tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37528494271766540622024-03-06T01:50:01.688-05:00The Nick B-LogNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-77915104153704300092011-02-06T14:42:00.007-05:002011-08-25T05:28:33.531-04:00MY QUICK UPDATE (2/6/2011) OR: Are you ready for some football?! ...I'm not.In case you are new to this blog or just don't remember what the "<a href="http://thenickb-log.blogspot.com/search/label/quick%20update">My Quick Update</a>" posts are about, they are essentially a way for me to blog about things that have happened in the last week that were big enough for me to care about, but not enough for me to write a long blog post on. So, here we go:<br />
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As most of you know, today is Super Bowl Sunday. I neither care, nor wish to pretend to care, about football. What I have always found funny is that most people who watch the Super Bowl do not watch it for the <i>football</i> portion. Everyone knows this because if you took all of the Nielsen viewers who watch every Monday Night Football showcase, then doubled it, you would not equal one-tenth of the viewers that the Super Bowl brings in. I don't know if it is the commercials, <a href="http://www.movieline.com/2011/02/lets-rank-the-super-bowl-movie-trailer-in-order-of-anticipation.php">the movie trailers that are promised to premiere</a>, or the hope that <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7725252/super_bowl_halftime_show_2011_gets.html">Fergie</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy">nipple</a> will make an appearance, but most of America will be glued to their television sets, watching one team of pituitary cases bash into the more hated pituitary case clan. There may be even more people tuning in, waiting for the new <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/">"Glee"</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sue_Sylvester_Bowl_Shuffle">episode to come on</a>!<br />
Unfortunately, while I've been managing to avoid it post-high school, I have a friend who now throws a <i>Super Bowl Party</i> at his house annually. So, I will be bringing a bottle of Southern Comfort and drowning my hatred for the sport. It may just be easier to lose this friend.<br />
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Despite the Comic-Con International/<a href="http://www.ticketleap.com/">TicketLeap</a> team-up being an internet travesty to all us geeks on Saturday (2/5/2011), I managed to get my badge for the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con! It took 3+ hours of me hitting refresh on the site and ignoring the TicketLeap site saying that all of the 4-day passes were sold out [Comic-Con International's Twitter page continued insisting that there were plenty of passes left] but I did finally get them around 3:06pm EST (tickets went on sale at noon).<br />
Comic-Con International has been trying to get its proverbial shit together since the site first crashed a few months ago in November 2010. They tried again a couple weeks later, the site crashed. They did a test where they only sold 1,000 passes in January (using a new system), and the tickets all sold within 60 seconds. With all of this happening, they should have prepared to have many extra servers on deck just to handle all of the traffic that they had to know would be coming to TicketLeap's site. It genuinely is not difficult to prepare your hosting service for the flood of internet-enabled geeks, clicking furiously, credit card in hand. Granted, the site would probably still crash a number of times, but it would not take one person 186 minutes just to purchase one 4-day pass.<br />
Next year, Comic-Con should drop TicketLeap for dropping the ball on such an important task. While I do not wish for them to start using a service like TicketMaster (who would charge an extra $15 to your passes as a <i>service charge</i>), they need to find a company who is willing to go the extra 7 miles to guarantee satisfaction on the one day that probably brings them more than 10% of their annual revenue. And I feel that that is a generously low number. After all, has anyone ever purchased tickets to an event using <a href="http://www.ticketleap.com/">TicketLeap</a>?<br />
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I started re-watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/">"Battlestar Galactica"</a> with my father, who has never seen the show. So far, obviously, he is enjoying the frak out of it! He used to watch the original series, but never liked it, citing that it was trying too hard to be <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/">Star Wars</a></i>. When watching a few early season one episodes last night, my father mentioned how much he liked Billy, President Roslin's aide. I didn't have the heart to tell him not to get too attached.<br />
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My friend, Danny, posted <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/07/110207fa_fact_zalewski?currentPage=all">this New Yorker profile on Guillermo del Toro</a> on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/djeljosevic/status/34184253759561728">Twitter</a>. It is a long, but great read. I always thought the man to be brilliant and this is a great insight into the mind of one of cinema's wildest imaginations. Give it a good read.<br />
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On Monday, January 24th, for the Xbox 360 Kinect, I bought <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Shape-Fitness-Evolved-Xbox-360/dp/B002I0H9WM?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank"><i>Your Shape Fitness Evolved</i></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002I0H9WM" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. One thing that I enjoyed about it was that it really did work! However, the one and only thing that I did not enjoy about it was that it really <b style="text-decoration: underline;">did</b> work. I was sore for days! I used it for three days straight and could barely walk. Then when I had to crouch down, I had to hold onto things to balance and ease myself down. And getting up from said crouch was no picnic either. I decided to stop using it until my muscled relaxed again. After about five days, they were relaxed, but I was afraid to start using it again. What I will probably do from now on is use it every other day.<br />
When I was beta testing the Kinect for Microsoft a few months before it came out, My one big complaint was that it had no software support behind it. That is still my big complaint with the device now. I have met with a Microsoft representative at work and he tells me that in the coming months, there will be more games coming out for it. But, in a country full of obese children who grow up to be obese adults, the Kinect is a good device to fight that. I quite enjoy both <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Sensor-Adventures-Xbox-360/dp/B002BSA298?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Kinect Adventures</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002BSA298" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </i>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Sports-Xbox-360/dp/B002I0JBVY?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Kinect Sports</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial !important; border-width: initial !important;"><i><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002I0JBVY" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></span>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Central-Xbox-360/dp/B002I0HBOI?ie=UTF8&tag=widgetsamazon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Dance Central</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial !important; border-width: initial !important;"><i><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002I0HBOI" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i></span> may be a game that I won't play if anyone else is in the room, but I will still play it. And while I don't like my video game console tricking me into exercising, it may very well be the only form of exercise that I will actively take part in. After all, I started playing video games as a way of <i>avoiding</i> exercise as a child. That young lad is now 22 and his metabolism is now realizing that a bad diet should cause some form of bad features. Plus, since I was diagnosed as a Type-1 diabetic at 17, every doctor told me that I should exercise. It's been five years, maybe I should give them a listen...Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-81243833718598690152011-02-01T17:08:00.003-05:002011-02-01T17:13:08.259-05:00How Does One Start Doing This Again?Well, I've decided to start this blog up again. Mainly for two reasons:<div><ol><li>Finally got a new laptop. An Asus K52N-BGR5. Fairly happy with it. It was a mere $549 at Best Buy and has a 500GB hybrid hard drive, 6GB DDR3 RAM, 15.6-inch LED screen, ATi HD graphics, and an on-board Altec Lansing speaker set. I say all these things as a computer geek, and yet, I bought the computer so I could get back to writing.</li><li>Because one of my favorite comic book writers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robinson_(comics)">James Robinson</a>, had tweeted that my blog was a good read and "witty" after I had put him in one of my few and far between "Follow Friday" posts.</li></ol>After things like that (especially the latter!), one <i>must </i>continue blathering to absolutely no one while hoping that maybe just one person actually reads this and feels that it was not a complete waste of their time. As they say, it's the little things that matter.</div><div>Since I moved back home to Miami, I've been doing things a lot differently than when I was in Gainesville. For now, I'm working. Not currently in school due to a strong lack of funds. I am currently considering my further educational options. I may just go a normal secondary educational institution or see if I can gather enough student loans to go to a film school for my BA. I have also been volunteering for the <a href="http://www.floridasupercon.com/">Florida SuperCon</a> since the 2009 Animation SuperCon in October of that year. I spent the entire weekend being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_X._Cohen">David X. Cohen</a>'s (co-developer/executive producer/head writer of "Futurama") assistant. I also got to hang out with the entire male voice cast of "Futurama" and drive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_West">Billy West</a> (voice of Fry/Zapp Brannigan on "Futurama" as well as many voices from some of everyone's favorite '90s cartoons) to the airport. I've done pretty well at these events. I'll most likely be a staff member for the upcoming <a href="http://www.floridasupercon.com/">2011 Florida SuperCon</a> in July, taking care of media guests. Honestly, even if they don't pay me, I still have way too much fun at the cons.</div><div>But, between work, conventions, and not having a computer after my last laptop finally died (it was on its last legs and was referred to as a <i>steam powered laptop</i> by my good friend, <a href="http://www.isitobvious.com/">Shaun Spalding</a>, because of the terrible sounds the fan made), I have neglected my writing. I kept having ideas and writing them all down in my Moleskine notepad, but never really had a chance to turn any of them into something. Most recently, I started getting frustrated and just took what little money I had and bought the best laptop I could for it. So, in addition to starting to write some stories again, I thought this blog should be given a chance to live on. While I enjoy Twitter, micro-blogging is not as good an outlet as a nice, LONG blog post.</div><div>I am going to try to post movie reviews for whatever film I see that I feel is worth writing about - whether it be new, old, or something recently rediscovered - as well as some of my general <i>What's Happening?</i> posts that I used to do called "<a href="http://thenickb-log.blogspot.com/search/label/quick%20update">MY QUICK UPDATE</a>". I may also do the occasional video game review (since I now work in the video game section of a very large toy store chain and it has rehashed on old addiction), tech news, comic book review, or whatever geeky thing that I feel is either relevant to myself or what I feel should be relevant to us all. In other words, this will be a blog. But not just a <i>blog</i>, this will be <span class="Apple-style-span"><b>The Nick B-Log</b></span>.</div>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-19029198486928706572009-01-05T12:23:00.001-05:002011-02-01T01:44:01.951-05:00MY AFTER-HOLIDAY QUICK UPDATE (1/5/09)<span style="font-weight: bold;">Happy (belated) Festivus, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year to you all!</span><br /><br />Back in Gainesville after spending the last 2 weeks back home in Miami. Did not get to see any new movies to cross off my pending 2008 list while I was there.<br /><br />Did not receive anything from my family for Christmas. I did, however, get my father the special edition set of one of his favorite films, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</span></a>, and bought my sister two t-shirts that she loved from <a href="http://www.threadless.com/">Threadless</a>. The word from both of them: "I will get you a gift later." I'll believe it when I see it.<br />Luckily, I did receive $250 cash from 4 of my various aunts and uncles.<br /><br />The day after Christmas, I decided that I would buy myself a brand new cellular phone to replace the now archaic one that I had had for over 2 ½ years, the <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/w600i?cc=us&lc=en">Sony Ericsson W600</a>. So, I went to Wal-Mart, which had the best prices for upgrades. For me, the choice was between the <a href="http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/blackjackII/">Samsung Blackjack II</a>, which was FREE, and the <a href="http://us.lge.com/products/model/detail/Mobile%20Phones_Select%20by%20Carrier_ATT_Vu%20%28CU920%29.jhtml">LG Vu</a>, for $48.88. When I had gone the week earlier, the Blackjack II was $18.88. So, when I went to Wal-Mart to buy the LG Vu, the decision became harder on whether or not I should get it.<br />But, it won. The new cell is the <a href="http://us.lge.com/products/model/detail/Mobile%20Phones_Select%20by%20Carrier_ATT_Vu%20%28CU920%29.jhtml">LG Vu (CU920)</a>. I LOVE this phone! Full HTML browser, 3G-enabled, one of the first phones to support AT&T TV and CV video-play, TOUCHSCREEN! Since I can afford neither the iPhone nor the plan that I would have to get along with it, this phone is a welcome substitute to it. My only complaints are its battery life - but I knew about that going in - and that, unlike the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone that I previously had, I cannot set an mp3 as my ringtone. Hopefully, there is a hack for the latter.<br />But it is very sexy...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cell.phoneevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/lg-vu.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 396px;" src="http://cell.phoneevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/lg-vu.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Another fine Wal-Mart tale occured last Thursday night:<br />I read a tweet from <a href="http://twitter.com/todd1985/status/1091103975">@todd1985</a> (the internet's <a href="http://todd1726.blogspot.com/">Todd Jurgess</a>) telling of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scorsese-Collection-Anymore-Goodfellas-Knocking/dp/B000286RR0/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231172724&sr=8-1">Martin Scorsese Collection</a> DVD set being $13 at Wal-Mart. At first, I did not believe him. After all, this set is usually $50+ at most retail stores. I had gone to Best Buy a couple days earlier and it was there for $57.99! But, I was sitting at home all day watching the SciFi Channel marathon of "The Twilight Zone" with no breaks. So, I set out to Wal-Mart to call his bluff. And, low and behold, there it was: the last Martin Scorsese Collection box set for $13! I grabbed it, sent a tweet to @todd1985 thanking him for this glorious bit of information, and continued to walk about the <span style="font-style: italic;">Electronics</span> section of my local Wal-Mart.<br />So, I walk over to the $5 DVD bin to see if anything was in there that I wanted. And there was! In there lay the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zodiac-Directors-Two-Disc-Special-Collectors/dp/B000XCZGV8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231172793&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Zodiac</span> 2-Disc Director's Cut</a> DVD. I picked it up and laughed. There was only one in there. It must have been a mistake. After all, the single-disc version of <span style="font-style: italic;">Zodiac</span> was in the $7.50 rack. I figured that someone must have picked it up from the regular DVD rack and, when they realized that they didn't want it anymore, dropped it in the $5 bin. But, I take it over to the price scanner to see how much Wal-Mart was charging fr it. Everywhere else, the DVD is $25. But, Wal-Mart usually is the first place to lower DVD prices. I was hoping it was around the $13-range as well. But the reading on the scanner displays, "DVD $5.00". I immediately ran to the cash register in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Electronics</span> section and paid for both the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scorsese-Collection-Anymore-Goodfellas-Knocking/dp/B000286RR0/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231172724&sr=8-1">Martin Scorsese Collection </a>and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zodiac-Directors-Two-Disc-Special-Collectors/dp/B000XCZGV8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231172793&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Zodiac </span>2-Disc Director's Cut</a>, before Wal-Mart realized that they were grossly undercharging me.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KybRrNkXL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 204px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KybRrNkXL._SS500_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2Bp2q2IhDL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 204px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2Bp2q2IhDL._SS500_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The last bit of news is that my father got a call from the mechanic that has my car saying that even if we did get the money to pay for the replacement transmission, the car was also discovered to have a damaged frame. The $1100 that we were going to give to get the car fixed would have been more than what the car was worth. To fix the frame damage would have more than doubled that price. So, I am, for the first time ever, without a vehicle. This week, I will be taking out all of the things in my car before they deliver it to a junkyard.<br />2008 sucked, but 2009 ain't looking too pretty so far either...Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-68661768801348949892008-12-16T18:23:00.004-05:002008-12-18T19:04:00.868-05:00The Death of PownceSo, yesterday (12/15/08), <a href="http://pownce.com/">Pownce</a> shut down. <a href="http://pownce.com/">Pownce</a> was a micro-blogging site, like <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>. But, <a href="http://pownce.com/">Pownce</a> was a much better service.<br />First off, there was no 140 character limit to your posts. Your posts could be as lengthy as they needed to be. The idea was not to make a long blog post, but you could if you liked.<br />Second, the site was more built around sharing things with your followers and friends. You could upload an mp3 that you wanted everyone to hear, or upload a picture, or a video. Actually, you could upload any file up to 100mb with the free service (250mb for the $20/month service). And when you shared a YouTube link (or various other video sites), the video would automatically embed into your message.<br />It was a huge upgrade to the Twitter service created by Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka (all part of either the Digg or Revision3 crew). With the economy being what it was, Pownce wasn't able to remain open and free. Now, <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/12/welcome-pownce-team.html">the technology is part of the SixApart system</a> - which handles famous blogging tools like <a href="http://vox.com/">Vox</a> and <a href="http://typepad.com/">TypePad</a>.<br />I was using the site from the beginning and had a Pownce way before I had a Twitter. It was a brilliant service that never got the word out too well and Twitter already had the crowd with them. Pownce was to Twitter what Facebook is to MySpace: a more technologically advanced and more Web 2.0 service that does what it predecessor/rival does, but does it much better and with more flair.<br />I will miss Pownce and I hope that someone else comes along and takes Twitter's userbase with them to a much better place of more usability and a much more stable environment. I like using Twitter, but I feel that I liked Pownce much more. But, again, Twitter just has all the users.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-21034858727039533772008-12-16T17:44:00.008-05:002011-02-01T01:44:39.758-05:00MY [Late] QUICK UPDATE (12/16/08)<span style="font-weight: bold;">These posts are supposed to be written on Saturday. The last one I wrote was on a Sunday and last Saturday, I was out the entire day and forgot to write one up. Hopefully, I'll get back to doing this thing right.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Got to see Charlie Kaufman's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Synecdoche, New York</span></a> on Friday! Probably may be my #1 film of the year. At least out of the films I've seen thus far. As much as I love seeing his scripts through the eyes of other visual directors, Charlie Kaufman should continue to direct his own scripts.<br /><br />Been working on a list of my <span style="font-style: italic;">Top 10 Films of 2008</span> lately. What I found interesting is that the list of movies that I need to see is almost as long as the list of movies I have seen that I feel might belong on my <span style="font-style: italic;">Top 10</span>. This is going to be much harder than I thought.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTayRVSqRGtYuaH8rfmSeUQ&output=html&widget=true" width="500" frameborder="0" height="300"></iframe><br /><br />On Saturday, I had a cookout with a few friends over at a friend's apartment complex. It was an event I had come up with and planned for the film club that I am in, FUF, and it was a blast. I called it the "FUF End-of-the-Year Potluck/Cookout".<br />At first, it took us about 45 minutes to actually get the charcoal on the grill to stay lit. But, in that time, we had quite a few very large fires. I find that nothing impresses men more than more fire. THe more fire, the more we grunt, drink beer, scratch ourselves, and <strike>abuse women</strike> make sexual jokes at the expense of women.<br />I made a rockin' potato salad - inless all my friends were lying to me to protect my feelings - and made a few <a href="http://www.goonswithspoons.com/Hot_Dog_Rollup">hot dog rollups</a>. If you are unaware of the hot dog rollup, <a href="http://www.goonswithspoons.com/Hot_Dog_Rollup">click the link</a>. It will change your life forever, but not necessarily in a good way. There were pictures taken of me making the hot dog rollup, but I am not in possession of these photographs. Hopefully, I will get them later and post them as an update to the post.<br />My friend, Adam "A-Train" Isaacs, made some surf-n-turf (shrimps and steak) that were unbelievably amazing. And <a href="http://todd1726.blogspot.com/">Todd Jurgess</a>' wife, Stephanie, made some great cheese dip that we were all devouering throughout the night.<br />Great night!<br /><br />Trying to trooper through Ingmar Bergman's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083922/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Fanny and Alexander</span></a>. I've gotten through the first two episodes, of four. The second episode made up for the first one quite a bit. The first episode mainly dealt with all of the adults in the story rather than the child characters whom the film is named after, Fanny and Alexander. I believe each of them had around 5 words each throughout the 90 minute first episode. But, the second episode really developed Alexander's character a lot. This episode was still mainly about the adults, but how their situations were seen throughout the children's eyes.<br />So far, it is growing into something great. I cannot wait to finish it!Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-65299106273888417502008-12-10T13:43:00.007-05:002008-12-17T00:26:23.453-05:00Alternate Teaser Trailer for WATCHMENAs anyone who knows me knows, I am NOT looking forward to <span style="font-style: italic;">Watchmen</span> at all. I will most likely see it on opening night - maybe even at midnight - but I'm planning on it being pretty awful.<br />I do not think that Zack Snyder will succeed where Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky, and Paul Greengrass (three of the best living directors ever) failed.<br />Anyway, here is the <span style="font-style: italic;">alternate</span> teaser trailer for Zack Snyder's <span style="font-style: italic;">Watchmen</span>. I personally think that it is better than the first. Less Snyder slo-mo shots. They are still present, but there are less. Also, a few more interesting shots, in general.<br />So, here goes...<br /><br /><object width="497" height="280"><param name="movie" value="http://movies.sky.com/video/flash/SkyvideoWrapper.swf?playerType=embedded&type=movies_live&videoSourceID=world-exclusive-watchmen-trailer&flashVideoUrl=feeds/obu_movies/WatchmenTrailer.flv"><param name="allowFullSceen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://movies.sky.com/video/flash/SkyvideoWrapper.swf?playerType=embedded&type=movies_live&videoSourceID=world-exclusive-watchmen-trailer&flashVideoUrl=feeds/obu_movies/WatchmenTrailer.flv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="497" height="280"></embed></object>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-28695764313989715622008-12-07T23:14:00.004-05:002008-12-10T14:07:27.144-05:00"Pushing Daisies" to be Brought Back to Life by the Touch of Other Mediums"Pushing Daisies" was canceled. I am personally distraught (but not surprised) by the news. Bryan Fuller has since signed a writing deal with Universal. First, he will return to NBC's now-failing "Heroes" to finish up the third season. After that, it is not said whether he will continue with "Heroes" or if NBC will set him up with his own new show...that will be canceled most likely in its first season.<br />"Pushing Daisies" will, however, live on. First, in a comic book published by either DC Comics or DC's imprint, Wildstorm. Then, if all goes according to plan, Bryan Fuller will bring "Pushing Daisies" to the silver screen. I'm glad that one of Bryan Fuller's works will live on beyond cancellation. I loved "Dead Like Me" and "Wonderfalls" a lot and hope that they, or at least "Wonderfalls", gets a second chance on another medium.<br />Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8" and "Angel" comics have given new hope to continuing television shows. I see this becoming a new way for television show creators to continue their storylines and universes. After all, comic books are to literature what television is to film. Comic books are the best way to continue a serialized story.<br />The unfortunate thing is that actors Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Kristen Chenoweth, and Chi McBride cannot continue their characters in the comic. So, hopefully, a studio picks up the "Pushing Daisies" movie.<br />As the show's tagline goes, "life. death. and life again."Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-28645713570622739002008-12-07T21:28:00.007-05:002011-02-01T01:45:09.224-05:00MY QUICK UPDATE (12/07/08)<span style="font-weight: bold;">Haven't written a post in a while. Mainly, because I've been 75% complete with the latter half of my </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/">"90210"</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> review for 3 months and have yet to finish it. But, I feel the need to keep this damn thing up-to-date and the best way to do that is to continue the weekly "MY QUICK UPDATE" posts. Hopefully, this will spark me to finish that damned review (which would be good because I said I would not continue the series until I finished said review). I'll try and cover these last 3 months very succinctly.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So, here goes...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOLIDAYS:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Halloween</span> - Watched some horror movies with friends. No parties this year. Kind of regret that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Thanksgiving</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>- Went to Miami for the break. Spent the better part of the holiday hanging out at my friends' Starbucks drinking free drinks and receiving a large amount of free food that my family ate. On the way back to Gainesville, I got in a bit of a car accident ruining my transmission which now needs to be replaced.<br /><br />Have not had a car for a week and have been forced to take the bus wherever I need to go. Luckily, I have some friends that are willing to give me rides to certain destinations.<br /><br />I saw Ron Howard's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Frost/Nixon</span></a> at a free screening playing on campus. It was genuinely a good film. With some of Howard's latest, I was a gladly surprised.<br /><br />I also got a chance to see David Fincher's newest film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</span></a>, at a free advanced unadvertised screening put on by Paramount Pictures and <a href="http://www.filmmetro.com/">FilmMetro</a>. A GREAT film! Review to come (<span style="font-style: italic;">?</span>).<br /><br />Went to the <a href="http://www.ofmontreal.net/">of Montreal</a> concert last Friday (12/5) with a friend. One of the best concerts I've been to! I've always heard <a href="http://www.ofmontreal.net/">of Montreal</a> concerts to be very theatrical and they definitely lived up to the hype. I would recommend that, if you have the chance, you should go see one of their concerts. You wouldn't regret it.<br /><br />Currently trying to convince my father to get me <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250335754794">this car</a>. Isn't taking too much convincing because, like me, my dad loves sports cars. He just wishes to see and test drive the car before buying. Now, if the seller would just e-mail me back...Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-22623249194411246802008-09-03T21:29:00.016-04:002008-12-16T19:09:37.013-05:00My Newest Guilty Pleasure: "90210" [Part I]Yes, that's right! This is going to be "Part I" of my review of The CW's re-vamp/spin-off of popular '90s primetime soap, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098749/">"Beverly Hills, 90210"</a>: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/">"90210"</a>. "Part I" will essentially be my reasons for actually watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/">"90210"</a>. I tell, not to make a justification for why, but to help me understand why I did. "Part II" will actually be my review of the 2-hour premiere of the show.<br />Shockingly, it isn't as bad as I assumed it would be...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFoKx1voKylbTyWAWwukxfLn0_FKA_yyK7k4X7IPpcEmoDfaGO3pjx2oWajwUbxDvSHaVA_FRWujqExcYTSGoCPWTlXNNnUX9LY08FRKS6ao-hc7OAkSbC_PRzlogcU5dzMj9M5HYEJGR/s1600-h/vlcsnap-6088681.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFoKx1voKylbTyWAWwukxfLn0_FKA_yyK7k4X7IPpcEmoDfaGO3pjx2oWajwUbxDvSHaVA_FRWujqExcYTSGoCPWTlXNNnUX9LY08FRKS6ao-hc7OAkSbC_PRzlogcU5dzMj9M5HYEJGR/s400/vlcsnap-6088681.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242372840747971250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Reasons I Checked Out "90210":</span><br />The pilot for the spin-off was written by three writers - two writing teams - whom I have come to really like in the last few years.<br />The first team, the executive producers and head writers of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/">"90210"</a>, are <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431817/">Jeff Judah</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007091/">Gabe Sachs</a>. This team held supervising producer credits and wrote two episodes - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582675/">"I'm With the Band"</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582683/">"The Garage Door"</a> - of the geek-loved, cult TV show <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193676/">"Freaks and Geeks"</a>. They also developed the 2004 teen drama series, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411004/">"Life As We Know It"</a> - which started off well, but floundered in the latter half of the series' only, 13-episode season.<br />The third writer of the pilot, entitled "We're Not in Kansas Anymore" (will explain later), is none other than the creator of one of my all-time favorite series and favorite <span style="font-style: italic;">teen drama</span>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412253/">"Veronica Mars"</a>, writer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859432/">Rob Thomas</a> (not of band, Matchbox 20). Most likely, since Rob Thomas is working on so many other television projects - including a re-vamp of his first created series, "Cupid" - he will not be returning to write anymore episodes of the series. At least, not this season.<br />In addition to the series' writing staff, what got me to tune in at 8pm on Tuesday was childhood memories. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098749/">"Beverly Hills, 90210"</a> was one of my mother's favorite television shows when I was first discovering the world that is primetime television. One of the things I always liked about my parents' view on first-time child rearing (I was the first child, a.k.a. the test subject) was that they did not like a lot of the public broadcasting children's shows. My parents hated "Barney", and so did I. They liked "Sesame Street", though. So, I ended up growing up on primetime television shows. Shows like "Seinfeld" (anyone who knows me knows that), "The Cosby Show", "A Different World", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Cheers", "Fraiser", "Full House", "Murphy Brown", "NYPD Blue", "Law & Order", etcetera, etcetera. Now, I also watched a lot of Saturday morning cartoons of the early-to-mid-1990s, but those shows are meant for another post. One of such shows was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098749/">"Beverly Hills, 90210"</a>. Unlike most of the shows on the list, I didn't complete the show to its final airing. It started when I was just two-years-old, but I watched whatever was on TV at the time. That theme song is as grained into my memory, as was the "Seinfeld" theme and <span style="font-style: italic;">Where Everybody Knows Your Name</span> from "Cheers".<br />And, while I watched <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098749/">"Beverly Hills, 90210"</a>, I ended up becoming increasingly attracted to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001147/">Shannen Doherty</a>. Why? I don't know. Besides the fact that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0023179/">Brenda</a> was hot as hell, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001147/">Doherty</a> was also a bitch. One of the many reasons why she was written off. So, when I heard that she would be making a short episode-arc return on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/">"90210"</a>, I had to tune in! I mean, I watched <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158552/">"Charmed"</a> for 3 seasons. You know, until she was written off for being a bitch...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwMjcyMjg0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM4OTYyMQ@@._V1._SX285_SY400_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwMjcyMjg0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM4OTYyMQ@@._V1._SX285_SY400_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Surprises That Came While Watching "90210":</span><br />Many shocking revelations came to me while watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/">"90210"</a>. And not a one of them came from the plot.<br />I did not know that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910055/">Jessica Walter</a> - Lucille Bluth, or Gangy, of "Arrested Development"- and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521753/">Lori Loughlin</a> - Rebecca "Becky" of "Full House" - would show up on the show!<br />Also, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1501624/">Shenae Grimes</a> - who played Darcy from my summertime guilty pleasure, "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (<a href="http://dfordjeljosevic.blogspot.com/">Danny</a> showed me that Canadian melodrama is fucking hilarious) - plays the main character, Annie Wilson (more on her later).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Part II" to come soon...</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-35822224796103370592008-08-30T18:13:00.009-04:002011-02-01T01:46:25.310-05:00MY QUICK UPDATE (8/30/08)<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:small;" class="Apple-style-span">The point of the "MY QUICK UPDATE" posts were to be a weekly </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page 2</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:small;" class="Apple-style-span"> for the blog. The </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page 1 </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:small;" class="Apple-style-span">stories being the long posts that have their own titles and the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Page 2 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">posts being random things throughout the week that I want to write a quick blurb about, but not a full post.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also, they're supposed to make me write at least ONE post per week. The point is to have a couple posts in between, but I now realize the last post I wrote was last Saturday's "MY QUICK UPDATE". Hopefully, next week will be different.</span><br /><br />Went to see </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802248/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tarsem</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'s </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Fall</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> earlier today at the </span><a href="http://www.thehipp.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hippodrome</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. Had to see it alone since everyone that I knew that would want to see it had seen it already.<br /><br />Re-watched </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359734/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Michael Haneke</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'s 2007 remake of </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">F</span></span></a><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">unny Games</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. I think I liked it more this time around. Which is odd, because I really liked it a lot when I first saw it.<br /><br />Bought </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098929/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Tiny Toon Adventures"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Toon-Adventures-Season-Vol/dp/B0017INRGI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220135925&sr=8-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">season 1, volume 1</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, at Best Buy ealier this week since they're having a 25% off TV DVDs sale. After I finish watching it, I plan to write a post on the cartoon revolution of the 1990s vs the cartoons of today.<br /><br />Started a post on one of my favorite underrated films, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Galaxy Quest</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, but still need to finish it.<br /><br />I realize that I talk more about writing posts than actually writing posts for this blog.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://donate.barackobama.com/page/content/acceptancespeechnd"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Barack Obama's DNC acceptance speech</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> was phenomenal! The first Democrat I've seen that actually responds to the Republican smear campaign rather than </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_effect"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">play ostrich</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to it.<br /><br />Re-reading "Watchmen" while reading "DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore". I feel an Alan Moore discussion coming on.<br /><br />Is it odd that I was excited to see </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001147/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shannen Doherty</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on the cover of my </span><a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20221152_20221173_20221579,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Entertainment Weekly"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> this week? I realize that this season, the new </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1225901/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"90210"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> series may become my new primetime guilty pleasure, i.e. </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362359/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The OC"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in 2004 and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397442/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Gossip Girl"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> last season.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/covergallery/img/2008/sep52008_1009_lg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/covergallery/img/2008/sep52008_1009_lg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Fishnet stockings! Man, I love Shannen Doherty...<br /></span></div>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-77788049472386080152008-08-23T16:46:00.011-04:002011-02-01T01:46:47.025-05:00MY QUICK UPDATE (8/23/08)<span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;">Party went well on Wednesday night...to an extent.<br /><br />Been playing <a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/g/galagalegionsxboxlivearcade/">"Galaga Legions"</a> on Xbox Live Arcade (Possible review coming soon?).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.scad.edu/">Savannah College of Art and Design</a> still refuses to put up the schedule for the <a href="http://www.scad.edu/filmfest/">2008 Savannah Film Festival</a> and that makes it a harder event to plan early.<br /><br />Can't stop watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092948/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Eddie Murphy Raw</span></a>. Apparently, I'm 13 again.<br /><br />Watched Steven Shainberg's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Secretary</span></a> and loved it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Bought </span><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.drhorrible.com/">"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"</a><span style="font-family: courier new;"> on iTunes, put it on my iPod, and cannot stop listening to it and singing along in my car. There's just something about that Neil Patrick Harris that makes me want to sing. So now, I'll end up buying it twice when it comes out on DVD. Worth it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">I should find a good therapist.</span><br /><br />----------------<br />Listening to: <a href="http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/madvillain/track/accordion" title="'Madvillain - Accordion' - open on FoxyTunes Planet">Madvillain - Accordion</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;font-size:10;">via <a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.foxytunes.com/signatunes/" title="FoxyTunes - Web of music at your fingertips">FoxyTunes</a></span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-41594315729174122552008-08-16T01:46:00.004-04:002008-08-16T03:03:12.769-04:00My Party to Plan...<span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >So, for the last few days, I've been convincing my good friend, Ying, to come up to Gainesville - before her move-in day at her new apartment - and spend some time up here hanging out. I did actually want her to come up and even offered to house her in one of the three currently empty rooms in my apartment until Wednesday the 20th, move-in day for Lexington Crossing. The crazy thing is, I had just assumed she would </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >never</span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" > accept. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >And then, I get a call...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >The call was Ying saying that she'd love to and will show up at my door some time on Sunday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >Now, I don't regret or even mind her staying here, at my place, until Wednesday. After all, I did offer. What I also said in these random conversations over the last few days was that if she came up, we'll throw a party for her birthday on Wednesday. Then it hit me: I now have to get a party ready for my friend's birthday. Not only that, it has to be good!</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >She was telling me of how her birthdays are never really what she wants out of them. Which is a pretty common story for most. Most - if not, all - of my birthdays have felt like every other day. The best one I can think of was the one that was thrown for me be some friends this year. It was pretty great and a few of my friends chipped in and got me a handle of Southern Comfort.</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >Now, what I need to do is plan a party that will be a) a party that she will not only enjoy, but change her birthday history and b) a party that other people will enjoy before the Fall semester starts. </span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >So far, I have the location: my friend, Jim Colee's house. Ample parking, not too far from where most people live, large enough to house a crowd, and plenty of spacing far enough from other homes to muffle drunken, loud dialogue from said crowd. Now, all I need is...well, everything else. I need to invite people, find some people that would not mind chipping in for drinks, find someone to pay for said drinks (the whole </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >under 21</span><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" > thing stops me from doing such things), and do it <span style="font-style: italic;">not completely</span> under Ying's nose, because she does know that the party's happening, but keep her as uninvolved as possible to not make it seem like she is planning her own shindig.</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >I have quite a weekend ahead of me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" >Honestly, any and all ideas would be well appreciated...</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">Later days.</span><br /><br />----------------<br />Listening to: <a href="http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/the+decemberists/track/billy+liar" title="'The Decemberists - Billy Liar' - open on FoxyTunes Planet">The Decemberists - Billy Liar</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;font-size:10;" >via <a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.foxytunes.com/signatunes/" title="FoxyTunes - Web of music at your fingertips">FoxyTunes</a></span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752849427176654062.post-4330299249622027552008-08-12T20:08:00.004-04:002008-08-16T02:42:24.958-04:00My Welcome Post<span style="font-family:courier new;">So, I have decided to start up a new Blogger blog. I used to have an old one and had considered just continuing that one - which hasn't had a new post since October 2006 - but figured that I should just "start anew" as it were.</span> <span style="font-family:courier new;">Plus, I enjoy the title of this blog much, much more!</span> <span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br />So, welcome to "The Nick B-Log" (said THE "NICK B" LOG)! Eventually, I'll post about whatever <span style="font-style: italic;">tickles my fancy</span> or whatever I may be doing at such a time or random mentions of things that happened to me that day. Some posts may be angry (such as if I talk about Frank Miller's </span><span style="font-family:courier new;">softcore porn adaptation of Will Eisner's </span><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Spirit</span>...I mean, feature film adaptation), some may be nostalgic, some may be geeky and fanboy-ish (a lot of those may be included in the angry ones), and some - or most - may be about things that you don't even care enough to hear about. But, they'll be here.<br />So please enjoy (or don't) the random writings of a geek that was given way too much power when the internet was created. I hope that you do enjoy it, but, if not, it'll still be here if you leave.</span>Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08958912260560177703noreply@blogger.com1