I’ve been to several Anberlin performances now, but this was probably the best I’ve ever seen them play live. They now have five full-time band members with a touring keyboard player, and although I can’t say I dig their latest album, New Surrender, as much as I’ve liked their previous three studio efforts, it’s pretty [...]

On November 29th, a band called mewithoutYou rocked a local music scene at Guzman’s in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Half restaurant, half concert space, Guzman’s is a solid venue. The concert space half of the building is wide open, like a warehouse, except for the stage at one end which is dwarfed by the stacks of a [...]

Most video games just get boring after awhile. I really don’t have a high tolerance when it comes to my attention span for them; usually I just want to sit back and blow stuff up or shoot things or hack them to bits for awhile without having to worry about dumb crap like “extra lives” [...]

Another amazing Anberlin show at the 9:30 Club. This time Bayside opened up for them (two other bands, Jonezetta and Meg + Dia played too, but we didn’t get there until after their sets). Bayside is a pretty good band and I thought they played well, but you just can’t compare to Anberlin for a [...]

Sweet ba-goodness, I love Medal of Honor games. It’s now been over two years since I wrote the review of MOH: Frontline with a promise for an upcoming review of MOH: Rising Sun. Well, unfortunately my Frontline disc was lost or stolen, which I’m still bitter about, so I need to go re-buy that game [...]

Two of the most ravishingly good-looking musicians I’ve ever laid eyes on, John Mayer and Sheryl Crow came to Nissan Pavilion on the Sunday evening before Labor Day. It looked like John Mayer would be the headliner (the guy who plays last), but in a startling turn of events he came out on stage just [...]

The house was packed at the 9:30 Club on a Monday night as the Tooth and Nail tour came through town. Anberlin played second-to-last, just before co-headliners Emery and after three other bands: The Fold, The Classic Crime, and Jonezetta. The show was longer than crap with five bands each having between thirty minutes and [...]

I saw BTE at Celebrate Fairfax, Fairfax County’s annual spring/summer festival. What a great 90’s band! Just listening to all their old radio hits from my teenage years brought tears to my eyes, a feeling of nostalgia to my heart, and a warm, tingly sensation to my loins. Just kidding about the loins part. If [...]

I have another website that serves as a guide to indie filmmaking and shows you how to make a video. My most successful niche site so far is one that deals with Scrapbooking Ideas and how to use them. I have a couple of other sites, some of which I won’t mention here, but there [...]

One of Capcom’s newest games, Viewtiful Joe appears at first glance to be yet another average, side-scrolling, beat-em-up game, but it is much more than that. First of all, the screen turns as Joe moves throughout the levels, giving it a real, 3-D feel. The graphics are cel-shaded beautifully, with numerous background layers, and they [...]

When I first saw the ads for this show, I figured it was going to be off the hook. After watching a couple of episodes, I realized that it definitely has the potential to be just that - if they get rid of Todd. I’ve never seen such a whiny piece of trash in my [...]

An ancient samurai warrior wielding an enchanted sword who battles the evil,
shape-shifting master Aku, only to be catapulted into the future via a magic
time portal where he must battle robots, henchmen of Aku, and bounty hunters
of the near and far future, all to discover a way back through time to face Aku
and deal the killing [...]

Currently the second-to-newest game in the MOH saga, with Rising Sun being the newest (a review on RS is forthcoming). Frontline is a first-person shooter with levels covering everything from the D-Day invasion of 1942 to espionage missions where you infiltrate enemy submarines, bases, and supply depots. Everything about this game is quality; I originally [...]

The reason I got Playstation 2 was because of this game. The scene: 1980’s Miami (the City of Vice, hence the name). You’re Tommy Vercetti, a remorseless ex-con who’s just taken a trip down south. You’ve fallen on hard times when a drug deal gone wrong puts you in debt - a million dollars’ worth. [...]

MXC is a fast-paced, reality game show in which the contestants compete to win absolutely nothing. This show has everything you could possibly want: cheap Japanese voice-overs, twisted humor, and lots of people getting wrecked. I gave this television show a rating of 5 out of 5 exclamation points on the sweetcripes scale of awesomeness.
MXC [...]

Can you believe it’s been so long since the very first FF title, back in the heyday of the Nintendo gaming system? Final Fantasy X really breaks the mold all over again with stunning graphics, intuitive gameplay and an incredibly detailed storyline. The downfall of this game, if anything, is the extremely lengthy video clips. [...]

Wow… if the future is like this, it’s going to kick some major buns. The Battle Engine: Aquila is an all-purpose war robot that can convert itself from a land-walking, death-dealing machine to a jet-propelled aircraft.
The premise is that water has swallowed most of the planet Allium’s land masses, and two warring tribes are in [...]