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Utter…complete…geekgasm

29-Apr-09

After June 16th, I may never leave the house until it’s time to go to Vegas.

1UP already stole my headline

21-Apr-09

Rock out with your block out was pretty obvious, to be fair.  I can’t make up my mind how I feel about this.  On the one hand, the concept I find to be pretty stupid, but then I don’t have kids.  But I’d kill to have two or three of the songs on that brief […]

Canon fodder

20-Apr-09

“Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation, they’re not a record…” –       Leonard Shelby, Memento Given Hollywood’s propensity for mining old ideas for new revenue streams, we’ve all heard these complaints at one time or another: They’ve […]

Domo arigato, Harmonix

17-Apr-09

Harmonix announces that next week’s downloadable content for Rock Band will include a 7-song pack of REO Speedwagon and Styx. Jesus, if they’d only mix in some Van Halen, I could recreate the Texxas Jam in my living room.  I’m regressing back to my youth in the best possible way. Update: The Texxas Living Room […]

Out of the closet basement theater and into the streets

16-Apr-09

The way I figure it, one has to be hardcore geek about something if they’ll agree to wear a fur coat for it.  In Texas.  In August. Granted it was for a job, and only the second one I’d ever had, but I still think it says something.  I’d begun working at the discount/second run […]