Saturday, May 3rd    They mean it like, "Wheeee!"

Has anyone seen In the Name of the King? If you have, you will appreciate this. If you haven't, I'm sorry, but I must vent.

ONE: I think it's pretty much a universal desire to stop Uwe Boll from making movies. I actually can't attribute this movie's failings to just this guy, but come on. Look at his track record. Not exactly the next Spielberg.

TWO: Jason Statham does not fit in a fantasy setting. Actually, wait, that sounds wrong. Let me start again. He does not fit in a movie with wizards and knights and magic. He's gotta have a gun or something. And he's gotta rob banks or just generally shoot things. He's an ACTION star. Stick to what you're comfortable with.

THREE: Matthew Lillard. That's a problem on its own. No need for reasoning. But half the time he's got a fake haughty-aristocrat accent and half the time he doesn't.

FOUR: Okay, Burt Reynolds. If you haven't seen the movie, I won't spoil it here, but....did anyone notice the accent issue? Someone explain!!!

FIVE: A villain must be dark and sinister and eerily charismatic in a fantasy film. This film's villain is Ray Liotta in jeans and a trenchcoat. He's supposed to be a WIZARD! I won't even go into how out of place he was, and his acting was just awful. He can do better than that.

Hopefully they'll do a rifftrax of it, or I won't be watching it again any time soon.

Anyhoo, it's late, gotta sleep.

Saturday, April 19th    No one can stop Mr. Octopus

Well, hello there, you people starving for my wisdom. And you people who stumbled upon this site looking for Zelda cheats. Again, I must apologize for my absence, but it really can't be helped. This ain't my comp, this ain't my house. If it was, I'd still be waiting for Explorer to load up. Those were the days.

What have I been doing lately, you ask? Still writing. And then I caved and bought Final Fantasy XII, a game I said I hated (I played the demo and truly did hate the thing) just because I needed something new.  It brought back memories of sitting for hours in front of a tv playing the PS2 Everquest. (which i'm sure is now defunct, but if it isn't, really, people, what else can you do out there?) Anyway, yeah, I admit it, FFXII is a masterpiece, but we rpgers are a people who cling to the familiar and hate change. They took a big risk with it but it certainly paid off.

Enough about that. Last Christmas I was happy to receive a quite extensive collection of Underworld tunes (they's my favorite!) And one of the cds just blew me away. You hafta download 'em, they're not available in stores. but anyway, the album is called Breaking and Entering. It's one massive instrumental song broken up into over a dozen songs, the best being Hungerford Bridge (which made me cry, seriously) and the rather creatively named Happy Toast. If you can find either of these songs, give 'em a listen, and I may just convert you! People have to know the magic that is Underworld! Of course, the Breaking and Entering album is quite a departure from their normal stuff....oh well.

Here's some more random songs that people have to listen to!! BAH! Expand your mind! You don't have to be sheep!

Milo - Need You Tonight, (and if you like that, check out "Valley of the Dolls") 

King Cobb Steelie - Below the Stars,  (oldie but goodie)

Dave Gahan - Endless,  (i've always thought this guy has an EXTREMELY seductive voice, he's the lead singer of Depeche Mode, if you didn't already know)

Deepest Blue - Is it a Sin (Deepest Blue Remix) (Every song should have this music.)

and, if you're lucky enough to find it, try this amazing piece of music:

Tak Matsumoto - Koi-Uta

Anyhoo, enjoy the hunt! See you later!

Friday, February 29  All I want is a field... WHERE I CAN GROW SOME RICE!

Well, did you hear me yell? Our crummy electronics stores down here all seem to have their shipments of games stuck at customs. Stupid terrorists. There's a copy taunting me at our local Movie Gallery for rent only....the manager told me to keep calling every day until they get one in. I can hear it now. "Yup, the shipment came in, we just sold the last one."  It's sad that there are several thousand untouched copies of "Barbie's Island Adventure" or whatever for like every system at every store and not one of a decent game with a cult following. I say cult but I mean addict. At least there's still dozens of those Wii hookup dealies so I can get one and download the original Paper Mario! Whee! I barely remember the thing!

I feel like redoing this whole site. I've got a lot of time to burn today, but I guess not enough to do everything. There are several pages floating in limbo that i could revive but I doubt they're coming back.

And since my doggie Kai is a leap year puppy, I'd like to wish him a happy 4th birthday. If I had a pic I'd put it here but I don't, so just imagine a dog with a goofy expression and a red collar with a stuffed Cookie Monster in his mouth. That's my little Stinker.

Saturday, February 9   Who will buy my raspberries?

Well well. Lookie here. I've been scrounging around this old place and a lot of it is fiendishly out of date. I've seen more bad movies, more good ones, heard many more songs and whatever else that top ten listed, i've got reason to revamp it. well, except the school-related things. Can't change those.

Like I already said, there's no new comics coming up any time soon. That is sad, but not final. Eventually the rebirth of frijoles and chalops will happen. And when it does, all the internet will be ablaze in excitement.

I've decided to start a new page dedicated to my newfound love of buying used movies. I've found many a gem these days, and several....um...anti-gems, but i'll show you my fledgling dvd list and perhaps you can see where my tastes lie and recommend some movies to me. I'm currently on the hunt for a movie called Wing Chun that shows up on ebay occasionally for the exhorbitant price of $70. i'm hoping someone will realize THAT IT'S JUST A FRIGGIN' MOVIE and chop down the price.

Anyhoo, i'm off to start that new page. See you next week!