Mister Basile is fortunate enough to turn 33 on the last day of April.
As Penda would say: May you have sloppy birthday sex.
Or in Mister Basile’s case, maybe the rugrats not wake you up in the middle of the night.
Archive for April, 2008
Wil Wheaton’s post regarding this lovely game is pitch perfect.
I arrived at Best Buy on Tuesday morning after dropping Padre off at the airport for work.
A few people in front of me at in store pick up, then several more arrived and several more and -, well you get the point.
“I figured it was time for a sick day,” the over thirty guy in front of me grins.
Yep, this is what adult life has come down too. Calling out sick from work to play video games.
After playing Saint’s Row and Crackdown, I have to say after missing all the GTA shennigens from PS1/PS2, GTA IV is a welcome addition to the “weeee, I can drive anywhere I want, run people over, car jack anything I want and it’s all fake!” category.
Managed to carjack a similar car from Highlander only to have Queen’s Hammer to Fall greet me as I drove away and managed successfully to hulr myself and a stolen cop car off a unfinished bridge and kill myself on a Moped.
The only things missing from this game: First is a Halo 3 inspiried video replay/still camera feature so all of your crack ups can be saved for posterity. Second is an email system via FF XI to email the pictures and lastly, some way to actually quit the game instead of bouncing yourself out to the Xbox Menu.
I’ve mentioned DMZ before and after reading the first two trade paperbacks (thank you Rah-Coco Comics and Collectables), I’d have to say, if you missed Transmetropolitan then DMZ is for you. Check out the first issue here in PDF Format.
DMZ is from DC’s Vertigo Line which after losing both Transmet and Y The Last Man still appears to be pumping out good titles for us 30+ fan base
DMZ is written by Brian Wood and art by Riccardo Burchielli. And, at points harkens back to Wood’s Indy Hit Channel Zero. It details the adventures of a photo journalist’s assistant being thrown into a civil war in the middle of Manhattan. The use of Manhattan and New York as a whole may feel like it’s too soon, but, it’s more plausible
After 12 issues, I wouldn’t mind seeing this be adapted for HBO. While Y The Last Man has gone the motion picture route, DMZ would be a good 13 episode per season fit for the struggling HBO.
The series is only up to issue 30 right now so either grab the trades now or wait for the hard covers (along the lines of the Absolute Authority/Planetary editions would be nice).
Wordpress 2.5.1 arrived and so far is working aok. It’s probably me but it seems as though the admin dashboard is faster.
Doctor Who’s 4th Season arrives on Sci-Fi with the return of The Runaway Bride, Donna herself as the Doctor’s Companion. After the dud that was Voyage of the Damned, the 4th season starts off fine and continues to get better and better.
Quick review of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse pilot script: Awesome. The science fiction is handled extremely well and down to earth. I’d highly recommend watching it.
Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Contest has it’s early bird deadline on May 15th. Last deadline is on June 1st.
If you missed Cloverfield in the theaters is arrived on DVD today. I wouldn’t worry about getting motion sickness, I didn’t find the camcorder footage that dizzying as most people.
Other recommendations for Net Flixin’:
Movies to stay clear away from, do not Pass Go and do not collect $200:
In non-movie news:
Sarah Connor has been renewed for a second season and LOST returns this Thursday!
I’ve brought up the current saga of the Rhode Island Film Tax Credit more than once and now it’s time to link yet another Projo Article and link to a retort to said article from 94 HJY’s DJ, Jeff Charles.
First things is first, the link to 94 HJY will probably change once a new rant is posted since, for whatever mind boggling reason, 94 HJY cannot seem to get on the bandwagon like all us other Word Press users and actually use Word Press for Jeff Charles’s Diary of a Psychotic.
But, that’s neither here nor there.
The real problem I have is with The Providence Journal.
I’ve mentioned before how many portions of these Film Tax Credit articles was cut and pasted from previous articles. So much so that if you read them long enough you know about the lengthy ongoing legal shenanigans that dragged on for many a month between The Providence Journal and the Rhode Island Film and Television Office to have the RI Film and TV Office release their records.
The current article that showed up two days ago is part of these shenanigans and I must say: Projo could please stop banging the “Woe is us, Woe is us, we’re in a finacial trouble in the Ocean State.” drum. If you continue to pull these shenanigans I’ll be forced to send you to your room without desert.
We all know the Ocean State budget is in trouble, we all know the Gov’ment is looking to tighten it’s purse strings. But, the Rhode Island Film and Television Office should not be the one to lose out because some fat cat wants his raise for doing next to nothing.
Some of us enjoy being extras, sitting around for 5 hours, networking aka shooting the shit, being fed and then being told we won’t be needed and still getting paid for 8 hours.
Do you seriously want all the films to go to Mass or CT? Do you seriously want the proposed Film Studio down in Hopkinton to become just that: proposed? Because it sure and heeeeccckkkk sounds like you do.
So, pipe down and go find some other human interest story to do.
It should be noted that this post has absolutely nothing to do with the $50 check I received for networking for 5 hours, getting fed and not getting called to do extra work on Tell Tale in Providence two weeks ago.
Nothing at all.
Charles on 94 HJY was commenting on how the geeks are going nuts over this movie and I have to agree with him. It looks so much better than Hulk.
Also, check out these clips: Tony, Flying and Cell Phones, Iron Man VS. Raptors and Iron Man Suit Origins.
