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June 2024 Greetings: Still Currently Dealing With A Lot Of "Turbulence", But Still Fighting Through It

Posted by Merit Celaire on Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 06:02 PM

My gosh, I can't believe that this literally slipped my mind ever since we started this month of June (which also officially starts the "summer months period")! Once again, my very sincere apologies about this situation, but as this blog entry's title states, I'm fighting through this on the frontend and the backend... slowly.

Of course, the main culprit behind this has already been elaborated on via this previous post; the top priority for me this month is still to get a much clearer mind during the course of this coming weekend (and next work week itself) to get this "anniversary statement document" for 2024 written up and posted for this site before I review our situations here for these music operations as a whole and decide on the next steps to take. Once again, I do have an idea on what stuff needs to be addressed/shared on the upcoming document itself, it's just trying to see about finding that space on my schedule to get this writing process itself for it underway. I even hoped to see about starting to do it during the course of tomorrow, but I've got work obligations to deal with during that time.

As stated earlier, after I finally see about getting that document itself written up and posted, I can see about rechecking my planbook for this year's "summer months period" to see what I can attempt to take care of and clear a super nagging backlog (not to mention that I still need to see according to our "Music Arrangements Progress Page" what we need to see about taking off that backlog next!) staring at me in the face for God knows how long.

Which also brings me to this other thing to conclude this "formal monthly greetings entry" which once again addresses the "extreme amount of turbulence" that yours truly has been facing within these operations and outside of them ever since earlier this year; although I'll elaborate more on this further in our upcoming "anniversary statement document for 2024", I have no doubt deep in my conscience that especially as of late, there has been a bunch of "extreme adversarial forces" that have been relentlessly trying to "brutally wreck" this dedicated Super Mario videogame series enthusiast with a God-given musical talent in hopes to put me in "super depression mode" to virtually knock me out of existence and shut me up. If I let them win on that, I'll be letting myself down even further and these music operations that I've been maintaining for almost fifteen years will be all for nothing. But I also know that as I'll also state in the upcoming "anniversary ststement document" itself, we've run into very critical clues that the "audience environments" and "interactive community environments" have literally been changing all over the Internet, and it's gotten to the level of "great concern" for yours truly (and I believe should also be the level of concern for all videogame music enthusiasts everywhere). You'll find out what I mean when I get the anniversary statement document itself done in due time, so stay tuned.

Until then, as always, if you have any further questions in relation to what has been shared in this post itself, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me via this form so I can get back to you on it in a timely fashion. Until then, take care for now, and I'll see you awesome people next time around. I'm gone.

Famed Videogame Music Composer Geoff Follin Passes Away At Age 54

Posted by Merit Celaire on Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 01:00 PM

Good afternoon, friends; unfortunately, this wasn't the way that I wanted to actually start out this brand new month of June (our actual "formal monthly greetings blog entry" for June will be written up and posted during the course of next week itself). But this definitely needed to be written up for the course of today regarding some very sad news that we've received yesterday that has in no doubt impacted the videogame music fan community at large which includes yours truly as well.

Yesterday, we have received sad news that famed videogame music composer Geoff Follin passed away and went to be with the Lord at the age of 54. As many of you might already know related to our music operations as a whole here (and/or have seen from this respective Acknowledgement list), Geoff Follin was one of the folks responsible for creating the musical scores for Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (LJN/Software Creations) as well as Plok (Tradewest/Software Creations), along with his brother Tim Follin. For my Super Nintendo music styled covers of modern Super Mario game tunes overall, the two aforementioned instrument sets from the Follins have been used many, many times because make no mistake, they were that iconic, along with their respective musical scores for them (as of the date and time of this posting: 86 times for the Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge instrument set, 23 times for the Plok instrument set).

But back to the main point: the official confirmation of Geoff Follin's passing came from his brother, Tim, via a posting on Facebook (which also discloses the cause of Geoff's passing):

"Music File Statistics" Rankings Document Updated as of 5/31/2024

Posted by Merit Celaire on Friday, May 31, 2024 - 11:57 PM

Managed to see about taking care of this earlier this afternoon but only snagged the chance to give you all a heads-up about this tonight before this month of May is offiicially in the history books - the "Music File Statistics Rankings Document" was updated to reflect the recent activity that was originally announced when we implemented the game page housing the Super Nintendo music styled arrangement covers targeting the score of Princess Peach: Showtime! 

Additionally, because of this, after a little over one year since writing noteworthy articles for this section of the site, the newest one has been written up and posted to also give more details about the recent update to the document and how our Super Nintendo music styled arrangement cover efforts focused on songs from the same Princess Peach: Showtime! game are already starting to make an impact and make its presence known. The newest article in question can be read here to get further details.

And that's all for now; as always, if you have any further questions for me regarding this latest announcement itself, please don't hesitate to let me know as soon as possible so I can get back to you in a timely manner after review. Take care for now, and I'll see you awesome people again in June. I'm gone.

Slight Delay on the Upcoming "Anniversary Statement Document (2024)" / Song Candidate Searching Underway Related To "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door" (Nintendo Switch Version)

Posted by Merit Celaire on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 06:27 PM

Good evening, friends; snagging the chance at this time to touch bases with you faithful friends/followers of these music operations as a whole. There are two quick announcement tidbits that I need to share with you all as we're closing in on putting this month of May in the history books in just a few days from now.

(1) Slight Delay on the "Anniversary Statement" for 2024
First, I still haven't forgotten about getting to deal with writing this and crossing it off my to-do list on the planbook backend; the problem is that real life circumstances outside of these operations have been trying to wreck me like heck, and this month itself has been no different (details shall still remain undisclosed). This brings me to the announcement itself that although it pains me to even say this, but although I was hoping to have gotten this done before months end, real life circumstances and fate in general said otherwise - it has been pushed back to hopefully the course of next month's first half in June. With that said, I still have a very clear idea in terms of what needs to be shared for the upcoming document in question and hope to at least get the writing process started in the next few days. It is still also clear for my planbook that we still need to get this statement document itself out of the way before we see about planning for the upcoming "summer months period" for these music operations as a whole and what to deal with next after this is said and done. I really do apologize for the delay on this and thank you all in advance for understanding the situation. Rest assured, this is still a "high priority" for yours truly at this time before proceeding to do anything else in the upcoming "summer months" (and also before the supposedly planned "Nintendo Direct" presentation hinted at from Nintendo Japan HQ a few weeks back). Stay tuned.

(2) Song Candidate Searching Underway Related To "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door" (Nintendo Switch Version)
As what was stated via this post a few days ago, there are hopes that during the course of the next few months we can start the process of finding song candidates targeting the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door to do Super Nintendo music styled arrangement candidates for. I've been getting a few leads from my sources regarding this and although I haven't made any final decisions yet on what songs to focus on first in the months to come, I can give this one hint: sounds like it's going to have me do that certain "approach" like all those Super Nintendo music styled arrangement covers that I did so far from two to three years ago involving the still super addictive score of Paper Mario: The Origami King. In the meantime, I'm now accepting song candidate suggestions from you all via this respective form in regards to what songs from the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door you hope will hit my planbook to do Super Nintendo music styled arrangement covers for in the months to come. Just remember to ensure that you've mentioned the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door title itself in question 2B along with the song candidates(s) in question you're trying to send my direction (since we obviously don't have a game page for it on our site at this time).

I know that's a lot to digest in terms of this overall announcement, but yours truly is still determined to pull through, especially as we prepare to get into the "summer months period" in just a few days from now. Thanks once again for your understanding of these above mentioned situations and if you have any further questions on what has been shared here, please don't hesitate to send an email inquiry my direction. See you awesome people later.

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