Wednesday, February 25, 2009
TRUE PREDICTIONS
1. The Watchmen movie will be horrible.
2. The Atlanta Braves will finish in third place in the NL East, with a record of 84-78. Vasquez will be better than expected, Lowe will meet expectations almost exactly, Kawakami and Jurrjens will disappoint. Hanson will debut in the summer and show flashes of dominance amid general inconsistency. The Braves, Mets, and Phillies will all beat up on the Nationals and the NL West and Central clubs not based in Chicago and LA.
3. The controversy over Resident Evil 5's racial offensiveness will be overwhelmed by the controversy over its disappointing mediocrity.
4. All the people saying Bobby Jindal sounds like Jack McBrayer will be at a loss whent hey inevitably encounter a third person with a Southern accent.
5. The backlash to the backlash over the Slumdog Millionaire backlash is about to get a backlash.
6. Nobody will click on these links to my Creative Loafing pieces: my thoughts on the New York Comic Con, and a preview of Sony's forthcoming DC Universe Online MMO.
1. The Watchmen movie will be horrible.
2. The Atlanta Braves will finish in third place in the NL East, with a record of 84-78. Vasquez will be better than expected, Lowe will meet expectations almost exactly, Kawakami and Jurrjens will disappoint. Hanson will debut in the summer and show flashes of dominance amid general inconsistency. The Braves, Mets, and Phillies will all beat up on the Nationals and the NL West and Central clubs not based in Chicago and LA.
3. The controversy over Resident Evil 5's racial offensiveness will be overwhelmed by the controversy over its disappointing mediocrity.
4. All the people saying Bobby Jindal sounds like Jack McBrayer will be at a loss whent hey inevitably encounter a third person with a Southern accent.
5. The backlash to the backlash over the Slumdog Millionaire backlash is about to get a backlash.
6. Nobody will click on these links to my Creative Loafing pieces: my thoughts on the New York Comic Con, and a preview of Sony's forthcoming DC Universe Online MMO.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
at least just click through the link okay
I went down to New York a couple of weeks ago. I saw some good bands play, hung out with Rippy and other friends, but spent most of my time at the New York Comic Con. A lot of video games were demoed at the Con, and I'll be writing about what I played for Creative Loafing over the next few days. The first post is now up, focusing on Sega's upcoming line-up for the Wii; please go take a look, and help earn me and the Loaf a little bit of money.
I went down to New York a couple of weeks ago. I saw some good bands play, hung out with Rippy and other friends, but spent most of my time at the New York Comic Con. A lot of video games were demoed at the Con, and I'll be writing about what I played for Creative Loafing over the next few days. The first post is now up, focusing on Sega's upcoming line-up for the Wii; please go take a look, and help earn me and the Loaf a little bit of money.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
R.I.P.
update: Looks like they're not going totally out of business, just cutting off distributing other labels. Here's a Chicago Sun times article
Monday, February 16, 2009
good flyer for a good show
designed by Mark Robinson, who's in Cotton Candy
if you're in or around New England in early April, come to this thing
designed by Mark Robinson, who's in Cotton Candy
if you're in or around New England in early April, come to this thing
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
embarrassments
Thanks to Gmail's excellent memory and autopopulation of text, the email I just wrote to a Sega PR contact that was supposed to have the subject line "hey!" wound up being titled "hey mom!" instead. There goes my review copy of Sonic and the Everlengthening Subtitles.
Thanks to Gmail's excellent memory and autopopulation of text, the email I just wrote to a Sega PR contact that was supposed to have the subject line "hey!" wound up being titled "hey mom!" instead. There goes my review copy of Sonic and the Everlengthening Subtitles.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
new york this weekend
Damn. I'm going to the New York Comic Con this weekend, which will be awesome, but now not nearly as awesome as it could've been; apparently Grant Morrison's cancelled his appearances. He's one of maybe two or three people alive today that I'd actually want an autograph from. Damn.
Also going to check out at least one and perhaps two of those Nodzzz / Blank Dogs / Woods / Wavves / Gary War shows this weekend. Excited about that. Hopefully the wavves of hype don't make either show a pain to get into or enjoy.
Damn. I'm going to the New York Comic Con this weekend, which will be awesome, but now not nearly as awesome as it could've been; apparently Grant Morrison's cancelled his appearances. He's one of maybe two or three people alive today that I'd actually want an autograph from. Damn.
Also going to check out at least one and perhaps two of those Nodzzz / Blank Dogs / Woods / Wavves / Gary War shows this weekend. Excited about that. Hopefully the wavves of hype don't make either show a pain to get into or enjoy.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
in this brief interlude from the 5th anniversary MP3 mixes, I bring you my best music of 2008 MP3 mix
I said I'd do it, and here it's done. You can grab it here.
The tracklist:
1. Sic Alps, "Massive Place"
2. Blank Dogs, "Blaring Speeches"
3. Kurt Vile, "Freeway"
4. Endless Boogie, "The Manly Vibe"
5. Love Is All, "New Beginnings"
6. Krysmopompas, "Cola ohne Koka - Du Schwein"
7. Times New Viking, "Drop Out"
8. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, "Cold Son"
9. Zola Jesus, "Soeur Sewer"
10. No Age, "Sleeper Hold"
I said I'd do it, and here it's done. You can grab it here.
The tracklist:
1. Sic Alps, "Massive Place"
2. Blank Dogs, "Blaring Speeches"
3. Kurt Vile, "Freeway"
4. Endless Boogie, "The Manly Vibe"
5. Love Is All, "New Beginnings"
6. Krysmopompas, "Cola ohne Koka - Du Schwein"
7. Times New Viking, "Drop Out"
8. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, "Cold Son"
9. Zola Jesus, "Soeur Sewer"
10. No Age, "Sleeper Hold"
