Ranting of a Sorta Madman

More than Meets the Trailer

2006-07-02T19:38:00.000-07:00

Alright folks after the 80s have made such an impact on that lifestyles, cultures, and millions of other things. From that came thoughts of how movies should be made, the way people want to live their lives and about a 1000 other ideas. Of these the people of my generation have claimed certain things as our personal spae, you invade them without knowing certain things we will rip you to shreds without a second thought. One of these illustrious things are the Tranformers, those robotic renagades who are more than meets the eye.

For those of you who DONT know here is the short backstory. Born and breed on Cybertron the race of transformers has become split into 2 seperate factions, the Decyptacons and the Autobots. In a scheme to try and end the war some of the higher ranking Decyptacons fly off into space to find a larger supply of the energy source of their world, Energon. Catching wind of the plan the Autobot leaders, specifically their ultimate leader Optimus Prime, set out to stop it. During the ensuing battle the autobots and decyptacons fall to earth during its primitive time and reawaken around the early to mid 90s. With the technology at their desposal the 2 factions copy and transform into these everyday items and pervert their orignal functions so they can use them as weapons to finish this war.

But in truth the war never really ends and the movie will recap what actually happened and how the autobots are the heros that they are. So the trailer can be found here. Enjoy it all and know that if they screw up one person, specifically soundwave, megatron, hot rod, or optimus prime ill personally create a transformer just to destroy that movie studio.

The Ready Smile

2006-06-14T19:25:00.000-07:00

You know i got some sorta crappy news today that i have to move out of my kick ass apt to not bigger or better digs in less than 5 days. Now how do you suddenly realize that you no longer can live in your place and move in 5 days, its complicated but it happens. Its times like this that I try to remember the good things in my life. My friends, family, and those few things that make me smile bigger than anything else. When those are needed i always swing over to Sargeworld.com the internet nest of one of the coolest people ive ever talked to, Internet's Martin Sargent.

Of course i mention this cuz he mentioned me, thats right the Sarge and i have crossed pathes on this crazy road of life when he did episdoe 8 of dear blog with me and zack. And of course he was nice enough to mention it on his site, right HERE actually. It just always makes me smile.

My E3 Wrap UP

2006-05-16T10:32:00.000-07:00

E3 wrapped up last week and though every single person on the planet is rolling out their opinion and whatever else they can say to make their point. So here is mine.

1) Gear of War: only three words descirbe this game OH MY GOD. This game is beautiful, scary, gruesome, and insanly fun looking all at the same time. Not to mention I might jump back aboard the X-Box bandwagon just for this game. Not Halo 3, not DoA 4, not anything in their line up just this game.

2) Halo 3: Ok I might have lied because I have finished the other two installments and I really want to finish this fight. Halo 2 did leave me with a bit of a let down feeling at the end. Seriously unless you stuck around after the credits to see what Cortana was up to then you REALLY were disapointed. Just when you hit the highlight of the game, the best part, they cut you off. Its like a good drug gone HORRIBLY wrong.

3) Duck Hunt 2: Thats right the dog is back laugh and all not to mention with the stylish Wii controler making shooting the ducks that much easier.

4) Super Smash Brothers Brawl: Ok there are some lame character, like oh say metaknight from the Kirby series. However I have wanted to see Kid Icaris from his sereis make a come back, his games were a little cool and they way they powered him up with his bow becoming 2 swords is awesome. Oh did i forget to mention the best part of the whole thing Solid Snake. Thats right uninformed masses Soild Snake is now a playable character in Super Smash Brothers. Prepare for some insane moves.

5) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Nuff said, i mean seriously if you love the series youll love this game, if not you wont.

The Lighter side of Gwen Stephani

2006-04-30T15:20:00.000-07:00

Well technically its not about the former No Dobut front girl its something much more fun. Random interent searches sometimes reveals some incredible stuff. All I really want to show off is this. Its funny, its random, and its smart. I mean comon think about it.

People need to lighten up

2006-04-28T20:11:00.000-07:00

So a friend sent me a video that at first i thought was funny then i watched it a few more times, cuz you know if its funny you can always watch it again and laugh. The bad part this isnt as funny the second or third time around you start to listen to what the guy is saying. Now keep in mind that the guy in the is video in the Texas A&M shirt is the victim and obviously had something very large and painful crawl up his ass and stay there for a prolonged period of time. Now the disclaimer did lead me to believe hie is also the guy who travled to DC but that doesnt give him an excuse to go off like this.

Before i go on watch the video.

Ok if your done watching the video let me ask you guys a few questions that I still cant figure out. 1) WTF is wrong with this guy? I mean seriously cant he take a joke, at ALL, something much worse than that happened with my roommate doing stuff in my room and i did laugh. Hell i keep laughing when i think about it. It did take a bit to clean up but it was still funny.

2) What is all this "good work" he was doing. Obviously if he was doing good work he would have been in a better mood so whatever he was doing must have gotten shot in the head faster then a lame horse in the wild west. That or he REALLY needs to get laid.

3) Why is he suddenly worried about student activty fees. Does he think someone is going to take money from a college in order to play a prank. What an idiot.

I mean dont you agree.

WTF Moment 2

2006-04-27T18:12:00.000-07:00

This week's WTF moment comes to us from the good ship Nintendo. It seems that in an attempt to make their system stand out from all others, or to take advantage of a really weird but funny Family Guy joke, It was announced that the new system from the Japanesse toy company will be wii (pronounced we). The jokes you can make are immediate of course.

Can i play with my wii now mom?

Man I need something to play, lets whip out the wii.

I wish I could play with my wii now, i cant till fall.

I need a wii.

That concludes the lastest WTF moment

WTF Moments

2006-03-16T18:47:00.000-08:00

Sorry the EXTREME lack of updates but school, as well as my sudden decline in health, have lead my away from updating my lackluster blog. But to those 3 of you who still do visit a day thanks it means something. Since most good blogs a have series or basic image they keep up ill be starting one called WTF Moments. Things that happen around the week from TV shows, News, Sports, that just dont quite make it to the general public but are still worthy of noteriety.

This weeks WTF moment, the American Inventor. Actually the show iteslf doesnt get the WTF prize but more noteably one of its contestants that was allowed to move into the next round does. The year was 19XX (XX cuz i have no real clue and am to lazy to research right now) and brothers Evan and Jerret hit the scene and young girls bedroom walls with their hit crazy for this girl. The song was pop bubblegum at its finest and suddenly the brothers fell from the limelight and fell hard. So what happens they return in 2006 on American Inventor with a PIT BOWL. Ok let me explain.

One of the brothers, assuming he was smart, decided that since his brother, the band, and bascially every other person on the tour bus left pits and shells everywhere that there should be a bowl that you can put these to where you can also put the aformentioned items before they become trash. Its a 2 teir bowl the top for display the bottom for the pits, shells, etc. Whats worse the PAST THIS THROUGH. They already have a version of this out on the market that has been around since I've been alive. Its called ANOTHER BOWL. I mean seriously WTF.

The Man with the One Bullet

2006-02-26T16:02:00.000-08:00

Most of you may not be able to remember the Andy Griffith show and in all honesty so am I. But I have grown up in an area where Andy is like a part of the family. He is renown, known, and considered the gold standard of how a family should be. Everyone knew all the cast by heart and not to far from where I am is a place that calls itself Mayberry. One of the most famous people in all the show is bumbling deputy Barney Fiffe, played by the string bean Don Knotts.

Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Bevery Hills. He was 81 and quite possibly one of the most reconisible faces in all of television's history. Actually he is an alumni at my college registered 1984, oddly enough the end of my birth.

His most famous counterpart - Barney Fiffe, was only allowed to carry around one bullet after he accidently shot himself in the foot. It soon became a sight gag used by the writers to reinforce Fiffe's incompetance. A prime example is where the sherrif heads out of town for 8 hours and by the time he comes back Barney has arrested the entire township for breaking the law.

Knotts has been in 7 TV shows and 25 movies, the most famous of which were Disney films and probalby one of the most famous of them was the Amazing Mr Limpet. He played a goofy marine/marine bilogist who gets turned into a fish and is forced to learn about the changes he is forced to endure and uncovers a navy plot to use a new weapon that will sadly mess up the aquatic life.

As my last words on the topic let me say this; Mr Knotts you are in heaven because you are a man of my area and I know who you are. Sit back relax and enjoy the ride, you earned it.

I just got FIRED

2006-02-23T12:54:00.000-08:00

No not from work, or school, but from my show Dear Blog. Well not really fired as much as the guy who ran our servers decieded that we werent holding up our end of our deal. Since we havnet dont an episode since sometime in November, or October, we made one literally yesterday edited it, and sent it out. Later that day we got the info that our host, Jake Fisher, decided we didnt mention his site enough so told us that he was pulling the plug. This shocked us, we thought we had mentioned him in every single episode. It turned out we didnt so we tried to aplogzie and created an intro before every show that we would put in saying "Dear Blog is hosted by Big Fish Hosting.com.....etc etc". He still said NO.

Ok im no expert but if the guys who have done something wrong to you try hard to make it right i do give them the benifit of the doubt and you know...FORGIVE THEM. This is some CRAZY stuff, not only have i been dropped but i've been fired by a 14 year old....WTF. For the full info visit thefifthrule.com.

Time after Time

2006-01-16T12:42:00.000-08:00

Alright if any of you listen to my podcast you already know what Im about to talk about and can skip down to the end of the page on this one and check out what movie i think you guys should take a minor interest in before it comes out next month.

Many people have always spoken about what the signs are for the end of the world. Some say they will be obvious, like the oceans drying up or turning to fire. Pestulance would reign over the land and the dead would walk the earth. Others think they would be subtle signs, the onset of a nuclear war IE the anger, hatred, and violence involved with them. Though all the signs are probably really good ways of noticing the end of the world the single most important of the underlying things of the end of the world.....Kidz Bop.

I despise the idea, the sale, the advertising, and even the children involved in it. This is singlery one of the worst bastardization of music since the idea that any band on the planet is entitled to do a cover of any song they choose. I understand that kids are suppose to appreciate music but isnt forcing children to sing and make that high pitch whiny noise while some adult is in the background making the song sound like it belongs on seseme street just a bit wrong. Also a huge problem I have with every single album is how much they butcher the meaning of every single song by making its cutsie so kids can get into it.

The best example i can provide is when Evansecense first hit the scene with bring me to life. That was a good song. It was dark, yet catchy, and made ya wonder where it all come from. Kids bop turned it into a bunch of 11 year olds, who dont know better, making it sound like belonged on Barney and friends. Im not 100% sure how they even license all these songs. Somewhere in a dark room Wezzer is crying as they remember that Beverly Hills is on the lastest encarnation of the Kidz Bop collection. I wish the entire craze would stop or all those dumbass parents would just wise up and buy their kids Now thats what I call music if they want a collection of good songs SUNG BY THE ARTISTS.

Ok im done with my rant. The movie I spoke of earlier though for those of you who just skipped down to the end of the page is Date Movie. Its more or less the scary movie appraoch to all those crappy stupid and plot points that you can see coming from space date movies that litter the theatres ever now and again. It stars buffy alum Alisson Hannigon as a girl who is out to find that perfect love. The movie, as advertised, is written by 2 of the 6 people that wrote the first scary movie. No its not some of the Wayans bros. but two of the other people. It looks fairly interesting, well not even interesting just something to spend seven bucks on and laugh at for however long it lasts. The trailer for it is funny as well, the whole dance thing at the begging is amusing but for my money the best part is Lil John saying Get Crunk as a drink proposal

Simple and Clean

2006-01-04T15:10:00.000-08:00

Its the new year which means only one thing......i JUST woke up from my hangover and decided to finally throw some news up on the old website that I get for free from blogger because well im broke and I do like doing this online website thing.

My christmas and new years are nothing of real interest but today while working on some stuff online i found some of the best news I could find short of it stateside.....KINGDOM HEARTS 2 footage. In my freshman year in college I got bored one day talking to a friend of mine and she has just started playing Kingdom Hearts and was getting bored with it. Though me without my own PS2 couldnt play it to tell her what I thought about it.

Much to my suprise my roommate at the time brought back his PS2 after one weekend and I asked if i could borrow it one weekend and he agreed which was awesome on his part. Actually he, in the brief stent of roommates i've ever had was one of the cooler ones. I've had like 5 and 2 of them needed to be drug out into the street shot, resurected, castrated and allowed to bleed to death, then revived again, and burnt alive and after all that their ashes dumped into acid to make sure any trace of their existance exists. Ok sorry that was venting, neccessary, but vented. Back on topic, I got a chance to play Kingdom Hearts and got WAY to into it. I almost missed doing a major spanish assignment becuase i got so deep into it on the weekend.

Around 30 hours in I realized it was well past an addiction considering those 30 hours took place over friday and saturday. My friends came over asked me WTF i was doing playing a video game for that long without some kind of monetary prize waiting on me when i finished. That sunday my roommate came back to me playing and asked how my weekend went and why it looks like i hadnt left the room all weekend. To that I paused the game looked at him, looked at the TV, smiled, and he said I had a problem. He was right but i got it under control but really got into the story line of KH, it was heart warming.

After awhile I lost all track of what was going on with the games sequels, yeah there were two. The first of which was released during the winter of 04 called Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. With that single game my love of the series was renewed even though I had never beaten the first game before that point. So i sat down with my GBA beat the crap out of that game 3 times over and then just let it all rest.

This summer when I purchased my PS2 i was wondering around for a game to buy with it. But since this was the time of God of War i was looking for that and found Kingdom Hearts right next to it and I grabbed it like it was the last copy of a best selling thing of all time. I took it home beat it and fell right back into what I was when i first played it....IN LOVE. Look if youve played it and liked it in any way you know what im talking about. The game was just WOW when you first really took a good hard look at it. But now with KH2 in Japan its only a matter of time before it makes it way state side and i MUST own a copy of it. I dont care what its for ill buy a X-box 360 if that is what it takes. Especially after the animation for it I saw today.

If you havent seen it ill try to find the links again for it and put them up here. At the very least upgrade the opening movie. Its just an incredibly eyecatching remake/retelling of the first 2 games.

Happy Holidays

2005-12-14T06:30:00.000-08:00

Hey all, sorry I havent updated in over a week. There is a very good reason, its call FINALS, and they are a pain in my ass. Saturday I had my all or nothing Prob Stat final. I say all or nothing because if I failed that one then no matter what my grade in the class was. Thats right make an F on that test and even if you had an A you FAIL, so no drinking the night before needless to say.

Today, which is wednesday...which is still a suprise to me, I have two exams. One of which might I add was at 8:00am and I have one tommorow at 8:00am as well. In the time I wrote this I realized how much time was kicking my ass and just woke up from a very relaxing 5 hour nap. I never really understood why people took naps. I mean you sleep at night anyway why do you need to sleep during the day as well. It takes all the fun out of the day, well I was WRONG. Naps are awesome and I highly suggest them if you need one. True it might screw up your sleep schedule if you do it wrong but hey stuff happens.

One last note, this is my last blog entry for the rest of the year as well as most of Januaray as I will be out for the holidays. My school lets me out as of Friday and makes me come back over half way through Januaray. So thanks alot to everyone who checks my site. It means alot, and feel free to comment on what youd like to see in the new year.

Say it aint so Honkey

2005-12-10T18:03:00.000-08:00

Today marks a sad day for all of us enjoyed a good laugh. Richard Prior, the man who more or less recreated comedy, died at the age of 65. Prior's death marks the end of an era as in the 30 some odd years as a comedian he had always tried to help break the barrier for black entertianers. All he had set out to do he accomplished and paved the way for comedians like Eddy Murphy, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, and so many more.

Staring in several movies Prior, at one time, was the highest paid black actor in the country. He was in such films as The Toy, Superman 3, and Lady Sings the Blue. Most notable though were his movies with Gene Wilder in Silver Streak and Stir Crazy. Prior and Wilder were an excellent pair and though they tried not to Prior stole every scene he was in.

I wish I could say more about such an insperational man but its hard to put into words all he has done to create a better place for black actors and comedians. God Speed Richard Prior, God speed.

Not in the Know

2005-12-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

I'm tired of a prevaling trend in my site hits. It seems that I've become the place to go for info on past and present G4 personalities as hits for Sarah Lane, Laura Foy, Tina Wood, Kevin Rose, and many others have become almost daily staples for me. Listen folks I know what I know about these people which may or may not be more than what you do. But I can tell you a few things that I for sure DONT know.

1) I DONT know why Sarah Lane and Kevin Rose broke up. All I know is that it happened, its sad, and it shouldnt be probed into. Its their lives, leave it alone and move on. But if you would like my opinion, and im guessing from the number hits about it you would, distance would have been the prevaling problem with the relationship. Keep in mind Kevin now resides in San Fransico working for Revision 3 while Sarah stayed in LA with Attack of the Show.

2) I DONT know if Larua Foy and Tina Wood have ever/will ever be lovers. This sorta trails back to the first one, its their life leave it alone. I swear people can be like stupid kids wondering around. They want to get their hands on everything they see without thinking of weither they should or not. Just as long as it captures their interest they dont care they just want to get involved with it.

a) There have been ALOT of hits about these ladies so i saw fit to seperate it out into subsections to help seperate out what is what. This section deals with Larua Foy directly. I do not, nor do i even want to know, if she is a lesbian or has had a lesbian lover. I also have no idea if she has kissed the foot/feet of Tina Wood...nor do I know if the opposite is true. Also I have no pictures of Ms Foy, either clothed or nude, so STOP SEARCHING. Even if you find any they are most likely faked so give it up.

b) Well if A had to do with Larua lets guess who B is about, thats right Tina Wood. Oddly I havent gotten as many hits about Tina as I have Larua but thats probably because alot of the time Tina dresses a little more conservative than Laura. This isnt a bad thing as it does add a bit of mystery to her but it also apparently makes fanboys want to run for the net and search out pictures for her. Also a bit number of hits have also made mention that Ms Wood may in fact be batting for the other team, for those of you who know what im talking about. Well lets get one thing straight....I DONT CARE. Her life is her life, if I meet her and got to know her it might become of some slight interest to me. But since im havent and most likely never will STOP LOOKING HERE.

In closing I'd like to as you everyone, though a huge majority are guys, to stop looking for this stuff. There isnt going to be one tell all site that will reveal/show/dictate to you what is going on in these peoples personal lives. Leave them alone.

Fine and Dandy Warhols

2005-12-04T18:22:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the total lack of posting for almost 2 weeks life has been hectic. Acutally I have some minor good news, for me anyway. While working through all the stuff i need to take/not take to graduate as fast as i possibly can. Because its this is my 4th year of college but my first at my new college. Its suprising that I can get out of college much sooner than I expected. It could be as soon as next year that I get up and get gone, it all depends on a few things that will happen over the summer. If it works then shabam im gone. Which is suprising considering i thought I would be here ANOTHER 3 years. The fact that it might be 2 years or even a year and a half is insanly cool for me. It could make the difference between of weither I choose to go to graduate shool or not.

If I choose to go it would be at the prodding of a few people. Actually more like only 3; my parents, my professors, and the guys who will give me jobs in the future. The graduate school here at ETSU doesnt really revolve around improving upon what I learn for my BS. It more or less revolves around making whoever takes the course incredibly capable of running a TV or Radio studio effectively. I would like to go to grad school but seriously its going to be boring and more stuff than I think I'll need but if I really want to make it I will most defiantly want to take it.

The final peice of business is about more Veronica Mars. The series has taken an horrible turn, not horrible in writing but in what is going on. After the last season where the Kaine murder had been totally solved Veronica though it was going to be smooth sailing. Sadly for her, her senior year is full of anxiety, a lost relative for her best friend, and a bus crash that changed the town. Now she and her father are searching through all the remains, the clues, and the unknown to find what made that bus fly off a cliff and what really was the reason behind it all.

To raise the ratings UPN has also offered veiws of alternate scenes from the show. The best of which was this past weeks alternate ending. Meg, a former girlfriend of Veronica's now boyfriend, has been found to be pregnant and the baby's life as well as her own are in jeopardy. That was until at the end of this weeks episode Meg woke up as Veronica left the room. However in the alternative ending to add to the drama someone kills her. The most obvious option would be her mother. Meg was forced, no free will here, to be raised up in a religious home and as we all know sex before marriage is a BIG no no. More to be told this week on a brand new Veronica Mars.

Cant get enough Veronica Mars then I suggest buying season one or getting the soundtrack. Which is headlined by the Dandy Warhols. They wrote the theme song "We use to be friends". Its a bit of a haunting song because its so out of the ordinary. Pick them up, they are worth it.

How to Get a Job: College Style

2005-11-15T17:31:00.000-08:00

Winter time means several time. The most important of which is that fact that no matter what school your in (elementary, middle, high school, college) you are about to receive about a month off with very little effrot. You get gifts by being in a family and realizing that religion can lead to things that you want in present form.

This is also the most important time to be putting in applications for jobs, and being the helpful guy I am, I will share with you some suprising facts that might help you get land that cushy job that pays out without you doing any real work.

1) Talk to the people behind the counter: This seems kinda obvious but if your more likely to learn more from them about what you will do in the job and any job interveiw could tell you. They always sugar coat it to make it seem like your getting one of the best and easiest jobs ever. LIARS, the guys behind the counter though will help you decide weither you need to finish your application then and there or to take it home and never return it.

2) Write it all down: To make yourself look smarter what would be best would to be simply to write down all the info you need for any application, old school locations, Referance names and numbers, etc. that way when they hand you an application you can just use it like cheat sheet and make yourself look great when you come back in 5 minutes with the application filled out in full.

3) Suck Up: Ok you have to do that pretty much the whole time anyway but try and see if the hiring manager is there and be like "oh hi, i was curious what kind of responsiblities are here". If your a member of the opposing gender, or in some cases same gender, talk up how nice they look (even if your lying through your teeth). An example of this was I was filling out an application yesterday and randomly the people, including the hiring manager, behind the counter were talking about something or another and he turns to me and says "Hey you ever heard of Shadow of the Colossus" ME:"yeah it just came out, I cant wait to get it (which is the truth)" HM: "Ok one more question PS2 or X-box" ME: "PS2" HM: "Cool well your on top of the list man thanks for the application." He actually did stick my application top of the list which was suprising cuz there were about 10 or 20 already there and they keep them in order of turned in first, which meatn mine would be at the back of the list. Hopefully ill get a call.

Ok those are the rules for getting a job, now go out and attack the job market like it just stole your I-Pod and is trying to put some Yani on it.

Breaking Into the Big Time

2005-11-14T18:08:00.000-08:00

Over the past little while I've been trying to figure something out, how to break into the big time with my website. Its hard to figure out why I havent yet, I've had offers to be a writer for a few tech sites which is flattering. There have been those who thought of a few idea that would help me out. 1) Shorter Posts 2) more links less content, in a sense. 3) um there is no three i just like things in order.

Anybody with any ideas on what could actually improve the site let me know. Till then go play one of the hardest freaking games ive ever laid my eyes on. Alot like a puzzle game with insanly hard i've ever seen at notpron.com. The puzzles are hard and make you work for it, i mean REALLY hard to make it from level to level, it can be found here.

Oh one final thing when tonight was my first on air credit as an extra on our local access comedy show Buc's Up. So far id been doing camera work, VTR (Video Tape Record), and Assitant Director work so far. But tonight we were bored doing an extra thing and they let me put on a Cosby show looking sweater and BAM i got to be Bill Cosby for ETSU at the BET awards. It was of course a huge joke as A) im white, like whiter than rice and B) We made the gag of everyone not being who they said they were. Hell sometimes we just confused gender to make the joke more obvious. Out host, who actually looked like Neil Diamond, was interveiwed as Ashley Simpson. My big debut though ended as quickly as it began as I was dragged off camera screaming "buy more jello pudding pops" in my best impression of him. I think they just let me do it cuz I'd been pitching in all season though im not in the class and it was great to do. I felt like i was being accepted. But that is enough of that later folks.

Rocky Mountain High

2005-11-08T08:12:00.000-08:00

Today the best news since the birth of one Mr. John Denver has come from Colorado, the legalization of pot. As we all know pot has long been considered the scourge of our society because of the "horrible side effects". Though if you actually do keep up with some of the medical research done with it you'll realize that its actually useful. I guess that was what the residents of Denver were shooting for last week when the legalized marajana. Actually all they really did was legalize anything under one ounce.

The big stink might actually come with the fact that this was a state matter but the legalization of such drugs is more or less considered a federal manner. For those of you who dont remember your Civics lessons federal trumps states on all matters that the government feels it need to trump. Though the federal government has not really said much to address Denver's new drug there will most likly either be a backlash or full on support for the cities decision. I dont really see this as much of a social progressive step as much as I do a really good excuse to go get baked and have a Cheech and Chong-a-thon.

Speaking of people with new drugs lets take a quick look north of the border to check out the going ons at a McDonalds in Toronto. In case you all havent seen it ill add a link to one Ms. Ashely Simpson drunk off her ass demanding a little service at the home of the Big Mac. She was being beligerant to a fan who wanted an autograph which she throughly denined him because he wouldnt quote "kiss her foot". Listen I've been drunk before and I think it would take a HELL of a lot of liquor to make me demand people to kiss my foot for an autograph. Of course considering she was seen in the Four Seaons bar before she even got to the McDonalds that liquor might have been easily enountered for the 21 year old.

Following her little foot worship wannabe session with the fan she begins to go after an employee who, according to the rules, asked Simpson to remove her rump from the counter and then called for a manager to take care of the smashed star. The video sadly doesnt go to much further into the video short of the fact that Simpson starts making a bet with the worker that the manager will be much nicer to her than the worker would. Actually she bet 5 million on it. Now considering she was drunk I would have taken her up on that because you could always play it off as "oh you were drunk, I knew you werent serious" if you lost. Of course if you won, the words "Pay up NOW!!!" should come flowing from your lips like water from a faucet. The video then skips, not really letting us know if she got whatever it ws she came from or not, with Simpson stumbling away and saying a few unaudiable things. If youd like to see all the hilarious hijinks here it is. Ashley seriously slow down take a look around and realize that your carrer is slowly turning into the Titanic, minus the people large amount of people caring its went down.

More Then Meets the Eye

2005-11-06T15:26:00.000-08:00

The Transformers movie was announced to be in production at this past year at Gencon. Speculation has been flying forever about this movie for longer than its actually be green lighted. It all began when the movie itself was even listed as being slated for writers, directors, talent, etc., etc. At first everyone who was a fan of the 80s thought it was going to be a horror show that mangles each and every character into some form fitting mold of what the current politically correct model should be. Like oh say, for example, the Autobots would still be the heros from Cybertron but the Decepticons would be more like intergaltic terrorists, instead of the other power of Cybertron.

But there is some good news though, it seems that the source material will be held in tact and more the point that all the autobots and decepticons will be from the Gen 1, ie the first season. The real draw of this is that only 10 transformers will be on screen, 5 autobots and 5 decepticons. What is really exciting is that if the rumors are true the orginal voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron will revise their roles and return to the big screen. Thats right the 80s will come back in full force. The best part is that their will be no non descript cars as their has been a deal struck over who will turn into what and what they will be when they transform. Optimus Prime will be a Convoy Truck. Bumbblebee will actually be a Voltswagon, Jazz will be a sports car, etc, etc. Plus even if this movie blows they have already slated a sequel for this film and chances are they will make them combine into a good series of films

Getting Some Booty

2005-11-01T08:25:00.000-08:00

Thats right folks its time to talk about how you get your booty....wait like pirate booty, not what Beyonce is shaking around. Of course the pirates im talking about take the high seas of the interent and set sail for the latest and greatest booty of them all, music and movies. Now the navy of the net, the MPAA and RIAA of course want to catch each and every one of these "criminals" and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Though an article in The Daily Vanguard, a newspaper from Portland State University, says that the RIAA should stop trying so hard to stop piracy and just let it go.

A spokesman for the RIAA had this to say "No black flags with skull and crossbones, no cutlasses, cannons, or daggers identify today’s pirates. You can’t see them coming; there’s no warning shot across your bow. Yet rest assured the pirates are out there because today there is plenty of gold (and platinum and diamonds) to be had. Today’s pirates operate not on the high seas but on the internet. The pirate’s credo is still the same — why pay for it when it’s so easy to steal?" I actually like the credo in all honesty, though my morality pretty much hounds me like a really obbsessive girlfriend if I ever even think about stealing so that shoots that in the foot. But that kind of thinking is so out of date.

True when Napster started up it was more or less to get around paying somewhere in the range of $16 bucks for a CD that maybe had only 2 good songs on it that youd listen to for more than an hour or so. But it has evloved so much since then, newer artists who want to spread their music through the means of P2P sharing. So many artist have done this its not even funny. You guys ever hear of a little band called Switchfoot. Well a few short years ago before they busted out with their debut album they played here at ETSU for an incredibly low fee. Acutally they played for absolulty nothing, they just wanted people to come and enjoy their music, spread word of mouth, etc., etc. Then they realized file sharing might be the way to go and today they are one of the hottest bands around, well sort of but you get what I'm saying.

So I say go out, file share, and support indy bands, they need all the support they can get. Then again I could just put up some links to cool bands I've heard of. Milka is a good band headed up by the sexy front woman that is the bands namesake. They have a unquie blend of spanish beats and hard rock edge that make their music occasionaly infectious but always interesting. Low Water might be a band you've heard of because of their 2003 stent on the Call 4 Help-a-thon on Tech Tv. They were in the in house band for the entire 12 hours and kept on keeping on recuriting some of the ladies of Tech Tv to do a music video with them. Of course plugging bands I like would also mean plugging my friends band Calling All Cars. Its a trio of talented fellows from Virgina that blend sounds from rock, pop, and sometimes even country to keep cranking out great songs that always impress and entertain. These are the only bands I can personaly vouch for but if you guys have bands youd like to plug please put their names and links to them.

Since yesterday was Halloween I guess I should put some spooky story in this entry. Of course not actually getting dressed up myself, they costume shops around here were out of Spiderman outfits, I surfed good old interenet a little. Actually I caught up on my digging over at Digg.com. I swear I dont know what I'd do without digg, I would never get any news about what is going on around me. I swore a long time ago I would not watch news that much anymore because of the way the media seems to twist things around so you never get the real story you get their slanted veiw of what is real. Which in itself is scary enough but I found something truly freaky. Vampire Bats can RUN. Thats right you heard me they can run, and its rather distrubing to watch it to. There is an article but the video is much more um well freaky to watch, dont watch this if you are afraid of bats, trust me.

Refleciton

2005-10-30T20:33:00.000-08:00

So I decided since this is actualy only the 70th post I've ever done I should take some time and reflect on what I've done in my life in the past little while. As you all know, because I can talk about it ad nasium, I started a podcast called dear blog with my buddy from up north. Its a ton of fun and much more intersting than I thought would be possible. Since we started it like mid summer we expect to be no where close to successful we were just doing it for fun because it cost us 0 money to do and it was meant for a niche audience anyway. Now we have done around 11 episodes, we are taping tommrow night I beleive, and have had interveiwed with Martin Sargent, and Joey Rabier (aka Joey the Intern). And we have emails in to most of the guys from Revision 3, and a few people from G4.

Actually who I would really like to get a skype chat with would be Sarah Lane. Not for any moment like "OMG IM TALKING TO SARAH LANE" more to know what it is like to be a tech girl in a guy gaming network. She is, from what I have heard from her, an incredible girl who makes you feel really comfortable when your around her. It makes sense though she seems like she is really grounded and sweet. But yeah i got the dish about people from Joey about alot of stuff I wish I could say but it sorta solidified some of the thoughts I always had about the people from Tech Tv that I had always thought were cool were now proven cool by someone who actually met them.

Oh who am I kidding I want everyone I've gotten into contact with to email me telling me the when, where, and what, they want to do for our show. I understand like Kevin Rose and Dan Huard might not be as readily avaialbe as the other memebers of Revision 3 might be. Actually that sounds like an ass thing to say. Keith Harrison, cameraman extordinare, is probalby busy editing, doing lighting for each episode of diggnation, figuring out locations for the Broken and Systm and about 1000 other things he has to worry with with each new episode of every show. I could actually blab on about these sort of things for hours. Actually more than hours I could scrutinize these sort of things for days. But with an hour extra of sleep I think I better take advantage of it and get my butt in bed.

Game Over

2005-10-27T09:47:00.000-07:00

As Im sure you all know the Wolrd Series ended last night in all out duel between pitchers in Game 4. The Astros fought hard to keep the Soxs down and did a great job during the first seven innings. Unfortuanly in the top of the 8th the Soxs sacrifcied 2 outs to get a man on third and scored the first run of the evening by drilling a shot right between the pitcher and shortstop and finding the hole in center feild. And of course since one more than your opponent is all you need the Soxs were able to hold off the Astros and finish the game with an out at first to clinch their first World Series Title since 1917.

Now Im sure most everyone knows about this but for those of you who I dont know lead lives, or like to sleep, you might have missed it and totally zoned out or missed the banners, news stories, and other such things posted around the internet and news stations World Wide.

Now that that fun little nugget of information is out of the way lets turn our eyes toward the sky....actually if its day where you are right now um dont do that staring at the sun REALLY hurts. What I'm talking about is space, the final fronteir. These are voyages of the USS WTF, its never ending mission to find new threads and new stories about space travel. To boldy go where quite a few have gone before and reported back that everything was entirly ok.

It seems that sex is going to hinder space travel. This bears repeating so here it is again, SEX will hinder space travel. Its seems that NASA is worried about relationships becoming a problem with space travelers in their next few round trip missions. NASA hopes to return to the moon by 2018 and then later go to mars itself. But of course considering that the entire round trip to Mars could take somewhere in the range of 30 months meaning there would be plenty of time to well get to know the your crew mates "intimatly"....if you catch my drift.

This has many scientists worried because they feel that such emotional, or at the very least, physcial attractions could jepordize the missions. Not to mention in all the planning and astronauts they've trained, this sort of thing never really came up. The real problem stems from the fact that should the astronauts hook up in space and decide to become a couple it immediatly would take its toll on them. The Couple would most likely be together all the time, have little privacy and no way to get away from each other in such an encolsed space.Not to mention if tensions run really high and they break up and there could still be lingering feelings of hatred or resentment toward one party or the other. Its just a mess. But since this wont come up for like 13 more years I figure NASA will figure it out....eventually.

X-ing it out

2005-10-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

Random searches can lead you into some intersting finds. A great example can be found in my site meter, which has been freaking out over the past few days by the way. Some of the things that have brought me visitors are kinda obvious. I have talked about everything for Lindsey Lohan to Revision 3 news, which by the way I know WAY more than I can say. But that is beside the point. Actually one of the funniest things I thought that brought me users was the search for "UVA-Wise Porn". Thats right somebody is actually trying to try and search for porn from my former college. I can understand that some of the guys would DEFINATLY want some of the girls from Wise to do porn, of course by doing porn I mean banging the crap of them in their rooms. But really searching for it, thats kinda um well stupid.

But I said all that to bring you guys to this, yeah even the porn stuff. I was searching some fun stuff on Newgrounds.com. Newgrounds is the best place to go to see flash madness and humerous situations abound. Of course being the geek I am I search for things that I like and for those that make what I want to watch. This brought me to Matt Gardner and his unique creations for the Marvel and DC universes. Matt doesnt do what alot of people do, ie he doesnt draw mouths nor arms to all his characters. This means that you have to pay ALOT of attnetion to the dialog and it is hilarious. Im going to list them all he has done and give them links.

"Death Becomes Them": The first of the X-Men Trilogy pokes alot of fun at the fact that death does not exactly mean your dead in the Marvel Universe. Not to mention the fact that I had no idea Magneto died that many freaking time.

"Revisitng Profits": In the middle of a murder investigation Apoclyapse, the biggest bad guy EVER in the Marvel universe, learns why he keeps getting foiled by the X-men and all their leader Charles Xavier. You know that guy Patrick Stewart plays to a T in the movies.

"Dark Phoenix Rising": Once again Jean Grey has died, yeah she actually does it 3 times in grand total so far. So as her name sake, the Phoenix, she rose once again to wreak havoc across the world. And AGAIN the X-men have to kill her. I mean god doesnt anyone stay dead at the house that Marvel built.

"Marvel Villans Assemble": The most haneous and dangerous of the entire Marvel universe to combat one of the most large scale attacks that they have ever encountered, being fashionable.

"Justice League: Countdown": After the last huge Justice League fiasco where alot of members died (does anyone else see a patern here). Batman has discovered a conspiracy to cover up that some memebers might have covered up a few things. And now has to explain it all away to Beetle, cuz he hates him. This is also Matt's first trek into the DC universe.

Whack-o Jack-o

2005-10-20T16:20:00.000-07:00

Though the title of this little entry might make you believe that I speak of Michael Jackson you would be wrong. I speak of a different person, one infanlty more dangerous than Jackson could ever even imagine being. Jack Thompson, thats right Mr. Video Games Incite Violence and Must be Banned himself has done enough in the past little bit to make himself an ever present thorn in the side of gamers everywhere.

If you havent kept up with Mr. Thompson's activites here is a little background/update. Jack Thompson has gone up against the likes of 2 live crew, Ice T, and sex websites for their either explicit lyrics or sexual acts that have graced their respective genres. This gained him the attention of the media outlets sadly allowing this man's ego to grow at an alarming rate. No Im serious if global warming grew at this rate Antartica would be a lush tropical forest by now. Oh by the way he did actually win against 2 live crew which is to his credit. Of course considering almost every single person who even knows of 2 live crew can quote the offensive lyrics on command its sort of a hollow victory. He most recent stab at making a national name for himself cam in a 2 fold attack. The first came when the Hot Coffee mod became known in the PS2 and X-box versions of GTA San Andres.

**NOTE** Before I go any further I'm going to voice my personal opinion on this subject. Rockstar was in the wrong for releasing the code for GTA: SA knowing that this mod was in there. It was just a cheap stunt to gain popularity and sales figures and would of course thrust them into the national spotlight for being lude, rude, and explicit thus making everyone want to own their game to see what the hell was going on. **END NOTE**

Thompson, along with Senator Hilary Clinton, achieved their goal of getting this game removed from the shelves for its offesnive and explict content. Though then again the ESRB was most likely goning to remove it anyway when they found out about all of this so its once again a hollow victory...im sensing a pattern here. After the whole Hot Coffee mod dust settled Thompson still took aim at Rockstar by filling suit on behalf of the familes of two slain police officers by Devin Moore. Moore, as Thompson said " obsessively trained on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to kill them". Good ol Jack then made a landmark statement, though it is in landmark in the sense of being horrbily morbid and incredibly insensative. Thompson guarnteed 10,000 dollars to charity if a developer would make a violent video game in which the people that were killed were leading industry executives and their families. The main character was to be Osaki Kim, a father whose son was beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer. The game would feature Kim extracting brutal revenge on the video game industry itself, including beating game company executives to death, removing their heads and urinating on their brain stems. Now is it just me or does that sound almost vendictive. Of course this was a bold move by Thompson, no one in their right minds would make this sort of game. Its what those in the gambling world would call a safe bet. Though when the mod community answered by actually making the game he quickly renounced on his 10 grand offer and was off to face his next self made problem.

Now Mr. Thompson is going after people who are "threating his life". I can understand that there is a legitimate fear here for him. A single man has turned the entire attention of community that spreads from coast to coast on him and in an incredibly negative way. I can also understand that the FBI has a need to investigate to make sure that Mr. Thompson does actually make it to the next day without a gaming system being thrown at his head....though i do think seeing an X-box fly by Thompsons head would be mildly amusing, but that is beside the point. Jack, I call you Jack because my parents taught me when I was a little boy to show the proper respect to those I admire/need to show respect to and you most certainly dont fall into either of these categories, if you want the hate mail to cease, the "threats" to end, and to move on to your next national attention grabber here is a thought from a gamer, you know THE ENEMY. Stop. No im serious stop doing whatever it is your doing right now and just dont do anything else.

Ok that is actually quite vague so let me explain. Jack Thompson in all his lack of glory has taken to assaulting Penny Arcade for "commencing and orchestrating criminal harassment of me by various means" Hey Jack a minor hint for you, you made youself a public figure of opposing gaming in a community that gets its news faster than you can get a cup of coffee, chances are you going to be the butt of jokes, satire, and parody as long as you keep up this little campaign of yours. Also keep in mind currently you are making money of the pain and loss of others. Though filling that lawsuit is sort of in the right you are bound to make money from the settlement or merely the television appearances you are making money from pain. How is that any better than the video games you go after. Then again going after such a well known organziation like Penny Acrade who raise money every year with their "Childs Play" charity isnt exactly in the realm of bright ideas either.

But now there is light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel of course occasinally confused for that space between Jack Thompson's ears. With his attack on Penny Arcade many people on their forums have launched a full on assualt. Not on his stance with video games or his incredibly underhanded tactics while running aginst former Attorney General Janet Reno (in case you want to know he called her a closet lesbian with ties to the mafia and higly suceptable to blackmail). No, those these are great reasons to get rid of him, they are urging the Flordia take a good long look at license to practice law. Though this might actually work I think I have to agree with Mike "Gabe" Krahulik of Penny Acrade. "Jack is not special. Imagine him as an actor playing a part in a play. If he were to be fired a new actor would simply take up the role. We are actually fortunate the current actor is so impotent in his role. Imagine what might happen if some charming, efficacious attorny took his place. The more I consider it the more I think we may be lucky to have Jack playing the part of the alarmist. The alternative might be someone who is actually capable.

The Return of an Intern

2005-10-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

No not that intern someone a little more um well.....not known for giving the president a sitting salute in the oval office. Its Joey the Intern from Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Joey has been down and well um not really down but more or less off the radar for some time now. If you missed the little guy with the wild hair, glasses, and insanly cool stories of behind the scenes antics dont worry he will be back soon on a podcast with Martin Sargent for Revision 3.

I was lucky enough to get in touch with Joey thanks in no small part to that fact that well I'm a freaking moron and didnt realize I had had his email address sitting in my gmail box for well over a month. Its amazing the things youd see if we all just paid a little more attention to what was going on around us. Anyway I just wanted to ask him to be a guest on Dear Blog and forutnatly he agreed. So for the sake of the pre interveiw thing we got in touch over skype last night at around 12 or 1 am, but it was like 9 or 10 his time. We did the whole pre interveiw and then went off on a tangent about his old job and funny stories about the behind the scenes goings on.

I wish I could tell you guys all the stuff I learned but thats sort of personal but what I can say is if you all knew what goes on behind the scenes you would probably laugh your asses off. I mean seriously all the debatchery is a little hilarious...ok I can say this there is a funny story about a drunk Adam Sessler and an early moring call from the cable guy but that is all I can say without Adam coming to hunt my ass down and murder me. But its funny trust me.