Sweet Tweet

Someone shared this link with me and it's pretty damn funny and a great use of Twitter

http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays

Xbox Recommendations

So I went to the LAN and spent most of the time on an Xbox playing CODWaW.  I ended up buying one and the two COD games plus Fable 2.  I don't like Fable 2, it's too slow and it'll be hitting the gamestop trade in sometime soon, however I'm looking for recommendations from you more experienced gamers on games that may be worth getting.  I like games where I can blow stuff up, blood, carnage, mass destruction is what I'm into.  Is Gears of War worth getting?

I haven't tried any sporting games yet.  I find driving games mildly fun, maybe a boxing game.

Any suggestions?

Atomic Prank

I usually watch TV for a bit while I fall asleep and for some reason I stopped on MTV. I really don't watch MTV all that much anymore, but for some reason I stopped flipping and there were two kids talking. Turns out this was a new show called "Pranked" and I guess it'll be on weekly. Since my tastes run a bit more raunchy I found the clips very amusing, I even laughed out loud at a few which caused a few questionable looks by the dog. Of course my girlfriend could only think about how bad this or that person got hurt and some were more mundane, however I guess as a guy I can see other guys doing these things to one another and in a sophmoric way found them very funny.

Apart from the one I'll link below, there were a few clips called Angry Dad which were about a kid who does nothing but piss off his dad and tape it. The dad get's so mad I'm surprised the tapes actually survived as well as the kid. Anway, check out this version of an atomic wedgie. There's also a follow up clip with that same couch if you were inclined to look. Pranked airs on MTV on Thursday's 10:30 est/pst. The first whole episode is available on MTV if you happen to find this at all funny and wanted to view more.

When Reality Gets Real

I think in one of my first posts I blogged about my stupid fascination with reality shows, mostly the VH1 ones. Mainly, these are easy to keep on and listen to while you're gaming as you can get a good sense of what's going on without having to really pay attention. I've become growlying annoyed with each new one, but they do have entertainment value and under that guise I began to watch a new one called Megan Wants a Millionaire. This show featured Megan (duh) Hauserman(pictured to the left), a reality veteran who you may have seen on one of the shows she was on or from her tussle with Sharon Osborne on stage at a reunion show. I caught her a little bit from Rock of Love and she was more reserved than she was on subsequent shows where she turned into the alpha princess thus landing her a show of her own. The premise of the show has been, gather 17 millionaires who will vie for Megan's love through competitions and by shelling out cash on her for gifts and extravagant dates. Each guy's net worth is shown below them as they talk. By pattern, each week people are eliminated then they go to some island resort where she'll pick from 2 or 3 remaining contestants. The show has only aired 3 times and on the very last show you saw Megan on a private date with one of the millionaires Ryan. Ryan paid for all the extra's for the date, the pricy restaurant, the pricy meal, the pricy Aston Martin sporster to take her out. Episode 4 was to have aired this past Sunday night.

Last week while doing other things I overheard Robin doing the news on Howard Stern. She mentioned the death of a model that was so brutal they could only identify her by the serial numbers on her breast implants. This model was Jasmine Fiore. Turns out that Fiore was married to Ryan Jenkins, the Ryan from Megan's show and that he had reported her missing prior to the police finding her stuffed into a suitcase with her teeth pulled out and finger tips cut off. Jenkins quickly became a suspect and over the course of last weekend led police and Canadian Mounties on high speed boat chases on the NW coast of the U.S. until finally giving them the slip and dissappearing. Reportedly, he showed up to a motel with a young attractive woman who checked them in and subsequently left him in the room alone all weekend. He was only seen stepping out to smoke a cigarette, but otherwise wasn't recognized due to a scruffier apperance. When it came time to check out the owners of the motel found him inside dead. Apparently, he had hung himself with his own belt.

VH1 has since issued statments distancing itself from the production company of the show and cancelling the rest of MWAM, where Ryan was a finalist for Megan and another show he appeared on I Love Money 3 where he supposedly was the winner of the $250,000 prize. It seems that the production company, 51 Minds, does background checks on all the contestants but due to some technicality Ryan's previous brush with the law was not on his normal record and didn't show up. And this isn't the first time reality contestants have passed checks and have been found out to have a past uncomplimentary to whatever show they were on. Apparently our Ryan has a history of anger and female abuse. From reading the story on Wikipedia, which has a very thorough account surprisingly, apparently he met and married Jasmine within 2 days after he was on the MWAM show. They had a rocky relationship, she may or may not have had a wandering eye, there's even a text from him to her where he attempts to sweet talk her to coming back to him which she sadly did. In the coming weeks we may learn more about what sent him over the edge, but this is a sad and gruesome story. How it will affect future reality shows remains to be seen, these types of characters make the shows due to their raunchy and lewd behavior. Will someones brutal death be cause to tame these shows, will they fade out or will they stay the course and profit from the exposure? Certainly the stock on the remaining MWAM shows as well as the I Love Money 3 shows has just gone up and how long will it be before these shows are put out there so we can watch a psychopath in his normal environment? Will VH1 dump 51 Minds and employ another company to lease shows from? Time will only tell.

You can read more about all of thie by going to Wikipedia.com and searching Ryan Jenkins. It's an scary sad tale.

Galapalooza

It's been 17 years since I went to Lollapalooza 2 and I remember that being a very fun experience. That tour had Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ice Cube, Ministry and the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the main bands and I saw it twice that summer, once at the World here in Chicago and up in Alpine Valley Wisconsin. I think the tickets were $40 or $50 bucks. Fast foward till today and tickets are damn near $200, and they take over Grant Park in Chicago and it is a large festival of music. This is a major step for Chicago because it was 10 odd years or so when the city refused to have a Smashing Pumpkins concert in the same location because of fears of the type of crowd and management of said crowd. I've lost interest in it to be honest, bands have not been those I wanted to see, tickets were too pricy and it's always one of the hottest weekends of the year. Ya, I'm old and my desire to walk around and be sweaty all day has waned however I'd always take a free ticket if one was thrown my way.

So I made it known to my good friend who has been my ticket angel this year that if she came across Lolla tix to remember me. She was unable to help me out, however she did invite me to a party ahead of the festival which was supported by the organizers. Titled Gallapalooza, it was a benefit for the Parkways Foundation in Chicago. The Parkways Foundation was created in 1994 as an avenue to raise private funds for projects within the Chicago Park District (CPD) for the enrichment of the physical and cultural landscape of Chicago's neighborhoods. Their scope includes, but is not limited to, the needs of children and families as well as historic preservation. Parkways also works to raise needed funds for the growth and enhancement of educational programs and camps in our neighborhoods. Lollapalooza has for the past several years partnered with Parkways to raise nearly $2million for the resoration of Buckingham Foundtion and for kid programs.

So on a hot Thursday night I made my way downtown to attend this benefit in Grant Park in business casual attire. Walking past all the people who were in town for the weekend festival, I was more than jealous I wasn't able to t-shirt and cargo short my way around that night. The evening would include as many cocktails as I could drink and as much food as I could eat. Lolla even leant some of the lesser known acts to play on the main stage. The area in front of the stage took on the theme of a lounge, with couches and tables made avaialble for sponsor parties. Performance artists were all around, even a chick with a napkin dress. I thought I'd stay until 8 or so, the bands weren't all that (to me) and I had to drive back so right before I was about to leave my friend's assistant let me know that Perry Ferral was on hand to introduce the next band and that he normally walks around and talks with people. This made me stay a bit longer I mean afterall it's not every day you get to meet someone who you've been a fan of for 20 years. Sure enough he came down and I got to meet him and grab a pic with him. It was a pretty neat experience for me as normally when I'm in that park I'm a sloppy mess, but here I was about 180 opposite. Perry must weigh about 100 pounds, he's skinny as hell but very nice and we made idle chit chat for a few minutes before he was molested by another fan for pictures. Totally fun night here's some pics.