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Catch up

Everything

Time for a quick game of catch up.

The new albums by Audioslave and Method Man, “Revelations” and “4:21…The Day After”, respectivly, are both fantastic. Fans of Rock and Rap can’t go wrong with these discs.

Dead Rising for the xbox 360 is a fantastic game, a true showcase for next gen games. It’s got a shitty DRE problem that seems to pop up once a game session that is irratating but it’s not a game killer. A sequel is a no brainer (not a zombie pun, I swear) and would be very easy to make better than the original. Namly, online co-op. Lots of great games coming out really. Company of Heros on the PC, NBA 2k7, NHL 07, Saints Row for 360, Yakuza and Okami on the PS2. The Tokyo Game Show is happening as we speak with a lot of good info coming out and X06 is next week where MS should be showing us 360 a whole lot to look foward to.

My apologies to rapper T.I after I talked shit about him a few weeks ago. I watched ATL and really liked him in it so he doesn’t suck as much as I said he did.

Howard Stern continues to suck ass. May Opie and Anthony (and lil Jimmy Norton) continue to stomp a mud hole in his greedy, egotistical, lying ass.

I’m hungry so I’m going to go eat Gods gift to man: Pizza.

Sorry that I’ve been ignoring you

Everything, Movies

It’s been a combination of being busy with the mundane and not having anything really interesting to write about.

Looks like summer (read: not cold) weather has hit NJ. It’s a welcome change. With the change of weather I’m looking to make myself more creative. The plan is to make a movie with John, it’s been far too long since our last project and we need to get something going. I’m sick of being stagnant. Hopefully Xmen 3 will stir my creative juices. I just wish Brett Ratner didn’t direct it. I hate him.

My main goal is to write more, so this month should see many more updates.

Also: see Grandma’s Boy. It’s outragous.

Some random mentions

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My new CPU fan came today, Jon and I should be installing it today. Then we are nuking my main drive and putting a fresh XP install. That’ll probably take 3 hours to get everything running 100%. A ton of software/hardware updates need to be done. Pain in the ass, but the computer needs it. My DVD burner is messed up, I’m hoping this will fix it.

If anyone is looking for a new mouse, you gotta get the Logitech wireless MX Laser mouse. I think it’s the MX 200. 55 bucks on Amazon and it’s awesome. Really comfortable, a charge last a long time and it only takes an hour to recharge it to 100%.

Howard Stern started his Sirius career today. He got a rediculous stock share from pulling in the most subscribers SIRI has ever seen in a quarter. Retarded, yes, but I own SIRI stock so if the company keeps doing well, I’m going to do well too. Now if my XM stock will go back up, I’ll be doing really well.

Another random bit, Optimum Voice works really well. If you have a phone bill that goes over $35 bucks a month, there is no reason not to switch. You get a ton of features and never have to worry about long distance charges. The voice quality is tops too.

I’ll be back again when my computer is back in prime form.

Still not a millionaire

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Damn the lottery for me not winning it. The Mega Millions in NJ was up to 260 million and I didn’t win. No one did and it’s now at a mind boggling 310 million dollars. Better believe I’m going to play again.

I’m still fighting off that bug I got last week. I think it’s allergies more than a bug. I don’t feel shitty, but I got some weird ass cough thing going. I sleep fine so that’s a plus.

Let’s see, what else? Potter 4 hits theatres on Friday and I can’t wait. I haven’t looked foward to a movie like this in awhile. All the buzz say it’s amazing and I got my IMAX tickets waiting for me. Expect a review after I see it. Last movie I went to was Saw II with John and I thought it was a worthy sequel. Aside from one character going bat shit insane for no reason, it was good.

In an effort to make some money, I’ve bought some shares in Sirius Satallite Radio. For me that’s like sleeping with the enemy, but this could turn in to some money. I already have XM stock as my investment but I’m getting in on SIRI on the cheap end and if things go the way I think they will, I’ll be able to sell it early next year and make some money. If it takes off that would be completely bad ass. In some what related news, I still think Howard Stern sucks and Opie and Anthony kick his ass every single day of the week.

Oh, I have 3 Gamecube games up on ebay for mad cheap so look up scudnick and buy em. They’re up till Wednesday night.

Lastly, my sister and nephew are in town for the week. Danny continues to grow into the complete pimp that is just waiting to get out. He charms everyone, he’s really smart (kinda scary actually) and he’s funny. If you’re unsure of where you belly button is, he can let you know. I’ll put up some pictures sometime this week.

QUOTE OF THE DAY (oh man, I found my Ramapo quote file. Be prepared for a lot of these.)

“Hey Bagels…how do you like your meat? In your fist?”
-Mr. Moe (week of November, 2001)

On my day off

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I felt like ass again today and since I barely slept, I called outta work today. Woke up really late and did a lot of nothing. But, I did some serious maintainence on my computer. Cleaned it out, updated all the software that keeps it running like a champ. I spent at least 3 hours on my MP3 library. Used MusicBrainz to get the proper tags for my collection and it renamed everything correctly. Then I organized the shit out if it, made some new folders, combined things, got rid of broken and dup files. My MP3 folder looks tight as hell now. Then I did the necessary changes to Winamp making/changing the lists I have. I also looked for a new Winamp skin but the 3 year old MMD3 still remains far and away the best one available. You may be asking, why didn’t I just use iTunes for this? Well I hate apple and anything that looks like brushed metallic. More than that, I’ve tried iTunes 3 times and everytime it would lose the tracks in the list and simply not work. So fuck ’em I say. Winamp does everything I need, barely uses resources and kicks ass in general. For those curious it, I have 1400 mp3s. I still have CDs I haven’t ripped, but that is the bulk of it.

Oh and I recieved the first disc for Outlaw Star and watched it today. One of my top 5 animes and I’m not sure if I’ve seen the whole series. It’s been awhile since I watched it on Adult Swim (and the DVDs are uncensored). Speaking of DVDs, I’m getting an upgrade from Netflix for a month from a class action lawsuit settlement. Holla.

Stay frosty my friends.

Go get it

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I got the Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection and it’s a sight to be hold. Any C & H fan should get this book…hit up Overstock.com to get it for a fucking STEAL. Also, Franz Ferdinand dropped a new CD last week and it’s really good. Great toe tapper with a hint of funk that makes your rump move. Some fantastic drumming and musical soul on this album.

The HP OfficeJet 5600

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Bought a new printer today, was originally going to get a networkable printer, but after some discussion, we figured it wasn’t needed. BUT, this bad boy is a printer/scanner/copier/fax machine. I tried out the copier and it’s pretty fucking sweet. Should get to use the fax machine soon for sending out resumes and shit…only think that seems weird is that the ink cartridges are really small. Makes me wonder how long ink will last on this thing. The carts they give you are like 1/4 full so that’s not a good test and they don’t give you a USB cord to hook it up to your computer. Damn cheapskates.

In more life related news, I’m going to turn down a job (more like temp job) with Mercedes. Basically, it’s a making their digital archive of all their promotional material and such. It’s in the Media Production office, but I would be doing nothing to do with my career. The pay is bad ass, but it’s part time and the odds of being let go when the project is done is very high. Sure it’s Mercedes and that makes eyes bulge when you say it, but the negatives out weigh the positives.

Entertainment Update

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Today Ong Bak and Season 2 of Nip/Tuck came out on DVD. I picked up Ong Bak (it needs to be seen just for the fight scenes alone) and was going to get both seasons of Nip/Tuck to get a bonus $10 off, but they didn’t have any season 1 sets. So I was put those bad boys on my “to get sometime in the future” list.

I also got this thing called an iGrip which I saw Bagels buy like 2 weeks ago. It’s meant for an ipod, but you can put you phone/keys/sunglasses or whatever on it and it doesn’t slide around. It’s seriously one of the greatest inventions ever. It’s like a thin piece of rubber that has a sticky bottom on it that holds it in place (you can move it wherever it’ll stick, it doesn’t leave any residue behind). So you put you shit on it, and it won’t move. I mean it. You can whip around corners and your phone won’t move when it’s on this grip pad. I copied Bagels and put it on the center arm rest. For 6 bucks everyone should have this thing.

So I went to see the 40 Year Old Virgin with Bagels and Kyle and about 30 minutes in we’re evacuated. Seriously. Good ol’ Palisades mall. The movie shuts off, emergency lights start blinking and a recording comes on and tells us to basically get the hell out. So we did. But the rest of the mall didn’t seem to be alert to what was going on. We went into Barnes and Noble for like 20 minutes and see that they gate is open and basically nothing is wrong. We go back in and get our money back. But that’s it. No explaination, no apology and most importantly, no free shit. So fuck that noise, I’m going to write a letter to Lowes and bitch. I should get some coupons out of it. That’s the goal anyway. It was a shitty experiance really. Now I’m never going to make it back to the theatres to see it. Gotta wait for the DVD as Transporter 2 is next on the lists for movies to see.

There’s some good stuff coming out on DVD real soon. Actually September is going to be insane in terms of releases. Burnout 4 (!!!!) comes out on the 14th or so, some quality looking movies look to be released, Season 3 on Nip/Tuck starts on the 20th (I can’t fucking wait. I mean it. It’s been a year since season 2). Korn has their new album looming which will by the sounds of it come out in October or November now…good times.

After 8 months of playing, I quit World of Warcraft. After putting in about 30 days of game time I just had to stop. I plan on going back for the expansion pack which hasn’t even been announced yet so it’ll be awhile. I have some pictures I’ll put up when I get around to it.