ABOUT THE AUTHOR+
I have decided to take my blog of a few years and actually transition it into being my main website anyway.. AGAIN! This way, since blogger has been around since 2003, I can have faith in it staying here for a long time and not have to worry about it. I also, and primarily for this reason, chose a blogsite over a traditional hand-coded website because no matter what I tried, nothing would auto-refresh. This would mean you would have to manually refresh each page and all of the frames within it for things to reflect change. Also images wouldn't refresh and needed renamed every single time they were altered and re-uploaded. Neocities has been getting better with this, but also, this is so much easier to put together, make clean, and have it all match.
My real name is Jerry Lehr. I go by dybbuk81 on various forums like doomworld and in doom games like zdaemon, and it is my steam handle. I am a musician, doomer, and computer geek. By day I am a postal worker doing fun shit like this. I am mostly known as the guy doing the main large part of the Project Warlock OST, with high school friend Luke Wilson helping with the main theme, hell theme, and doing the hub music. There is a full section of this website devoted to this and its sequel, as well as my soundtrack. There are also links to various platforms and reviews. Speaking of the post office, I have been promoted from worker to supervisor to Processing Support, where I hope to stay. I love this department and it suits me well I feel.
I also have hundreds of other tracks on the music and merch portion of this website. My instrumental stuff ranges with mood and weird genre. I have "guitar-led stuff" (known as the noise vaults releases) and "mostly-synth stuff" (known as the absynthium collective). Serious vocals are at the moment only available on what was meant to be (and was highly appreciated) a thoughtful gift for my wife. My site also has game-related goods. I have old doom levels I'm ashamed of that I feel like I should publically still share for the awesomeness that humiliation can provide. Plus oh well. The newer stuff is better, and I am soundtracking a lot of personal game and mod design projects as well. I think soundtracking and background music are more my thing then being in front of the curtain, as I prefer to be standing behind the scenes. This was my dream since I played Doom. Not being in a band. I really don't have much to sing about anyway.
Personal Photos:
MY WIFE AND I
Formerly I was obsessed with older computer media:
MAGNETIC MEDIA OBSESSION
OPTICAL MEDIA OBSESSION (I still have SOME)
FLASH DRIVE OBSESSION (Not exactly old, but I had a lot)
* I must confess that fortunately/unfortunately I do not own a cesspool of media anymore. All has been completely condensed and converted into four 4TB External drives.
Except I do still own all of these and more doom collector's memorabilia:
DOOM DISC COLLECTION
as well as all my studio backups that are also on external hard drives, are on optical media in case the hard drives fail. I'm not parting with this stuff!
MY FAVORITE THINGS
Favorite bands and artists of mine include:
I honestly have all sorts of inspirations and influences when I experiment with my melodies & sounds.
ALSO FAVORITE GAMES
Design and ride roller coasters. 1994 by Disney Imagineering. It wasn't the best of the genre, but probably the first, and the one I played the longest by a longshot.
a 2D weird adventure where you can create your own levels. There were a couple other american made nintendo games I liked, such as Pyramid and Krazy Kreatures.
Corncob 3-D was my favorite MS-DOS flight simulator and had combat missions
Epic pinball is probably the only pinball game I have ever played for a long duration of time.
Four levels of mayhem on the Atari 2600!! W00T! All 4 levels are completely different also.
Phoenix is a multi-level space shooter for Atari 2600. 5 to be exact! Three different types.
The Ultimate doom. 4 episodes of doom now. Let the obsession begin!
The 3-D shooter before doom that started the craze! flat levels and 16 colors!!
By David P. Gray, creator of the Hugo trilogy. I actually liked this more than doom at first!
Ever since the discovery of that magazine that explained the warp whistles, I was hooked!
Me and my younger brother used to play the holy hell out of this game. This, other than doom 64 and mario 64 itself, was my actual favorite Nintendo 64 game. You could race in cars, boats, or planes!
This was my favorite racing game for Super nintendo, with mario kart actually second. This futuristic racing game had a lot going for it to make it a lot more fun!
MY LINKS REPOSITORY
Man, i love the musics of the game Project Warlock! Antarctic - The Frost is the best!
ReplyDeleteThat was one of my favorites before I even knew I was going to do a soundtrack for Warlock! Its original form dates to 2005 ;)
DeleteThe trick to getting around those problems you described when making a hand coded web page is to make the page locally on your computer, optionally using a dev server, instead of updating it live on the Internet (like on neocities).
ReplyDeleteI do think focusing on this blog isn't a bad idea though because it's a pretty good layout and comfortable to read.
I think that I like all that you said. Also, I like the ease of editing also, so I think I'm back here to stay.
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