My Xbox 360 bricked. It lasted a year and a half with absolutely no problems, which is pretty good for a 360 I guess. So now I'm waiting on Microsoft to send me a box so I can send the 360 to them so they can send me another one ( Read more... )

"And when there was no meat, we ate fowl. And when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."
"You ate what?"
"We ate sand."
"You ate sand?"
"That's right."

The Coen bros. won a few more Oscars the other night, as did a bunch of European actors.

I think the Coen bros. are going to win Best Adapted Screenplay, and Javier Bardem will win Best Supporting Actor. If they don't win, they deserve to.

As if the Boba Fett tattoo weren't proof enough of my nerdiness, I got another one today.

( Tattoo No. two )

After the success and unbelievable awesomeness of the LEGO Star Wars sets and video games, the next logical step was obviously LEGO Indiana Jones. I happened upon one of the sets the other day, a scene from "Last Crusade," with Indy on a motorcycle (Sean Connery in the sidecar), and a Nazi villain giving chase on another motorcycle. The Indy ( Read more... )

Man, VALVe is like the best game company in the universe. Not only is pretty much every game they make amazing, I ordered a bunch of swag from their website (Portal tshirt, Portal posters, Headcrab plush, and Black Mesa and Aperture Science parking decals) and it arrived in two days, from Washington state. I don't know if that's down to VALVe or ( Read more... )

Today (well, technically yesterday) is (was) Martin Luther King day, and accordingly they showed a certain episode of the Boondocks, the Peabody-award winning "Return of the King" on adult swim. In the episode, MLK didn't die when he was shot in Memphis, he went into a coma, and awoke in 2000. The episode details his adjustments to the changes in ( Read more... )

Holy hell, there's going to be a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu.

My life is stale. I'm in somewhat of a rut, all I do is work and sleep and play video games. Not that there's anything wrong with that. My job is super easy, most of the time I can read or draw whilst at work, and I get along with pretty much everyone there. The hours are crappy, but I've been getting overtime every paycheck for about two - three ( Read more... )

In a rare instance, I read the book before seeing the movie. I think the only other time I've done that was with Sin City. And like Sin City, it was one of the more faithful adaptations from page to screen. Much of the dialog and action is taken directly from the book. It's much darker than any of the Coens' work that I've seen before, although ( Read more... )