SpacePirateNeko

new weta bust from spiderman 3

In a recent interview sam raimi said he wanted venom to be more like an evil doppleganger to spiderman thus the reason hes not huge like he was in the comics. True i would have liked to have seen the giant scary venom of the comics but i think this works too. I think venom will return as the main baddy in spiderman 4 if they make it...and i think the symbiote will have enchanced brock alot more in that one. I dont think venom is going to get alot of time in this movie and sandman will be the main bad guy. I suspect hes going to be near the end of the film , allowing significant time for peter to wear his black suit and have his inner turmoils. If that goes too fast and he doesnt get enough time to allow the evil in the symbiote to posess him its going to feel too rushed. Remember he wore that thing for a looong time in the comics. I hope brocks vendetta against spiderman eclipses " he ruined my career" which i dont think would make him bad enough on screen.

Excillon if your going to quote someone make sure you dont hype it up and add a bunch of expletives to it to make it sound more dynamic. What he said wasnt nice but it went more like this .. So lets get this whole "ripped" off thing out of the way, because lets face it , its something people say in order to gain a bit of credibility that somehow the music they listen to is the "real deal". I enjoy alot of the music you mentioned but theres no one mentioned there who didnt rip off someone or wasnt highly influenced from someone. Ministry were a dark new wave band until they got into some heavier music and decided they were going to be heavier too. I love skinny Puppy and Throbbing Gristle who came before them. The point is trent hasnt ripped off anyone. WHen you rip someone off you try and hide the fact you ripped them off, you dont mention in every article written about you where every song came from and what influenced it. You know why you think down in it was a rip off of Digg it? Because trent reznor has said in about 200 interviews thats where he got the song from. Of course without him saying that i doubt anyone would find many simialrities they are very different with the exception of the title. The opening from closer is from iggy pops nightclubbing, also mention in a billion and a half articles...as is his love for minsitry and skinny puppy. Nah people are just bitter that he became famous off of something that was once sacred ( massive eye roll) and "underground" Theres no sound that hasnt been done before...so the whole "this is unoriginal" is a joke to me , ive heard it all. I only care if you take whats available and do something good with it. After 10 listens i absolutely love Year Zero , its grown on me alot. I dont care about whats "hoakey " or not , im not flakey enough to honestly believe that things like that matter. The two bands ive been giving alot of time to right now are camera obscura and asobi seksu. They do nothing original...the first sounds like 60s girl pop meets 90s britpop with some velvet underground thrown in. The latter does nothing My Bloody Valentine and Lush werent doing in the late 80s early 90s,,,but god they do it absolutely beautifully and thier new album hasnt come out of a listening device since it arrived last year. Oh and tell mr jourgensan im going to see morrissey in vegas in june, because his shows are wonderful.

I think you misunderstand what i mean by pop. I love pop music...its just that the name seems to imply something else these days....pop isnt and has never been a genre. Most nin songs have a catchy verse and chorus underneath all of them, though the songs themselves arent always set up in a standard pop format. If you can remember teh song and find yoruself singing it chances are its pop music. If its the sound of someone repeatedly beating a toaster with a baseball bat for 6 hours ( throbbing gristle) its probably moved far out of the realm of pop music. Pop needs to stop having such a nasty connotation in america..its really not liek that in other countries ive been to.

Trents nver said he made industrial music , he was inspired by alot of it but hes always hated the label as it was too confining. But nin has always had its deepest roots in post punk pop music anyway. Theres more depeche mode then nitzer ebb in nin anyway ( thats a good thing). Though plenty of those bands are good ( especially SP) have any of them really done anything new or interesting ( within themselves) for years? I think skinny puppy have evolved and changed by leaps as a byproduct of losing a member but the other bands...i mean cmon. Ministry have been barking up the same tree for 17 years now. I think many people who listen to "industrial" have always been pissed because nin took the sound to the masses. I dont know, i just like music if theres at least some feeling behind it and theres an effort to display that feeling...ie if it moves me in anyway. I dont really care what way is made to acheive that sound. I was a nin fan and a fan ofof some of those bands before tds and i remain a fan now. Its funny i remember when tds came out how there was a big anti nin from people who had been fans for so long. They claimed he had gone all poppy and mainstream which i always found hilarious since PHM was the most pop sounding album he has ever done, where tds though like all his stuff had a pop setup , was much more dissjointed and progressive( though i hate using that word). Though i wasnt a huge fan of the fragile it had its moments and i thought wt always had alot of great tracks, i thought trent had become too sunk into the industry to really do what he once did. This album changes that as far as im concerned. I love it , its not as dark wave as PHM but it has a great groove to it and theres some new directions and suprises that really makes an imprint..i think the almost motownish chorus hidden behind the fuzz is spectacular in zero sum and id really like to see him move in that direction in the second part. I also like the theme. People are so uppity about anyone being political these days , Its pretty sad people feel that way ( avoid all exchanges of ideas at all costs) But all of that is nil to the point anyway, all i ever hear is , having any politics in music is a mistake or shouldnt be done , but i only ever hear that in this country. Politics aside , whats music anymore then the vocalization of your , dreams , hopes fears , beliefs etc. It kind of irks me when people say dont add any politics into music its liek saying " dont sing about what you think or feel" Of course this album is only somewhat political anyway, Caital G is probably the only real song that resonates in that area the most is a science fiction 1984 "what could happen if we are not careful" storyline . Its a fun one too. I think it a great new direction and hopefully gives him a chance to expand into other areas too. I remember in an interview long ago he said when NIN is done he will most likely create movie soundtracks or soundtracks for other projects ( games)...looks like hes on his way.

The animation area inside is amazing. Yes yoru not supposed to take pictures but i snuck some and some movies of the animated ferris wheel..ill have to upload it when i can. Miytaka is a really nice area and when i move to japan i think its where i would one day love to live. The day i went it was raining an a rabbit came up and sat next to me in the park outside ( literally a foot away) and didnt seem to care that i took pictures of him. Oh and what was also cool was the fact that tickets come with a frame from one of the movies. The short i got to see was about a little kid who planted tiny solar systems that grew in his house.

Vanguard isnt an soe product , it was made completely by sigil. Soe publishes it ie takes care of the station account and some promotion. They dont have any financial backing in the game at all and sigil is pretty adamant about that . They also have no control in any shape or way in the design or direction of the game. Clearly it shows...just from the risk vs reward thats already in game. So sure they get to flash their little brandtag on it and make a small money from the station account but it frees sigil up from having to throw lots of money into promotion and ip and instead of using it on the game. They were previously being published by microsoft who wanted to put too much of their hands into the direction of the game which is why they switched to soe. Either way the game is tons of fun and im having alot of fun between school semesters ...and thats all that matters really. I wish with Lotro before the game changed hands...they had kept the original idea...which was a huge morallity system which would have given you the ability to side with saurons forces or do things which would benefit the fellowship ....but in a non intrusive way concerning canon.

Booooooooooooooring..... I tried out the beta just because i was invited....it offers nothing new innovative or deep. I mean if theres nothing wrong with the game, the mechanics are fine the graphics are decent and the gameplay is standard. However if you play EQ2 or WoW you already own this game. Its one catch is that it takes place in "their" vision of middle earth. Ive been playing Vanguard since beta 2 and im completely hooked. The mechanics are very deep and the game is just abundant with choices on whatever you feel like doing. Diplomacy is a pleasent suprise.

My friend just called me up and said a mini coop with vf-1a license plate just passed her car , thinking it was just a coincidence or meant something else she drove by and noticed a macross sticker on it. Now seeing as this is LA and so many of us MW'ers live in LA i was wonder if it belonged to one of you guys , cus thats a cool plate.

I like the single and the video ( it sounds oldschool because its more or less "wish") The video wasnt supposed to be mind blowingly artistic, it was just supposed to be 1984ish scene and i really love it. It has great flow and and a really good ending. As for the "campaign" as some call it .....well trent said it best himself "This is not viral marketing this is part of the art of the album" There will be a follow up album next year that continues the story of this album. Trent has also stated there might be a small movie. I dont see what the big fuss is really , im loving it, i think people have this pretentious view that if music goes beyond just the music then it somehow trivializes music itself. Thats a joke, some of the best music over the last 40 years has had a cinematic appeal to it , not suprisingly since alot of musicians are into art in general. speaking as an artist and musician myself. What i can say is that as a long time nin fan , trent has already stated many times that he has thrown in teh towel when it comes to mtv and top 40 radio and that he basically does what appeals to him nowadays. I cant tell you how many times in the last ten years hes talked about the importance of including a nice package and art along with the disc and i feel thjis is just an extension of that. This really appeals to my sensibilities , i still love opening albums and putting em in and listening to entire albums as a whole. to me they are like wonderful short books...hell i still collect vinyl. The disposable mp3 age just doesnt do it for me ....sans b sides , live rareities etc. I just see this whole thing as an extension of what bowie or marc bolan were doing in teh 70s, i dont think trent has any preconcieved notions that suddenly people are gonna run out and buy the album who werent fans before , he knows he has his fans . I mean to release almost half the album so far....5 songs released so far , wouldnt be too good a move for "marketing" I wouldnt be suprised if the whole thing gets release before its "release" Just the way i see things i guess..

Flexi LED This is gonna be great for modelers

nm i just took the ross ortho and played around with it in photoshop ..extending the legs a bit to make him a bit more imposing and so i can fit him into the batman amano design its all for a character modeling class

Im looking for Batman orthographics but have looked all over the web for em and cant find anything. I know the alex ross site has a few but they appear to be the older kingdom come batman and im looking for regular ones. If anyone has em in an artbook they can scan or knows a website it would be much appreciated

Do what i do, take your two carry ons ...in your carry on suitcase pack your weeks worth of clothes. If your a good packer you can make it happen. In yoru second carry on ( a small bookbag or whatever) carry all your travel items and your dontgetboredashellona10hourflight items. Then check in two huge ass suitcases EMPTY. Most airlines allow two check ins up to 70 pounds combined free. You can pick up a huge ass suitcase at Big Lots for cheap ( 20-30 bucks or so ) or a store like it. You can even make things easier by placing smaller in larger bag for departure check in. PS if yoru traveling with someone and they arent brining check in luggage or just one make sure to utilize that also. Last time i went i traveled with a friend who only brought one check in on so i used used his secondary bag slot for my own muahaha. With all that said i still ran out of room quickly , and if yoru like me and do not like to toss out packaging etc...you will too. Especially after you start winning at the UFO machines and amass multitudes of stuffed characters , i will post a picture later. Yes there was once a Mandarake in Torrance california when i first moved here i would visit it weekly. It was small compared to the ones in nakano and shibuya. It was however just as cool..there would be random piles of stuff scattered all around and thousands of cells from obsure shows for a buck a pop. It was like an ancient treasure trove of j-pop culture goodness. Sadly they tried to relocate to Santa Monica to a smaller place and quickly ran out of business because only the modern anime nerd set started going and it wasnt enough to keep sales. Torrance is a very japanese area in cali and it was located in the Mitsuwa there , they did great business and it just a very bad move to relocate from there. Even though i prefer the Nakano area and broadway , i still recomend at least taking a trip to the shibuya one. Its not as extensive but its 4-5 stories underground and its like a freaking dank cave , pretty awesome i think. I also fell in love with mitaka after visiting Ghibli , it was a nice rainy day and i loved the wooded area all around it, ill post some pictures of that later too. damn you guys have me pining now...maybe ill go again this spring. I want to visit ireland too...so many places to go so little time and money.

Wolfx thats my favorite place in the world..i want to live in nakano i think its a nice suburb ..either that or mitaka. I always stay in Ikebukuro, i dont like to "go as a tourist" when i go anywhere and thats a pretty good place to stay. As for picture taking , sorry guys i have never ever had a problem. Sure i was politely asked to not take a picture at an arcade once and i complied, i understand they are just following rules. I love when i went to mandarake and one of the guys who used to work in mandarake LA ( sadly went out of business 4 years ago) remembered me and was blown away i was there. My last trip in may 06 i also ran into a friend from highschool, turned out he lived and worked there as an engineer. We went to a bar and watched a football game , italy vs checks i think in the world cup. It was fun to watch him get all the nihonjin in the bar to yell out ZAKANAYO CHECK REPUBLIC. heres some of my favorite places in Tokyo some street musicians i met in ikebukuro station mandarake pre opening This one is huge from my last trip with my new camera so ill link it instead , Arcades alive and well in Japan

can you do it in a maya file also please

Nice, black celebration is the best DM album ever. Still releasing great stuff though , last one was terrific

if someone can find me an ortho of a vf pilot in full gear with helmet on ill see if i can make a pilot actually an ortho of any pilot in uniform is fine and i can just model a helmet seperately and use it as his head

this movie will suck purely for the number of times it made me late to work for its highway scene

sooo has anyone added me yet? i added everyone but i know it needs to be mutual or you can have mii's mingle. Mine is still empty neko 3428 2033 1498 2833

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HAHA i know who danny choo is and all ...but thats still the first thing that caught my attention when looking at this video

i went there at 730 am. I walked , i live in walking distance of 3 gamestops. Two of em are in the mall so i didnt even bother with that . I went to one on a sidestreet. I was 5th to arrive...first guy said hed been there since 6 am. The store opens up at 10 but at 9 they came out of the store and gave us all reserve slips that werre numbered..took our names and numbers and told us we can go do whatever and to just be back before 1030 or we lose our spot. When that happened there were ten people in line. I walked home then came back at ten and there were about 12 people waiting. Finally after we all preordered and i was walking around the store looking for some mega cheapo used games to screw around with...some guy walks in asking if he could preorder. He talked about his miserable experience at the two ebs in teh mall and how they basically cut the line in half at the very last moment and told the rest of the people they might as well go home...what a bunch of assnuggets. Anyway they told him at the gamestop they had one more preorder if one of the employees didnt show up in the next ten minutes or it would go the employee He didnt show up in time and the guy lucked out ..i was happy for him. I plan on getting a ps3 but like many i have no problem waiting 6 months for the price to slim out and the library to increase...though there are many current titles id love to play they will be half the price in 6 months. I really wanted to own a wii this year and im glad i went and preordered...especially since ive had zelda preordered for over a year now. There are a bunch of games coming down the pieline im gonna love though and frankly its a system id love to develop for. I dont really like playing first person shooters on consoles...i have a pc that handles and plays it better with mouse and keys but i think the wii might change all that. I really cant wait to see what interesting and active stuff comes out for the system.

preordered....5th in line

I wonder how this will play on the Wii if it used the wii controller and not the cubes Heatseeker