Turn off the lights . . . . for Earth's sake.

Please join in the Movement that is Earth Hour 2008.

In 2007 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.

This simple act has captured the hearts and minds of people all of the world. As a result, at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch off for Earth Hour.

The most important thing to do on 03/29/2008 is turn off your lights between 8pm and 9pm.

with this little gesture, we can make a big difference on our planet.

Check out EarthHour.org and also check out My EarthHour profile page, hopefully you can join in this Wonderful cause and don't forget to turn off the lights.

King of Kong: the best video game movie of all time???

This past week me and my brother tony watched the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters, and after watching it got me thinking Could this be the greatest video game movie of all time???

The movie premiered at Slamdance in January of 2007 and came out on DVD on January 28, 2008.



For those who don't know what the movie is about, King of Kong is a documentary about the game of Donkey Kong, but more importantly it is a about a guy who decides to go for the world record and the obstacles he had to face in the process.

Steve Weibe was an unemployed father who while going to college to study to be a teacher decide to play donkey kong in his spare time and after achiving a million points, decide to try For the world record and that is were movie gets interresting.


I have watched many documentaries, some with topics that i cared about and some that i didn't, but the great thing about this movie is that it gets you interested in the story of Steve Wiebe and has you hooked until the very end.

Does he get the World Record?

What does the current Champion who is Billy Mitchell who also hold records for Pac-man and many other games does about this?

and many more question will come to you as you watch this movie, if you are a Gamer or not, i recommend everyone to watch this documentary and tell me what you think...

What an awesome christmas I had.

This year with everyone knowing what i would really love to get as gifts
(books, dvd, games, giftcards),
Everyone really went all out and I have to say this was by far one the best christmas ever.



My lists of my gifts goes as follow:

BOOKS:

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

GRAPHIC NOVELS:

Absolute Batman: The Long Halloween

Robert Kirkman's Invincible Vol. 2

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2 & The Black Dossier

Queen and Country : The Definitive Collection Vol. 1

Wonton Soup

DVD:

Heroes season 1

Firefly The Complete Series

Friday Night Lights season 1

Studio 60 at the Sunset Strip season 1

The Wire season 1

GAMES:

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja for xbox 360

Puzzle Quest for nintendo ds


Also i received anout $75 in borders gift cards so more gifts to come.

Now I'm not posting this to brag or gloat, just want to let you one what i will be talking about in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks to everyone for my gifts and i hope everyone enjoyed their holidays as much as i did.

End of a Marriage…start of a brand new day.

On Friday 12/28/07, Marvel comics released Amazing Spider-man #545 which was the last part of a four part cross-over called “One More Day”, written by J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated by Joe Quesada.


This controversial mini-series was going to change the life of Spider-man forever starting with the removal of his marriage.

But before we get to that lets give you a back story on all that has been happening in the world of comics.

In 2006 Marvel had a company wide cross-over titled Civil War, which had heroes against heroes in a battle over the need for a Superhuman Registration Act in the United States., during this cross-over Spider-Man deciding to prove his point reveals his secret identity as Peter Parker to the world.

After realizing that he was on the wrong side of the battle, Peter joined the rebellion in a losing cause. With his identity known to the public he and everyone he knows became a target.


Almost immediately following the Civil War, Peter’s Aunt May is shot by an unnamed assassin hired by the Kingpin to kill Peter. With Peter being a fugitive due to the registration act, he is unable to provide Medical help to Aunt May and she slipped into a coma. After Failing to get help from the most powerful people in the Marvel U, Peter begs god to help him no matter what, but instead of god he gets mephisto ( who is Marvel's Satan) who offers to save aunt May's life and in return he wanted Peter & Mary Jane's marriage. The catch, as there always is with the Devil, is they would both feel some pain of loss from losing their marriage without knowing what that pain is from.


Peter & Mary Jane have a decision to make Peter says that he could never live with himself if he let aunt May died because he believes it was his fault she got shot in the first place and Mary Jane only cares about is Peter's happiness. With both of them taking Mephisto up on his offer, Peter wakes up the next day living with aunt May and having his friends back with no recollection of his prior life toasting to a brand new day.

One of the things that has made me and a lot of fans upset, was that the decision to do this storyline was the editor in chief's idea, not the writer. In fact J Michael Straczynski mention on his blog that he wanted to take his name of this story line but was talked into keeping it. Joe Quesada (marvel's Editor in chief) has mentions several times that one of the problems with Spider-man was that he was married and there are no new stories to be told with him being married, that many of the younger audience didn't relate to a thirty year old married spider-man. So he decided that the best way to take care of this, is to have Peter make a deal with the devil.

I'm sorry but this is a horrible decision on the part of Marvel, to get rid of something that was precious and long lasting in the world of comics (this is the 20th anniversary of their marriage)
just to push the envelope, just because one person can't relate to the character anymore.
there are many alternatives books to read if you want a story about an un-attached spider-man (ultimate spider-man, marvel adventure series), i personally don't need a younger spider-man, i grew up on those stories and i want the characters to grew with me.

Marvel you will always have a die hard fan in me, but your pushing your fans away this time and i lot of them are not going to come back.

From the Ashes...

In 2005, my favorite band of all time, blink-182 the band that got me into the whole punk rock scene announced a indefinite hiatus, the reason for it was that the were unhappy with each other, and I thought that nothing good would come out of this.



But from this break up came two bands (actually four bands, but Box Car Racer and Transplants were progressions of what was to come next) Angels and airwaves (Tom Delonge) and Plus 44 (Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker).







Both bands were announce in the winter of 2005 with Angels and airwaves releasing their first cd (We don’t need to whisper) on 05/2006 and the new cd (I-Empire) on 10/2007 and Plus 44 (When the heart stop beating) following soon after on 11/2006.

Angles and Airwaves have a more serious tone in their music with a jazzy low tone while Plus 44 have an upbeat chatchy theme to their music.
While AVA and + 44 sound different, they both have that ingredients that made blink 182 such an amazing band.

If you were a fan of blink 182 then I highly recommend that you give these bands a listen.

For AVA i recommend :
The Adventure , Distraction , the Gift, It Hurts (from We Don't Need To Whisper)
Everything is Magic, Breathe, Secret Crowds, True Love ( I-Empire)



For + 44 i recommend:
When My Heart Stop Beating, Baby come on, No it isn't, make you smile, cliff diving, Lycanthrope (when your heart stop beating)

Best New Show.....Ever.

For those who know me, you know very well that my favorite show of all time is Gilmore girls.

(ha,ha,ha go ahead get it out of your system ......OK ) .

The show was good to the very end, the last season was not the best but it was still good and I was happy to see it finish properly.

But now what do I do to fill the void left by the mother/daughter dramedy,

well just so happens that a new show has begun that hopefully can fill the void.


And that show is...... Pushing Daisies.

This show premiered on Oct 3, 2007 and it blew my mind from the very beginning.

The story is simple yet complicated, it revolves around Ned who is a pie maker who has the uncanny ability to bring people from the dead.

Here is what makes this story interesting, there are two rules to his ability, first rule is if you revive someone and they stay alive for longer than a minute someone randomly dies and takes their place, and rule number two is first touch is life, second touch is death.

Just the premise alone is enough to be entertained, but it is the love story and the great cast of characters that will carry the show.

this is a show that really needs fans cause a show like this come one in a great while.

P.S.

I just watched the second episode and was not disappointed, hopefully you can enjoy as much as I did.