Archive for December, 2008

RandomPlaylist: The woman in question trades refuge for money

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RandomPlaylist is a showcase for music I’ve just discovered, obscure songs you might not have heard before, or just good songs that I think everyone should listen to.

“When I was born, the world was a far simpler place.  It was all just…cops and robbers.”

Suddenly, there’s a loud bang.  A heist.  The narration continues:

“But it wasn’t for me.”

Then the 60′s, and the history of the drug movement.   Then he steps into the frame, our Narrator.  Daniel Craig, well before he was James Bond, but looking every bit as cool.  He breaks his business down for us — he’s not a gangster, mind you, he’s a More >

Christmas demands from a would-be dictator

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If I were in charge of everything (and I should be), these are the rules that I would impose upon this joyous season that is upon us:

  • No retail store shall display nor market Christmas decorations or so-called “seasonal merchandise” until the week of Thanksgiving.
  • No Christmas music shall be publicly exhibited except between Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) and December 26th annually.  During those sanctioned times, public exhibition shall be proportionally limited to a to-be-determined ratio of Christmas to non-Christmas music, increasing in amount until the week of Christmas, when More >

A video game has never made you cry…but neither has a film or book

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Video game blog Kotaku linked to an argument-provoking article on ihobo this weekend that makes the bold claim that a game has never made anyone cry.  Well, not in and of itself.  The author writes:

This is the nub of the issue here: a story can make you cry by empathising with the protagonist (or another character), but a game (when viewed as a formal system) cannot do this. It follows that the only way that a videogame can make you cry is by using narrative tools that have nothing to do with games as formal systems whatsoever. So even though, for instance, many people report that they cried More >

RandomPlaylist: Crying clowns are no fun

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RandomPlaylist is a showcase for music I’ve just discovered, obscure songs you might not have heard before, or just good songs that I think everyone should listen to.

Seeing as how I’m a child of the 80′s, and I didn’t even really start paying attention to music until I was in my teens in the 90′s, I think it’s completely excusable that I’m only just now beginning to discover how great music from the 60′s is. So, to kick-off the RandomPlaylist feature, I’m starting with my most recent discovery: a song I swear I had never heard before happening across an oldies station in a strange, More >

 

Pretty sure I know why they fired Jeph Loeb from Heroes

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Dude, even I can't figure out what's going on this season

There’s been a phrase that I’ve been repeating over and over the past couple of weeks while watching Heroes on NBC.  And that phrase pretty much goes like this:

“…the fuck?!?”

This season didn’t start out that bad.  Not nearly as strong as the first season — which was damn good television up until the last five minutes — but at least as good as the second season, which was still watchable, if not excellent.  Then, things started to happen.

“Seriously…the fuck?!?”

Here be SPOILERS if you aren’t caught up to last week’s episode, “The More >

Guess I’m going to have to buy Aliens again…

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Black Friday last week was kind to me, as I was able to acquire a Sony BDP-S350 Blu-Ray player greatly discounted.  I was quite unimpressed with my first shopping experience at Conn’s, however, which is like an electronics store staffed entirely with the pathetic salesmen from Glengarry Glenn Ross.  A trip to Fry’s netted me a high-quality OEM HDMI cable for $7 and a 45 minute wait in line, and Best Buy’s sales graced me with BD’s of Pixar’s Cars and 300 - about opposite ends of the spectrum as far as family friendliness is concerned, but both great movies and excellent showcase discs.

My More >

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