Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Battle
My friend bought the Battlestar Galactica season 1 DVD and passed along to me a DVD of the miniseries that opens the series. I was suprised since it was really fucking good. They have reasonable characters that make sense in a Sci Fi show (which is rare nowdays). The characters are actually really interesting. They didn't try to keep faithful to the old series besides some designs and the whole war against the cylons thing. I actually have never seen the old series though, so I have no expectations or any idea of what the old show was like. Its very impressive, you should check it out if you are interested in sci fi stuff. You've got to see the first three hours though, its very well done.

Well other than good TV I'm just battling my crippling depression based on the fact that I have to be a gen chem TA again. I'll get over it, but fuck is it a motivation killer. Just see how many expletives I'm using as proof!


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Interesting side note: As a head without a body, I envy the dead.
Hey, long time no see!

There seems to be a large number of shows on cable now that make me feel disgusted and sickened. Strangely enough, most of them were spawned from the oily pits of MTV. My super sweet 16 has to be the best show to make you lose your faith in humanity. If you haven't seen it, the premise is that spoiled-ass girls get their parents to buy them huge parties and 1000 dollar dresses while they bitch at them. They seem to have an endless stream of these girls.

Real World Austin is just a show about binge drinking and drunkenness.
At least bad TV sitcoms just had shit actors and lame stories. To see real people being shitheads is a bit more depressing.

As far as TV goes, I watched My name is Earl on NBC today/yesterday an it was really good. i can't remember the last time I watched anything on NBC really. This has Jason Lee in it, (a plus) and has him play a redneck type who decides that he needs to turn his life around by doing good things. He wants to right all of the wrongs he has comitted, and figured karma will pay him back. He actually doesn't know what karma is, and thinks its something that carson daly came up with. The first episode was really funny, so hopefully it doesn't get cancelled. definitely something to look out for, whilst wading through the crapfest.
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Thursday, September 8, 2005

I can't believe I misspelled DEER?
Ha ha, i must be slipping.

So Instead of a regular post about videogames I thought I'd share my dream from last night. I'm suprised I remember it, but damn if it wasn't weird.

Me and Rachael were going to go to the Doughnut shop in Portland, but it was a weekday so it was open inside of a strip club. So we go in and a big dude is checking out ID's, and I have to take off all of these huge rings I was wearing to pass through a metal detector.

So we get in and see the doughnut shop, but also that it is Granny Thursdays at the club, so a bunch of old women were on stage doing coordinated dance moves with regular strippers. That was pretty weird by itself, but then like some sort of huge stage production, the back wall pulls away and Garbage is playing in a big club now visible.

Pretty odd stuff.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2005

abandon all hope
Haven't really been too excited to post here recently, unfortunately but judging by the people on my friends list I am no exception.

Still pretty happy with my saucy Nintendo DS, having just finished the campaign mode last night. I thought it was a little too short at 27 missions. The game is pretty simple, so you would think it would be easy to pump out like 100 missions with story since they are just talking heads. I liked it a lot though, and it looks like I can spend some time unlocking other CO's and skills and such.

Rachael also bought Nintendogs (Dachsund) and is having fun with that. It reminds me that it wasn't even my idea to buy the thing, as strange as that is.

To keep it along with videogaming nerdishness, I got my Dreamcast Marine and Bass fishing games complete with the fishing pole controller. Its awesome as far a I'm concerned, even though I hate fishing in real life and know nothing about it. Its actually pretty hard since I have no idea what bait to use. I'm sure I win some redneck bonus points for owning it. Shoot me if I ever buy the dear hunter games though.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Outer Heaven
Advance Wars for DS is addicting. For the most part its just like every other strategy battle game, but this game as it down to perfection. The whole Dual strike thing broken down to gameplay means that you can change commanding officers at the end of the turn. Since each officer has different abilities you can use it to your advantage. As an example, one CO can buy units (tanks, planes, bombs) cheaper than anyone but stinks in combat. It then makes sense to use him to buy, then switch out. Also killing enemies and taking damage builds a power meter so you can use special abilities. If you have both CO's built up, you can take a double turn. Both CO's get to act, and use their abilities. It pretty easily turns the tide of battle.

There is a fair bit of variety in teh campaign (story mode). There are land sea and air based units and battles. You can have dual front battles, where you basically play two games at once. I've been having a good time with it. The touch screen thing is pretty convenient for this type of game, though I wish it were bigger. Every once in a while its tough to tap exactly the right spot. Also, I haven't really figured out a comfortable way to hold the DS when using just the stylus. I end up holding the whole thing with my left hand and get a slight sore wrist.

On the real life front, Thursday I get to go see Ted Leo and the Pharmacists in Portland. It'll make for a rough Friday morning for me and Rachael, but will be well worth it. I think this is going to be a much better show than the last few I had been to. I know the band better, its a nice venue, there should be a better crowd. I'm excited. We might have to tone it down a bit though, it takes about $20 worth of gas to get there and back with our Civic, so I have to factor that in with the ticket costs.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Pretty fucking cool
So in chronological order, the Oslo show comes first. I have no idea why they aren't very well known, but I suspect that they will get really popular sometime. Their album is just really damn good, and a lot better than most of the new music I have been getting lately.

So the show is in some crap bar downtown, and right off the forst thing to be noticed was this chick with a punk, mohawk/mullety hairdo. Basicaly she had on a thong and fishnets, so her ass was out there for the world. She ended up being the singer for Go Like Hell, a pretty good band from Seattle. They might be worth looking into later. The second band was this godawful emo/indie-ish crap. The singer was gangly and had flock of seagulls hair, and couldn't sing for the life of him. The band didn't help much either. Its bad if your drummer is your best and most dynamic musician.

Oslo came on after way too long, and up til then it was pretty clear that we were the only people n the bar that came to see them. The other bands watched, and they had some tag along friends, but it was pretty much just me and Rachael. After the first song the floor cleared besides some swaggering drunk guy. Sad thing is, they were great. What a waste that it was poorly promoted (I only saw a flyer by chance, they weren't listed on Pollstar even). They have at least a song sample on www.osloband.com, check it out as a personal favor to me. "All Terrain" is my favorite song.

Minibosses were last night and that was a weird scene too. It was in an arcade with a bar, filled with old school games like Joust, Galaxian (which I'm the #3 top score in now), Donkey Kong, Burger Time, etc. The place filled with the belly sporting, smelly D&D type nerds pretty fast. It was pretty funky in there actually. The Minibosses were pretty cool to see live. The rock versions of Castlevania and Contra etc were really cool live especially. They played some weirder stuff I hadn't heard from them too, like the underwater theme in Super Mario and Kid Icarus. It was worth seeing, but not something I'd go back for unless it was in town. I was proud of my galaxian score though.
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Friday, August 26, 2005

Posting
I'd post, but I'm too busy reading Group Sounds.

I will however have two concerts and a lot of videogames to report on when I get around to it.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Bad TV, BAD!
If there is anything good about the huge influx of bad reality Tv shows, its that there are so many truly bad ones that they can become quite hilarious. Spoiled rich kids on a cattle drive? Why not?

I guess even lame celebs are still doing quite well for themselves, since Lou Ferigno and Pat Benetar's spawn have plenty of cash and are quite spoiled. I'm not quite sure what the point of the show is except to have a bunch of cowboys get really frustrated and yell at some annoying rich people. This show is yet still not nearly as bad as the Love is in the Heiress show with some truly retarded Persian princess who wants to be a country singer. She is a terrible singer. The whole show is just a vehicle for us to laugh at how useless the woman is.

Strangely enough they all seem to be E! channel shows, but next in line is the Girls Next Door playboy show. Its really weird to see that old man, whomever he is, having a harem of bleach blonde girls as his girlfriends. They have a 9pm curfew, its just really really weird. All three of the girls really believe that they like him and are not just there for the money, but they are just kidding themselves. The one girl Kendra I think is just a 24/7 ass shaking machine. At least they know how to sell the show.

Please die, reality TV...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Dual Screen
Well the stink of that last movie was completely wiped clean by going to see the Wedding Crashers. That was some seriously funny shit. It had a few weak points, but I laughed a lot and would definitely recommend it. Even though I'm not a big Vince Vaughn fan, he was really good in this movie. I don't know what I want to see next, but the preview for the Transporter 2 actually looked pretty cool. In a mindless action movie sort of way.

Of course the real weekend acttion hasn't started quite yet, as the shiny new silver DS is charging as we speak. Its orange light is taunting me, not letting me play its games. Rachael got excited about the in store demo's and we snagged on today, bring me into the ranks of the super game nerd with PSP and DS chilling next to each other. I also got Death Jr. for PSP so I can start playing some true DS game action. So far what I've played at the laundromat was pretty fun, but it hurts my thumb a little to use the analog thingy. Good to have the old gal back in action anyway. For DS we bought feel the magic, though I think Rachael might be itching for Nintendogs later on. Me, I think I'll get Meteos next down the line, but obviously no rush since I just opened the thing out of the package.

Should be a good week overall, I've got the free Oslo show in town on Wednesday, then the Minibosses play in Portland on Friday in an arcade full of 80's arcade games.
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

bleck
So my illness has kept me from writing what I was going to a couple of days ago. Tuesday I had free passes for an advance screening of the 40 year old virgin, which looked kinda funny. Man it was a zoo though. With free movies people seem to think that they are entitled to be assholes and or very rowdy. The place was full, which is fine but we got stuck next to these lame radio station people who were "hosting the thing". Some woman behind us was talking through the whole time, the woman next to Rachael smelled really nasty like she was dipped in old lady perfume. If it was super potent from one seat away, i can only imagine the stink right next to her. Then the dude next to stink-lady starts talking on his cell phone, which was so loud I could hear the other person. Basically it was so distracting that we just left only 10 minutes or so into the movie. The sad part is that it seemed pretty funny from what I saw. It has nearly the same cast as Anchorman, and it was really dirty. The opening has Carell in his house which is full of Star Wars toys which I thought was funny, especially in light of my apartment :)

Unfortunately Tuesday was the day I started to feel like shit, which is continuing on today, possibly getting better. Hopefully hours of Madden 06 can cure my disease.
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