When you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that I startet to smoke again last week. This is because of a girl that just makes me nervous. I fell in love with her and I even managed to get a date with her. This date is tomorrow. But I know it since beginning of last week so every day I waited I got more nervous. I was so nervous that I asked my collegues for cigarettes more and more and eventually bought my first pack of cigarettes since years. So I smoked my way along the last week and then I noticed how stupid it was. So I used my patented „MM 2 Step Stop Smoking Methode“:
First Step: Start Smoking!
Second Step: Stop Smoking
That’s it basically! I just stopped. I only had one cigarette left yesterday morning so I smoked it before work. That was all. I just stopped. I feels like I have never smoked before. I can even stand sitting next to a smoking person. No problem. Of course it was hard to stop the first time… in Summer 2008. But I had smoked for 4 years before that. This time I „only“ smoked about a week. It is expensive, unhealthy. IT STINKS!!! Nobody likes the smell of smokers, not even other smokers. Weird, but fact!
Well anyways, I‘m happy that I made to stop. But everybody adviced me to. Greets to Motone, Bianca, Reyya and Silja that all said that it is nuts to smoke and they were right! Thanks to you boys and girls! Ok, the date is tomorrow and I‘m still VERY nervous. She’s working in the same company but in another department so I see her quite often. It makes my heart jump a little bit everytime I see her face. And I will meet her in a few minutes, „by accident“ of course
What Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are wordwide, Fix & Foxi are in Germany. Quite popular comic characters with a long history. I never was into Fix & Foxi that much but I knew that they had stopped releasing a regular comic magazine. So I was very surprised seeing a new issue of it in the super market the other day. I thought this new #1 was a good chance to step into the world of Fix & Foxi and it was only 2.95 Euro so I bought it.
I think it is best to compare this magazine to its biggest competitor the German „Micky Maus Magazin“ (MMM). The MMM always contains several stories and one continued story. There are also some pages with jokes, funny facts and tips for videogames, TV-series, DVDs a.s.o. Then there is always a gimmick. A little toy, most of the time very useless stuff which says „batteries not included“ on the front page. The comics are from Denmark, Italy or even the Netherlands. But I found out that some of my favorite artists only draw many many 4-rows-stories (in the monthly LTB there are only the 3-row-stories). So buying a MMM is good when you want a new Vicar story.
Now to the „Fix & Foxi Magazin“ (F&FM). The comics suck. In this issue there were 2 stories. Quite uninspired. Boring… I even felt like I read one of the stories years ago when I was in the waiting room of the physician. I never liked the characters of F&F very much. Additionally the texters tried to make the speech a bit younger and they even used some curse words on Lupo, the nice and always losing villian of the universe. I don‘t think that fits to a comic magazine which target group is about 8 – 12 years old. When I had kids, I don‘t think I would like comics in which the characters curse on each other. The F&FM contains a big magazine part that always cares about a certain topic. This time the topic was the deep sea. I think I would like it when I was 10, but I ain‘t so I hate it! But I am not part of the target group so it doesn‘t count. The F&FM also brings a gimmick. In this issue it is a small gummie-sting-ray. That’s OK I guess.
The most interesting thing is, that you can get ALL the 1500 old issues online. Of course you have to pay for it. Unfortunatly the team seems to be unsure if it is 4 Euros per month or 5 Euros per issue. I saw both prieces (for the same offer) on two pages directly next to each other. Quite confusing. But the idea is great. It is only digital. But you can dowload them in PDF format or as an eBook. But ehapa that releases the MMM will never come up with this concept cause they earn thousands of Euros with reprints of popular artist’s comics. For everybody that doesn‘t like Mickey Mouse at all we even have the „Donald Duck Sonderheft“ (DDSH) that only contains reprints and first-releases of Duck-stories. Don Rosa himself says that the DDSH is the best European printed Disney publication. And Don Rosa cares a lot about printed publications!
I think if I was a hardcore F&F fan or maybe only as much a F&F fan as I am a Donald Duck fan I would be a little bit ashamed of this magazine. Maybe this magazine needs a little more time to evolve. I won‘t buy it another time.
On the British Nintendo site there is an interview series in which Iwata-san himself makes interesting round tables about all sorts of Nintendo topics and games. In one of the latest round tables these Japanese guys are talking about the handhelod episodes of „The Legend Of Zelda“. It is really worth reading because they reveal a lot of awesome facts.
Seems that „Link’s Awakening“ was more like an afterwork project besides the regular work. And so they didn‘t took it as serious as other Zelda-games before. I mean „Link’s Awakening“ contains a lot of stuff that is quite untypical for the Zelda-serie as such as enemies like Goombas, Piranha Plants and even Kirby! Yes, Kirby appears as an enemy in one temple. Besides those facts they revealed interesting artworks for the very first NES Zelda „The Legend Of Zelda“.
The one I find most interesting is the overworld map.
Compare it to the original game map and you‘ll see that they put a lot of time planning the game.
[CLICKTOENLARGERONI]
After all „Link’s Awakening“ is a masterpiece. I‘m currently playing the Gameboy Color version of it that even contains an extra temple that builds up on changing the color of Link. Still I think that Nintendo puts a lot of energy to make every Zelda-episode the best possible game todate. Even though I haven‘t played any of the DS Zeldas I think that they must be great. Even if many gamers think riding a train to be the most stupid thing ever appeared in a videogame.
Follow the little red UFO!
PS: Look, Daiki Iwamoto seems to have been in a bad mood when he talked with Aonuma-san and Iwata-san about „Spirit Tracks“: [IWAMOTORONI]. This truly is a photo for the category: „Days I did not want to leave my bed!“ But I can‘t help, sometimes Japanese look like anime characters. I love them though.
Yesterday I was interviewed by Robert Glashüttner. He is currently writing his bacherlor dissertation. His topic is „changing of chiptunes in transition from a technical restriction to an aesthetically dominated music genre“. Sounds complicated. And it actually was. The interview was a lot different to the one I gave to Thomas Dörflinger from bitte8bit last year. I really had to think back all the years I am active in this scene. And during this interview I noticed myself how much this scene changed in the past few years. I mean, I started in 2005. This October I‘m celebrating my 5th anniversary of beeing a chipmusic artist.
I met Robert the first time last summer on the „micromusic get together“ in Berlin. He saw my performance and liked it a lot. I asked him which other artists he interviewed. Besides me he interviewed David Sugar, some people from the Austrian Gameboy Music Club and Thomas Dörflinger from bitte8bit. I was the only German chip-artist he interviewed which honored me a lot!!!
I hope this dissertation gets released as a book. He told me I would receive a copy in PDF format but I don‘t think that this document is meant to be public in first place. There was a dissertation about chipmusic some years ago that was released in book form… I have to look it up.
I disabled registering as a member on my blog. Nobody ever wrote any comment or anything else. And when somebody registered many email adresses were from Russian servers (which doesn‘t mean Russian always do harmful things on the internet) or nicks like „arschfi**en“ (assf**king) or things like this. Really annoying. You can still write comments without registering and I really hope you do so. But please use your normal nickname and a valid email adresse so that I can reply to you Also have a look on the posts again after you commented. I often reply to comments by another comment
I‘m thinking of making a „answering all reader’s mail“-day but the amount of reader’s reactions is still quite low. So if you liked a post, or even disliked it, please comment it and tell what I can improve or tell me your opinion. I‘m always pro debating as long as it is constructive and calm (greetz to Svenja Meinusch ).
I like it when girls play videogames and dress up like videogame characters. I once visited an anime convention and I saw a lot of sexy girls in those hot anime and videogame outfits… I always wanted to dress up like Boo from DragonballZ because I already bring the physics. But pink is not really my color…
Sometime last year I applied to be a guest host of the German Doctor Who fanpodcast called „Whocast“. And I won. This means I will receive a DVD of a classic episode of Doctor Who. I have to watch it, then I have to write a critic and tell what I liked and disliked. I‘m looking forward to seeing Düsseldorf again. I haven‘t been there since Sandy (a former lady band mate) has left Germany to work in the US of A. Let it be like 2 or 3 years. Last time I saw Sandy was when she visited her father who lives in my hometown. I miss her and Düsseldorf will remind me to this.
Anyways I will post the show as soon as it is online.
Tom Preston is an artist that I found some months ago. He draws videogame related comics and caricatures. I already featured one artwork some days ago and today I wanna show you some more of his stuff. First of all he draws great artworks showing classic videogame characters. Then he has an unregular comic series called „Danny and Spot Wii Fun“ that reminds me a lot of Calvin and Hobbes:
You can find all of his stuff on his Screwattack account: SCREWATTACKARONI.
On the British Nintendo site there is an 
Yesterday I was interviewed by Robert Glashüttner. He is currently writing his bacherlor dissertation. His topic is „changing of chiptunes in transition from a technical restriction to an aesthetically dominated music genre“. Sounds complicated. And it actually was. The interview was a lot different to the one I gave to Thomas Dörflinger from bitte8bit last year. I really had to think back all the years I am active in this scene. And during this interview I noticed myself how much this scene changed in the past few years. I mean, I started in 2005. This October I‘m celebrating my 5th anniversary of beeing a chipmusic artist.
Also have a look on the posts again after you commented. I often reply to comments by another comment 
Tom Preston is an artist that I found some months ago. He draws videogame related comics and caricatures. I already featured one artwork some days ago and today I wanna show you some more of his stuff. First of all he draws great artworks showing classic videogame characters. Then he has an unregular comic series called „Danny and Spot Wii Fun“ that reminds me a lot of Calvin and Hobbes:
