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Guitar Hero 5 Review (9-2-09)

by Spoony on September 2, 2009 · View Comments

O gods of rock, why hast thou forsaken us?

Edit: I’ve just been informed that the “Superman” song by Three Doors Down I was bitching about was, in fact, “Kryptonite.” Sorry about that, it’s just that around that time there were a ton of lame “It’s not easy to be Superman”-themed songs and they all sort of blended together in a perfect shit milkshake that ruined radio for years.

I’m aware that metaphor makes no sense.

I don’t care. Three Doors Down sucks my fart hole.

Edit #2: Hah! Someone else pointed out that “Song #2″ is by Blur, and not the Foo Fighters as I said. Funny story behind that. A long time ago when the Starship Troopers movie came out, the TV spot for it was basically a “Woo Hoo” music video. I was talking to some friends about the movie discussing the title of the song, because it’s “Song #2″ and not “Woo Hoo” like you’d think. My friend Eddy said something like “who sang that, the Foo Fighters?” and was immediately corrected by the others. But for some reason, whenever I think of that song, I make the mental connection to the Foo Fighters instead of Blur. It’s completely stupid, too, since the two bands sound nothing alike.

I’m honestly pretty terrible at remembering things like that, especially when it comes to remembering whether a song belonged to Black Sabbath or “Ozzy Osbourne”, or which Metallica song was written by Mustaine or fronted by Dio. About the only thing I can keep straight is identifying Sammy Hagar vs. David Lee Roth.

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Arkham Asylum Review (8-31-09)

by Spoony on August 31, 2009 · View Comments

You don’t have to be crazy to like this game, but it helps!

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Let’s Riff on Ripper – Act 1, Part 3

by Spoony on August 27, 2009 · View Comments

Quinlan ransacks Burgess Meredith’s house for vacuum tubes, and begins the search for Joey Falconetti, the outlaw brain surgeon! Will he succeed, or will the appearance of the dreaded Cyber-Walken spell his doom?

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Let’s Riff on Ripper – Act 1, Part 2

by Spoony on August 24, 2009 · View Comments

Quinlan does some footwork around town, following Catherine’s tracks to the Virtual Library and Jimmie Walker’s “Smoke Shop.” But the star-studded celebrity parade continues as we also encounter 2-time Oscar nominee Burgess Meredith! And he’s mean!

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Let’s Riff on Ripper – Act 1, Part 1

by Spoony on August 19, 2009 · View Comments

The investigation begins! Ace reporter Jake Quinlan starts out by checking out the police station for case reports on the Ripper case, but will Detective Magnotta hamper his efforts? Will Catherine recover from the Ripper’s attack? Will Marion be able to elude the Nazis and give the headpiece to the Staff of Ra to Indy?

Find out! It’s un-fuckin’-believable!

(I’m working on fixing the interlacing issues. Not sure where those came from.)

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