creative riff

It has been a long time coming. Hi, I am back in the saddle again. The first semester at the VCU Brandcenter is long over and I am beginning to take back the physical detriment it caused my body. Weight gain aside, I am becoming so much more involved in the advertising process.

So where does that leave me for the second semester? Longing for some NBA Jam. Yes, the game franchise that began on SEGA Genesis has had more staying power than anything else I have encountered over the past month. Fans of Saturday Night Live will remember Andy Samburg’s turn as a victim of ADD (“Automatic Death Disease”) fulfilling his wish to commentate a professional basketball or football game. This skit completely describes my current mindset. Speak loudly and learn quickly from your own mistakes.

I suppose what I am trying to get at is that I am more serious than ever about becoming a good planner but not at the expense of fun. Hopefully, I can shut up now and begin to post what is on this mind of mine more often.

Cheers, all!

Giant Bomb.com, for the unintiated, is a huge video game wikia that also licenses said database to companies and research firms while providing daily news and updates for surfers. The wiki part of the website just turned one yesterday and is now available as an iPhone application in the iTunes store. The site also has daily reviews, previews and content submissions by video game industry veterans Jeff Gerstmann, Vinny Caravella, Brad Shoemaker and Ryan Davis – all former Gamespot employees who left after the Eidos review bribery scandal in late 2007.

Each week the crew at Giant Bomb does a two-hour podcast wrap-up of the previous week and talks about upcoming releases, taste tests sodas and answer e-mails. It’s Car Talk with video games and not broadcasted live. Since I have only recently become enamored by the Fab Four I decided to send in an e-mail to see if it would be answered. To my surprise I got an answer. You can find the two minute snippet from yesterday’s Bombcast below. If you love video games at all make sure to subscribe in iTunes. Totally worth it.

Giant Bombcast - 07/21/09 - Click Play for snippet of my question

Happy 1st "Real" Birthday, Fellas!

Source: Giant Bombcast #101

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I’ve been updating and fixing family computers and selling my stuff on eBay among other trivial stuff this week (I also started jogging again. Yay!). You know it has been a long time since your last update when you see that there are 5 plugin updates upon logging in. Whew. I assure you I am alright and will post more often (the beach took it out of me).

Big news this week in the video game world with Rock Band Beatles. The game is shaping up to truly capture the band’s dynamic range. Two videos have popped up thanks to E3. Check both out and try to fight back those feelings rushing back to you. Yeah, we all remember the first time we heard Rocky Raccoon (awesome if only for Paul’s fake Southern accent in the intro) or Paperback Writer. My only question to the developers: will Billy Preston appear during the Get Back sessions? Please add him in with any fake keyboard that you will one day invariably dream up.

Does anyone else thing that Craig Robinson (Dwayne) of The Office looks just like the late Billy Preston (pictured)?