Cloverfield - Coming in January

Is it just me or does this movie really look promising? Anyway, JJ Abrams (Alias, Lost, MI3) has never disappointed me. I hope this movie is as good as it looks.

Jeff Gerstmann, Gamespot and a soon-to-be huge scandal

In short, these are the facts:

- Eidos Interactive pays (big bucks) to gaming website Gamespot to put advertisement of their latest game, Kane & Lynch.
- Jeff Gertsmann, Editorial Director at Gamespot, reviews the game on november 13 and gives it a score of 6.0, which means he considers the game "mediocre".
- Penny Arcade, on november 29 publishes a comic strip implying that Jeff has just been fired because of his bad review of Kane & Lynch.
- Gaming website/blog Kotaku tells the story but at first considers it a rumor. Then the story is updated: They get confirmation that Jeff has been fired.
- As of this moment, Gamespot and Eidos remain silent.

Ok, I don't expect Eidos to release a public statement anytime soon, but I think Gamespot should, before the thing becomes a scandal of epic proportions.

Who moved my sun?

I know that up there in the northern hemisphere, even though you're still a month away from winter, you're feeling a little bit cold already.. am I right? That means that down here, even though we're still a month away from summer, we should be feeling warmer... right?

Well who's the bastard that moved my sun? Where is my sun?

Maybe those guys who've been claiming all this years that there's a thing called global warming weren't wrong after all...

Of cell phones and ribs

Las night my cell phone died. My lovely, trusty, beautiful, noisy w300 thought that it would be fun to support the writer's strike (without telling me), and yesterday, when I came home and plugged him in he just said "configuration error" and refused to work (the bastard!).

So, today at the office I felt like I was locked in a cage, totally incommunicado. I couldn't call my girlfriend, couldn't call my mom, couldn't call home, couldn't call my friends, and they couldn't call me either. "But Rojo", you may say, "what about work?" Well, let me ask you, who could think about work in a situation like that?

But now that I've had some time to think about it, you're right. It shouldn't be the end of the world, right?

Sadly, it IS.

Fifteen years ago we couldn't care less about those ugly looking bricks and now, we NEED them. We managed to live without them, but now we just CAN'T. We can't. All I can think about right now is that I want him back soon or I will die, lonely and miserable. Damn consumerism.

Anyway, I left my baby with my provider and they will be returning him on wednesday. Hope he's okay.

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In the evening me and my girl went to Tony Roma's and ate some delicious St. Louis ribs. Awesome taste! All I can say is: God bless America for BBQ. Seriously, BBQ is one of my top favorite sauces in the whole universe, up there with honey mustard and blue cheese. Now, can anyone tell me what are the best brands of BBQ sauce out there?

Oh, to drink we ordered some passion fruit Pisco Sour. FYI, Pisco Sour is Peru's national drink and Pisco is Peru's national liquor. Pisco is a strong (as strong as Tequila) and very deceptive liquor: you won't feel anything after the first glass, but after the second one bang! you might end up kissing the floor. Read more about Pisco here (that is, if you trust Wikipedia).

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Björk will be in concert in Lima today. If I manage to get in I'll try to take some pictures. I'd love to see her and I'm dying to see that little ReacTable.

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(Hope this doesn't sound sexual) My Wii has been blue since yesterday LOL. I wonder what's it downloading...

Oops!!!

I just discovered that my blog settings needed to be modified. Only registered users were allowed to comment :$
Ok, now anyone can comment. Please tell your friends about this blog, tell them to comment, I'll try to be original and funny once in a while, I promise.

Pink, the color of love

Today, after some deep thinking I finally came up with an explanation for my blog's name.

I'm in love. Abso-fucking-lutely. Yes, I've been in love before, but not like this. Believe me, I know. And yes, I know that when you're in love, you have this nasty habit of making promises that you intend to keep for all eternity, promises about living together, having kids, buying a dog, growing old and paying the mortgage.

But heck, that's how I feel right now. I'm very much in love, I'm making those promises, I intend to keep them, because I'm sure she's the right one. I want to be with her, in good times and bad times, until we're old and don't have any teeth.

And to me, love resides in the pink side of mind.



PS: Actually, it all started when she asked me if I'd have a pink blog. First I changed the color of my blog in spanish, then I decided to write a blog in english and thought that I could use the color in the name. 'Cause pink is the love you discover.
PS 2: I just read the lyrics of "Pink" by Aerosmith and found this verse really appropriate: "Pink it's like red but not quite". My blogger name , "El Rojo" means "the red guy" in spanish, and is the name I use in my spanish blog. This blog and the other might end up being very similar, but not quite the same. I think this blog will let me explore different subjects, given the fact that it will have a different audience.

Not a Jesus freak

I started writing this blog to reach a different audience than my other blog (that would be, uh, english-speakers), but today I thought about something.

What if my Jesus button is driving some people away? You know what I'm talking about...

So, for all of you guys, don't be scared. This is me:

- I do believe in sex before marriage.
- I use condoms.
- I believe in the theory of evolution.
- I don't think videogames are the source of all evil.
- Marilyn Manson does not eat babies for breakfast.
- There is no gay mafia.
- War is bad. Peace is good.

You see, what really happened is, a long time ago I read that famous "Jesus is fucking metal" strip at Penny Arcade and I liked the image. That's how it ended here. Now, about Jesus? I like the guy. I like his ideas. And I will not say anything else on the subject, because this blog is not about religion. This blog is ("will be" would be more accurate at this time, I know) about the music I like, tv shows I watch, my favorite movies, some videogame news and random thoughts on life, the universe and everything.

Please come back. Don't get scared by Jesus. He's metal, you know?

Virtual Console First Timer

More than 4 months after I got my Wii and almost 2 after I got my copy of Metroid Prime 3, I finally gathered enough courage to try the Virtual Console service. I took out my trusty credit card (hooray for credit cards... woohoo!!!), bought 5000 points (that's $50 for you, mister) and started browsing through the list of top games.

My first choice was a no-brainer: Super Mario World (SNES). I was also tempted to buy the recently released Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) but I decided that it wasn't on my list of priorities right now (actually, if I had to buy a NES Mario game it would be Super Mario Bros. 2). The inclusion of Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos on the list, now that was surprising. Yes, I consider that game one of the greatest, most enjoyable for the NES, but I didn't know that a lot of people felt the same. Tecmo, if you're reading this (chances are you're not), please make a Ninja Gaiden Black game for the Wii!!!

After checking the list and passing on the Metroids and Donkey Kongs (I played those to death when I was a teenager) I went to the Genesis section and picked Gunstar Heroes (a game that was ahead of it's time and was sadly overlooked) and another no-brainer, Streets of Rage 2, a game that makes me remember those days when beat'em ups like Double Dragon or Final Fight where everything. Finally, my first day of shopping ended with me buying Paper Mario for the N64. I left the Virtual Console with 1100 points on my wallet and the sensation that I totally understood how women feel when they buy shoes.

¿So, what should be improved?

- The Mario "progress animation" is a nice detail, but when you're downloading a big game (N64, Neo Geo) it can eventually become annoying. I would like to have the option to choose a real progress bar that showed percentage or actual downloaded kbytes.
- A news/future releases section would be an interesting addition.
- How long until Square gets in the game?
- When will Capcom start releasing the Mega Man games?
- It would be great if we could get the content of the original instruction manuals.
- We want more GOOD old import games (the kind that were never released).
- I hate the fact that I can't play the games if I transfer them to my SD card. If I want to make space in the Wii's internal memory, I have to repeat the tedious process of copying and erasing each game. The Wii has no "move" option from memory to card, and there's no option to copy/erase multiple games.

Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable experience. I'll be doing some more shopping in a couple of months.

On a side note, I just ordered Super Mario Galaxy (Merry Christmas to me!!!) from www.cduniverse.com, a great store that not only has better prices than Amazon in some products, but it also ships videogames to South America. Yeah!

Häagen Dazs Ice Cream: Yes, precioussss, we loves them...

It's been almost a month since my girlfriend made me taste a brand of ice cream I had never paid any attention to at the supermarket. You see, I'm the sort of guy who tends to eat the same candies/desserts/chocolates every day, and she is the sort of girl that... well, the sort of girl who has a sweet tooth.

So, my first time with Häagen Dazs was after she found out that I hadn't even tried it. She bought a pot of Dulce de Leche flavor (for those who don't understand a bit of spanish, "Dulce de Leche" means "Milk Candy"); all I have to say is that it was AMAZING. How could I've been missing on such a delicious thing?

Days later she suggested I tried the Strawberry Cheesecake flavor, and I was like "ok, let's go get a pot RIGHT NOW!" ('cause you know, I'm a fan of Cheesecake and now I was a fan of Häagen Dazs too), but when we went to the local supermarket, bang!, there were no Strawberry Cheesecake pots in sight. We went to another local supermarket and to a gas station but we had the same luck. Bummer.

A few days later I was buying a Cosmo (it was for her, what do you think?) at another gas station and I noticed a Häagen Dazs freezer. I walked to it (well, maybe I ran... a little), opened it, reached to grab a Dulce de Leche mini-pot and suddenly another pot caught my attention.

Yes, it's not that hard to figure out what flavor it was, is it?





Now, where can I get a pot of Bailey's Irish Cream?

Metal Gear's Grey Fox comes to Super Smash Bros Brawl on Wii

Yes, being a Metal Gear fan myself (and Grey Fox being the cool kick-ass character that he is), now I'm feeling very very excited about SSBB. Ok, maybe not that much knowing that he will not be a playable character but an Assist Trophy, but this information makes me believe that Sonic The Hedgehog will not be alone either: he might be joined by none other than Tails (or Knuckles?).

Check the info on the official website: Smash Bros. Dojo

Will Capcom get a character too? When will we find out?

For now, let's just cheer and have a little cosplay fun. Yeah!

Info obtained through www.kotaku.com (here's the link)