What a Grand Idea!

Posted in Sports with tags , , , , on Saturday, November 29, 2008 by theclimaxan

Citibank was the latest to cash in on the bailout craze this week by recieving $45 Billion from the government to cover bad loans that Citi handed out like candy over the years. Despite this fact, Citi still refuses to pull their sponsorship of the Mets new ballpark that opens up next April. These naming rights will cost Citi $400 million over the next 20 years (assuming Citi even makes it that far). Many people, including myself, see it a little messed up that Citi won’t drop the naming rights to save money. Two New York City council members agree with me as well. The two republicans (yes Republicans) are from Staten Island and want the ballpark to be renamed Citi/Taxpayer Field. I think this is a brilliant idea. If it was me I wouldn’t even have Citi in the name, I would just have “Taxpayer” written in the Citi font, and still make Citi pay for it. Greedy bastards.

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Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie

Posted in World Events with tags , , , on Thursday, November 20, 2008 by theclimaxan

When I found out that Spike Jonze was set to direct the live action adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a couple of years ago I about lost it. Jonze might be the only director in Hollywood with the creative touch to make this film and not screw it up. The film itself has been in production for a very long time which usually is a bad sign. However, Aint It Cool News recently sat down with the Director to talk about the production cycle, Jonze’s creative vision, and the overall status of the film. It’s an awesome interview and If you were a fan of the book then you need to go there now.

Oh and there’s this picture. Making Where the Wild Things Are my most anticipated movie of 2009. Officially.

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Fear the Dark Vol. 2: Conscious Shadows, Coherent Sounds

Posted in Creepy Climax with tags , , , , , on Thursday, November 20, 2008 by theclimaxan
  • scaryNote: Not all of the freaky things that’ve happened to me in my life happend within the confines of Climax, therefor I’ve decided to change the name of this series from Creepy Climax to the very simple, yet effective “Fear the Dark” in order to accurately cover my bases.

This story isn’t so much a linear tale as it is a collection of events that happened to me and my roomate in our first college apartment. The complex we lived in wasn’t the kind of place that you would associate with the supernatural, it was a crappy college place built in the late 70’s, that had gone through just enough renovations to stay standing. We lived in a two story townhouse right next to the pool and for the first few months it was a college paradise. That is until we realized we weren’t the only ones living in our apartment.

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Tyler Zeller Out Indefinitely= Me Sad, Tyler Hansbrough Angry

Posted in Sports with tags , , , , , , , , on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 by theclimaxan

So far the only enemy to the Tarheels dominating College Basketball this season seems to be the Tarheels themselves. With Tyler Hansbrough out another week and Marcus Ginyard out another month you would think things couldn’t get any worse. WRONG! Foxsports and sportingnews.com are reporting that Tyler Zeller broke his wrist in the Kentucky game last night. As a Tarheel fan this makes me one sad panda.

Granted the Tar Heels are still deep in the post thanks to Deon Thompson and the emergence of freshman Ed Davis. The Heels are still the top team in the land, and should continue to be the favorite for National Championship, but now they are much much more fragile in depth.

C’mon Heels. Get healthy.

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Game of the Week: Jets v. Patriots

Posted in Sports with tags , , , , on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 by theclimaxan

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written about the NFL. It hasn’t been from the lack of watching, more so the lack of me having time to write about well……anything. I’m taking steps to remedy this as proven by my typing away right this minute. As far as the games this week there were a lot, and I mean a lot of ugly games. The Bengals and Eagles tied, the Steelers and Chargers played the first 11-10 game in NFL history, the Dolphins squeeked by the Raiders, the Panthers phoned it in against the Lions (which is all the you really need to do to beat them), and the games that weren’t ugly were extremely low scoring.

This made it easy for me to pick the game of the week, as the Thursday night showdown between the Jets and the Patriots was the only game with any excitement invloved. Granted the Jets winning didn;t carry the same weight as it would have if Brady had been quarterbacking, but Matt Cassel throwing for 400 yards is pretty Brady-like if you ask me. It also makes me very happy when the Patriots lose by a field-goal. Some call it bitterness, I call it karma. Yeah. I’m bitter.

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Next week things start getting interesting, especially for us Panther fans. Carolina is sitting at 8-2 with 6 games left against opponents who are all .500 or better. Every week will also be interesting for the 10-0 Titans, especially if they face the Lions on Thanksgiving day where both teams could potentially have zeros in their records when the game kicks off.

Oh the drama.

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Review: Role Models

Posted in Movie Reviews with tags , , , , , , on Monday, November 17, 2008 by theclimaxan

Stella was ahead of its time, or at least that’s what I tell myself when I watch the DVDs over and over again. In order to continue my support of Stella, I decided to go check out Role Models, which was Directed by Stella’s own David Wain. I had heard good things about the movie, and the little kid (Bob’ee Thomspon) in the trailer seemed like he would provide some solid material. Plus, it’s got Paul Rudd, and if you have watched any comedy in the last 5-6 years then you have surely seen the greatness of the Rudd. As it turns out if you mix together a collection of good actors and writers, then you usually end up with a good movie and that was the case in Role Models.

It’s not the comedy of the year, or the funniest movie some of these people have even been in, but Role Models is still a top notch comedy. The plot is nothing crazy, two guys have to do court appointed community service and work with kids, the kids are socially inept, hilarity ensues, slight drama, but eventually hilarity and happiness win the day. What spices up the formula is some whitty writing, kid vulgarity at it’s finest, and some very random sexual humor that David Wain is know for. Role Models earns it’s R rating 100% and makes no concessions for the kids which is a beautiful thing. Adults like to laugh too, and it’s good to see that the return of the R-rated comedy isn’t just a Hollywood fluke, and this time they didn’t even need Apatow.

7.5/10

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Review: Gears of War 2

Posted in Gaming with tags , , , , on Saturday, November 15, 2008 by theclimaxan

Bigger. Better. More Badass. This was the rhetoric that EPIC Lead Designer Cliff Brezynski used while describing Gears 2 during the game’s announcement. At the time it was easy to write of Cliff’s words as the obligatory pimping out of his studio’s game. No one expected him to come out and declare “Gears of War 2, small-ish, disappointing, and mostly pathetic”. It was with that reasoning that I decided not to get over hyped. Which was stupid, cause it turns out Cliff wasn’t playing around.

The best thing about Gears of War 2 is that Epic didn’t try to reinvent the wheel game play wise. They took what worked well in the first game and built upon it, and what they fell short on they addressed. The exact definition of improvement. The most notable of these improvements is the beefed up storyline. In the first game there were hints of a deeper story but not enough to actually make the player care much about anything except blowing things up. In GoW2 you feel as if more is at stake for Delta Squad and the planet of Sera in general. The sheer size of the levels and events that you fight through truly embody the bold claim of “bigger and better”. I played the campaign in the first Gears about 6 times, and it’s safe to say I’ll get to that number again with the sequel.

If I don’t play the campaign as much in Gears 2 it will be for a very simple reason. Horde mode, or as I call it, Epic’s gift to man. Sure GoW has online deathmatch and flag games, but they pale in comparison to Horde in originality and sheer fun factor. Horde mode can be played by up to 5 players online or via system link on 10 of the 15 mulitplayer maps. The purpose of the game is to fight wave after wave of Locusts, with the enemies getting stronger,faster, and deadlier as each round progresses. There are 50 waves and it’s an awesome display of carnage as you fight your way through.

Gears of War 2 is one of those rare occurrences in the world when something actually lives up the massive hype around it. It’s a phenomena that is actually happening quite a bit this year, and I won’t argue as long as we keep getting quality like this. It’s everything the first game was with added layers in every direction, a beefed up multiplayer (despite ongoing connection issues), and the fantabulous Horde.

Now how about some Gears 3.

9.5/10

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