It's been a pretty uneventful President's Day weekend.
Saturday, I bought a PS3 with my tax return money. It's pretty awesome. NBA 2K8 is by far the most realistic basketball video game I've ever played. It even has a different shot style for every player (Joakim Noah shoots with two hands like in real life, and so on). I also got Rock Band. The guitar on it is easier than Guitar Hero, but the drums are pretty tough. I spent about three hours yesterday playing the cooperative mode online.
The main reason that I bought the PS3, however, was for the Blu-Ray player. The system came with Spiderman 3 (a mediocre movie that looks nice) and I picked up a copy of Ratatouille, which looks amazing. My dilemma now is, do I want to go back and rebuy movies on Blu-Ray? Probably not, or at least not until the price of the discs drops, but I think all of the new titles that I get will be on Blu-Ray. Shame that American Gangster is coming out on HD-DVD.
The kicker is, not an hour after I got back from Best Buy, I read that Toshiba is discontinuing HD-DVD players so I felt pretty good about my purchase.
Lastly, check this out. It's great how they got everybody in on the prank. Brett Myers may be a wife beating ass, but he's pretty funny.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
It's weekend wrap-up time and it was a pretty boring weekend at that.
Saturday, I watched my UMBC Retrievers nearly blow a 20 point lead against Binghamton. That's right, UMBC is in first place in the America East and I need to start going to games.
This afternoon, I decided to watch Wild Hogs on OnDemand just to see why it made so much money. In a world where Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans exist, Wild Hogs isn't half bad. Half of the plot was ripped straight from Three Amigos but it had a couple of laughs.
I caught a little bit of the Grammy's tonight. Shocker (but not for the Grammy's) that Herbie Hancock won best album over Kanye and Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse seemed very awkward when she was performing, but the performance of the night had to be Kanye doing Dear Mama.
I think I'm coming down with some sort of sinus infection, I've been getting a lot of headaches and my face feels like it's going to explode. Fun times. Luckily, I have the day off of work on Tuesday for the elections.
I'm debating leaving work early tomorrow to catch Obama at the Arena, but it's probably not going to happen. I will work for him on Tuesday as long as I'm feeling alright. Get out the vote!
Saturday, I watched my UMBC Retrievers nearly blow a 20 point lead against Binghamton. That's right, UMBC is in first place in the America East and I need to start going to games.
This afternoon, I decided to watch Wild Hogs on OnDemand just to see why it made so much money. In a world where Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans exist, Wild Hogs isn't half bad. Half of the plot was ripped straight from Three Amigos but it had a couple of laughs.
I caught a little bit of the Grammy's tonight. Shocker (but not for the Grammy's) that Herbie Hancock won best album over Kanye and Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse seemed very awkward when she was performing, but the performance of the night had to be Kanye doing Dear Mama.
I think I'm coming down with some sort of sinus infection, I've been getting a lot of headaches and my face feels like it's going to explode. Fun times. Luckily, I have the day off of work on Tuesday for the elections.
I'm debating leaving work early tomorrow to catch Obama at the Arena, but it's probably not going to happen. I will work for him on Tuesday as long as I'm feeling alright. Get out the vote!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
I'm one of the Oceanic 6!
Back into the swing of school and as such I haven't been watching a lot of movies or TV, but I'll go ahead and update on what I have been doing when not writing papers.
Last Sunday, I went with my mom to see Cirque Dreams at the Hippodrome. It's basically a rip off of Cirque Du Soleil. My mom said it was basically the same thing minus the stage built for them. It was very impressive but I feel a little more gay after watching half naked men balancing on top of each other. I also get why the scene in Knocked Up where Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen are tripping on shrooms while watching Cirque Du Soleil is so funny. You almost don't need the illegal substances to get the sensation.
I've gotten into religiously watching Countdown (it's a lot easier now that i have a DVR). Keith Olbermann is awesome at going from serious (the election) to irreverant (random Britney Spears news) at the drop of a hat. I do however question why they had the editor of TMZ on after Heath Ledger's death. Granted they have a lot of information but is it worth supporting a website that makes its money from endlessly hounding celebs.
For some reason, I decided to watch Epic Movie on HBO tonight. To quote Terry Bradshaw, "Not Funny."
I finished reading Colbert's book, I am America and So Can You. It's pretty funny but not nearly as good as America: The Book. I just started reading The Yiddish Policeman's Union. This is the second Michael Chabon book I have read and so far it's completely stylistically different from Kavalier and Klay.
Finally, Lost is back and the Writer's Strike is about to really hit home. With storylines such as Christian either is or is hanging out with Jacob, creepy Lt. Daniels, post-island madness, and full on Jack vs. Locke, eight episodes is going to be a horrible tease. Because I suck and read spoilers, I already know who the other three of the Oceanic 6 are. Sometimes with Lost, I like knowing when the twists are going to be so I can better see the lead up to them. I am pissed that I knew about the flash forward beforehand last season, however because it didn't have the same effect.
Last Sunday, I went with my mom to see Cirque Dreams at the Hippodrome. It's basically a rip off of Cirque Du Soleil. My mom said it was basically the same thing minus the stage built for them. It was very impressive but I feel a little more gay after watching half naked men balancing on top of each other. I also get why the scene in Knocked Up where Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen are tripping on shrooms while watching Cirque Du Soleil is so funny. You almost don't need the illegal substances to get the sensation.
I've gotten into religiously watching Countdown (it's a lot easier now that i have a DVR). Keith Olbermann is awesome at going from serious (the election) to irreverant (random Britney Spears news) at the drop of a hat. I do however question why they had the editor of TMZ on after Heath Ledger's death. Granted they have a lot of information but is it worth supporting a website that makes its money from endlessly hounding celebs.
For some reason, I decided to watch Epic Movie on HBO tonight. To quote Terry Bradshaw, "Not Funny."
I finished reading Colbert's book, I am America and So Can You. It's pretty funny but not nearly as good as America: The Book. I just started reading The Yiddish Policeman's Union. This is the second Michael Chabon book I have read and so far it's completely stylistically different from Kavalier and Klay.
Finally, Lost is back and the Writer's Strike is about to really hit home. With storylines such as Christian either is or is hanging out with Jacob, creepy Lt. Daniels, post-island madness, and full on Jack vs. Locke, eight episodes is going to be a horrible tease. Because I suck and read spoilers, I already know who the other three of the Oceanic 6 are. Sometimes with Lost, I like knowing when the twists are going to be so I can better see the lead up to them. I am pissed that I knew about the flash forward beforehand last season, however because it didn't have the same effect.
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