Wolverine: Uncaged Edition (xbox 360)

I played the demo and, for the first time in a while, was disappointed that the demo had ended. What balls-blasting load of fun this is! I picked up the game and I have to say that I wasn’t disapointed. The combat is fun and deep enough that it stays as different as I want it to; Levelling-up gives me the progression that keeps the game from getting stale; dismembering and decapitation is fun! However the level design is lacklustre, story non-existant and the enemies repetitive: what I usually want in a game sucks balls. But dismembering and decapitation is fun and that’s what keeps me coming back. I have proven I am shallow.

Dead Space

While I find the atmosphere and art stunning and the gameplay showing enough ingenuity for me to say ‘awesome’ and not ‘blow me’ there is something in the game that stops me from coming back: I play for an hour and then finish. The only thing I can put my finger on is the save-point system, the times in between which can be long enough to make me stab myself in the eye with my own controller (long-time readers will remember that this is what eventually stopped my enjoyment of Dead Rising…despite the Zombies). However dismembering and decaptiation is fun. I have proven I am shallow.

Lode Runner
The Puzzles are awesome!

Peggle
I am embarrassed that I love this game so much.

Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope
This is bedtime reading for me and while I usually can’t ever finish a non-fiction book (history of Canadian Paleontology and the biography of Billie Holiday still sit dust-covered and unfinished) I find the sing-song narrative of Obama entrancing. This book has made me realize three things: Americans really should be proud of their history and what they managed to accomplish; Canada needs to get off its complacent ass and learn a thing or two from the Americans about a self-sustaining free-market; Canada is in dire need of leadership.

Placebo: Meds
I’m late to the party on this album: I bought it on the heels of Placebo’s new album which is due this summer. While I did wait to buy it, I’m glad I actually did. Placebo’s cover of Running up that Hill by the elusive Kate Bush is nothing short of brilliant.

Mad Men: Season 2
I find the downward spiral of company men and women in the 1960s who hate their own lives strangely compelling.

Facebook
What was an enjoyable way to get and keep in touch with old friends and be aware of what was going on in my friends’ lives now that they are all scattered across the globe, has become akin to the classifieds of Toronto’s Now Magazine. I spend more time filtering through the crap than I do staying in touch with friends; I spend more time reading people’s ‘witty’ comments of status updates than I do writing them. And I find that Facebook statuses, which used to be people’s way of communicating the goings-on in their life have become people’s opportunity to gripe: the appearance is that people spend many many hours deliberating what witty line should be placed in their status.
Basically facebook can screw itself. Twitter is the unobtrusive communication tool for me: updates are easy, short, and to the point. The result is that people put more pertinent and compelling updates and do it more frequently. The lack of shitty applications and ridiculous surveys means that I see everything.
Twitter also allows me to be in communication with people of interest. Wil Wheaton’s twitter is as entertaining as his website; the reviewers from Chud never cease to amuse me.
Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/mohss

And Finally…

AutoTune the News
Autotuning sucks, so piss off Kanye. But I am strangely compelled by this farce on the autotuning phenom which takes newscasters and dumps it through Apple’s software for retarded singers, adding their own brand of Comedy hilarity. I downloaded this and put it on my network so I could watch it on my 360 at any time. It is that funny.
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30. Johnny Cash: Live at Folsom Prison
29. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
28. The Tragically Hip: Up to Here
27. The Tea Party: The Edges of Twilight
26. Talking Heads: Sand in the Vaseline (2 disc comp)
25. P.J. Harvey: To Bring You My Love
24. Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
23. Jeff Buckley: Grace
22. Public Enemy: It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
21. Billie Holiday: Romance in the Dark (4 disc comp)
20. Nine Inch Nails: Downward Spiral
19. Nick Drake: Pink Moon
18. Orbital: Insides
17. Catherine Wheel: Chrome
16. Bauhaus: Gotham (live) (I truly believe this is the best of that they’ve done)
15. The Cure: Disintegration
14. Radiohead: OK Computer
13. Portishead: Dummy
12. Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
11. Judas Priest: Painkiller
10. The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow
9. Front Line Assembly: Hard Wired
8. Nirvana: Nevermind
7. Haujobb: Solutions for a Small Planet
6. Slowdive: Pygmalion
5. Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park
4. Supertramp: Breakfast in America
3. Tom Waits: Bone Machine
2. Depeche Mode: Violator
1. Tool: Lateralus