or, "Super big, super bad." I got two days worth to cover, so we'll see how mega this mother will get.
Tuesday Treble
1) The TNA legacy set hits Wal-Mart. The set includes the Victory Road, Turning Point (which I have), and Lockdown shows. Catch is, price tag is $24.95 ($19.99 online), which is the price of just one of these shows from Highspots or the TNA website. Ain't shabby, plus I'm just damn curious how an all-cage match PPV comes off.
2) Blackalicious - "The Craft" (CD). Their "Blazing Arrow" CD was so damn good, why it didn't get a Grammy ... well, really doesn't surprise me, as Grammys don't go to music that's worth shit.
3) Capcom Classics Collection for PS2, which will certainly be worth the $20, for five small words ... "Final Fight" and "Street Fighter II."
I seriously need to get my digital camera working, because my neck of South Carolina is full of pretty damn awesome billboards. One that I'm hopefully going to get on the journal one day is the "Have you been hurt by PORN?" billboard on the way to Greenville.
But driving home in the past few days, I had been completely oblivious to this new one that's been put up near me. When I noticed it, I almost swerved off the road. It's a picture of a trash can, and the tag next to it says, "This is no place for a baby." Underneath, the billboard "promises" you that you can leave any child with the nearby emergency room, no questions asked, no prosecution, no problem.
Let me get this straight: You can birth some illegitimate baby, and in an effort to keep infanticide down amongst single teen mothers, the state/federal government is basically saying that you can abandon your newborn child at a local hospital one night, be having sex and making more fucking bastard babies the next.
Someone tell me again how this is a better option than abortion as a birth control method. I mean, seriously, why even fucking make condoms anymore?? Oh right, to protect against STDs. Now, at what point can you leave your HIV(+) friend at the ER for the state to care for?
'80's TV Much Love Haiku Review
Danger Mouse: "The World Of Machines"
Greenback traps DM;
Penfold again proves his worth.
"Follow the arrows."
My exam hits the streets Thursday. There's this girl that's just bucking for extra credit, 'cause if she wears that skirt she wore to the study session - the one where I can almost see her holiest of holies - I'm taking her test up and giving her a 100 on the spot. Although granted, if she wears the skirt on Thursday that she wore to the study session, I probably will lose all interest, 'cause if that bitch ain't washing her clothes, that's not all she ain't washing.
CD Of The Now: Stanton Moore - "Flyin' the Coop"
The Galactic skinsman drops philosophical shit on this album. Great drum driven jazz on this, and when I first heard it I could have sworn it was classic Gene Krupa from the '50's-60's ... maybe even further back to the classic '30's-40's era. Plus, for MMW fans, Chris Wood pops up on here to lend some bass on "Tang The Hump." Definitely a 2 3/4 count.
Speaking of music, who the fuck told the Black Eyed Peas that their shit didn't stink? Because this new song that they've got out about some chick's ass ... fucking horrible. What is it, "my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps?" How awesome that must be, to be a 3 yr old & writing the lyrics for such a hot mainstream group.
This further solidifies my belief that music is further slipping into the stagnant shit of mediocrity being the rule rather than the exception. Used to be a CD had enough quality music on it that you could listen to each track and enjoy them on their merits; now, it's good enough that a new CD has "you know, that one song on it where she says 'shake shake it up' over and over" on it and it gets 4 out of 5 stars by 824 like-minded music hating shitheads on Amazon.
Know thee this: I think the team of Junkyard Dog & Rodney Dangerfield have this shit sewn up.
This month's RetroGamer has all three "The Last Ninja" chapters available for upload and immersion. I remember when I used to fuck this game up in the day. The shogun Kunitoki better watch the hell out. Yeah boyeeee.
And that's all I had for yesterday ...
Wednesday Bass
SGM 4x4
Top 4 zombies in film: 1) The "Tar Man" (Return Of The Living Dead); 2) The Conquistador (Zombie); 3)"Big Daddy" (Land Of The Dead) ; 4) "Michael Jackson" (Return Of The Living Dead 2)
Top 4 kung-fu movie deaths: 1) The death of Oscar ("The Story of Riki"); 2) One of the ninjas gets pulled apart by the arms and legs ("Chinese Super Ninjas"); 3) The beheading of the samurai's second ("Duel to the Death," dig the crazy last words); 4) Any victim of the dreaded flying guillotine ("Master of the Flying Guillotine")
Top 4 best phobias: 1) Osmophobia (body odor); 2) Genuphobia (knees); 3) Octophobia/ Triskadekaphobia (tie) (the numbers 8 & 13, respectively; apparently there is nothing to fear from any of the other numbers ... although 77 looks a little suspicious); 4) Counterphobia (fear itself)
Top 4 best things I've done so far this week: 1) Finished "Blood Will Tell." 2) Slept until 2Pm Monday. 3) Watched Homicide matches on DVD ... that's one crazy fucker. 4) Wrote an exam that includes references to Poe, mythology, and zombies.
The guy behind the counter at the comic shop in Anderson rang up my copy of "JSA: Classified #3" and blurts out, "Man, Iwish I knew where they were going with [Power Girl]; is she a part of the Legion, or Atlantean, or Kryptonian? It's really pissing me off; I gotta know."
Clearly, I'm not the only one who needs some time off from work.
We're having our "employee of the year" voting at our clinic.
I vote for my supervisor, in this anonymous ballot we have. He's an alright dude, who really knows his shit, keeps it together, and acts a true professional within the community. I'd be lying if I didn't say that I wouldn't have my feeling hurt if I won it; been a fucker of a year, but I didn't quit, like most of my contemporaries. Fuck them, I'm still standing on the hill. But it'll probably go to one of the gashes I call my female colleagues.
Getting sick as a mother, which is about what I expected ... I jinxed myself when I told everyone that with my luck, I'd get sick during this, my only week off since the beginning of the year.
This shit isn't my luck. It's gotta be someone else's. My luck in basking on a beach or in Toronto.
Steal this book - Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies & The Truth About Reality, by Brad Warner. Read it and question all you know.
Taylor Behl's missing. Who the fuck is this, you ask? Some stinking cooze that's missing from a Virginia college. They're interviewing her "best friend" and they're asking her about this 38 yr old cat named Ben Fawley that she apparently gave it up to & allowed him to take pictures of her scantily-clad body and post 'em on the internet.
Now, the best part of all this is that the guy who they have identified as a "person of interest" (now, itsn't that such a pretty phrase for "suspect") has a prior record. But, due to what the cooze's friend says, first momma's baby Taylor gave it up to the guy, then wanted nothing else to do with him. However, NO questions asked about this guy who the friend calls "this boyfriend that she had just started going out with." The friend couldn't even remember the new boyfriend's name, that's how tight that relationship was.
Maybe Taylor snuck off and met with that chick who went missing in Aruba ... I wish I was creative enough at this time to link this with JonBenet Ramsey, the "Runaway Bride", and Susan Smith, but you know, it isn't worth it. I barely care about the lives of the general public, why do I care about some anonymous face in the crowd whose whole 15 min of fame is comprised of shit like this?
Muhammed Hassan has been released from the WWF. The last I saw of this guy, he was leading a group of ski-masked guys in an attack on the Undertaker, who put up a valiant fight but was ultimately overtaken by a guy who used a garrot to choke him out.
Love "sports entertainment," truly I do. And on the flip side of this, I've been watching a wrestler called Homicide stiff the shit out of everyone he's been in the ring with & who's now for some undisclosed reason "not allowed to leave the state of NY." That's wrestling, motherfucker.
Wednesday is Appreciation Day.
I appreciate the hell out of "Ghost Hunters." It's easily probably one of the best shows on TV nowadays. A group of supernatural investigators go house to house and try to find proof of the existence of the paranormal. But, here's the thing: whenever they meet claims or alleged activity, the first thing they do is test the null hypothesis, that there is no activity other than some real-world phenomenon that better explains your experience.
Of course, this means that you have to sit through a whole lotta nothing getting found before you get to that one stray EVP where a disembodied voice is heard to say, "They don't want us here." Awsomely creepy stuff; I actually tried to get the TAPS team to come down to speak for my class, but I couldn't get the Psyc dept chair to fund their appearance fee.
Now, on to some reader mail:
This one comes from a reader named "damnnearfonzie," who writes:
"Where'd you hear about this game ["Blood Will Tell"] at Nate? You've got a rep for pinching pennies and purchasing kick-ass games while balling on a budget...but this is a game i'd like to hear more about. Sounds very innovative, at least storywise. Is it a Japanese convert? Or a straight out American game?
"Do you have a top 5 list of the best budget games you've purchased for the PS2? Say, nothing more than 25 bones.
"And if both new systems were out today-given you have enough cash to buy either, which ould you purchase? The Playstation3 or the X-Box 360?"
Well, I subscribe to a good number of gamer mags (actually, two ... but it's a good number anyway). They ranked it pretty high for a game that hasn't had much mainstream press. It's a "Japanese convert," I guess, in that it is a story based around a samurai character, it's set in Japan, it was orignally released in Japan under the title "Dororo," and it's written by Osamu Tezuka, creator of "Astro Boy." I guess that'd make it a Japanese "convert."
As for a top 5 budget titles, that's an easy one: 1) Rocky; 2) Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick; 3) Katamari Damacy; 4) Viewtiful Joe; 5) Sonic Mega Collection. These are games that were $20 when they first came out, not games that started out around $40-50 then got marked down. That's a good list to start from.
Of the Playstation 3 or the X-Box 360, given the choice I guess I'll go with the PS3. But, if I had my way, I'd invest in a C64 emulator and play the hell out of some of the games I grew up with.
Peace out for another day.
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