Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Joker has leapt off the Brokeback Mountain.

Heath Ledger has passed away today. That's a damn shame. He was a fine actor and from what I understand an upstanding fellow. It seems to be still unclear whether this was an accident or not and apparently sleeping pills were involved. I guess Heath had been complaining a lot about not being able to stop his thoughts and going through a period of sleeping very little to not at all for a long period. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happened.

Being a huge fan of Terry Gilliam, it is also sad to hear that Heath was going to be in Terry's next project of which he was already in the middle of filming. It would have been very cool to see what Heath's talents could bring to a Terry movie.

Such is life. We are but fragile creatures.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Thank You

Thank you Martin Luther King Jr.

There are few men who have existed that are greater than you.

Humans

There is this incredibly adorable woman from Turkey who I have chatted on and off with for a few years now. Unfortunately, it is rare for us to connect often enough to have more consistent conversations due to the time zone differences of course and our busy lives. This is not the point of this entry though. The point is that we just had a very enjoyable time chatting and most of that chat was me introducing her to my blog on blogger.com and then showing her how she could easily subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog through Google Reader. With her help and just by chance, I then found out that Google apparently is working hard to translate any blog from blogger.com from one language to another automatically and as necessary. She helped me find this out when she expressed her surprise to me at how when viewing my blog it was being displayed to her in Turkish. It is efforts like this that cause me to be as much of a fan boy of Google as I am.

Again, I am straying from the point a bit. My intention, really, is to express here, since i feel i cannot express enough to her, how enjoyable it is to communicate with her and how very appreciative I am of the fact that we are able to have these communications mainly because of her understanding of my language and because of how very intelligent and computer savvy she is.

Making these kinds of connections with people from all over the world is why I love the internet so much and is also what helps give me hope that eventually we will all figure out how to come together as one. It is also a wonderful way to help fend off that feeling we sometimes have of being trapped in our own little worlds and sectioned off in our own separate little concrete rooms with no connections to each other. I am speaking on a more global international scale when I say that.

Anyway' though we have little to do directly with each others lives my good friend from Turkey, as well as all you other friends I have made over the internet through the years, I feel we have all forged small bonds that to me are very tangible and I am thankful for them.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

It's in the dictionary people. See Here It is nothing more than a word that is part of our language. Get over it you flippin' morons!! We are never going to evolve quick enough to get off of this fuckin' planet before the sun kills us when we continue to think as small minded as this. We are doomed! Sorry. Humans can frustrate me so sometimes.

"First Week 'V is for Vagina' Release 11/07/07: Good news #1 on the Billboard INDIE chart. #25 on the Billboard top 200 No Major label budget. No Major label $300,000 Bus bench/poster/billboard marketing campaign. No overpriced full page ad in every silly magazine ever printed No Promotions Dept Payola hand jobs. No shove it down your throat anything. just 100% street level, viral, word of mouth support. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. By the way... Some Friends of mine in the Garment industry sent out a flyer advertising the release. They received dozens of Complaints from Mothers who were offended by the word Vagina. Ironic, isn't it? Without a vagina they wouldn't BE mothers."

taken from the following site: Puscifer

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Game Time!

Over the years I have had the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, modified Xbox, and Xbox 360 consoles in my home and at my disposal. I found that I rarely ever played any of them. I probably played the GameCube the most out of all of them, but that total play time was still very nominal. It was not until the Wii came along that I have found myself playing games as much as I do now. It seems that Nintendo really has tapped into a change in the gaming experience that really does just work. For example, as foreign as the Wiimote and its accompanying Nunchuk looked and seemed to me in seeing it for the first time, after using it as much as I have now the traditional style of remote just isn't comfortable to me and even further does not seem to feel natural or right anymore.

Anyway, my intention with this entry was really to make mention of some of the upcoming games to the Wii that I am a little excited about and want to make sure and get. The whole of my goal was to use this entry as a way to remember them all. :-)

Well, here they are: Fugal Fantasy, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Sega Superstars Tennis, The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, Samurai Warriors Katana (this is actually available now), and Alone in the Dark.

Ok. I'm pretty much done now.