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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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Mass Effect = Porn?

Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Josh.
Categories: games, movies, music, politics.

The “Sex-Box” Race for President

This has got to be one of the most biased, uninformed articles I’ve ever read about video games. Dare I say, this guy is on par with Jack Thompson.

He makes assumptions about a game he has neither played nor seen (Mass Effect = virtual sex game? What??? Where?). He then goes on to berate the gaming industry, which has given this game the equivalent of a movie’s R rating. Why doesn’t he spend the same effort going after the MPAA, then, for their movie rating system. It clearly must be inadequate.

Why don’t these people understand that when it comes down to it, you can’t put this responsibility solely on the sources of our entertainment. They do their part, in placing ratings and warnings on their products. It is down to each individual parent to take the responsibility to watch what their kids are doing and to figure out what their kids are listening to, watching, and playing.

Simple as that.

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From the Screen to To Your Stereo Part II

Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: movies, music.

I remember when I was first getting into the pop-punk scene, NFG’s “From the Screen to Your Stereo” was easily one of my favorites (still is). The idea behind the concept album was to grab songs from various movies (Neverending Story, Robin Hood, The Goonies) and do their own takes on them.

Well, they’re doing it again. And on many tracks, they are letting members of other bands (such as Taking Back Sunday, Cartel, and Eisley) join in on the fun.

From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II comes out on September 18, and will feature music from movies such as City of Angels, Romeo + Juliet, Dirty Dancing, and Donnie Darko. You can view the full list, as well as other details, here.

They’ve been spreading their songs around on the internet, and I’m going to go ahead and link to those here so you can check them out for yourselves:

• “Crazy for You”, from Vision Quest
• “Head Over Heels” from Donnie Darko
• “Kiss Me” from She’s All That, and “Iris” from City of Angels
• “Don’t You Forget About Me” from The Breakfast Club
• “Lovefool” from William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

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VW Eos

Posted on July 14th, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: youtube, music.

While I’m posting up stuff from YouTube, here’s Chris’s sister Catherine in the latest commercial for the Volkswagen Eos.

And in case you’re wondering, the song is “Sky Blue Sky” by Wilco, and I most definitely recommend them.

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Down Together

Posted on July 14th, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: youtube, music.

Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers played a post-game concert last night at Chase Field after the Dbacks beat the Padres.

They put on a fun, though short (not their choice), show - consisting of both RCPM material and older Refreshments stuff. The highlight of the show probably came during “Down Together”, in which a couple ran onto the field and literally went “down together” as security guards tackled them. Skip forward to 2:50 (or 1:20 remaining) to see the awesomeness of a woman getting tackled like an NFL player.

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Dog Problems, free!

Posted on June 26th, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: music.

The Format is giving away their sophomore album, Dog Problems, on their website! All you have to do is sign up for their newsletter. They send it out every now and then, and it’s not big and corporate and annoying. You can unsubscribe, of course, or send it to a spam account if you disagree.

If you know me and my musical taste, you know that The Format is one of my favorite bands.

They’re a band local to Phoenix, and they’ve been around for a few years.

If you’ve heard them and liked them, but never bothered with picking up the album - now’s the chance to get it. If you haven’t heard of them, give ‘em a shot. The whole album is pretty solid, but “She Doesn’t Get It” is probably a good starting point, if you’re looking for that catchy single that gets stuck in your head.

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Pizza Power!

Posted on March 14th, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: games, movies, music, tv.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game from 1989 came out on Xbox Live Arcade today. I was up early this morning and had time to spare, so I downloaded it and played through the first level. It was just like old times - I can see myself having a lot of fun with that game all over again.

Playing the game reminded me of the Ninja Turtles music I used to listen to as a kid. Yeah, that’s right - I had a cassette tape with songs about pizza and fighting The Shredder. I still have vague memories of the happy day that my parents made a special stop at Pizza Hut to buy me the tape. That $4.99 purchase was money well spent, as I didn’t listen to any other music for probably about a year. My mom will probably say it was longer, as the tape became permanently lodged in her Ford Tempo’s tape player.

I just had to hear it again, so after a quick google search, I found a site with mp3’s made from the tape! I started playing them in iTunes, and noticed that there is some background noise and occasional clicking from the tape player, but who am I to complain? For the most part, the quality is good enough.

I surprised myself this morning when I started singing along to the lyrics, as if it were 1990 all over again.

Click here to visit MIKEYSTMNT.COM and download them for yourself!

And yes, I am excited for the movie that comes out next Friday. I’m not expecting it to be great, but it looks like they’ve captured the spirit of the Turtles I know and love.

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Just the singles, please

Posted on March 2nd, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: music.

Lots of people are in love with Incubus and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I have a few of the Chili Peppers’ albums, and have at least listened to the ones that I don’t own. I have heard most of Incubus’s full albums as well.

After listening to a full album by one of these artists, I’ve had my fill. I just don’t want to listen to it again. Just give me the singles.

I can’t quite explain what it is about Incubus that does this to me, and I know there are some people I know who will give me crap about this.

As far as RHCP goes - after a while, everything is about California and it all just sounds the same.

Just give me “Dani California” and “Anna Molly” on my iPod and I’m a happy camper. You can keep the rest.

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Kanye West: The Fall Out

Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: music.

I present to you Kanye West’s addition of lyrics to Fall Out Boy’s “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race” (as heard on the song posted on FOB’s Myspace page):

Now I don’t know what the hell this song is talkin ’bout.. do you?
She said, “Yeah, I been spendin all day tryin to figure that out.. you too?”
The arms arms race, made em raise their arm, raise straight to the top.. who knew?
Right now they got the number one spot, do you want that? Me too
One thing I gotta call out boy, take a look at Fall Out Boy
Since they ain’t black, when they get money - they don’t ball out, boy
They just buy tight jeans til their nuts hang all out boy
They figure they dress tight, so we gonna dress tighter
He dress white, so we gonna dress whiter
So inspite of everything you might have seen or heard
No this ain’t occured

I used to think sometimes he was kind of clever, and I do still like some of his songs.. but damn. They could’ve gone to a random twelve year old and asked for rap lyrics to put into this song and gotten better stuff. Not only is it a bunch of nonsense, it doesn’t even flow well.

Kanye West, you’re on my shit list.

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The Second Coming

Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Josh.
Categories: youtube, music, sports, exercise.

Nike has a website where you can create your own mashups of the “Second Coming” commercial. I played around with it for a while, but I don’t have the patience to make anything halfway cool. This guy - a fellow Suns fan - did, though:

The commercial features the song “The Second Coming” by Juelz Santana. It’s not on iTunes yet, and the only versions I can find elsewhere seem to be bad rips from the commercial. Oh well. I’ll wait. I want that song. It would be good to run to.

Speaking of which.. gotta go!

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