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Is Soulja Boy Ze Frank inspired?
I think it’s pretty obvious that Soulja Boy is a child of the internet. He has music videos of people watching his videos on youtube and all that. Jay Smooth did a video a while back about Soulja Boy stealing some song. I can’t embed it, but watch from 0:30 to about 0:40 of this. Then watch the Ze Frank dancing here (especially “Strutting It” and “Stop it Silly”) and here and tell me there’s not a marked resemblance. I knew there was something familiar about SB’s dancing the first time I saw that mess. At the time, though, I was watching my high school students do the dances, and…
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*nom, nom* Anime
Having finished as much of Death Note as I’m going to, I’m now out of anime. I’ve recently finished Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Full Metal Panic, too (both of which I thoroughly enjoyed). Nothing else on Hulu sounds very good and/or is subbed (or I’d be snoozing my way through Mushi-shi now, at G’s insistence). I certainly don’t mind shelling out for anime (I did for GitS:SAC and FMP), but I want to be pretty sure that I’ll like it before I drop $50 on a series. Utena was going to be next, but it’s out of print, evidently. Where do I go now to broaden…
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Sims 2 — hits all the right spots
Having a game dork for an SO means that I’m always analyzing what I like and don’t like about games, and if I can’t figure it out in a repeatable enough manner, I ask him. Sims 2 might be my favorite game. Like, ever. It’s nearly impossible to lose, it consists of endless construction (of the people-sort, not the stuff-sort), and the replayability is redunkulous. So I bought myself Sims 2 and pre-ordered Sims 3 this weekend. And promptly lost my weekend in a bright purple world. I love purple. I’m hoping that Sims 3 fixes the time issues that Sims 2 has. You know, the issues where you can’t…
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Another hubris-eaten “hero”
I watched most of Death Note this weekend; the first 27 eps. I love(d) it. But the main character has hit his peak and is obviously going to fall in the same ol’ hubris-infected way. I’m told there’ll be good filler along the way, but the end is predictable and predicted. American Gangster did the same thing. Great character, same old crumbling under the weight of his own power. I want to see the bad guy win. Or at least not fail in that way. I don’t want a cheesy or easy win, but if Light had triumphed over L (and I mean really triumphed, not let himself get roped…