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http://www.ea.com/official/moh/pacassault/us/editorial.jsp?src=music Comment: Because I like free stuff, here are some free mp3s to download from EA from the videogame Metal of Honor Pacific Assault Enjoy

Wife Force One… http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2711610 Comment: Somebody actually edited a bunch of Harrison Ford movies into one trailer. He does seem to have the same movie over and over again. “Get off my plane!”

Okay, we know you’re single, now sit your drunk-a** down . _______________________________________________ This image is actually part of one of my weird dreams. _______________________________________________ Look at the guy in the middle. He’s the only one that noticed the camera. He’s kind of spooky. _________________________________________________ “I’m a dork, and even I got a chick at this party, Word!” ____________________________________________________ Where is her chin? Everyone look around the room for it. Is that Clark Kent behind her friend on the right?

oh, boy it reminds me of this... Lame Lucky me. I guess because someone got injured at one of the UPS hubs, everyone that sets a foot on the ramp has to wear these yellow/green-neon vests. Now, everyone looks like crossing guards. These vest are truly lame, everyone has to wear them, including management.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713770 Comment: Here is a strange Die Hard film edited in the old style of Hollywood movies with dialogue cards. Throw in black and white color too. Hey, it’s still better than Hudson Hawk

Godzilla (the US version) DVD (MONSTER EDITION) http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=dvd&id=6288 Comment: Why did they release a Special Edition DVD? Are they cashing in on King Kong’s DVD release? You better believe it

Random Thoughts ~It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!! ~Well, I don’t know what I did, but one of my teachers is pissed at me. She’s really pissed. ~The cop in the library is still cool. He’s been able to keep the loud talking, cell phone-talking people out of the room. ~Can I just say that I love corn, all types of corn. ~The Army called me again. ~I also got a letter from Georgetown College, and they want me to go there. But, I can’t. With me getting back into music, while I continue to write, UofL is a better option, and mainly because my UPS school program pays all of my schooling there. ~Word up

http://aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=22888 Here’s another look at the black Spiderman outfit. Could there be more to this than a regular suit?

Here’s a funny clip with Peter Jackson about King Kong. http://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/video/ Comment: Scroll down to Peter Jackson’s picture and click on it. You’ll find a tip to Lucas and Jack Black screwing up. I found it funny.

Area-ism The word may sound strange, but it is something that does happen in Louisville, Ky. A few semesters ago, a professor mentioned this word. In Louisville, where you live is extremely important on how people view you as a person. Louisville is seen as a city that is divided by location. Once you mentioned where you grew up, people would automatically have preconceived notions about you. City: Westend, Old Louisville, ect County: Southend, Eastend In the black community, this is even more important. Because of the great strides in Civil Rights movement, in the 70’s, black people were able to move out of the poor areas of the city and into the middle class suburbs of Louisville. My parents were one of these people. Because I grew up around many white people, I saw race relations differently than many blacks in the city. I had both white and black friends. This was the case for many black people in the Eastend. Like many black people in the Eastend, they had a different upbringing ...

http://www.danielthomas.org/pop/classics/nights.htm Going back to the Sega Saturn days, I remember the beautiful game Nights into Dreams . This game was one of the few games that amazed many of the Saturn haters (I’m one too, and I was Sega guy at one time). Like the Sonic or Kingdom Hearts games, Nights just works on all Creative levels. One thing I would like to point out about the title song Dreams, Dreams . It’s a pretty good song that is sung in the R&B style. When the expansion version of the game was released, Christmas Nights into Dreams , the famous R&B group Boys II Men sung a cappella style version of the song. This is by far the best version of the song out there.

The lighter side of the Evil James Yeah, I’m a jerk sometimes, but there are times when the good version emerges. The same day the can incident happened, later on, I went to one of the thousand local Kroger stores. As I entered the lobby area, I noticed beer all over the floor. I saw two green beer bottles on the floor, leaking out. Another bottle was completely broken nearby a woman who was trying to pick up the pieces from her shopping cart. I had two choices, simply ignore her and walk inside, or help her pick up her fallen beer. I begin to pick up the leaking beer bottles and throw them in the trash for her. She was happy that I helped her clean up her mess. She thanked me and I moved on inside. To end the story on a bad note: I entered the store and heard one of the Backstreet Boys songs, (Beckstreet’s back, alright). This is the way I’m thanked, Kroger!

As I was driving to school today, on 71, I noticed the cars in front of me slowing. Quickly, I put on my breaks and did the same. Suddenly, I saw hundreds of empty coke cans on the highway. At first, I was like; ‘what the heck?’. Then, I saw a beat-up, rusted, blue pick up truck on the side of the road with its taillights blinking. Behind the truck, there was an old woman attempting to sweep a huge stack of cans with a broom. In the truck, there was a black bag full of cans. I’m guessing a second bag wasn’t properly secured and went overboard onto the highway, sending cans everywhere. Being the evil man that I am, I sped up my car as I drove through the sea of cans bouncing around the street. Driving through it, I sent more cans scattering across the highway. Yes, it was mean, but fun at the same time.

Final Fantasy XI Online has a new expansion pack coming out soon, just in time for its XBOX 360 release. It would appear this expansion has some major upgrades and three brand new Job classes. I’ll get to the Job classes later; I just wanted to show some of the landscape picks for the game. I’m telling you, they’re looking extremely beautiful. The pictures almost compel me to rejoin the game. While the first expansion had an Asian feel, the new area has a Middle Eastern feel to it (and it’s set in the east.) These are some of the new Beastmen in the expansion. _________________________________________________ One of my favorite pictures, look at the water! ______________________________________________ Just amazing, notice the color of the trees. ____________________________________________ This is a Sea Horror, everyone that has played the game has story about this bad motherf’er. He randomly attacks the ships, if someone is fishing. High lvls try to defeat him all ...

Get-R-Oh shut up Larry I never really understood Larry the Cable Guy Thing. Then again, I’m a black man that grew up in a middle class home in a mix neighborhood. Trailer parks and mullets were frowned upon here in the Eastend of Louisville. So, I’m not supposed to ‘get it’. Anyway, here are a few reviews on the so-called movie with Larry as the star. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies/orl-bk-larrycablereview032406,0,3843972.story?coll=orl-calmoviestop Comment: ((Larry, a.k.a. Sanford's Dan Whitney, drives his mudder pick'em-up truck, the one covered in American flag, gun-nut and Hooters bumper stickers, lets his jeans ride too low, wears his sleeveless flannel shirts and lets loose with his trademark redneck riffs as he tries to solve a series of food poisonings leading up to a city-wide "cook off." His exclamations are NASCAR-ready. "Good Lord, Jesus, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.!)) Oh, great… MOVIE REVIEW: Larry's movie n...

Now, you really get to see her polygons. --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146622.html Comment: Say it isn’t so…a Desperate Housewives videogame? What in the blue hell can someone do in the game? Come on people! ((If there's one thing massive media conglomerates love, it's synergy. Need proof? Look no further than the Walt Disney Company. Today, the multibillion-dollar corporation announced it is bringing together its resurgent television network, ABC, and its nascent games division, Buena Vista Games. Hoping to replicate the success of PC games based on series from ABC rivals NBC Universal (Law & Order) and CBS Corp. (CSI), the two Disney divisions are making a game based on the hit satire Desperate Housewives.)) So, do you get points for banging as many guys that aren’t your husband?

Knight: “I’m cool, and gosh-darn-it people like me!” Okay, hell has frozen over…Hasselhoff is considered dangerous after all. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14182357.htm Comment: (( A judge has issued a temporary restraining order requiring that David Hasselhoff stay away from his estranged wife, according to court papers unsealed this week.)) What is this world coming to? First the Vice President shoots people, now Hasselhoff is considered evil and laying the smackdown on his wife. (( In her request for the order, Bach claimed instances of domestic violence in December and February. In one incident, police officers were summoned but didn't give Bach an emergency protective order, according to court documents.)) Where’s Kitt when you need him? So far, there isn’t any evidence of Kitt the Car involved in any domestic violence reports.

FF XII opening score http://www.squaresound.com/ Also, this site has the opening music track to FFXII on its site. Just read through the text to find it.

FF music http://www.nobuouematsu.com/main.html Comment: For all the Final Fantasy fans out there, here’s a link to some free Concert music from the FF games. It sounds really cool to listen to the score with a live orchestra. (I really liked the FF8 selection). (On the left side, Go to download, and then to mp3 for the music )

An Interview with Richard Donner http://dvd.ign.com/articles/684/684482p1.html Comment: This man was responsible for one of the best Super Hero movies out there. He has some interesting things to say about his Superman 2 (Director’s cut). Just Remember that much of the Superman 2 footage was filmed while they filmed Superman The Movie. After the producers fired Donner, Lester was brought in to finish the second movie. It looks like we’ll see Donner’s version after all. Now, will we see the famous cut scene where the three villains kill an innocent child? I don’t know, I heard that scene was too intense. (It did make it into an ABC broadcast cut). However, I’m not sure which director filmed that scene. Donner also talks about Superman Returns as well. From Imdb.com ((Some versions show a young boy in the small town get killed by Zod as he rides away for help.))

Gary Oldman Returns to Potter. http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/697/697612p1.html Comment: After all the behind the scenes BS, it looks like Gary Oldman is back in the role of Sirius Black. (("Gary Oldman is now set to play Sirius Black in The Order of the Phoenix. A deal was concluded this morning," Urbanski advised GaryOldman.info.))

The Shield http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/697/697634p1.html Comment: Here’s a rundown of everything that happened in the season ender episode that aired a few nights ago. The last 30 mins of the 90 min episode was extremely intense and sad at the same time. I never expected what I saw toward the end. They killed off one of the “good” guys in such a brutal way.

And you thought Jingle All The Way was bad… http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2704761 Comment: Here’s a strange Japanese commercial with a cute Japanese woman looking tired and having Schwarzenegger explode out of her head. I thought Arnold only had trouble with English words, but it seems he can’t speak Japanese too well either.

Fat guy vs. Vending Machine http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2710624 Comment: I’m not even going to explain this short clip…

The reason Geeks don’t get laid… http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2710630 Comment: Dressing up as your favorite World of Warcraft character as you run around the woods, will not get you a date. Do this stuff behind closed doors on the computer.

The new Clone Trooper model, and an Improvement too!

Flame Wars http://imdb.com/title/tt0286486/board/nest/38705816 There are times when I just love reading Flame Wars on message boards. They’re just funny. There’s something fun about reading about people duking it out over the Internet. (( ripdns032204 ight i dont know if anyone else remembers but last season wen dani got shot remember how julian was takin care of her n it was da last few episodes n he was at her house watchin her n dey said somin to eachother n looked at eachother n kinda had that look in there eyes and he was leavin but he turned n looked at her n it did that look thing, well it just cut to another scene n never went bak to that then next season she pop up wit a kid, n rememeber wen she asked the season before or that season i cant remember wen to "chill" wit vic and he said he couldnt maybe some other time he had to go see his wife n kids n she got all pissed n said nevermind n for a few episodes she wouldnt talk to him, but then she told him i...

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Star+Wars+music&curtab=2222_1&linktext=Star%20Wars%20music Because I am a movie score freak, I found this for your reading. It’s a nice read of Williams’s various score cues throughout the film. One of things that bugged me about Ep IV was the fact some cues are introduced and never used again. One such cue is the Death Star theme, it’s only heard in IV and never heard again. For some reason, Williams and Lucas never reuse it for VI, when the second Death Star is around. Sorry, there is a short return of the theme, when Vader’s ship crashes into the Death Star in VI. But, why not have it return all the way?

James update I’m currently writing a full music report on Terence Oliver Blanchard. I can’t believe how much Bullsh*t you have to put into reports. Place facts around walls of Bull crap. Because I’ve had to write this major mid-term report, I haven’t had time to write more for my book. I’ll jump back into it after this stupid report is done.

Could we see the final version of Lucas’s Star Wars movies in the future? Taken from Answers.com ((2007 Blu-ray "archival" editions Lucas has hinted in the past, and it is most likely assumed, that he will release his definitive, often called "archival" editions of all six of his Star Wars films on a next-generation home-video format in 2007 . This release would coincide with, and celebrate, the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars saga. It has been speculated that he will take this opportunity to make any final adjustments, changes, additions, and/or subtractions to his films for this final release. It is said that this edition will be released in a "saga" box set, and the home video format will most likely be Blu-ray , as 20th Century Fox, as well as he himself have said they prefer this format. Lucasfilm Vice President of marketing Jim Ward confirmed that in this final release, Lucasfilm is likely to return to John Lowry to do even more work on the...

Well, it looks like the word on the stunt Tom Cruise pulled is finally getting out to the rest of the press. http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article352197.ece Comment: Cruise’s people are putting a fast spin on the whole thing it seems. (( Cruise's rep, however, did comment: "This has nothing to do with us," publicist Arnold Robinson said Friday. ))

Tom Cruise and more falling out with the South Park Episode http://www.byroncrawford.com/2006/03/tom_cruises_chi.html#more Comment: Hmm, over at byron crawford .com, Byron has reported that Tom Cruise has pulled a power move to ban the famous Scientology South Park episode. http://hollywoodinterrupted.com/cblog/index.php?/archives/40-HI-EXCLUSIVE!-SCIENTOLOGIST-TOM-CRUISE-BLACKMAILS-VIACOM....html ((Sources from inside Paramount and South Park Studios report that parent company Viacom pulled last night's scheduled repeat of the high-rated "Trapped in the Closet" episode after the humorless Scientologist movie star Tom Cruise threatened to cancel all publicity for Mission Impossible:3 if Comedy Central aired the episode that satirizes Scientology and mocks his sexuality again.)) Cruise is a total asshole. He’s already blocked the EU showing of the episode, and now he has made sure no one else can see it on TV again. What is this guy really afraid of? Wat...

V (not about Green skinned aliens taking over the world.) http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2006/03/v_for_vendetta_review.html Comment: Here’s a very positive review on the (troubled production) movie V for Vendetta . The movie looks very promising now. However, the movie was supposed to be released last year, just like The Pink Panther . I might just check this movie out this weekend.

Terence Blanchard http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=222 Comment: Because I am doing a Mid-term report on him, here’s an insightful interview with Terence Blanchard . He’s a film composer that started out as a jazz player, but he’s moved toward more John Williams type scores. Some of his best work is in the movie Malcolm X .

Old guy: “U-can take that U-scan and shove it up U-A**.” Old woman: “Word.” __________________________________________________ Old guy: "This technology runs on dark magic! Or, at least Microsoft. ” Semaj: “Same thing.” U-Scan/I scan, we all scan . Because I work at nighttime, I’m up during the day. So, I do some shopping during 8am-2pm. Usually in the grocery stores during this time, there’s nothing but old people in there. They spend a great of time in the stores, because there aren’t many young people walking around during this time. As you know, there are regular checkout lines and then there are U-scan machines as well. Old people will not use the U-scan machines. They would rather stand in a long ass line than use ‘evil’ technology. Today, I went to Walmart (evil), and I went to the very empty U-scan machine section. With no waiting, I got through within a minute. As I scanned my stuff, I looked right across from the machine at a long l...

Bruce: “Excuse me, do you know the way to Die Hard Street?” ________________________________________________________ 16 Blocks From Imdb.com ((Bruce Willis plays Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict (Mos Def) from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...)) While not a great movie, the movie isn’t that bad either. There are many problems with the story and some of the acting choices by Mos Def are annoying. The action sequences were pretty well constructed and exciting, for the most part. Then again, you have to remember Richard Donner directed this movie. (The Lethal Weapon series, Superman.) This movie is a step up from his last movie Ti...

Acting like a Good actor http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060310b.php Comment: Yeah, that’s right she has said she doesn’t want to do another movie. Well, it took her long enough, because we’ve had to deal with some real stinkers over the years. Who can forget… Who's That Girl? : Some of the worst acting ever. Dick Tracy : I remember how bored I was when I saw this crap in the theater as a child. A League of Their Own : Many liked this movie; I just hated Madonna’s part. She’s just playing herself. Body of Evidence : I kind of remember this one. Four Rooms : I saw this on HBO a while ago, not much to say about it. She had a very small part in it. Girl 6 : What happened to Girl 1-5? Evita : Don’t cry for her poor acting… Swept Away : This movie is so bad that I couldn’t turn the channel Die Another Day : She stunk this one up too. (( "What film can survive people saying it's going to be a bomb from the second ...

Hayes is pissed and leaving the South Park show. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060314a.php Comment: (( Hayes, who has voiced the character Chef since the series began in 1997, released a statement through his spokesman Monday requesting a release from his contract because he "is disappointed with what he perceives as a growing insensitivity toward personal spiritual beliefs." )) There seems to be a major falling out with voice actor/singer Isaac Hayes and the South Park Creators. I guess this was stemming from Tom Cruise Episode. Come on Hayes I like you and your music, but everyone and everything gets lampooned by this show. More from Imdb.com… ((Stone has fired back at Hayes saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem - and he's cashed plenty of checks - with our show making fun of Christians." Last November South Park satirized the Church of Scientology and its celebrity followers in a top-...