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General Music / Meat Loaf's new album!

« on: November 25, 2006, 09:55:59 pm »

"Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose". It came out on October 31st, but I got it yesterday. What a fucking awesome album! Maybe one of the best of 2006! I also got BOOH II yesterday.

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General Games / Recap of the party!

« on: November 23, 2006, 11:47:07 pm »

Well, I wanted to start the day off by playing the MM cartoon OST from start to finish, but I don't think my brother got out of bed until like 11 AM or 12 PM, so I started watching the cartoon. I wanted to watch all the episodes, but I didn't think I'd have time to watch all the episodes and do all this other stuff, so I watched these episodes:

The Beginning
Electric Nightmares
The Big Shake
Mega-Pinochio
Master of Disaster

Then I started the iTunes playlist, and listened to it, and left it on, so I could scrobble the playlist songs on last.fm, then I went upstairs and brought my iPod up with me to hang out with the few relatives that were visiting, and I had listened to the playlist on the iPod upstairs as it was being scrobbled. I didn't go into my room much until after everyone had gone. After everyone had left, I decided to watch three more MM episodes:

Campus Commandos
Bad Day At Peril Park
and Mega X

Apparently, I only got around to actually playing one MM game, which was the Game Boy version of Mega Man II. This was the first Mega Man game I ever beat, and I still remember that password for Wily's fortress way back from 1996, and I never had to refer to any sites or magazines or anything to get it. I've had it for all these years. Even if I have lost the piece of paper I had written it down on all the way back in 1996, I still know it like I know my own name. Since it's officially Friday, I plan to in several hours go to go to the Wal-Mart where I first discovered an MM item I'm STILL not ashamed to own 10 years later:here. And one of the best things about 2006 is that I FINALLY found it on tape. I bought two copies of the tape actually. One's still sealed in the shrinkwrap, and one is used. While I'm at Wal-Mart several hours from now, I also plan to pick up a Meat Loaf CD and I also plan to pick up Twisted Sister's Christmas album.

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General Games / Rockin' Kats

« on: November 16, 2006, 12:39:44 pm »

This game is mad fun! I love it. Very addictive, and a likeable cute wittle protagonist!!!! His name's Willy, and he has to rescue his GF from Mugsy in 5 stages. Willy uses a gun that fires a punching glove to fight his enemies. He also uses it to go higher when he can't jump high enough, and to swing from certain objects (this is obviously an element borrowed from Bionic Commando).

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General Games / BIG "Classic" Mega Man party on Thanksgiving!

« on: November 12, 2006, 02:27:21 pm »

I'm gonna be having a big Classic MM party on Thanksgiving Day this month. I'm planning to play the MM soundtrack from start to finish, play MM2, MM6, and (maybe) MMII (only these three, because these were the only classic MM titles with in my household at the time), and also MM7 (even though I didn't own it, but I DID rent it), have a "Mega" music marathon on iTunes playing a playlist I made up consisting of music from MM1, 2, 6 and 7, plus songs from the artists on the soundtrack album (Skid Row, Sugar Ray, Mr. Big, etc), and some unrelated songs and artists just for like, I dunno, "Good Measure" I guess are the words I'm looking for. I hope this Thanksgiving will be a "Mega" event for me.  
Of course, I'm gonna actually celebrate "Thanksgiving" as well.

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General Music / Dream Theater

« on: October 30, 2006, 06:40:56 pm »

I've been checking this band out a bit lately. I've been afraid to check 'em out in the past, because of the song "Pull Me Under", and I was worried that they were satanists, but then when I heard their 3-disc live album "Live At Budokan", I realized "It's not so bad.". Then I later learned that the guitar player in the band was a Christian. After that I bought (not all at once) "Awake" (last week) and "Images And Words" (later today). I can see why so many people like them, because they ARE a great band. Of the three I've bought so far, I think "Awake" is my LEAST favorite. But LAB and Images And Words have excellent songs on them.

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General Music / Primus!!!

« on: October 20, 2006, 10:58:39 pm »

I got their recent Greatest Hits collection today at Best Buy called "They Can't All Be Zingers", and the copies at Best Buy come with a bonus disc called "Extra Cheese", which features 4 tracks of the band playing live from Woodstock '94. Man, Les Claypool and his camp make some strange, crazy ass stuff.   I also have the CD "Riddles Are Abound Tonight" by Sausage, which is the original line up of Primus recording under a different name. Anyway, I don't think I've heard more than 4 songs of theirs. 2 of which were "DMV" and "My Name Is Mud", and I only heard the whole thing of the former.

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General Games / Street Fighter The Movie

« on: October 03, 2006, 05:25:59 pm »

Sure, the game is based on a movie that totally sucks that's based on a game that kicks ass, but this is one of those instances where the game sucks so much that it ends up being unintentionally funny. Oh man, this is comic gold.







Here's a link for reference:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9829

It's like Capcom couldn't give us Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat, so they made a Street Fighter game that was like Mortal Kombat. I hear that Capcom only published it though, and Incredible Technologies developed it.

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General Music / Looks like Atlantic Records went back to their old logo.

« on: October 03, 2006, 05:22:54 pm »

Okay, I bought JET's new CD at Best Buy just a few minutes ago, and I looked on the back of the case, and I saw the classic Atlantic logo we all know and love:



And I didn't see THIS crap:



I wasn't sure of where to post this, so I posted it here. Anyway, I'm glad they switched back to their old logo. This is good news (for me at least). Now Atlantic needs to drop that no-talent clown "James Blunt", and then they'll have regained their credibility 100%.

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Cartoons / Ian James Corlett's connection to Queensryche

« on: September 26, 2006, 12:55:31 am »

One day in late '05, I was looking at the booklet for Queensryche's CD "Operation:Mindcrime", and under the "Thank You" section, I saw Ian Corlett (the voice of Mega Man in the US cartoon, and Dr. Wily in Captain N), and that same day, I sent an email to Ian, and I asked him:

Hey Ian, I saw your name in the "Thank You" section of
Queensryche's CD "Operation: Mindcrime". I really like that album. How did
you get involved in it? And what did you work with the band on?

About a day or so later (not sure how later), I checked my inbox, and Ian replied saying:

I programmed some of the drum tracks and helped them with some computer
sequences.
I sold them some music gear in the old days and they were rehearsing in an
abandoned theatre here in Vancouver.

Good eyes!

IAN

Man, this is so cool! The man who does the voice of the Video Game and Cartoon Character I've idolized since I was 10 was involved with one of THE BEST hard rock albums ever made! I didn't really get into this album 'til late last year. I got interested after I saw the video for "Eyes Of A Stranger" on VH1 Classic, which was also later last year. And at the time, I didn't know the album told a story (like "Tommy" by The Who, or "The Wall" by Pink Floyd), but when I did, I got more interested in it, and I was anxious to get the album, and it wouldn't be long before I did! Anyway, our Blue Bomber has a connection to this awesome album and band! I still think "Eyes Of A Stranger" is the best song on "Operation:Mindcrime".

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General Games / Which Mega Man are you?

« on: September 23, 2006, 10:45:31 pm »

http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=WhichMegaman

These were my top 10 rankings of the 21 they give you:












That's not bad I guess. At least Original MM made the top 10, and an MM that I like is actually #1, but I can do without what I got for 3 and 6 anyday.

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Cartoons / Unreleased episode????

« on: September 23, 2006, 10:43:52 am »

Back in 1997-ish, There was this MM page called Eddie's Mega Man Page or something (don't remember the name, it was long ago), and it had pictures of an unreleased episode where Protoman decided to help Mega Man stop Dr. Wily, and then it showed another screenshot, and I don't remember the caption, but I think it was something like "Wily's fortress is destroyed, but where's Protoman?". Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

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About myTPH / About TPH MM Radio

« on: September 21, 2006, 11:28:49 pm »

I'm listening to it now for the first time ever. Good stuff! How's about we throw in some songs from the Mega Man cartoon show soundtrack album? But I mean stuff that's not available in the stores anymore or the songs that not to many corporate scum are worried about, like Extra Fancy's "Sinnerman", Mr. Big's "Take Cover" or The Bucketheads' "Got Myself Together"? Just a suggestion. After all, they are linked to Mega Man. There's some good songs on TPH Radio already, but I'm just making some add suggestions. If you need any of those songs, I'll be glad to send 'em to ya.

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General / Please vote!!!

« on: September 19, 2006, 08:48:42 pm »

I made three different cuts of my latest MM music video, and I asked people at various Mega Man forums to vote for which one they think is best, because I can't decide, I think all of them are great, but I'm only uploading one of the three cuts to the video hosting sites and stuff. And there IS a difference between the three versions. People can't seem to notice the differences of each version, even though it's completely obvious.

Version X
Version Y
Version Z

Voting ends on September 30th.

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General Music / The Monkees!

« on: September 16, 2006, 10:37:38 pm »

Here they come...
Walking down the street...
They get the funniest looks from...
Everyone they meet...

HEY HEY, IT'S THE MONKEES!


September 12th, 2006 marked their 40th Anniversary, and anybody who doesn't like The Monkees seriously has something wrong with them. Micky Dolenz is my favorite of the 4 guys. My favorite Monkees tunes are:

(Theme From) The Monkees
(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
The Girl I Knew Somewhere
Randy Scouse Git
For Pete's Sake
Pleasant Valley Sunday
What Am I Doing Hangin' Round
Words
All Of Your Toys
Goin' Down
Daydream Believer
Porpoise Song
Listen To The Band
That Was Then, This Is Now
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
Kicks

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General Music / Rush

« on: September 04, 2006, 11:13:31 pm »

I ain't talkin' about Rush The Robo Dog,


I'm talkin' about the legendary progressive rock trio of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart!


Do I even need to explain how much they rock? Their music is just downright awesome. Of all the Rush albums I've heard so far (from start to finish at least), "Test For Echo" is my favorite.