Auf Wiedersehen

Heidi Klum and Seal might be getting a divorce. Its sad. They always seemed so happy.
I think the perfect way to get through this is to watch the original music video for "Kissed by a Rose" from the Batman Forever soundtrack.

Im already feeling better.
-jv
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Rockstars die at 27

When Amy Winehouse was found dead today, after gasping aloud, our first thought was "Was she 27?" because rockstars die when they are 27.

My favorite Jimi Hendrix song is "The wind cries Mary."

No one sings Summertime better than "Janis Joplin," with a little help from Jimi.

 I can't think of a Doors song I don't like; everyone loves "Alabama Song," obviously.

I always knew I liked Nirvana, as far back as I can remember. I could only get to them through the radio for the longest time. Until I finally got a hold of their greatest hits album freshman year of high school. My favorite song is "Lithium."

 
And ever a rockstar, Amy has joined the infamous 27 club. It's songs like "Me and Mr Jones" that make me really sad about this.

- V
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Goldeneye Spawn Patterns: Stack

Stack was the third level that I learned the spawn pattern to. Like before the top of the screen is the hunter and the bottom is the hunted. As long as you do not stand too close to where the person you are playing is going to spawn next the pattern will go on without a hitch. If you are too close your opponent will skip onto the next spawn point in the pattern.

 Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

-jv

Speed Read Harry Potter

Just stumbled across some totally sweet cartoons by Lucy Knisley. She is super funny and talented, but I got quickly side tacked by her 1-frame Harry Potter summaries. She has one for each book and they're pretty great.


Here's my favorite HP book in one hilarious frame. Check it out in full size and see the rest here.

 Also she re-imagined Harry Potter as a late 80s movie/early 90s tv show. Saved by the Spell or Accio to the Future. Here's a clip of that.

I'm anticipating a slew of Harry Potter related madness in the coming months til part2 comes out.

-av

p.s. here is a even newer even sweeter X Men trailer

Goldeneye Spawn Patterns

Part 1: Temple.
Temple was the first level I ever noticed a pattern in. I know the patterns to Facility, Stack, Archives, Bunker, and most recently Complex. I have enjoyed sitting atop the Goldeneye multiplayer world for long enough and now it is time to spread the wealth.

Any level I do not know the pattern to is not worth playing.

I have taken pictures of each of the spawn points. I have set up the pictures so that on the top of the screen there is the hunter and on the bottom there is the hunted.

Step 1

Step 2: From Step 1 move to the right to the door that leads to a downhill ramp. There is a room on the left with no door and a room on the right with a door. Your opponent will spawn in the room to the left wait until they spawn and go down the hallway so the game does not bump them onto Step 3

 














Step 3: After having gone into the room without a door from the downhill ramp go back to the hallway. Wait at the door, you can open it just do not go inside. Wait for your opponent to spawn they will be in front of you slightly to the right.

Step 4: Having gone into the room with a door proceed across the room and go up the far side ramp. This will lead you back to the room from Step 1. Stay close to the wall on your left and go straight ahead to the door. Open the door and move forward until you see a dark downhill ramp on your right. Your opponent will probably have just enough time to spawn by the time you get there, proceed down the ramp.

Step 5: Go back up the dark downhill ramp you used to enter into Step 4. At the top on the ramp take a right to go downhill. Once at the bottom of the ramp do not enter the room. Wait for your opponent to spawn they will be to the right.

After Step 5 to pattern resets and goes back to Step 1. As long as you do not get to close to the spawn point the cycle will continue until the end of the game.

I will be putting up the spawn patterns to Stack, Facility, Archives, Bunker, and Complex in the upcoming weeks.

-jv

p.s. KMV, I could have never done this without you, love you very much.

Titanic: 99 years of morbid fascination.

In the wee hours of the morning on April 15th, 1912, 99 years old today, the Titanic sank into the Atlantic, taking with it 1,517 people, due to insufficient lifeboats and a whole bunch of other incompentencies. And people can't stop talking about it.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with loving the movie, or going to a museum expo of stuff brought up from the wreck, getting lost on wikipedia looking up survivors and victims for several hours, or occasionally getting sucked into a History Channel marathon of Titanic-themed programming.

However, Titanic interest can be taken too far. Like the 100th Anniversary Titanic Cruise. The cruise, which sold out last October, will take place next year, reaching the place where the Titanic Sank on April 14th before continuing on to Halifax, where there's an excursion planned to the cemetary where the recovered bodies were buried. According to a press release:

"The Balmoral will trace the same route the Titanic took from Southampton to New York in 1912 and the ship will sail with 1,309 paying passengers, exactly the same number that sailed on the Titanic. The restaurants will offer the same menu, and the passengers will hear music of the time of the Titanic. The passengers will have an opportunity to listen to lectures about the Titanic era and those who shared its fate. "

This super morbid, totally sold out, with a very long waiting list cruise is doing some good, they've joined with a charity that is benefiting from the profits as well.

In other, related, vaugely depressing news, while researching this I saw an article claiming that the Titanic wreck still on the ocean floor will be destroyed by bacteria by 2017.

My heart will go on long after the Titanic has turned into the underwater version of dust,

-av

p.s. also, while Lincoln was shot the night before, he didn't actually die until the next morning, so Abraham Lincoln has the same death day as the Titanic, April 15th.

Song of the Week

Everyone do yourself a favor and download Lou Bega's "Mambo Mambo"

Sometimes you just want to listen to latin music but it can be so hard! You can try to find that random spanish channel on your AM radio but it might be hours before you catch a song you can get down with. That's one hour of listening to sub par music in a language you can't understand.


This is your best alternative. If you are going to be driving somewhere, walking somewhere, doing work, having a dance party, or cooking spaghetti this week then just download this song and listen to it while you do your thing and trust me you will not regret it. If the song doesn't make your smile then I'm not sure why you read this blog. And while you're at it listen to Mambo #5 too- it's pretty much solid gold.

                                                          

How can you say no to this face?

-Jilliciuos

Team White Queen

I am very excited for the new X-Men movie. I loved the cartoon and recently came across what seems to be all of X-Men Evolution on YouTube. My love of X-Men defs started with the playing cards. They were the shit, they had cool on the beach cards, halloween cards, and the card that probably kept me interested in X-Men when I could have begun having other interests; the White Queen.

In the new X-Men movie the White Queen, or Emma Frost, will be played by the awesome January Jones who I loved in Pirate Radio. I think the casting agent nailed it. And James McAvoy as Prof. X, nailed it. The movie comes out June 3rd and I am wicked excited.


-jv

Katy Perry Rocks Right Now and Pop Makes a Comeback

Not that I lost any faith in pop music but driving two hours a day to the same Rhianna and Pitbull songs does make you go a little crazy sometimes. I have been known to hate on Katy Perry-MAINLY because that song California Girls is pure awfulness.

1) The Beach Boys already made a song about California girls and it was way better
2) Aqua and the band that sang I'm Blue Dab a Dee in the 90's don't make music like that or at all anymore. For a reason.
3) Don't be a bad ass and come out saying how you kiss girls and then turn around and pull some bubble gum pop bullshit that Britney put on "Baby One More Time.." as a filler. If I wanted to listen to that I'd just pull up Soda Pop and be done with it.

Besides that one slip up though I do love most of Katy Perry's songs. They don't sound like Lady Gaga, Rhianna, or Britney and she's slightly more bad ass without being crazy in general, crazy because Chris Brown beat you up, or crazy because everyone in the media follows you around and sometimes you shave your head and beat cars up with umbrellas.

Her new single E.T. is pretty great. It sounds like that T.A.T.U song that came out back in the day except instead about lesbians its about Aliens. Entertainment weekly wants us to believe that it wouldn't have been a single if not for Kanye's verses on it BUT I come to Katy's defense in this one. The song is awesome and so is the video. She has a way of making her music sounds more complex than typical female pop singers even if it is about doing it with your alien boyfriend. Of course Kanye jumped on this track! You think he's gonna miss an opportunity to rap about having sex with someone not human? No chance! Kanye definitely makes the song more awesome because I mean. He's Kanye. But we all knew that. Katy holds her own in this one though and I think that even without Kanye this song would rock.

Check it out and see what you think

jmn

ps. everyone should definitely check out Britney's new cd. I think it's super fun.

Pizza Face, Mr. Potato Head, WTF

Being a little kid is so awesome. There are whole superstores dedicated to selling different things that you can play with. There is a WHOLE AISLE of Barbie's in Toy's R Us. If you watch the Nickelodeon during the day you will see 300 hundred ads for different cracked out kids toys.

There are also TONS of shows for you. Barney, Blues Clues, Dora the Explorer, Rugrats, etc. If there were as many great shows on tv for us adults(?) now as there were great shows when we were kids I'd never leave the couch.

Who remembers these guys?

Earboy and PIZZA FACE!-A little creepy, but mostly funny and hilarious.

                                                                    

                                                  Mr. Potato Head. So lovable.

I was getting my daily dose of two gay men saying hilarious stuff about celebrity gossip on D-listed  and found an example of how kids shows can go wrong. Kids in Australia are apparently being robbed of Barney and instead given this crazy substitute. Sure we can take off all of Mr Potato Head's body parts but we ALWAYS put them back! otherwise he's just a potato. and no one wants to play with a potato person with no person characteristics. And that is where these Aussies went terribly, terribly wrong.

What the HELL! What psychos thought trapping a baby in wet clay and suffocating it so that you couldn't see any of its features was a good idea?! Yes Australian little girl accents are cute but there is a limit. And WHY does that plant in the lobby have an eyeball? Someone needs to ship off the copyrights to Eureka's Castle to the children of Australia because I'm seriously worried about them. And now I'm going to have nightmares.

How great does Bruce Willis look naked?

-JMN