Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Sample Songs

Just something i recorded awhile back, hopefully I can make it into a real song one day!

http://www.mediafire.com/?4zdynm5j5m2

Friday, October 17, 2008

Sigur Ros IS everywhere

Chris White recently asked me if it was Sigur Ros that he heard in another game trailer. So anyways I decided I needed to put them both up here for all to see just how awesome they are. The first one is from Science Fiction Horror game called dead space, which is supposed to be pretty scary and the song is Untitled 7 (or The Death Song) from the Album ( ). The last is the previous trailer I showed several of you called Prince of Persia and the song is Saeglopur from the album Takk.



Friday, October 3, 2008

And Guinea went to the Moon

A few videos that have made my week that much better. First we have two vidoes I recently watched on Youtube about misheard lyrics. I would suggest watching both at least for a bit. The last one is a fail video that is a perfect mix of being really sad and funny.


Friday, September 19, 2008

All of our prayers answered!

This article really brightened up my day, and I suggest you read it, if not then just enjoy the pictures and think of all the posibilities that this product can offer the world.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Friday, September 5, 2008

There are some real WINNERs out there

I was online today and I found some photos of some rip offs consoles. It really makes you wonder how some people can get away with putting out some of these items for sale without getting sued or something.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Soul Caliber 4 Characters

Here are some Soul Caliber 4 characters that have been custom made by people. These are chosen mostly because there really good, or there just hilarious. Hopefully you will recognize most of them!

Failed

Here is a collection of some of my favorite fail videos:
Animal Identification fail


Conspiracy Fail


Hotel Ad Fail


Journalism Fail

Monday, August 18, 2008

Radiohead in Toronto

I saw my second Radiohead show on Friday at the Molson Amphitheatre and it they were once again spot on in every way. With many new songs played and another awesome performance by Grizzly Bear this one was in every way as good as the last show, there was even a rainbow (actually there were 3!!...kinda) the only thing it was missing were fireworks in the background.

Here's their Set list.
15 Step
Reckoner
Optimistic
There There
Morning Bell
All I Need
Pyramid Song
Arpeggi
The Gloaming
A Wolf At The Door
Faust Arp
No Surprises
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Idioteque
Climbing Up The Walls
Nude
Bodysnatchers

Encore#1
Like Spinning Plates
Videotape
Airbag
Talk Show Host
Street Spirit

Encore#2
House of Cards
Planet Telex
Everything In Its Right Place
Other than the rainbow my highlight of this concert was pyramid song, it was so very good and hopefully I can find some audio recordings from the show.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Slapping Machine

Just something that I found confusing as much as I found it funny. All I want to know is why are they whispering so much?

Xbox 360 on the Big Screen!!....wait...what?

Cineplex is now offering the option for people to rent out theatres (in down time) for people who wish to play their xbox 360 on the big screen. From what the article said, it seems as thou it will cost $179 for 12 people to rent out a theatre. But my question is why would anyone want to do that?

First of all you can only play up to 4 people at a time, which leaves 8 people doing nothing but twidling their thumbs, being in awe of the huge screen until they get bored of watching for 10 minutes (and because they paid $15 I'm sure they want to play the game and not watch one). This wouldn't be so bad if you organized a tournament, but there aren't many games where only playing with 4 people would be very fun to do that. Super Smash Brothers would work but playing the Wii seems to be out of the question (maybe its because it doesn't support anything higher than 480p). Also projection screens or notorious for having extreme lag between you pushing a button on the controller and seeing any effect on the screen, pretty much destroying the purpose of a tournament in the first place.

Another thing is that it seems people can only play during certain times of the year, (not the summer) and times of the day. The article said "Theatres will generally have about 12 to 24 hours of available downtime a week, mostly in the morning". Mostly in the morning? People willing to do this generally would be teenagers, who don't get up that early to begin with (normally). Also it would have to be on the weekend, but the weekends are a busy time for the theatre so you might be rushed out, so scratch that one.

So what is their target market? People who want to play games badly enough on the big screen who have no jobs or school during the week (not in the summer), who want to get up early enough, have 12 other people to do this with, AND who want to pay $15 (with tax $17) to do this.... What the hell is this?!? Even if you got to play for 4 hours somehow I don't see this being too worth it.

I think I'll just stick to watching movies at the movie theatre for now....

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

18 Wheels of Thunder


I was reminded of this game last night when it was brought up in a conversation. I thought I would put the video review done by Gamespot and its probably one of my favorite reviews because there are no words, because all you need to see is about 10 seconds to get the point of how bad this game really is. The game was released in 2003, and to put that into perspective Halo, and Grand Theft Auto 3 came out in 2001. This game has nothing to offer other than the experience of playing something broken that leaves you crying either out of pain or laughter. Anyways if you want a game that is renowned for how bad it is and is considered by many websites as the worst game in history then enjoy!

Coraline pt. 2


So on IGN and Rottentomatoes (two site owned by the same people) there is a Coraline week and each day they post a new video documentary on their progress and what to expect from the movie.

Today's video is titled: Crafting the World of Coraline


And I must say that I'm becoming even more impressed than I was yesterday. I think that this is due to the fact that I'm liking the idea of a Neil Gaiman book or story becoming a movie that you can be proud of and want to see. Stardust was a movie that was a lot of fun and has been the first movie in a long time doing nothing else but just a good movie. Many people said it was hopping on the Pirates of the Caribbean band wagon, but once 20 minutes in you could clearly see that was not its intentions. It turned out to be a movie that If I were to see it as a child I would probably love it to death. But Coraline seems to have more stylized aspects to the movie (clearly) but I think that's the only way to make a novel written by Neil Gaiman otherwise something gets lost in translation. Also I guess its because some of my favorite movies are made by Focus Features and whenever I see their logo I get very excited.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Link: The Faces of Evil


Lately I have been watching some videos for the Zelda games that are so horrible. So I have decided to put them up here. To remind us all that Zelda has seen worse times.

Here is a link to another one. Unfortunately I couldn't embed this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3snn6ZDs5c








Coraline


Coraline was a children's book I read about a year and a half ago because I wanted to read something that resembled a fairy tale. It didn't disappoint. It was creative and imaginative and everything that I love about Neil Gaiman came through in this tale. Now its being made into a movie and I saw my first video on it on Rotten Tomatoes. With the director behind Nightmare Before Chirstmas behind it I couldn't ask for much more. I guess if I had my way i would like to have seen Dave McKean have more of an influence on the project, but i guess you can't have it all.

You can tell that the movie isn't finished yet but its neat to see some of the visuals already being made. It comes out in February and Im looking very much to seeing it.

Monday, August 11, 2008

New Radiohead Song

Super Collider


Maybe I'll get to hear it in Toronto!

Le Couche Tard


During the Montreal trip we said many things that people would assume that we were all insane, but saying Le Couche Tard!! with weird actions took the cake this trip. If you don't understand its ok, I dont think you want to.

Rainbows for Radiohead in Montreal



Went to Montreal last week which was super awesome, but the best part by far was seeing Radiohead. Waiting for 2 hours before the doors opened and then once in the park waiting another 2 hours but in the rain. We found an umbrella on the way into the concert that was broken and we decided to pick it up, and thank god we did, otherwise we would have been completely soaked.

Grizzly Bear opened for Radiohead which was definitely the best opener for a band that I have seen in quite a long time. Only they played for just over 40 minutes and now after listening to them more I know they had a lot more stuff to show off. During their set there was a rainbow that came up after the storm had passed and the leader (well he seemed to be the leader) said "Rainbows for Radiohead", everyone screamed and clapped.



Once dark Radiohead finally came on, and boy did they not disappoint. Here is their set list:
  1. 15 Step
  2. There There
  3. Morning Bell
  4. All I Need
  5. My Iron Lung
  6. Nude
  7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
  8. The Gloaming
  9. The National Anthem
  10. Fake Plastic Trees
  11. Reckoner
  12. Like Spinning Plates
  13. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
  14. Lucky
  15. Optimistic
  16. Idioteque
  17. Bodysnatchers
    Encore 1
  18. Faust Arp
  19. Videotape
  20. Paranoid Android
  21. Bangers and Mash
  22. Karma Police
    Encore 2
  23. House of Cards
  24. You And Whose Army?
  25. Everything In It’s Right Place
With two encores, fireworks and ridiculously epic clouds in the background, and incredible sound this concert has been my overall favorite of ALL TIME. When they played Fake Plastic Trees, Reckoner, and Like Spinning Plates in a row, I think its been the most beautiful moment I have ever had in a concert before. If I had one song that I would have wanted them to play that they didn't it would have been Exit Music (for a film) because it is my all time favorite song by them.



The 40 minutes walk to the metro station was quite annoying to say the least, but it was amazing to see 30,000 people trying to push their way to get on the trains.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Dark Knight the IMAX Experience

On Sunday I am going to see the Dark Knight in IMAX. I have already seen it twice in normal theaters and it will be neat to see the difference that the special IMAX cameras make. I haven't been to an IMAX theater for a Hollywood movie in my life. So I don't really know what to expect in terms of visual quality or sound. But all I know is that for $14 it better be good!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Dragonball Z...The MOVIE! First Poster



































Oh yeah, its comin, and its going to be.....awesome?
Either way i have to go see it. 2009!

The Shining


Recently I have watched several movies on a list that made of some older and newer 'classic movies'. Movies such as A Clockwork Orange and Alien, but even more recently did I watch the Stephen King novel The Shining. I'm finding many parody's of the Shining in many of movies and TV shows that I have watched over the years. It's really amazing to finally see the original movie after seeing these spin offs for so long.

For a quick review/thoughts of mine about the movie: I would definitely say I really enjoyed this film from start to finish. The movie can be tense when absolutely nothing is happening, not only that but it gives you little to no reason to be tense at all. There is a scene of the movie with Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) just stares out into the winter cold with a look of madness about him. The scene has intense music in the background leading you to believe that something is going to happen, when the screen goes black and 'Wednesday' flashes onto the screen with a sudden boom of sound making everyone jump. Everything about this movie was excellently executed with my favorite parts being when Jack is talking to the bartender or the waiter showing his mind turn to insanity.

I'm going to give this movie a 4 out of 4.

Here is my favorite parody of all time for this film

In red, blue, and green begins!

Today is the start of my Blog, most of the time I will be talking about Music, Movies, or Videogames. As well as some random videos that amuse me and get me through the day. Hope you enjoy it and keep reading!