December Boys

The only reason i wanted to see this movie was Daniel Radcliffe, now hold on, i`m not a fan of his i was just curious what would a dude the same age as me do after reaching fame.

As some of you know Daniel got the role of Harry Potter by accident (David Heyman saw him and said he looks like Harry or something like that) and the Harry Potter series is the biggest movie he ever had a role in, there is a theory that very successful newcomers can`t be cast into other big movies because they would steal the attention or make it seem weird (see Mark Hamill – Luke Skywalker).

Surprisingly Radcliffe`s acting is very good though not many lines from his side, probably because his lack of aussie accent, the rest of the cast does a great job, but the main problem of the movie is lack of action/substance, the movie drags and gets rather boring with a lot of plot holes, someone explain to me why in late December we are told about a girl (i don`t wanna spoil) that she will return “next summer” that`s pretty big, I actually read an synopsis that said it`s actually SUMMER, but last time i checked Christmas is in December.

I understand that Kangoostralia is hot in what we consider winter but come on people, anyway if you find interesting the holiday of four orphans and their adventures into getting adopted by a charming family in late 1960s you should really see this flick.

American Dad "Surro-Gate"

Even though we have no Simpsons or Family Guy this weekend we still have American Dad`s episode 307 “Surro-Gate”.

In this episode Stan will face one of the things he fears the most, his wife, Francine will become a surrogate for a gay couple, as sick as that may sound only an CIA agent like Stan will be able to deal with this kind of situation.

So don`t miss this one.

SouthPark "Christmas Time in South Park" DVD

Although this DVD is out there for a while now, what better time to talk about it than now when Christmas is getting closer and we have no Family Guy or Simpsons this weekend, i don`t know why exactly, hope it`s not related to the Writer`s Strike.

The “Christmas Time in South Park” is something nobody should miss and couldn`t be better to give to someone new in South Park as a gift, this dvd is a compilation of Christmas specials, the episodes featured on this DVD include “Mr Hankey, the Christmas Poo”, “Christmas Time in Hell” and two more. Enjoy.

Bionic Woman is total crap

I was so bored i did not know what to post about because not much interesting stuff happening this week, or so it seems, but anyway this was a nice opportunity to tell you guys that the new re imagining of the 70s TV show “Bionic Woman” is total junk and should not even be viewed by stoned hippies.

I mean, honestly, who gives a shit about a cyborg chick from the 70s brought up in our era of CGI and hot chicks with guns instead of legs (thank you Rodriguez, thank you) so fuck this! Maybe this show brings lots of nostalgia to old people, but even the actress is ugly and i feel like i`m speaking in the name of every dude who will eventually be old, we need hot chicks in no-brainers!

List of my favourite music albums of 2007

Even though 2007 is not over yet i feel i should post a list of my favourite albums of the year so far, and maybe, until the end i will make some sort of top ten. Don`t take this as an universal list if you listen to anything other than rock feel free to try some. The bands are mostly rock bands, indie rock, alternative, post-punk, post-hardcore and so on.

Arcade Fire – “Neon Bible”

Bloc Party – “A weekend in the city”

Yellowcard – “Paper Walls”

The Secret Show – “Impressionist Road Map of The West”

The Killers -”Sawdust”

Funeral For A Friend – “Tales don`t tell themselves”

Arctic Monkeys – “Favourite Worst Nightmare”

The White Stripes – “Icky Thump”

The Used – “Lies for the Liars”

Nine Inch Nails – “Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D” (and Year Zero)

Tegan and Sara – “the Con”

Still, there are a couple of albums i want to listen to, but this is just a list if you like one band you might find that you like more from the list, something that i find rather overrated this year is Radiohead`s “in rainbows” but maybe i have to listen to it more, which i will.

Heroes "Powerless"

Episode ten of season two left us a little wondering but since it`s not a season finale prolly nothing big will happen. Anyway episode eleven entitled “Powerless” will continue the Peter and Hiro showdown and we`ll find out what will happen to Adam, Micah will try to save Monica from the gang that took her with the help of his mom and the rest we`ll just have to see next week. Sayonara.

6 Unusual Games You Should Play Before You Die

I decided to make a list of games you should play before you die after i made the one with movies you should see (right before you die), and maybe i`ll make more lists, but here are six of the most unusual games you just have to play. The criteria aren`t many but i`ve excluded classics and games most people played anyway to make this list as helpful as it could be, so if you can`t find Bladur`s Gate, Half-Life, Diablo or any other godlike game, i did not forget. So here are six unusual games:

1.Portal: Portal is by far the biggest surprise of 2007 and the biggest surprise in a long, long time, it`s genius, it`s weird, it freaks you out a little and it`s so much more than you`d think, because if you think Portal is senseless portal shooting, you are so wrong, it has one of the best stories in recent games, all with a simplicity other game developers could only dream of.

2.Grim Fandango: Grim Fandango may be rather old and it`s not that unusual after you get over the fact that you are working as a travel agent for the Department of Death, based on Mexican culture with amazing humour makes Grim Fandango one of the funniest adventure games in history.

3. Black and White: To be honest B&W is not that unusual nowadays because games tend to be as non-linear as possible but at it`s time it was a major development and today it`s still one of the most weird and funny “god” simulators, considered one of the most polished games. Made by Peter Molyneux B&W is so damn worth for this list.

4. Call Of Cthulhu: When you are making a list like this one it`s hard not to think you might have omitted some major games but that`s the beauty of it, it`s just 6 games, not THE 6 games so this is open to interpretation. Anyway Call Of Cthulhu: DCoTE is a game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft writings and from that you can only imagine how weird and good this game really is.

5. F.E.A.R. : First Encounter Assault Recon is one of that things that will mark you for the rest of your life, if you are not afraid of little girls, you will be after this game, little girls have scared the crap out of me in horror movies and not only since i can remeber. This game right here is by far one of the most frightening, weird and unusual experiences you will ever encounter.

6. Halo : Yes, i`m talking about the original Halo, and you have to admit it is a little bit unusual, but the distance between console and PC releases kind of took a little of it`s popularity so to say, but even so, chasing “aliens” around a ring-like (hence HALO) planet in the role of the Master Chief (rank) is pretty damn unusual to me.

The Simpsons "Funeral for a Friend"

This weekend we`re in for a treat with this new The Simpsons episode entitled Funeral for a Friend (with no connection with the band as far as i know) that will make the Sideshow Bob fans very happy, mostly the ones who were disappointed with his absence in The Simpsons:Movie.

Sideshow Bob once again lures Bart and his family into his mastermind hoax consisting in Marge dreaming up that she should fast-forward trough TV ads and finally the Simpsons family take interest in an ad for some restaurant where, of course, Sideshow Bob is waiting, waiting to kill Bart.Things don`t work out for Bob as they never have but this time Sideshow Bob could be done for.

This episode has a nice guest star list consisting of: Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney.

Family Guy "Peter’s Daughter"

For me the weekend means Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad and any other sitcoms that air in weekends (i think King of The Hill swell) so i should write more often about upcoming episodes.

The next episode in Family Guy season six is “Peter`s Daughter” which obviously is Meg who starts getting a lot of respect from Peter after she was hurt in an accident, this one should be funny, even funnier than the 100Th episode special and “Stewie Kills Lois” because Meg never got respect from anyone in the family, not even from Lois.

Blogs Blow Dot One Month Aniversary

My blog is now officially one month young and i have to say i`m pretty happy with what i`ve done so far, so i thought i should do a recap of things i done, most commented posts and statistics and whatnot. So, enjoy and come again.

Since it`s opening until now (calculated as first month = 30days) this blog got 10,647 unique visitors and 12,469 page views. The daily viewer average stands at 343 with 400 views and the user/visits peak was at 1,099 and 992 visitors on November 15th. I`m pretty happy with that.

Moving on, the most used keywords in Google to reach this blog were “south park the list” followed by “family guy” keywords (from Google Analytics). The Most commented blog posts were: “SouthPark Imaginationland 3/3 of season 11” and “10 Movies You Should See Right Before You Die“

And that`s about all, in the future i will write more and try to please all kinds of readers.