Tuesday, November 9, 2010

CKY - Vol.1

Stand Out Songs
1. 96 Quite Bitter Beings
2. Rio Bravo
3. Disengage The Simulator
4. The Human Drive in Hi-Fi
6. Knee Deep
7. My Promiscuous Daughter
8. Sara's Mask
9. To All Of You


Whats It Sound Like?
Pure awesomeness

What Makes It So Special?
Cky may be one of the most under rated guitar driven bands ever. Chad and Deron show impressively complex riffs on every song over a pretty wide range of styles. While Cky's other albums are also good this one is by far the best. Every song is perfect and I honestly can't recommend it enough.

Why Rolling Stone (Probably) Didn't Put This On The List.

Because Rolling Stone Hates Cky.

Monday, November 8, 2010

A_Rival - 8 Bit-Pimp

Stand Out Songs
2. A_Rival
7. Show Me Girl
9. Push It Down
12. Serious Business
14. 8-Bit Pimp

Whats It Sound Like
Dr. Dre and Busta Rhymes go to the arcade

What Makes This So Special?
That is a poor question to ask about this album, I mean what DOESNT make this album special? A rap artist who uses old Nintendo sounds for his beats while he raps about Street Fighter and other old school video games? What else do you need? Its pretty awesome when you hear sounds that you recognize in the beat, and the whole album is easy to grove too. His style is awesome, the references and nods to nerd culture he gives through out the album never get old, "What can I do to make it better for you?" "Make me a sandwich while I play Street Fighter II." Pure win. It's almost sad that music this good is going unplayed.

The only thing that I can hold against this album is that at times the music can over power the vocals, although it is rare it does happen and its a bit annoying. Still the album is amazing and you should go buy it, now.

Why Rolling Stone (Probably) Didn't Put This On The List.
He dosen't sing about how much money and stuff he has enough.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Sometimes I Play Video Games: Dead Rising 2


One of my two followers on here may have heard of the game Dead Rising 2 witch came out last week. Well being me I was pretty stocked to play it so I gameflyed it for the weekend and all I can say is, F*ck you.

Nah just kiddin, but seriously, it was pretty bad.

Just The Facts Man
The game focuses on Chuck Greene and his daughter, who's name I cant remember because well I don't really care about her. You guys are quarantined into what is pretty much Las Vegas, oh and there is alot of zombies, like alot alot, we are talking about 6,000 on screen at once. Chuck gets blamed for the zombie out break and works to clear his name.

The gameplay itself is fun because well you can use anything, and it is pretty satisfying to kill a zombie using the arm of a passed out dead hooker. The part that is super annoying is that the game runs on a time based system. Let me explain this.

The game is not level based, instead it works on in game time, in this game you have 72 hours to do everything. But in this 72 hours you have other time based objectives examples: Every 24 hours you have to give you daughter medicine, or you lose. You have to get to each mission at the proper in game time, or you lose. You have to use the bathroom on time, or you lose.

Just kiddin about that last one, but seriously, its pretty annoying.

Oh also when you lose you only have one save file, this means that usually when you lose you don't get to start at the last check point you were at, you just restart the game. You don't just restart when you lose a mission either, also every time you die, witch is alot. In the 4 hours that I played this game I restarted about 7 or so times, and trust me those cut scenes get funnyer every time I saw them, I'm laughing just thinking about them.


Me
I made that picture.

This was by far the most frustrating experience I have had in a very long time, and last weekend I cooked a banana soufflé with no cooking knowledge and just the Internet.

I Didn't Feel Like Reading The Whole Blog So I Skipped To This Part

If I had to give this game a rating I would give it good solid, f**k you.

Nah just kiddin, but seriously I hate it.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Ipod's Will Make You Go Blind.



Being an Apple fan boy (and I am one) it hurts me to say this but Apple's new ipod nano has a high risk of making you go blind.

"But wait a second West! How does a device that is meant to play music make you go blind? Don't you mean go deaf?"

No I mean they will cause you to lose your sight. Read on to find out how!

As we all know ipods have small screens on them that show you what you are listening to. Since the beginning Apple has been using simple LCD screens and it has been going well for them, but the new nanos use a totally different system. What they use is a very small vacuum tube called Cathode Ray Tubes. These tubes are about 300 times stronger than the LCD that the older model used. Not only is this technology far to powerful than the device calls for, it also uses gamma correction on all of the luminances, causing the Luminous flux to shoot up to dangerously high levels.
The Luminous flux levels.

got that?
Stay with me now, its about to get weird.

The device has such a small screen that even having the ipod up to a foot and a half is close enough to cause severe damage to your retinal ganglion cells, after a few hours of contact with this ipod you will have lost enough retinal ganglion cells to cause Glaucoma, and that will progress to blindness.


Clicking on the picture will make it larger and easier to see.

How could something like this slip by Apple? Well the problem didn't slip by apple, they actually had a recall of the nano claiming that the nano would "overheat" but we know what really happened don't we?

After the recall apple returned to the old LCD layout that has served them so well over the years and, except for a few cases, everyone is fine.

I highly recommend that you click this link for the full story.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

Paris Hilton Wins.

Yes that is right, Paris Hilton wins. What does she win at? Everything.


"I'm like so much better than you!"

I know what your thinking, this doesn't seem right, how can Paris be a winner? Well because honestly that's the only word that comes to mind. How many other fashion designers/ actress/ models/ published author/ musicians/ porn stars/ video game developers can you think of?

My point exactly.

Now you might be saying

"But West I could do all of that stuff! Doesn't mean its good!"

Yeah well I'm sorry man because she actually has a decent track record. Allmusic.com gave her album a 4.5 out of 5 stars. Ever seen the movie "Repo! The Genetic Opera"? She had a lead role in that and that film got a 74% on rotten tomatoes. And if that's not enough not only does she have 2 published books but she also has a quote in the Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations, no joke.

Lets add this stuff up here real fast.
Paris has:
150'sh articles of clothing in her fashion line.
12 different fragrances in her perfume line.
4 hair products in her hair product line.
87 watches in her watch line.
2 nightclubs.
5 seasons of her own reality show.
1 CD.
2 published books.
1 trademarked phrase.
she also has has a pet line of clothes, a jewelry line, a footwear line, a sunglasses line, a line of swim wear line, a line of nail polish and lingerie..But there's too much to count if you really feel like counting all of it click here.

I still don't completely understand it but, good job Paris.
You Win.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

You See Whad Had Happened Was... (The Jessi Slaughter Story)

Have you ever heard of a site called 4Chan? No? Well let me tell you what it is. 4Chan is the self-proclaimed "A**-Hole of the Internet." It's a place where all of the Internet trolls meet, be trolls together and ruin peoples lives with their troll message broads. This is entirely true story of one of the few times I was ever on 4chan.

I went to 4chan one faithful night because a friend, that I will not name, set me a link to the /b/ thread. In this tread was a video of an 11 year old girl, who called herself "Jessi Slaughter" telling me that if I keep hating on her she will, and I quote, "Pop a glock in my mouth and make a brain slushie."

My reaction to the video.

Now being that this all took place on a website full of trolls, Jessi Slaughter was not going to get away with them just laughing at her. What had happened was from Jessi's youtube account they found her Myspace and Facebook pages. With those they got the state that she lived in along with the town and her last name. With this information they got her home phone number and street address. Have you ever done that prank where you order a pizza to someones house? It's pretty funny because they didn't order the pizza but now they have it. Now imagine a website of +50,000 people doing that to you. That would suck right? But that's not all that happened. I got another scenario for you.

So you just got into bed, you had a long day, your about to fall asleep when the phone rings. You drag yourself out of bed to answer it. Than when you pick it up someone calls you gay and hangs up. That would suck right? Now imagine a website of +50,000 people doing that to you.

After about a week of this Jessi Slaughter posted another video. In this video she is crying stating that her life is ruined. Than suddenly her dad busts in yelling "AND DON'T YOU BE SAYING SUICIDE!" This is were things get kind of funny. Her dad yells things into the camera that became instant Internet memes. Things like "You dun goofed", "Consequences will never be the same."



But wait! There's more!

Being me I some times say words I don't understand but think I do. Later in the video Jessi's dad does the same. In what I'm guessing was a blind rage he yells, " you bunch of lying no good punks, and I know who you are because I backtraced it." See what I mean? Instead of letting it die down you just threw more wood on the fire, nice.

Another couple days went bye, than ABC’s Good Morning America picked up on the story.


4:13 yes Rap music is to blame for all of this.

from reading my blog and watching that video you might think that all of this is unjustified hate, but here is the slight twist. The reason that all of this started is because Jessi posted sexually explicit photos of herself on the Internet than made 4-5 videos of herself saying that she is better than everyone and all of the reasons why she is perfect.


And because of all of this I will never use 4chan again.


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