Transforminators
Well if your like me your probably patiently awaiting Transformers: Revenge of the fallen and Terminator: Salvation which are both set to be released next month. Now what if you could save some time and view both films at the same time. Yes thats right I give you TRANSORMINATORS
Some people clearly have far too much time on their hands.
The release dates for both REAL movies are as follows:
Transformers: Revenge of the fallen – 23 Jun 09
Terminator: Salvation – 3 Jun 09
Joey Jordison is Weird.
Ok I’m willing to believe that people will do almost anything for a little publicity but I think the Joey Jordison from Slipknot has taken this a little too far.
He has just released his own Signature drumsticks through Pro Mark and not being content with just having his signature on the sticks he has decided to have his own blood inserted into the ink.
“The first wood stick I ever played was a Pro-Mark, so I’m thrilled to be joining the family! To show everyone just how serious I am about my new signature 515s, I’ve even gone as far as putting my own blood in the ink for them. It’s not just my signature on these sticks, it’s me.” – From Pro Mark
Now I can safetly say that I will not be buying any of these sticks, not because I think its some how unhygienic or the simple fact that its just weird, The reason that I will not be buying into this is because I don’t want to give other manufacturers the idea that inserting bodily fluids into products make them saleable. Next thing you know Lars Ulrich will be releasing his signature sticks with his very own man juice in. What is the world coming to!
Spotified
Hopefully you’ve already had a chance to read my previous article with regards to Spotify if you haven’t check out the previous post here.
As previously stated Spotify is a great tool for finding new music but it also has the benefit of helping you find music that you’ve perhaps heard somewhere else. For instance I really wanted to find the cover of Disturbed – Down with the sickness that was played halfway through the remake of Dawn of the Dead, if you haven’t heard it its like a Jazzy Lounge version of the popular metal track. A quick search of Spotify revealed that this was infact performed by Richard Cheese, and he does another of other great covers including Nirvana – Rape Me and Korn – Freak on a leash.
If you have spotify installed here is the playlist for Richard Cheese
Whilst on the subject of great covers and spotify I feel like I need to mention another album which is Nightmare Revisited which is the soundtrack from The Nightmare before Christmas redone by Various Artists including Korn, Marilyn Manson, and my favourite Rise Against.
Check them out and if you find any other great covers on Spotify post them in the comments section.
Autobots Transform and Roll out….
It seems like only yesterday when I was sat on the floor on my parents house making strange noises whilst trying to arrange various pieces of purple and green plastic to change from a robot into a giant scorpion. I refer obviously to the Transformer Scorponok.
That was a number of years ago now and the transformers franchise has since visited Hollywood rather successfully may I add, and the sequel is about to be released. Revenge of the fallen.
Personally I was a little dissappointed with the range of characters that were included in the original movie and I’m kinda hoping they can bring back a couple more of the classics, such as Arcee, Soundwave and Devastator.
Well it looks like someone was listening as it would appear that all these characters are now in the sequel (Although how much they resemble the originals is open to debate)
In terms of plot its pretty much the same as its always been in the cartoon, the decepticons are up to something devious (Usually involving Energon) and its up to the Autobots to set them straight with the aid the insignificant humans.
Now I suspect like me your keen to get a glimpse of the trailer and of course it pleases me to post it here. Enjoy!
(Make sure you hit the HQ button!)
For more information on the release date of the film check out www.transformersmovie.com
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Ok you may have seen the blog article I wrote over on the Happiness@Gunpoint site about the service known as Gnoosic which allows you to put in a couple of band names and gives you suggestions on who else you might be interested in.
The problem is where do you go from here? You could search youtube and see if you can find anything by the band in question but the level of success can sometimes be a little poor.
What if I told you, you could listen to pretty much any music you wanted for absolutely nothing. No I’ve not gone completely and utterly bonkers, there is a new service called Spotify which allows you to listen to whatever you like, whenever you like for free.
www.spotify.com
Now I know what your all thinking, whats the catch? Well the service is advertising supported so every so often you’ll get a couple of adverts streaming in between your music and there are a couple of adverts in the application itself.
Perhaps the crowning achievement of the application is to be able to create your own playlists and then share them with other people via your blog or website. Various sources already exist online which allow people to post their playlists here I’ve listed a few:
spotifyplaylists.co.uk
spotifyfriends.com
spotifylist.com
Hopefully this is just the start of something as Spotify has once again made music enjoyable and less like a chore, and lets face it, everyone benefits as a result.