| | Hey guys... again, long time no see! Before I begin, enjoy the fruits of the interwebs:
Been keeping busy with work at the daycare (I'm painting a mural, it has giraffes and jellyfish and space ships.... I'll try to get a pic here asap, I promise!) and of course illustration (mostly CD covers, bussiness cards, website design and some web illustration, also I trying to get to do a magazine cover for a local magazine), and whenever I get free time I'm prolly playing Team Fortress 2 or Rock Band (and my poor Wii waits patiently in the corner, collecting dust, until Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes out... in March... also my DS hasn't seen too much activity in the past month either). But you know what? My xanga has been long overdue for an update, and so... here we are.
Cloverfield
Yup, I'm gonna be talking about Cloverfield now, so if you haven't seen it yet and don't want to be spoiled... well... you can skip this section if you like... but lemme just first say, I freakin' LOVED Cloverfield. Suspenseful. As. Hell. It's like if that Matthew Broderic Godzilla movie was beaten to death and sodomized by The Descent movie. Hearth pumping scary-scary shit.
On a relative scale, the movie was (a lot) better than Transformers, but still not as kick ass as Kill Bill. A solid Charlie's Angles quality movie if you were to ask for my opinion... heck I'm in a good mood, about Paycheck level quality even. For those curious, yes the entire movie is shot from the point of view of a guy with a camcorder, but (thank god) the film itself is not crummy cam-corder quality (only for the first 10 mins of the movie its "this is obviously a cam-corder", after that, the cam-corder quality of the film and the shaky-ness of the camera all but disapear, and the focus is more on the pure 1st person view direction of the movie).
As far as the plot goes: a giant monster attacks New York. Period. Where did it come from? Who knows? Who cares? Who - OH SHI---!!! IT'S REPRODUCING and if the mini-crab offspring monsters bite you it releases a toxin into your blood that causes your bloodcells to reproduce and divide at an alarming rate until your begin hemmoraging, vomiting, and crying blood until OH $@&# (splatter)!! And if the monster and it's blood-toxin offspring weren't enough, the millitary has assembled to bomb the crap outta the monster, DON'T GET CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE!! RATTA TATTA RATTA TATTA BOOOOM, etc.!!!
Oh yes.
So was Cloverfield a good movie? Yes, it was a very good movie: 8.5/10
Now I wanna, kinda, sorta start watching Lost, to see what that's all about (Lost director J.J. Abrams also directed Cloverfield... but you knew that already, I'm sure... so why did I just write that... I'm not so sure). And speaking of TV shows, has anyone had a chance to catch the show Dexter? It on Showtime, CBS and you can also download it from iTunes. I've already watched the first two seasons (is there a season 3, is there?!), and the show is great. The show is about Dexter (really?!) a police forensics officer by day, serial killer killer by night (thats not a typo). Dexter is a serial killer, but he only goes after other serial killers who slip through the cracks of the legal system to give them their just desserts. Working for the police is a double edge sword though, Dexter can cover his tracks but it also puts him in the line of getting caught easily if he doesn't cover his tracks. Funny and suspenceful Dexter is really awesome, check it out if you can.
Also I got a new 4GB iPod Nano Video to replace my old 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle. Now I can finally "listen" to movies and tv when I drive or go to the mall or whatever (and choose my tracks instead of constant shuffle... I don't need to tell you that my Rock Band playlist gets the most attention). No, I don't need to "watch" my videos, all of my DVDs I've already seen like, 8+ times each, I just need to listen to them, and that's more than good enough for me (Handbrake DVD to iPod video converter, it's free so download it already if you have an iPod video!!). Like The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Clone High, Dexter, and Futurama episodes... and some movies like Paycheck, Constantine, Cars, Mulan, Contact (ufufu!) and also the new Futurama (straight to DVD) movie, Bender's Big Score.
Like Futurama, The Simpsons went and made a movie... and it could never be as good as this. Also like Futurama, Family Guy was cancelled, (and likewise) when it came back it could never be as good as this. more or less picks up right where the last episode left off. The actors are as stellar as before, the writing is as clever as ever and the artwork is so goodamn gorgeous (the final space battle for earth with the dozens of Golden Death Stars... epic). Time travel, dementional rifts, alternate realities, and not to mention a TON of callbacks from the show (and I don't wanna spoil anything, but you know those episodes about Fry's dog Seymor and his nephew who was also named Phillip Fry all from the year 2000... throw in some time travel and you will have an epic, epic fanboy moment, oh yes... yes)... To top it of, Bender's Big Score was really nothing more than an introduction, a set-up piece realy, to the next DVD movie (there will be 4 total) The Beast With a Billion Backs (there is a trailer for it on the Benders Big Score DVD), all I can say is it looks like it is made out of pure awesome.
Bender's Big Score gets an 11/10 because it is that badass.
Now it wouldn't be an update without me talking about video games, now would it? Truth be told, since my last update thou, all I have been playing is Rock Band and Team Fortress 2 (on Xbox360, my gamertag is "journies end" btw!) and also an eensy-weensy bit of Half Life 2 on the side, game is so repetitive though, its pretty and sci-fi-sy with an interesting story to boot, but I'm on Highway 17 level right now... drive - shoot bad guys - solve puzzle - drive - shoot bad guys - solve puzzle - repeat ad nauseum. Rock Band is great because Harmonix releases 3 downloadable songs a week (each song is a different genre, something for everyone), and Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is just... fun. The game has so much character and polish, aaaaaand judging from internet forums, its just one of those games everyone loves (kinda like Smash Bros., Mario Kart, or Pokemon, so open and easy to pick up everyone just loves it). You can't even swing a baseball bat on an internet gaming forum without hitting a TF2 topic (with fanart and game clever in game snapshots to boot).
Beyond that, I am looking forward to Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for DS (new storyline in the Advance Wars cannon, new characters, new artwork, and new items!) and also No More Heroes, a Wii hack and slash that uses the Wiimote as a light-saber (and I heard it's really funny too, has a lot of buzz on the game review sites).
Hm, that' all I can really muster for now. Enjoy some more internet goodies.
Till next time!
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