Tuesday, March 16, 2010

An Open Letter to a Fromer Twitter Follower

Dear Follower,

Last night you insisted on arguing with me, when I tried to drop the subject like five or six times. You purposefully antagonized me, degraded my opinion, and then got furious when I sunk down to your level. I didn't realize why until, I looked at your track record. You like to get in arguments on twitter, and then be the victim. Instead of mentioning you by name, I will leave you anonymous so you don't have that power, that public voice, because I am stronger then you.

You called me a sexist, which was a low blow, and you know it. I would of disagreed with a guy making those statements. Not even that bothers me, I was just assuming you were a cowardice fool at that point, no the reason I am writing this blog is because the first thing you did, was tell all your followers, poor poor pitiful me, a man questioned my opinions. Well guess what it didn't have to do with your gender, it was all about your opinion, and the way you are acting.

So Follower, this is the last time I will comment on this situation peace love and flowers to all.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Late Night Ramblings that May or May Not Make Sense

So I sent a direct message to @hammyhavoc and while waiting for him to reply, I decided to watch some new found glory music videos, on Vevo, in doing this I noticed Rachael Leigh Cook was in the video for "Dressed to Kill". Now she is pretty hot, and I thought that she played Daphene the speedster from heroes, looked on Wikipedia nope she didn't apparently, it was this chick Brea Grant, so that was kind of shocking. I have no clue why I thought it was Rachael Leigh Cook, or why I was so sure to myself thinking it was her, but it was not I was wrong and I made a mistake.

That got me thinking about Heroes, and how Heroes was really good, and now it sucks, which is horrible because I really liked Heroes, until Season 4 started to bore me. I miss Heroes, but I personally don't think any networks can keep a show like that on the air, and it still be good, especially NBC with their track record. NBC has the syndrome of, WE HAVE A GOOD HIGH RATED SHOW...but despite it being #1 we don't think its mainstream enough. So NBC did what they did to ER and after good high rated seasons they made the show unbearable to watch.

That reminds me of what NBC did to ER, the First seasons of ER were good, I'd even say great. Then as the show progressed it got worse and worse, until John Stamos came aboard and gave the show a second wind. I have to say the last seasons of ER were awesome and I wish NBC wouldn't of ended it when they did, I'd love to see another 2 or 3 seasons of ER, maybe it will come back in a couple years after NBC gets so anally fucked by poor decision making they need more viewers.

Then there was Scrubs...

Scrubs is like the cockroach of shows, that rare show, that is unkillable. Don't get me wrong I love Scrubs and have been a fan since I started watching reruns in 05, but seriously, everyone has tried killing the show and it keeps coming back and back and back. Example NBC had been trying to cancel it since 2002, but it got moderate ratings so they left it until it finally started to get poor ratings in 07, then what happened? NBC tried canceling it, failed, and finally succeeded in 08 at canceling Scrubs...Until ABC picked it up, then Zach Braff said he'd only would do one more season and people were like "Now it'll get canceled" then Zach decided I'll do one more season after that and ABC was like sure, now ABC wants to run a season without Zach and test it out to see how it does. So my thing is I don't thing scrubs will end until its 200th episode.

Now how will the series end? Zach comes back to visit Turk and Dr. Cox, and for some reason he is with, Elliot. Everyone ends up going back and working for Sacred Heart, They celebrate at the bar they go to, Zach gives some monologue about how things may never change and the camera pans from Zach to the sky, and the theme song plays leading into the end credits of the last episode all like "I know that I'm no SUPERMAN"

Yeah and I'll have a tear in my eye, well not really a tear, a man tear. So its cool...WOW while writing this blog I got 100 followers on twitter...and @hammyhavoc still hasn't written me back. Well I am going to write some Follow Friday tweets, and go to bed, I love you guys and sorry for wasting your time going through my pop culture drool.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSE TO DO WITH M4A FILES

So I am half asleep sitting here, and my friend sends me M4A audio files without telling me. Now it is critical I open these files, problem is Windows Media Player crashes when I run M4A, VLC was refusing to play them, and nothing would work. Only one thing on my comp would play them, the Rahpsody desktop client...YES.

I may cus out rhapsody for failing to work on their website, mainly because it will refuse to give my 25 plays, for months at a time, or use my plays twice on the same song FOR NO REASON. I went from hating you Rhapsody, to love hating you.

Potcheen KILLED IT The Young Dubs not so much @Reno Knitting Factory

Okay before I begin to talk about how the bands played, I have to say the Reno Knitting Factory is the best small venue I have ever seen. I am under the age of 21 so I didn't see it all, but my dad really liked the 21+ balcony and restrooms. As for me, I enjoyed the All Ages seating and the all ages restrooms were, well CLEAN, you wouldn't expect all ages restrooms to be so clean, but they were. The only cons with the club were, the fact that when the lady at the door X'd my hands she pushed down really hard and it hurt, and the merch area for the bands was WAY to small.

Now we can talk about how the bands played..,

Potcheen the opening band for The Young Dubliners, had a great set, they played their own material, some old Irish folk songs, and some great covers of Come On Eileen, Drunken Lullabys, and Folsom Prison Blues. The covers they did were great, Come On Eileen really showed off the "fiddle" players talent, Drunken Lullabys got the crowd moving, and Folsom Prison Blues was even good, I thought they were gonna get booed off the stage instead they pulled off that Johnny Cash classic with a chick singer no less (she did really good by the way). Also I liked that the drummer could also sing, he was awesome as was everyone in this band. I really want Potcheen to come back to Reno, I think they deserve top billing next time they do.

Then there was the Young Dubs performance, while I'll be the first to admit that I am not the biggest fan of Irish folk style music, The Young Dubs set was boring. No energy until the last song, the folk songs they played that I KNEW were butchered, and in some cases they just sang the chorus over and over and over again. It was such a let down because Potcheen did so well, it got your hopes down to hear a boring set from the opening band. I heard someone say "What a shame" and then walk out during the Young Dubliners set, as a matter of fact I saw 50% of the crowd walk out. I will give them props for doing good on encore, but overall the Young Dubs were just boring.

I would love for Potcheen to come back to Reno, I really would, and I am sending this to their email in hopes that they read my plea. Everyone in Potcheen was nice, and everyone in the band came up to me after the set and said, hi or asked if I was having a good time.

The Reno Knitting Factory Venue website: http://re.knittingfactory.com/
The Young Dubliners Website: http://www.youngdubliners.com/
The Young Dubliners Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/youngdubliners
Potcheens Website: http://www.thepotcheenfolkband.com/
Potcheens Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thepotcheenfolkband

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Neil Gaiman @ replied me on twitter

So today started out like any other day. did my normal twitter BS, made some jokes sent some @ replies, then I tweeted the following to Mr. Neil Gaiman:

@neilhimself gives hope to geeks and nerds everywhere that they can nab someone like @amandapalmer

Then 30 minutes passes by and then I get this tweet from the famed comic book writer:

@ralasinchains and here was me thinking @amandapalmer gives hope to rockstars everywhere that if they are lucky they can nab their own geek.

Needless to say I love Gaiman's work with DC, but because of this @ reply I will have to switch from Team Kev to Team Neil, I am sorry Kevin Smith but your treacherous, time traveling, attempts to engage in a threesome with your wife and Amanda Palmer must be thwarted.

My day will be awesome no matter what happens today.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The iPad is a Media Communications Device, NOT A COMPUTER

Before anyone accuses me of fan boy faggotry, I have 2 points to make first

1. I use Windows, Mac, and Linux (Yellow dog and ubuntu mostly)

2. I think the iPod and iPhone suck

Now that, thats been said, I can get on by saying, stop attacking the iPad for not having flash support. The iPad is not a computer, it is a media communications device, meaning its soul purpose is for MEDIA and COMMUNICATIONS. It doesnt have to have a 2 ghz or higher processor, it doesn't have to have flash, and it doesn't need multitasking.

Its total bull shit that people attack it for not being a computer, if you want a computer, go out and buy one of the 300 to 400 dollar netbooks, because THAT IS NOT what the iPad will be. It is the same thing as, if someone was getting pissed at the PS3 for not playing PC games, these are both walled gardens.

I am sorry for this rant but some people just don't understand.

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Friday, February 26, 2010

I have spent 0.2852253280091272% of my life playing Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is an amazing game, but something hit me, I Thought "how much of my life have I wasted in front of a computer screen or TV screen playing this game?" That answer: 0.2852253280091272% or 400 hours in my 16 years of life. That is trippy on levels beyond imagine.

I have played through the game 6 times now.

1. I played the game and Beat it without any DLC, and didn't do many side quests, until my character died.

End Karma Level: Paladin

Difficulty Played on:
Normal

2. Played the game and beat it doing most side quests, but still no DLC's.

End Karma Level: Strider of the Wastes

Difficulty Played on:
Normal

3. This time I wanted to be an asshole, so I played evil as possible, I also played with Operation Anchorage and The Pitt DLC's doing, If I am thinking right all of the side quests available.

End Karma Level: Fiend

Difficulty Played on: Hard

4. I decided to just screw around and explore the game, see what glitches I could find, shortcuts, and other stuff I could do, didnt do any DLC, until I bought Broken Steel, then I played through the Story did the side quests beat The Pitt and Operation Anchorage, got to the end of the regular game, started broken steel, and beat broken Steel and did all side quests and everything before my hard drive got reformatted :(

End Karma Level: Shepherd

Difficulty Played on: Normal

5. Played the game all the way through the same way I did last time, but lower difficulty, with less playing around with Glitches, and more EVIL.

End Karma Level: Evil Incarnate

Difficulty Played on: Easy

6. This time I did all DLC (except Zeta) and stayed neutral, blew up the megaton, but activated Project Purity myself that kinda stuff.

End Karma Level: Loner

Difficulty Played on: Normal

After #6 I stopped playing fallout 3 for nearly 6 months, until I got my PS3 and my Game Of The Year edition of Fallout 3. I have now started on play through number 7 this time I hope not to give up before fully leveling up my character.

I have spent 0.2852253280091272% of my life playing Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is an amazing game, but something hit me, I Thought "how much of my life have I wasted in front of a computer screen or TV screen playing this game?" That answer: 0.2852253280091272% or 400 hours in my 16 years of life. That is trippy on levels beyond imagine. I have played through the game 6 times now.

1. I played the game and Beat it without any DLC, and didn't do many side quests, until my

character died. End Karma Level: Paladin
Difficulty Played on:
Normal

2. Played the game and beat it doing most side quests, but still no DLC's.

End Karma Level: Strider of the Wastes
Difficulty Played on: Normal

3. This time I wanted to be an asshole, so I played evil as possible, I also played with Operation Anchorage and The Pitt DLC's doing, If I am thinking right all of the side quests available.

End Karma Level: Fiend
Difficulty Played on: Hard

4. I decided to just screw around and explore the game, see what glitches I could find, shortcuts, and other stuff I could do, didnt do any DLC, until I bought Broken Steel, then I played through the Story did the side quests beat The Pitt and Operation Anchorage, got to the end of the regular game, started broken steel, and beat broken Steel and did all side quests and everything before my hard drive got reformatted :(

End Karma Level: Shepherd
Difficulty Played on: Normal

5. Played the game all the way through the same way I did last time, but lower difficulty, with less playing around with Glitches, and more EVIL.

End Karma Level: Evil Incarnate
Difficulty Played on: Easy

6. This time I did all DLC (except Zeta) and stayed neutral, blew up the megaton, but activated

Project Purity myself that kinda stuff. End Karma Level: Loner
Difficulty Played on: Normal

After #6 I stopped playing fallout 3 for nearly 6 months, until I got my PS3 and my Game Of The Year edition of Fallout 3. I have now started on play through number 7 this time I hope not to give up before fully leveling up my character.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

My Personal Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time.

This intro is going to be short and simple, if you dont like my picks....FUCK YOU....ALSO no EPs

10. Suck Fony by Wheatus
Wheatus is one of those unique pop acts that have managed to keep every album they release feeling fresh. I first heard of Wheatus through the song Teenage Dirtbag, didnt take a major interest until @MC_LARS on twitter linked Wheatus' free or donate EP Pop Songs and Death Vol. 1, after hearing PS&D I listened to Suck Fony and Too Soon Monsoon. I was suprised about how awesome the music was, specifically the songs Lemonade, American In Amsterdam, and The Song That I Wrote When You Dissed Me all 3 off of Suck Fony.

9. Cage the Elephant by Cage the Elephant
I review this album, its just an amazing CD, I listened to it over and over again for a month straight, need I say more then, just buy this one.

8. Take Off Your Pants and Jacket by Blink 182
Blink 182 at their best, this album has serious themes and it has funny themes, it keeps all that is blink 182 alive before the god awful self title. Pop Punk, good drums, and good bass work. Not to mention the 3 bonus songs, one involving sex with your own grandpa, you freaks.

7. Pressure Chief by CAKE
CAKE is another band that has a deep connection to me, after hearing the songs Frank Sinatra and Cool Blue Reason this band was stuck in my head for MONTHS, well I eventually couldn't take it any more and got all their CDs, but Pressure Chief struck a nerve with me, I totally vibed with its environmental, ideologies, and its emotional ones, so much so I want the song Palm of Your Hand played at my funeral.

6. This Gigantic Robot Kills by Mc Lars
Between a rap song about Hamlet, and great lyricism there is a reason why MC Lars is the only rapper on my top 10, HE HAS EARNED IT.

5. The Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine was the band that made political metal cool again. By combining elements of rap metal, spoken word, and political rock; RATM was, is and continues to be an amazing band. The Battle of Los Angeles has no one track I could suggest, just listen to it, you will see the epicness.

4. Pinkerton by Weezer
The most underated album of all time, one of the most amazingly written albums all time, BUY THIS NOW...well after you finish reading my blog, and commenting.

3. Warning by Green Day
I cant help but love this CD, Ive listened to it hundreds of times, and it remains my favorite for its mixing of genres and blending of styles, sure it only went gold, and sure its not punk rock, but I don't care. Good song writing and excellent songs keep this in my listen pile even today.

2. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan has a huge, ego, and I'd hate to feed it but in this case I have to. I love this 2 CD album. I personally believe this to be one of the greatest examples of amazing song writing and artistry coming together with talent, and this is definately an experience to behold. My favorite tracks on this one would have to be Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, and 1979.

1. Doolittle by Pixies
This album would be number one on my inspirational list as well. This album has influenced; Nirvana, Weezer, Everclear, and White Stripes. Why is this album so influential, because it is that good. I could listen to it over and over and over again, not getting bored, and finding new meanings in the songs each time. Frank Black is one of the best song writers of all time, and Pixies, are one of my favorite bands in the whole world.Favorite tracks here are...THE WHOLE ALBUM.

Honorable Mentions
20. Lincoln by They Might Be Giants
19. Pure Frosting by Presidents of the United States of America
18. Its All in Your Head by Eve 6
17. Stranger than Fiction by Bad Religion
16. What is Love by NeverShoutNever
15. The War on Errorism by NoFX
14. Last Splash by Breeders
13. Icky Thump by White Stripes
12. A Hang Over You Don't Deserve Bowling for Soup
11. The colour and shape by the foo fighters

Thursday, February 4, 2010

My Dream Come True

Premiering Friday February 5th (tomorrow of when this blog is being posted) I will be able to finally say I made a show. This show is Tweet of the Week. This web series, is writen and created by me, with a TON of help from the star BalloonTutorials. This this coming to fruition I would just like to thank all my supporters. Thank you everyone who has helped me, promoted me, or just called me a fag. You guys are all special to me.