Mickey's Mindblowing Truer Than True Rock Facts! Beatles Edition!

Mickey here with more astounding rock facts to astound you into astoundedment! Remember, you can't make this stuff up!!!!

-Much like his vocals in Free as a Bird, the freecreditreport.com jingles are all unreleased John Lennon outtakes

-One of Charles Manson's lesser known Beatles prophecies: Yesterday was secretly about forgetting to do his laundry

-The original lyrics to Hey Jude curiously contained the lines Leave that nanny alone, you'll kill your career

-The original name of the song is One After 409, written about Paul's favorite line of cleaning products

-Superfreak is actually a cover of a little known Beatles song that John wrote for Yoko

-John and Paul originally intended to take Lorne Michaels up on his reunion offer, until they remembered they hate Canadians

-After the death of John Paul II, the Vatican rejected his hand picked successor: Pope John Paul George Ringo

-As an act of revenge for John's Bigger Than Jesus comment, Jesus wrote all the songs for Wings

-Rock Band isn't the Beatles first video game appearance. There's an ultra rare Pokemon called Ringocerous

There. Now remember kids, Tork is a dead man, miss him, miss him.

A trend I don't like.

Dear video game talking morons. The so-called journalists. Video games are fun. Politics are the anti-fun.

Stop trying to combine the two. Thank you.

Me, famous?

The other day I got a friendly spam from a user named Sara. Or was it Abagale? Anyway, she gave me a website and said I could use it to promote my blog. I would like to answer her right now.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Why the heck do you think I use a pseudonym? I always joke about becoming famous and spreading my media empire, but I spend all my time fearing that someone will connect this blog to my real life. I know the Internet is a public forum, but no matter how many people read this blog (out side my circle of friends) I just want to be left alone. That doesn't mean I won't reply to comments, but really. I've seen people more messed up then me seek fame and get destroyed. I'll be content to have a blog that doesn't appeal to anyone but myself, thank you very much.

The Borg Queen...

will look over you as you go to bed. She'll even tuck you in and scratch any itch on your neck. Now you can rest peacefully in that knowledge.

(Also, this is what Trek nerds find hot. Don't ever trust a Trek nerd.)

This Week In Entertainment (8/25/09)

This compilation is unnecessary, but I'm making Metriod Prime Trilogy my Pick of the Week because the individual games were great. I wish there could be a Metroid Prime 4 to tide us over until Other M.


Also out this week in theaters are two unnecessary sequels to horror films. I guess the summer blockbusters are over.


On DVD is the entire Billy Jack series. See why Tom Laughlin is the hero of hippies everywhere.

I don't know what this is but it looks crazy.

On the Nintendo DS is either a Professor Layton rip off or a Brain Age ripoff. I don't know which.

On the Wii is Curse Mountain, which supposedly has RE4 controls. Sounds good to me already.

On Virtual Console is Super Empire Strikes Back. Spoiler alert: Greedo still shot first a movie ago. 800 Wii Poins.

Finally we have two Harvest Moon games, one for the Wii and one for the DS. I can't keep track of this series.

The world is safe! Or is it?

I just got back from the Rifftrax Live Show.


When we arrived at the theater we saw some concert that was muted for the usual radio ads played before the coming attractions. It was odd and we almost turned around and went looking for the right room. Eventually we got the fake pre-movie title cards that the other Rifftrax Live Shows have had. They also showed the sponsor and their stuff many times, but they still used the unrelated radio ads. While they were advertising for NCM Fathom you could hear a Jay Leno bit.

So at 8:00pm sharp the show started. You could see the (large!) TN theater where the show was filmed. It was silent for a little bit where I watched it till we finally heard the live sound. Some woman introduced the show. After a little banter we got straight to the short, Flying Stewardesses. Although I think the movie was stronger, this short featured the best gag of the night, a Snakes on the Plane reference. I guess it's been long enough that it doesn't seem so played out. The short is an instructional film about women learning how to be stewardesses. It contains the kind of sexism you'd expect. We got to hear the pure loathing for Fort Worth and saw the secret of stewardesses: They can also sail. Sorta.

After that we got to watch a couple shorts by Something Awful . com and a couple songs by Johnathan Coulter. The shorts were ok, but I couldn't hear much about the first one. It came at us so quickly and the crowd drowned it out. The berry commercial was much easier for me to follow. The songs by whoever were ok, but the highlight were the people singing along. Coulter sounds familiar but I can't place him, but apparently there are people who know who he is and the shots of the TN theater showed a few women singing along, which became funnier as they were shown again and again.

Finally we got one last song before the movie about made up plans 1-8. Mike showed us his flute nose skills. The feature presentation was after that. I'm impressed that these three could riff a whole movie without a break. I assumed there would be at least one break in the show. I also enjoyed the times they momentarily showed the guys on the left side of the screen in boxes. Occasionally they started pointing (or dodging) reacting to the movie. A good compromise between sticking their heads in the film and not appearing at all.

The biggest laughs I got from the film is whenever the detective showed up. The way he handles the gun is hilarious by itself, but the "Pow!" sound effects the guys added were great. Really, that by itself was worth the money. The riffs included a very gratuitous MST3k callback when Mike gave a Tor solilquy that ended with, "TIME FOR GO TO BED!"


I hope they do this again in the future. Heck, I hope CT follows and try to do their own cross country live show. I give this experiment a 9 out of 9.

This Week In Entertainment (8/18/09)

My Pick of the Week is Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. What more can I say? Math!


Also out this week is Season 12 of The Simpsons. At the time I thought this was the worst season they did, but I wish this series would get any reaction out of me now. I hope they include an apology for the panda rape episode in the commentaries. Regular set here.


In theaters this week is Plan Nine from Outer Space, riffed live by Rifftrax. I've mentioned this before. One night only on the 20th. I hope to be there at a local theater.

Also in theaters is a movie called Shorts. Didn't I already complain about some terrible looking kids film that looked like Spy Kids?

Are the X Games still around? Apparently if they're making a 3D movie about them. I blame the X Games for all those terrible extreme games made around the PlayStation era.

Out this week is not one but two movies about the war or whatever that went on in Ireland in the 70s and 80s. Why does Hollywood kill itself by posting two similar movies together so people end up seeing neither?

More like, Everybody Ignored UPN. Am I right?!

Awww, did little Jerry get jealous of little Danny?

This Week In Entertainment (8/12/09)

I'm picking this complete collection of Are You Being Served? as my belated Pick of the Week if only if it gives people more reasons not to tune into public television. When's the last time PBS has been any good? Exactly.


Also out this week is SuperFriends, the lost episodes. Lost for a reason if you can see the cover. I've officially lost count on which dvd sets have what. Just stick with Challenge of the SuperFriends. Those episodes are hilarious.

YogaButt.

This is the latest of films that were made to trick blind aunts and grandmas into buying a movie that looked like a recent hit Disney film. I wouldn't mind seeing a documentary of the process of making a cheap knock-off animation film.

Speaking of cheap cartoons, here are some more Three Stooges cartoons from the sixties. I wouldn't mind owning a complete set of these but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them were lost. I doubt I would find many jems in the collection. At least the live action wrap around segments are available alone on other sets.

Hey, shut up about Western Maryland ending. The West side is way better than the East side.


On the Wii we have Madden 10. Do I go with a joke about how these football games are all the same with seasonal roster upgrades or do I go with a joke about how the Skins are going to suck this season? Whatever. Arizona still should have won that game. I'm still bitter about the last two Super Bowls.

On WiiWare we have Rock N' Roll Climber, a game about climbing. If you fall off the mountain, do they call you something lame like classical musician?

On the Virtual Console is Super Star Wars. I'd download that game if Greedo was a boss.

Mickey's Amazing Really Real True Rock Facts!

I've been a music fan for a long time. During my years of listening, I've uncovered some startling facts about the artists of today and yesterday that I'll share with you, the reader. Remember, these are real. You can't make this stuff up!


-Eddie Vedder moved from Hawaii after he was disgusted with his original band, Pineapple Jam

-Barenaked Ladies, are in fact, ladies. They all had sex changes

-An astonishing 75% of Jay-Z's lyrics are just about how you're listening to Jay-Z

-In the grand tradition of Robert Johnson and the devil, Elvis sold his soul to Krispy Kreme

-Not only are Elvis, 2 Pac, and Michael Jackson still alive, they're shopping a new season of the Surreal Life

-Kid Rock is neither a kid or a rock

-The subliminal messages in Stairway to Heaven really say "To my sweet Uncle Morty, may his deli remain #1 in Brooklyn"

-The song Suicide is Painless was written by a Cubs fan

-Due to a common misconception, the Mayan calendar actually ends in 2112, thus successfully foretelling the coming of Geddy Lee

- Eminem's original rap name: MC Skittle

-In an attempt to appeal to a younger demographic, Slayer has booked the Wiggles as the opening act for their next tour

-HD radio is just radio's version of the New Coke conspiracy

-Axl Rose is an anagram for "Batshit Insane"

-U2 was inspired to write I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For after the Edge lost the remote

-Jimmy Buffet's allergic to parrots


Stay tuned! Perhaps I'll share more of my vast knowledge with you!

My apologies to Lita

I forgot that she had a busy August. So there will be very little activity this month. Especially since real life is starting to bite me in the rear.

Maybe we'll have something in September like we had last year. I'll have to discuss it with Rimmi.



So don't blame Lita for the lack of updates. You can only blame one man. Mickey.

This Week In Entertainment (8/4/09)

My Pick of the Week is this DVD set of Screwball Comedies of the thirties. Why would I pick this? Because it includes My Sister Eileen, which includes a cameo from the Three Stooges during their peak years.


Also out this week is G.I.Joe. This movie looks terrible. The trailer has a scene where the Eiffel Tower falls, and I can't help but laugh at the people running away from it. It looks like they're trying to outrun it! I'd expect this to be the exercise routine of a Starfleet officer in the holodeck.

I remember when Quackbusters first came out. It was one of those movies that blended lots of old animation with some new bits. Now that we live in the DVD/Internet era that method of selling old stuff as new is obsolete.


I don't like public dog schools. That's why I'm home schooling my dog!

The Bumblefudge Legacy: Generation 1: Chapter 6

Welcome back!

A little building update first, and then on with the story!


The Bumblefudges are swimming in money right now, so I decided to build them a nice little money sink family vault to keep their riches in.



This is the first floor and I hope that eventually there will be something there, but for now the good stuff is underground. Everybody wants a cool underground vault, right?


Some nice countertops to put things on. As you can see, I didn't get that last countertop in on the bottom-most corner. Ran out of money. That's ok, though. This game is more fun when your Sims have to work a little harder.

Now to empty wurwolf's inventory onto those counters and see what she thinks.


As you can see, she is overcome with emotion at the sight of all her jewels and ingots and things.


"Ohhhhhh, man! It's like... I can see my hand moving!"

wurwolf.... what are you growing in that garden of yours, anyway?


So usually when you get a deathcall about a Sim they die in the next day or two. We got Fabio's deathcall a freaking long time ago, but he's still kicking around!

I want wurwolf to move on to other guys, but I just don't have the heart to make her break up with Fabio. I've been waiting for his death to relieve me of my responsibilty, but the guy is just hanging on!

I thought maybe the game forgot about him, so I invited him over to hopefully remind the game of his advanced age. Even kill him on our lot if it feels like.


"Imagine that. I get home from school and Mom's out on the lawn making out with some guy."

"This is not some guy! This is your father!"

"So. You're my father, huh?"

"I guess? (wurwolf, who is this kid?)"

The reunion is pretty uneventful. Fabio doesn't even have the good grace to die in our kitchen.


So as useful as the sprinklers are, here's the really annoying thing: Any time your Sims have a spare moment, they'll want to strip down to their swimsuits and jump around in the sprinklers like idiots. I wouldn't care so much if it was only children or childish Sims, but even the most serious elderly Sim loses all self control to the siren song of the yard sprinkler. It's kind of irritating.


And it's wurwolf's birthday! YA-to-Adult transitions are sort of pointless. The only thing that changes is that the game resets her hair and I have to make her change it back again.

I've come to the conclusion that the game thinks Fabio is immortal, so I decided not to wait for him to die and just invited some random guy over to try to get wurwolf laid anyway.

But as soon as wurwolf makes a move, BOG freaks out. He met his dad one time and it was pretty lackluster, but he is still outraged at this betrayal.

Weirdly, most of his rage is directed at the innocent dude who is impotently trying to resist wurwolf's rapey octopus arms, but not at his mother who is perpetrating the actual betrayal. (Not that their relationship didn't take a hit.)

Sims.



Completely unable to find any action at all (is EVERYBODY in this town married???), wurwolf decides to go for a walk.

Whose house is this, I wonder?

Why, it's Angie!

"Oh, hey wurwolf. About time you came for a visit. What, you too busy whoring around to say hi to your own sister?"

"Boy do I wish I could hit her with a wrench..."

I mainly sent wurwolf over here so I could see how Angie's living now that she's out on her own.

Boy howdy does this woman like brown and tan squares!

Heh. Spaceships.

The next day I send wurwolf out for some more meet and greet, but of nowhere I'm unceremoniously whisked away from this to witness... Oh no!

wurwolf rushes home but there's nothing she can do but watch.

At least Sally goes with more dignity than Jeb did.

So that's the end of Sally Bumblefudge, about the best founding Sim you could ask for. So long, Sal.


BOG was out on the town when he telpathically recieved the news.


Not knowing what else to do, he turns and shares his grief with... Oh. Nice choice there, kid.

Kind of creepy thing? BOG gossips the news of his grandmother's death to his aunt Angie... and they both giggled.


BOG's grandmother died on his birthday. :o(

So there were a couple of scary moments during his aging process, but he seems to have turned out ok.

So I neglected to tell you what trait Fabio Jr. got when he aged from a child to a toddler. The game made him a technophobe. So we have a music lover who can't bear to have a stereo in his home. Great.

Fabio Jr. wasn't great with studying, so the game picked his teen trait as well: he's a loner.

Thanks, game. You're really helping me turn this kid into the rock god I had planned.


"Excuse me? Why do you keep calling me Fabio Jr? My name is Boggy."

You wear the hair, you get the name. I told you this.

"But I don't like it."

Then you better get yourself to a mirror toot sweet.

Ok, this is better.

The real BOG has waves of curly black hair shooting out of his noggin like a big hairy fountain. Hair like that doesn't come in the Sims 3, not even an afro, and this is the closest thing to it I could download.

The real BOG also has a goatee, but teen Sims don't get many options for facial hair, so this is as close as it gets before he's an adult.

With Real BOG being a white guy with black hair and Sim BOG being a black guy with light brown hair, they're almost like photonegatives of each other.

"Hey, Boggy? I just wanted to talk to you for a minute."

"Oh, geez, what kind of line is she going to try to feed me this time?"

"I just wanted to say that I saw how upset you were about That guy I tried to hug the other day, and I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that in front of you."

"You shouldn't have done it at all, Mom, geez! You're still going steady with my dad!"

"You know, you're right, Son. I've been putting it off because I keep thinking the old coot has to die sooner or later, but I guess it's time I did the right thing and just broke up with your father."


"OH MY GOD MOM YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHY I'M EVEN MAD, DO YOU??? YOU NEVER UNDERSTOOD ME!!! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!! AAARRGH!!!"

"...ok, Son, if that's what you want..."

It's getting late, so everybody heads off to bed. But late that night, BOG wakes up, and while wurwolf is still fast asleep...

Speaking of closing time

This concludes another year of me posting about music video challenges. I hope you enjoyed it and the one day lag that happened too often this month didn't bother you.



If I had to pick one video as the best this month, I would pick Moment of Weakness by Bif Naked. It still amuses me that she walks around the office building like a female WWF member. Other videos I really liked were Everything to Everyone, Mixed Up S.O.B., and Alien Ant Farm's version of Smooth Criminal.



Stay tuned for next July where we'll do another 31 videos, including music video number one hundred.

As for August, I'm going back to being lazy. Don't worry, because Lita will still post her Sims stories, so it won't just be me posting lazy This Week In Entertainment articles.