I Told You I Was Freaky

Hey. Currently I am obsessed with a new Flight of the Conchords song, "I Told You I Was Freaky". I suggest everyone look it up and listen to it a soon as possible. Another current song is "Can't Stop Partying" by Weezer and featuring Lil Wayne. The whole song is pretty good, but Lil Wayne's verse is hilarious. It makes the rest of the song so much better.

On another topic, I got Endless Ocean for the Wii for $30 on Amazon. The game is out of print, so it's pretty hard to find. Normally it sells for $130 on Amazon. I love deals. By the way Frasier is on the TV right now and it's a great show. I think I'll go back to watching it for now. Maybe I'll update again in another week.

Another Thing That I Want

Sup. I'm addicted to eBay. I don't really buy much stuff on it, but I do look at lots of stuff and occasionally bid. The current goal is to get an original Game Boy. A 1989 era Game Boy, none of this Pocket nonsense. Plus I already have a Game Boy Pocket. I guess the point of the Game Boy is as a cheap alternative to getting a Nintendo DS. I'm sure that I will want a DS soon, but twentyish dollars now is much easier to swallow then over two-hundred.

/We now interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to bring you an urgent message from this blogs author. As I am watching this, I am writing The Biggest Loser. Wait, that didn't sound right. I'm not fixing it so try your best to understand. Anyways, I really do not like the red team this season. *!@# them. We now return to this regularly scheduled blog, already in progress./

My problem stems from it seeming that there are a lot of people who want Game Boys, and these other people have more money that they are willing to spend. If you are not in the market for a Game Boy then you can stop reading this post now. If you are looking to buy a Game Boy then read the next part with emphasis.

Screw you, people buying Game Boys. Let me get one of the cheap ones. Seriously, there are so many people trying to get them and if you all allow me to get a cheap one then that will be one less person fighting for the classic handheld.
I'm pretty sure that was a run-on sentence, but I don't care. It gets my point across in just as confused a manner as I would by saying it in person.
In conclusion, I want a Virtual Boy.

Throw Up the Horns

Hey. It has occurred to me that my music tastes have been changing quite a bit over the past couple years. Back in oh-seven I was hardcore into metal. Dethklok, DevilDriver, Lamb of God, Slayer, CKY, Five Finger Death Punch, In Flames, Opeth, Megadeth, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Nonpoint, Ozzy and the list goes on. I still listen to a few of these bands but not nearly as much. Recently I discovered something about myself that disturbed me quite a bit - I like pop music. I seriously like pop music. I'm talking Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Britney Spears and the like. Yeah, I know.

If the Vince of two years ago read that above, I would be afraid to see his reaction. I guess it would not be too bad, mostly just calling the current Vince all sorts of names. Probably stuff like *****, *****, ******, *******, *** and ************. Harsh stuff. Is it really that big of a deal that I listen to this music now? Probably not. I suppose that it's all just coming from age. The metal phase is now pretty much out of my life and I'm more into listening to stuff that's easier to digest. Now don't get me wrong, I still listen to a lot of hard rock bands. It's just that I incorporate the occasional "Tic Tok" or "Bad Romance".
Mock me all you like, I'm just being honest.

Virus Buster

Hi. It's too bad Conan is off of the Tonight Show. It's even worse that I only watched the show during its last week. He will be back on TV soon enough and I will finally be able to get back to not watching him. After watching his final show last night I watched something even better, my girlfriend kicking tail at Dr. Mario. We were playing the game with her roommate and boyfriend. While I am the best at the game, it was proven that my gf was second best. I am so proud of her.

Well after that paragraph of boring I guess I have nothing funny to say. But I'm sure you've already figured that out and written about it on my Facebook wall. Yes that was a shot at someone I work with. How do you like that big boy? Alright, time to go listen to some Ke$ha or something, maybe some episodes of Frasier.

Irony

How goes it? My recent problem is my virus protection program will not load. Fantastic. I'll deal with that tomorrow or over the weekend maybe. For now the best I can do is complain. This will probably continue for a few days until the computer magically fixes itself. That's usually how I deal with my computer being difficult. Ride it out for a few days and it all works out in the end. Unless of course it kills the computer. Funny story actually, my tablet died a couple weeks ago. Well it didn't actually die, it just got a virus and I don't feel like trying to fix it. Yeah, well I guess we'll see what happens won't we?

Alright I think I am gonna cut this one short. It's time to watch Flight of the Concords season two and if you can't tell I have been struggling to find something to write about tonight. I guess that is what happens when I try to force blogging onto myself.

Here They Come

Sup. Um, this is a little bit awkward, but could you hang on for just a minute? Thanks a lot, I'll be right back...

OK, sorry about that. I just finished a bag of popcorn and I had to go run and get a beer. Saranac Big Moose Ale in case you're wondering. It's a pretty good beer; pale ale with a little kick of citrus. Alrighty where was I? Oh that's right, we were about to discuss the Wii and how much better the graphics look with the proper cables. See the system comes with standard A/V cables and I just bought component cables. The difference is the first had three connectors and the second has five. As we all know five is better then three. With the component cables in, everything just looks better.

Speaking of better, I have been thinking about how to protect myself in the event of a zombie outbreak. I'm pretty sure that a shotgun will do the job. To be sure I will soon be purchasing a book that will guide me along the path to enlightenment in terms of zombie protection. Don't feel bad if you yourself are not too concerned about taking the necessary precautions, I will be more then willing to protect you and yours from the oncoming zombie heard. This is Vince, signing off.

How do you spell "Dilemma"?

Hey. I can't wait for Crank 3 to come out. The first two were great and another could only be better. Unless it's like Goldmember from the Austin Powers series. I really loved the first two but the third one really was lame. Although it did still have a good joke or two. Speaking of good jokes I'm watching Seinfeld and it's pretty hilarious. Four weeks in and I am a quarter the way through the 8th season. Here's to productivity.

So over the weekend me and my lady friend made some beer bread. Basically you pour some beer into pre-made bread mix and then cook it. It was pretty good but the process of making it brought on one little problem. OK, get ready for a pointless story that really doesn't go anywhere. The mix called for 12 ounces of beer. I had some Coors left over from New Years but I really did not want to use it in the bread. I figured that if I got a higher quality beer then the bread could only be of a higher quality as well. Fast forward to a couple hours later when we find ourselves at the Slingerlands Price Chopper. We go to that particular Price Chopper due to it overall higher quality then other area Price Choppers. Anyways, at the supermarket I ran into a little beer called Honkers Island Goose Ale. Oh wait I got that backwards, it's actually Goose Island Honker's Ale. Sorry about the confusion. This particular beer I first had at Beer and Wing Fest at the Times Union Center. This was the first time I have been able to find a six pack of it in stores.

So, we now find ourselves back at my lady friend's apartment. When it comes time to actually make the bread I run into a brick wall. It seems I really do not want to waste a Goose on the bread. After some back and forth I finally decide to use the Coors for the bread, meaning I shouldn't have bought the extra beer in the first place. Once again I have spent money that I really did not need to. One the plus side, I now have a few bottles of the Goose to drink, but at what price does that privilege come at?

D2 The Mighty Ducks Are Back

Hey. Tonight I went to a hockey game with a few cool people and it has inspired me to share a story with you. It was a few years back, probably 2007, and I found myself at a River Rats game. I was with my fraternity, which is Kappa Epsilon if you did not know. Well long story short I started a Quack. Yes, that's right a quack. For a reference if you have no idea what I mean, go watch The Mighty Ducks right now. Back? OK. Remember the part where they were quacking. Like it just started with one person and then the whole team started doing it and then the whole stadium started quacking. Well I was that one person who started the quack. It spread from me to my brothers to pretty much everyone else in the stands as far as I could tell. It was awesome and quite easily one of the best experiences of my life.

We're Heading North to the Lake

Hey. Want to know one thing that I really wish I could do but most likely will never get the chance to? I want to be a professional race car driver. For reals. Think about how sweet it would be to drive awesome cars really fast all day long. That's right, it would be really awesome.

Speaking of really awesome, I have to use this time to complain about something that will not be changed but at least I will be able to get this off my chest for once and for all. Why the helmet does Nintendo discontinue some of their first party Wii games? As I may have said earlier there are two Wii games that I would like to own but Nintendo does not manufacture them any more. Therefore the only way for me to get a new copy is to be lucky enough to find a store that still has some in stock. The chances of this are pretty small, but there is some hope. A Wal-Mart near me recently had in stock two games that are in much the same situation as the other two games I previously mentioned. So yes, there were at one point four rare games I wanted and I found two of them. Does this give me hope? Yes. Do I think I will find the other two games? No. Do I hate when people ask questions and then answer them right away for some reason? Absolutely.

Where was I? Oh yeah I was complaining about something that is merely meant to keep my mind preoccupied while I temporarily forget about other problems in my life. But before this gets too depressing, lets end with a random fact about myself. I love podcasts. SModcast is my favorite and Game Scoop holds strongly onto number two. So if you are ever in the mood for a good listen try either of the above. The first covers a wide variety of topics but is very vulgar, and the second is primarily about video games but also veers off to random topics quite frequently.

I guess I lied earlier because there is something else I would like to say. I have not read a magazine in quite a while and I am thinking about getting back into them. Maxim and Game Pro will be my trial two subscriptions. Yea.

Envious

Hey. Here's the thing, most beer does not actually age well in much the same way that a wine would. So beers have expiration dates and as expected their quality will decrease over time. So the two beers that I have been saving since before the holidays will not last for months as I would like them to. In case you're wondering there is a Winter's Bourbon Cask Ale and a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. I want to save them to drink on a nice warm summers day, but I feel that if I wait too long they will disappoint me with the diminished quality.

Really the whole point of that conversation was for me to be able to lead into this next sentence. Me and my buddy brewed some beer over the summer and I still have about twelve left. This is the third batch we've made and while it was not incredible, it was the best one yet. Now I'm sure there are two burning questions that are now swimming around in your head. "What kind of beer was it that you made and what would you guys call your brewery if you were to be successful in brewing beer and made a business out of it?" Well, I am gonna answer both of those questions for you very quickly because this blog post has already gone on far too long. It was an American Ale and the brewery would be called eNVy. Get it? No, of course you don't. And that's because you don't know my friends name. OK, I'll explain it. His name starts with "N" and my name starts with "V" (obviously).

I'm on TV

Hi. It's Sunday now and I am watching the Patriots most likely end their chances of going to the Super Bowl this year. Oh well, not that big a deal. Remember a few years ago when they lost to the Giants? That was a terrible night for me. My roommates and I had a Super Bowl party at our place and we got a ton of pizza and wings for eating purposes. I lost count but I ate at least 40 wings. For some reason after that my stomach hurt so much that I watched the final quarter keeled over on my bed from pain. The surprising part is I have eaten over 50 wings on a few occasions since then and have felt relatively fine.

So anyways, it's Sunday and I've had a busy weekend. I went to New York City on Friday with my girlfriend and her sister. We met with their friend and the four of us went to a taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It was hilarious and I would love to do it again. I totally got on TV too. We were in the front row and at one point my face was on camera. The only problem is I am on the corner of the screen, so I am not seen on the full screen version. But I was on TV if you watched is on a wide screen television. I'll take it.

Also on Friday we went to Nintendo World. It was cool but kinda underwhelming. Still was fun though. I was hoping they would have a couple Wii games that have discontinued by Nintendo, but I had no luck. I guess I'll have to turn to eBay to actually get them now. On happier news, I saw Avatar and Leap Year on Saturday. Avatar rocked and Leap Year sucked. Who could have possible seen that coming? Alright the Ravens are ahead 33 to 14 so lets hope Brady can be Brady in the last ten and a half minutes, am I right.

Losing

Hey. Right now I am watching The Biggest Loser (here by referred to as BL, unless I forget) and eating a brownie. I don't feel bad though and here's why - it's a fat free brownie. Sure, I sprinkled some broken up Heath bars on top but whatever, I do what I want. Which reminds me, Coors original is good, but I like Coors Light better. Here's my problem with BL, I don't like it, but every time I get tricked into watching it I like it a little bit more. A few seasons ago the show went from something I dreaded watching each week to something I would talk my friends into watching with me and the girlfriend. The drama that tends to come with reality shows doesn't really help. It tends to be the most annoying part of the show. These people on the show should just get over themselves and like each other. Or not. It doesn't really matter.
That's all.

Back to My Future

How's it going? Here's a little story that I feel like telling. I'll warn you in advance, I just ate a bag of chipotle (I looked up how to spell it) microwave popcorn so I'm feeling a little randy. Way back when I was a little kid, McDonald's was having a promotion where they were selling movies for some reason. One of these movies was Adams Family. More importantly Back to the Future was also one of the featured movies. I got both of them and quite possible more that were available, but I can't remember for sure. So that was my first introduction to one of the best movies ever.

Don't worry the story doesn't end quite yet, there's a little bit of drama to be had. Needless so say I loved Back to the Future from the first time I saw it. The movie was hilarious, action packed and very clever. (Now, if you've only seen the film in its original theatrical release, you may be confused with this next part a little bit. Don't worry, it's all true). (Also - Spoiler Warning. If you want the end of the movie to be a surprise skip to the next paragraph). The movie ends on a cliff hanger with Doc Brown arriving from the future(!) to tell Marty there's something wrong with his kids. They take Jennifer and fly(!) into the future. The home video version then adds a "to be continued" that was not in the original release.

This ending did nothing but greatly increase my thirst for more Flux Capacitor action. The high achieved after viewing eventually came crashing down when it turned out McDonald's was not selling the sequels. No problem right? Just go to an actual video store, they'll have them. But they did not have them. In fact, my parents took me to many stores and we could not find either sequel anywhere. I was heart broken.

Now, I'll admit we never tried to rent the films (in fact I've never rented a movie in my life) but lots of searching gave no results. Years went by. At least it felt like years. In reality it was at least one year but probably not much more then two. Eventually we stumbled upon a store that came to the rescue. I think it was FYE but it was so long ago that I can't remember for sure. Well they didn't have them in stock, but they did order both of them for us and called when they were in stock. I was thrilled. I actually still have the moment of when I started watching the second movie etched in my brain. It was Christmas eve and my family watched Back to the Future II as our traditional night before Christmas movie.

I really cannot wait until the trilogy comes out on Blu-Ray.

The Complete Series

Whats up? Right now I'm watching Seinfeld on DVD. I got the complete series for Christmas and I've gotten about half way through season 4 already. Back in middle school and high school I watched the show on syndication and have probably actually seen every episode. Since college I pretty much stopped watching it though. Its pretty funny how after so many years a lot of the lines are still burned somewhere in my brain. That reminds me, since when is it spelled "a lot" and not "alot"? I feel like way back in school it was taught to not use it, but if you had to spell it "alot". Now, when I feel like it needs to be used, I can never remember how to spell it. Probably what happened was I learned it wrong and that wrong spelling has stuck with me over all these years. Did you know "very" was also a frowned upon word back in grade school? Anyways, The Contest is my favorite episode of Seinfeld and I just watched it a few minutes ago. It was very funny.

Fun Stuff Is Fun

Hey. I really like playing games. Both of the video and board variety. I especially like trivia games with the girlfriend. We played Scene it tonight and I won twice. Ha. I got lucky though, most of the questions I got were about random movies that I've watched over the years. In the second game, I got a trio of questions about Bruce Willis movies. This made me want to go back and watch all of his movies that I've never seen. It also helps that he's in Cop Out, the new Kevin Smith movie. I tend to really get into actors, or directors, and feel the need to see anything they've ever been involved in. Probably seems weird but I've been like it ever since I saw Friday and really liked Ice Cube. Well at least that as far back as I can remember. I suppose you could count Adam Sandler and James Bond movies, but that was back on VHS and hardly counts. Sure I eventually re-bought them, but that came well after the Ice Cube phase.
Speaking of Cop Out I really hope its good, I mean I'm sure its going to be but you never know. Kevin Smith has yet to disappoint me yet. Oops, two "yet"s in that sentence. Sounds weird when I read that back. Moving on. I'm currently watching Frasier on DVD with the girlfriend. We've gone through Scrubs, House, King of Queens, The Office, Friends and probably others too. More on them some other time. This will be the third time through Frasier as a series and the fourth time through the first season. This brings me back to my point, I wish there was a trivia game that would let you choose a few TV shows and only ask questions about those only. Like I could choose to play a game that only has questions about King of Queens and Friends. How sweet would that be?
Thank you for your call.

First

Hi. I'm Vince and this is my blog. I plan to write a bunch of random things about movies, music, video games, tv shows and I'll probably add a little bit of my life too for good measure. Who knows what it will end up as but lets give it a shot.

For now all I really have to say is Back to the Future is an awesome movie and I wish I was going to be watching that now instead of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Oh well, maybe next time.