Who's That Pokémon!?

    So during one of my hungover states last weekend I once again cracked out my card and made an impulse purchase to make my hangover seem little, in comparison to the MIGHTY AWESOMEness I had just bought. Pokémon White/Black, which brings the total count of our little pocket monsters to 646!

    On a side note I was about to claim how racially tolerant I am because I bought the black version of the game, but then I looked down and saw the box in front of me clearly stating the WHITE version, with a big black monster on it that I'm assuming I'm meant to catch. Ugh, even when I try not to be racist!.. Anyways it doesn't mean anything right? I blame Nintendo for coming up with such a dividing name for the franchise, they may as well have called it Pokémon Nicole Kidman/Barack Obama versions. Those CRAZY Japanese people (whom I secretly love) they come up with all kinds of inappropriate things....

"Anyone Remember this?"

   Was that racist of me? Anyways, of course the moment I popped the game into the DS and 5 Pokémon later it was about 12.30 AM (I started at about 5.30PM), if you ever wanted to get old really fast, this game is the way to go! It's like a really crappy time machine that only goes forward for you. I have to say though, they actually did make an effort to improve everything this time around with much improved graphics (the Pokémon actually MOVE this time OMG), the battle system is smoother this time around and, as per usual, they've crammed it full of new moves and Pokémon to make it as addictive as ever.

    What I WAS fairly surprised to see was the what the games' storyline was about, which basically revolves around the ethics of the premise. The premise, if you didn't know, is about going on a journey catching every fucking thing that tries to get in YOUR way and if not you must beat the UNHOLY shit out of them. It's fairly ridiculous as characters in the game hark on about how Pokémon and Humans live in harmony even though humans enslave them and make them battle until they pass out or enter them into ridiculous beauty pageants (seriously, I just came across  a pageant and made my horse thing wear sunglasses and a top hat, which made him look FAB btw!), all for their own personal entertainment. BUT the storyline is about a group stealing other peoples Pokémon so they can free them to live their own lives, sounds like a good lesson for children right? Kudos to the developers for making a storyline with realistic values.... except it's up to YOU to make sure that doesn't happen! Ha I guess I do always like to play the villain...

"JAAAAAAA!! I CAUGHT A VILD PICKACHU!"

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    So yeah that was kinda neat to me that they acknowledged the moral ethics (if not exactly the way it should be done). What wasn't so neat to me was the new Pokémon. In previous versions of the game you would come across the old mixed with the new with familiarity at your side. However in this newest version it's almost entirely brand new Pokémon from the get go, in fact I don't think I've seen any originals yet. This wouldn't a problem except for how god damn fucking UGLY they all are! I mean, you're encouraged to catch them all but in all honesty I didn't want most of them only except that I had to take them in if I wanted to progress. One of them is a bin bag with eyes, then there's one that's literally a pigeon, but called Pidove instead. If I wanted a god damn pigeon I'd take a stroll down to the Spanish Arch, with a bin bag handy (maybe with eyes stuck on it), and throw it over the pigeon. Seán has caught a pigeon! Bin Bag gains 50 Whoopdey-Fucking-Doo-Points! My main starting Pokémon looks like an ultra retarded pig at the moment (I don't want to see what it will become next) and there's a stupid little yorkshire terrier looking one that would have my foot coming out of its mouth because I'd kick it so hard in the ass if it were real.

"FUCKINGUGLYRETARDFACE, I choose you!!!"

 
    I haven't gotten too far into it but so far there are very few that impress me so fingers crossed that I will want to enslave more Pokémon to do my bidding. At least the music is cheery! So far though I've clocked probably near 20 hours into it so I guess it's doing something right and I've barely scratched the surface of it yet. AND apparently there's a whole online section I have yet to delve into yet, so I can't, like TOTALLY WAIT to do beauty pageants with you guys!

Anyways, since I haven't gotten very far into it at all I can't speak much more on this topic.Who would've thought my first proper post back in a while would be about Pokémon eh?

Until next time... Toodles!

And Another One For Good Measure

After making a ridiculous video and titling it the end of my trilogy of tea related videos, last night I created a new film with a creepy and plain bizarrity that's has prevailed in my previous videos. Enjoy, it was a quick shot at some horror with a dab of comedy thrown in at the end!

Seán's Exciting Morning

After much debate with myself whether should actually make this AND post it up, I decided I will go through with it. In an attempt to make my mornings more interesting to myself (and everyone else in extension) I managed to create this thought provoking piece, ALL BY MYSELF!!! WOW! Enjoy!

My Uncontrollable Sexist Me

I was working on tils the other day at work (obviously). Now before I start I would just like to note that when I think of where I keep a radio in a house, it naturally falls into the kitchen area in my mind because people tend to eat and prepare food there and like that bit of background music or mood while doing these things....

Anyhoo, while at the tils a woman approached me. She gave me her catalogue number of the item she wished to order and I put it through. All was groovey. Before placing the final order down I always have to ask if this is the correct item just to be safe. In this case it was a radio, so I asked "It's a radio you want yes?" and she said "yes".

Now, in work we're also encouraged to make conversation with our customers to make them feel like an individual instead of just the "next" costumer. So I decided to apply this mindset to the current female customer in front of me.

I said "Oh so you're gonna have the radio in the kitchen yeah?", she looked at me with half a smirk and said "..no.. for work actually" and I thought aloud "oh, well that too!". Of course at this moment in time I was still completely unaware as to how sexist I must've sounded during this entire order. As she was walking away my snail paced mind clicked together, like to snails sliding into each other. I guess that's not really a click, more of a slow...slow slow slow thud.

Anyways, I turned to one of my co-workers at the til next to me and said "oh crap, I just realised how bad that sounded -" he was smirking at me and just said "yep!".

Oh what another shameful moment I handed to myself at work...

The Deathly Hallows Part 2

My Harry Potter film hype has gone into overload as of recently with the end of the film saga approaching quickly, yet still so far away at the same time!

I've always loved the openings of the films because they're always unique. The most recent two did a fantastic job with setting the tone of the films, which are progressively heading in darker territory every minute of their run time.

The Half Blood Prince had a fantastic opening in just the first 30 seconds where it briefly shows the after math of the battle with Voldemort in the ministry. It's effective with it's haunting score, Daniel Radcliffe's vacant expression after his traumatic ordeal and combined with the flashing of camera's riddled with Voldemort's intense battle cry, the whole sequence is quite unsettling and re rigs the franchise into the homestretch of dark things to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHh_ldUF2U

The Deathly Hallows Part One had an equally unsettling and quite scary opening with the decaying Warner Brothers Logo floating out of the black clouds before fading to black. This is followed by a rising clockwork clicking (presumably of the locket), screeching and wilderness which becomes increasingly louder before cutting to the first scenes of the film. It's intense and signifies hostility the world has fallen into and how dark things have become. I find it remarkable that all of this is conveyed in just 30 seconds of screen time yet again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtms4B1pO8

And finally, to get to the point for which this post was made, a screen cap of the opening sequence of the final film has surfaced and it looks like we're yet again to impress with the most foreboding and violent title sequence yet. To put my thoughts into words, the wait for this movie is killing me inside. Feast your eyes:

A New Video

After labouring for a whole 2 separated hours in the evening and a few hours of editing, the fruits of hour crappy labour has finally paid off in a weird and wonderful way.... ENJOY!!

30 Day Music Challenge... IN ONE DAY!

I've been noticing on the ol' social networking website known as Facebook (you might've heard of it...) that many peoples are taking part in the 30 Day Music Challenge. Since that requires a certain amount of persistence (which I don't have) to put something new up every day, I have taken it on myself to list off 30 songs I've been addicted to as of late. They're in no particular order of preference, but I do like some more than others:

1)


I guess this is my favourite at the moment, it's total badassery


2)
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My walk and strut song


3)


Long, melancholic, haunting and sad but really really cool!


4)


Another cool Puscifer song, they need to make MOAR!


5)


If you haven't heard, I have a Battlestar Galactica Obsession


6)


I think everyone owes it to themselves to listen to this, it's friggin' cool


7)


A hilariously weird song about a robot obsessed with cake and death


8)


Silent hill, industrial grungy coolness


9)


Moar silent hillness

10)


Daft Punk's awesome soundtrack to Tron Legacy


11)


A depressing but haunting melody.


12)


Super cool song from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World


13)


I don't really know what to say about this one...


14)


One to blow your head off your shoulders


15)


Half way there!


16)


I would put this whole soundtrack down, but then there'd be no variety!


17)


Battlestar Galactica's loud, middle eastern cover of All Along the Watchtower


18)


A really nice piece... It makes me think of someone running away from something.... with no sound :P


19)


My favourite piece of music ever created. I want this played at my funeral!


20)


Cool beat and cool song by Korn


21)


Probably one of the most uplifting songs I've ever listened to


22)


Love this one!


23)


This be Fightin' music


24)


Intro song to Season 4 of The Wire, really really groovay


25)


From Mad Men, that ridiculously engaging song at the beginning of every episode!


26)


It just builds and builds onto itself to an explosive ending.


27)


I think we all know this one...


28)


Really strangely uplifting track from Sunshine.


29)


More haunting tracks... I'm all about the haunting today


30)


This one I hold closely to my heart!


And there you have it, 30 songs/tracks/whatever you want to call them from me. I generally listen to movie scores so I really tried this time to find songs with lyrics, forgive me if this doesn't match your pathetic taste!