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must watch animé: full metal panic!
Feb 9th
FULL METAL PANIC! (all seasons)
giant fighting robots with rockets and laser swords. extremely clueless but lovable hero who can beat the shit out of anyone. bad-tempered and prone-to-violence heroine. unnecessary panty shots. crowning moments of awesome. love triangles. unfortunately, there is no way to describe how awesome this show is without watching it. with all of it’s action, characters, and amazing hilarity, this is one of the greatest ever made. and when it comes to the giant fighting robot (aka mecha) genre, this one is simply the best.
all episodes are linked for your viewing pleasure (but i warn you, this animé plays like a long running movie, so once you start watching it, you probably won’t ever stop… until it’s over… 3 days later.)
movie reviews for week of february 5th, 2010
Feb 8th
vexed.ca presents: the laziest film reviews ever.
with an unstoppable combination of laziness and lack of writing skill, one sentence reviews hopes to revolutionize the way film reviews are done: by being short and quick to read. let’s face it: you probably don’t have much of an attention span. you want something that goes straight to the point to tell you whether or not a certain movie is worth your time. lots of writers take time to prepare their reviews — they even may watch the movie before writing their review. we know better.
top ten movies (by box office) — week of february 5th, 2010:
album review: rjd2 — the colossus
Feb 8th
artist: rjd2 (aka john krohn)- album: the colossus
- label: rj’s electrical connections
- genre: turntables
- street date: january 19th, 2010
- website: rj’s electrical connections
- rating: 3.5 out of 5
as an old-school def-jux fanboy, i pretty much was a fan of everything that label released, regardless of whether or not it was actually good music. just the fact that it was one of the few independent hip hop labels reppin’ the east was all that mattered. regardless of what you think of el-p (aka james meline) personally, his cadre of musicians under his label was pretty impressive and was the who’s who of independent beatmaking. i mean yeah, it was the preeminent backpacker label, but who gives a shit, right? backpacker hip hop was basically the only decent hip hop being released for a long time. so when rjd2 released deadringer on def-jux back in 2002, an entire community basically shit their pants. hot off the heels of dj shadow’s second effort, the private press, rjd2 stepped up to the batters box to challenge for the title of turntable supremacy.
a good-looking guide to free software alternatives for better looking computers.
Feb 8th
updated on february 8th — added: defraggler & cdburnerxp
aside from an infinite supply of free, messed up porn that this writer has access to, the internet has opened up the floodgates to new ideas on doing the same shitty, menial tasks day in and day out. we are no longer stuck in the rut of using badly-coded, expensive, or downright ugly programs that slow down our computers and do their tasks so poorly that you wonder if the programmers who made these pieces of shit hates you.
as such, we here at vexed have compiled a nice and tidy list of programs that offer viable, time-saving and resource-efficient alternatives to what’s out there in the mainstream. this will be a infrequently updated guide on the latest and greatest alternatives to what you use every day, from notepad to microsoft office, to how you watch movies and illegally burn onto dvds to sell in chinatown from the trunk of your car at $5 a pop.
