That Which is Known

If you ever are in an area of absolute quiet, still your breathing and move not a muscle. After a few seconds, you will notice that the silence has a sort of "sound" of its own, a kind of empty ringing tone. This is nothing unique; everyone will hear this, given the proper setting. An informed person will tell you that your brain is trying to interpret the lack of stimuli to your hearing and so creates a bit of a filler sound. This ringing sound actually serves a more arcane purpose, covering up a noise we are not meant to hear. This noise is not impossible to hear, and if you are persistent you can effectively "break" the cover-up sound.

The next time you are silent and hear the ringing, shout at the top of your lungs for about half a minute, then be abruptly silent. It will be different for everyone. Some will hear nothing different for dozens of tries. Others might pick up soft murmuring. A special few auditory heroes might clearly make it out on the first attempt. What you will hear is a voice that relays an account of events about to happen in the immediate future. It's like a sportscaster relaying the events occurring 10 seconds into the future.
- Internet-born Creepypasta: The Voice

This is a movie review of sorts for Knowing. I say of sorts because I'm not a movie critic, and it's rare that I talk down about a movie. This is simply because I don't generally watch movies that don't seem interesting to me, I only watch movies that I will like. A growing number of these become Nicholas Cage movies, as he becomes one of my favorite actors. But what I'm going to go into here is the story.

The apocalypse story is about a piece of paper covered with numbers, buried in an elementary school time capsure 50 years prior, which had predicted on it every major disaster after that day. As Cage wonders over the numbers, Cage's son starts seeing people, dubbed the "whisper people". The Voice continues as follows:

As time goes on, you will be able to make out this voice under increasingly noisy circumstances, to the point that it can be heard at any time by just concentrating. Such ability would doubtlessly be invaluable, no? You will be able react to any immediate danger, relate to people around you with greater ease. No one would ever surprise you. Now, of course you are wondering what sort of horrible catch this ability entails. Perhaps the tone of the voice is so horrible that it will drive you mad, or maybe the voice will only predict your death over and over again.

Of course this isn't the case, though, it’s a normal voice, your ears receive it no matter what, and it’s simply a matter of noticing. But there is a danger. For you see, where there is a voice, there is a body. And just like you will notice new sounds, so shall you notice new sights. More importantly, you will be noticed. 

I had thought this was one of the Easter Eggs from The King of Wolves, but it wasn't, so I had to take some time to find somewhere this was referenced besides saved posts from forums. But as soon as they stated talking about the whisper people, this short came to mind. It was at least over a year ago since I first read this story, I would think this would be on the internet for a lot longer. I would almost place this anonymous story from the internet as partial inspiration for this story, but who knows.

Anyway, back to the movie, I very much enjoyed it. It's a lot more real, a lot more bitter, then most "apocalypse" movies, with an ending you wouldn't expect from general Hollywood. Definately a movie I plan on buying as soon as it comes out.

Plug and Play

Neon Genesis Evangelion. Battle Royale. The Path. Dokapon Kingdom. Very much unrelated to each other. Yet there is no border, no distinction, in the realm of the subconcious. Where one would not combine normally, the mind is free to combine, mix and match, and do whatever it feels. The subconcious has no limits, no regulation, and the path it may take you would never expect. I do not remember the details of the dreams of the two nights resulting from these, but they certainly were complex.

Original Content

So I've got a second part up for that story now, accessible on the left. I might get one more out this week, then set it aside for a while before doing some more work on it.

Its rather refreshing, actually, to work on a new story. Nothing is already set, everything is free and open. I can do whatever I want, define whatever rules I see fit, completely ignoring anything else I have defined anywhere else. New characters, new world, a completely uncharted, undefined path, just waiting to go wherever the wills of imagination will go.

Red Ice

Okay, now I think I have everything stable in my configuration, and all my templates are uniform. Everything seems to be moving smooth, so time to roll forward. I'll have to clean up some of the older entries, because of glitches converting the language-specific entries to UTF, but that is something that I will deal with later.

With the new functions I can now post what PivotX calls "Pages", or simply static information that doesn't roll with the blog. This comes very handy, especially for a writing blog like this, because it allows me to then just put whatever I feel like on the site. So to start it off, I have put up the first part of a new story I started the other day, Red Ice.

To introduce it, this story is the prequel to a game I have been working on for handhelds on and off over the last year or so. The name comes from that game's projet codename, Project Red Ice. I haven't really been able to come up with anything better at the moment, so I figured I might as well just stick it here, since it is effectively nameless until I come up with a proper name for that game.

Template Trouble

Now I've updated the site to PivotX. However, some things are not acting the same way as they were in my test environment. I'm not sure what is going on, exactly, and I'll have to figure it out later. One everything's cleaned up, though, and running properly, I'm going to start with the new Pages function to post the first part of the new story I'm working on.