Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Baker Street warehouse jam
Big ups to Bren for posting this on twitter...one of the raddest moments from SX
Monday, March 23, 2009
speakin' of SX
Saw Metallica while I was there and they covered this song...Dark, you may appreciate this
MadWorld review for the Boston Herald
I wrote this here thing. MadWorld was promising, and the fifteen minutes I played at NYCC were a blast, but the finished product wears pretty damn thin. Still pretty great if you just play it for an hour or so.
I wrote this here thing. MadWorld was promising, and the fifteen minutes I played at NYCC were a blast, but the finished product wears pretty damn thin. Still pretty great if you just play it for an hour or so.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
so I finally saw Watchmen yesterday
I didn't much care for it. There's a lot of good in there - Jackie Earle Haley, the opening credits, the Dr. Manhattan and Comedian backstory portions, the overall visual aesthetic - but it's regularly undercut by poor acting and the director's obnoxious stylistic tricks. Malin Akerman is an emotionless chunk of cardboard, Carla Gugino hammed it up like it was Guiding Light, and Matthew Goode put me to sleep whenever Ozymandias was on screen. The most ridiculous sex scene ever and the unnecessarily extreme violence didn't help much, either. Still, the worst thing is the horrible slow-motion, which pops up in basically every important scene, no matter what's happening. It makes the fight scenes feel like the damned Matrix (sorry, Ice, that movie blows), and the non-fight scenes feel like sledgehammers of meaning slamming against our skulls. My biggest fear about this movie was that there'd be absolutely no subtlety whatsoever, and little humanity, and that's exactly what happened. It's basically a three-hour long music video / commercial.
I didn't much care for it. There's a lot of good in there - Jackie Earle Haley, the opening credits, the Dr. Manhattan and Comedian backstory portions, the overall visual aesthetic - but it's regularly undercut by poor acting and the director's obnoxious stylistic tricks. Malin Akerman is an emotionless chunk of cardboard, Carla Gugino hammed it up like it was Guiding Light, and Matthew Goode put me to sleep whenever Ozymandias was on screen. The most ridiculous sex scene ever and the unnecessarily extreme violence didn't help much, either. Still, the worst thing is the horrible slow-motion, which pops up in basically every important scene, no matter what's happening. It makes the fight scenes feel like the damned Matrix (sorry, Ice, that movie blows), and the non-fight scenes feel like sledgehammers of meaning slamming against our skulls. My biggest fear about this movie was that there'd be absolutely no subtlety whatsoever, and little humanity, and that's exactly what happened. It's basically a three-hour long music video / commercial.
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That's why they don't let me write the headlines.
I've got a joint review of MLB '09: The Show and MLB 2K9 in today's Boston Herald, and a review of Street Fighter IV in this week's Weekly Dig. And, as always, more soon-ish on Creative Loafing's blog. They just revamped that place, and it looks good. Yes sir.
That's why they don't let me write the headlines.
I've got a joint review of MLB '09: The Show and MLB 2K9 in today's Boston Herald, and a review of Street Fighter IV in this week's Weekly Dig. And, as always, more soon-ish on Creative Loafing's blog. They just revamped that place, and it looks good. Yes sir.
Monday, March 09, 2009
French songs
So I'm gonna be DJing at this place in Austin tonight for like 20 minutes or something and I wanted there to be a theme for the set. I think I'm just gonna go with songs that are sung in French. So far I've got:
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
Dat Politics - Si
Marie Laforet - Paint It Black
I'd like to keep it somewhat up tempo...any suggestions?
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
GOOD GOD NOT MORE LINKS TO STUPID THINGS I'VE WRITTEN
Two game-related things worth ignoring: my Creative Loafing review of GTA IV: The Lost and Damned, and my Weekly Dig review of Halo Wars.
Two game-related things worth ignoring: my Creative Loafing review of GTA IV: The Lost and Damned, and my Weekly Dig review of Halo Wars.
