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Movie and music recommendations

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Josh.
Categories: games, movies, music.

I’m on a total blogging binge right now…

Here are some movies I’ve seen recently that I would recommend:

• Into the Wild - Pretty good story based on true events… I’d like to read the book now. Burning question from this movie - the girl at the trailer park community… would you if you were in his shoes?
• Across the Universe - I’m a Beatles fan, and admittedly I do like the occasional musical. This one is pretty cool. Would be better on weed, I imagine.
• Walk the Line - Johnny Cash = awesome. The end. Also, Reese Witherspoon is ridiculously hot in this movie.
• Event Horizon - Best sci-fi horror movie ever. Yes, better than Jason X. (Yes, that was a joke).

And some music:

• Into the Wild soundtrack - Eddie Vedder acoustic FTW.
• Flobots - Handlebars - I can ride my bike with no handlebars… can you?
• Ludo - Love Me Dead - The video is awesome.

And some games:

• Portal - The cake is a lie
• Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - It’s just fun.

Aaaaand I’m spent.

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BWW FTL

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Josh.
Categories: random.

Last night, I competed in the final round of a Rock Band competition at Buffalo Wild Wings in Gilbert (1475 W. Elliot Road
Gilbert, AZ 85233).

We didn’t win. I feel like we got hosed, and that things were kinda rigged against us. Here’s an email I am sending to Buffalo Wild Wings corporate. Maybe they’ll do something about it… maybe not. Either way, I feel better for getting it off my chest. It was quite frustrating last night.

Long story short:

This BWW location ran a free Rock Band promotion over the past month, in conjunction I believe with a beer company who fronted a cash prize. Winners from each week qualified for the final round, which took place last night.

My team won last week, and we arrived last night to some strange news. The qualifying rounds were played on medium difficulty. The final round ended up being played on hard difficulty. I later asked other bands if they knew about this, and none of them knew prior to arriving that night - except for one band.

This one band that knew happened to have a member who not only worked at this BWW location, but was running these competitions each week. I asked him if he knew about the difficulty change for the final round, and he told me he had known about it for a few weeks. He had no answer for me when I asked him why other teams were not told this information.

Whether this information was kept from other teams on purpose, or if it was just a poor oversight by those running the competition - this is the reason that employees should not take part in a contest their company is putting on.

I do not know if your company has a corporate policy regarding such promotions, but if you don’t - I would highly recommend making such a policy. As a customer, I feel that the team with the employee had an unfair advantage in knowing information that the other customer only teams did not.

Oh, and that team with the employee won the overall prize.

If I hear anything back, I’ll be sure to post it here.

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