“Chinese Democracy”, sounds like an oxymoron..kinda like the actual album! I will not for one second sit here and preach about Guns N Roses and their influence on the music industry during the mid-80s / early 90s. I won’t discredit them for their previous success. But after giving Chinese Democracy (their extremely highly anticipated and over-blown “homecoming” into the new-millenium) a thorough listen-through, I look back on all that they’ve accomplished and have begun to second guess some of those achievements. Like Jordan playing baseball and then going back to Basketball (again); Chinese Democracy seems like a great concept and not so-hot when manifested. I am sure to get a lot of flack from people after posting this, but I ask you to listen to the album and honestly ask yourself “was this worth a 17 year wait?”
Well this was a big deal for me. As an avid non-tv-watcher and casual gamer I never really had a use for one. Well that is until now.
I enjoy watching movies again. They just look so damn good, and they aren’t even blu-ray. I used to hate watching movies because my tv sucked. Now I’m looking into HD in-demand, and blu-ray.
My wii looks awesome! I know it’s not an xbox, or PS3, but the quality boost is really something else. I’m even tempted to get an xbox after the holidays.
Hockey games are awesome! Immediately after i set up the tv, I saw the Rangers win. What a night!
In short, if you have an HD, you know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, click through and let me whipser something in your ear.
It’s so simple, but it’s an amazing spin on the Presidential radio address. How easy this must be, too. I mean, I could do the same with my Mac, my iSight camera, and iMovie. But, we know already that President-Elect Obama is a Mac user…
It’s even more impressive on the site, since you can check it out in multiple online formats and download the source Quicktime file. (Oh, Google and Apple…)
In my humble opinion, Casino Royale was fantastic, almost perfect! It had a great mix of emotion, storyline, and action; things that the James Bond franchise was missing for many years under Brosnan. So one could imagine my enthusiasm to the follow-up movie in the revived Bond franchise: Quantum of Solace. Luckily, living in South East Asia has its perks, I saw the movie this past week and will now supply a review (minus the spoilers of course!).
Later this year marks the release of the highly anticipated Watchmen movie from director Zack Synder (”300″) and author Alan Moore. There’s so much hype surrounding the movie, so I decided to jump on board and ride the Watchmen train… to figure out if the story is really as compelling as people say. I approached the book with an open mind and a willingness to accept all the characters and style of writing that has made Alan Moore an icon of the graphic-novel genre! After reading the whole novel, I can honestly say to everyone: READ THIS BOOK! GO SEE THIS MOVIE! It definitely lives up to the hype. I won’t get into any spoilers, but here is my review:
No one really mentions this, but planes are amazing things. Check out the football on a TV on jetBlue. It’s absolutely amazing, in my opinion, that I can travel from Boston from Washington, DC, with minimal interruption in my NFL Sunday. Definitely somethin I think we take for granted.
WOW! That is the only word that escaped my lips when I saw the results of the election this past Tuesday. What an incredible day to be an American! God Bless Our Great Country. Just for a second think of how far we’ve come as a society! African Americans were once looked down upon so heavily that they weren’t allowed to sit at the front of a bus or drink from the same water fountain as a white person! Tuesday was proof, proof that anything can happen in our great country. Proof that we have grown as a society. Say what you will about exit polls and you can make all the claims that this was still a Election won on race, but you need to look beyond the figures and realize that for the first time the Black electorate found a voice that they believe in. This was an electorate that always viewed government as a destructive force and one that didn’t support them. Sure Obama is black, and sure he was voted in by a majority of black votes. But there’s a bigger story to be told, what about the whites that voted him in. Decades ago this sort of thing could and would never occur. The Bradley Effect could have happened and we would be exactly where we were in 1982. But instead, white, black, hispanic, young, old people all got together and voted.
During the primary election, many people had the issue of race on their minds. We might possibly have our first African American President. Videos of ignorant white people circulated the internet, labeling Obama as the “n” word, or incorrectly calling him a Muslim (which shouldn’t matter anyway). An assasination plan by Neo-Nazis was uncovered and prevented. News stories began to cover, however, the fact that polls suggested race started to become less and less of an issue for White Americans. But race DID play a role in the election. How? In ways you may or may not have expected. (Read more…)
In two minutes the polls close on the West Coast. I’ll call it soon, but this seems obvious. Whether or not you agree with the politics, this is monumental. Historical. Amazing.
