To The Metal

So a short time back, I heard a bunch of complaining about the latest Britney Spears track titled “If You Seek Amy.” The punch line is that while she sings “Love me, hate me, say what you want about me, all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy” it clearly sounds like she’s saying “F U C K me.”

It’s a funny song, and the video is hillarious. Honestly, I haven’t had any interest in Spears since her first album came out and my girlfriend at the time HAD to have it. All the other crap that’s gone on with her since then has barely been a blip on my radar.

Then today there’s a story out about how they’re now editing the song and speeding up the chorus to remove the K from “seek” to ensure that the song loses its comedic value and makes no sense anymore. Hell, I hadn’t even heard the song until I saw that idiots were STILL complaining about it.

Here’s a link to the video on Youtube until it gets pulled for copyright. Either way, Spears is getting press now, getting attention, and in the realm of modern pop music – this song really isn’t that bad. In fact, I like it quite a bit.

Had an odd nightmare last night.

I’m in the basement of my old house, only now where the bedroom is, it’s like a picture window, and most of the family is sitting inthere looking out at the window. Can’t exactly remember what was out there, it was dark, but everything (including a smart ass nephew that doesn’t exist yet) are all checking it out.

So the kid asks where my brother is, I go upstairs to look for him, and find him comforting my mom on the couch. She’s upset for some reason or another. I tell him he should go downstairs and be with everyone else.

For the most part, up until now, it wasn’t a nightmare.

Then I sit down next to my mom, and everything turns dark orange/red. I start to feel evil, and start laughing as she asks if I need anything from the kitchen.

“Oh why don’t you just turn the lights on! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

So at this point she’s in the kitchen, I’m standing outside the kitchen. She looks back at me, gets this look of horror, then grabs a HUGE F’N KITCHEN KNIFE and starts coming at me screaming “IT’S YOU! IT’S YOU! I KNEW IT!” I stumble backwards into the hallway as she’s swinging this knife at me, and finally wake myself out of it when I stumble into the wall.

So I wake up from the dream, and I start seeing white faces with black eyes all around me. Kind of like skulls, but more like Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas than typical human skulls, only very blurry. They’re all over, wherever I look. I close my eyes, I open my eyes, still there. I finally roll over, bury my face in the pillow, and they’re gone.

Couldn’t get back to sleep for like an hour.

Headlight plug on my Chevy wore out, had actually melted a bit when I first took it apart, but the plastic/metal got brittle enough that the headlamp wouldn’t work anymore.

Took everything apart, and proved that I am a computer nerd first, and a mechanic second…

Eventually I’ll get the correct plug, but for now… this works.

Job well done.

The Lost and The Damned.

Sounds like Rockstar North to me.

Seriously. The crank out the turkey that was GTA IV, give us a game with fantastic graphics, outstanding physics, and a level of detail never before seen in a sandbox style game… Then they strip out everything that made it a great game!

Sure, the whole ‘playing a movie’ thing was fun, but movies that last longer than an hour and a half generally start to wear pretty thin, and GTA IV was no different.

The Lost and The Damned picks up just about in the middle of the original storyline, only you’re now a member of a biker gang. The plot is alright, no fresh ground broken there. A few new cars, a few new bikes, a few new guns, but generally speaking, IT’S THE SAME OLD !@#$. Not to mention, Rockstar decided to remove even more functionality, achievements, etc… and they just give you a few lame mini-games such as arm-wrestling, the same old racing, and ‘gang wars’ which are pretty much rinse and repeat shootouts.

Grand Theft Auto has gotten stale and boring. I highly recommend that everyone who made design decisions for GTA IV as well as the Lost and The Damned pick up a copy of Saints Row. Not the second, I want to keep it simple because these guys apparently haven’t gotten that in order for a game to be fun, and replayable – IT NEEDS TO BE A !@#$ING GAME.

They should play Saints Row, maybe 5 or 6 times straight through, like I have.

Then – they should pick up and play Saints Row 2, play that 2 or 3 times, like I have.

Last but not least, go through their back catalogue and play everything up to Vice City.

If by that point, they haven’t learned why GTA IV sucked so bad, besides any advances it may have brought to the genre, they should just sell the damned company to EA and at least make it so we would expect a steaming pile of the same old crap, and not be wholly disappointed after blowing hours of time playing it, not to mention about 75 bucks on something which simply put – doesn’t deserve to be called Grand Theft Auto.