Especially when they took a couple of my offered arrangements to post... There's nothing more heartening to a composer getting started than a connoisseur listening to what you've created and saying, "Hey, I like that. It's pretty good. I think other people should hear this, too!"
That was a couple of years ago now, and I've done several projects since then. Gotten a lot better, and learned to fix the minor errors cropping up in those early midi files. (What? You mean I have to initialize the volume in ALL the tracks?)
I grew up playing Sierra games, and Mark Siebert et al. have given me a lot of inspiration for what I write, as well. Hours listening to looping midi themes really give you a taste for how to fit a mobius track together. I'm still glad somebody is keeping alive all the music I loved. I even bought the CD, some of us actually think it's worth a little money to hear it again as it was intended... Rolands weren't cheap then, and they aren't cheap now.
No, you don't have to call someone a Satanist. However, the parallels between Crowley (As close to a Satanist as you'll ever find without actually taking the name directly) and Heinlein are fairly strong.
Read some of Crowley's literature where he delves into social relationships, and you might find the same thing that the latter third of Stranger in a Strange Land espouses. "Free Love," loss of individuality in favour of community, and complete gender equality while keeping distinction are all there.
I've known many who would, and have, called Heinlein a 'De Facto Satanist,' not as an insult, but just as a matter of philosophies. Can't say as I'd agree, but it's close enough to see without a telescope.
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I grew up playing Sierra games, and Mark Siebert et al. have given me a lot of inspiration for what I write, as well. Hours listening to looping midi themes really give you a taste for how to fit a mobius track together. I'm still glad somebody is keeping alive all the music I loved. I even bought the CD, some of us actually think it's worth a little money to hear it again as it was intended... Rolands weren't cheap then, and they aren't cheap now.
No, you don't have to call someone a Satanist. However, the parallels between Crowley (As close to a Satanist as you'll ever find without actually taking the name directly) and Heinlein are fairly strong. Read some of Crowley's literature where he delves into social relationships, and you might find the same thing that the latter third of Stranger in a Strange Land espouses. "Free Love," loss of individuality in favour of community, and complete gender equality while keeping distinction are all there. I've known many who would, and have, called Heinlein a 'De Facto Satanist,' not as an insult, but just as a matter of philosophies. Can't say as I'd agree, but it's close enough to see without a telescope.