Breakthough - I get the point of "The Suite" now.

A while back, I had commented on the "End of the World" suite (I'm referring to my piece, just to be clear, which is on the music page), saying "There are aspects of each movement I don't like, plus, I'm still trying to decide what I actually want the sound of the suite to be as a whole." Obviously the second movement is the one that needed the most work, so I planned to re-write it first, but had ideas in general for how I'd want to redesign the first movement. Well, the other day I cracked a musical idea for it that works really well, and will expand it from the little short ditty it is into a full-blown piece in its own right. Plus, I think I'll challenge myself and actually do lyrics in it for once - it's high time I broke that ice and started writing actual songs. Plus, it's kind of important for the re-working I had in mind - from a love piece to a more remorseful one, dealing with acceptance and moving forwards. It's more powerful and more meaningful a theme, especially for me to be able to connect with (for reasons that should be obvious).

SITE REDESIGN!!

Hey guys,

You're looking at the first major site redesign of Maurus' Lair!
Why, you might ask, did I perform such an update?
Well, unnamed individual, a couple of different reasons:
One - I got Dropbox, which made hosting my music using box.net and its embedded media player now seem silly.
Two - Helping my mother with her final project - she had to create a multimedia-based web report, and based on my experiences with Blogger, I thought it'd be the perfect thing for her - made me realize that my blogspot theme had by this point become very passé. Having gained a year's worth of HTML practice designing TCT and OTF's forums, I realized this simply would not do and got to work designing a new appearance for the site.
So I went ahead and gutted everything - the new design is cleaner and more organized.
The biggest changes, of course, have been to the music page, which has been completely redesigned and features loads of new pieces I didn't post to the site before. You should definitely go check it out.

If you're reading this from Facebook, check out my website (and my music!) at http://mauruslair.blogspot.com/p/home.html.

Peace out everyone!

Music is Awesome and Stuff

Hey guys, been a while since my last update (but then again isn't it always?).
I want to announce some new updates I've made to the music section on the blog.
More after the jump!

The absolutely definitive guide to the Zelda Timeline

Seriously. It's a lot simpler than people think, and yet, people don't seem to get it.
Let's start with the basics.
Here are the games we're dealing with:
LOZ, AOL, ALTTP, LA, OOT, MM, OOA/OOS, FS, WW, FSA, MC, TP, PH, ST.
Excluding SS obviously cuz we don't know anything about it yet.

The blog is back!

That's right guys,
I've finally managed to move the ol' blog. After my MobileMe account got deactivated, I long considered getting a new one, but never really got around to it. Once I realized how convenient Blogger was, though, I  went ahead and copied all my old posts and their relevant dates into this new blog.

Hey party people in the place to be.

Huh. Does that mean I can’t use that as a title anymore?
Anyways, for those of you who may be reading this on Facebook, this is actually my personal blog on my website (link on my profile) which I’ve synced up with FB so that every time I post a new blog entry it is brought up as a note. It’s a cool feature.
Anyways, hi.

March Already?

March Madness

Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!

So, March came, and I went. To get Brawl. XD
And it’s been fun. The only thing that makes me sad is that the stage creator is as limited as it is. I was hoping it would allow people to essentially create a remake of the original “Hyrule Castle” stage, but that’s not possible since the stage builder only supports single layers.