Yesterday we watched 'Cars' and finished off 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season Six. I was so tired I kept falling asleep...

Curb had a fantastic finale... sad season, but that was the perfect ending... season seven, if there is one, is going to be... interesting.

'Cars'... i'm a bit torn. on the one hand, i didnt think it was very good as far as a film goes. it was very 'in the moment', full of jokes that are already stale, and catering to hillbilly NASCAR culture and awful music. BUT its easily the best looking pixar film i've ever seen. even above Ratatouille. its gorgeous.

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i recorded a podcast this morning. i've been wanting to do a music show for some time, so i finally just did it. came out pretty good i guess, but some of the mixing is a bit rough, i still have no voice for radio, and the name i landed on, which i researched, is already taken. i searched for it on itunes, but not on google... so i'm going to have to come up with something else.

i recorded it in AAC, with chapter breaks, and in high quality and it still only clocked in at 20mb... which is great.

as soon as imeem gets its crap together, i'll post it.

any ideas for a name?

alright... so... this morning i cashed in some Hasting's gift cards when I saw that they had the Collectors Edition of 'Stranglehold' for the PS3 for $40. It comes with 'Hard Boiled' on Blu-Ray, and I figure the resell is good, so I bit. I played the demo about 6 times as I liked it so much, I just heard the game was really short...

I played about 3 hours today and I loved every second of it. It's easily one of the most FUN games I've played in ages. It makes no excuses for what it is, big explosions, bloody bullets and a massive body count, but it's great.

I'm pretty far in I guess, but it's set up really weird. There is a first level, with a boss, and it feels natural. after the level you get a rating and all, then you play the second 'level' for about a million years, it seems to span several levels in one, there is no boss, then all the sudden you are rated... then shortly afterwards you complete the third level, but with a boss, a much harder boss than the first one... so I'm just after that battle... however far in that is.

the scene before the second boss was really hard. you're in a ballroom, with a jazz trio playing, and you battle wave after wave of enemies, while trying to kill the band (as they play on). I kept running out of ammo and health, and kept dying. there were just dozens of waves of villains. it was pretty cool though, you shoot the sax player, boom... no sax, but the drums and bass keep playing.... very cool.

i love it. its just everything i want in a shooter. VERY destructible environments, lots of crap to knock over and jump over and shoot, lots of interactivity in the levels, cool gunplay, very natural controls...

i did a slo-mo 'matrix-ish jump backwards while i was wielding dual pistols shooting at a guy, at the same time i landed on my back on a counter top and instead of sliding off to the floor, or clipping through to the floor like most games, Tequila hit and did a backroll to the floor and took cover. really... just perfect.

you dont dive into the walls and clip and fall. if you dive into a wall, you run up the wall and do a backflip. its a little weird sliding over every flat surface like it were the hood of the General Lee, but it also looks badass, so i'm not complaining.

awesome game.... 50 stars...


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i also played a little 'skate' today... for the first time in several months. another fantastic game, so relaxing...