So you want to know how to use Bittorrent???

Yeah, I'm sure it's on your top ten list of things you want to fiddle with this holiday season. By the way, I'd LOVE to blog about some of the cool holiday retail stories I have, but right now I'm just too mentally exhausted to rehash them. The one about the man who broke his iPod but wanted to exchange it because "who knows how it got broken" is particularly humorous. Look for this one soon. Thieves are also fun. Especially when I catch them...

But on to the bittorrent fun. Bounce on over to the good people at TorrentFreak. They've got a tutorial roundup on bittorrent. Right now, during the lowest productivity week of the US economy, there are close to 1.5 million torrenters using the might Azureus client. And that's just ONE client out of a dozen. Total torrent traffic has got to be over 5 million in my opinion. So what are you waiting for? Bootlegs and obscure TV shows await you!

Adult Swim and MF Doom

I'll have a future blog post about BOTH of these items in the near future. Oddly they collided a couple of times. Most recently in a new CD that Doom collaborated on with similar artists for Adult Swim. Here's the result. For fans of hiphop, this is something COMPLETELY different than you hear on the radio. For non-hiphop fans, well, let's just call this eclectic...

Madvillain - Monkey Suite

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Last.fm

Last.fm is the coolest. If you're a music fan, you've got to try it. Although Wxman will not give it his stamp of approval, I STILL recommend it. Wxman has not used it enough to see the beauty. Just today, I was longing for the sounds of Caroline's Jazz Bar on the East Side. But I'm too lazy to take my ass the 45 minute drive out there. So, I type the tag "hard bop" into my Last.fm player, and voila! John Coltrane is playing on my system. That's the new hotness. Go there now!

New blogger?

So, I migrated to the new beta version of Blogger. I'm a HUGE Google fan, so I try to use all of their beta stuff. Mind you, I'm not a Google groupie, just a fan. Gmail literally changed the face of email. Google's homepage uses ajax and has cool content. Google Earth is too much fun to use. And their online word processor is better than sliced bread. But I've always thought Blogger was the red-headed stepchild. So, when I got the chance to migrate to the new beta, I jumped. I ALWAYS roll the dice, for those of you who don't know me. No guts, no glory. No risk, no reward. Yes, I'm drunk. An overly sweet Zinfandel, for the curious.

Anyway, I am underwhelmed by the new Blogger. I can't see the difference... Maybe Google needs to leave the blogging to other players. Nobody's perfect...

UPDATE! - 1/21/07
Okay, the new blogger is cool. Waaaay faster, more stable, and easier to use. Daddy like. But there were a few bumps in transitioning. Nothing time didn't fix, though. Good job, Google...

Great Movies - 28 Days Later

"See this is a really sh*t idea. You wanna know why? Because it's OBVIOUSLY a sh*t idea." --Jim, 28 Days Later.

Since Mr. Ugly here is the post immediately preceeding this one, perhaps I should elaborate on why I think it's a cool flick. 28 Days Later, that is.

First, I think that American horror is dead. It died sometime around Exorcist 3, with the occasional paddle-induced resuscitations from a Hellraiser. Thus, it's been up to the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, British, and Aussies to pick up the ball and run. And they've all done an admirable job. I'll do a blog about Asian horror later on, but let's just focus on the British for now.

Sometimes it seems like foreign film-makers pay more attention to American classics than Americans do. 28 Days Later was as close to the perfect zombie movie as anyone who is not George Romero could have done. And, there were no zombies in it. Just "infected". Yes, a zombie movie with no zombies. You'd have to see it. 28 Days Later has it all; great characters, awesome cinematography, solid story, and horrific, gory, and splatter-filled moments of pure violence. Can you beat that?



UPDATE! - After watching the trailer, I remembered the movie more clearly. This is actually a really AWESOME flick, horror or not. Danny Boyle did this movie; the man who gave us Trainspotting and Shallow Grave (another couple of my favorites). The character development is top notch, and the story is so compelling that you can't turn away for even a second. And the music is pretty cool. Give it a watch!