The new Jesus... basically.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Fallout 3 screens
tumblr update
Tumblr has been confusing me. Sometimes I want to use it instead of blogger, sometimes I only want to use blogger, and most of the time I want to do different variations of using both. I have finally decided that I will not use tumblr at all because, after trying to do a few things, I have decided it is not as good as blogger. Soo that's that.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Rookies: NEW Microsoft Ads
I've seen three new ads from Microsoft using children to show how simple their OS's are (focused on features of the new Windows Live Photo Gallery). Everyone who knows anything is probably saying, "LOL, Microsoft finally found a marketing group suited for their products", but think about it. Is Microsoft as simple and child(/elderly)-friendly as Macintosh? Maybe XP or 7 but Vista would be confusing as hell for someone who didn't really understand computers. Definitely not as simple as Mac OSX would be. Besides for the reality of this, you have to admit that this is a genius marketing scheme. Who has lots of money? Elderly people love to buy computers for inane, simple tasks like email and word processing alone. They also love to buy presents for their kids and grand kids. "Oh, Microsoft Windows is obviously really easy for kids to use because I saw this commercial."
(The one more I saw with "Adam, 8" was harder to find on an embeddable site.)
HOWEVER, the same boy is in this ad from a series of 3 new ads from Microsoft which even further stress simplicity for CHILDREN and the ELDERLY.
("7 vs 70", "8 vs 80", "9 vs 90")
ALL children's Windows Live Photo Gallery ads: [link]
ALL children & elderly ads: [link]
(The one more I saw with "Adam, 8" was harder to find on an embeddable site.)
HOWEVER, the same boy is in this ad from a series of 3 new ads from Microsoft which even further stress simplicity for CHILDREN and the ELDERLY.
("7 vs 70", "8 vs 80", "9 vs 90")
ALL children's Windows Live Photo Gallery ads: [link]
ALL children & elderly ads: [link]
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Imageshack

Thursday, March 19, 2009
nin @shoreline amphitheater
NIN is playing at the Shoreline in Mountain View, CA on 22 May 2009. My dad said he was going to try to get tickets and the presales aren't sold out as of this post so I think I have a good chance of going. It sounds like it would be awesome because I saw them in winter 2006 and they were great. Also, I've liked their latest releases and live footage AND really wanted to see them during their last North American tour but missed them.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
switching to tumblr
I am now going to be posting to my blog at tumblr because I like it a little more than blogger. I will keep this blog up and have my tumblr import its posts if I ever use it again.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
News feeds
Since Nick introduced me to RSS last year, I have been regularly reading various blogs and other feeds. I just thought that I would let everyone know that I do (almost) regularly share posts that I like and you can subscribe to that here or just check my blog.
Domestic violence
I have never condoned domestic violence and never will. That being said, I've been hearing a lot about this whole "alleged" Chris Brown and Rhianna situation. So Chris Brown "allegedly" abused Rhianna? If this is true, I'm with everyone else. But, come on! Has anyone been looking at what is being said? First of all, everything is "alleged". He "allegedly" did this and "allegedly" did that. I haven't seen any pictures of Rhianna with bruises or other injuries. I haven't seen any official statements. All that I have heard and seen is accusations. And now guess what? They're writing a duet. They're writing a book, too. I don't want to be Mr. Super Skeptical, but at the moment, I am. I smell bullshit. And I don't like it.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Watchmen Re-Hash

There are a good amount of problems with this movie (mostly, I will now say, with the portions left out of the movie) but there are also a lot of great things. Snyder decided to almost directly translate the scenes he shot from the book instead of taking the books general story and themes, tones, etc. and making that into a movie. I'm not really sure what I think of this as I have no idea how the latter would have turned out. However, I have realized that the performances of Rorschach by Jackie Earle Haley and Dr. Manhattan by Billy Crudup were actually outstanding. Also, the fight sequences were alright considering I re-read the fights in the book and found that they were quite similar, contrary to my earlier belief.
Besides for this, I am still in between loving this and being really happy about it and disliking it for obvious reasons. Every time I hear a good review I go, "Oh yeah! It was awesome because of all that." And then every time I hear a bad review I go, "Oh yeah... He did do that." So I just don't know. I don't want to praise it or trash it. Some parts were good, some parts were bad. Some actors were great, some okay, some were terrible. Some details that are included make it amazing and some are just too much. One thing that I really believe is that at least Rorschach's history should have been included more and possibly more emphasis on the Keane Act. So, anyway, whether you read the book or not you should probably go see it. But if you can, definitely read the book first! It is 100% better than the movie.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Watchmen 2009

Now I will just say a few things I felt about this movie and its production. Zach Snyder is a great director. I loved his Dawn of the Dead remake and 300. When the production started for this, for some reason, I thought he was the perfect director for the job. Now that I've seen it, I know better. He is a dramatic, action-movie, 300 adapting, CG kind of guy. I'm not going to call him big-budget Hollywood just yet because I think he is going on to make much smaller movies currently. However, this is a big-budget movie and that is a main reason that it is so bad. The action scenes don't fit. The story is too shallow (similar to the Lord of the Rings adaptations). If Darren Aronofsky had actually made this (as he was earlier alleged) it may have been much better. Aronofsky has style, like Snyder, but he doesn't have to have over the top action scenes. He doesn't need huge amounts of CGI. This movie could have been a much more story-oriented intellectual film instead of a Blockbuster Hollywood action movie like it turned out to be.
I have so much to say about this but really not that many people read this blog and those who do probably didn't even read the small amount I did write. Overall, I was disappointed. But now that I think of it, I don't know what I expected. It just all makes sense now. Big budget = corporate input = action scenes and story cuts.
Plus, no tentacle monster? Come on!
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