Clarification

I've noticed some comments from other places where people don't seem to get me. So let me clear things up.


If you don't get me, tough.


Nobody does! I'm the wind, baby!

Music Video #11

Do electric sheep dream of an electric heaven? I have no idea what I'm talking about. Here's "Sheep Go To Heaven" by Cake and it's a good four minutes long. It can be found here, yo.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WdRfI9yZs

Ah, South Park animation. I guess we're going to have ourselves a time. Anyway the video is about the characters going to some party and some go to heaven and some go to hell. I've already forgotten the lyrics.

Oh, and Cake is dressed up as Kiss, for some reason. Although they call themselves Kickz. Take that, copyright!

Anyway, after a second go through, it starts off with some kid thinking of an idea for a card. I can relate, because I always took forever to think up creative crap. The kid starts writing the lyrics on the card, which is helpful for a dope like me. Anyway, the kid apparently is feeling down today.

The refrain starts and the singer talks about a gravedigger, a stonemason, a barber, and a carpenter. We never find out what happens when they all go into a bar. Rip off! I'm sure the carpenter is a reference to Jesus, although I'm not sure why other then the references to sheep going to heaven.

The singer, who apparently speaks for the kid, just wants to play some panpipes (demon!) and drink some wine. The video has a full party break out in some bar where Kickz plays. There's cheerleaders and nurses but no lingerie models. There's goth babes, and I hope those are part of the goats that go to hell. The guys include football players, romans in togas, centurions, and vikings. Everybody rocks out except for the kid who's a bartender.

The second verse repeatedly talks about how the singer doesn't want to go to Sunset Strip because it's all cold and empty. Either the band is talking about the suckiness of the place or they're making some commentary about the music industry that I wouldn't understand or care about in a hundred years.

Oops, the bartender is different from the kid at the beginning. Sorry about that.

Anyway, kid walks away from the party and sits in front of a tv next to his poodle. He turns on the tv and sees what a huge success the party is. Unfortunately, he sees the goth babes, which drives him to kill. He picks up a scimitar (where the heck did he get that?) and goes to the club and kills everybody. Cops soon arrest him. Meanwhile the poodle eats rat poison and dies.

Everybody floats towards heaven, and have fun doing so. The trial doesn't go well for the kid when the jury and judge sing the "goats go to hell" part of the refrain. Kid fries.

The slain partiers now do jumping jacks in heaven. There's some guy in a speedo there (the bartender?). Kid goes to hell. It doesn't look pleasant, but it's not too scary. I expect more then a wheel and a conveyor belt. By the way, is the kid suppose to be Davey, and the poodle suppose to be his Goliath?

The song seems to be arguing about having fun. The kid is miserable and lonely and decides to kill the party goers for no apparent reason. The video argues that he should have rocked on with these people but now he's in hell.

The awesome thing about this video is the part where the gothy girls get killed. The reason why Lita likes it is because it has a lot of clones and it has a poodle (although that's negated the way it died.

E3 for the Big N

Do I need to go further then this?

Anyway, I listened to the Nintendo presentation today and watched some of it when I thought I could get away with it. Here's what I remember.

It started with spokesman Reggie talking about how awesome video games are and how this bar graph shows how great Nintendo is, blah blah blah. It was surprising that Nintendo started this way, since last year they brought out that nerdy guy and made him wave the Wii remote like a baton and got the crowd excited. It seemed like Nintendo was content to just state it's business plan this year.

Whenever Nintendo took a half minute break, they showed a lot of clips from the news or online of people enjoying the Wii. Kinda neat, I guess, but not really what nerds are looking for.

After that, we get to our first product, the Wii Zap-PAH! I think that's how it was pronounced, anyway. Instead of the gun shaped thing showed the previous year, it seems like Nintendo made a casing that turns the Wii remote and nunchuck into a smaller Super Scope. See above picture for the awesomeness.

Speaking of accesories, they also mentioned a steering wheel. That was for the next, inevitable Mario Kart game. It's online, so I can't wait for my friend Lita to pick up a Wii. I'm not sure if she's a Mario Kart fan but I could totally kick her butt at the game anyway.

Speaking of online, Reggie starts to talk about Nintendo's rep for not embracing online. Actually, he basically dodges the past and poins out the DS online success, and shows a bunch of future online Wii games. Madden 08 and some online soccer game are mentioned, as is Super MArio Strikers, which I might keep an eye on. I think Super Smash Bros. Brawl is online and so is some FPS.

The first eye bulger is when Super Smash Bros Brawl is given a Dec 3 release date. PLEASE HAVE NESS!!!

Then Zelda for the DS is shown. I'm sure it'll be good, but I don't like the idea of playing an action game entirely with a stencil.

Some babe from some nerdy online blog gets to demonstrate Metroid Prime 3, a must-have on my list. I couldn't watch at this poin, darn it, although what I saw made it look like she was having problems. They said she could change her visor, and she didn't, and they cut her off before she could fight some enemies, or something.

Wii Guitar Hero was announced (online too) and it has a guitar specially made for the Wii remote. I'm too shy to play this game in the stores and it's too expensive for me so I'll probably avoid it even if I heard that they had the Trogdor song on one of the editions.

Another thing about Mario Kart? Online battle mode. I LOVED battle mode in the original Mario Kart. My sister and I used to divide the arena in half and launch banana peels at each other while staying on our sides.

Super Mario Galaxy also got a release date, some time in November. I hope that game is much better then Super MArio Sunshine. Right now it looks good but I don't like the way you run under planets. I hope the controls make sense.

Some game (Mario Picross DS?) was dated for my birthday.

The big event at the end was ........ Wii Fit! Nintendo is taking advantage of the hype about Wii making people get up and are going to introduce a game that uses a scale that you stand on. It can detect your weight and the way you shift your body. It measures your BMI over time like Wii Sports measures your whatever age. That thing is going to sale like hotcakes. MMmm, hotcakes.


Hmm, I wish I took notes while it was going on. Instead of poking some fun while giving my thoughts, this just sounds like nerdy shilling. Oh well.

Afterwards, a lot of nerds complained on comment sections everywhere. Welcome to the internet, Web 2.0!

Quick Notes (One day later)

The NL lost. LOSERS!!!!!!

Turns out that the E3 presentation for Nintendo is for 9am PACIFIC Standard Time. I should have known that 9am was too early. Stupid west coast. Get a real time zone!

Music Video #10

Today's video is by Beck, who is some kind of robot guy according to Futurama. I figure that's why Lita picked him anyway. The song is called Where It's At, which is hopefully not Greece or Japan. We have 3 and a half minutes that can be found here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQ9W4KexnA .


Ok, I just watched it and it starts off with convicts picking up trash. Then Beck sings and the scene shifts to a stage next to the street and then it gets weird with a belly dancer and forest background. After a couple skips in a meadow, the music video ends with a hoedown. Camera work by Verne Troyer.

Beck sings fast so I'm going to have to watch this several times. Ok, first verse, he's sticking it to the Man by not picking up trash and singing about some destination. It's some place away from town where people go to dance and drink. It even has two turntables!

Ok, so for some reason a robot voice came out of a stick robot with a glowing human brain. And then there's some belly dancer. I guess the next verses will amend these things to the list of what is at where it's at.

Elevator bones? What the heck are those? I'm looking at the lyrics and the context suggest a vehicle but that doesn't seem right at all. I guess it fits with the sudden shift in the video to the surreal pirate Beck in a forest. Anyway, after some stuff I can't understand, Beck mentions more stuff about what it's like to be at the where it's at place. He mentions passing a dutchie, because all bands eventually do and or promote drugs. It's one of those rebel by being a conformist thing.

Oh, the place where Beck sings during the refrain seems to be in a parking lot in front of a store. So people wanting to get to the Home Depot have to get around him.

Next up is a couple skipping through a meadow. I failed to mention earlier that they have the multiple boxes effect like in The Hulk.

Now Beck is wearing a tuxedo. And his voice is all synthesize, making him hard to listen to! Whee! Oh, he's just repeating the first verse. I guess we arrived at Where It's At Land. Which is the hoedown place. What a letdown, although if this is the kind of music they have at hoedowns maybe my opinions on them is wrong.

GAH! A guy holding orange peels in front of his eyes pops out of nowhere!

Ok, I've missed this in previous music videos so I better type it now before I forget, but the reason why Lita posted it is because there's a couple clones of Beck when he's wearing a tuxedo. (It's a riff on Shatner's Rocketman thing, meaning it's another drug reference.)

I wish I didn't suck at hearing lyrics because I'm sure I would enjoy the song more. The video could have used less hoeing down and surreal forest king pirate and more belly dancers.

Quick Notes

E3 starts sometime this week. Last year when the hype about the Revolution (Wii? I forget if the name was announced yet) was huge, I decided to watch the Nintendo presentation while at work. It was fun watching it while making sure nobody saw me. Tomorrow at 9 Nintendo has their show and I'll try to watch or at least listen to it. I'll give my brief thoughts on it, maybe. The Nintendo show is between the Microsoft and Sony one. Seems like Sony learned not to go first.

I predict that the NL will win the useless All Stars game tonight. If they do, you heard it here first folks, and if they don't, then some guy cheated.

I'm getting tired of youtube. I once was searching for the opening to The World Is Not Enough, which was taken down. Instead I got a bunch of anti-semetic videos only two pages in. If youtube is going to leave this kind of garbage in they might as well allow nudity, "hate" speech, and graphic violence.

Music Video #9

Can you handle four and a half minutes of Bjork? Let's see if I can. Here's Army of Me and it can be found at this url

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tVQ7L_cs0

The video is over and I think I saw a few themes. Mostly about teeth and trucks and blowned up art.

It's nice to see Fatz Geromino still getting work.

Anyway, the first part of the video is creepy with metal and rotten teeth everywhere. At one poin there's a scene that reminds me of the poster for Saw 3. The second half of the video has her planting a bomb next to Lenin-esque guy to wake him up or something.

I didn't really catch the lyrics but it seemed like she decided to sing a song that didn't really match the beat.

Take 2, now to soak in the lyrics.

Ok, so the song is about Buh-Jork telling someone to quit whining. OR ELSE, they'll meet an army of her. In the museum it almost seems literal.

I just noticed that the person at the beginning at the video is probably the guy she rescued by blowing him up. So I guess that ties the whole video. Bjork is a heroine driving her giant stealthy truck but has to get a diamond at some poin with the help of a gorilla dentist to refuel her cars rotten teeth so she can rescue the guy in a terroristic fashion. Makes sense!

Was there some poin to the museum becoming the "mum" at the end?

The song is ok, but I'm not a fan of the video. The cross between the cold futuristic setting and the surreal could have worked better without the gross teeth. Seriously, the zoom from her smile into the metallic teeth is freaky.

You know what would have made it cooler? Bjork beating people up bullet-time style.

The cool part of this video is the refrain, because that's how I feel when I hear people whining, although the "army of me" line probably works better for her then me. Lita likes it because it has a dentist.