Musings, Tuesday 5/28/13

Oh Amanda Bynes, I miss the sane version of you. Please come back to us. Until you do, every time I think of certain portions of my childhood, I feel dirty. In a bad way.

Toy Reviews - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Optimus Prime

Toy Reviews - MU West Coast Avengers 3-Pack

Toy Reviews - Superman from Man of Steel

Videos - Elder Scrolls Online First Impressions by YouTube's ForceSC2strategy

Looking forward to this game sooooo much, as I'm a huge Elder Scrolls nerd, and now I'm looking forward to it even more after seeing this great video.

Movie Review - Star Trek Into Darkness (SPOILERS)

So I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness again today. It's a jam-packed movie that I really felt would require two viewings to absorb everything. I was only kinda right, though (I guess I retained more from my first viewing than I thought), but I'm still glad I went. Either way, I'm now confident in my ability to review this movie and do it justice.

Videos - Star Trek Into Darkness First Thoughts

TV Review - Teen Titans Go!

I may be twenty-five and look twenty-one (and proud of it), but in many ways I'm still a kid at heart. I collect action figures, I play games, and I absolutely love cartoons, from Transformers, to the DC Comics Animated movies and TV series, to anime, to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (yes, I'm a Brony, and a huge Lauren Faust fan), but there are few cartoons I've enjoyed more than the old Teen Titans series from a few years back. That show was amazing, from an utterly perfect voice cast, to great stories, to animation that could move fluidly between action scenes and comedic scenes, to an utterly brilliant mix of said comedy and action. It was pretty much perfect, taking queues from seemingly every great cartoon to come before it. When it was cancelled, I wept (inwardly, I am a man), and when I heard that it was being revived as a more comedic show, I was cautiously optimistic, but was my caution warranted? Yes, but not nearly so much as I would have thought.



Showin' the Mom Love

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there! Spent a day with two of my favorite moms today. First I went down to see my mom, and we caught her up on the current season of Doctor Who, which was awesome. Then I went to see my grandma and grandpa, and we watched Tiger win at golf (which put us in bad moods, as we are not Tiger fans), so we cheered ourselves up by watching dumb movies. Mermaids, with Winona Ryder and Cher, which is just weird, Nine Months with Julianne Moore and Hugh Grant, which was funny, only because it was so bad (probably because Chris Columbus directed it), and then Jerry Maguire, which is actually a pretty good movie. It was a great day filled with great people. I hope the rest of you out there had a great Mother's Day as well, whether spent with your mom, spent as a mom, or spent remembering a mom fondly.

Musings, Weds 5/8/13 - Evening

How many wolves could a werewolf wear if a werewolf could wear wolves?

Videos - Too Cool to Describe

Check this out. So awesome!

Musings, Tues 5/7/13 - Evening

I just love Rick Riordan's modern fantasy stuff. Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus, the Kane Chronicles, they are all fantastic series. I can't wait for October when the next Heroes of Olympus is out. Of course sometimes something great happens that makes the waiting easier, such as the crossover between the two Greek series and the Kane Chronicles that was released today with the paperback edition of the final book in the Kane Chronicles. Not only did it feature Percy Jackson, my favorite hero from Greek Mythology (see what I did there?), but it was action packed, funny, and even (I think, cross my fingers) set up for an even larger crossover down the line. All of the clues are there. If I'm right, if this actually happens, I think I could die happy.

Yeah, I'm a little older than the series' target audience, but I don't care, I love mythology and by extension I love these. I even hear that Riordan is working on a series based on Norse Mythology, my most favorite mythology of all! Epicfanboysquee!!!

Movie Review - Iron Man 3

So I went to see Iron Man 3 this past Sunday. Love it or hate it, pretty much everyone is talking about it, saying either it was the best of the trilogy, the worst, or just meh. Since everyone else has something to say about the movie, I thought that I'd get my two cents in. Now originally I'd planned to give my first thoughts, but I found that really hard to do. This movie just needed thought about, so I decided to take a couple of days and do just that.

TV Review - Weird or What?

My mom (who is pretty awesome, btw) grew up watching the original Star Trek with family, so when she had kids she shared Star Trek with us. I'm the only one who really got into it, but it was still cool. Point is, I grew up watching William Shatner on TV, so maybe I'm biased when I say I just love the guy's onscreen presence. Sure, he's over the top, but there's just something about him. Yeah, he's been in some other stuff since Star Trek, but I never really got into any of that, and recently he's only really done bit parts in various series. So, when I heard that The Shat had a new series on SyFy, even if he was just hosting, I got very excited, and for the most part, I wasn't disappointed. Still, this may just be my bias again, as I love weird phenomena even more than I love Bill on TV, so let's really break this thing down and see if it's as good as I thought the first time through.

Musings, Sat 5/4/13 - Evening

I think that if I ever strike rich I want to recreate some of my favorite sets from my favorite sitcoms, particularly the house from That 70's Show. I love that series.

Musings, Sat 5/4/13

I just saw a commercial for adoptuskids.org where the dad is getting ready to climb a ladder, and he says "You know my motto, safety first." The family looks on him indignantly and recall a time when several wild animals infested their basement and the same man went down after them with only a laundry basket rather that call animal control, to which the dad responds "It's a new motto."

Now I want to see a show about these people, because that's just funny.

TV Review - Family Tools

As a kid growing up in the nineties, I loved sitcoms, and I still do. I watched sooo many sitcoms. I got the trailing edge of the eighties coms, and I got to see the beginnings of the greatest sitcoms of the nineties and the early millennium, several of which set the stage for the sitcoms of today. I watched Friends when it was new. Before that, sex was usually talked about as if it were a PSA, and characters were almost always related, or at the very least living under a single roof, or going to the same school. Restaurant scenes were pretty rare. Friends changed everything, and ever since, everyone has been trying to change things just as much. While I admire this, I miss the classic sitcom. I miss The Cosby Show, Family Matters, and Saved by the Bell. I even miss Full House, though it pains me to say it. Most of all, though, I miss Home Improvement.

Intro to Awesomeness

Hello everyone! Welcome to The AwesomeBlog. Here I plan to talk about everything that I care about. Most of you will considers this to be ungodly boring, but hopefully someone somewhere will get something out of this.

No topic is off limits here. I will primarily focus on toy reviews, the occasional movie or TV review, or review of another product, and little bits and bobs about my life, but then sometimes I'll talk about love, or longing, or current events, or whatever. Just anything that crosses my mind.

Though this will mostly be a place for me to document what matters in my life, I do hope that others will get something out of it too, so please, give it a read.

If I can figure out how, which is a stretch since I know nothing about this site, I'll also be posting stories, video, and my terrible webcomic here, so yeah...