World of Arcana

VOTING IS NOW OPEN FOR THE MASTERS OF SONG-FU COMPETITION. GO THERE NOW AND CAST-A-CAST-A-WAY YOUR VOTE FOR EAST CAROLINA.

Okay, so if the hideousness of caps lock blinds you, now would be the perfect time/week for you to head on over to Quick Stop Entertainment to vote yourself up a nice delicious piece of East Carolina in the Masters of Song-Fu competition. You’ll find us under the heading “East Carolina” and the slow-dance picture. Our theme song is called “East Carolina in the UK”, and here’s a little lyrics cheat sheet:

“East Carolina in the UK” Theme Song

A rock band from America
On their way to London town
Down on their luck, but they’ll make some some bucks
And turn their luck around

East Carolina in the UK
But they still do things like the USA
They don’t come for teatime when they’re called
They don’t think that cricket’s a sport at all

They’re playing in their band
They’re workin hard and havin fun
They’re gaining fans, across the land
And all having all sorts of zany adventures

East Carolina in the UK
But they still do things like the USA
When they were offered bangers and mash
They just threw them in the trash

But they hate the British people the most
Everyone except for Gustav Holst

East Carolina in the UK
But they still do things like the USA
Not everyone thinks their music is groovy
But they’ll kill just like in a Hollywood movie

East Carolina in the UK
But they still do things like the USA
East Carolina in the UK
But they still do things like the USA

Did I mention that you should totally go vote for us in the Masters of Song-Fu competition? Oh I did? Sorry, I must be starting to sound pretty annoying then^*. Well, here’s something to redeem myself: Just for you special special readers, here is the extended version of the theme song that was too hot to make it into the official submission. If contains 12 music-packed seconds of never-before-heard music that the band has deemed too raunchy for the official theme song. Enjoy!

“East Carolina in the UK” Theme Song (Extended Version) Download

We’ll try to get out the theme song we wrote to a completely different show, because, in all honesty, that’s going to blow your minds. Peace out.

P.S. Who’s pumped for season finale of Lost tonight? If you guessed me, you would totally be correct.

^{*Did I mention that you should also totally tell all of your friends to vote for us too?}

P.P.S. “‘Til ne’er e’er o’er ‘m lo’er ‘o co’er” is my new quote of the week, and I’ve probably used it two dozen times already.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that, as of writing this, East Carolina is in 3rd piece in the voting, with 13% of the votes (which is actually a not-too-impressive 20), so apparently we did something right/have a lot of friends.

My schedule for the ultimate week:

• TUESDAY: Attending a performance (with pre-concert lecture) of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• THURSDAY: Good Karma Cafe and Lost
• SATURDAY: Jonathan Coulton/Paul & Storm concert!
• ???: TF2 Update!

Two parts to this post:

1. Last night’s episode of Lost, for those of you who saw it, was pretty incredible. I feel like this episode is the turning point in the season - up until now, conflicts have been set up, i.e. freighter people helping the losties? (hint: no) and whether they were going to attack the barracks (hint: yes). This episode started to resolve the conflicts and answer some of the questions brought up in the first part of the season. So yea.

2. Continuing with yesterday’s post, I’m going to give a list of my favorite TF2 custom maps below:

CONTROL POINT MAPS:

• cp_jailbreak_b3 (or cp_jailbreak_b2)
• cp_orange_x (or cp_orange_x3. Not cp_orange_x4)
• cp_orange_tower
• cp_toyfort (and any variation thereof)
• cp_tron_final

CAPTURE THE FLAG:

• ctf_avantown
• ctf_convoy_v2
• ctf_royal_b3

CHALLENGE/CREATIVE MAPS:

• cp_bestinclass_v2
• cp_highclass_v2
• volleyball

BAD MAPS:

• ANY surf map

I’m currently “working” in my “spare time” on two maps: The first is a one-team capture the flag map (i.e. one team tries to capture, the other team tries to prevent) taking place in a 3D version of Kanto (i.e. The world from Pokemon red/blue/yellow). Red team starts in Pallet Town, and needs to take the intelligence from Professor Oak’s lab to Giovanni’s gym in Viridian City, where the Blue team starts. The second map I’m working on is a “challenge” map similar to Best In Class - except instead of having a separate course for each class, there is only one course per team, but certain obstacles can only be overcome with a specific class, and the whole team needs to work together. Aw, how heartwarming.

So I guess I lied, here’s a third part to the update: I was reminiscing with some friends today of literature that we read in Elementary and Middle School. Here are some recommendations/anti-recommendations:

RECOMMEND:

• The Rats of Nimh
• Bridge to Teribithea (spelling? too lazy to check)
• The Frog and Toad series

DO NOT RECOMMEND:

• Johnny Tremain
• Kavik the Wolf-Dog
• Junie of the Wolves