Now watching…. another pile of shit from Michael Bay

July 12, 2007 at 1:41 pm (Now watching...)

I went and saw “Transformers” last weekend with my brother. I’m not a big fan of Michael “KaFuckingBoom” Bay, and this movie didn’t change my mind too terribly much. My brother suggested that Mr. Bay start screening movies for monkeys, and if said monkeys piss or shit themselves, he should show the movie to no one.

The Good:

  1. Special effects were nice.
  2. John Turturro is in it.
  3. Peter Cullen (the original voice of Optimus Prime) plays -whodathunkit- Optimus Prime

The Bad:

  1. Too much focus on everything but robots.
  2. It tries to be funny…. all the time… and it’s really lame
  3. The Abercrombie model they hired to play a hacker/NSA analyst doesn’t look like she could figure out I-tunes. Was Tara Reid booked for another Uwe Boll movie? She did a better job looking scientisty.
  4. Megatron is in the movie for maybe all of 15 minutes.
  5. Megatron doesn’t have a trigger for a unit anymore.
  6. The are about a gajillion cuts in the action sequences, which makes it look like two big Katamari are fighting instead of badass robots.
  7. The whiny boy protagonist saves the day. If I went to school with him, I’d probably head butt him and kick him while he’s down.

I bet he has an itchy trigger finger……

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Making some noise…

July 6, 2007 at 5:45 pm (Life Detailed in Words)

So I spent part of the 4th blowing up GI Joes with my brother (which is just as fun as it was when I was 8), and part of it playing with my new Crate V8 amp. It’s my first tube amp, and it sounds like sex compared to my craptastic solid state practice amp (also a Crate). With my Ibanez Delay/Echo pedal, I can get some really organic/analog spacey sounds that I’m enjoying. It’s also nice that a sub-$200 amp is also made in the USA (by Ampeg for Crate), and contains a somewhat decent sounding Celestion speaker. I know there are better sounding tube amps out there, but this one is mine, and I didn’t have to skip meals to afford it.
mah amp

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From the mouth of babes….

July 2, 2007 at 2:03 pm (Life Detailed in Words)

This past weekend, I celebrated the 4th of July a little early with the fam since a lot of ppl are going to be out of town this week.  My six year old cousin gave me some sound advice on lighting fireworks: “Don’t burn your face off”.  Sage advice, young one.  Sage advice….

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