http://www.shinyidol.com Music, Games, Movies, Television, and other junk Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:50:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Weezer is going around the country right now and inviting fans to play songs with them.  They recently stopped in Seattle.  My co-worker was one of the lucky ones to play along with them.  Check out a couple of the tracks they recorded, especially a great cover of Creep. [audio:Beverly ... http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/07/02/weezer-hootenanny-tracks/ So what will probably be the biggest game for the Playstation 3 game out a couple weeks ago in Metal Gear Solid 4.  I have been holding off on buying a Playstation 3 for sometime now, but due to Walmart giving $100 gift cards with the purchase of a 40 ... http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/06/24/i-bought-a-ps3-for-mgs4/ So I am always a sucker for a good rock band AND good rock bands with girls that rock out!! I have heard nothing but great things about the Von Bondies live shows, so I had to jump on the chance to see them live. After an awful ... http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/05/29/the-von-bondies-at-high-dive/ Die! Die! Die! is a punk noise band from New Zealand. They opened for The Von Bondies at the High Dive and put on a pretty fun show. Lots of running into the crowd which was cool. Check out the pics. { gallery [Die!Die!Die!] }ShareThis http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/05/29/die-die-die-at-high-dive/ This stuff is just too crazy!! ShareThis http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/04/08/laser-cats-3d/ So with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 I thought I'd look into the plugins I was using and see if there was anything better.  And what do you know someone made a Picasa XML Gallery plugin that uses Lightbox2.  It is great.ShareThis http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/04/05/added-lightbox2-for-galleries/ So I downloaded and installed to Wordpress 2.5 and I am REALLY impressed.  This is freaking awesome.  Talk about improvements.  Great job Wordpress Team!!ShareThis http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/04/04/holy-crap-wordpress-25/ So today was the day I flew into San Fran for GDC 2008.  I got in, checked into my hotel, got some dinner, had some drinks.  Met up with some people from various companies.  Nothing special.  Tomorrow is when the real stuff starts.  I should have something to post about ... http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/02/20/gdc-2008-day-1/ So I am off to GDC 2008 tomorrow morning.  This year should be great with lots of great talks lined up.  Also seeing lots of people I really never get to see and hopefully meeting a whole bunch of new people as well.ShareThis http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/02/19/off-to-gdc-2008/ So every website and their mother is doing a big ol' list of games that they are all hot and bothered to play for 2008, and rarely update the blog, so I decided to make one myself.  Now these games are in no order, but just a list of games ... http://www.shinyidol.com/2008/01/26/most-anticipated-games-of-2008/