Michigan State Puts Up A Good Fight
Finally saw 300 tonight – the Imax version. Wow! You can’t beat 10-foot high heads getting lopped off! Isn’t it weird how a cottage industry has sprung up around making moving image replicas of Frank Miller comic books? From two different directors, no less. Anyway, it was very, very purty.
Latre.
Wii Bowl-Ohh’s
I finally got a chance to play with a Nintendo Wii this weekend. N and I were babysitting my niece and nephews on Saturday night so my sister and bro-in-law could have a night out, and they’ve got a Wii. I watched my nephew play a bit of Zelda, which looked very cool, [...]
My List For You Checks Off As Null
Capsule CD Review Time again!
I promise this is the last Blue Öyster Cult-related post for a long while (unless something comes up). But this disc was next in the queue and there’s nothing I can do.
Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Disc: Some Enchanted Evening (Legacy Edition)
Released: 1978 (original vinyl), 2007 (reissue)
Number of tracks: 14 (CD), 11 [...]
Poofread This
More and more commercially available compact discs are using the CD Text system to identify their contents these days. CD Text is data embedded into the CD which identifies the artist, album name, and track name of each track. It’s a nice feature if your CD player is capable of extracting and displaying [...]
And Here Were Seen The Scars Of Age
Capsule CD Review time!
Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Disc: Spectres (Expanded Edition)
Released: 1977 (original vinyl), 2007 (reissue)
Number of tracks: 14
Total disc time: 53:39
Original album content: It’s hard to think about Spectres as something other than a companion piece to BÖC’s first mega-hit album, Agents Of Fortune and its very popular single (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. It [...]
Growing The Language
So, Diana Ross was on American Idol last night, giving advice to the young, beautiful hopefuls who were covering her songs on stage and about to have their dreams crushed. She kept using the word “pronounciated”, which I’m pretty sure isn’t a real word. I think she realized pretty quickly it wasn’t a [...]
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