Birdman is dead.
Well to be more accurate part of my digital persona has died on me, that's right my XBOX 360 died on me. Now I am surprised by this, sat down to play some Guitar Hero 2 and then it goes all green screen with stripes, we reset and then nothing and then the death screen pops up and then the anger begins. Slowly at first and then to a full blown rage by the time I am through dealing with Microsoft's tech support.
I swear to God, or whatever higher power exists that I must have dealt with the most something....I lack words right now.... people on Earth, and then to top of it all off, I can barely understand a word being said to me.So now BOTH of our 360's are going in for repair and that means a production slow down, yeah right before the Holiday season. Of course I have a plan, we'll see how this plan works out in the end for me, but suffice to say, it'll be a slice into the wallet.
Just you cannot believe the amount of frustration and this drove me absolutely nuts and now it feels like a part of me is gone and it cuts deeper then I thought.
It's funny how sometimes things like that can hurt or make you angry. I was actually browsing thru some blog sites and how people how have been treated in an incident like this and it makes me sad that my story is not unique and is entirely too common.
So now I wait to see what will happen and it really sucks and I don't know what to do.
I don't get mad often but when I did, I wailed a wall and hard....not a good thing for me or the wall but after an hour of AVGN swearing and some lunch, I calmed down....
So now ON THIS WEEK IN GEEK, we begin the XBOX countdown starting as soon as I receive my XBOX 360's back.
Might as well have some fun with this right? Good natured and all.
I am still an XBOX Fan boy, but I do feel slightly let down.
Maybe we'll make a pool out of it and see how quickly I get it back or something?
Actually if you have a tech support horror story or a red rings story, I'd LOVE to hear it
feedback@thisweekingeek.net
Full rant tomorrow @ 2:30 EST on CRNC 90.1 FM
Actually Double D has his input on it as well, hopefully we'll have a YOUTUBE video to follow soon.....
Birdman cries for the falling XBOX 360.......
Please come home.....
]]>Hey everyone, Birdman checking from his last bit of vacation time before school starts.
Last night (Friday) I had the disadvantage of going out with Blaire to see BALLS OF Fury. I say disadvantage because Bliare and I like to have a good time and even a few stupid laughs but this movie was going to prove to be something much much worse then we had expected.
We have all seen trailers for this for the past month or longer in the theatre and I think it's safe to assume that BALLS OF Fury would be like say DODGEBALL, but no....God was cruel and someone sold thier soul to rush this Piece of crap to theatres
What did I expect coming in this movie?
A few cheap laughs, some visual gags and some token lines from Christopher Walken.....Well I got that....and not much else. I am sincerely sure that I maybe laughed like 4 times or less and it's not acceptable for 90 minutes. Now before I blast this crapfest into something totally unrecognizeable allow me to set the scene using Pop culture references as best I can.
So the story starts with the T-1000 IRobert Patrick)'s son Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) being a Ping pong uber champ and he is the hope of america and blah, blah, you get the idea. So Randy gets beaten some German guy who could basically be any stereotypical type you can think of, bad accent, crazy blonde hair and the german jersey. So eventually see his career decline and get made fun of and he banished to be a vegas entertainer. Some how Geogre Lopez shows up and convinces Randy that he needs to be a help to the US government and break some underground ping pong ring and find the guy who killed his father. oh yea...
I forgot to mention that Shang Tsung (Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa) shows up and kills the T-1000 because of some gambling debt. So continuing along in this lame tale, things progress and Randy trains under James Hong (The chinese guy you ALWAYS see) and his unusually hot daughter or niece...Not sure (Maggie Q) and he becomes some kind of an uber champ again. He beats some little girl who is some awesome player and gets invited to this top secret tournament Geogre lopez tried to get into and so they take off. Shang Tsung leads to some part in south america and this is where it truly gets brain damaged.
So the evil bitch goddess Marianne(Aisha Taylor) from Season 5 of 24 shows up with Christopher Walken ( he doesn't get a nickname cause he's that cool) and explain the rules of the tournament and in an attempt for a cheap laugh, Shang Tsung dies by Bitch goddesss. Some how Dietrach Bader aka OSWALD from Drew Cary shows up and is some sex slave and they end up playing Boggle.....
Now here comes the BEST part of the movie.....
I left the theatre to go take care some of business, basically...well I won't go into details of what I did but you can fill in the blanks. So here I am going to imagine what happens, they go outside and have a huge ping pong table on the back of a dinosaur and then Randy teams up with Jack Bauer and kills all the bad guys before the final show down. So while Jack and Randy end up fighting a giant ninja panda and Jack is mauled to death and Randy breaks his arm and this is where I came back into the theatre.
Now I won't spoil the ending for you, simply because I want you to waste your money and go and see this movie, yes The Birdman wants you to do something stupid.
Now if someone can fill in the ending of this review, email us @ feedback@thisweekingeek.net and win a prize :)
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]]>Birdman dropping in from places unknown, well not so much as I am sitting at my desk and this time I am working on EST for a change and up early.....this is strange since I was up late last night filling out media forms and what not.
So I decided just before I get into writing scripts for the day and doing all sorts of media stuff, I would write a blog...what do I have to say? Well that's the thing, I am not entirely sure
Recently we got mentioned on Stan Bush's website
http://www.stanbush.com/news.html
Pretty cool stuff actually, we had an icon call US....epic
How the hell cool is that?
So that is pretty cool and all things considered another step on the way to true awesomeness.....and that is what I aspire to....awesome epic-ness in the end
However as much as of a random thought just hit me, I think I found the source of this blog entry.....have you ever heard of the show....COAST TO COAST AM?
It's been around since the mid 80's and it is carried by over 500+ stations and it's a paranormal syndicated talk show...and it's an awesome experience
I usually listen to it via AM 640's website beginning at 1am EST
So anyway, I was listening to it a few nights ago and the topic was about time travel and how one man is determined to go back in time and visit his father or something.
Now the guest is a physicist and has some interesting ideas
Infact, here is a link
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/08/08.html#t
So Isn't that cool as hell?
I mean Time Travel by the end of the century?
Assuming the Time curves theory works and we can establish a working set of principles to work by.
Coast to Coast AM has always interested in me and some of their guests have been on my radar for quite sometime and really did peak my interest in radio broadcasting. I suppose it would be cool to be a guest host or even a guest on that show. I have called in a few times and even spoken to Art Bell when he hosted and talked about the collective power of something or another and then another time talked about EVP with another guest.
Para-science has always been an interest of mine and will continue to be so as long as it reminds interesting and the possibility of becoming real science at the same time.
]]>Birdman reporting in.....
Been a while since my last blog and figured I should put down some of my thoughts and get back to work on doing what I do best....rawking out as always.
Been really busy doing the TWIG stuff as always, called alot of people and done alot of emails and basically gotten most of my summer booked up but let me tell you, it's satisfying thing when you can feel like you have accomplished alot.
So far, we have Rick Green from Prisoners of Gravity and of the Red Green show scheduled and author of the Anita Blake:Vampire Hunter series, Laurell K. Hamilton scheduled for guests and of course, we're headed to the Toronto for the Toronto Fan Expo. Actually I JUST sent off the press email to request access to that event.
It's gonna be an exiting summer for TWIG as always.
As Snowball has his own Audio blog, Birdman himself will also be producing one in the coming weeks, call Birdman's boombox and that should come online, sometime next week :)
Probably play some newer tunes and some stuff that should surprise some of you. I like to think I have wide ranging musical taste.
Also, will be doing on a review on Stan Bush's IN THIS LIFE album in the coming weeks as well.
Drop in the bucket for now :)
Birdman
OUT!
Hey boys and girls
Birdman swooping in from vacation for a second!
As you may have seen from our recent video blog of sorts, TWIG made an appearance for the Canadian Cancer Society for the first ever Cape Croker Relay for life for the Canadian Cancer Society.
My girlfriend Blaire and I drove down from near North Bay to Niagara Falls to come and grab the ever infamous Snowball and bring him back to the area into which we both used to call home at one point. We did however hit WALLS of traffic but that did not dampen our spirits as we trudged northward.
We made it home and just kinda planned out what was going to happen at Cape Croker and how we would handle the event as this was our second MC'ing gig since our C'est What appearance at Podcamp 2007. However we knew in the end we would do fine.....but as always we had a plan for how the evening would go...kick ass as always.
Now I will let the video blog stand for itself and how the event actually went down but I'll share some of my thoughts.
Being at one of these events really does bring out alot in people and especially when you see how this disease has affected people. I know that cancer does bring out some real sources of inner strength in people and it's really inspiring.
I myself have had my life touched by cancer,I lost one of my best teachers pass away due to a brain tumor when I was in grade 4. His name was Dave Dinkel and he was an awesome teacher and I think some of his lessons and kindness survived in me and perhaps my sense of imagination still remembers those books he used to read to us.
However, I'll keep this short and sweet and I'll say that the Relay for Life is truly inspiring and I recommend listening to the survivor stories...and I'll always remember this from the event
When life kicks you....kick back.
I'll remember that for quite some time.
Birdman
out!
Hey guys
Birdman reporting with some decent good news :)
Today at Mt Bellies we were able to raise about 200 bucks for littlegeeks.org :)
We had our live show and our video stream go over extremely well!
ALSO, we STILL have one Sony Ericcson CELL PHONE TO GIVE AWAY!
Check our website for details
www.thisweekingeek.net
It's SO easy, it's criminal !
So check us out and WIN a phone from THIS WEEK IN GEEK!
Birdman
OUT!
Thanks to our many sponsors
Hey guys
Birdman here for what is likely the last message for this event.
All prizes are ready to go and all packed up and this event may end up on the Patio tommorow depending on the weather.
So once again, here is the info
Here is our link for tommorow 's show
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=34665&cmd=tc
and here is the FAQ for talkshoe as you WILL need the client
http://www.talkshoe.com/se/help/FAQ.html
I sincerely hope to see you all there to help us raise money for this great cause and support us at THIS WEEK IN GEEK.
ALSO, listen to 610 CKTB for a TWIG interview with myself, Mike "The Birdman" Dodd sometime soon.
Birdman
out!
Hey Folks
This is the Birdman reporting in!
We have SUCCESSFUL test of our TALKSHOE show and actually had calls from the UK and Algeria as well.
So that was awesome!
Here is our link for tommorow 's show
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=34665&cmd=tc
and here is the FAQ for talkshoe as you WILL need the client
http://www.talkshoe.com/se/help/FAQ.html
Anyway folks
COME and check it out and get ready for an awesome show and stuff :)
Birdman
out!
Hey boys and girls
Birdman once again reporting in!
So now, I have some MORE good news to report from the front .
I have received MORE confirmation of prizes for our Fundraiser so that means more prizes and more chances to raise money for a great charity like www.littlegeeks.org
So far we have prizes from
Lexmark
Motorola
Adobe
TechSmith
McAfee
Sony Ericsson
Andy Walker
Mt Bellies Restaurant
Anyway, potential prizes on the way as well as the date draws closer.
Birdman
out!