So why is it that this dork named Dane Cook gets to be in a movie with Jessica Alba and I don’t? Seriously this is total BS. I may not be handsome or rich but I can love her just as well as he can, and I am not a wierdo winking guy like him.
Dane Cook: He is a wierd winking guy.
Jessica, when you realize you want me, I am here for you.
Ok, hands up who has heard of Joost.
Now, hands up who has tried whoring themselves to get an invite?
ALL of you can put your hands down. We know you are desperate. You want to part of the in-crowd. The cool kids. The new thing that the big people inside tech are talking about.
Do a search on Google, there are thousands of comments on blogs all desperately trying to get invited to try Joost.
Personalized Results 1 - 20 of about 13,200,000 for joost. (0.09 seconds)
Personalized Results 1 - 20 of about 688,000 for joost invite. (0.05 seconds)
So what IS this Joost thing? Well, it’s a new video distribution/sharing idea from the Skype people. It’s more or less a P2P kind of thing, only with more organization and lots of content/channels planned.
Have I tried it? Nope, I am inviteless still. Just hoping to see it in action sometime before it launches. But I am not going to whore myself out for invites. I’ve asked politely in a few places where I frequent and am leaving it at that. I got invited to test Gmail when it first started and could not give the invites away after a few months. Not that it wasn’t good, but everyone and their dog had been invited at this point and had 50+ invites to give out. Joost isn’t the same, the invites are more limited.
Hence the whoring. I like saying that word, and it fits. Some of the blogs I’ve seen have dozens of comments all saying things like, “Hi I’m soandso from the UK and I want an invite please.” or “Hi! I want an invite too! I am a good beta tester!!!!!!!!”.
I think it will become pretty big once it launches. I mean, look at Skype, it’s HUGE now.
Just like my pectoral muscles.
So, if you happen to stumble across an invite, drop a comment here on how you like it. And share the invites, because some of us want them without selling our bodies.
Ok, so the original movie, 28 Days Later, totally messed with my head. It was some scary ass shit. And now there is a new one, 28 Weeks Later. The trailer is pretty messed up. If you liked the original, check the new one’s trailer.
Obviously the only correct answer here is Empire, but we will see what you think. ;)
This whole high def video thing is making me really angry. When HD-DVD first came out, I thought maybe it would win the war. I mean, they did have Serenity exclusively right? And the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player was only $200. That should be enough. But it wasn’t. Blu-Ray is now kicking the shit out of HD-DVD.
Why? Well, first off, HD-DVD is about 10% new releases, 90% old crap no one gives a flying fuck about. Whereas BR is the complete opposite, 90% new releases (and most of them exclusives) and 10% old shit.
The last 4 new movies I wanted were ALL BR exclusive. Fuckfish!
I ended up getting the regular SD editions of STF and MA, borrowed the SD-DVD of The Prestige, and will end up with the SD-DVD of Casino Royale too. Very disappointing to me. I knew this would happen. But still… it sucks. Because Sony has just enough big new movies in their pockets that they PWN me.
What are my options here? Buy a PS3 for $600? I don’t need yet another console, I already have a 360 and Wii and not enough places to connect all of these things as it stands. Or I could buy a BR Player standalone for $900? Take it up the ass while HD-DVD disappoints me over and over? Someone on another forum I frequent found a refurbished BR player for just over $300. I could maybe spend $300. But even then, that’s a lot of beers. All to watch a few movies? Is it really worth it?
And then, to make things worse, I look at upcomming new releases on HD-DVD and BR and see that about 75% of the ones I want are BR only, once again.
So what’s a guy to do? Spend the money, bite my tongue, and just deal with it? Or do I stand up for myself and say NO to BR? I did get into the LaserDisc thing, spending $500 on my player. It was the very lowest of low-end Pioneer players, did not even have S-Video or AC3 out nor did it play both sides automatically. And then I plopped down $30-75 a piece for movies,. Many times these were not even movies worth watching. But, I did it for the digital quality non-degrading picture. And for the fact that I could score letterbox movies. (DIE PAN & SCAN YOU BASTARD!) But still, I am having a hard time deciding on whether or not to spend the money on BR.
When I started my HD-DVD collection, I bought movies as they came out that I really wanted. Then, when the Xbox 360 player came out, I got it and could finally watch the movies. So, I could do that again with BR, waiting for just the right deal on a player. And if I could score a $300-$350 refurbished player (new is better but I take what I can get), that would be much less of a wallet cruncher than the other option… $600 for a PS3, that would suck away my money for games too.
So here I sit, thinking, wondering, wishing, wanting. In a perfect world, there is only one HD format for DVDs. In a perfect world, all my fave shows and movies are on that format. In a perfect world, they are the same price as SD-DVDs.
But this is not a perfect world. Or a perfect party… and HD-DVD is being shown the door by BR, with Sony smirking happily. They may have totally fucked up the PS3, but they got BR right it seems. And that is something.
Are you a fan of “The D”? I certainly am. I cannot get enough of JB and KG’s crazy antics and funny as hell songs that rock your mind. I was not a huge fan of their first album, mostly because it was way over produced. I was used to the songs the way they were intended, just JB/KG rocking out no extra crap.
However, I have to say I totally loved their new movie which came out on DVD recently…
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
First off, the thing is packed full of amazingly good songs. Each of which rocks your ass off Then, there’s the funny shit they do. The weed they smoke. (Ok, so that’s not a huge deal in liking the movie but it IS the D.) And the cameos from their buddies. We got Dio, Meatloaf, Tim Robbins, Dave Grohl, Lee, Sasquatch and many others here. All packed into just over an hour and a half of funny as hell shit.
The movie tells the tale of how Jack Black found himself paired up with Kyle Gass to form the greatest rock band ever to live, Tenacious D. JB starts out as a kid, rocking out in a religious household. When he is told by Dio to go out and find his rockmate. So he sets out on a crazy adventure to meet Kyle, and become a rockstar of biblical proportions.
I don’t want to give too much away for those of you who have not seen it. So I will just say this, they rock their asses off through the whole movie. And it’s funny almost all the way through. I think this movie is destined to be a new “D” fan classic, like the HBO series has been in the past.
If you are a fan of Tenacious D, Jack Black, or just want a good rocking movie to watch when baked… please do yourself a huge favour and check it out. Seriously.
I give it a healthy:
