Tom Cruise is Crazy

Recently video of an interview Tom Cruise did to be shown when he was to be presented Scientology’s “Medal of Freedom.” It’s some pretty disturbing stuff he’s talks about, including that Scientologists are the foremost experts on the mind.

In addition, a group calling themselves the “Anonymous” posted a video on YouTube declaring war on Scientology. So far they have been able to crash the official Scientology website and hack the sites of several chapter websites.

Here’s the video:

Fellow Bloggers At Work

Here’s the video of the guys from Gizmondo’s prank at CES of turning off TVs with a TV B-Gon. As you can see it’s quite affective. I may have to get one.

Besides being funny as hell, the video points out one thing that had been bugging me. If you notice, the POWER bottom is in a pain is the ass shot to get to! Does it really kill the “coolness” of a flat-screen if you have one or two easy to get to buttons?!

Dr. Phil, you suck!

I’m so damn sick of Dr. Phil. He’s a hack yet for some reason people listen to him like he’s a god, of course those people are the same ones who love Oprah. I bet most people don’t even know that he no longer has a license to practice anymore, that’s right the world’s most famous shrink is barred from practicing. You you want more just Wikipedia the S.O.B.

Now he’s on a quest to save Britney Spears. Go luck there pal. You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl. It’s not Britney, its a family thing just look at her sister Jamie Lynn. C’mon the girl was bound to be messed up. Her parents named her after themselves and she has her dad’s name as her first name. So Doc if you are trying to help Brit maybe you should go look at the parents beforehand because they seem to be the source of the promblems, that or all the inbreeding…

HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray, Who the F@ck Cares?

Earlier this week Warner Bros, the top studio in terms of home video sales, announced that they were dropping HD-DVD in favor of entirely Blu-Ray and many industry expect this is the end of HD-DVD. My question, who really cares?

The majority of TVs in the United States are still SDTV so most people therefore don’t have any use of any of the HD formats. Especially since the you can’t get a Blu-Ray player for less than $400 or a HD-DVD player for less than $200? And who really wants to pay $30 for a movie in HD when the DVD version is $10. It’s pretty obvious that neither is really taking off when both formats offer you 5 or more movies just for buying the player.

Myself, I’m happy with my $30 HD Upconverting DVD player on my 32″ flat screen waiting until one of these damn formats is the clear winner and the players cost less than $50.

So I’m not the Only One…

Looks like somebody read my post on the BCS. Cool, but the bastard didn’t give me any credit. I’m thinking of suing if this goes any farther.

The article states that there’s seems to be more support for a playoff system. Really?! Who would have thought that in a year that the “National Champion” is a 2 loss team that lost to an Arkansas team that got spanked by a Missouri team that beat a Kansas team (who by the way is the only 1-loss team in the top 10) that whipped Virginia Tech and who beat an Ohio State team that loss to an Illinois team that was tarred and feathered by an USC team that lost to a Stanford team that was beat by a god-awful Notre Dame team that also beat an UCLA team that beat an Oregon team that also beat USC.

It’s all so perfectly clear!

Stupid RIAA, I’ve got Your Problem Right Here

The RIAA has started up it’s latest round of lawsuits this time going after people who rip music that they legally purchased to their iPod. It’s obvious that the RIAA and it’s members aren’t doing to hot. The best selling album of 2007 was a Christmas album by Josh Groban with 3.6 million copies sold. A Christmas album! Gone are the days when pop princesses and boy bands had 3 or 4 diamond records(10 million+ sold) a year. Some say it’s illegal downloading and websites like iTunes are the cause and they are partially correct, but they were are created because of one reason: the ridiculous cost of CDs.

I realized this the other day when I was shopping. We’ve all noticed that the older the movie release, the cheaper it is. You can go to Target and get major-studio movies on DVD release in the past 3 years for as little as $5. But when was the last time you saw a CD on sale for $5? You don’t. Britney Spears’ first CD …Baby One More Time released in early 1999 still costs $12.99! I got the collector’s edition complete with special metal case of The Departed, last year’s Oscar winner of best picture for $7.99! Granted, movies can be very profitable before being released on DVD and the DVD sales are just icing on the cake, but what about the movies that are released direct-to-DVD? They are just as cheap as the theater-released movies and they must be profitable because they keep doing it. And I’m pretty damn sure that they made their money back and more on …Baby One More Time.

Another advantage movies have over CDs, is when you buy a movie, it’s because you like the movie, when you buy a CD, if your lucky you like half the songs on it. That’s why iTunes is so damn popular, you only have to buy the songs you like. When you can do that, why the hell would you buy the CD?

But why are CDs so expensive to began with? Easy, the music industry is a bloated monster weighted down by clinging to an outdated business model. It’s getting to the point where a band almost doesn’t need a record label. Technology has made it easy for bands to get their music out there on their own, but the record labels still insist on things like they did when they solely controlled the spread of music 20+ years ago.

Stupid RIAA.

Once Again, the BCS Shows It Sucks

With USC’s pounding of Illinois last night, the failings of the BCS showed themselves again. So I propose the following replacement:

There will be 6 bowls in a playoff form: Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, Capital One (with the Citrus name restored), and the Cotton Bowls. The winners of the 6 major conferences will automatically win a berth to the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls with the Big 10 and Pac 10 Champs facing off in the Rose Bowl (I don’t really give a shit above who plays in the other ones). In addition, there will be 4 at-large bids, with those teams facing off in the Capital One and Cotton Bowls. The winners of those games will face the lowest ranked of the conference champs in the Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls.

From that point, it will follow a typical playoff format with the venues of the other 6 bowls rotating hosting the National Semis and the National Championchip Game.

All the other bowls will continue to be played as they are now.

Under this system, everyone wins. The NCAA gets to whore itself out even more to the highest bidder for the rights to televised the games. And ESPN gets to keep it’s cash cow of pointless bowls named after a pizza chain’s website.

Of course, the university presidents will oppose this because, “Students will miss too much class.” Bullshit. The “students” on the basketball teams involved with March Madness miss a whole month of class (assuming that they even go to class) and during finals time to less. Hell, bowls games are played while schools are on “Winter” break.

So there you have it, my alternative to the BCS.

What’s the Point of the BCS?

With the creation of the National Championship, the only real function of the “Series” is to provide a rotation of the venue for the game. And that’s it. Hell, one bowl, the Rose Bowl,  is  extremely independent of the other games going as far as having it’s own TV contract separate from the rest of the series. That’s fine with me because in my opinion the BCS needs the Rose Bowl far more than the Rose Bowl needs the BCS. Without the Rose Bowl no one would take the BCS seriously, less than they do now.

I would rather see the National Championship Game be like the Super Bowl and have venues vie to host the game so they can end this BCS crap.

Are Some Teams Destined to Suck?

I’m watching the Lions vs. Packers right now and have concluded that the Lions will never win a Super Bowl. Why? Because they are destined to suck, much like the Cardinals. In fact, the Lions and Cardinals are the only teams to have been in existence since the start of the Super Bowl to never to make it to one. Technically, Cleveland hasn’t been to one either, but they don’t count because the team that was the original Browns (Ravens) did go to a Super Bowl and that they didn’t exist during the late-90s.

Every sport has them, the teams that always suck. Baseball has the Rays, Royals, pretty much the entire National League… Basketball has the Clippers, Warriors, Bobcats, and Bucks. Hockey has, well hockey has been pretty good about every team having a good season every once in a while.

For a lot of the teams mentioned it’s the ownership to blame. Others seemed to be just destined to suck. No matter who’s the coach, the players, they still some how manage to be bad and always find new ways to be bad.

Finally, the NFL did something Right

I actually have to give the NFL credit for allowing the Pats vs. Giants game to be broadcast on CBS and NBC as well as the NFL Network. Originally it was only going to be on the NFL Network which was not an issue for me since apparently I’m one 6 people in the country that actually get the NFL Network which is funny because I never watch it because I view it as a complete waste of time outside the actual football games.

And of course, the NFL turns the whole thing as a giant promo for the NFL Network. But as a promotional tool I thing it backfired since it showed the public that the NFL Network has the worst play-by-play team in all of football with Bryant Gumbel and Cris Collinsworth. Plus they might want to rethink their ad campaign featuring the two guys at the diner as it portrays the typical NFL Network viewer and a single bum that does nothing more that sit on his ass and watch shows from NFL Films, so basically a loser.