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.

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.

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.

From Russia with Love

Surfing around YouTube, I found this clip from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson of him doing a chicken dance. Normally I would had it funny enough, but the thing that really gets me is the fact that there’s Russian subtitles. So you’ve every wondered how to say “chicken” in Russian, here’s your chance.

Forget Touring, the Money is in Ads, Bitch!

Anybody remember that cute little song by the weird-looking lead singer of Nickleback and another guy with a striped goatee call “Hero” for the Spiderman soundtrack a few year back? Well that other guy has a band of his own, Saliva. Saliva has done ok for themselves with a couple of gold albums, but nowhere near buddy band Nickleback.

So what is Saliva to do to have the cash to throw around when they go for a night around town with their buds who have a much bigger record contract? The answer is simple, write songs that marketing minions will droll over. And that’s what they did.

You’ve probably heard the song “Ladies and Gentlemen” by Saliva. It was the WrestleMania 23 theme song, featured in the newest PlayStation 3 ad campaign, promos for the new American Gladiators, ESPN Radio, NFL Network, and just about every sports arena in the past year.

If you listen to the song by itself, it’s quite forgettable and somewhat stupid sounding. It can be broken down into two parts:

Rock on, Josey

• Lead singer Josey Scott (yes, that’s his real name) sounding like a one of those guys they had outside freakshows talking them up
• Heavy guitar riffs overlaid with Josey Scott yelling “Let me hear it Ladies and Gentlemen.”

Oh, and it goes like that for over 3 minutes, perfect for a 30 second ad, not so much for the radio.

It makes me want to go and make an album made up of songs designed solely for ads. I’ll call it “Songs for Commericals.”