I’m a chatty Cathy today it seems.  Three posts in one day after about a week of not writing a damn thing.  Well tomorrow I’m excited because a certain game from Rockstar comes out.  Yup, Grand Theft Auto IV is coming out and I’m excited like you wouldn’t believe. 

It’s strange that I’m into video games now.  I took years off of playing them only to get sucked in by the Wii and now the PS3.  Hell the last GTA I played was the original 2D one for the PC.  Yeah, it was crappy graphically but damn it certainly was fun mowing down those monks in cars and shooting your friends in multiplayer.

Now that there’s multiplayer in it again I’m happy.  It’s nice to play through a game, but after you beat it what do you do?  Well with GTA and CoD4 you can play random people online or your friends.  Infinite hours of good times to be had.  I need more friends with a playstation though

It’s even getting great reviews.  IGN gave their first 10.0 rating in like a decade.  That has to say something.  Though what really cracks me up are the people bitching about the game already because of what you do in it.  Come on people.  With the amount of media the first ones got you’d figure by now that anything in this series of video games is going to be violent, involve some sort of misogyny towards any and all women in it, and of course drugs.  It’s a game about jackin’ cars and shooting drug dealers for fuck sake!

Well, I’m looking forward to coming home from the office tomorrow and shooting some cops and pimpin’ some hos.  I’m sure I’m not the only person out there that feels this way about hte game.

I’ve had a pretty stupid idea for a comic strip in my head for a long time.  Just have never really felt like I was a decent artist in the slightest as I can barely draw stick figures or even concentric circles.  Part of the curse of being left handed I suppose.  Well for shits and giggles I started sketching out the three pigeons that I need for this idea.  They seemed to be the easier of the two animals.

Basic premise is that the pigeons are trying to be all urban, hip, ghetto, while they’re actually from somewhere out in BFE.  Of course they’re going to run into a racket of street savvy squirrels that know the ins and outs of city life.

I don’t know why this sounds funny to me but it could be quite the laugh riot.  My first dealings with pigeons was on the farm I grew up on.  They were the dumbest birds I’ve ever seen.  So when I moved into the city and saw them acting like morons there I figured they were all pretty silly and stupid. 

Squirrels on the other hand seem to be shifty and always stealing shit from cart vendors.  Or just getting into all sorts of trouble.

There’s my first ideas.  I’m sure they’ll change greatly if I continue with this.  Just thought I’d share an idea with everyone.

Gas is definitely not cheap here in the Bay area.  Across the street from me a gallon of 87 octane is $4.05 a gallon.  Yeah, not cheap by any measure.  Of course since I have a car and drive to and from work I’m starting to pay attention to what’s happening out there.  I can’t imagine having to spend the vast majority of my pay cheques on gas like a lot of people in the middle of the country do.

I read this article over at the NY Sun.  Seems they’re predicting up to ten dollars a gallon in a couple of years or so.  Yegad people!  If that happens it’ll be cheaper for me to take the transbay buses instead of the 20 minute drive I have now.  Of course, it’ll also give me two hours a day in commuting which would suck quite a bit.

Stop driving SUVs and gas guzzling vehicles!  We really need to start using less gas.

There seems to be this running trend.  Every time my room mate goes to Best Buy for a television I end up purchasing a gaming console.  When he bought the old one that broke I ended up getting a Wii because they were actually in stock.  This time around I ended up purchasing Sony’s Playstation 3.  There were a few factors that came down to buying this, all in all I have to say I’ve enjoyed the ever living hell out of it.

Now I actually don’t know anybody with a PS3.  Everyone I know has an Xbox 360.  It does have a lot more games than the PS3, but it seems like that trend is going to change.  Regardless, the games I want to play are out on both platforms.  It’s really just a moot point for me.

When I bought the PS3, I really should have picked up Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.  Instead I picked up Viking: The Battle for Asgard.  It’s a fun game and all, very much like God of War.  It’s fun.  I stopped by Best Buy on my way home and did pick up CoD4 along with a dual shock controller.

Wow, what fun!  Shooting guns, killing bad guys!  Damn it’s crazy.  Running around the entire world doing crazy ass missions.  Now I see the reason why this series has done so well.  The attention to detail is absolutely stunning.  Then add in the HD goodness, wow.  When I have to buy a television I’m definitely getting something like this *g*

It’s been a pretty heavy movie time lately.  Been pretty burned out and don’t really feel like doing too much.  The things I do feel like doing I don’t have the time for, or I just don’t have the gumption after doing crazy amounts of work and frying the brain.  On one of our more recent trips to Hollywood Video we picked up Confessions of a Superhero.  It’s a pretty weird idea for a documentary but one that works none the less.

It follows four of the many street "performers" and pan handlers on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood of course.  You have Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk.  Why they chose three DC characters at first is beyond me ;)  Maybe there’s really not that many Marvel characters out there.  I also doubt there’s many independent characters as well.

Each person has a very similar story.  They all want to be stars.  They all come from a strange background, or from a poor one.  The exception is Superman who claims to be the orphan son of Sandy Dennis, though her family claims differently.  Odds are, despite being a nice guy, he’s a bit of a nut case.

I do hope that the Hulk makes it.  He’s honestly trying hard and doing his own thing.  Was homeless for four years while pursuing his dream.  That takes a lot of constitution.  By the end of the documentary he did win a role in a pretty shitty remake of Bruce Lee’s last film.  Though you have to start somewhere.

Batman is just a fucking looney bin.  Has some serious anger issues, and alluded to killing someone in the 80s.  If that’s true, he’ll probably end up in jail.  Not get scott free as he claims because of the way evidence was able to be obliterated back then.  If anything now a days the cops are able to find more evidence from cold cases than they were back then.

I honestly really didn’t care much for Wonder Woman as a person.  She seemed like the spoiled little princess from a small town to me.  She seemed like a crazy and good sort though.  Willing to do things, like marrying someone four days after meeting them, that most people wouldn’t do.  She might make it, but the way she talked it seemed like she isn’t really going to push extra hard.

Superman is definitely obsessed with what he does.  15 years doing the same thing?  Yeah that’s a little nutty, I would have gone on to do something else with my time.  His apartment is also completely covered wall to wall, floor to ceiling with anything Superman.  Yegad.  Though it was nice that he married his lady at the Superman convention in Metropolis Illinois dressed like Superman.  I may be a geek and a nerd, but there’s no way in hell I’d go that far.

Thought I’d add another post about a recent comic series I picked up.  This time it’s from Zenescope Entertainment and written by Raven Gregory.  The title of this new gem? Return to Wonderland.  I’ve always been a fan of horror stories.  I’ve also loved the idea of classic children’s fairy tales being twisted in this manner.  Probably why I loved American McGee’s Alice back at the turn of the century.

The story is based in the future of Alice.  This time her daughter, Carroll, has to go through Wonderland.  Throughout the story she learns what drover her mother insane and why she acts the way she does.  Very interesting concept, though not terribly original in some aspects.

The artwork is gorgeous and the story is thrilling through all six issues.  Definitely something you want to pick up at your local comic shop or at the next convention in your area.