[Movie Review] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

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Overview:

Having already achieved stardom with his role as Jim Halpert on NBC’s The Office, the naturally charming John Krasinski could likely coast through his movie career doing light, fluffy romantic comedies. Knowing that, he certainly does deserve credit for taking a huge leap of ambition with his feature directorial debut Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, which he adapted from a scattershot collection of stories of the same name by the late David Foster Wallace.

But ambition alone doesn’t make for a good movie. Having recently read Wallace’s book, I thought frequently that the material simply could not be adapted effectively. That thought still lingers after watching the film. Continue reading →

[Game Review] Trenches (iPhone)

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System: iPhone
Developer: Thunder Game Works
Publisher: Thunder Game Works
Genre: Strategy

If you’re anything like me, that is you spend tremendous amounts of time playing flash games at school/work, you might have come across the game Warfare 1917. Trenches takes a lot of cues from the popular flash game and strips down the gameplay to make a simple, enjoyable World War I strategy game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Continue reading →

[Music News] New Angels & Airwaves Album is Free!

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Co-founding member of Blink 182, Tom Delonge, has just released his third album with the band Angels & Airwaves. The new album titled “LOVE” is available on Modlife.com for free.

Fans of the first 2 albums absolutely have to check it out. And even if you’ve never heard of them, free stuff is free stuff.

Download from Modlife here

[The Everyview Update] 2/14/10

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Happy Valentine’s day, love birds! And to all you lonely, single people out there who have nothing better to do than cut yourselves while eating a tub of off brand “frozen dairy dessert,” Clay feels your pain.

Anyway, here’s a list of what we’ve got currently got in development. A little something to look forward to.

Zac

  • BioShock 2 (DoubleShot with Brandon)
  • Vuka: Workout Energy Drink
  • All three flavors of Nuclear Energy Powder
  • No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Clay

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

John

  • An iPhone game called Trenches

Brandon

  • BioShock 2 (DoubleShot with Zac)
  • Battlefield: Bad Company

[Energy Drink Review] Vuka: Renew (Mango Peach)

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I hate my job. I work as a bagger/cashier at my local Kroger grocery store. I’ve been there for three long years. I make $7.55/hr. Some of my responsibilities include bagging groceries, scanning groceries, mopping floors, sweeping the sidewalk, emptying ash trays, and cleaning human fecal matter out of a sink. I shit you not (get it?), that has happened to me before.

Needless to say, when I get home from work I am tired. Wiped out. Completely drained. I am 20-years-old and I often take naps in the middle of the day or early in the evening for God’s sake. This shouldn’t be happening! Luckily for me, the folks at Vuka have a drink just for people in my situation. Vuka Renew claims to be able to restore focus and vitality after you’ve seemingly run out of gas.

Here goes nothing, I sure hope it works. Continue reading →

[Movie Review] A Serious Man

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Plot Outline:

A Serious Man, the latest film from eccentric filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen, is set in 1967 and tells the story of Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlberg), a miserably unhappy physics professor whose life is an almost unbearable mess. His cheating wife wants a divorce, his kids are annoying and he’s sharing his house with his obnoxious loser of a brother all the while dealing with an assortment of professional problems. To try and alleviate some of his emotional pain, Gopnik seeks the council of various rabbis in order to get his life on track.

Review:

The film (which recently received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture) is a strange movie to say the least. It isn’t so much about following a linear storyline, rather focusing on a series of events in the life of a very desperate man seeking something resembling relief. Some will find the movie to be slow and convoluted, yet it was so well done I had no problem following it on every odd detour. Continue reading →

[Tech News] The Potential of the iPad

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Recently at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts, Apple hosted a press conference specifically for the newly announced, but highly criticized iPad. I saw a picture of it and honestly saw what I expected to see. Then I read about its hardware, and especially about its OS. Of course I was one of the people who quickly judged the iPad and criticized it for practically being a large iPod touch.

However, then I started to rationally think about Apple as a company and started to brainstorm on them in retrospect. Before you continue to be let down with the iPad, let’s state some facts. Apple is well known for the fact that it seems to come out with a new generation of its hardware of every type every few months it seems, save the iPhone which is coming at us annually. This has got to be one of the most diabolic but clever plans I have ever seen a company come up with. It is an amazing way to continually get money over time. I remember when the iPod Nano was released and it was a huge success. Now about ten generations and millions of dollars later the iPod Nano has evolved into a versatile video camera, photo album, calender, simple gaming machine and music/video player, when all it sprouted from was a an MP3 player. Continue reading →

[Energy Drink Review] Vuka: Think (Pomegranate Lychee)

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Vuka has already impressed me once with their Awaken formula, a delicious and refreshing orange drinking that does its job wonderfully. Now I’m coming back to the Vuka brand a second time to try their Think flavor. Specially formulated to “replenish mental alertness during the marathon of a busy day,” Vuka Think is flavored with Pomegranate and Lychee to give the beverage unique flavor and improve memory and concentration.

So here I am, 2:30 AM, stack of books cluttering my desk, a flood of papers and Flash Drives on the floor, and the beginnings of a five page Sociology paper sitting stagnant in Microsoft Word. I have repeatedly tried to pick a topic, which has to be done in order to write a thesis, which will open me up to all kinds of awards from my community college’s… well. Man, I’m a failure.

Time to put Vuka’s Think flavor to the ultimate test and see if it can really do what it claims it is capable of.

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[Tech News] Apple iPad: Oversized failure?

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Apple’s newest offering, the iPad has been floating around the news for quite a while now. The new device is being treated as a “giant iPod Touch” by many critics. Consumers are mainly concerned about the lack of flash support, large physical size, and lack of a camera, but Apple is staying positive about the release, set for March (Wi-Fi only model) and April (Wi-Fi and 3G).

January 27th: Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) debuts the iPad

What’s your opinion on the new iPad? Will it be the next big thing, or has Apple finally taken a wrong turn? Let me know what you think  in the comments section!

[Music Review] Phoenix “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”

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You might not think you’ve heard of French band Phoenix, but I bet you have. There is a commercial currently on air produced by automobile staple Cadillac, and a Phoenix song from this very album is featured prominently in the advertisement, so much that the person driving the Caddy in the commercial is listening to Phoenix on their iPod in the car. But other than that, I would be surprised if this band had slipped through the more mainstream music cracks.

However, after listening to this 2009 album (as well as 2006’s It’s Never Been Like That) I can safely proclaim that as an outright tragedy, as this French quartet produces some of the catchiest, funnest, most upbeat Pop music in the World today. Continue reading →