well i know this is real early but i am feeling totally and utterly lazy towards making a show for next week for several reasons, one being that it is going to be my 22nd birthday and well i want to celebrate lol but i doubt i will. so what are we doing for the twenty fourth? well i have been advertising this for several weeks we will be playing the entire new decemberists album from start to finish not only because it is my birthday but because the decemberists kick ass. seriously. i'll have an album review posted earlier that day because its gonna be an amazing album hopefully.
so from there on the following week we will be playing some new peter, bjorn and john (hitting the shelves 03/31/09) and new yeah yeah yeahs (04/04/09) and a list of other songs that i haven't even derived from our amazing itunes library of music which at least on my computer is a tally of over 100 gb of music which is insane. so be prepared for variety!!!
its so odd that the semester has been going so fast that it just makes me sad. i am not quite sure what i plan on doing over the summer, maybe more podcasts but we will find out when may rolls around.
so for the time being enjoy this beautiful music video of the decemberists performing o valencia!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Drinking Show
it's saint patty's day and we have to admit i want to get trashed but being here means i cannot and i have a test so i am responsible and tim doesnt drink so we are ok to an extent. we are gonna be having fun tonite, talking about whatever crosses our mind. so i am feeling quite rushed at the moment so this post might be a bit lacking and for that i apologize!!
1. Flight of the Conchords: Business Time
2. Art Brut: DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshakes
3. Grand National: Reason To Hide In
4. The Thermals: Here's Your Future
5. The Strokes: Reptilla
6. Ra Ra Riot: Each Year
7. The Decemberists: Eli, The Barrowboy
8. Bon Iver: Babys
9. Porcupine Trees: Lazarus
10. I'm From Barcelona: We're From Barcelona
11. The Shins: Past and Pending
12. Ben Folds: Rent A Cop
13. Death Cab For Cutie: Brothers on a Hotel Bed
14. Nightmare of You: My Name is Trouble
15. Phoenix: Consolation Prizes
16. Lemon Demon: Kitten Is Angry
17. Depeche Mode: Blasphemous Rumours
18. Rilo Kiley: Ripchord
19. Los Campensinos!: We Are All Accelerated Readers
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Skeletons
21. Department of Eagles: Teenagers
22. Interpol: Not Even Jail
1. Flight of the Conchords: Business Time
2. Art Brut: DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshakes
3. Grand National: Reason To Hide In
4. The Thermals: Here's Your Future
5. The Strokes: Reptilla
6. Ra Ra Riot: Each Year
7. The Decemberists: Eli, The Barrowboy
8. Bon Iver: Babys
9. Porcupine Trees: Lazarus
10. I'm From Barcelona: We're From Barcelona
11. The Shins: Past and Pending
12. Ben Folds: Rent A Cop
13. Death Cab For Cutie: Brothers on a Hotel Bed
14. Nightmare of You: My Name is Trouble
15. Phoenix: Consolation Prizes
16. Lemon Demon: Kitten Is Angry
17. Depeche Mode: Blasphemous Rumours
18. Rilo Kiley: Ripchord
19. Los Campensinos!: We Are All Accelerated Readers
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Skeletons
21. Department of Eagles: Teenagers
22. Interpol: Not Even Jail
Resident Evil 5
so it was the friday the thirteenth. the second time in the past two months which was a strange coincidence if you ask me. but to me it was pay day. i got my check and cashed it and i thought what should i do with my eighty dollars? most of my friends were bugging me to buy resident evil 5 and i knew they would be playing it more than me since i know my friends, most of them are obsessive about completing a game like this [i remember andy playing 4 all fucking day long till he beat that napoleon prick] so i said you know what i want to play this game myself, and i set down rules in my head. no one should be allowed to beat the game before me ya know?
as soon as i got back i tore the packaging off of the game case and popped it into my sexbox and having this being played in hd on my tv i was just blown away. from the opening cut scene to the first few levels i was addicted. the controls felt a bit awkard at first but now it feels like second nature so that compliant goes out the window after a short period of time of playing. graphically speaking this game looks real with a few flaws, some of the color schemes are a bit off and well all of the "zombies" are made of maybe one or two different skins which i understand makes it easier to program but at the same time it lacks originality [there is one that looks like saddam huessien] but it feels like RE4 which is a good thing and a bad thing. 4 was the first one i ever played and i loved it, i feel that i hailed that as the game of the year.
at the beginning of the game there is no real plot development but as you go through you begin to piece things together. its a shame that they make some things so obvious it hurts. but there is a few references to 4 and leon kennedy which i thought was interesting since in the instruction manuel when they gave a history of RE they totally ignored that game
aside from the impressive graphics that tend to make chris redfield lack a neck the music is amazing. i have the soundtrack which i will be using for bed music on the show is a large part of the thrill of the game. you sit there and once the "oh shit zombies up in this joint" music comes on you are sitting at the edge of your seat wondering where they are and when they jump out of nowhere you yourself jump just a tiny bit
it feels a bit redundant with the puzzles and the constant shooting of the same exact zombies but when there is a lot of things going on at once and your surrounded by beautiful scenery which just so happens to be full of "dead" africans you best be paying more attention to whats around you.
so i'm not done the game yet but that doesn't mean i cant write a review. the bosses are annoying and repetitive when it comes to how you beat them but then again it is a game so that is supposed to happen, i would have to give this game a score of: 9/10
Thursday, March 12, 2009
New Look, More EPIC?
We here at the Kyle And Tim Epic Blog here feel that we need to stay constantly evolving with the times and need to make a blander more boring looking blog! So we thought and discussed with our fifty something year old business colleagues what to do about it. And what they came up with was actually far from the new changes you see here. They wanted to revert to paper and pencil and newspaper boys. Talk about old fashioned, they talked our ear off about well back in their day...yawn and boring, so we took care of the problem by doing some simple mathematical equations!
Now this is the new look for the blog, looks a bit more professional and since I know nothing about HTML or JavaScript or whatever they use then I really can't do much about it so if Tim figures it out then that would be swell. But anyway this is what we have here and it works fine.
Next week is Saint Patty's Day. We might play some U2 just for the laughters of us all because it will be nice and sweet. So why not take a few swigs of ale while listening to the most epic show in the universe!!!!
Now this is the new look for the blog, looks a bit more professional and since I know nothing about HTML or JavaScript or whatever they use then I really can't do much about it so if Tim figures it out then that would be swell. But anyway this is what we have here and it works fine.
Next week is Saint Patty's Day. We might play some U2 just for the laughters of us all because it will be nice and sweet. So why not take a few swigs of ale while listening to the most epic show in the universe!!!!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I'm Not A Boy, I'm Just A Big Fat Balloon
This is another intense episode from another amazing duo that will feast upon your souls!!!
Without Further Ado The List
1. The Flaming Lips: Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Runaway [NEW]
3. Franz Ferdinand: No You Girls
4. Joseph Arthur: In The Sun
5. Longwave: Satellites
6. The Shins: We Built A Raft And We Floated
7. The Decemberists: My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze
8. British Sea Power: A Forest (The Cure Cover)
9. Bloc Party: Helicopter
10. MGMT: Kids
11. Death Cab For Cutie: Grapevine Fires
12. Ben Folds Five: Brick
13. Laura Marling: Ghosts
14. Meiko (Mee-ko): Boys With Girlfriends
15. Belle and Sebastian: It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career
16. The Boy Least Likely To: A Balloon On A Broken String [NEW]
17. The Eels: Susan's House
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE LIVE! April 7th which is a Tuesday, so if we decide to go the show will be pretaped so still tune in for an interesting sound
THE DECEMBERISTS newest album THE HAZARDS OF LOVE drops on March 24 and they are in Upper Darby on June 6th which is a must see if you ask me
On March 24 we will be playing THE HAZARDS OF LOVE in its entirety! It will be sexual.
Who Watched The Watchmen?
Ok, here is goes. I used to never read anything aside from the occasional manga but over the summer i mutated into an American comic freak. No lies. One of the first characters I started reading was Batman. The Long Halloween, Dark Victory etc... and then I touched a few one shot Marvel stories, The Civil War, Zombies ya know stuff like that. I finally got around to reading Watchmen. I felt this strange love towards this nihlistic novel. I have read only one Alan Moore book before and it was V For Vendetta which i felt was a solid read. Upon finishing the novel I was impressed by how most of the characters flaws were stronger than most of their positive outlooks.
Rorschach was by far my favorite upon a first read. He was normal until one event changed his life, well normal is by far a far fetched term in his case. But he lost his mind and was no longer who he really was, he was just Rorschach. If there was no back story to his character then there would be no sympathy. Dr. Manhattan is someone who you want to hate so bad because of his lack of emotion for humanity and everything else in general. But upon reading the novel you see all that he sees more in depth or at least to a certain extent. Each character in the novel is given insight into why they are the way they are. You begin to realize they are human beings just like us just having taken on a larger responsibility.
I went to the Dark Knight and attached to it was the trailer for this film and on it was a song that I felt fit the film, The Smashing Pumpkins: The End is the Beginning The Beginning is the End, and instantly I was excited at first glance upon seeing the amazing visuals. I sat there and thought if anyone can do a damn good job pulling this film successfully it would either be Christopher Nolan or Zach Synder [I felt this way about Synder in highest of hopes]. The idea of a Watchmen film never really left my mind. From that moment on it became and obsession.
When December rolled around and hearing about the possible delay thanks to the law suit I was upset and once March rolled around I had been exceedingly tired of seeing the commercials on TV but still wanted to see the film. So when I got my ticket I was doing the preverbal fist pump. So I sat in the theater with my Hot Topic shirt with the Comedian upon it and my sweatshirt with the logo for the film upon it with a tub of buttery popcorn and a large ass mother fucking drink and I watched it.
The first half hour or so was almost entirely accurate to the novel. The opening sequence and the like. I should have realized how many times Synder would have used the slo-mo bull shit from 300 or how over stylized the film would have been and yes it was but I tried so hard to ignore it. Overall the film was real artsy, the imagry is what sold me the most on it. The dark coloring the excellent costume design, the amazing cg and decent make up job all was impressive.
The dialog through most of the film in the parts that were ripped from the book were almost exact to the puncuation. In terms of story there was a few changes but upon discussion on that I came to a conclusion that it had to have been changed for it to be taken seriously by movie going audiences and people who don't know how to read a masterpiece.
The cinematography was bland in some points, the actions were over done. Most of the fight scenes had to have extreme exaggerations on them but why? Why did you have to freeze the frame into a slow moving object as the blood dripped onto the badge as he is about to be thrown out the window and keep the audio at the same pace? It's not real logical! All the fight sequences save for the Rorschach one were over the top, no need for us to see slow motion punches from Nite Owl onto some nameless thug. And along those lines, these guys aren't trained! So why is Nite Owl using real kung fu mixed with wrestling manuvers like a pro? It doesn't make sense! But accept it I did because I was being leinent on the film since I wanted to be in love with it.
The acting wasn't as bad as some people make it seem. It felt that Jackie Earle Harley tried and put out a damn good Rorschach. My biggest complaint is that it sounded a tad bit too much like Christian Bale's Batman. But I still felt that it was one of the best jobs in the film. Harley had it so that you weren't sure whether or not you should hate or love Rorschach. He gave that extra dimension that several of the characters lacked and it wasn't just because of the characters multiple personas. Now Jeffery Dean Morgan gave the Comedian a little more than I expected to be given. The Comedian entering the film was not my favorite character and upon leaving the theater he was damn close. His character was an integral part in the story in the comic but they cut out the reason as to why he was in the film, disappointing. Most of Morgan's scenes in the film were via flashbacks and the like and they had to make him look older and younger throughout the film and damn it worked. The way he delievered the lines, he was just pure bad assery. The rest of the cast was lacking in this enthusiasm. Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman seemed to have some of the shittiest dialog in the film. He tried rather hard to portray emotion when Manhattan doesn't have as much emotion as Crudup portrayed. Although some of his dialog was rather interesting and with a voice that was almost as flat as the cherry pepsi I had last night which made sense for the character. As for Patrick Wilson I totally agree with my collegue on that he hammed it up entirely but his role wasn't one of the worst I have ever seen, it was acceptable. Malin Akerman was mainly eye candy if there ever was one and Matthew Goode as Ozymandias was well flat and stale but I feel that it felt.
The music placement was one of the worst things in the world. I can't emphasize this enough. In the trailers they had the Pumpkins song as well as Muse's Take A Bow but neither of these were seen in the film, by seen I mean heard. So disappointing and the impressive soundtrack that was scored by Tyler Bates was kept at the downlow volume wise which was so sad. But the best job done in the entire film for music was the placement of Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule the World, elevator music version while Ozy was stating why he is totally in the right about what ever the plot development that is being developed. I am with holding spoilers lol.
So all in all I have to say the film was mediocre as a translation to a comic to film but as a film it was real good. It tried to remain as faithful as possible. I just hope that when the deluxe director's cut comes out that most of these problems are fixed. I still say take a look at the film.
Rorschach was by far my favorite upon a first read. He was normal until one event changed his life, well normal is by far a far fetched term in his case. But he lost his mind and was no longer who he really was, he was just Rorschach. If there was no back story to his character then there would be no sympathy. Dr. Manhattan is someone who you want to hate so bad because of his lack of emotion for humanity and everything else in general. But upon reading the novel you see all that he sees more in depth or at least to a certain extent. Each character in the novel is given insight into why they are the way they are. You begin to realize they are human beings just like us just having taken on a larger responsibility.
I went to the Dark Knight and attached to it was the trailer for this film and on it was a song that I felt fit the film, The Smashing Pumpkins: The End is the Beginning The Beginning is the End, and instantly I was excited at first glance upon seeing the amazing visuals. I sat there and thought if anyone can do a damn good job pulling this film successfully it would either be Christopher Nolan or Zach Synder [I felt this way about Synder in highest of hopes]. The idea of a Watchmen film never really left my mind. From that moment on it became and obsession.
When December rolled around and hearing about the possible delay thanks to the law suit I was upset and once March rolled around I had been exceedingly tired of seeing the commercials on TV but still wanted to see the film. So when I got my ticket I was doing the preverbal fist pump. So I sat in the theater with my Hot Topic shirt with the Comedian upon it and my sweatshirt with the logo for the film upon it with a tub of buttery popcorn and a large ass mother fucking drink and I watched it.
The first half hour or so was almost entirely accurate to the novel. The opening sequence and the like. I should have realized how many times Synder would have used the slo-mo bull shit from 300 or how over stylized the film would have been and yes it was but I tried so hard to ignore it. Overall the film was real artsy, the imagry is what sold me the most on it. The dark coloring the excellent costume design, the amazing cg and decent make up job all was impressive.
The dialog through most of the film in the parts that were ripped from the book were almost exact to the puncuation. In terms of story there was a few changes but upon discussion on that I came to a conclusion that it had to have been changed for it to be taken seriously by movie going audiences and people who don't know how to read a masterpiece.
The cinematography was bland in some points, the actions were over done. Most of the fight scenes had to have extreme exaggerations on them but why? Why did you have to freeze the frame into a slow moving object as the blood dripped onto the badge as he is about to be thrown out the window and keep the audio at the same pace? It's not real logical! All the fight sequences save for the Rorschach one were over the top, no need for us to see slow motion punches from Nite Owl onto some nameless thug. And along those lines, these guys aren't trained! So why is Nite Owl using real kung fu mixed with wrestling manuvers like a pro? It doesn't make sense! But accept it I did because I was being leinent on the film since I wanted to be in love with it.
The acting wasn't as bad as some people make it seem. It felt that Jackie Earle Harley tried and put out a damn good Rorschach. My biggest complaint is that it sounded a tad bit too much like Christian Bale's Batman. But I still felt that it was one of the best jobs in the film. Harley had it so that you weren't sure whether or not you should hate or love Rorschach. He gave that extra dimension that several of the characters lacked and it wasn't just because of the characters multiple personas. Now Jeffery Dean Morgan gave the Comedian a little more than I expected to be given. The Comedian entering the film was not my favorite character and upon leaving the theater he was damn close. His character was an integral part in the story in the comic but they cut out the reason as to why he was in the film, disappointing. Most of Morgan's scenes in the film were via flashbacks and the like and they had to make him look older and younger throughout the film and damn it worked. The way he delievered the lines, he was just pure bad assery. The rest of the cast was lacking in this enthusiasm. Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman seemed to have some of the shittiest dialog in the film. He tried rather hard to portray emotion when Manhattan doesn't have as much emotion as Crudup portrayed. Although some of his dialog was rather interesting and with a voice that was almost as flat as the cherry pepsi I had last night which made sense for the character. As for Patrick Wilson I totally agree with my collegue on that he hammed it up entirely but his role wasn't one of the worst I have ever seen, it was acceptable. Malin Akerman was mainly eye candy if there ever was one and Matthew Goode as Ozymandias was well flat and stale but I feel that it felt.
The music placement was one of the worst things in the world. I can't emphasize this enough. In the trailers they had the Pumpkins song as well as Muse's Take A Bow but neither of these were seen in the film, by seen I mean heard. So disappointing and the impressive soundtrack that was scored by Tyler Bates was kept at the downlow volume wise which was so sad. But the best job done in the entire film for music was the placement of Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule the World, elevator music version while Ozy was stating why he is totally in the right about what ever the plot development that is being developed. I am with holding spoilers lol.
So all in all I have to say the film was mediocre as a translation to a comic to film but as a film it was real good. It tried to remain as faithful as possible. I just hope that when the deluxe director's cut comes out that most of these problems are fixed. I still say take a look at the film.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night is sure to be a blast for all you folks since it marks the triumphant return of myself and my studly co-host Tim. It's been an interesting week abroad as in away from the university. Personally my break was quite the interesting one spending the first six days studying my scrawny butt off whilst hanging out with my pals in da 215. Spending the final weekend at the IBS conference in New York City. Great times were had by all and it shall be a weekend I shan't forget unless I get stricken with amnesia. But boy we got some great stuff for you guys this week, including what I believe is the next single from Franz Ferdinand as well as some Rilo Kiley and our usual doses from the three greatest bands that have walked the indie scene: The Shins, Death Cab For Cutie and The Decemberists
In other news my big 22nd birthday is coming up and that is a big day for releases in general. Coheed and Cambria releases their "Neverender" [I think that is the name] which is set to sell for a hundred plus bucks and is only limited print but oh well. The Decemberist
s album, "The Hazards of Love" hits store shelves that day and i am totally stoked for this one by the way. Quantum of Solace hits the dvd rack and The Tales of the Black Freighter, the animated segment to the film Watchmen [it was cut from the film but oh well I'll explain later] hits the shelves as well.
In other news my big 22nd birthday is coming up and that is a big day for releases in general. Coheed and Cambria releases their "Neverender" [I think that is the name] which is set to sell for a hundred plus bucks and is only limited print but oh well. The Decemberist
s album, "The Hazards of Love" hits store shelves that day and i am totally stoked for this one by the way. Quantum of Solace hits the dvd rack and The Tales of the Black Freighter, the animated segment to the film Watchmen [it was cut from the film but oh well I'll explain later] hits the shelves as well.
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