Thursday, April 27, 2006
Wii Are Not Amused
What the hell is wrong with them? I'm not buying one.
(Okay, I might still buy one but I am seriously considering other options now.)
What I'm Looking At
I'm a media addict. Mind you, I'm not the type of person who has the TV, an MP3 player, and a video game on all at the same time because I don't own an MP3 player. I live for good movies and good books and I play too many video games. I temper this with lots of books, mostly comics lately but I have a thing for good biographies or historical non-fiction.
I don't think I have much patience for novels anymore but one I'm trying to read is Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind. I'm not even a full chapter in but I like what I've read so far. The prose isn't purple but the story starts out immediately. They say that this book has lots of subplots and that the subplots have subplots (subsubplots?) so I'm a little concerned that it might get too convoluted but so far the book feels much less pretentious than the title indicates. Strangely enough, Zafon originally wrote the book in Spanish but even though he lives in Californ he didn't do the translation himself.
The last good movies I saw were The Godfather (first time), Fargo (first time seeing the whole thing from start to finish without commercials), and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children which it seems that everyone already has a bootleg copy of. I was good however and waited all this time to rent it. I even had a geek out with the rental clerk.
The Godfather and Fargo are as good as people say although I'm not convinced that The Godfather is the best movie ever made. I'm one for anti-heroes but not villainous protagonists so that didn't make me comepletely keen on it. Fargo was good too but the gore wasn't so appealing and the nature of its narrative, while novel, didn't lend itself to the sort of dramatic oomph that I normally like.
Final Fantasy wasn't all that great but it was fun to look at which gets big points with me. And everyone came back so that was fun. However, it felt less like a movie and more like a pilot episode for a TV show. Indeed it was a pilot for the new Final Fantasy VII games and, hopefully, a full on sequel. I'm just glad that Square Enix is going to bring the game back. It's nice to have a hero with an established gender and actual clothing.
But I'm not really looking to any Final Fantasy games so much as the ULTIMATE fantasy game. Unfortunately the word on my baby, Spore, is that it won't be out this fall but instead it's going to be held off until February of 2007. That's too long! I'm beginning to wish Maxis hadn't made that prototype version for GDC 2005 because that made everyone think the game would be out in the fall of 2005.
Let this be a lesson to you all: Don't go around making big announcements until you know you'll have something to show for it. Otherwise I'll be crabby with you.
By the way: Yes, I italicize titles. You got a problem with that?
I don't think I have much patience for novels anymore but one I'm trying to read is Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind. I'm not even a full chapter in but I like what I've read so far. The prose isn't purple but the story starts out immediately. They say that this book has lots of subplots and that the subplots have subplots (subsubplots?) so I'm a little concerned that it might get too convoluted but so far the book feels much less pretentious than the title indicates. Strangely enough, Zafon originally wrote the book in Spanish but even though he lives in Californ he didn't do the translation himself.
The last good movies I saw were The Godfather (first time), Fargo (first time seeing the whole thing from start to finish without commercials), and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children which it seems that everyone already has a bootleg copy of. I was good however and waited all this time to rent it. I even had a geek out with the rental clerk.
The Godfather and Fargo are as good as people say although I'm not convinced that The Godfather is the best movie ever made. I'm one for anti-heroes but not villainous protagonists so that didn't make me comepletely keen on it. Fargo was good too but the gore wasn't so appealing and the nature of its narrative, while novel, didn't lend itself to the sort of dramatic oomph that I normally like.
Final Fantasy wasn't all that great but it was fun to look at which gets big points with me. And everyone came back so that was fun. However, it felt less like a movie and more like a pilot episode for a TV show. Indeed it was a pilot for the new Final Fantasy VII games and, hopefully, a full on sequel. I'm just glad that Square Enix is going to bring the game back. It's nice to have a hero with an established gender and actual clothing.
But I'm not really looking to any Final Fantasy games so much as the ULTIMATE fantasy game. Unfortunately the word on my baby, Spore, is that it won't be out this fall but instead it's going to be held off until February of 2007. That's too long! I'm beginning to wish Maxis hadn't made that prototype version for GDC 2005 because that made everyone think the game would be out in the fall of 2005.
Let this be a lesson to you all: Don't go around making big announcements until you know you'll have something to show for it. Otherwise I'll be crabby with you.
By the way: Yes, I italicize titles. You got a problem with that?
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Pirate Baby's Cabana Batlle Street Fight - Part One
THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK (But it ain't porno so don't worry)
Don't tell anyone but I'm really posting this to try out embedding YouTube videos. No, this is not a real video game. It's a warped art project from Melbourne that the city actually paid for. Why? I don't know but it's cool except for the . . . I'll let you find out for yourself. Just know that this is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Find part two on your own.
Don't tell anyone but I'm really posting this to try out embedding YouTube videos. No, this is not a real video game. It's a warped art project from Melbourne that the city actually paid for. Why? I don't know but it's cool except for the . . . I'll let you find out for yourself. Just know that this is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Find part two on your own.
Welcome to the Sunshine
SO I decided to start blogging again.
Here's a story to kick things off: A while back I had a blog on LiveJournal. A nice, good looking blog too. I had just done up the site with a pretty green chessboard background and off-white text panels with brown trim. I swapped out my question mark icon for one of an ukiyo-e painting depicting a lonely soba noodle cart. It was a good blog, it let me talk to my college friends who I rarely see anymore, and it was even a little notable around the local comic book scene.
And then one day I destroyed it.
A while back before this while back I had done something stupid which I had thought was really smart. It ended up upsetting someone, notably myself, and it brought into focus all sorts of upsetting things including my gorgeous green soba-noodled LiveJournal blog. In a haste I deleted it--although it was really replaced with a "delete page" so it actually still exists and may yet exist again depending on the circumstances--and ended my fertile blogging career.
That was a stupid thing to do. I loved blogging. I loved sharing my opinions with the world. I loved getting feedback from friends and random people. In real life I can be very quiet and, lately, I'm only getting quieter in public. I need to be louder. I need to speak up.
I need to stop using 'I' so much.
I decided to start blogging again.
The current title of this blog is EVERYTHING IS SUNSHINE. That may change (Hell, I might even jump ship to a different site altogether.) but the website will continue to be evshine.blogspot.com. Learn it. Love it. It's the American Way.
For those of you who really know me I ask two things of you:
1. Let me keep my anonymity. Being too public was part of what killed my last blog.
2. Spread the word. This is my gospel. A geeked out, insignificant piece of early 21st century America designed to do . . . something.
I'm not trying to be pretentious but there's something significant about this. What? I don't know. Maybe it's just important to me and that's good enough for now.
For now, everything is sunshine. Tomorrow there'll be rain.
Here's a story to kick things off: A while back I had a blog on LiveJournal. A nice, good looking blog too. I had just done up the site with a pretty green chessboard background and off-white text panels with brown trim. I swapped out my question mark icon for one of an ukiyo-e painting depicting a lonely soba noodle cart. It was a good blog, it let me talk to my college friends who I rarely see anymore, and it was even a little notable around the local comic book scene.
And then one day I destroyed it.
A while back before this while back I had done something stupid which I had thought was really smart. It ended up upsetting someone, notably myself, and it brought into focus all sorts of upsetting things including my gorgeous green soba-noodled LiveJournal blog. In a haste I deleted it--although it was really replaced with a "delete page" so it actually still exists and may yet exist again depending on the circumstances--and ended my fertile blogging career.
That was a stupid thing to do. I loved blogging. I loved sharing my opinions with the world. I loved getting feedback from friends and random people. In real life I can be very quiet and, lately, I'm only getting quieter in public. I need to be louder. I need to speak up.
I need to stop using 'I' so much.
I decided to start blogging again.
The current title of this blog is EVERYTHING IS SUNSHINE. That may change (Hell, I might even jump ship to a different site altogether.) but the website will continue to be evshine.blogspot.com. Learn it. Love it. It's the American Way.
For those of you who really know me I ask two things of you:
1. Let me keep my anonymity. Being too public was part of what killed my last blog.
2. Spread the word. This is my gospel. A geeked out, insignificant piece of early 21st century America designed to do . . . something.
I'm not trying to be pretentious but there's something significant about this. What? I don't know. Maybe it's just important to me and that's good enough for now.
For now, everything is sunshine. Tomorrow there'll be rain.
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