7 posts tagged “qotd”

What are your weekend plans?

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What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why? 
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.

From what i can remember off the top of my dome:

Monday: Prison Break, Heroes, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
Tuesday: Gilmore Girls, possibly Friday Night Lights
Wed: Lost, Biggest Loser and/or America's Next Top Model
Thursday: My Name is Earl, The Office, The Ultimate Fighter (When new season premires)
Friday: Battlestar Galactica, Best Week Ever

PS: Do we have to wait until next year for another season of Project Runway? I also got into it very recently, and discovered it as the best reality show on TV, and since Heidi Klum got knocked up again, do we have to wait even longer?

What's your motto?

they're not so much mottos, as lyrics (and boy do i feel like a 15 year old again) from Andrew W.K. whose messages extend more than just the, "party hard, party hard, party hard" gimmick. he speaks a message of positivity and never giving up. i would have to say that the lyric that i can identify most as a motto would have to be more his sophmore album, "the wolf" on the track, "totally stupid".

Would you give up all you want
To keep the things you got
To keep the things you got

And would you give up all you got
To get the things you want
To get the things you want

All the things we want are here
We have to face our fear
We have to face our fear.

When we look into the future
To the place we haven't gone
See what we haven't done
We have known it all along

If we wait until tomorrow
Will tomorrow ever come?
This is where we're coming from
And we're not the only ones

When we find ourselves in trouble
We can find outselves a way
You can find a place to stay
And the place is always safe

If you have a heart that's in pain
Don't be afraid
You're not to blame
There's a better world inside of us
Where we always thought it was
You don't need to hide
You can open up your eyes

And you'll discover
That there is another, world.

it's pretty self-explanatory, no?

What was the last game you played?

being a former computer games/world war 2 nerd, i jumped at the chance to play the new "enhanced" demo of Company of Heroes, from Canadian developers Relic who also brought us the classics Homeworlds 1 and 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.

Company of Heroes is yet another world war 2 themed game, but don't hold that against it. from what i can tell, it is a departure from usual RTS experience of amassing a giant economy and spamming units (OMGWTFBBQ NO ZERG RUSH 10 MINUTES KEKEKEKEKE) and pwning your opponent.

Company of Heroes has an emphasis on tactics, such as using cover and outflanking your enemies, one example being having two sqauds of allied rifleman, one draws the fire of a german mg-42, where the other squad sneaks around to the side, outside the mg's line of fire and throws a grenade, effectively killing the mg-crew. squad level tactics like that, to a degree.

and yeah. i absolutely fucking suck at the game. getten beat by easy AI skirmish. i never was a great gamer to begin with.

i'm also playing the most dangerous game of all, love of course.

What's your favorite song to sing karaoke-style?  If you don't have one, why not?

I think the question is more, what don't not I don't like not to karaoke to? As a Filipino i feel that the activity is in my blood, my heritage. and with that heritage, one of my absolute favorite karaoke songs is the seminal Filipino wedding song, Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order, one of my absolute favorite bands ever.

But mostly, anything i can eek a performance out of, that's the thrill for me mostly.have the audience react to puesdo-seduction:

Karaoke Lap Show

faux-rock destruction swagger:

Karaoke Swagger

lack of shame:

Hi Theres

these were all taken at my last giant karaoke throw-down circa 2004, at my 18th birthday party, at san francisco's japantown's do-rei-mei. funny this post is containing pictures from my birthday, when today (sept 4) is also my birthday. which is also the day the majority of america found out about steve irwin's death.

What are your plans for the holiday weekend?

aside from my impending 20th birthday occuring on labor day itself (the fourth) not much is planned for saturday and monday. although on sunday i'm having a small lunch with my closest friends at texas roadhouse in union city (everyone raves about that place, and i've heard from no less than four people that the entire wait staff is populated with cute college aged girls, although the standards may vary) with after that, i will be venturing into the city, braving the lack of a lower-deck of the bay bridge (not like i drive anyway) to experience debbie does dallas: the musical, a tounge in cheek intrepretation of the orignal porn (no, there's no sex) on for it's closing night show.

come to think of it, i am tempted to head down to the oakland art and soul fest, an oakland institution if you ask me. in fact, this is the first year i am not having any birthday plans there; live 105 always has a concert stage there, and there usually have some pretty big name bands show up -- last year there had pinback, the lovemakers, and hieroglypics, the year before, lyrics born (when he was still coming up), my chemical romance (right around the time they jumped the shark), and the presidents of the united states of america. unfortunately enough, this year's line up seems like an anachronistic spoof on music. reading the line up i feel like we've been transported to 2002, the year of spikey hair, warped tours, and when pop-punk bands were a dime a dozen. i mean, take a look:

aside from the silversun pickups, whom i've heard on bagel radio, and honeycut who i haven't heard of, the rest are an absolute laugh riot. i mean, i can't front, i liked new found glory, back when i was 16, but come on, let sleeping dogs lie or whatever it is. okay, it's a marketing ploy, they're releasing a new album, blah blah blah.

enough about that. the only reason i want to go is because last year, i saw a food vendor selling deep fried twinkies. a delight i am sorry to say never to have experienced. so if i go, it would be for that, and only that today.

When you were younger, were there any game shows that you religiously watched and wanted to be a contestant on?

I was always disappointed with family fued, because with the the whole general mccoy versus hatfield vibe that was going on (remember when they introduced the familes they would always be in some western themed tabluex (sp) and they would all come to life and march on over to their respective bench? yeah, i was always expecting there to be blood, or at least a tangible solution to the family competition versus guessing what 100 people have to say about number one item that has to be brought to a picnic. although you have to admit those strikes that would show up on screen -- they literally came from like the mouth of god.

moving on, win lose or draw was fun (i remember stars of facts of life being on that show). tic tac dough was allright, just because it was probably the game that i could most easily scale for my peers around me.

i think the two game shows that made the most impact on me were press your luck & the joker's wild, mostly for it's colorful boisterious sets, catchy catch lines (NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY) & (JOKER! JOKER! JOKER! [although most of the time the 3rd slot would be a random question catagory, like AMERICAN PRESIDENTS! or COMIC STRIPS!]), but mostly my love for these two game shows came from the fact that it had contestents manipulate giant props in order to play the game (press your luck had that buzzer [i had an infatuation with buzzers as a kid] and that giant light up board while joker's wild had that giant lever manipulating a giant slot machine) so to answer the latter part of the question, i would have wanted to be on either press your luck or joker's wild. just to manipulate silly set pieces. and come to think about it, on press your luck you sat at a giant glass console like 10 feet off the ground that SPUN AROUND TO FACE THE LIGHT UP BOARD! how rad is that to a 6 year old kid?

various other game shows i watched regliously as a kid, scrabble, love connection (the chuck woolery hour of power!), shop til you drop, supermarket sweep, remote control and just about everything nickeloden was offering during 1990 to 1994 (nick arcade, double dare guts/global guts, legends of the hidden temple, wild and crazy kids) -- i don't consider what would you do a game show, and i never liked figure it out, although summer sanders was hot.

game shows were a pivotal to my childhood, contributing to my grandiose visions of big money big money big money no whammies.

PS: i just remembered the monopoly tv game show, which featured light up properties and a corny apcappella group spell-singing m-o-n-o-p-o-l-y.