tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564Tue, 13 May 2008 10:53:15 +0000http://www.madcatx.com/blog/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)Blogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-6930397747069610005Tue, 13 May 2008 10:49:00 +00002008-05-13T04:53:15.527-06:00Movie ReviewSeason 4 has come out to a pretty slow start but that's good because I know that this is the last season and I want it to last forever. Most of what's making it feel so slow is the anticipation of what's coming next. I can't say enough good things about this show but there is one bad thing... I hate how they give away the whole show in a subliminal blipvert montage right after the opening http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/05/battlestar-gallactica.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-557461857976866641Tue, 13 May 2008 08:12:00 +00002008-05-13T02:46:55.705-06:00Movie ReviewThis is another difficult to watch Ellen Page film (the other being Hard Candy). I haven't even seen Juno yet and I know that this girl is going to be around for awhile. The story is based on a true story about a girl in the 60s who is locked up in the basement by her caregiver and is brutally torchured by the woman and her children and others in the neighborhood. I knew the story ahead of time http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/05/american-crime.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-8668511582450322784Fri, 09 May 2008 08:50:00 +00002008-05-09T03:00:53.085-06:00pop cultureArtday to day While the rest of the console kids are butchering their morals on GTA IV, my wife and I have been playing Mario Kart Wii. None the less, I don't think it matters whether cut each other down with a Mac-10 or knock each other off the road with a Winged Koopa-Shell. We still yell and swear just as much. Good times.http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/05/grand-theft-mario-cart-wii.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-8015500575417520358Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:36:00 +00002008-04-22T03:51:18.446-06:00Movie ReviewI read about this movie and forgot about it again until it turned up on a list of the most uncomfortable movie to watch so that it, I had to watch it. It is indeed a very very uncomfortable movie. It's about a young girl played by Ellen Page (Juno and the Trailer Park Boys of course) who hooks up with this older guy she met on the internet. It starts out pretty straight forward and you expect it http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/hard-candy.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-8384016377510446781Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:08:00 +00002008-04-22T03:32:30.872-06:00Movie ReviewI'm still not sure why they used the term Requiem in the title of this movie. I've even checked the definition and the wiki and nothing really hits me. Maybe I'm just an idiot tonight. The Good I'm a bit of an Aliens fanboy here to mind my bias. The action sequences in this movie are great. The violence and gore also make this movie worth watching. It is very very violent by the way. This movie http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/aliens-vs-predator-requiem.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-1462298555716993676Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:46:00 +00002008-04-22T03:00:38.522-06:00Movie ReviewThe Good: Great giant monster movie. A little silly how invulnerable the giant monster was but that's giant monsters for ya. The Bad: If I watch it again, I'm fast-forwarding through the obligatory sequence where they try to make you care about the characters cause all it did for me was make me think every one of them was a douche bag in one form or another. I haven't looked at the rest of the http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/cloverfield.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-2098542292128025064Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:40:00 +00002008-04-10T05:48:10.426-06:00social commentarypop culturelinksContrary to my post on Playground Love, this little entry shows some of the scariest images to ever be taken in a Playground. I give you Nightmare Playgroundshttp://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/playground-horror-and-friends.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-3255329649068966842Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:38:00 +00002008-04-10T04:38:49.680-06:00day to dayI once noticed a girl pass me in the mall while i was using my laptop. My laptop noticed her own laptop's open wifi signal came and went at the same time. It was oddly poetic.http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/scene-from-mall.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-531892275248373894Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:12:00 +00002008-04-08T02:13:12.614-06:00comicspop cultureArthttp://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/were-macs.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-2149662086377034872Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:36:00 +00002008-04-08T03:45:49.778-06:00Movie ReviewI love stories where all shit is breaking loose everywhere and everyone's dieing yet the real monsters are the few savage humans left alive who fuck up what ever bit of civilization is left. Combine that with Half-Life (minus Gordon) and you've got The Mist in a nutshell without spoilers. Besides I'm a sucker for Stephen King stories. It runs in the family, I think.http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/04/mist.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-1389581361150553404Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:53:00 +00002008-03-26T02:04:56.729-06:00social commentaryArtMy other Free Tibet design is selling ok so I thought I'd make another. If there's one event from the 80s that I remember well it was the massacre at Tienamin Square in the summer of 1989. http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/free-tibet-ii.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-368259988151131872Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:46:00 +00002008-03-26T02:03:55.703-06:00social commentaryArtThe recent insanity in China inspired me to put this little piece together. http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/free-tibet.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-1845411576923920640Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:32:00 +00002008-03-20T00:50:58.702-06:00cyclingI've always had the belief that pictures get better with age. This move to flickr has me looking at a lot of great old photos from my days riding with Critical Mass. I haven't really looked at in awhile. There's some great memories here. More to come on my flickr page.http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/brief-look-back-at-critical-mass-days.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-6580824533463441097Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:58:00 +00002008-03-20T00:50:04.607-06:00tech stuffArtday to dayI upgrade my Flickr to Flickr Pro today and I've decided to move all my photos and artwork over to Flickr from my previous image gallery backbone which has been Gallery. After attempting to upgrade my Gallery with no success and getting repetitively spammed in the comments section of the Gallery, I've deicided to just ditch the whole thing. I'm also pretty certain based on what I have on Flickr http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/great-exodus-to-flickr.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-5569319677032955102Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:34:00 +00002008-03-11T02:49:50.606-06:00day to dayOne of the best things about living on this acreage is the short period of time it takes to make an idea into reality. While feeding the horse this morning, my wife looked at an old oil drum full of junk and decided we should burn it. Ten minutes later I had the drum rolled over closer to the house and the drum's contents were ablaze. We've never had a fire like this before but by the end, most http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/taste-of-spring.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-7987579163569501522Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:43:00 +00002008-03-07T03:10:26.764-07:00pop cultureday to dayThe father of the turn based role playing game died yesterday. Gary Gygax created Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, the year before I was born. His death got me thinking about the old game again and the pen and my pen and paper RPG days. For as long as I can remember, I always knew about the game. There was always a collection of kids in my neighborhood who played. It was like their secret club. I http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/memories-of-dungeons-dragons.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-919083812259224610Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:45:00 +00002008-03-04T03:06:43.775-07:00day to dayMy wife first alerted me to a Coyote she spotted out on the pasture. They're very impressive looking this time of year with their this gray coats like small wolves. This particular lone coyote was quickly making his way past Regal, our huge black thoroughbred. Regal made his presence and might quite obvious to the coyote, frolicking and darting around. Smart enough to know the consequences of http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/coyote.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-7879524847522742274Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:43:00 +00002008-03-04T01:43:51.505-07:00cyclingday to dayIt came sooner than expected actually. I thought I'd be waiting until early April for the first ride of the season. Me being without a mountain bike and all right now, I'm in favor of dry roads with the racing tires on the Trek Fx hybrid. I like to get out early as the first ride on the bike is also the diagnostic ride where I find out what all has to be repaired and replaced in time for spring http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/thr-first-ride-fo-season.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-7656267221494932579Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:50:00 +00002008-03-01T03:09:43.554-07:00tech stuffIf a server is a sever, a mainframe is a mainframe, a PC is a personal computer, what's a mac supposed to be? I recall back in computer class in the 80s, a Mac was a Macintosh Personal Computer. This has bothered me ever since Apple started pushing ads with the whole Mac vs PC campaign. Are Apple's new target market supposed to be idiots or is Apple unhappy with the fact that personal computer http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/03/whats-mac.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-2454339518241684568Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:40:00 +00002008-03-01T06:28:14.178-07:00comicsMovie ReviewAfter seeing American Psycho at least a dozen times, it was hard to keep a straight face while watching Batman Begins. The two characters were incredibly similar (spoiled neurotic yuppies). I hope the latest Batman sequel is the same way. It was hysterical.http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/02/batman-begins.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-5077399301677520793Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:24:00 +00002008-02-28T23:44:22.827-07:00comicsMovie ReviewThe best cereal ever meets the best movie ever!http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/02/i-want-more-life-fker.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-8346559789303896105Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:16:00 +00002008-02-26T02:11:59.310-07:00Movie ReviewIt's too bad Steve Irwin is dead cause this would have been a much better movie had he at least made a cameo appearance. The premise is three tourists and their tour guide go fishing in the outback. A sinister crocodile flips the boat, eats the tour guide, and plucks the tourists off one by one as they remain stuck in a tree for an hour and a half. The audience is left with one exciting action http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/02/black-water.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-1642316149128561024Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:56:00 +00002008-02-24T20:11:40.629-07:00Movie ReviewI Am The Last Omega Man On Earth Another remake. This time, a remake of a remake an adaptation of a novel. Anyway... "I Am Legend" with will smith is more like the original "The Last Man On Earth" with Vincent Price but with some of the religious undertones of "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston. When I was a kid, I used fantasize about how cool it'd be to be the only person left alive on the http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/02/i-am-legend.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-5543194540514484538Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:01:00 +00002008-02-21T01:37:53.387-07:00pop cultureI don't ask for much from network television shows but at the same time, I don't watch that many either. I wasn't expecting anything amazing from this new take on the Terminator story so maybe that's why I'm still watching. I'm really hooked. The story really focuses largely on the consequences of the first movie which I think is perfect. It bypasses all the liquid metal effects of the T-1000 http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/02/terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24652564.post-1392327877847807827Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:08:00 +00002008-02-19T05:35:49.943-07:00comicspop cultureIt's 5am and I'm about to read the Walking Dead #46. I'm almost afraid to. It's a story I've followed closely since the very first issue. It's the best comic I've read in ages. All I know about this one is that it's a devastating issue. For anyone who hasn't read this story, I strongly suggest reading it from issue #1. In short, zombies are backdrop to a survival story where the real horror is http://www.madcatx.com/blog/2008/02/walking-dead.phpnoreply@blogger.com (MadCatX)