March 2009
56 posts
February 2009
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LittleBig Contra →
This is why LittleBigPlanet is one of the most ingenious games ever made. It allows its users to make anything.
“I’ve heard about your box.”
– A drunken Adam West, dressed as Batman, to Jerry “The King” Lawler, dressed as Superman (From Nerve’s 20 Weirdest TV Interviews)
WatchI think he’s got it in the bag.
The iTunes Game.
Number of Songs: 21, 460 Number of Albums: 2,019 Most Recently Played Song: “Transmission,” Joy Division Most Played Song: “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding,” Elvis Costello Most Recently Added Album: The Mountain, Heartless Bastards
First Song Alphabetically: “A-Punk,” Vampire Weekend Last Song Alphabetically: “Zurich Is Stained,” Pavement Smallest Song...
The Making of "Wrestle Jam" →
An article on how they put together the old-school Nintendo game for “The Wrestler”, (fully playable!) right down to the 8-bit music. The use of “Wrestle Jam” in the film was dead on, right down to the “Call it duty?” exchange. One of my favorite moments in the film.
“Say what you will about The Deuce, but Janosz is f#@king BRILLIANT.”
– Me, exclaiming the excellence of Peter MacNicol, during a lunchtime discussion on the merits of Ghostbusters II.
More Exciting Than the School Bus.
From Kottke:
Locals in Beichuan county in China’s Sichuan province, including children commuting daily to school, have to use a zip line to get across a river because the bridge that collapsed during the May 2008 earthquake has never been rebuilt.
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Song for the Moment
“In The New Year” by The...
Didn't Miss A Thing.
So, instead of watching the Oscars last night, we were driving back from MA in a lovely snow/rain/ice storm. We didn’t see the show, instead choosing to retire for the evening when we got back with a little TiVo (plus a little gaming on my iPhone for me).
And I feel great.
I didn’t stay up to see who won the “Best Picture” trophy, or to catch that oh-so-necessary third...
Freaking Noobs.
If you don’t play Call of Duty (or, for that matter, any video games online against other people) then this won’t make much sense.
It's a Drag.
Today is one of them days where the afternoon seems to last forever. Maybe it’s just because I’d rather be at home playing Puzzle Quest.
Heading up to MA tonight, hoping we aren’t faced with tooooooo much traffic. What’s everyone else got on tap for the weekend?
Solar Batteries. Brilliant. →
Reloading!
Frants just got me sucked back into Call of Duty. He picked up CoD: World at War over the holidays, and over the past few weeks, has slyly hinted at it’s enjoyability. Was it as good as COD4? Maybe not. But it was close. And it had flamethrowers.
So, he brought it over on Super Bowl Sunday, where he, Matty and I proceeded to have a giggle fest as we played Co-Op all afternoon. Wicked...
Liz: Why are you wearing a tux?
Jack: It’s after six. What am I, a farmer?
WatchI can’t stand the Funny Or Die player, but this take on “The Wrestler” trailer is good enough to make me overlook it.
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WatchJersey City Sunset. (via Vimeo)
I decided to play around with my old Pentax point-and-shoot, which has an automatic timer feature. It can take up to 99 photos at an interval you decide, so I set it up to shoot every fifteen seconds as the sun was setting. This is the result.
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Song for the Moment
“The Rake’s Song” by...
The Boss: Super Bowl Journal. →
Springsteen takes us behind the scenes on what it was like putting together a kick-ass halftime concert.
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WatchGot to watch this short film yesterday, featuring our very own Kate. Good times, all around — very funny with excellent performances. If you’re nice, maybe Kate will let you see it, too.
Needling.
I was surprised to turn on the MLB Network yesterday and find them in full-on analysis of A-Rod’s steroid story. I just assumed that with it being a mouthpiece for the League, they wouldn’t delve deeply into it, and break it down/speculate in the same manner as, say, ESPN.
So, either this means that MLBTV is (fairly) independent of the League, and able to report just like any other...
Airplane Graveyard. →
Keith drove me by here when I was in Tuscon. You couldn’t see all of them, like you can in this satellite photo, but you could definitely see a load of them from the street. Reminded me of all the hours we used to spend on my old 386 playing “A-10 Tank Killer”. (Which wasn’t a very good game.)
Jack's right, it's not Northrax.
Jack: Do you smell maple syrup?
Liz: Yes!
Jack: Don't panic, Lemon, it's probably not a chemical attack.
Liz: What do you mean, probably?
Jack: It's probably just a strange wind pattern coming over those factories in Staten Island where food flavors are made. I don't think it's northrax.
Liz: What's northrax?
[Tracy starts his Re-Run dance]
Jack: It's a chemical agent we sold to the Saudis in the 1980s that smells exactly like maple syrup. But I don't think this is it.
**Hat-tip to Frants, who reminded me of this great exchange on "30 Rock" (when I told him the source of the syrup smell had been discovered).
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Song for the Moment
“Straight To Hell” (cover) by...
Frants, A Winner. →
From over two-thousand entries, our boy Frants’ screenplay — “Doing Paris” — was selected by Francis Ford Coppola and the Staff of American Zoetrope as one of the top ten finalists. This is a simulation of what he looked like when he found out the news.
This means, he (and his script) will be:
Considered for representation at all the major industry agencies.
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WatchAwesome video from the recent Former/Future show at the House of Blues in LA. Aside from the “Dingess cameo”, as Duck described it, I particularly enjoy seeing that our boy Brian has the bassist pelvic lean/thrust/groove down pat. Nice harmonies, Diggity! Rock.