The one where its the blogs birthday!

I'm useless. Absolutely useless. I thought it was today, but after a quick nose through the archives, it was yesterday. Ladies, Gentleman and web crawlers, Down with my life is 4 years old!

I cant imagine the thing has lasted this long, but it has grown into a monster that now lives inside me, ala some Ridley Scott film. And to tell you the truth, I cant see it ever bursting out through my chest. I'm a regular reader of the archives and find it amazing at how the blog and yours truly has changed. Methinks I'll have to go back to typing the fuck word more :)

So, for the birthday celebrations, I'm gonna sit at home with a drink and a cake (If I feckin had one) and nose through the archives. Anyway, Ive picked the birth date date November 12th to take a look back at blog postings on that date, from the last 4 years.
So it begins....

2004
Finally crawled out of bed. Does anyone ever notice the longer you stay in bed the shittier you feel. All I know now is I have to bring the washing in off the line and settle down in front of Halo 2. Eircom people have rung saying my broadband is being processed so after 7 years of dial up I'm finally going to have a decent connection.
I'm starting to think about Xmas stuff already, but take alook at http://www.jonessoda.com Gotta love that turkey and gravy flavour. I might check back later.

2005
Nothing on that date, so I'll go with the date after (13th)
I was like Tom Cruise himself over the weekend, with one exception. He was running away from the Aliens, while I was chasing them. All the video shops kept the release date for War of the Worlds, which surprised me to be fair. Normally I get most of my DVDs from the states, but some titles recently are coming out here first.
You know your getting old when your in of a Friday night waiting to see whats on the Late Late and now you know your sad running around the place after a feckin DVD.
As for our caller Jane who needed a bit of help, from Thursday nights show I will be announcing in just under 30 minutes what we will be doing.
That's it for now kiddie winks. Laters

2006
Same as last time, twas a Sunday, so this one from the 13th...christ
A very later than usual update today. Last night I briefly mentioned "Anybody know what Emergence day is?". Many people responded with a few words..GEARS...OF...WAR... I replied to those who knew telling them about what will be happening on Thursday night!
What will be happening is the following! I have just recorded an interview with Cliffy B (the lead designer on Gears of War) and will be packaging up a whole piece which will run just before midnight on Thursday night! The interview with Cliffy was extremely fun! Lets just say many of you will be expanding your vocab to include "Horstashio". All shall be revealed.
I will ALSO have some copies of the most anticipated game of the year, to giveaway.
In other news, I have a brand spanking new copy of Gears of War on my desk! Roll on midnight!

2007
Nothing on the date again (for fuck sake) but there is something on the 14th
I still have the flu but it seems to be leaving me and going off on holidays for a while. So I shall be back on air tonight!
That is all. Move along!!!!

Well wasn't all that mon-u-fuckin-mental!!!!!! None of my amazing posts seem to fall on that day. Im currently around 50 posts away from 1000 and the goal is to nail that before the year is out!

On a final note, for those of you that read this and have done for quite some time, make this blogger happy and post your birthday wishes in the comments section. It'll make me feel all warm and hard!

The one with the Heavy Metal Farmer

The one with the Quantum of Bonds

Great oul mash up

The one with bad parenting

Besides the video, todays update is an empty cavern of nothing. So, as your here why not delve into this time last year on the blog, or the year before or before that and so on. The archives are on the right hand side. Scroll down!

The one with the last few days!

Friday - Spend most of the day playing Gears of War 2, after dealing with a whole shit storm about one comment hat was made. Argue with car insurance company over renewal quote. Back to Gears. She who must be obeyed gets odd as Im still chainsawing fuckers up hours after she gets home from work. Decide to go out for food to local new Bar and Brasserie, The Crows Nest. Pub menu is over with and restaurant menu is in full effect. End up in the restaurant and have a decent enough meal. Come back home, dogs rain piss all over the back garden and go upstairs to our bed. Head to Mahon Point with the intention of a major shopping spree. Spend nothing and wander around Next waiting for the traffic to clear at 9. Debate going to W. but decide against it. Get home and the rest of the night is erased from my memory. No recollection at all.

Saturday - Get up. Too late for breakfast, so end up with some shit chicken thing for brunch. Spend most of day playing Gears of War 2 again. Much to dismay of herself, who ends up watching some soccer match in Hi Def. Finally emerge from the cinema and Gears 2 and hit up Eddie Rockets for dinner. Get home. Hit up itunes and beatport for some music. From there on in, hit the shower and get to Mallow for the gig in Club Light. Great night, get home for around 3.30am ish and lie in bed with the ipod rockin out on the web still 5am, as I cant sleep.

Sunday - Get up late again. Hit up the shop to get the Sunday Times. Vedge out in front of Gears of war again! Finish the game and call herself in to witness ending. She's relieved its all over. Decide to light the fire for the first time since January. Use sections of still unopened and unread Sunday times to get a fire log lit, that Ger ruined by attempting to light it the night before. Sunday Times finally assists in getting the fire going. Start sorting shit out for the show. Get to the station for around 8pm. Get home for around 1am ish. Collapse on the couch with Top Gear and go to bed and dont really sleep.

Monday - Get up after 4 hours sleep as lately Im having trouble sleeping. Still wondering whats wrong my lungs and chest. This shits been going on for weeks now. And because Im male, I wont go to the doctor. Car is due for a service and a door cable needs to be sorted. Get to the garage for 10am after a 8am get up time. Call into parents. Get home. Car ready. Collect it. Sort shit for the show. Go to the show. Great show. Home, collapse in front of Kevin Smiths new Q&A.

Tuesday - End up with mank chicken wrap for lunch. Updating blog with Kevin Smiths Q&A, on the TV. Battery in laptop going.

And thats it!!!

The one with a site that'll keep you occupied

Check this and now go off and waste 5 minutes creating your own.

The one with trailers from the Movie Bit and the Star Wars Accapella tribute to John Williams

Firstly this guy, who has way too much time on his hands, but this is brilliant!!!!!!!!



Anyway, onto the trailers that were mentioned!!!

UP


QUARANTINE


MY BEST FRIENDS GIRL


WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

The one with Oasis...maybe

See more funny videos at Funny or Die UK

The one with my take on Gears of War 2

WIN COPIES OF THE GAME TONIGHT AS WELL AS OTHER GOW2 GOODIES!!!!!!!

Got hold of GOW2 on Election night and have been trying to put some serious time into it, in between my sinus and lungs exploding. And I cant put the thing down. I don't know how this blog has been updated over the last few days, due to some serious Gearing. 

Gears of War 2 is the sequel to the original Gears of War, obviously enough and if you thought the original was mind blowing, this sequel will melt your mind into dog food. Its that good. The latest edition of the Unreal engine drives the whole Gears 2 universe, which is even bigger and more beautiful that first time round. That's the first thing that hit me. The sheer size of it. The levels are huge and some of the original, big ass bad guys that were an occasional appearance are a regular occurrence this time round. Brumaks wander around like king kong sized chickens with guns. And by the first hour you will have killed at least one of the bastards. 

Like last time round, there is a great story line floating Gears. The Locusts have a new way of sinking cities, which has to be seen to be believed. Dom's wife is also now part of the story line. I don't want to give too much away, but you'll be sucked in from the very start and you'll keep going back to get to the next segment of the story line. Gears has some great voice acting to boot and its full of great lines that'll put a big grin on your face.

"Did you ever see them eat emulsion?"

"I don't care if they eat, shit and die"

Also, another new addition is the executions. Hit a colored button next to a downed enemy and enjoy. Seriously, gore is a big part of the game (you can turn it off if your wimpy) and its never been so enjoyable.

That's just the campaign, which I'm still battling through. As for whats on the multi player over Xbox Live, all the oul favourites are back with some new modes. In particular the Hoarde mode is fantastic. You and some mates battle it out with 50 waves of enemies. Its a phenomenal mode, which brings out the real comradary in ya.

Overall, this is going to be the big one this Xmas and no doubt will sell bucket loads of Xbox 360s.

For me, personally, its one of my games of the year. This will pick up awards left, right and center. If you are going to buy one game this Xmas, this is one helluva a purchase.

"Bigger, Better, More Bad Ass" Damn right!!!!!

10/10

And, don't forget, my GOW2 special kicks off tonight after 10.30pm only on Corks RedFM. Cliff Bleszinski will be in the house as well as some cool freebies!!!!! Don't miss it!!!!!!! 

The one with Obama as President

YES HE DID! YES HE DID! YES HE DID!

Well the Barack brought it home last night and like many I stayed up and watched the events unfold. I'm sure many thought that an African American would never become President, or would have even made for the Democratic nomination. No doubt, there are still thousands, if not ten of thousands of narrow minded individuals who will have trouble accepting a black man for President.
But!!! the color of his skin has nothing to do with his capability of running the country.

If we can learn anything from this Presidential election, which has had the biggest ever voter turnout, we should learn that it is vital to get out and vote when the time comes. Americans who never voted, voted yesterday. Americans who would have preferred to shoot beer bottles off a tree, went out and voted. And we can certainly learn something from that.

History was made last night! History will judge in the years to come. And in my view history will state that Barack Obama is and was the right man for the job and personally, he is nothing but inspirational.