December 2010
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Birthday!
It was my birthday yesterday. Spent it with family eating Modern Pizza! Yum! What did I get? Grindhouse on blu-ray, a $25 gift certificate for my local comic book store and Call of Duty: Black Ops. My brother also gave me something I never would’ve expected. On Christmas, I joked that I got just about everything I wanted except the right to decide who lives and who dies. Well, my brother...
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A very Timey Wimey Christmas
I closed out Christmas the other night by watching the Doctor Who Christmas special. I loved it. Usually, one of my most hated Christmas episode cliches is the remake of A Christmas Carol. It’s generally done poorly and it’s basically just an excuse for the writers to be lazy and take something of a Christmas break. This was an exception because they gave the formula its own unique...
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Underrated Albums: Led Zeppelin-"In Through the...
Led Zeppelin-In Through the Out Door (1979) Lineup: Robert Plant-Vocals Jimmy Page-Guitars John Paul Jones-Bass, Keyboards John Bonham-Drums This was Led Zeppelin’s last album before the group slip up in the wake of John Bonham’s death in 1980. In Through the Out Door saw Zeppelin adapting a new sound. The biggest part of this new sound being the introduction of synthesisers....
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I love the smell of mistletoe in the morning!
Merry Christmas! Got a bunch of new blu-rays this year! Slayers Revolution Slayers Evolution-R Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino Evangelion 1.11: You Are Not Alone Apocalypse Now: Full Disclosure (Original and Redux cuts as well as the Hearts of Darkness documentary) And for my Xbox 360: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. I guess this means Santa isn’t a Templar. Hope you all got some cool...
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Senate votes for repeal; DADT is dead
dcwomenkickingass:
Now, I can post this for the last time.
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One-man camera crew
I recently rented the Michael Schenker Group’s Live In Tokyo 1997 from Netflix. On paper, it seems like a great concert DVD: A guitar legend performing about 40 songs from his career. In addition to MSG songs, he also plays stuff from his days with UFO, Scorpions and even the short-lived Contraband. So imaging my dismay when I discovered that the whole show was filmed on only one camera...
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Music in 1980
I was thinking yesterday that 30 years ago, we lost John Lennon, Bon Scott and John Bonham. 1980 sure was a pretty brutal year for music, considering we lost those titans.
But then I thought of the albums we got that year:
Rush-Permanent Waves
Back Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
AC/DC-Back In Black
Saxon-Wheels of Steel
Motorhead-Ace of Spades
Queen-The Game
Judas Priest-British Steel
Iron...
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Break the ice
Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve really written. Oh sure, I’ve posted stuff like links and YouTube videos and such, but it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything substantial. Well, there’s a reason for that. It seems that being laid off, out of work and broke had one more consequence I didn’t foresee. It pretty much brought my entire...
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