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19 Mar 2010

Katamari Fever...



I've been having constant Katamari cravings. It really is my favorite Weird Japanese thing. I mean, I like sushi and all, but Katamari is so much better. What could be more thrilling than rolling up everything in the world to make a giant ball? I don't have an X-box or and old playstation, so I'm relegated to waiting to see if friends want to play, but I'm this close to buying one for the purpose of Katamari alone. In the mean time, there are plenty of online games to waste my time with. I liked Canabalt, but this gives me the window dressing I really wanted for that game. Robot Unicorn attack from adult swim games, who thought that would be a place to check?

18 Mar 2010

They eventually rocked a body



I've hated every other Black Eyed Peas song. I don't know what about them exactly annoyed me so much, but they're songs always felt derivative and trite. Their songs alwys manage to capture something of the zeitgeist and sound suspiciously like something that was briefly popular last week. Compare 'I got a feeling' to Iglu and Hartley "in this city". This one has many of the same qualities, but somehow gets it right for the first time. When I heard it on the radio I thought it was the new Major Lazer, until I realised that wouldn't be on the radio in drive time. Maybe it's because they vocodered Fergie's voice into Oblivion. It definitely has nothing to do with the video.

17 Mar 2010

Fond Nerdy Memories

After recently re-acquainting myself with my vast horde of comics, assembled in my misspent youth, I began obsessively re-ordering, re-bagging and re-boarding all of it. I'm not even halfway done, but already my questionable taste in comics is becoming an embarrassment. My bookshelves now hold some slim volumes of TPB's of cool alternative stuff by hip authors and such, but the vast majority of my actual comics is a vast swathe of x-men comics encompassing most of Chris Claremont's run, and all of the terrible Nicieza-Lobdell-Seagall conga-line of failure that followed it. There were some great storylines, sure but this was also the era where everyone was suddenly inexplicably related and the amount of titles to follow numbered in the dozens a week. The Claremont era, though equally convoluted and filled with purple prose, was a hell of a lot better. I started reading the x-men because of a whole year's worth of dutch reprints bundled together by the publisher which was staring me in the face back in '93. Uncanny x-men 258-270. I was immediately fascinated by how complex it was. Every issue seemed to be about a bunch of different people, all of whom were part of a superhero team at some point, but I'd missed that. Just because I wanted to know how exactly all these random weird events had happened, I spent most of the next couple of years tracking down every issue I could find and buying all the new ones. And I'm this close to starting again. I already have the list of the six issues I'm missing memorised.

15 Mar 2010

Church claims pedophilia is everywhere..



Computer problems over, so back to a regular schedule. Ridiculous attempts at relativity from Rome today. Pedophilia is so rife in the outside world, people shouldn't be surprised that there are so many cases of it in an international organisation like the church. I'd never seen it that way, cardinal in charge of PR. It's almost as if they're doing this on purpose now. What the hell is wrong with an apology? Or massive show trials? Everyone knows it's been going on for years. It's also the most obvious end result of denying people relationships with adults and then putting them in charge of kids. Would you hire a recovering drug addict to be the night watchman in your heroin factory? Who knew billions of years old sex drives would trump a set of contradictory and useless rules? Why can't they just turn over the pedophiles? Society outside the church does harbor less of them, because hen they're caught, they're severely punished. And how could the church possibly be against that?