Whicked Sweet!

Alright, this has nothing to do with Chuck Norris…..Or a donkey.

To start off, thanks for commenting. Second, the Vizio is great! I love every aspect (no pun) of it. My only gripe with my setup is when watching DVD’s, the skin of the actors looks bruised. I’m positive it is my DVD player, when I watch DTV everything looks great.

The band VADER! The Polish metal gods came to Colorado last night to the Cervantes Ballroom in 5 points Denver. Opening the bill were 4 other bands I never really heard of. Here is the breakdown.

• Veil Of Maya– Don’t know what they sound like, showed up after their set.
• Light This City– A good modern thrash band. Actually, they really remind me of At The Gates which is awesome. But the real kicker is the vocalist……Think Arch Enemy. Don’t get it? The vocalist is hot. And she can rock the mic. She has a great voice and an even better growl, there just wasn’t that many growl points. The guitar work is very well done, nice and harmonic. The drums have an occasional bast beat to make things brutal, and its a good touch to the band. The band had a great stage presence, but overall sounded distorted which could have been the venue. B+
• Abigail Williams– err…umm…eh. The vocalist just chops every note up with the scremo yell from your grandma’s house. Didn’t care for them. F
• Cattle Decapitation– What can be said about a name like that? “Gore not Core” sums it up, 100% ass kicking metal. The sound was, like the previous bands, distorted to the point where at some parts you could not distinguish any of the instruments. But, I have always what to see them live, so I’m happy. B
• Malevolent Creation– This band drew the most pitting in the crowd (still not big, only about 80 people in the whole venue). Again, just punch each other in the mouth metal. Great riffs, awesome vocals, and sweet sound. I was wondering to myself why I have never heard of these guys, now I’m going to BUY their CD’s. A
• VADER!!!!!– All it takes is one listen from this band……It will blow you away. Considered “Atmospheric” death metal, Vader will grab your throat and and rip your entrails out. The biggest disappoint with the Vader set is not with the band, nor the venue but the fans. By the time they were up on stage, half the crowd was no where to be seen. Yes, this gives the show a very intimate feeling, but not when you want an inferno mosh pit. The same situation happened when Destruction came to town. Given about ten people (including myself) did push each other around, but nothing lasted for more then a guitar solo. Shame. But on to VADER!!! Every note was clear, every beat of the drum was heared and every word growled was given life. Perfect volume, perfect set. Vader destroyed this place. They played mostly new stuff (2000-Present), but here is the list in no particular order:
• Dark Age
• Silent Empire
• Sothis
• Carnal
• Black To The Blind
• WingsXeper
• Epitaph
• This Is The War
• Lead Us!!!
• Shadowfear
• Helleluyah: God Is Dead
• Warlords
• The Book

Yeah, this wasn’t the concert of the year (lack of metal support in Denver), but who cares, I got to see VADER!!!!

On to other news. Probably tomorrow, I will be getting my new phone. Not just the run of the mill Moto, but the Tilt. I fell in love with this thing in a T-Mobile store with their version, The Wing. But since I am already with AT&T, I got the Tilt. So, when I get it, I’ll put a video of the unboxing up and give my initial reactions. Next step, mobile blogging!

Edit: I just realized that this isnt letting be hyperlink any of the band websites. Sorry about that.

I have fans!! The TV update and more of Norris!

Wow. 36 comments in one day?! That’s kinda weird. But thanks for everyone who did, I was about to give up on this blogging thing; I found no use for it if no one is going to read it. But now I know that there are people (or person) out there who care or just have nothing else to do. The moral of the story, thanks. And what a thing, most of those comments can within about 5 minutes of each other, that is great (insert sarcasm now)!

Phase one of my TV went down the drain. I realized that the wall mount I put up was pointless, I have a dresser that was going to go under it anyway so I put the TV on it. Oh, I got a 32″ Vizio LCD. It’s nice and I can get digital/HD through good ole’ bunny ears. Anyway, I also got my audio going to. On top of that, I have my computer going to it through DVI/HDMI plus an upscale DVD player. All in all, its a pretty sweet set-up for just a 10 by 10 room.

Well, its late. But thanks for all the comments about all the crap I say. And to the “individual” 36 readers, “thanks”.

My Birth Into HD Land, More Google and a Donkey?

Well, here it is, my first step, wait, first phase of my journey to HD land. Yes, the place exits…in my head. Anyway, I received my TV wall mount to day (thanks newegg!) and got it up. I could rant on how this mount is great, but seriously, it’s a wall mount. The true story is from newegg. For some odd reason they sent it 2nd day air. That’s great but a little sad because I still don’t have my TV. Ill let you know what I got tomorrow.

Phase One!

Besides my excitement for my new found enjoyment, yet another has come too. The almighty google has entered the cell phone business. This entrance is not how I expected it to be. I was thinking they would give Verizon permission to use their name on their proprietary POS phones. I was dead wrong. In fact, when I found out they are going to be using a mobile form Linux called “The Android” (remember Gonux?) as their foundation, I couldn’t have been more anxious to wait for a cell phone product. To top all that off, anyone will be able to use it since it is only the OS of the phone (so I’ve heard). If it does come down to only 2 or 3 carriers that will host an actual google phone (hardware too), I will not hesitate to grab that right off the self. I really think google will go ahead with having a phone manufactured by someone. When it comes down to it, how many people do you know that are willing to delete, if possible, their OS on the phone and load it with the Android? This OS is already red hot, why load it on old technology? I think it needs it’s own hardware, something as revolutionary as the OS. All we can do is wait….

GOS=Wal-Mart

Ha! I knew it! Enter google, the Linux distro. For 200 bucks you can have you very own computer thatr runs any and every goole app with ease. Now seriously, a google PC?! At Wal-Mart?! Oh man. The details on this thing are this, stripped down Linux with a touch of google (GOS), simple hardware (although no real detail on that, but assuming it only runs simple programs it shouldn’t be much), 200 bucks for everything but a monitor and its all going to be at you local Wal-Mart. I really do not see a piont to this. For 200 to 300 more anyone can get a fully functional Windows machine, including a monitor. But on a plus side, it is another good push to mainstream open source OS’s. That would be a site to see, at Wal-Mart walking and laying your eyes on a Linux box next to a Windows box. Sweetness.

Thanks.

http://www.thinkgos.com/

Linus and Chuck

People pray to Jesus, but Jesus prays to Linus Torvalds.

There’s more….

Google is now my god. I cant tell you how I will be worshiping him (cough*adstuff*cough) but I do know he is the high ruler of all that is web (2.0). While I do support its web docs program to be a small diversion of the giant Office, I think to myself (what a wonderful world) what if one identity oversaw everything on the web? E-mail, search, video, blogs, web 2.0 apps (this is sounding familiar) all from this one presence off the web. Even the smaller web services that make our experiences great every time we get on could be apart of google. Would this integration have a bad impact on how we interact with each other and the web? I want to say no. I think it will ensure constancy throughout different aspects. Given there will still be a ton of other options to do just about everything and anything, google will have the standard to which others will be tested against. And maybe with all these free services from google, they will transcend into the open source market developing a Linux distro (google+Linux=Gonux?).

On the end note, I just cannot wait for my grubby hands get a hold of the google phone, because life will not be complete until google has been in my pockets.