Giggity Giggity

Oh god, this movie needs to get here soon. Whatever legal problems they are having, need to be squashed. Anyways, if I watch this preview one more time, I could go into some kind of seizure and be forced into a coma from sheer excitement...


Watchmen - Spike Awards Trailer

Girlfriend of the Week

Since last week the computer was in a morgue and no GOTW could be posted, this week I will give you all a special treat, multiple GOTWs. That's right everyone. This week's GOTW is the girls who make Halloween so special. You ladies go out and dress super skimpy, some would even say you may be dressed like whores. Not me, I would never say that. In fact I usually punch those idiots in the face. I wish every day could be Halloween.

Lots of Books

It has been awhile since I did some book reviews, and many of you may be thinking I took a break from reading. Haha, well you would be dead wrong. So here are a bunch of books I have recently finished.

Cory Doctorow
One day I decided to pick up something of his since everywhere I turn I hear great things about his writing. I grabbed Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, which is a collection of short stories. Every story in the collection is awesome and I would say that even people who are not into sci-fi would probably like most of the stories. They deal more with the immediate future and how our current ways of thinking would affect the technology and cause problems. The main reason I picked up the book was because of Neil Gaiman and Warren Ellis' quotes on the cover. Speaking of Neil Gaiman....

Neil Gaiman
I have been reading his short story collection called Fragile Things. It is completely Gaiman, he continues to prove to me that he is one of the best writers out there. Best story so far A Study in Emerald. It is kind of what if story, the entire time two characters who seem like Holmes and Watson investigate a murder of the old ones from Lovecraft. It turns out that the two killers are actually Holmes and Watson, and the two investigating are someone else...very cool, very twisty story.




Jim Butcher
I finished the third and fourth books of the Codex Alera series. As I have stated before these books are such fun reads, they do not take very long, and they are action packed. There is an interesting bit that I noticed while reading Brisingr, in the differences between the two main characters, Eragon and Tavi.

Let me explain. Eragon is the only person in the land with his abilities (a dragon and magic), he gets this ability quickly and it takes time for him to grow into it. At times we have to deal with his moral dilemas about killing or eating meat.

On the other hand, Tavi comes from a place where everyone has control of furies, except for him. He has to become smarter, faster, and better than everyone around him with just his own mind and body. He has risen the ranks of the legion and become a trusted leader. Now that his own past has been revealed to him and his furies have finally started to come to him, he is on level with others, but he rises above them because he could do amazing things without that kind of power.

Terry Brooks
I finished the second book in the Shannara series, Elfstones of Shannara and started the third, Wishsong of Shannara. The second book was pretty sweet, I can understand why Greg said it was his favorite. Brooks is a fantastic writer, once you get hooked in, it is very hard to let go.


Joe Abercrombie
The final book I want to talk about is Last Argument of Kings. This book kicked ass. It was dark and seedy. There were no happy endings. Just like real life. Turns out that Bayaz was not the really good guy we thought, in the end Logen was just what he was: a savage murderer, and Jezal becomes the puppet king who needs help from Glokta to have sex with his wife...Not the Tolkienesque ending we expected.

Heroes: "Eris Quod Sum"

This was a fairly cool episode with lots of characters starting to come together and people finally making some decisions.

Sylar and Peter
Angela reaches out to Sylar and tells him that he is more powerful than he knows and there should be no reason he can be held in a cage. She wants him to save Peter. He wakes up and leaves his cell.

He goes into Pinehearst, tosses Mohinder away from Peter and then kills the lab assistant. As Peter prepares to run away, Mohinder uses his new powers to bash Sylar's skull off the floor. Arthur fires some eletricity at Peter, but Peter still escapes.

Arthur then explains to Sylar that Angela tried to kill him as a baby and that he needs to join Arthur's team. Peter comes to save Sylar, but he says he is exactly where he needs to be and tosses Peter out the window.

Claire and Elle
This sexy combo teamed up because Elle can no longer control her powers. Her and Claire decide to go to Pinehearst to see if they can be helped. On the plane Elle starts to snap and crackle, but before she can pop, Claire tells her to grab her hand and she absorbs the electricity.

As they walk toward Pinehearst, Peter comes falling out of the window. Claire grabs him and says that his powers are gone and she needs to get him away. Unfortunately Elle decides to go inside to maybe lose her powers.

Claire fixes Peter's cuts then asks the important question, how did he survive that fall without his powers? Peter believes that Sylar saved him and you can see that Peter is starting to come around to Sylar.

Peter calls in Nathan, who says he will not go to Pinehearst to confront his father. Tracy realizes he is lying and asks if he needs help, she might be able to open some doors. Nathan says that he is going to kick them down. Right, he can fly, I bet that will help out against Arthur...

Matt and Daphne
Arthur sends Daphne to kill Matt. Matt's dad tries to reason with Arthur, but he winds up dead on the floor. Daphne tries to shoot Matt, but she cannot do it. Terrence comes and he kills both Daphne and Matt. He then leaves and the room changes and Matt and Daphne are alive and safe. Parkman used his Jedi-mind tricks on Terrence.

Matt tells Daphne that he will fight the Pinehearst group, but he might need help from Primatech. At the end of the show we see her on the phone with Arthur saying that Parkman believed her...what does Arthur have on Daphne? Maybe he is holding her child hostage?

Hiro and Ando
Not too much happened to this duo. Hiro eats some drugs and goes into a trance in order to go on his own spirit walk. Really not much to say about it.

So my questions is how will Peter get his powers back? Will Sylar end up the good guy? Will Elle ever get naked for me?

Eris Quod Sum means You Will Be What I Am or I am what you will be...does that mean Sylar will become like Arthur or maybe Peter?

Guess What???

Well everyone my computer is finally fixed. I must say that it was a very trying few days without it, but everything is back to normal now. I plan on watching Heroes tomorrow at some point, so expect that post to be up then. Also, I have a few different posts that will be coming up so be prepared.

Dead

My computer died today. A very sad day. Actually just the power source. It will be fixed soon. No GOTW this week...posts coming via mobile.

Heroes: "Dying of the Light"

Sometimes I am right and sometimes I am wrong. I really thought that Hiro might actually have stabbed Ando, but instead he just went back in time and set up a blood pack with a fake sword and told Ando to pretend to be dead...it was cool because at least Ando is still with us, and it seemed to have made Ando realize what Hiro feels about being hurt by his best friend.

I was kind of right about Arthur Petrelli, his power seems to be some sort of power absorption, unlike Peter's power though, his father must actually be in contact with the person. We first see him use this power on Adam, which upset me. I like Adam. I really wanted them to explore the idea of him and Hiro working together, and maybe rekindling their friendship. It was cool to see Adam wither up and die without his power to keep him from aging.

The scene where the puppet master controls the three ladies was okay, but who did not see that coming? And why did Sandra have such a hard time shooting Claire? I would have pulled the trigger in a heartbeat. Oh well, that's just me, and I may be a heartless bastard.

The villains of Pinehearst are about to square off against the Company, who will win? I have a small problem right now, what is either sides agenda? The Company in the beginning was taking people with powers and tagging them, they seem like they try to control the dangerous people. The Pinehearst group wants everyone to have powers? So in order to obtain that goal, they recruit the bad guys? Maybe some clarification needs to be made between the two groups, a mission statement or something.

I really like the Sylar/Peter relationship. Sylar reaching out to Peter, trying to work with him so they can both control the hunger, yet Peter cannot get past the moment and forgive his newfound brother, even though in the future he met Gabe, who was reformed with his son...

Parkman's story happens to be pretty cool, and my prediction of him falling to the darkside appears to be way off. "Thanks turtle." Best line of the episode. I love that he is trying to convince Daphne about the future, but without coming off as totally creepy.

Hiro versus the precog was funny. I mean, shovels to the head always make me laugh. A teleporter against a precog, who wins? Well I guess the precog...

The episode ends with Peter going to the Pinehearst facility and finding his father there. Daddy asks Peter to give him a hug and then absorbs his powers. Peter has been taken out of the equation. He better get his powers back.

The preview had the worst line ever in it. Peter struggles against his father and Arthur says "You're grounded son." Ugh.

Magic Darts at Mugshots

I have not posted anything about the Mugshots exploits in awhile, which may have caused some of you to think I stopped going there, but do not fear, I still frequent my second home and definitely have plenty of funny stories. Wow, that was a long sentence...

First I would like to tell you a little about a mistake I made. In my second Mugshots post, I said about how Sweeny was annoying and how I did not like him. Usually I am pretty spot on about people after one or two meetings. This was one of those cases where I was dead wrong. I would like to now correct that and say that Sweeny is a good dude, very smart, and pretty funny. Although he has some bad taste in arena rock...

Anyways, lately we have been playing darts over there. Usually it is Sean (our local AT&T salesman, so if you see me rockin' an iPhone, blame Sean), Steve, and I. The first time we played Sean was beating me pretty bad, although it had been months since the last time I played darts.

Obviously we play Cut-Throat Cricket, and Sean was pointing me because I could not close out the 18s. He had a sizeable lead, just needed to close the bulls and 15s. I decide to start going after the bulls. I hit one and Sean says that I will not hit one the rest of the night. My next time up I hit two bulls and one double bull. Yes, three bulls, pretty awesome, huh? It gets better. The next round up, I nail a double bull and then a regular bullseye. Five in a row. Needless to say I ended up winning the game.

A few nights later we played again and this time I was winning easily, and needed just one bull to win. I decided to get a little cocky. I look at Sean and Steve and tell them that I will throw this round left-handed. They make fun of me for being a cocky asshole, especially after my first dart misses the board. The second dart hones in near the triple 11. Third dart nails the bullseye. Needless to say, they were amazed.

The very next night I stop in after work, and they want me to play, but this time Sweeny is playing. Well that night I learned a lesson in humility. Back in the day Kern and I used to have some epic battles up at the Arena. I would say that I usually came out on top (he will not admit that), but it was seriously always super close.

Sweeny taught me what a great dart shooter looks like. He used to play in leagues and won a bunch of League Championships. His first round was like triple 20, triple 19, then back up for a single 20 just to point us all. He kicked our asses.

That night I also got a nice head-butt from sweet Anastasia, who pretty much polished off a box of wine all by herself. She beat up Sean, and the next time she came over to hit him, he pushed me in front of her. I fell forward and her forehead slammed off my jaw. I felt like a dude punched me in the face.
That is Anastasia in the white and Jen in the green.

Also, that same night, Sean got very pissed at this deuschebag Brett, which cracked Steve and I up. The extent of what happened is not really important, but just fun to think about. Here is the only line you need to remember from that entire night:
Sean: "I am not going to be mocked by someone younger than me with less hair."
Steve: "Sean, I mock you all the time and I have less hair and am younger than you."

Just one of those silly things that happens that no one gets or really finds funny unless you were there.

One of those nights was also my late birthday celebration, so a trip was definitely made up to the Fireside Inn to play a little Wii bowling, which I am not so good at. Although that night, I think I played left-handed. Not a good idea.

Girlfriend of the Week

For those of you who watch Cowboy Bebop, then you are no stranger to the hotness of Faye Valentine. Many of you have seen the wall scroll in my apartment, you know that she is hot, even for anime standards.

What is it about her? The purple hair, the skimpy outfit, the huge boobs? Or is it her ability with a gun or flying a ship? My bet is on the boobs...

Since some of you seem to be a little anti-Faye, I have decided to add some more pictures, and even one of some chick dressed as Faye.

Screw Columbus

This weekend I headed back home to see family and friends. This week also happened to be the point where my driver's license expired, but luckily I had a little paper extending it because PennDOT took forever to get me my camera card. On the way home on Saturday I stopped at the DMV, which was supposed to be open until 4 p.m.

Guess what? It was not.

The sign says "We are closed Saturday and Monday so that our employees can celebrate the Columbus Day holiday." No thank you at the end, or sorry to inconvenience you. But seriously, who celebrates Columbus Day? What the hell kind of holiday is this? Why not have Leif Erikson Day?

Needless to say I was pissed off. Christopher Columbus ruined my weekend. I could not go out to the bars to watch the Penn State thrashing of Wisconsin (luckily I had a great time at my mom's, so screw you Chris)...

Heroes: "Angels and Monsters"

I know, most of you are all done with the show and what not, but aside from a few bad story arcs, there are some very cool things happening. I love the idea of Peter becoming more like Sylar, that just intrigues me.

Also, the confrontation between Mr.B/Sylar/Claire was pretty sweet. Mr. B finally found his way to kill Sylar, but the dude would not do it, and it seemed like Claire did not want him to do it either. Sylar is a smooth talker, trying to pit Claire against her father.

The Linderman conundrum has been solved, it is Parkman's dad manipulating minds. But, who is he building an army for? That is right, Mr. Petrelli. I knew the old man was not really dead, I said that back in season one, then again in season two. What is his power? He must be very dangerous. He also wants Adam on his team, hmm.

Angela has a vision of her husband in the future, with Nathan/Peter/Tracey all dead. I wonder if his power is similar to Sylar's? I hope not, I would like to see something a little more creative. Maybe he is like Peter, but with a lot more powers and years of experience...

Did Hiro really stab Ando? Is he dead? I bet not, that is why Ando will try to get his own powers to one day kill Hiro. What could make them turn on each other, going to the future caused Hiro to see Ando kill him, which then led Hiro to distrust Ando...see where I am going with this?

Anyways, let me know what you guys think...

Girlfriend of the Week

This weeks GOTW goes to Lauren Pope. I do not know much about her except that she is British and maybe an actress...not that it really matters, she is hot. And that is one helluva moose.

Heroes: "I Am Become Death"

A much better episode than last weeks. This one had plenty of fun stuff, especially current Peter and future Peter traveling four years into the future. While there Claire kills future Peter (because the Haitian is present to block out his healing power). Before he dies though, he tells Peter to go find Sylar, his power will help Peter fix time.

Peter goes off to find Sylar, a mutated Mohinder tells him that Sylar lives in Costa Verde. Peter teleports there, and finds a very unexpected welcoming. A small child says "Hi Uncle Peter." The kid runs to his father, Sylar. The kid then asks where is Peter's scar. Sylar and Peter go into another room, where Sylar asks where he came from. Peter explains what is happening, but Sylar says that he will not give Peter his power because the hunger is too much.

Peter tries to take it, but Sylar fights him off. Peter then reasons with him to paint the future. Sylar does, and sees the world will end. Sylar gives Peter his old watch and says to fix it. As Peter fixes it, we hear the familiar ticking clock sound and Peter now has the ability to understand how things work.

At that moment, Claire, Knox, and Daphne attack the house. Using Sylar's kid as a hostage, Claire says she will release the kid if Peter agrees to die. Peter takes her out and then battles with Daphne. Knox uses Sylar's son's fear to make him strong and starts beating up Sylar. From the fight the son is accidentally killed, causing Sylar to go nuclear. He kills over 200,000 people.

Claire has Peter in captivity, and she begins to cut him with the Haitian present so he cannot heal or teleport away. Is this how he got his facial scar? Nathan, the President of the USA, comes in and wants to talk with Peter. He explains that he knows of the paintings and that one person cannot save the world, blah blah blah. Peter reads his mind, but tells Nathan that even though he believes he is right, he is actually wrong. Peter then feels the hunger that Sylar warned him about and starts to cut Nathan's head.

He becomes scared and teleports back in time. Where might you ask? To Sylar's cell at Level 5. He immediately grabs him by the throat and wants to know how to control it and tells Sylar that he will never be like him. Sylar goads that they are brothers. Which is not much of a revelation to Peter since he learned that from the nice Sylar like an hour ago.

The Peter/Sylar thing was cool. Remember, they battled in the first season very briefly. At the end of the season they sort of had a battle, but it was Hiro who did the damage. Then they battled in the future where Sylar was pretending to be Nathan...but we have yet to see them actually talk. I wonder what makes Sylar change? Who is the kid's mom? I bet it's Elle, she likes a bad boy.

Anyways, before I go back to sleep, I just want to point out an interesting thought about Peter's character. He is an empath, he absorbs powers, but also does he probably get a little bit of people's emotions? Notice how he never stops and thinks about things rationally. In fact, he just gets caught up in the moment. At first he was all anti-Future Peter, then one he is dead, he starts to believe him. Sylar says they are brothers, Peter is okay with it, in fact he begins to trust this new Sylar almost immediately...just some food for thought.

Sorry that I did not focus on the other stuff in the episode. Way too tired.

Girlfriend of the Week

This week belongs to my friend Lauren Beth. For what reason you might ask? Well she beat everyone to the punch and wished me a happy birthday first on facebook. Anyways, I would just like to say thank you Lauren and please continue to always look hot.

I'm 28

Happy Birthday to me. Thanks to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday so far, I will try to reply to those facebook, myspace, IM, or birthday cards as soon as possible. Needless to say I get to spend the entire week working 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. at The Place That Shall Not Be Named....although I did make enough money to allow me to buy Iron Man.