Friday, December 15, 2006

Battlestar Galactica


I just went to a special screening of Battlestar Galactica at the Westside Pavilion Cinema today. They showed the mid-season finale, "The Eye of Jupiter". It will be aired on Friday, December 15. Check your local TV Guide for listings.

It was pretty fun watching it with hundreds of other Battlestar Galactica fans. I used to watch the original show when I was a kid. The Viper ships look the same as the old ones. The new Cylons look similar to the old ones. They still have the red flashing Knight Rider lights for eyes. Although the new machine Cylons look more like the machines from the Terminator movies. The newer Cylons look just like humans. There are a lot of mind games among the humans trying to figure out who is human and who is Cylon.

The series is really good. You should watch it if you don't already.

I saw a girl in line with a shirt that said, "I might be a Cylon" on. That was pretty classic.




Here's a summary from TV Guide:

EPISODE 10: THE EYE OF JUPITER
WRITTEN BY: Mark Verheiden
DIRECTED BY: Michael Rymer

Logline: The possible discovery of the Eye of Jupiter on the algae planet leads to a deadly stand-off, as the Cylons and humans risk all for a chance to find the way to Earth.

While working on the algae planet, Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) discovers the Temple of Five, reputed to be the home of the Eye of Jupiter, which will guide the ones who discover it to Earth. His report is intercepted by the Cylons, who request a meeting with Adama (Edward James Olmos) and Laura (Mary McDonnell). Their proposal: let us have the Eye and we will let you leave unharmed. Adama's counter-proposal: make any move to take the Eye and we'll nuke the planet.

The Cylons bring another piece of news: Sharon (Grace Park) and Helo's (Tahmoh Penikett) baby is alive, but not well. Sharon is initially skeptical, but when Adama confirms that Laura hid the baby at her school, she and Tyrol being to make plans to rescue her.

As the standoff continues, tensions rise in both camps. On the Cylon baseship, D'Anna's (Lucy Lawless) sense that she and Baltar (James Callis) share a destiny that might not include the others sows dissension, while on the algae planet, efforts to protect the Eye are complicated by Lee's simmering affair with Kara (Katee Sackhoff), especially since Lee (Jamie Bamber) is counting on Anders (Michael Trucco), Kara's husband, to rally the civilians to the cause. Then the Cylons launch a flight of raiders, bound for the algae planet, forcing Adama to show he's not bluffing.


TV Guide took some pictures, so I hope I get to be on their website somewhere regarding the event.

The episode shown was really exciting. There's an interesting cliffhanger at the end.

After the show was over, some of the producers and the writers did a Q&A session.

Anyway, I'm tired so if you aren't watching the show, I'll give you one more reason to watch it:

Grace Park

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Spike TV's Video Game Awards

On Friday, December 8, 2006, Josh and I went to the Spike TV's VGA show at the USC Galen Center. It was pretty fun. Samuel L. Jackson hosted the show. I think he did a decent job.

There were musical performances by Tenacious D and AFI. It was pretty loud for my old ears. There were some pretty cool pyrotechnics too.

I wanted to take some pictures, but they didn't allow any cameras into the show. I had to run back to the car and get back in line. That sucked big time. Sorry I don't have any pictures to show you.

Sarah Silverman also showed up. First, she bagged on all the videogamers at the show saying that they're all losers for playing games. Then, she thanked them for being major contributors to the decrease in AIDS, since they just stay home and play games all the time. She kept going on and on, and later, she was booed off the stage.

Samuel L. Jackson said that he found a great solution to the typical nagging anti-videogame girlfriend/wife. He says that he married a woman that loves games. Jackson also stated that if he had to choose between his Xbox 360 and his children, he would choose the XBox 360, because he could easily get new children by going to the mall.

Jackson's online lover turned out to be some fat hairy guy. After the guy went back to his seat, Jackson demanded that the scene be deleted from the show, but the producer said, "Sorry, it's already up on Youtube." That's so true. They showed a screen of Jackson and his online lover on Youtube.com.

Tila Tequila showed up and some guy in the audience loudly yelled, "Myspace!" and everyone cracked up. I'm sure everyone there was her Myspace friend.

I thought it was pretty exciting to be there. There were a lot of celebrities there, but I didn't have a good look since we had lousy seats.


Check out Yahoo's coverage of the awards:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature?eid=496764&page=0


Check out the list of winners:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature?eid=497274&page=0


See some of the photos:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/featurescreenshot?eid=496765&index=21



Also check out WireImage's Red Carpet photos:

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls=1=2=42=249578&nbc1=1


I would have taken some photos, but they wouldn't let me.

The show is going to be aired on Wednesday, December 13 on Spike TV. You can also watch it on SpikeTV.com.

Well, to ruin it for you all here's some of the winners:

The Game of the Year was Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
The Critic's Choice went to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Best Driving Game: Burnout Revenge.
Best Action: Dead Rising.
Best Fighting: Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.
Best Shooter: Gears of War.

Check out the show to see a more complete coverage of the winners.

Video games Rock and Rule!

Wednesday, December 06, 2006


Fast Cars and Hot Women or
Hot Cars and Fast Women

More to Come Soon. . .

Lamborghini LP640. The more powerful Murcielago.

Veyron

Bugatti Veyron

Bugatti Veyron. 1001 hp. 922 ft/lb of torque. 253 mph top speed. 0-62 mph in 2.5 seconds. 16 cylinders. 2 V-8's mated together. Cost=$1,440,800.

Simply awesome for awesomely rich people.

Calloway Corvette C/6

Chris looking oh so cool next to a big boy's engine

The new 2008 Nissan Altima Coupe

Some hippie punks graffitied a perfectly nice Hyundai Tiburon.

Can Chrysler make a Rolls Royce for cheap?

Chrysler Imperial

Vishnu Flex Fuel Lan-Evo

Vishnu Flex Fuel Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. It can run on ethanol and gasoline.

Josh and Chris searching for their next pimp daddy mobile

Chris shopping for a Viper SRT 10

Chris pondering whether or not to purchase the Viper

Chris trying to get into a locked Dodge Viper SRT 10

Dodge Challenger R/T