Saturday, March 7, 2009
Random Observations....
So, we went and saw the obnoxiously hyped up "Watchmen" yesterday. I'm not gonna speak for Nate, but all I will say is "why?" Why was there so much critical praise for this movie? The entire 166 mins of the movie (which felt like double that) passed me by and this is the only worthwhile observation I was able to make. Enjoy...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
New Red Elite XBox 360
Microsoft is releasing a Resident Evil 5 bundle and they are sweetening the pot but releasing a new color for the 360 and for those of you who are color blind it's red and your not missing much. It will be bundled with Resident Evil 5, 120gb HDD, Street Fighter 2 Turbo and is HD ready. It will be available to buy the same day as Resident Evil 5, Friday March 13th. I'm personally not a fan of the red and it seems like everybody and their mother has a 360, except me of course, so I don't really see the need for a new color. At least when you get the Red Ring of Death it will match your system... your system may be dead but at least it fashionable.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Daredevil Noir
Hitting shelves on April 1st (April Fools days) the latest in the Marvel "Noir" series is Daredevil Noir. The Noir series is kind of like a reimagining of the characters and it's set in the 50's. I haven't read DD in a while but this sounds really good. I've been reading up on the X-Men noir and hear that it's pretty good. I of corse will read anything Daredevil so I can't wait to check this out. Their will be a few other Noir titles coming out aswell. The ones I have heard of are Wolverine and The Punisher. Looking forward to those as well.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
NYC and Olivia Munn Pt. 2...
First of all, I want to start by expressing how pissed I am that my Flip Video camera decided not to charge itself the night before our trip to NY. I woke up on Sunday and it was totally dead. My original plan was to take video and post it here, but that obviously didn't work out too well. Thankfully there are some other videos that people took on YouTube, which I have posted below.
OK, part 2!
Last weekend, “Attack of the Show” co-host, Olivia Munn sent out an email to everyone who had signed up through her website to be apart of her fan group: the OMFG (Olivia Munn Fan Group…love how that works on many levels). Her email told fans that she —who hails from L.A.— was in New York City for the weekend and wanted to take an hour, out of her probably very busy schedule, to meet in at a specific spot in Central Park with some of her fans and take pictures.
Your two favorite doods (that would be us), had a lot of fun on our last trip to NYC, even though we did little but wander aimlessly. We have been talking about going back ever since. Even though we didn’t have a lot of time on our hands, this time, to spend in the city; it had been quite a while since our last trip and this felt like a great opportunity: a chance to get out and see the city again as well as meet one of our favorite TV personalities in person. We knew the time and place, it was just a matter of getting there in time.
8:15am: We make our way into New Haven’s Union Station with 15 minutes to spare (give or take) before the last train to Grand Central Terminal which will get us there in time to see Olivia. We get our tickets and board the train just in time.
Things always seem to get interesting anytime we get near a train; or even out in public for that matter. We talked about our previous NYC trip and reminisced about some of the ridiculous things that we saw; how we got lost more in our own home state than we did in NYC (we blame our friend Craig), our aforementioned friend Craig getting cussed out by a homeless guy because he ignored him (a blog post in and of itself), and the topless woman in Times Square playing the guitar (she only had tiny little shorts, a cowboy hat, and a set of small pasties keeping her decent).
We laughed about the old stories and about the things that were going on around us; The fact that in some strange way New Haven was going to smell like a rose once we got back from the hot trash smell of NYC, the old guy with the (now) gigantic first-gen I-Pod that sat across from us, and how the train made a funny little “duck” noise at every train station we stopped at; something that really wasn’t funny, but then again, really kind of was to us at the time.
10:00: we arrive at Grand Central and immediately look at one another and utter the same words we do every time we get into the city.
“Yup, certainly smells like New York. So, where do you want to go now?”
I knew it was about a half hour walk to Central Park so I suggested we start to make our way there, taking our time and taking in the sights… we knew we would get there well before Olivia if we didn’t.
After about a 45 minute walk; we finally make our way to the Bethesda Fountain, the meeting spot in Olivia’s email, in the heart of central park. We immediately started to look around for her; she’s not there yet, but we do see an “interesting” cast of characters surrounding the fountain. The stereotypes begin to fly as we wonder which ones looked tech-y, or nerdy, or just plain lonely enough that they might be the type that would re-name their right hand “Olivia”.
Finally, a few minutes after 11, we hear Olivia coming down the steps to the fountain, announcing her presence to everyone there. Within seconds a crowd of about 50 or so people converged upon her.
She looked at the size of the group and seemed to be pretty blown away by the number of people there to see her. She commented, jokingly, that she only expected to see 3 people there for her, and told us that she didn’t really have a plan on what she wanted to do; but said she would take a moment to take a few pictures with individuals, as well as with groups of friends.
She started with the pictures; casually bs’ing with the group - about AOTS related stuff and her trip to appear on the Japanese game show Ninja Warrior (also aired in the US on G4) late last year, while taking them. She joked at the passers by that stared at her, the ones the obviously had no clue who she was; she told them “I’m from American Idol”. She made a number of edgy and borderline off color jokes; telling those posing in pictures to look at “The Asian” (her cameraman).
She took at least 2 pictures with everyone; some people posing alone with her, some posing with her and their friends. She did one normal pose and then a “fun” pose; taking suggestions from the crowd on ideas for the fun ones. In some of the fun poses she would “kiss” a fan on the cheek, some were action poses (one of which she was punching a fan in the head); ours (suggested by her camera guy) was inspired by the movie/SNL skit “A Night at the Roxbury”. She positioned us on either side of her as the three of us struck up a “dance” pose for the camera, with my girlfriend also in the shot sporting a pissed look for the camera.
Apparently posing wasn’t good enough for her camera crew, they wanted us to actually dance since they were also shooting video.
We did it again, with Olivia dancing in the middle and us “awkwardly moving “on either side of her. The end result was great though; something I’m sure will get us laughing for a long time, every time we see it...
After pictures, she took some time to shoot some interview style videos for her blog, one with a fan that actually shaved Olivia’s name into the hair on the side of his head; then held a competition: The Saltine challenge.
Contestants had one minute to eat 5 saltine crackers without drinking anything. This was an event that even though she hyped up almost from the moment she arrived, she also told us was going to be nothing special. One guy actually did do it; not sure if he “won anything for it though.
On the show Olivia is quite vocal about her love of pie; having actually jumped into one as a stunt on the show once before. As a gift, someone brought a pie to give to her. At one point; this pie ended up in the face of a fan as her camera guy shot video of it for her blog.
After a bit more discussion and a few more pictures, Olivia told the group that she had to leave, but would be returning in about a month or so. The group slowly dissipated as she began to walk up the steps and away from the fountain.
All in all it was a lot of fun and completely worth the train ride to NY. Olivia was totally awesome and had us all laughing the whole time. When all was said an done she had spent almost two hours there in Central Park with us. I’m glad we got a chance to see her when we did, because I’m positive that not only will the group be much larger next time, but I’m sure she is going to be a huge star soon. With a few movie roles, a book, and some other TV and radio appearances in the pipeline, I’m sure its just a matter of time before she reaches a level of celebrity that will probably prevent her from doing these kind of events like this.
Here are a few links to some Youtube videos that people shot that day.
OK, part 2!
Last weekend, “Attack of the Show” co-host, Olivia Munn sent out an email to everyone who had signed up through her website to be apart of her fan group: the OMFG (Olivia Munn Fan Group…love how that works on many levels). Her email told fans that she —who hails from L.A.— was in New York City for the weekend and wanted to take an hour, out of her probably very busy schedule, to meet in at a specific spot in Central Park with some of her fans and take pictures.
Your two favorite doods (that would be us), had a lot of fun on our last trip to NYC, even though we did little but wander aimlessly. We have been talking about going back ever since. Even though we didn’t have a lot of time on our hands, this time, to spend in the city; it had been quite a while since our last trip and this felt like a great opportunity: a chance to get out and see the city again as well as meet one of our favorite TV personalities in person. We knew the time and place, it was just a matter of getting there in time.
8:15am: We make our way into New Haven’s Union Station with 15 minutes to spare (give or take) before the last train to Grand Central Terminal which will get us there in time to see Olivia. We get our tickets and board the train just in time.
Things always seem to get interesting anytime we get near a train; or even out in public for that matter. We talked about our previous NYC trip and reminisced about some of the ridiculous things that we saw; how we got lost more in our own home state than we did in NYC (we blame our friend Craig), our aforementioned friend Craig getting cussed out by a homeless guy because he ignored him (a blog post in and of itself), and the topless woman in Times Square playing the guitar (she only had tiny little shorts, a cowboy hat, and a set of small pasties keeping her decent).
We laughed about the old stories and about the things that were going on around us; The fact that in some strange way New Haven was going to smell like a rose once we got back from the hot trash smell of NYC, the old guy with the (now) gigantic first-gen I-Pod that sat across from us, and how the train made a funny little “duck” noise at every train station we stopped at; something that really wasn’t funny, but then again, really kind of was to us at the time.
10:00: we arrive at Grand Central and immediately look at one another and utter the same words we do every time we get into the city.
“Yup, certainly smells like New York. So, where do you want to go now?”
I knew it was about a half hour walk to Central Park so I suggested we start to make our way there, taking our time and taking in the sights… we knew we would get there well before Olivia if we didn’t.
After about a 45 minute walk; we finally make our way to the Bethesda Fountain, the meeting spot in Olivia’s email, in the heart of central park. We immediately started to look around for her; she’s not there yet, but we do see an “interesting” cast of characters surrounding the fountain. The stereotypes begin to fly as we wonder which ones looked tech-y, or nerdy, or just plain lonely enough that they might be the type that would re-name their right hand “Olivia”.
Finally, a few minutes after 11, we hear Olivia coming down the steps to the fountain, announcing her presence to everyone there. Within seconds a crowd of about 50 or so people converged upon her.
She looked at the size of the group and seemed to be pretty blown away by the number of people there to see her. She commented, jokingly, that she only expected to see 3 people there for her, and told us that she didn’t really have a plan on what she wanted to do; but said she would take a moment to take a few pictures with individuals, as well as with groups of friends.
She started with the pictures; casually bs’ing with the group - about AOTS related stuff and her trip to appear on the Japanese game show Ninja Warrior (also aired in the US on G4) late last year, while taking them. She joked at the passers by that stared at her, the ones the obviously had no clue who she was; she told them “I’m from American Idol”. She made a number of edgy and borderline off color jokes; telling those posing in pictures to look at “The Asian” (her cameraman).
She took at least 2 pictures with everyone; some people posing alone with her, some posing with her and their friends. She did one normal pose and then a “fun” pose; taking suggestions from the crowd on ideas for the fun ones. In some of the fun poses she would “kiss” a fan on the cheek, some were action poses (one of which she was punching a fan in the head); ours (suggested by her camera guy) was inspired by the movie/SNL skit “A Night at the Roxbury”. She positioned us on either side of her as the three of us struck up a “dance” pose for the camera, with my girlfriend also in the shot sporting a pissed look for the camera.
Apparently posing wasn’t good enough for her camera crew, they wanted us to actually dance since they were also shooting video.
We did it again, with Olivia dancing in the middle and us “awkwardly moving “on either side of her. The end result was great though; something I’m sure will get us laughing for a long time, every time we see it...
After pictures, she took some time to shoot some interview style videos for her blog, one with a fan that actually shaved Olivia’s name into the hair on the side of his head; then held a competition: The Saltine challenge.
Contestants had one minute to eat 5 saltine crackers without drinking anything. This was an event that even though she hyped up almost from the moment she arrived, she also told us was going to be nothing special. One guy actually did do it; not sure if he “won anything for it though.
On the show Olivia is quite vocal about her love of pie; having actually jumped into one as a stunt on the show once before. As a gift, someone brought a pie to give to her. At one point; this pie ended up in the face of a fan as her camera guy shot video of it for her blog.
After a bit more discussion and a few more pictures, Olivia told the group that she had to leave, but would be returning in about a month or so. The group slowly dissipated as she began to walk up the steps and away from the fountain.
All in all it was a lot of fun and completely worth the train ride to NY. Olivia was totally awesome and had us all laughing the whole time. When all was said an done she had spent almost two hours there in Central Park with us. I’m glad we got a chance to see her when we did, because I’m positive that not only will the group be much larger next time, but I’m sure she is going to be a huge star soon. With a few movie roles, a book, and some other TV and radio appearances in the pipeline, I’m sure its just a matter of time before she reaches a level of celebrity that will probably prevent her from doing these kind of events like this.
Here are a few links to some Youtube videos that people shot that day.
New York City and Olivia Munn PT. 1...
First new post in a looooong time!!
Things have been pretty crazy recently. About a month ago I started taking some college classes —one of which is English— and after writing essays and such for school I’ve been left with little desire to write anything else. Not to mention, there hasn’t been too much excitement to report on. All this said, I’m still going to try and periodically do some updates as I think of anything worth typing up and posting here. It’s probably not going to be daily, but hopefully often enough so that we can keep some people coming back.
OK now that I got that out of the way I do actually have a story to tell -about a trip to New York City last weekend- where we got a chance to meet Olivia Munn! I've been meaning to put this trip into words for the blog and after a week, and some outside encouragement to actually get off my ass and do it, Ive finally found the words to tell the tale.
I’m going to type the story in a few parts. Some of you will be able to skip one part of it as it will purely be informational for those of you who don’t know who Olivia Munn is; I suspect 75% of you probably won't, but I guarantee you all will know her name soon enough. The rest of this entry will serve as the informational part, so if you already know who she is then there is no real reason to read the rest of this; though you should anyway because I took the effort to type it, so read it jerks!
Every weeknight at 7 on the cable network G4 there is a tech show called “Attack of the Show”. For those of you not familiar; it’s a daily mash up of viral web videos, commentary on technology news, and reviews of the latest gadgets, mixed with an occasional comedic sketch. It’s the perfect show for the 18-30 year old male, though I'm sure many women in the same age group probably watch as well. For me there isn't a whole lot of television that I make a point to be home for, but this is one of the shows that I do.
On the show; hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn break the latest tech news, while humorously playing off each other with a kind of chemistry that is rare in live television. The show certainly suffers when one of the two of them is absent from a episode: the guest hosts not able to recapture the chemistry that Kevin and Olivia share on screen. Most of the show is most likely rehearsed, but they do seem to do a fair amount of ad-libbing as well; Olivia providing much more than just the eye candy that you might expect at first glance by showcasing an edgy sense of humor that often catches viewers off guard.
Outside of the show the hosts remain in seemingly constant contact with fans through means of the internet and their own personal blogs. They update their Twitter accounts several times a day filling us in on the latest happenings in their lives, as well as post occasional online videos, making it feel like they are both very approachable stars.
Things have been pretty crazy recently. About a month ago I started taking some college classes —one of which is English— and after writing essays and such for school I’ve been left with little desire to write anything else. Not to mention, there hasn’t been too much excitement to report on. All this said, I’m still going to try and periodically do some updates as I think of anything worth typing up and posting here. It’s probably not going to be daily, but hopefully often enough so that we can keep some people coming back.
OK now that I got that out of the way I do actually have a story to tell -about a trip to New York City last weekend- where we got a chance to meet Olivia Munn! I've been meaning to put this trip into words for the blog and after a week, and some outside encouragement to actually get off my ass and do it, Ive finally found the words to tell the tale.
I’m going to type the story in a few parts. Some of you will be able to skip one part of it as it will purely be informational for those of you who don’t know who Olivia Munn is; I suspect 75% of you probably won't, but I guarantee you all will know her name soon enough. The rest of this entry will serve as the informational part, so if you already know who she is then there is no real reason to read the rest of this; though you should anyway because I took the effort to type it, so read it jerks!
Every weeknight at 7 on the cable network G4 there is a tech show called “Attack of the Show”. For those of you not familiar; it’s a daily mash up of viral web videos, commentary on technology news, and reviews of the latest gadgets, mixed with an occasional comedic sketch. It’s the perfect show for the 18-30 year old male, though I'm sure many women in the same age group probably watch as well. For me there isn't a whole lot of television that I make a point to be home for, but this is one of the shows that I do.
On the show; hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn break the latest tech news, while humorously playing off each other with a kind of chemistry that is rare in live television. The show certainly suffers when one of the two of them is absent from a episode: the guest hosts not able to recapture the chemistry that Kevin and Olivia share on screen. Most of the show is most likely rehearsed, but they do seem to do a fair amount of ad-libbing as well; Olivia providing much more than just the eye candy that you might expect at first glance by showcasing an edgy sense of humor that often catches viewers off guard.
Outside of the show the hosts remain in seemingly constant contact with fans through means of the internet and their own personal blogs. They update their Twitter accounts several times a day filling us in on the latest happenings in their lives, as well as post occasional online videos, making it feel like they are both very approachable stars.
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