...it's all comics back to me now...

...recently, i find myself getting back into comics. with all the comic book movies coming out and recently my girlfriend buying us tickets to go to the NYC Comic Con at the Javits...wait...that was way back in February...but still. I bought a bunch of TPB (trade paper back) at the convention and just recently i've been reading them on my way to work.

...i must say Ultimate XMen has revived my urge to go to my local comic shop to buy Volume 2 of the TPB. just yesterday, on my lunchbreak, i almost did that...but while squatting there in the aisle of the graphic novels, debating in my hand to get a Transformers TPB, or the new Green Lantern TPB...I spotted something that I had to get (also was a bit cheaper too):

...yes i'm a nerd, a forum lurker, and a video game comic fan (check out Penny Arcade and Ctrl Alt Del ... two of my favorite gamer/nerd comics...you can find me on the PA Forums as well. I post sometimes here and there...a lot of times praising the Zune <3). i have to say i'm very excited about this purchase. it contains all of the early strips from PA, along with sketches and little tidbits about each comic...

...but after this i have an option of 2 very different comic TPB's that I have. I can either read The Preacher: Gone To Texas or Superman: Till Death Do Us Part. I also have #1-3 of 52 but I feel I cannot start this because I have been out of the DC world in a long time and I have no idea what has happened since the the last Crisis and why Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are gone. Can anyone enlighten me?

...2 years...2 dollars...

...next week comes up to a 2 year anniversary with my gf and myself. rather an odd thing for me considering my last really long relationship and how it just @#$%ed me up. this time around though i find that my gf is just like mary poppins' never ending bag o stuff. which i guess is a good thing huh? we're celebrating at six flags this weekend pending on the weather along with making mixed cds for each other.

...yeah weak but a good mixed cd/tape is like a fine bottle of wine. you need to take care of it, put thought and time into making it just right...the highs, lows, and bringing you in and out of the wonder that is music...

...tonight i have The 69 Eyes playing at The Blender Theater. interesting times are to be had with the Helsinki Vampires. see you there?...

Let's See How Long This Lasts...

...so i'm here at work bored a bit and was reading a friend's blog and i remembered i had this one. let's see how long this lasts for me to start blogging again.

...here we are again at the beginning of another summer and here i am again trying to lose the little fatness i have so i could look good again. looking at old band photos from last year and the year before shows a little thinner me so why can't i do that again? CAUSE I'M LAZY! i wanted to get up today...and the past few days...and go running again around the park in the morning. i just love sleep too much, considering that i don't get much of it. i'm going to try out the running after work considering i now get home and it's still light out. let's hope that works...

STAR WARS GALAXY OVERHAUL!!!!

Sorry to tell you this guys but Star Wars Galaxies, the Star Wars based MMORPG is getting a huge overhaul. Due to the lack of interest in Japan, it was shut down there so now Sony is changing it to an ACTION RPG!

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A Portable Nintendo the size of a GBA micro!

Very cool but it's really thick. I don't think i'd carry this thing around with me...it would break my back!

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Beethoven script, missing for 115 years found in a library

An 80-page, handwritten working manuscript score of Beethoven's 'Grosse Fuge' that went missing 115 years ago has been found by a librarian near Philadelphia, The New York Times said on Thursday. "It was just sitting on that shelf. I was in a state of shock," Heather Carbo told the Daily.

This is awesome. I wish there were pictures of it.

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Apple iPod Officially USB 2.0 Only - No More Firewire!

As of today, and the iPod 5th gen. Firewire is now completely unsupported by the iPod. No more super fast transfers. Apparently Mac users are too expensive to support. Thanks apple. My desktop doesn't even HAVE USB 2.0.

This is pretty big. iPod which is owned by Apple, is deserting the firewire, which can be found mainly on iBooks and other Apple computers. I don't know guys. When I got my iPod, I bought a firewire card for 5 bucks, installed it in 2 seconds and crazy super fast transfers were there. BOOOO!!!...but i still want an iBook. :)

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X-Men 3 Trailer Screenshots!

The pictures show clips from both unreleased X2: X-Men United and X-Men 3 trailers. Just scroll down and look and droool!

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EA & Superman Returns Video game!

EA and the developers of Madden are going to work on the new Superman Returns video game based on the new movie coming out next year. From the past, the Superman video games have been horrible...let's hope this movie and game will bring back Superman!!!!

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Slow Day...

So today is Rosh Hashana (sp?) and with consideration that most of the music industry is Jewish (if you didn't know, I work as an Assistant Booking Agent at AGI) it's quite quiet today in the office. So quiet that my boss (one of the agents) and another agent are in the confrence room, playing PSX's (Playstation 1 for all you who don't know) Madden 2002. I can hear screams and taunting from my desk. It's great. Laugh my ass off through out the day.

So here's my day: Woke up at 6AM to go to the doctor's office to fill out forms cause I'm having my tonsils out soon. From there go to the hospital to get bloodwork done. Get on the train to go to work bout 9:30AM. Get to work at 10:30AM.

10:30AM to basically now i've answered about...10 calls at most. So quiet. Needless to say i'm kinda restless and tired but oh well.

OFH has no practice again this week which really bothers me cause this month is going to suck with practices and we really need to write more. I've been slacking in the writing department too. I need a muse.

Currently Listening to: AlexisOnFire - Adelleda

Weekend Update

...so where should I start. Friday was fun. It was Nelsonfest at our friend's place where Never Say Die played and We Are The Music Makers. GOOOOOOOD TIMES full of lots of beer and liquor and my girlfriend making out with lots of them. I love my life :)

Saturday we got to see the second to final draft of our music video and let me tell you that was great. We all got a copy of it and watched it over 50 times. It's a real video. Our director submits his videos to FUSE TV, MTV2, MTVU and other music channels and they sometimes play them. I'll tell you guys how to see it when I know.

We had a show at RedZone Saturday night in Queens. Definitely a hole in the wall but we had a really good crowd. Many new fans were made that night. This really really really young punk band opened for us. Like Sex Pistols/Rancid wannabes. Ungreatful to cause we let them borrow one of our amp heads since they blew theirs out during their set and never a thank you or stay for our set. I can't stand punk kids like that. If you're all about the music and the scene...why don't you stay for the music.

That night we all made tacos and had smoke fun. From that night I found that there were people in my pants opening and closing doors. I'm going to end this entry on that note.

Currently Listening to: Death Cab For Cutie - The Employment Pages

Huge list of Free Multiplayer Online Games!

title says all, some of these are linux-ported.check your portage/apt/yum brahbrah! :)

Check this out guys...lots of great games!

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10 Foods You Should Never Eat

Suprising how popular most of these foods are geek friendly. Put down the Bugles tubby and check this list out.

Ok...most of the things I can understand. BUT BY GOD IF THERE'S A GRAND SLAM BREAKFAST ON THE MENU I'M ORDERING IT DAMMIT!

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