While I was watching Cloverfield in the theater I kept thinking to myself, “This just doesn’t feel urgent or surprising or real enough.” Then I kind of realized that since I was sitting in a large movie auditorium I was expecting the bizarre and terrifying events more than I should have. I thought maybe if I was some random military dude in an office watching this tape on a small monitor it would have been really effective at freaking me out. So when I talked to my parents about it I basically told them not to even bother trying to see Cloverfield in the theater because not only would it be okay watching it on their TV at home, it might actually be better. J.J. Abrams agrees with me.
I imagine watching that movie on YouTube would have been so cool. I stumbled upon this little video that sort of confirms all this stuff. Check it out.
One of these days I’ll post something that requires some of my colossal brainpower. For now, have this. Kalad indicates that HE suspects Viral Marketting will have a good version out by Sunday. enjoy.
I thought it was time I contribute something. I have really been into this new type of music (for me at least) that I can only describe as being the lovechild of a three-way between punk, new wave, and electronic. This song is actually fairly tame, but be sure to check out “On The Train” by Theatre Of Disco” and “Acceptable In The 80s” by Calvin Harris.” This tune by The Black Ghosts is great. Somehow the randomness of the video plays in perfectly with the song.
So, about a year ago, 14 months or something, I went to Josh Groban’s concert at the United Center. I have a big crush on him, and this was awesome, and the whole thing was a great time. However, I have to say the best part was Lucia Micarelli.
She easily gave the most intense performance of the evening. I would be inclined to say the audience went more bananas for her than they did for sweet Joshie. In the aftermath, I called her (lovingly) the Demon Violinist. Only later did I find out lots of people were calling her that before I was.
The point of the story? Have a clip.
(Ps. In the performance I saw, there was no lead-in to the rest of the band joining her. It just … happened. In an explosion of awesome.)
I’ve been looking a long time for a simple way to share music that I like on this blog that doesn’t involve everyone needing some random account or having some special software or plugin. I think I’ve finally found something pretty good. It would be awesome if I could put it in the sidebar somehow, but a link will have to do.
It’s a somewhat new service called Muxtape (a play on the term “mix tape” that isn’t funny or clever to me at all… I might be missing something) that allows you to upload up to 12 mp3s from your personal collection and then provides an ultra-simple interface for playback that anyone can access if they know the url. I’ll try to keep this up to date and post when I find something that I like.
For anyone who actually reads this on a regular basis I have to apologize. I recently searched for and moved into a new place within the last month and have been suffering from a whirlwind of chaos as a result. I am weeks behind on my Netflix viewing, I haven’t finished Lost Odyssey (which I could have finished weeks ago), and I’m still not even close to unpacked/organized. Soon I’ll start the posting again, but until then keep checking the Random News feed in the left sidebar for various stories that interest me and notice the Twitter feeds for both myself and mythezza in the right sidebar.
PS – WordPress has been updated a little. I can’t tell if there are any new features, but the posting page looks pretty different. I feel like I’ve been gone for so long.
I think some of us should reread this, or read it the first time if you haven’t yet. Go on, go ahead, I can wait.
Did you read that?
Yeah, I had to read it a few times, too.
FFVI for DS, in July ‘09.
Stand aside, VII fanboys. It will never fail to amaze me how I and others will buy copy after copy of FFIV and FFVI. If only, if only, they were doing it for a next-gen system. I’ll take what pretty cutscenes I can get, though.
I guess that’s what the VII fanboys have on people like me, though. At least VII is a franchise, and they’re buying DIFFERENT games. You know, as opposed to the same game over and over.
Okay, so. Today’s recap? Firefox News had some pretty convincing stuff. Blizzard TOTALLY dropped the ball with completely unbelieveable jokes and a really obnoxious forum code that adds various eAcronyms (such as imo and what have you) and laugh-shorts (kekeke, lol, lawl, etc.) to the end of EVERY sentence you type in a forum post and your signature. I would link it, but it’s just too obnoxious and will probably be gone by April 2nd.
