Saturday Night Rant -- The Sunday Morning Edition

Hey guys, sorry I didn't get a chance to post this last night. I got busy drinking with the girls and then I was chatting on BlogTV with Luna from youtube. (Go check her out, she's hilarious. Here's her YouTube Page.) And then it was like 2:30 in the morning and I just totally spaced on it. So, here it is, a day late. 

 

Trolls

 

 

Jewel

Looking through tear stained glass

Heaven never fell so fast

A simple light

Dashed

 

As the heavens crashed

And Hades roared

I felt myself

Blissful

 

The angels cried for death

The demons rallied

She was alone

Dead

 

No-one saw

No-one came

No-one recognized

But me

 

© 2008

Gaming: LittleBigPlanet

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There's very few words to describe just how excited I am for LittleBigPlanet to release in October. The game looks fantastic! Both visually and content-wise. It's an action platformer that has fantastic levels of customization. 

LittleBigPlanet is a PS3 exclusive and is expected to be a console-mover. The game is based around three pillars. Play, Create, and Share.

Read more below

Isis Introduces Herself

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Strength Through Music

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Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. 

Steamy YouTube Find

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The video title is Hubad Scene 6. There's something incredibly erotic about this that just works.

Saturday Night Rant -- M.I.A.

Hey guys, sorry to leave you hanging this weekend, but I don't have the time to sit and type out the usual Saturday Night Rant. I have to take my dogs in for surgery this weekend, one of my hamsters isn't doing well, and I have several goodbye parties to make appearances at over the next couple of days. 

There'll be one next week!

Jasmine

Gaming: Highly Anticipated Games

 

So, I've been playing a lot of Metal Gear Solid 4 Lately and It's gotten me to thinking about future games that're coming up. So I decided I would throw together a little list and give my impressions on each one, a couple screen-shots, all that. 

Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII Collection - Square Enix

That was a mouthful. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the three announced, one leaked, and two rumoured titles in this collection. Final Fantasy XII looks gorgeous, it's battle system looks very interesting. It's sort of like... From what I've heard, you see the monsters on the map, but when you approach them in real time and completely seamless, you jump in to a battle with them. So it's like taking Final Fantasy X's battle system and Final Fantasy XII's real-time and smashing them together. 

Jump past the break for screens of Final Fantasy XIII and the other games in The Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII Collection.

Danny Radcliffe -- Nekkers at last?

 

Whie I've never found Danielle Radcliffe to be "ZOMG SO SEXY", apparently quite a few people have. I've always thought he sorta looked like a turtle. *Shrug* The Harry Potter in my head is much, much sexier. 

Anyway, it turns out that Mr. Radcliffe, as I'm sure many of you already know, if coming to Broadway with his performance in Equus. Which means Nekkers Danny on stage! To promote the broadway run of Equus, Danielle Radcliffe did a photoshoot with Vogue. Now, of course, since it's vogue, there's no cock shots, but you do get a... side-ass shot? That' about the best way to describe it. Jump past the break for the semi-nsfw shot.

 

Perez Hilton -- WTF?

A quick surf around Perez Hilton's website is, admittedly, a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't really care about what's going on with celebrities. Though I am and avid fan of a few, I don't obsess. (Unless we're talking about Jared Padalecki.) 

Anyway, Perez Hilton is a larger guy, is friends with Beth Ditto, a larger girl and an avid supported of BBW, friends with Mika and helped Launch him who is also a BBW supporter and even wrote a song for all the girls out there. But Perez doesn't seem to care that his advertisers have used images of BBWs in a negative light. The ad, pictured above, is seen on Perez Hilton's blog stating 

"Don't Let This Happen To You. If you've ever felt like this, it's time to make a change"

Perez supported Niki Blonsky when she was first announced to be playing the large and in charge Tracy Turnblad in the movie adaption of Hairspray and yet he allows advertisers to make both men and women feel horrible about their weight? Something's amiss... 

Jailbreaking an iPhone

 

So, I bought an iPhone 3G last month when it finally released in Canada. That's my current homescreen. I'm still on the fence about whether or not I want to Jailbreak my phone and run custom firmware or not. It'd be interesting to try out, but I'm one of those nervous folks who thinks my phone will end up broken if I do it. But that doesn't mean you can't! The good folks over at iphoneincanada.com have put up a handy little guide on how to jailbreak your iPhone 3G! Give it a shot! 

iPhone in Canada's Guide to Jailbreaking

Saturday Night Rant -- Miscommunication

Miscommu-

nication

 

Not So Guilty Pleasure

 

I love Jared Padalecki. He's fucking gorgeous. I first saw him in House Of Wax. I thought he was gorgeous then but now he's just a god. Love love love him! If I had the chance, I would become Mrs. Em Padalecki. Mmm. He's tall, he's handsome, he's just muscled enough, he's got a fantastic ass. And he's from Texas. And everything is bigger in texas. ;)

Catch Jared every thursday night on The CW in Supernatural with other hotties Jensen Ackles and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The next season of Supernatural starts next month on September 18th.

Two more shots after the jump...

All-time High Views Today!

Thanks to you guys, the readers, we've reached an all-time high in views!! Woo-hoo!! As a thank you, I've provided a compilation of all the released tracks so far from Who Killed Amanda Palmer and have uploaded it for you all. 

I wanna say a big, big thank you to Humbuged of The Humplex. He's a fantastic artist and has been a big, big help in getting me started. Thanks, Hum!! <3

Download link after the Jump

America's Next Top Model's First Transgender Girl

Meet Isis. She's America's Next Top Model's very first Transgender model. She's said she knew since she was about 11 that she was a lady in a boy's body and, I have to say, girl looks fantastic. Here's hoping she takes the title!!

Wii DVD Playback

 

Tired of not being able to play DVDs on your Wii? Well, with a simple little hack, you can! It requires a way to get files to an SD Card from your computer, an SD Card (The Wii only supports up to 2GB cards), and a copy of Twilight Princess. (US readers will need to discern which version they have. More on that later.) 

If you wanna watch DVDs on your Wii, follow along after the jump. 

Amanda Palmer -- Who Killed Amanda Palmer Vids

 

Amanda Palmer of the The Dresden Dolls has put together a rather fantastic album to release as her first solo effort. With Ben Folds' help, Amanda has created a solid album that's sure to remain a classic on Dolls Fans, Indie Snobs, and general Music Lover's shelves for a long, long time. 

As I've mentioned before in this blog, the title is Who Killed Amanda Palmer. A reference to Twin Peaks (Who Killed Laura Palmer) that's since come to take on new meaning for Amanda and fans. Amanda has collaborated with several recognizable artists to complete the whole Who Killed Amanda Palmer saga. Neil Gaiman is writing short stories for a photobook shot by Kyle Cassidy. Ben Folds produced and played on a number of the album's tracks. Amanda developed several of the songs and played and even recorded with them. 

With the help of Michael Pope, a celebrated indie director in Boston, and friend of Amanda's, a series of videos was shot as a concept short film based around the Who Killed Amanda Palmer concept. These videos are slowly being released via YouTube and several other mediums. I've embedded the released videos so far after the break. 5 Out of 8 have been released so far. Expect updates when the last three are released!

 

Favourite Profile: Lars_NYC

 

Lars is one of my favourite photographers/models. The man's not only beautiful, but he manages to capture emotions and beautiful poses. He shows such innocence in one photo and power in the next. He's a German born and was living in New York City for a while, working a few jobs here and there including Naomi Campbell's assistant. (I don't know how the boy survived it and how he didn't get discovered and on the New York runways.) But he's back in Germany now, I believe in Berlin.

More shots Lars has done (both of himself and of others) after the Jump.

Saturday Night Rant -- Straight Drunk

The Saturday Night Rant is back again and this time it takes another dive in to my personal experiences with men, however straight, drunk, confused, or otherwise difficult.

 

Straight

Drunk

 

Nightmare Revisited

 

 

Disney's milking that cash cow again. On September 30th, Disney Records is releasing Nightmare Revisited, a collection of covers by several different bands and artists of all sorts of genres. Danny Elfman re-recorded the tracks "Opening" and "Closing" for the new release and artists such as Amy Lee, Polyphonic Spree, Marilyn Manson, Flyleaf, and All-American Rejects have contributed to the collection.

Cover and Full Tracklisting afrer the jump. 

More Keric's Komplex Goodies

I've managed to snag a couple more previews for Keric's Komplex 3, including a flash teaser made by Hum himself. I've posted them after the jump. Take a look!

iRiver's Mplayer -- WTF?

iRiver's working together with Disney to bring the Mplayer to the market. I'm assuming these are targeted at young girls as I can't really see this design appealing to anyone else. Well, maybe the over-effeminate queens out there. 

But, seriously, WTF is up with these things? How could Disney think these looked good? The mickey mouse design was gaudy enough, but the swarovski crystals and little ribbons? Come on, Disney.

Gaming: Soul Calibur IV

 

So, I haven't really mention it before, but I'm a gamer. I'm a nerdy gamer. I follow gaming blogs, I get excited for games I like, I go to my 24 Hour Wal-Mart at midnight to buy new games and get mad when the 60 year old lady who has no clue what a Playstation 3 is can't find the game I want. 

Anyway, I picked up Soul Calibur IV this weekend. A friend of mine had bought it last week when it released and I was on the fence about it. Not that I didn't want to buy it. It's just, I didn't know if I wanted to spend my last few bucks on it before my next cheque came in. 

He brought it over, we played. I still kicked his ass with Ivy and I was sold. The graphics have taken a fantastic leap from the previous games, the new characters are a welcome addition and the older characters have had new moves implemented while a few classic moves are brought back. 

The game does have a couple downfalls. While the new Critical Finish feature is very flashy and downright depressing when it does happen to you, it has to happen first. Most battles go by so quickly with Soul Calibur that this method won't get used a lot unless you encounter that one person who constantly blocks. 

I also found the story mode very short and kinda boring. It's five rounds, you usually fight three or four people per round. One character and one to three more randomly generated custom characters. I found even the hard mode for it easy and was hoping for something a little more... fleshed out. I mean, they have 50GBs worth of storage on a Blu-Ray disc. (You 360ers can handle disc swapping, can't ya? Yeah, you can. :P) 

But what I bought the game for is very good. Multiplayer kicks ass in this installment. There's no mandatory install, which is nice, but there is the option available to cut loading times. Sweet. Why wouldn't you do it? 

So, overall I really like Soul Calibur IV and it's well worth the money. I'm definitely going to be playing, so if you're a PS3 owner and you've picked it up, gimme an add on the PSN and we'll duke it out. (PSN ID = EmWy)

 

(Oh, By the way, who else noticed that Ivy's tits are now bigger than her head? Your tits are too big when you have to coin the term undercleavage to describe them!) 

Keric's Komplex 3 is on the way!

 

Humbuged, one of the artists I profiled recently, is working on a third flash game in his Keric's Komplex series. The first two can be found here.   

Hum's characters are great. Funny, but sexy. The first Keric's Komplex game centered around Keric, a modest hunky beefcake,  waking up to a good stiff morning hard on and needing your help to take care of it. 

The second introduced Cyl (pronounced like "sill") to the series. A spunky, slimmer redheaded twink that Keric encountered for the first time on the train. Cyl groped the big elf before following him home. Cyl shows up at his doorstep and jerks him off on the front step. 

The third entry in the series is introducing a third character the the series. Hum's given us a teaser image. 

So check out Keric's Komplex 1 & 2 and keep checking back here for updates on Keric's Komplex 3! 

Saturday Night Rant -- Absent

 

Hey guys, sorry to say it but due to the move and the extra work I've had to do with it has caused The Saturday Night Rant to be cancelled this week. I'll make sure one goes up next week and will keep blogging on the go with the WordPress app for the iPhone!

Heart-Shaped Box

I was home this week, visiting family and my mother had received this lantern as a gift from a dear friend of hers. Seeing it reminded me of Nirvana's song Heart-Shaped Box.

I thought maybe having a phone with email would help me post more often turns out that I'm just lazy. Ha.

That's about it for now folks.

Peaceout
Em

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