in General News on 23:39, September 26th, 2005

As I promised, with the new site design here comes new content. I’ve just uploaded new images to the gallery. This autumn is so beautiful, warm, calm and fairy, especially outside the city. Twilight forest is silent and magical. Hopefully I’ll visit it more during the end of this year and also I have some plans to infiltrate evil industrial objects like abandoned plants etc. Will see if i manage to get to the prohibited areas of these places ;)

Oh, here we are!

Posted in General News on 0:48, September 21st, 2005

At last! I’ve finished tinkering with php and css so you can enjoy this new and shiny site. I’ll polish it more with time, fix some links, add tiny new features and maybe themes. Oh and I hope here’ll be new content ;) But for now it’s just all new dynamic engine in all its glory! No more messing with html with every update! Big thanks goes to WordPress and Gallery2 teams for their efforts and great engines!

Oh btw, in case you wondered what happened to the old War Supply site title. Well, I decided to change it because I considered it obsolete. The current title might be temporary, the time it’ll hang here depends on the boredom factor. If it starts making me mad I’ll change it to something different. For those of you who’s still reading this post and wondering why I’ve chosen this title, well the answer is clear: this is the ship name from one of the Iain Banks novells :)

29 november 2004 – Heilige Feuer V

Posted in General News on 0:38, September 21st, 2005

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Last weekend was filled with noise. I’ve been at the industrial fest “Heilige Feuer V” wich happens early, and this time it happened in Moscow instead of St.Petersburg where all the previous 4 fests took place. Anyway, apart from the bad organization I’ve got my piece of pure and raw energy from some bands, but let me describe everything in order.
The first were Moscow band Reutoff. I was never big fan of their work because I haven’t seen purity in it. It was all cheap tricks and everything smelled with plagiarism and vulgarity. That’s my point of view, maybe someone is big fan of this band, but not me sorry ;) With their new program their sound changed to something more rhythmic and pop (like dark electro/rhythm noise). I couldn’t resist to think about them taking popular ideas and using them just to keep interest in them. I cannot stand that.

Next were Les Bruits Russes, which actually use another name on other gigs (The Noises of Russia, spelled in russian). Again, I cannot get the band’s idea. They generate rather nice sound, but they use female vocals and someone who reads weird instructions for medics and morgue staff. These wicked female voices and persistent reading of the instruction together with heavy noise looks and sounds pathetic for me.

The next participant was especially awaited by me. It was Deutsch Nepal. I’ve got to see Lina and other noise masters amongst the crowd long before they went to the scene. And I’ve noticed that he drunk beer non stop. And it turned that he continued drinking it on stage, smoking cig after sig. Well, the music and his vocals were very nice as usual. And video was rather good showing some grotesque figures with giant and distorted genitals. But as he started to drift into the drunkedness his vocal became more and more torn and his constant drinking was disgusting to look at. So, we decided not to look at him and continue listening to him in another part of the hall which was partitioned by some curtains from the scene part of the hall. It turned that all my friends were there because of the same reason. Indeed, that constant drinking was disgusting to look at. But still, Lina enjoyed his stay which cannot be bad ;) Afterall, he’s really cute guy even being such a drunkard ;)

Next was Proiekt Hat. I never heard this swedish project before, but heard that it was strictly cassette/vinyl underground one, so it was interesting what he was going to show. It turned to be rather nice noise/industrial with perfect video showing some industrial scenes, old caricatures showing capitalists and US military, etc. The only flaw is that it wasn’t that loud. In fact, it was very quiet. Anyway, I’ve enjoyed this project.

Next were the elders of the noise scene – The Grey Wolves. Their performance was very powerful and full of energy and hate. I liked it the most. Their video was japanese movie – Tetsuo – Iron Man, which I haven’t seen before and wich startled me by its brutality and wickedness. Along with harsch power electronics it created special atmosphere. I’d say that The Grey Wolves where the best band of the first day.

So, it was the first day. We returned home somewhere about 7am and were expecting second night with anticipation of something even more brutal.
And it turned that our expectations didn’t fail us. The next day started with someting weird. Imagine, stage was filled with people from various projects: Reutoff, Der Blutharsch and Les Bruits Russes. It turned that planned earlier performance of The Tribe of Circle with Der Blutharsch got canceled because they weren’t able to get visa for The Tribe of Circle guy. So, the spontaneous performance followed. Well, what can I say. Only 3 pieces were performed wich were weird. I can find the reason of this. Seems like people were rehearsing only one day before the gig and one cannot expect something worthwhile with such a raw program. It’s a pity because I expected to hear proper Der Blutharsch.

Next were Ritual Front – russian neofolk project which I spent being out of the scene part of the hall relaxing at the bench with my gf ;) As I heard it, Ritual Front were monotonous and very serious. Maybe they were good for the neo-folk people, but it’s not my cup o tea.

Next were the grands of industrial – Brighter Death Now. The preparations took quite some time due to some weird reasons. But the performance itself was incredible. Well, what else to expect from the leader of the CMI records and Lina Baby Doll playing together? It was brutal and weird. While we were waiting for the performance near the scene, guys from the Grey Wolves asked us to inflate some balls. We were kinda puzzled. But it turned that these balls were used by Roger Karmanik during performance. He threw them into the crowd. Just imagine, harsh noise, distorted vocals and bass guitar, and flying balls ;) It all created bizarre sence. Also I liked when Roger used to scream ‘Fuck you!’ to the crowd, and was giving mic to people for them to scream back, but the responce was rather weak, but as Roger started to spill beer bottle on the crowd, someone from the crowd emptied full bottle of the beer back on Roger. It was nice to realise that the crowd reacted back and not just silently accepted abuses. The provocation created by the music worked :) The funniest part of the BDN show was when Lina stepped on the stage being dressed with some woman’s bathrobe kind of a dress and weird white wig with two giant braids. It was also part of the BDN’s message and worked rather well ;)

Next was Con-Dom. Harsh noise from the UK. I liked this band the most. Here was pure provocation, hate and energy. I’m still under influence of this performance. I never was a big fan of the power noise, but after meeting it live I got hooked. Live power noise is something special indeed. I wish here would be more such gigs.

The next and the last participant was Hladna from StPetersburg. I’ve seen him at the other show so I was aware of what to expect. Indeed, it turned to be rather nice electro/noise. The guy used iron sheet as noise generator. He moved toys on it and it created rather loud and harsh noises. The show was rather original.

So that’s it. The fest was over somewhere about 4am and we headed home being charged by the mental energy and exhausted physically.
Afterall, the fest was good, but I think it was good because there is no alternative to compare with, which is bad… I wish it would be more industrial gigs here in Moscow. And don’t forget to check images here.

Some updates

Posted in General News on 17:50, September 15th, 2005

Gallery 2 is released at last. So I didn’t wait long and updated my old and faithful Gallery 1. I’m going to make proper color scheme and layout for it in the future so it’ll match my new site design which is also in development.

The end of summer

Posted in General News on 23:34, August 25th, 2005

Another monthly update. I’ve returned from my vacation safely. Been in Karelia again. What a beautiful place I must say, but the vacation itself was painfully short as usual. I want back there! Anyway, I’m going to move my site to wordpress engine during the coming weeks. I’ve got new silly photos to post. Actually I didn’t take pics too much this summer. That’s a shame I know. But sometimes the evil ghost of inspiration isn’t with me. I have my hopes for the autumn, that it might ignite my brains with its red colors and rainy weather.