Sunday, January 14th, 2007
American Honda has given the world a glimpse of the next-generation Accord with the unveiling of an Accord Coupe Concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The styling of the Accord Coupe Concept moves the Honda Accord away from the cardigan styling of earlier models with the most noticeable change the fastback [...]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
In another grand unveiling from the Detroit Motor Show, Jeep revealed their new Trailhawk concept. On first appearance it’s fairly obvious that the Trailhawk has come off the Jeep Wrangler platform. “The key to the look of the Trailhawk,†said Nick Vardis, principal exterior designer, “is the vehicle’s distinctive proportions, due in part to its [...]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
The Acura “Advanced Sports Car Concept” has made its world debut at the 2007 North American International Auto Show, providing a preview of the design direction for the successor to the Honda NSX. My initial thoughts are that it looks quite stylish. Sleak and sporty, low slung, it looks the part. The Acura concept features [...]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Chrysler have unveiled a new concept car at the Detroit Motor Show, the Chrysler Nassau. According to Alan Barrington, principal exterior designer of the concept, the Nassau presents “a more emotional and artistic articulation of what it means to be a Chrysler.†“We sought to capture the effect of a classic sculpture – an artistic approach [...]
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
I’ve been waiting for My Chemical Romance to release new music ever since I first played ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’. I found that CD to be as catchy as syphilus, and it’s still in heavy rotation in my cd stacker. ‘The Black Parade’ is the bands third full length release. ‘The Black Parade’ is [...]
Monday, October 9th, 2006
I picked up a copy of ‘The Open Door’ by Evanescence on Saturday. It is their first release since ‘Fallen’ as well as the first without guitarist and co-founder Ben Moody. Leading up to the release of ‘The Open Door’ there was a lot of speculation as to how the band would sound without Moody. [...]
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
My sidekick, Bean Bag Boy, and I were playing ‘Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer’ last night and I suggested that it would make a great movie. We were waist deep in zombie scum at the time so the thought drifted out of my head as quickly as it had arrived. The thought returned today, so I [...]
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
I found this small snippet on the Dark Horizons website: “Universal Pictures has apparently acquired film rights to Chuck Palahniuk’s novel “Choke” with Paul Bernbaum (“Hollywoodland”) tapped to write. The novel concerns Victor Mancini, a young man who scams people by, literally, choking in restaurants in order to keep his mother in St. Anthony’s [...]
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Turn on your lava lamps kids, ‘Black Holes and Revelations’ is psychedelic, 1970′s inspired, art-rock, and it is arguably the best album Muse have released to date.
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
‘Define The Great Line’ is an album that drags you in with some awesome off-kilter guitar work, and then pushes you away with some annoying and generic scream/whine vocals.
Friday, August 11th, 2006
“Enter the Chicken”. A title like that could be taken a number of ways. Buckethead?returns, and?this time he drags his friends along for the ride. With friends like Serj Tankian (from System of a Down) and Saul Williams, ‘Enter the Chicken’ ranges from the psychotically heavy to mellow and laid back.
