January 2005
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Push the Button.
So the new Chemical Brothers album came out this past Tuesday, Push the Button, and, umm, it’s not very good. Come With Us? Awesome album. Push the Button? Eh. The one redeeming quality is the first single, “Galvanize” makes reference to “the monkey face.” So it can’t be all bad. Actually, I looked up they lyrics, and apparently the line is “time you get...
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2000 and Four Pennies.
So even though we’re only a few weeks in, I’ve already seen some pretty decent flicks in 2005. I saw Kinsey and Closer in theaters and My Life Without Me, We Don’t Live Here Anymore and Napoleon Dynamite on DVD.
2004 though, was absolutely insane. I was thinking I probably saw like 15 or 20 movies. Not so much. I counted out my ticket stubs and racked my brain and my best guess...
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Honorably discharged.
So I’m putting together a “top ten films of 2004” list. Seemed apropos, since everyone else is doing it (500 some odd people, anyway).
I’ve got the list pretty locked down, but I have to do a little scanning/formatting first before I post it. For now though, some “honorable mentions” that didn’t quite make it. And the worst film that I saw this year.
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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
So besides finally trying to polish off Castlevania: Circle of the Moon on GBA, I’ve been rocking out on the GameCube with the new Metroid game. Or, more precisely, Metroid “Prime” game. It’s like they’ve got two goddamn franchises going simultaneously now, but they share the same continuity. Crazy.
Anyway, the game is solid, it’s basically just like the...