now that I’ve been playing GHWT for two days straight, I want to give a rundown on my thoughts thus far:

• very, very wide selection of songs. for all you debbie downers who complain they don’t like any of the songs on previous guitar hero games, if you can’t find something on this one you probably don’t enjoy “music”
• great new features to boost game play. finger tapping? are you serious??
• customizable characters and guitars. it’s a bit of a time investment but hey, if you can put yourself on a basketball court and dunk on kobe, why not rocking out with travis barker?
• moving away from the linear game play of previous games. it’s taken the focus off of “you are a singular guitar player playing these songs” and became a lot more social, more about interactivity with bandmates

if there’s one thing I wish they could have done, was to do something about that extra long load time.

no one says it better than someecards.com.

such a perfect combination: jon & kate + the soup.

it’s no jon minus nine but it’s still hilarious, especially the freeze close-up on jon at the end.

so I caught the aforementioned remake at a matinee. you know what, it’s not horrible. perhaps it was because my expectations were set to snooze, but I didn’t think it warranted the 20% (at present) approval rating on rotten tomatoes.

there’s this one amazing shot of a football stadium getting vaporized that’s in the trailer that really pumped me up seeing it on the big screen. giants fans, you might want to avert your eyes when you see it coming.

this movie is matinee-worthy, but I wouldn’t pay full price for it.

the lonely island, the genius behind the snl digital shorts, are releasing their first album on a major label in february. check out their first video that aired just this weekend on SNL.

a friend of mine mentioned this movie recently and I remembered how awesome it was when it came out.

very NOW, very topical, very very well done.

please have a happy and safe cyber monday.