Over the weekend I watched a flawed action movie featuring the following characteristics: gun kata, pre-Batman post-American Psycho Christian Bale, mawkish sentimentality, grisly murder of multiple fascist policemen in motorcycle helmets, mass drug use, blatant cribbing of Orwell’s 1984, that guy from Ally McBeal who walked around in his underwear a lot, and Sean Bean.
I [...]
It’s my birthday!
Seems like as good a day as any to revive this dormant blog. Again.
Thing is, over the last few weeks, I keep getting ideas for blogs, but I dismiss it because I wanted the first one after the resurrection to be good. I needed a good curtain raiser. Realistically though, this thing would [...]
SXSW happened last week. It was cool. I decided to instigate my new “whatever I’m doing is awesome and fun” policy, and everything I did was awesome. And fun.
I didn’t really see a lot of “hot”, “fresh” or otherwise oddly food-related adjective wielding music bands. Though I did see the Local Natives.
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The hipsters are coming.
It’s the eve of SXSW. The real SXSW. Forget your movies. They attract hipsters, sure, but it’s just a prelude. Forget the interactive types. Sure, they have some hipster hangers-on, in one of the weirder developments in the continuing revenge of the nerds, but the actual SXSWi types know their stuff. [...]
Ahh, the joy of watching an unintentionally bad movie. I’ve never been that big into it. I’m just bored by supposed bad movie classics like Plan 9 from Outer Space, and I’m a little put off by people who broadcast how much they like being “ironic.” Whatever that means. Hipsters watching soccer, I think.
I like [...]
I really hated Terminator: Salvation. There. That’s out of the way.
It was awful for many, many reasons, chief among them McG’s utter lack of talent and/or respect for the first three movies. Yes, yes, the third movie wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it made an effort and fit into the overall [...]
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I am fighting the urge to sign up for EVE Online.
This makes no sense on several levels. First off, I’ve been so busy the last few weeks that my video game playing is at a dramatically low ebb. I don’t even have time to write blogs about video games! [...]
I haven’t blogged in a month, which is pretty poor even by my own shoddy standards. Of course, the golden rule of blogging dictates that talking about yourself is boring. So, rather than bore everyone with my time at sea battling pirates and writing the next great American novel only to have the [...]
I am broke at the worst possible time of the year. I knew I’d have to make tough decisions in October and November but I had no idea the toughest decision would be the one to choose against buying games at all.
Uncharted 2 sounds awesome. Brutal Legend seems a little flawed (as I [...]
I should clarify from the start: I’m not a great example of a “hardcore” gamer. Well, maybe in some respects: I own multiple game consoles and spend way too much money on games. On the other hand, I’m not threatening to rival Ice T’s prowess in Call of Duty 4 any time soon.
I bought two [...]