Hello, Hi, Howareya?

I'm sorry I haven't updated in such a long time. It's actually been due to the fact that I have been super busy and also because I hate to write journals when I haven't submitted any artwork in a while. Makes me feel all...Facebookie...

DARTHBISCUIT EXPLAINS THE NEWS:

I implore people who are living in the good old U.S. of A to PLEASE ignore TV news. It is no better than supermarket tabloids now and you can't trust it. It's all accusations, wild opinions (Which, BTW, any journalism teacher will tell you, opinions have no place in the press. Only fact.) and "pundits". (Pundit more or less means self proclaimed expert, by the way.) If you are concerned with the news then check the associated press or the National News service. (The former of which is available on the News Channel on your Nintendo Wii, BTW) These are truly unbiased reports simply becasue their survival doesn't depend on ratings. It's a known marketing fact that negativity and outrage will always get better ratings than level headed-ness and good news. Sadly enough.
In an effort to show what I mean, I will now explain three major news stories in good old plain biscuity english. Minus the fear mongering and yelling! Then we'll get to some reviews! Yay.

1) Health Care Reform.

What you see on TV: Old, beady eyed men with loose jowels and big mouths screaming about socialism and death panels while at a town hall meeting. Commercials talking about congress' fast sell and the new $300 billion in heathcare taxes.

The realness.
As someone who works in the healthcare business, I can tell you that it is screwed up. In the late 80's and the 90's the gov., in an effort to steamline healthcare, passed a law saying that medical facilities had to contract with one equipment/drug provider. This means that once the contract is inked, the provider can charge whatever they want. Hence the hospital charges you $40 for a bedpan and $29 for a Tylenol. One of the goals is to reopen medical facilitys ability to shop around. Meaning no more having to pay one company $50 for an insulin syringe when this other company might sell it for $7. Meaning competition drives prices down. The other goal is to make a government run insurance company that, while lacking the freedom of private providers, will be MUCH cheaper, or even free if youre eligible! This will drive down insurance costs, (Which are HEAVILY padded) and let the 78% of us under 30's (Most of us on DA) who are uninsured be able to afford it. If your'e happy with your provider, you can keep it. And your insurance premiums will go down! The 300 billion dollars in taxes is technically accurate, but that's over a ten year period, and we pay private insurers 18 times more than that! Oh, and the old men who you see at the "grassroots" rallys and town hall meetings?, Flamers employed by Insurace companies. (Most of the time, sometimes it's just a random crazy) It's not even a secret! They sponsor the rallies! Oh, and for the people who say the Gov. can't handle health care: Medicare and Medicaid have a frikkin 96% satisfation rate! Thats actually quite staggering.

The Swine Flu.

What you hear: It is an epidemic! thousands are dieing! Gaaaaaaahhhh!

The realness:

The swine flu has broken out before. It is just a slightly LESS volatile version of the flu. Thats right. Less. The "Swine flu epidemic" has killed around 300 people in North America so far. The regular flu kills 10,000 annually. Every year the media feels it needs to scare it's viewers with a new pandemic. Last year it was MRSA. (You already have it. It's so common it's in everybodys system already. If you are already sick, and stay that way for a prolonged period of time, then it can cause trouble. It's such a weak disease that a healthy body can fight it off without ill effect pretty much indefinately.) The year before that, SARS. (A bad chest cold, us Americans call it.) Before that, the Bird flu. It started with the incredible ratings Mad Cow Disease coverage earned on CNN (BTW, you can really only get THAT if you eat your cow brains raw...) now they have to have something new every year. Next year it'll probably be Chinese Whooping cough or something... Wash your hands, Cook your food and you'll be fine. (Gabe from Penny Arcade survived, didn't he!)

Stimulus Plan.

What you hear: Barack's ruined us! Our children will be paying for this forever! It's a waste of money to be spent on greedy polititians personal projects! Why don't they just close down the crooked banks?

The realness:

You actually don't hear much about the stimulus plan anymore. Why? Because it's working. And good news, as I have stated, is boring. It was supposed to create 13 million new jobs. Experts say it will probably create 30 million. It was supposed to start paying for itself in four years. Anyone who can see the debt clock in New York knows its nearly half paid back already. It was supposed to help the enviroment. Plans to rebuild the railway system, (America being the only modern country with out a major one now) will get hundreds of thousands of trucks off the highway. (The drivers will still have jobs, trains don't go everywhere.) Plans to pave roads with lighter material and paint roofs white, reflecting sunlight and being the equivilent of 11 million cars taken off the road? Paid for with the stimulus package. Oh, and about those greedy polititians? One of the Presidents first acts was to pass an executive order banning the Private Project earmark. In other words the reason so many polititians whined about the package was that they didn't get any of it! Unfortunately, the explanation for the for the banks not being closed down is not so happy. You've probably heard the phrase, "To big to fail"? Well, that means that if they let those big, crooked banks fail, (especially Capital one) then all of the companies they support would have failed. That means *ahem* COMPLETE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE!!! So, the feds had to save them, albiet with a prerequisite firm kick to the ass. Still, they got off pretty darned light.:[

Well, thats all I know I guess... It's a bit scattered, but I hope it's helpful.

Also, I know this reads like a big Obama Ass kissing session, but it's not. He's done some things I don't agree with and taken quite a few big risks. BUT I like the fact that he's TRYING. It never really felt like Bush was trying to do anything not self serving. Yet Obama's working his ass off to try and fix things. As long as he keeps trying, I'll keep hoping. (also, Kanye West IS a Jackass, all flies need squishin' and I desperately want the new camaro he made Chevy build.)

Now for the Biscuit review!

G.I. Joe

Barf.
The ONLY redeemable thing about this movie is the ninjas. Seriously. When everyone in your film is out acted by a Wayans Brother, You should shelve it. I mean, Have you ever actually heard of a movie where the villian actually says, "You and what army!?!" Or, "IT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN! BWA-HA-HA!!!" Geez.

Are you serious? It don't get not one single Cock.

Ponyo

I am so grateful that this movie came along to help me get the taste of "GI JOE" out of my mouth! It's wonderful! Amazing animation, great characters, awesome dub! It just makes you feel all happy inside. If this movie is still playing anywhere as a matinee, please go see it. It is just beautiful.
Five out of Five cocks up!


This is where the review for "9" should be, but It didn't show in any theaters around here. D: Soooooooo...

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Wow. I was so suprised by this. I've not laughed so hard at a cartoon since "The Emperors New Groove"! Not only is it beautifully animated, but the humor is just so... Out there that you can't help but do this: Stare, Blink, Blink, Laugh until you piss. My favorite part? Two: "lick, lick, lick..." and The Dad's Eyebrows. To know what I'm talking about, go see it.

Five slightly soiled Cocks WAY up!


Okami

The wonderful, amazing, terrific, beautiful, splendiferus, Super Strong, Telekinetic got me this for my birthday! Admittedly, I've not played it as much as I would like because I HAVE NO TIME, But from what I have played, it's absolutely amazing! So much creativity! This game is one of the best arguments for games as art there is! Also, did I mention Badkarma was great?
Five Pre-emptive Cocks up!


Metroid Prime trilogy

Gaming bargain of the century. I actually suggest getting a Wii to play this game. One of the problems I have with FPS' on other systems is that the Alien Worlds look like a big old desert, or the inside of a warehouse. Plus everything is grey and you know I hate that. But in these games the world actually FEELS alien. The architecture and the atmosphere. Plus the gameplay is great too. Plus, as a bonus they've improved the graphics on the first two games, fixed the controls, and fixed the problems with the second one. Really, if you can, get this. It's awesome. Having to choose between this and Okami every time I get to Play, (Which isn't often since Got ODST) is Torture.
Because it's three great games I have to give it 15 cocks up!


Naruto
Raikage= awesome
Sasuke= Super Douche
Gaara= pimp
Tobi telling Naruto that Revenge is Sasuke's Ninja way= pricless

Bleach
KUBO! Stop killing off the top three Espada in one chapter fights, dammit!!!

One Piece
Mind bogglingly awesome, as usual. You almost wish it would be bad just once to break the monotony of awesomness...

Well, off to bed. Later days!

P.S. Everybody draw Bacon Cthulhu!

Hello, Fellow deviants!

I has been watching movies and playing games! Yay!

"Ahem" sorry... Over-stimulated...

Reviews:

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

I admit that I thought this movie would be BAD. I really did. I usually only pay attenntion to the critics if they ALL hate something. I mean if 300 or so people hate something it's probably not good, right? Well, I went to see it annnnnd it was frikkin GOOD! Better than the first one anyway! I mean the story was good but what made the movie was the (koff, kof) GIANT FRIKKIN ROBOT FIGHTS!!!! WOOT! While it did have some problems, (Plot holes, Ball jokes) It was a really entertaining film!

3 Pleseantly suprised Cocks up.

P.S. If you assume the twins (who are pink and green) are black stereotypes because of their behavior, Doesn't that make YOU the racist?

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

If all movie series had the track record of the HP series then wouldn't going to the movies be a lot more fun? I mean you can pretty much count on them being good. Unlike Shrek 3 or X-men 3 which both turned out to be big, steamy piles of crap. It's a fantastic movie! It somehow manages to be both lighter and darker than previous entries in the series and is easily the best one since The Prisoner of Azakaban. Can't wait for The Deathly Hallows! (part 1 and 2!)

5 Big ol MAGIC cocks up!

Coraline.

I know this is a little late but I just got this one on DVD. You should too. Now. I'll wait.................................................... Good, weren't it? After I watched it I had to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and ordered "James and the giant Peach" off of Amazon! They don't make enough movies in this style! (Plus, Neil Gaiman being one of my Favorite authors helps!

5 enchanted cocks up!

Wonder Woman and Green Lantern.

I'm reviewing these together because they are both WB premier DC 'toons. They are both awesome. Lot's of action. Lots of humor. Some impressive voice work and writing. And a whole lotta neck breakin'. Seriously, I counted. In the course of these two movies 18 necks get broken! That's a whole lotta necks! But I digress. Go get 'em.

5 heroic, neck breaking cocks up!

Now for some Games! Yay!

They had a sale on Wii-ness at my local Gamestop and I got Some playthings. Some used, One new. One DL. Here is what I thought of 'em:

Super Paper Mario.

A great and really creative platformer/RPG with some fantastic puzzles and a suprisingly deep and charming story. If you don't have it already, You should give it a try!
4 multi-dimensional cocks up!

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.

Ugh. I'm so dissapointed in this one. The controls suck. The voice acting is ear rape. and developers need to realize that while the Wii isn't as powerful as the 360 or PS3, it's roughly twice as powerful as the 'Cube was. So these PS2 graphics are unacceptable. You can do better than this, Sega.
1 Flaccid depressed cock up. (And they only get that for nostagia reasons.)

Wii Sports Resort.

OMG. And I hate web-speak so you know I mean it. The Motion plus really does make the Wii feel like a new system! I have played so much Wii Golf on this thing... (on the Orginal Wii Sports golf was unplayable) Plus, fencing and archery make me really wanna play the new Wii Zelda when it comes out!
5 very sore cocks up!

Tales of Monkey Island.

I am a big Monkey Island fan. And I downloaded this one for the Wii. All of the MI games have been a collection of weird puzzles, loony characters, and smart-ass humor that just appeals to the Biscuit's soul. This one is no exception. Sure the graphics on the Wii version are stilted. (The PC's arent much better. 2000's Escape from Monkey Island looked better) But the story (Guybrush's hand is possessed by LeChuck and punches him in the mouth whenever he tells a bad joke. Which is often.) the Humor, (The aformentioned hand and gags like the "U-tube".) and the Puzzles (Nope, no details here in the parenthesis, go figure 'em out yourself!) more than make up for the shortcomings! Can't wait for part 2!

4 of the second biggest cocks you ever saw!

Well, thats all for now. Cause I'm outta of stuff to talk about.

I'll be Selling prints soon to help pay for PJ Ninja's higher education so please give 'em a look!

Also, July 28th was my Birthday. The Biscuit is 29. I is a creepy old biscuit....

By now you've probably heard about the death by cardiac arrest of Micheal Jackson. My "inbox" was inundiated with journals on the subject. The sad thing is that despite the fact that someone died, most people have chosen to take the opportunity for pedophile jokes. This pisses me off for a couple of reasons. One: A person died, and I personally was raised to show at least a little sensitivity in these matters. Two: Have you ever wondered why he was found innocent? IT WAS A PUBLICITY STUNT! It was engineered! The first time this happened it was near the end of his prime in 1993. "Dangerous" was about to come out and there was not a lot of quality, hit making material on it. Then this first scandel happened. Micheal was accused of molesting a little boy and breach of contract against said little boys family for trying to withhold a promised contribution towards the boys medical bills. (F.Y.I. Jacko withheld the funds because the family turned out to have plenty of money.) In the end the molestation charges were dropped (And the family convicted of purgeory over them) and The agreed upon amount was paid for the Medical bills. They do NOT let you settle out of court over child molestation, by the way. The free publicity from the incident drummed up the sales of Dangerous to near Thriller levels. MIkey learned somethin'. Soooo over the next decade he stayed crazy. Because how else is an aging pop star with no ideas left and a Disease that's dissolving his natural pigmentation as well as deteriorating the cartilage in his face (Vitiligo) gonna stay in the spotlight? In 2001 M.J. was getting ready to release his first album in nearly a decade. Thanks to mounting debt he needed good sales. So he invited kids with psychological problems to his house. Naturally he got accused of molestation. His plan? To get found innocent in what was sure to be the most entertaining trial in history thereby drumming up sales for an album thats single featured vocals by Chris frikkin Tucker! Why was there was no way he could be found guilty? Because every single room in neverland ranch was being monitored by a third party security firm! Even the bathrooms! Now before you say, "Ewwww! Perverted!" The Jacko covered that base. He never had access to the footage. Only the firm did. Unfortunately for him, The Los Angeles court decided to hold a closed court, and although he moonwalked into court everyday and even tried to have Kermit the Frog testify on his behalf, It didn't get as wacky as hoped. And although He was found innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt in court, he was found guilty in the court of Leno/Letterman and would never regain his former popularity as anything but a boy hungry joke. In closing, Yes, Micheal, you made some mistakes, turned into Skeletor, and ran out of talent, but "Beat it" was awesome and you will be missed.

----To: Micheal Jackson----Not a pedo, just crazy.--

Now on to happier things like... LISTIES!!!

------------THE 10 BEST CHARACTER DESIGNS IN MANGA/ANIME!!!-------------

10) Lupin the Third. A simple red (or green!) sport coat and black slacks, along with his lanky build and awesome side-burns come together to make him one of the most iconic characters in anime history!

9) Vash the stampede. Red leather duster? Check. Little round sunglasses? Check. Lots and lots of buckles? check. Big Fugging Gun? Oh, hell yes check. in an anime full of awesome looking characters, he was the awesome lookingest.

8) Straw Hat Luffy. Once again, in a world of absolute insanity, Simplicity stands out. Luffy's rubbery movements and simple red vest with cut off shorts represent Luffy's carefree attitude perfectly. And leave ample room for flowing bad-assery at fight time!

7) Edward Elric. Ah, the white gloves. The white gloves that serve the duel purpose of hiding Ed's shame and complimenting his powerful red coat. On the back of which is the a modfied caduceus, the symbol of medicine, science and alchemy.

6) Soul Reapers. I can't choose a single soul reaper because they all essentially wear the same thing. But I have to include them for three reasons: One: The way Kubo makes every one unique depite being uniform is nothing short of brilliant. Two: Their all black design and flowing quality makes it a perfect medium for showing movement in action scenes. and Three: If I failed to include it this guy, would kill me. In my sleep. With spider poison.

5) Goku. Oh Goku, you trend setter you! You, the purveyor of spikey hair, wild color combinations and unstoppable optimism who inspired so many others! Forever shall you be in our hearts and on our action figure shelves.

4) Naruto. Yes, while Naruto was inspired by Goku his design, in my humble opinion, he surpasses it. Yes, he's a Ninja who wears prison orange, but it looks functional. Like a heavy canvas, thats tough but baggy and easy to move in. And when his jacket opens there is chainmail underneath it. Also, that thick headband is perfect for shading his eyes when he's pissed. On a personal note, I think Kishimoto is the best character designer working today. Is there really ANY bad designs in the series? From Kakashi to Habichi they are all iconic.

3) Kaneda. Although the character is from the 80's (Akira, BTW) and his look screams it (As well as, "TETSUOOOOO!!!"), Is there any cooler look than a red leather bike suit with a big pill on the back? I have two of his action figures. So I could take one outta the package. Hell yes.

2) Vampire Hunter D. A character in novels, his on screen persona was developed by Yoshitaka Amano of Final fantasy fame. D is one of the most striking characters to ever come out of the medium. And he is also the reason why a lot of Otaku from my generation are Otaku to begin with. When this guy first came on screen on TNT monster-vision all those years ago, I knew I was hooked.

1) Captain Harlock. [link]
Seriously. Every nobel pirate, every scarred anti-hero,Every black wearing bad-ass with a heart of gold owes something to this guy. From his traditional navy uniform, only black and skull adorned, to his black, red lined high collar cape, everything about Leji Matsumoto's greatest creation screams, "Fugging Awesome."

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Tha Biscuit Manga update:
Naruto: Ha! Tobi says Naruto is stronger than Sasuke! Woot!
(Also, the latest episode of the anime made me sympathize with Orochimaru. Now I feel dirty...)

One Piece: BON CLAY! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Bleach. Ukitake is awesome when he's not being sick.

Later days!

Tha 'Biscuit news:

My favorite show.
The last episode of Scrubs featuring the original cast (So the last episode period as far as I'm concerned) aired wednesday night. It was both silly and sad as most episodes of Scrubs were. But what made it one of the greatest farewell episodes in TV history had to be J.D.'s final walk down the hall and the subsequent prolouge to the show, featuring scenes from the cast future. This rough and tumble ol' country boy may have cried a little bit. In honor of Scrubs, I shall name all my paragraphs as if they were Scrubs episodes.

My Monitor.
People who watch me may have noticed that I have not downloaded as many Deviations as usual in the last week or two. This is because my lovely little cat (25 pound walking hairball) Fuzzy Britches knocked a can of Dr. Pepper into my monitor. Ack. I can still see everything all right, but the colors are screwy and the image is slightly skewed so Digital paint is pretty much out 'til I can get a new monitor. Please be patient with me!

My Face.

The other day I asked my brother to hand me the broom and he did. Like a Javelin. I ended up with a 2" gash on my face and a broken cheekbone. Yikes. Anyway, It's healing well and on the brightside I'll have a pirate scar! Yay. I guess.

My Inner Tubes.

You may not know it by looking at me but I'm an avid Bicylist. Fries VA is home to one of the best trails in the country after all. But, unfortunately when I got my Bike out of storage to go riding for the first time this spring, I had a flat. well, I went to Wal- FuggingUseless-Mart to get a replacment but even though they still sell the bike I have there, the Mongoose paver, they don't sell the required 28"x1.75" tubes. Argh. So i called the nearest Bike shop and they said to look online. It turns out 28"x1.75" tubes are standard in the U.K. but not sold over here. WTF? I had to order my tubes from a bike shop in Britain. Tubes: $4.00 each. With shipping: $33.00. Gah. Oh well. worth it to get out on that trail again I suppose.

My Console.

Anybody who has a Wii should take a look at the upcoming line up. OMG. Silent Hill. Klonoa. Dead Space, Extraction, Resident Evil: Darkside Cronicles, The Conduit, Muramasa, Arc Rise: Fantasia, Fragile. Punch Out, Etc. Etc. And it's not even E3 yet! I am a happy Wiimote wagglin' Biscuit!

My Movie review:

Star Trek:

Go see Star Trek. Now. I'll wait...

Good wasn't it? It's an awesome movie with lots of goodies for the Old School Trekkie (Me, admittedly) and lots of action and humor for the Star Wars crowd! Plus it's already made like a bazilion dollars, So it's pretty much saved the trekkie's future! One tiny complaint: Sulu's switch-katana was kinda dumb. The other 206 minutes and 30 seconds of the movie? Joygasm.


5 big cocks Way up!

Naruto: Shippuden movie 2: Bonds. (kizuna)

I downloaded this with a great amount of anticipation. I need to learn not to get my hopes up.

What am I talking about? Heres a synopsis: [SPOILERS! who cares?]

Konoha is attacked by flying ninja's. Even though they are destroying pretty much everything, nobody does much about it but stare at 'em, (And honestly, Chouji coulda took these dorks out.)
During the crisis, Naruto, who is at least wanting to fight the enemy meets an old man who is treating victim's. (In all fairness, the old man does explain why it's not a good idea to attack the sky-nins. If your a cat.) He helps a victim to the hospital where he meets the prerequisite annoying naruto movie extra. This little shemale is sinnoh's (the old guy Naruto met) pupil and her village is under attack. Naruto, Sakura and Hinata go to help while Shikamaru, Sai, Kakashi and Shino pursue the enemy. When they find the enemy, Shikamaru's plan apparently goes like this. "Sai. Go kill them. Kakashi stand around looking bored."
Meanwhile, Naruto's group heads towards the village hidden in the jungle or whatever and the Girl tells them about how Sinnoh took her in when the village wanted nothing to do with her. Why do all the kids in these Naruto movies and fillers have that problem? For thirteen years he taught her medicine and raised her. (A fact which makes the truth even stupider.) Anyway, they arrive at the village and everyone is gone. Stupid shemale girl runs straight into a trap and Sinnoh saves her and appears to bite it. After they bury him, Naruto, Flatty and Lumpy go to try and find the villagers. Hinata senses strange chakra and immediately goes to get Naruto and Sakura for backup. Nah, just kidding. She goes to investigate on her own and gets captured. Naruto and Sakura find some ruins that Sinnoh told them about, (WTF, when did he do THAT?!?) and encounter Shemale who has become Super Emo. (She is apparentely the host of the 0 tails. Ugh.) The 0 tails runs off of Emo and was awakened when Shemale went into despair over her dead master.) Sakura charges it in a very un-Sakura like way and gets knocked the fug out. It grabs naruto and makes him go 4 tails. His clothes clearly dissolve. He fox demons it into submission, and a talisman that Jiraiya gave him represses the 9-tails. And heals his clothes. Then Naruto tells Sakura to go the fug home and he and the newly awake shemale go into the ruins to try to free the villagers and Hinata. (Wait. HOW THE FUG DOES NARUTO KNOW HINATA GOT CAPTURED?!?) Well then the ruins fly away. It turns out Sinnoh only raised the girl to make her love him in a very pedo-ish way so he could fake his death and turn her Emo to awaken the emo creature in her heart and power his emo powered spaceship. (Hey, if we could power cars with Emo Hot Topic could solve the fuel crisis!) Anyway, The Old man gets super strong on Emo and whoops on Naruto for a while before Naruto (Now the movie actually gets pretty good from here on out.) convinces Emoshemale to confess her feelings to super pedo in order to lift the darkness from her heart. This makes Super Pedo Juuuuust weak enough for Naruto to lay a very cool smackdown on him. Then right as Naruto's about to finish him off... Sasuke! Seems Sinnoh was the one who taught Orochimaru pedo skills and he wants some new lessons. Instead He gives Sasuke his pedo-manual and runs away. Sasuke chases him because killing old Pedos is fun and Naruto follows. This is all cool because it portrays Naruto as being just as strong as Sasuke. They find him and he becomes a Super pedo tentacle monster and tries to suck their di... Chakra dry. Naruto and Sasuke power up and cause the pedo-tentacle-emo monster to overload. Meanwhile Shemale has found the villagers and Hinata trapped in a magic chakra sucking cage. She crams her scalpel in a light socket to short the Chakra cage out (...) and frees everyone. Then they try to escape on a lifeboat. Tentacles try to stop them but Sasuke saves the day (Best dialogue in the film: Hinata: "Sasuke!" Sasuke: "Shut up.") Then Naruto kicks Sasuke off the emo ship and stays behind to bring it down himself. Then everyone watches as Naruto rasengans it to hell as the credits roll. Then Naruto falls and shemale saves him with one of the Sky nins ninjitsu powered gliders. Even though she doesn't know ninjitsu... They land on a frog. After the credits Sasuke gives Orochimaru his pedo scroll and Orochimaru says, "Sasuke. Did something good happen?" Sasuke then remembers Naruto saying he was definitly gonna bring him back and smiles. And goes off somewhere to masturbate. Fin.


Two rather flacid cocks up.

Also, Mangawise, Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach are the best they've ever been. Go read 'em now.

Happy belated Birthday !!!

Hello, Mah D.A. Homies!

The 'Biscuit is distressed...

If you've ever read all the Info and fluff on my page then you know my favorite band is the Barenaked Ladies. Well, recently Bnl defacto frontman and lead song writer Steven Page left the group. This of course makes me worry about the future of the band. I mean, yes I know his voice is pretty much interchangable with Co-lead Ed Robertson's and I know that Ed is just as talented a song writer, but Steven was the "fat, nerdy guy"! I just liked knowing that the platinum selling band I was listening too was fronted by a guy who was just as fat and just as nerdy as I am. Oh well. Here's Hoping that the Next BNL record (due out later this year) is still just as awesome as always,(The drummer is still fat and nerdy, after all!) and Best of luck to Steven Page. (With any luck, He'll be successful and I'll have more to listen too!)

Now for my other favorite band, The "Gorillaz".

I understand that this "4 member" Cartoon band is actually a conglomeration of several dozen musicians, But the band mainly hinges on the efforts of creators Jamie Hewlitt and Damon Albarn. It's been 4 years since "Demon Days" and still No new Album.
"But Biscuit," you say, "Each member has their own lives to deal with!" Not so, actually, Hewlitt and Albarn are actually mucking about broadway and the documentary scene with vaguely Gorillaz-ish projects and showing off an amazing talent for Pretentiousness.
As a fan, I, Darthbiscuit80, implore you, Quit screwing with us and give us something awesome to listen too! I mean, Come on! Your "groundbreaking" Website hasn't even been updated in two years! Yes, your success has allowed you to try the things you've always wanted to do, but try to remember the fans who gave you that success!

At least Massive Attack and FallOut boy stay busy...

Now for the part of the journal where I geek out about stuff! Today's geek out:

FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood!
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
FMAB, (as it shall henceforth be called due to my inherent laziness) Is a new take on the franchise based more closely on the Manga, Which is more upbeat than the first anime series but still just as awesome! The tone, the animation, the music, and the design are all awesome and if this initial impression is worth anything then FMAB is gonna be an awesome ride! (I said awesome three times right there. Awesome!)

The legend of Zelda: Spirit tracks:
A sequel to the very cool Phantom Hourglass. Only very early info has been released, but Toon Link + Trains = Coolio Beans. I mean Hyrule and rail travel just seem to fit together like hand and glove or Peanut butter and chocolate. (Unlike DC vs Mortal Kombat which fit together like Tongue and Butt, meaning just because two things will fit together, doesn't mean they should fit together...)

Naruto vs Pain:

Wasn't this whole fight just a joy to read? It seemed like every chapter had something to Squee over. Naruto's wiping out of the first five Pain's, Hinata's confession, the gruesome 8 tails Kyuubi, Yondaime's suprise appearance, and finally Naruto's final assault on tendou Pain! I can't wait for the next chapter! (Literally, I've already checked Mangahelper's for spoilers like ten times today!)

Bleach:

Hollow Ichigo. Is anyone else a little put off by Ichigo becoming a monster AGAIN? I know he'll gain control of it and master it in time to fight the next enemy, but you just KNOW this'll lead to more brooding... Still, It does look pretty cool...

Also, I can't wait for this Arc to end just because I wanna see the answer to the mystery of Ichigo's father (I think he was the former Kenpachi, personally) and also I wanna see the Visoreds some more. Plus I want Ichigo to reconcile with Tatsuke and his other friends.
Plus, I wanna see what excuse Kubo will use to make Grimmjow a good guy. (Shonen Law #34: Really Cool bad guys like Hiei, Vegeta,Sesshomaru and Gaara ALWAYS become good guys!)

One Piece:

Mr. 2 Bon Clay, newest member of the strawhat pirates? We can only hope! Plus, this book is crawling with trannies right now. and Only Oda can make them seem BAD ASS. Go Luffy! Save Ace! Whoooo!

The U.S. postal service:

I've been trying to send a package to for like 2 months now. First, they got the address wrong, then they said the packaging was improper, Then they f@#king LOST it. So I Went to the P.O. and made sure it went out last time. So naturally I just got it back. With a sticker that said "Insufficient Postage". and a Calafornia post mark. Meaning it got all the way there, a stamp fell off or something, so they paid to send it all the way back. . . . .
Maybe I'll try UPS.

Spider Man 4:

It's official, the next villans will be Morbius, The Lizard, and ...Man-spider... Great. Neogenic Nightmare was like my least fave story arc ever. Oh well, maybe Raimi can make it good. (He told the producers that if they stuck their greasy little fingers in it like last time he would quit, so it's all him now!)

Wolverine:

Gah! Deadpool what have they done to you! They took Marvel's goofy yet Badass, hyper-talkative mercenary anti-hero and made him into an "emotionless silent killing machine with the powers of multiple mutants" Damn you Hollywood! Damn youuuuuuu!!! (though, I thought this movie had the rancid smell of SUCK on it from the first trailer...)

Oh well, I have to go ponder why the Postal service is on the verge of bankrupcy.

Later days.