Because I’m being chastised about not posting, here’s a post! This post is about how there’s no online multiplayer in Geometry Wars 2.

Did you know there’s no fucking online multiplayer in Geometry Wars 2? I know! That’s totally fucking lame! My buddy Craig is all “Dude, this game rules!” and I’m all “Sweet! I’m getting it tonight and we’re gonna play!” and then the game is all “Plug in another controller, bitches! Ain’t no online modes over here!”

The game sure is pretty though. And all the new modes are pretty great. And the high score table is- Goddammit! Somebody beat my score again.

I have to go now.

Posted by nick on 31 Jul 2008 at 10:14 pm

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So as Justin pointed out in his most recent post, there has not been a lot of non-Justin blogging activity going on here in Kindercoreland. I could rail on all of the people who asked me to sign them up as writers then seemingly forgot how to type… but I haven’t been posting either so that would be a dick move.

So… what have I been doing that has been keeping me too damn busy to blog? Not sure where to begin but a few of Justin’s posted reasons do ring true. For one thing there has been a ton of behind the scenes Buddy System work going on these days in preparation for a string of out of town shows in late August (see dates at the bottom of this post). There is also the work we have been doing on a second limited edition Buddy System DVD - The Buddy System 2: Back in The Habit - and recording and designing art for the upcoming Buddy System/Ruby Isle split 7″ (which should be done in time for Popfest).

Aside from Kindercore and The Buddy System I designed the album art for Athens band and F.O.K. (Friends of Kindercore. ‘natch) A.Armada. The record Anam Cara is coming out this September from our friends at Hello Sir! Records - check it out, the album slays!

In addition to all of that crap I have also been working with Jeff “I forget how to blog” Griggs and Nick “I screenprint all of the t-shirts in Athens” Canada on a plan to raise money for the Obama campaign by designing and selling a foxy line of Obama T-Shirts. The shirts were designed by me, will be printed by Nick and shipped out by me and Jeff. They are going to be printed on American Apparel shirts with the one color designs selling for $10 and the 2 color designs for $12. BUT here’s the best part… we are donating 25% of every sale ($2.50 and $3 respectively) to efforts to get Obama elected. We basically got tired of expensive shitty Obama shirt designs that donate pitifully small amounts to the campaign - this Gama-Go entry is excluded from that criticism. Obviously.

Here is a little tease of the first wave of designs. The site should be up and running in a few days and we would love it if you could help spread the word when the time comes.

Oh and here are those Buddy System dates:

8.14.08 Atlanta, GA - The Earl w/ Ruby Isle & Cryptacize
8.15.08 Athens, GA - The 40 Watt Club - Athens Popfest W/Ruby Isle and many more
8.19.08 Greenville, NC - The Spazzatorium with Reverse X-Rays
8.20.08 Roanoke, VA - The Water Heater w/ Sad Cobras
8.21.08 Richmond, VA - Rumors w/ Sad Cobras + Hot Lava + Visitations
8.22.08 NYC, NY - Crashin’ In Dance party at Rehab w/ Ruby Isle, Shock Cinema and DJs
8.23.08 Brooklyn, NY - Rooftop show w/ Videohippos + Ruby Isle + more TBA
8.24.08 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall with Ruby Isle + Last Year’s Model
8.25.08 Hopefully Baltimore
8.26.08 Somewhere in the Carolinas?
8.28.08 Athens, GA - The Georgia Theatre w/ a bunch of bands TBA
9.05.08 Athens, GA - The 40 Watt Club w/ a.armada (album release show!) and Iron Hero
9.12.08 Athens, GA - The Melting Point w/Pylon

Also I’ve been spending time with the wife and animals, reading too many comic books, playing way too much Civilization: Revolution for Xbox 360 and trying in vain to clean out the shed so I can start using it for screen printing and scooter parking. Yeah, busy but no good excuse for not blogging. I’m getting back in the game though, watch out!

Posted by ryan on 31 Jul 2008 at 01:13 pm

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the old kinderblog is starting to turn into Justin’s personal list blog (and i’ve already got one of those damn it).

top 20 reason no one is posting

1. too busy masturbating
2. planning their fantasy football season
3. working on secret R&B project to be put out by rival indie pop label
4. reading comic books
5. watching season 1 of Mad Men
6. still masturbating
7. hands too sticky from just made rice krispie treats
8. coming up with theroies to explain the mysteries of lost with other nerds
9. playing NCAA Football 2009 on PS3
10. watching Dark Knight for the 4th time
11. stalking ex girlfriends on the internet
12. listening to Lil’ Wayne’s new album. there’s no time for silly internets.
13. being indicted for crimes of corruption
14. watching free porn videos on megarotic.com…and masturbating
15. trying to figure out how to beat match so you can be a better DJ at the Go Bar
16. going to six flags
17. compiling pointless lists in your mind because you don’t want to share them
18. thinking about the outfit you are going to wear to popfest
19. watching Shark Week
20. yep…still masturbating. it really never gets old.

Posted by justin on 30 Jul 2008 at 12:32 pm

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finally something to make paying for cable during the summer worth it. my interest in sports fall to the wayside in favor of great whites. ryan seacrest is so excited about shark week he went and got attacked by one. if you don’t know what i am talking about then read this http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392703,00.html

Posted by justin on 29 Jul 2008 at 01:52 pm

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friend of the Internet and the wild life, Senator Ted Stevens just got his ass indicted today on corruption charges. read the fun http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/washington/30stevens.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Posted by justin on 29 Jul 2008 at 01:39 pm

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first off The Dark Knight is the greatest comic book movie of all time by about 100 miles. nothing else even comes close. so i am completely excluding it from contention out of fairness to other comic book movie fare.

Top 30 Comic Book Movies 1978-2008 (not counting the Dark Knight)

1. Batman Begins
2. Sin City
3. X2: X-Men United
4. Iron Man
5. A History Of Violence
6. Spiderman 2
7. Superman II
8. V For Vendetta
9. The Crow
10. X-Men
11. Spiderman
12. 30 Days Of Night
13. Hellboy
14. The Incredible Hulk
15. From Hell
16. Superman: The Movie
17. 300
18. American Splendor
19. Akira
20. Batman
21. Road to Perdition
22. Blade
23. Old Boy
24. Men In Black
25. Blade II
26. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
27. Ghost World
28. Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
29. Batman Returns
30. The Rocketeer

 it should also be noted that i quit regularly reading comics somewhere around the time that Preacher ended so my comic book list is largely devoted to the late 80s and 90s.

Top 25 Favorite Comic Books/Stories 1978-2008
1. Watchmen
2. Preacher
3. Dark Knight Returns
4. Frank Miller’s Sin City
5. X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse
6. Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men
7. Kingdom Come
8. Batman: Year One
9. Batman: The Killing Joke
10. Sandman
11. Star Wars: Dark Empire
12. X-Men: Fatal Attractions
13. Crisis on Infinite Earths
14. Mike Allred’s run on X-Force and X-Statix
15. V For Vendetta
16. Frank Miller and Chris Claremont’s run on Wolverine
17. Death Of Superman
18. From Hell
19. Marvels
20. Wolverine: Weapon X miniseries
21. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Punisher
22. Madman
23. Frank Miller’s Daredevil
24. GI Joe (my first ever comic that i bought regularly)
25. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s run on Hellblazer

Top 5 Comic Book Fights

1. Batman vs. Superman (The Dark Knight Returns)
2. Wolverine vs. Sabertooth (Wolverine #90)
3. Jesse Custer vs. Cassidy (Preacher next to last issue)
4. Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk (miniseries)
5. Superman vs. Doomsday (Death of Superman)

Posted by justin on 29 Jul 2008 at 09:15 am

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this list was compiled by kennie bloggins and the smoggo clan. and to be honest it blows my fucking list out of the damn water. it’s being reposted here without permission cuz that’s how i roll.

top 30 most villainous villains

1. Biff (Back From The Future)
2. Mama Fratelli (Goonies)
3. Mama Lift (Throw Mama From the Train)
4. James Spader as Rip and Steff McKee (Less than Zero, Pretty in Pink)
5. Richard Dawson as Damon Killian (Running Man)
6. Johnny and the Cobra Kai (Karate Kid)
7. General Zod (Superman 2)
8. Judge Smells (Caddyshack)
9. Vampire David aka Keifer Sutherland (Lost Boys)
10. Aunty Entity aka Tina Turner (Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome)
11. Gargamel (Smurfs)
12. Dean Rooney (Ferris Buller’s Day Off)
13. The Russians (Red Dawn)
14. Clubber Lang (Rocky 3)
15. Francis (Pee Wee’s Big Adventure)
16. C.H.U.D. (C.H.U.D.)
17. Chet (Weird Science)
18. Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant)
19. The Government (E.T., Project X)
20. Wilford Brimley (The Firm)
21. Porky (Porky’s)
22. Luther from the Rogues (The Warriors)
23. Spike (Gremlins)
24. Lt. Harris (Police Academy)
25. P.A.G.A.N. aka People Against Goodness and Normalcy (Dragnet)
26. Ice Man (Top Gun)
27. Shooter McGavin (Happy Gilmore)
28. Rob Lowe as Benjamin Kane and Paul Barish (Wanye’s World, Black Sheep)
29. Reverend Lowe (Silver Bullet)
30. Dick Lecter (Pootie Tang)

Posted by justin on 27 Jul 2008 at 07:43 am

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Interactive Bush Admin Crime Chart

Some writers at Slate have posted an interactive Venn diagram detailing the overlap of complicity in a few of the Bush Administrations (many) illegal actions.

Good stuff, but hardly complete.

I know, I know.

The internet isn’t big enough to withstand a chart of that magnitude.

Posted by Bob on 26 Jul 2008 at 10:09 am

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a new X-Files movie is coming out today. Why? i have no idea. the reviews of it are terrible, which is all well and good as i had zero desire to see it anyways, but on the flip side of that the SCI-FI channel has been showing classic episodes lately. and that got me thinking on my all time favorite episodes.

1. “Home”- aka the inbreeding mutants episode. the darkest, most fucked up, and disturbing episode ever. Fox refused to re-air it after the original broadcast because of the subject matter.

2. “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” aka the smoking alien episode. the most hilarious episode ever. it sends up a ton of sci-fi movies, as well as references Twin Peaks, David Duchovny’s history of being in soft erotic movies, and it’s got Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek as men in black. totally awesome.

3. “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”- Peter Boyle is the man.

4. “Bad Blood”- Mulder kills a teenager he thinks is a vampire. the episode is told from both Scully and Mulder’s points of view and is one of the funnier ones of all time. Luke Wilson plays a bumpkin sheriff.

5. “Squeeze” & “Tooms”- the best X-files monster ever Eugene Victor Tooms aka the stretchy guy who eats your liver. you gotta love mutant cannibals who can stretch their bodies into weird long shapes so they can fit down chimneys and toilets. the first episode gave my little brother nightmares.

6. “Humbug”- the circus freaks episode.

7. “Ice”- a first season episode that is reminiscent of John Carpentar’s “The Thing”. where an alien parasite causes people to kill one another…or something like that. it’s been awhile since i’ve seen this one.

8. “The Host”- attack of the giant flukeman. one of the best monsters in show history.

9. “War of the Coprophages”- an homage to War of The Worlds…but with cockroaches.

10. “The Pilot”- it introduced this dorky show to a very young and very nerdy Justin Robinson.

Posted by justin on 25 Jul 2008 at 01:23 pm

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so i’ve been obssessing about comic books a lot lately, what with all the actual watchable comic book movies that have come out recently. it reminds me of a time when i was younger and spent a lot of time reading them…back before i learned that getting laid was a much better way to spend my time than reading the X-men…regardless after watching the Dark Knight the other night and then rereading Frank Miller’s famous the Dark Knight Returns i started to think about what an insane rightwing lunatic Batman was (especially Frank Miller’s vision of him). and then it made me think about the political affiliations of all my other favorite super heroes. and so here’s what i’ve come up with.

BATMAN

vital stats: parents were killed by a mugger. is obssessed with fighting crime. has some facist leanings (thanks to Frank Miller), a bit unhinged. has a strange relationship with a young boy. is a billionare. is apparently set to take on Al-Qaeda next….yeah seriously…fucking Frank Miller. what an idiot.

verdict- republican

SUPERMAN

vital stats- an illegal alien, has a day job as a reporter. never kills anyone. a man of the people. a bit smug. thinks he knows what’s best for everyone.

verdict- democrat

THE X-MEN

vital stats- outsiders, want us all to just get along, big on diversity, obviously would be supportive of affirmative action, big on dreams, harbor illegal aliens, outlaws. are hounded by the government as a threat.

verdict- democrats

THE PUNISHER

vital stats- ex military, pro gun, supports and inforces the death penalty, a bit of a nutjob, tough on crime

verdict- ultra right wing republican

IRON MAN

vital stats- supported the super hero registration act during Marvel’s Civil War. ex military, billionare, made weapons for the army, fights terrorists.

verdict: republican

CAPTAIN AMERICA

vital stats: fought the Nazi’s in WWII, was leader of The Avengers, the symbol of American Patriotism and Freedom, doesn’t use a gun, took steroids, Captain America opposes mandatory federal registration of all super-powered beings, which he sees as an erosion of civil liberties for the superhero community, and leads the Anti-Registration faction and resistance movement. got assassinated.

verdict: Old School Democrat. the kind that don’t actually exist anymore.

this is seriously the dorkiest thing i’ve ever blogged about.

Posted by justin on 24 Jul 2008 at 08:26 am

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