409: Secret Santa (w/Thomas Middleditch!)
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Facelift
I got tired of the black, hope you enjoy the new scheme. I want a cool banner but alas my MS Paint days are long done.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Lines Of Sunday
Seeing as I won a hundred at the casino last night and have spent a lot of time on CentSports lately, I figured even being late I might as well give some insight on each weekend's NFL lines I like the most. This is not a guide to betting, please understand I'm not a professional and am only putting these up for entertainment purposes. Betting is illegal (wink).
Atlanta @ Carolina: Car -6.5 -100
Atlanta hasn't showed that they can beat a good team yet, so I'm not buying into the Matt Ryan mini-hype. Carolina has also beaten 2 teams much better than Atlanta and had a tough loss last week where they couldn't really figure out what to do on offense which should be corrected this week and run well enough to cover against a defense giving up 5 yards a carry. Fantasy sleeper alert: I'm starting Jonathan Stewart over Michael Turner in my money league this week. We'll see how this one turns out.
Green Bay @ Tampa Bay: 43 over -110
This is going to be a shootout. Last week against the Bears Tampa Bay showed they can not only throw the ball, but they can also give up a lot of passing to even a not so great offense. Al Harris (CB) is out with a broken spleen for Green Bay which means that even if Galloway isn't back yet Tampa should be able to throw just as proficiently as they did last week.
San Diego @ Oakland: SD -7.5 -110
San Diego is a really good team who have had a couple really tough breaks early in the season which is still leaving them to be a question mark on lines that they shouldn't be. Rivers is the real deal and Nnamdi Asomugha revealing he will be playing with a fractured elbow Phillip should have a nice day. Doesn't hurt that LT showed that his toe is feeling much better on monday night last week. The Raiders passing game is horrible and as long as the Chargers D doesn't let Michael Bush and McFadden pull an AD Peterson from last year they should be able to cover and then some.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
MMA =/= Ultimate Fighting
I just capped that off of aol.com under a section of "Activities for your family on weekends". I'd say a good one half of all mainstream coverage of mixed martial arts refers to it as "Ultimate Fighting". Especially good on this example is "Ultimate Fighting is defined as mixed martial arts competition...". No, you can't define an organization using what defines it, it doesn't work that way. That would be like if I called a high school baseball game Major League baseball in high school. You would think the people who write these things would put a little more research into it besides "Hey, I heard one of my son's friends talking about this Ultimate Fighting stuff. I should suggest that, whatever it is. I'll just google 'Ultimate Fighting' and see what comes up and post that." Also the picture isn't of anyone in the UFC, so even more points there. They could at least have a link to Sherdog so people can actually read about the sport instead of just posting links to buy shit, especially from Chuck "Lost 3 of his last 4 fights" Liddell.
Not even interested in MMA? You'll still enjoy one of my favorite highlight videos ever of the lighter side of the sport.
Krazy Horse is god.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
This can't be all that we have to weigh
This is my new favorite video, save it for a time when you need to smile.
Sorry
I haven't been paying attention to this at all lately, I apologize. I think every blogger has the pipe dream of a handful of readers who cling to their every word, so if any who sees this has wanted me to update more I'm going to get the ball rolling hard again. Those Chinese really know how to start a fire under you.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Songs That Should be In Rock Band/Guitar Hero
The other day a friend of mine was saying that the new Kanye song should be in Rock Band as a treat to the people who sing and drum. I told him he's an idiot because it'd be dumb to sing a computer's (autotune) part. But it got me thinking, what songs would be good to play in the future installments of the video games? Here's what I've come up with so far, feel free to post any suggestions/criticism in the comments. Keep in mind I'm biased towards the vocals since I end up doing them most of the time when I play, and I tried to exclude anything with screaming or instruments outside of the core three.
Beginners
It's got a little bit for everyone. Cool bass line, simple riff with light solos, fun drumming and singing. I'd kick a hole in the wall doing the "My mother told me" part.
Mostly because I want there to be a Beatles song on one of these games, but I think as a sing along this is their best suited. Not much for the guitarists, but you guys have two games all to yourself and can give some other people a little bit of fun once in awhile.
Another simple one with fun parts to it. The gargle at the beginning would also be required.
The drums and guitar are simple as hell, but the singing chart would be all over the place to keep it fun.
Danzig + punk= pretty tough. The bass is probably the most complex chart, but Misfits merchandise anything they can and everyone likes to sing like Danzig when they have an excuse to.
Medium
Fuck you, it's Brand New and they can be on whatever I say they can be on. And this is a demo of the song, as the normal version I have is an m4a and those don't stream, if you never noticed I tip toed around that.
The good 90's alternative bands don't get enough love in the games, so here's some sweetness and probably the best suited song on the album for the games. Challenging charts all the way around.
This is the first song I thought of, as I've always wanted to know how to play the drums for it. Good singing from Keith and the guitars are challenging enough to give everyone some problems as they get better.
Every Gatsbys song is a musical adventure, but I'd say this is the Indiana Jones of them all when it comes to being best suited from the game and not Speaker for the Dead which is my first choice, but one of them darn m4as.
I believe Assassin is on one of the upcoming games, but Black Holes songs shouldn't be the only ones to get on video games. In fact, one of the future Guitar Hero band series games should be for Muse, because all of their songs are harder than anything Aerosmith's ever done.
Hard
This song rocks dicks off, and after No One Knows and 3's & 7's were included in two of the Guitar Heros and Go With the Flow on Rock Band, they might as well keep throwing Homme's and companies shit on there because it's all perfect for the games
Another one harder for the singing, since no geek off the street can sing like Anthony, but all together this a tougher song.
I think it'd be funny to see people not familiar with the song saying "What's so hard about this?" through the first couple minutes of the song, and then Thomas Erak kicks in their door and melts their faces off.
The closest thing I could think of to a math rock song, one of which should have been on the original two guitar heros.
Joey, Billy and Gartdrumm appear to be what the standard skill level should be for, and the guitar solo is pretty damn dope as well.
Expert
This song's like one giant nine minute guitar solo, and there's even a pretty tough vocal bit at seven minutes.
They have harder songs on guitar, but I think this is hardest for everything considered. I think I failed singing on Welcome Home the first time I tried, but you gotta sing like Claudio if you want it to be kickass.
It's a scientific fact that Erick Serna can shred like a madman, combine that with some tough Casey singing and Sammy drumming and you got yourself a pretty frustrating four and a half minutes.
I will smash every drum pad on earth if I ever get to play Sammy Del Real's bit at the end of this, so intense.
I'm going to go ahead and say this would be the hardest song I have on my computer. Vocals- All over the place. Guitars- Maximum shred. Drums- Fast and a few times changes.
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