Game of Thrones (Sea­son 1) ◊ The good thing about get­ting into this show right now is that it is only in its sec­ond sea­son, but the bad thing about get­ting into this show right now is that it is only it its sec­ond sea­son.  Because when you’re all caught up, you’ve got to wait each and every week for the new episode and boyyyy do I hate that, espe­cially with shows that leave you hang­ing at the end of every episode.  With each episode being close to an hour long, you have your­self a medieval story involv­ing kings, un-loyal patrons that want to be king, conniving queens, wut­less royal chil­dren, bloody wars, cliques at every facet of the earth’s map and even some ‘extra’ stuff.

I was watch­ing a bit of the behind the scenes, and it was inter­est­ing to hear how the books that this show was based off of, were writ­ten 20-odd years ago.  Or merely just the fact that this show actu­ally was based off of some­thing, some­what like The Walk­ing Dead, which shows that there actu­ally is a story and an ending.

How hard it is to talk on the details of the show with­out spoil­ing the actual show for those that haven’t seen it yet, but if you are into swords and secrets, king­doms and fan­tasy, then you will most enjoy almost every moment of this.  There were prob­a­bly three times, when my jaw dropped and I was like “WHAT?!@ I did NOT see that com­ing!”, oh yes.  Twists and turns.  Hangers

Game of Thrones (Sea­son 2 — Cur­rently Run­ning) ◊ I’ve watched up to the most recent episode, which at the time of me writ­ing this entry is Episode 7.  Still no short­age of drama, as a few more twists occurred and the sto­ries that were more black-and-white have had a bit more colour splashed upon them.  Oooooo, do I despise the lit­tle runt of a king tho.

O W N E D

I have been wait­ing impa­tiently for this, and the day has come.  After tak­ing it all in, you just antic­i­pate him releas­ing a full length LP and I will BUY that.  “Alone” was and still is one of my favourite cuts from this EP, but I have had “Hold­ing on to Noth­ing” on repeat all­l­l­l­l­l­lll day

We are so vain that we even care for the opin­ion of those we don’t care for

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Burger + Chips + Drink = $3.00

Don’t miss out, this Sat­ur­day (May 12th) M&M is hav­ing a char­ity BBQ event from 10AM — 4PM.  Think of it like this, you’ll be donat­ing money to char­ity, and feed­ing your­self at the same damn time!  Now what’s bet­ter than that?  I’m just won­der­ing if I can just give ‘em a $10 and get 3 Burg­ers, 3 Chips and 3 Drinks.. oth­er­wise, I’ll have to drive to a few dif­fer­ent loca­tions this Sat­ur­day afternoon.

Shame­less (Sea­sons 1 & 2) ◊ So it would seem that I am a fan of quite a few shows that were orig­i­nally made in the UK and then stolen and recre­ated by the US (num­ber one exam­ple is The Office, oooooh yea), but will be first to admit I couldn’t even sit through an episode of the UK ver­sions.  I def­i­nitely have to shout-out SJ for get­ting me on to to this show, she put me on this show as if she were the direc­tor her­self.  But glad she did, as once again we strike TV gold with a show that is no stranger to drama each and every episode.

Cue in the Gal­laghers.  A fam­ily so messed up, they make any TV fam­ily look like the Cosby’s and that is no exag­ger­a­tion.  You have an alco­holic bor­der­line dead­beat dad, who prob­a­bly spends more time drunk then he does sober; a mother who wasn’t even made men­tion of until maybe near the end of Sea­son 1?; 4 kids, one of whom (Fiona Gal­lagher) has taken onus to play both mom and dad to her sib­lings, doing every­thing in her power to keep them together, let alone keep­ing her­self together.  And I can’t for­get two of my favourite peo­ple, the bi-racial freaky next door neigh­bors Kevin and Veron­ica.  Sprin­kle in some other odd­ball char­ac­ters that you see through­out Sea­son 1 and 2, and you have your­self a drama filled smor­gas­bord of entertainment.

Now that I’m all caught up, I’ve got to wait until Sea­son 3 comes out… grrr, I hate that part.  Go watch it

Pretty sweet eh?  When I first caught sight of this, my first reac­tion was “I want that!”, so I fol­lowed the yel­low brick dig­i­tal road only to find out that this is merely a con­cept piece.  I wouldn’t be sur­prised if it actu­ally came into fruition, see­ing how big Insta­gram has become.. this would be sure to rake in some seri­ous moula.  And the cre­ators of this con­cept (ADR Stu­dio) went all out and even did the specs and everything:

- 16 GB mass stor­age;
– Wifi and Blue­tooth;
– 4:3 touch­screen;
– 2 main lens, first for main cap­ture, sec­ond for 3D fil­ters, web­cam appli­ca­tions and QR Code cap­tur­ing;
– Opti­cal zoom;
– Led Flash;
– Inter­nal printer to make your Insta­gram pho­tos real;
– Paper car­tridge with Insta­gram Paper Sheets;
– Ded­i­cated 4 col­ors ink tanks;
– InstaOs 1.0, which put together Face­book and Insta­gram App feature;

Clearly they thought this through, let’s just hope they copy­writ­ten this idea before some­one with say in the com­pany does some­thing with it

Seri­ously though, i want one nowwa

Tank — This Is How I Feel (Deluxe Edi­tion)
I don’t believe any­body is as under­rated as Tank, he has con­sis­tently put out solid music for the past few years and yet you don’t hear many peo­ple even bring him up in dis­cus­sion.  His last album was a clas­sic, stacked with hit after hit after hit and of course you had to antic­i­pate his next project.. and then alas, here comes this piece of great­ness.  It’s eas­ier to tell you which songs from the album I don’t care much for, because that’s how few they are com­pared to how many I have on repeat.  If you are look­ing to actu­ally BUY a CD, I’d put my money up on this joint — you know what?  I think I just may go out and sup­port this negro, cause he’s that dope.  Go cop this joint!

Track­list:
01 — How I Feel (Intro)
02 — Lonely (fea­tur­ing Chris Brown) **PICK**
03 — Your One **PICK**
04 — Com­pli­ments (Inter­lude)
05 — Com­pli­ments (fea­tur­ing T.I. & Kris Stephens) **PICK**
06 — Don’t Give Up
07 — Nowhere (fea­tur­ing Busta Rhymes) **PICK**
08 — Off Your Hands
09 — This Is How I Feel (Inter­lude)
10 — This Is How I Feel [ ALBUM PICK ]
11 — Next Breath
12 — Bet­ter Than Me
13 — Lost It All
14 — Under­rated [ BONUS TRACK ] **PICK**
15 — Crazy (fea­tur­ing Kevin McCall) [ BONUS TRACK ] **PICK**