2010 PS3's Comeback Year?

2008-2009 has been a game draught lately and that just hurts the consoles, the one that hurt the most was the PS3, X-Box 360 stayed alive with their online play from their shooters (Halo & COD) and people will keep buying the Wii just cause its the Wii, but PS3 losing exclusives and hefty price tag has brought it down. I was ready to agree that it would be the end of that console. All this may change next year as its raring to be a big gaming year. The fallout of E3 2009 shows that amazingly PS3 stands tall with the best lineup of games that actually have release dates. Here's a few of the games i think will revive the life of the PS3...

Heavy Rain

The Last Guardian

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

PS3 Motion Controller

God of War III

Taylor Swift ft T-Pain???

I was watching PopTub today which is usually pretty lame, but in their Refresh category they had something that caught my eye. Apparently Taylor Swift did a gangsta rap video for the CMT Music Awards. And do you know what? Good for her (sacrastically). But here's the bigger topic at hand, does T-Pain have any street cred left? Really, the dude made fun of himself on SNL and was apart of the I'm On The Boat video. I feel bad that this guy will never return to the hood without getting shot multiple times. So here's to the death of T-Pain's street cred, the next thing to go is his blackness.

Greek Finale

So last night I watched the season finale of Greek and I have only one thing to say. What a downer. Keeping it fresh, the show does a complete 180 of the last season finale which ended on a high note, this one ended with all the characters broken in some way or form. The biggest question for next season now is how will the realationship between Casey and Cappie will turn out. Another thing that amazes me is how random in the school year the show ends, last time it was first year spring break, this time its second year half of fall term. The Jordan-Rusty relationship build up has really been interesting since most of the attention so far has been on the older cast and this brings it back to the younger cast. ABC Family strangely has a great show here and i'm gonna wait out the 2 months until it comes back with Season 3.

Captain America Is Back !?

So I was watching The Feed on AOTS, and they did this story about Marvel's announcement today that Captain America is coming back. And I'm like, just how long has he been dead? Apparently its just been 2 years since his death and aftermath story. And its actually been fine and dandy without him, we just got settled with having the new Bucky Cap. But I'm still excited at what Ed Brubaker will do next, we'll all find out this summer.

Summer Bloggity Blog

So this summer, I know I'm gonna get bored, so more to just do it for me I'm going to do more blog posting over the summer and just mess around with my social networks more. It will be focused on cool things I discover and that I need to tell people about. So yeah just want to put that out there.
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Battle of the Bands 09 + Shwayze

Battle of the Bands (Pre Vid)

I can tell a school year was good depending on how awesome Battle of the Bands is at the end of the year. This time it was no different. The music was loud, the bands were rocking, and by the end of it all, everyone was hyped!. Near the end of the school year here at Oregon State, we hold a day long concert called Battle of the Bands. Going into it my first year of college, I didn't know what to expect, in high school the bands were just punk band wannabes, but at the concert it was so much better all around. What instantly got me was that year's winners Honest to Empire. They still brought it this year as the headliners of Battle of the Bands. When they closed the show, the entire quad erupted and it was just fun. I didn't get to check them out, but this year's winner were Pseusoboss. My friend Michael's band Target for Tomorrow got third place which is impressive. The lineup for this year was what brought down the show, as the good bands were placed at sporadic times instead of being the showcase at the end of the show. I got some poorly shot footage from the last 2 hours of the show, and my camera sadly croaked out during Honest to Empire. I'm going to compile this footage with tomorrow's footage of the Shwayze concert on saturday, so stay tuned.

Honest to Empire's website: www.myspace.com/honesttoempire
Target for Tomorrow's website: www.myspace.com/target4tomorrow

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review

So I finally got down to watching the Wolverine movie that was released recently and good god i am raging. I might be just being bias for being a comic book reader and actually knowing the backstory of Wolverine and not getting that this movie appeals to a wider audience. But whatever, here's my critic of the latest movie in the X-Men saga and if you haven't seen the movie yet, there will be spoilers so beware...

One Dimensional Characters
Besides Wolverine, every other character seemed to have one purpose and then were killed off. This ticked me off because many of the Weapon X characters have very deep backstories and certain aspect of their characters that were unique and made them interesting, like Deadpool and Agent Zero. But they were reduced to either two type of characters: those who help Wolverine or those who try to kill Wolverine, either way they end up dead which just was dumb.

Too Buddy Buddy Story
Ok Weapon X had to be the absolute worst part of Wolverine's life. They grafted the adamentium to this bones, brainwashed him, and turned him into an animalistic killer. This movie seemed to take all that toned it down and made it PG. But come on, Wolverine volunteering to let this happen to him, who the hell would do that? They even put in that funny scene with Wolverine staying at the old people's home accidently breaking their bathroom apart. This isn't Spider-Man this is Wolverine, get your script straight. Finally, this version of William Stryker was sinister enough, and was too much of a friend to Wolverine to make any of this make sense.

CGI How Could You Let Us Down??
So yeah, CGI was done horribly in this movie, its almost laughable. The biggest thing was Wolverine's metal claws, they just didn't look right and looked out of place. The claws looked the size of an arm one minute and the next skinny as chopsticks. Also most things in this movie didn't cut into stuff, it just kinda phased into them. Backgrounds done with green screen were very blantant, they didn't try much to make it look real.

Noone Really Cares About Continuity Do They?
Ok first the comic stuff, I'm just gonna list them off:
-Wolverine wasn't the groundskeeper's son, Sabertooth isn't his brother
-It was a few years after Team X that they get involved with Weapon X
-Wolverine didn't volunteer for Weapon X, and goes on an animalistic rampage until involvement by Alpha Flight
-Entire movie should take place around the 70's not 90's if that's what the movie is implying
-Wolverine never met Scott Summers, Emma Frost, or Storm in the past, ages would be way off
-Blob and Bradley aren't on Team X
-Deadpool likes to use guns, i'm just saying
-Emma Frost and Kayla Silverfox aren't related, first of all they have different last names
-Deadpool, Emma Frost, Kayla have the wrong powers

now based off the other X-Men movies:
-William Stryker should be really old if he's involved in Weapon X, but he's in X2
-same with Scott, his age should be off, and he would be a student of Xavier's by now
-the term mutant shouldn't be coined yet, since noone knows there are mutants yet

and quickly what I did like...
-Hugh Jackman did some good acting for the part, can't imagine anyone else being Wolverine in the movies
-The fight scenes were pretty fun to watch, for some reason that's all they were going for, last one was kinda weak though

and finally will.I.am shouldn't act ever again.

A&P Vlog 3

So I was able to make another Austin and Paul vlog thingy, I made my first ever intro for any video, so I'm pretty psyched about that. The footage however isn't much but just talk this time, though Eric does have a good one liner at the very end. I am thinking about remastering this one with sound fx's since I just found a free sound fx site online, I have enough footage for 2 more A&P vlog, so stay tune
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the austin and paul show

So it all began when I was able to film one of Austin (my roommate) and Paul's (friend from down the hall) little quarrels. I got about 2 minutes of footage and broke it down into about a 1 minute clip, calling it the Austin & Paul Chronicles. Its a constant struggle between macho man, Austin and the brains of it all, Paul. I'm still wondering how i'm gonna take these videos for the next episodes, since they really don't seem to be going anywhere, but hopefully i'll come up with something.

My Most Favorite SuperHero Movies as of Today

So yesterday I went to see the new Watchmen movie and I thought it was pretty amazing film. Though I thought it was pretty good, it wouldn't be my most favorite hero film. So I gave it some thought and here are my Top 10 most favorite superhero movies, as of March 8th, 2009...

10. The Incredibles (2004)

Ok what is up with Disney and Pixar doing a better fantastic four movie than the real fantastic four movie. DJ argues that this is too much of a family movie, but Pixar makes good movies with good scripts. It mixes in a lot of intriguing ideas of superheroes being retired and called back up to save the day. It also deals with betrayal, finding yourself, and family bonding and all that goody-feel good stuff. And you can actually watch this one with your little kids, so that must be good for something.

9. X-Men (2000)

And with this movie the modern age of superhero movies arrive. You watched the movie and wait to see if your favorite mutant will show up. Then fan favorite Wolverine joins the team. Mix in this story of using the mutant Rogue. And wrap it up with an epic battle between the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. This movie set a standard that all superhero films now follow and add and that's why it made the list.

8. Batman Begins (2005)

So Batman Begins brought up a brand new concept in comic book movies, the reboot. The old Batman movies from the 90's, the first two were good and the rest just went downhill from there. Batman Begins ran Batman from his roots and showed the true side of Batman from the comics and not the silly Adam West kind. It had a really good storyline including a twist over one of Batman's best not known to much of enemy, Ra's al Ghul. With a darker undertone and giving a real basis over why Batman does what he does, it was a good all around package, and the most epic moment at the end of the film, leaving it wide open for its much sucessful sequel.

7. Spider-Man (2002)

The first Spider-Man will always have a special place in my heart. Spider-Man has always been my favorite comic book character and many others, a symbol of the normal everyday man now gifted with powers. Along with X-Men, Spider-Man ushered in the new millenium age of comic book movies and giving you something to look forward to every summer from here on out. Though I have seen this to death because of cable TV replayness. But seeing Pete put on the suit and soar through the air on line of web for the first time is just pure epicness.

6. X2: X-Men United (2003)

So yeah, people love everything there is about Wolverine, which is why he gets his own film coming in a few months. I don't think that's what the X-Men are about, but it still makes a good movie. In this one, Wolverine's past comes back to haunt him in the form of William Stryker. So Wolverine and apparently his X-Men go to stop his diabolical plan to destroy all mutants. Now my one pet peeve is when characters that don't exist at all in the comics are placed as deux ex machinas in movies, as in Jason Stryker. Though they did in this movie show just how friggin powerful Professor X really is. As in most trilogies, the second of the X-Men series was the best, while the third was other crap. Someone has to break this trend! Please!

5. Superman: The Movie (1978)

Ok so I haven't seen this movie in ages, and I'm completely trusting DJ on this, but yeah we say Superman: The Movie is #5 on our list. And I'll just say this, probably without this movie, there wouldn't be any other superhero movies out there. This defined the genre and it belongs on the lis, nuff said. Now someone just needs to make another good movie about the man of steel for the modern age and do it right (stupid Superman Returns).

4. Iron Man (2008)

Iron Man was the biggest surprise superhero movie of all time. No fanboy gave it much thought. The thing that probably made it work was the fact that everyone knew who Iron Man is, but didn't know much about him, so they could've wrote anything they wanted. Also the fact that Iron Man has been getting bad rap in the comic world ever since Civil War. All of this seemed like a very bad idea. Robert Downing Jr. made a really beliveable Tony Stark however and combined with very neat graphics it made Iron Man look amazing. It was a good movie and like all first films for heroes they have to spend that time introducing everything, meaning there was lacking actual Iron Man in the movie. Also the introduction of the Arc Reactor has made it ways into comics so that's always cool. How long this series survive will be a toughy since Iron Man doesn't have many interesting characters besides the Mandarin. But we'll see once Iron Man 2 comes out.

3. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Now this was a throw up for us, which was better Spiderman or Spiderman 2? Since Spiderman is now played the hell out of on cable TV, I would say 2 was better. Since everything is defined by the first movie, they can work on just making an interesting storyline. Doc Ock was made to look for cool for the first time in like, well ever. This movie really defined the relationship of the characters with one another. What I didn't like is how Spiderman's secret identity was just shown to just about everyone, in which he was like what only about to keep it secret for a good 2 years? Wow, that's not that long. The ending left much potential, but Spiderman 3 killed all of that with trying to finish a story/please the fans/make things look interesting.

2. Watchmen (2009)

There is no other movie that kept to the original source material than the movie I just saw the other night, Watchmen. As having read it, I just felt nostalgia from seeing everything I read coming alive on the big screen, and Zack Snyder didn't miss much. There was a slight tweak of the ending, but it made it still work. Rorschach was just about everyone's favorite character in the movie, being just a total badass and the actor eeriely resembled the comic character. There is that feeling that Snyder adapted it a little too well and didn't add his own touch, and that what made it for me #2 and not #1 just cause I've seen it all before and there were little to no new surprises. But still, seeing them say the epic lines from the comics word for word on the big screen was worth it.

1. The Dark Knight (2008)

So it's been almost a year since it came out and I am still love the Dark Knight. So yeah you know already why I like this movie and you have your reasons why you like it too. And Heath Ledger's Joker has become almost synonymous with the character itself and the Oscar isn't too bad either. It catches you immediately with the first scene and pops twists and turns as the movie continues. It draws influences from many different stories including Batman: The Long Halloween and melds them into a genius storyline that pushes Batman to the limits. It also just builds on the dynamic that Batman and the Joker have together and you can't really go wrong with when you a write a story with them in it. When they go against each other, it will be epic (not even Superman vs. Lex Luthor or Spiderman vs. Green Goblin can top it). Know we just wait to see what the next in the Bat franchise brings.

Honorable Mention: Hellboy (2004), Superman II (1981), Batman (1989), The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Brucey Bear STRIKES AGAIN

So i was walking back from dinner this evening and I saw this strange looking dude writing a note outside my dorm room door. He had blonde hair and sunglasses on and dressed kinda weirdly, he looked like a white lil wayne. Well before he left I was able to take a picture of him for Austin to see. He keeps leaving notes outside for him that creeper. This time he even left a signed shot of himself for Austin. Who does this guy think he is? Man something needs to be done about Brucey. They're kinda fuzzy but here are some of the shots i got of Brucey Bear. Who is the mysterious Brucey Bear? We'll never know.

double shot at love...mtv confuses me

so tonight I randomly procrastinated from my work (as usual) to stop and watch the season finale of A Double Shot at Love with the ikki Twins with my floormates. And yeah like the few shot at love shows it was pretty bad and I was confused again. So yeah SPOILER (not that you really care) both of the twins fell in "love" with Trevor (one of the final 2) sending the other person home. In which once again the lesbian loses, YAY FOR EQUALITY!!! So they made Trevor, who kinda looks like a homeless guy, the TV says he's a boat captain apparently, pick between the two of them. And by all laws of science, if you pick one over the other, you are screwed, mostly because SHE IS HER SISTER DUMBASS. So guess what, he picked Vikki over Rikki, or something like that, MTV does a shotty job at helping us figure out who's who. Now me and my friend Eric, were joking about how they could've added in a few more random twists that these shows are know for and here a few examples... just out of nowhere Howie Mandell shows up and offers Trevor a decision, pick Rikki, Vikki, or a case with $1,000,000 and of course he says, "Deal or no deal?" My other twist was that one of the twins was actually a dude so of course there would be a gigantic "IT'S A TRAP" coming from 4chan, oh 4chan how I love/loathe thee. I was curious and wanted to find out, just who are the ikki twins? Apparently they are famous sportscar models, you know those girls who sit ontop of sick looking cars at auto shows. And they've been in playboy, oh geez. So there you have it, my rant/blog on the latest shot at love series, here's to Vikki and Trevor trying to beat the current record of 3 month relationship!

Welcome Home to Corvallis, wait is that GGW Bus!?

I returned to my home away from home today after a long winter break. How dozed asleep and half listening to my mp3 player, I was in a car with both my parents driving to the local Safeway to buy some milk. Only to find sitting across from the local corvallis bookstore was a Girls Gone Wild bus. Now i thought it was pretty slutty when the Tempe 12 girls came to the campus with their airbrushed beauties in calender form, now I can only imagine how low its going to get at the local bars with this bus rolling in. How many of my female peers are going to end up on video tape drunk and flashing and how they are sooooooooooooo going to regret it later in life (most likely the next morning). But yeah that's what campus life is all about, i think, maybe not. But yeah in sleazy commerical advertising form, look for your local OSU girls in the next installment of GGW (most likely its the blonde going whooooooooooooooo!).

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