Archive for November, 2006
Nintendo Wii, yes!!!
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| I decided that I wanted to brave the crowds of black Friday. I had no real plan, no mission. Aside from seeing what the Apple store had on sale. Nothing much, just so you know. After that my wife and I walked around some watching the insanity. We had to park real far away from the mall at the Toys R Us. When we went back to the car Amy wanted to go in Toys R Us. I did not, and was peeved, but followed reluctantly. We wandered around the busy store, coming at last to the video game area. There was a Nintedo Wii display with a bunch of emtpy boxes. “What a tease” I said. We looked around and we spotted what looked like a tall stack of Wii boxes behind the counter. I asked if those were for sale, and YES was the answer. Within minutes, we were leaving the store (with a Wii and Zelda) feeling like we just got away with murder. My review so far is a huge thumbs up. I can’t even explain how fun it is to swing away, bowl, bat, box, and more with this little wireless wi-mote thing. The dogs are so confused. They think we are throwing stuff and hear the noise from the wi-mote to the tv. I played about two hours of Zelda and it’s really damn sweet. I’ve already been fishing. It does start slow, but it’s a good exploratory, learning the controls kind of thing. Too much good stuff. My wife keeps making fun of my big smile. Wii Sports is awesome, the bowling is by far my favorite so far. Very true to life feeling. I’ll post more, when I’m deeper in these games. |
Skate to School benefit show Friday at Minnow
Posted by jfx in art, show, skateboarding on November 15, 2006
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Sampla V 1.0
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| Sampla is a backwards style name that tune game, where the game asks you to name the song that sampled a song (got that?). So, not only do you have to know your breaks, but you also have to know who used what and for which songs. Some are hard, some are easy. V1 features 35 tracks, 10 are selected at random each time you play. There is a scroreboard, so you can show and prove your skills. Graphic assistance by Josh Ruggeri. >play sampla now!!! |
Plastic Little – She’s Mature
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| Plastic Little’s new album, She’s Mature, has finally supplanted the Trilambs, It Wasn’t Not Funny, in my cd-deck. Imagine if the Geto Boys, Prince and Dave Chappelle made a baby or three. Those children might produce something like She’s Mature. In Plastic Little’s own words: “Those Plastic Little dudes, their not hip hop, they make broke pop, sounds like Korean dance pop, made for a video game, that you never even heard of”. Buy it now at –>shesmature.com |
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The three types of specialists needed to make great change
From a passage of Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard, the three types of specialists needed for the success of any revolution.
Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening teams with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.
The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.
The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius — a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation. “A genius working alone,” he says, “is invariably ignored as a lunatic.”
The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. “A person like this working alone,” says Slazinger, “can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be.”
The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. “He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting,” says Slazinger. “Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.”
Slazinger, high as a kite, says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, the one I took part in, had that cast of characters at the top — Pollock being the genius in our case, Lenin being the one in Russia’s, Christ being the one in Christianity’s.
He says that if you can’t get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way.
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