Sorry About Not Posting Yesterday...

I was just so damn depressed...
I'm not gonna have a job when I get out of college. I just know it.

Here are the links that explain why:

Chowder might be done for.

Cartoon Network's schedule for 2009.

An article that scares me into tears.

Just read those and you'll see why I'm so scared. You'll see why I just want to give up. Goodness. I just don't know anymore.

So I've decided....

I'm not going to pick up any comics over the summer. I like my shop here in California so much I just can't pass up that 20% discount for 3 months! Also this means that I will just have a lot more to read when I get back here! I love to read so I can't really complain. I'll also be saving money and who doesn't want that? Plus getting a break from it won't be so bad! Sorry Marvel... I'll be back in August!

That's all!
Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Nintendo News... and more...

Well the conference was today. For all of the updates that happened as they happened, check out this link. <-RIGHT THERE! Over all I thought it was pretty awesome. No big games that I would go gaga for but at least a new Zelda game was announced. I'm always happy when those come out because that means Nintendo still knows what they are doing. If you didn't understand some parts of what was in that link, feel free to ask me on here or wherever! I'll answer to the best of my abilities.

Now for the more... June Solicits! Yay! Marvel unveiled their solicits for June yesterday and I gotta admit... They look good! What I'm most looking forward to is Captain America # 600 and the upcoming Fallen Son story arc in Amazing Spider-Man.

I really hope the upcoming Captain America will be as epic as Thor # 600. I mean I was BLOWN away with that issue of Thor! It was amazing!

With Norman running the entire show, I'm happy to finally see what Spider-Man's reaction will be. I'm pretty sure it will be very epic. Let's keep masks on this time though, people!

Well that's it tonight!
Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Nintendo is King.

Always has been and always will be! Don't believe me? Just check out this link here.

You just can't mess with them! <-CLICK HERE.

And don't forget to read the link inside this link to the actual news story. I'm gonna be posting my Nintendo news mostly from GoNintendo but they get their news from other sites so don't forget to check out the actual news and not just what this site says. Consider GoNintendo a blog from which I get my news.

That's all I want to say tonight... This REALLY caught my attention today and I hope it'll amaze you as much as it amazed me!! Tomorrow, Nintendo's President, Satoru Iwata, will be giving a speech over at the Game Developer's Conference tomorrow and most of us Nintendo Fan-boys are pretty excited about what he is gonna say. Nintendo is pretty notable for their ability of keeping things secret until they are ready to announce something. This means nobody really knows what Satoru Iwata is gonna say tomorrow! It'll be a surprise to everyone! (Except, of course, to those that work at Nintendo.) Get ready for some more Nintendo news tomorrow!!

Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Platinum!

I got Pokémon Platinum! YAY! The latest version of Pokémon is out and I snatched it up as SOON as it hit the streets! I must say... Even though it's pretty much the same as most of the other installations, it's definitely the best one so far. The battle dynamic is a lot smoother, the diversity of which Pokémon you can catch and use is very nice, and the replay ability is definitely there in full force!

Platinum's story basically plays out just like Diamond and Pearl's story with just a few tweaks. The most appealing new feature in this version is the addition is the battle frontier. This is a place where trainers can really step up and test their true strength and abilities. I REALLY want to try my best and become a strong trainer instead of just a collector. Hopefully I'll conquer the Battle Frontier in here!

That's pretty much all I have to say tonight because I want to get back to playing my game!
Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Thursday. New Office.

It was pretty hilarious. I was laughing through-out it. The guys down at The Office do a great job on every episode they pull out. Also, there was a surprise ending that may change the whole course of the show! It is, obviously, also one of my favorite shows of all time.

There it is again... "One of my favorite shows." I always seem to say that. I got to thinking... What really ARE my favorite shows? How would I be able to tell that is my favorite show? What makes them so special? What can signify that they are in fact my favorite show?

Then I got it. A show is truly my favorite show if I would actually buy it's season's DVDs. That's when I did a mind journey... What shows do I LOVE enough to buy their DVDs too? Here's what I came up with:

• The Office - It absolutely SLAYS me! There hasn't been an episode I hadn't laughed at. The casting on it is simply magic. I think that's one of it's strongest points.
  
• Scrubs - It's found a special place in my heart. I simply cannot get enough of J.D., Turk, Carla, Cox, Kelso, Janitor and Elliot. It makes me VERY depressed that they are on their last season.
• South Park - It's simple animation is more than enough to convey a compelling story and keep the comedy coming at full force. Definitely an American classic.
• Futurama - The awkward sibling of the Simpsons that Matt Groening dropped out into the world proved itself to be just as, if not more, hilarious as it's older brother always supplies me the laughs. It's my sense of humor and really enjoy it every time it's on.
• Pokémon - What can I say about this show? It's been there for me for 10 years. I can always count on it being there for me when life was too much for me. Yes. Even 10 years ago I had the mind of an old man and needed to escape this real world by watching a bunch of kinds capturing creatures and have them battle each other. LEAVE ME ALONE!
• Looney Tunes - THE REASON I GOT INTO ANIMATION. 'NUFF SAID.

Well there you have it. These are truly my favorite programs on television that I love SO much, I would get all their seasons on DVD. AGH! Now I want to go on eBay and snatch them all up! Sigh... One can dream though... One can dream... So far I only have the first season of Futurama, all the seasons of Scrubs, and the second season of The Office. Gotta keep an eye out for the rest!

Once again... Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Wednesday. That Can Only Mean One Thing!!

A Brand New Scrubs and a Brand New South Park!

I'm in heaven! First off I'll talk about the Scrubs Episode.

It's titled "My Nah Nah Nah". The episodes name comes from the opening sound effect from the intro to Sports Center. It starts with J.D. and Turk watching an episode and it eventually helps with a problem Turk is having later on with a patient. I don't want to give away ALL of the episode but I will say it was awesome. It was the kind of episode that reminds me why I love Scrubs. It combines drama and comedy in such a fantastic way it boggles me that it has never won an Emmy or anything! This show deserves that AND MORE! Goodness I love Scrubs.

Later on in the night, a new South Park came on titled "The Coon". Fear not though. It's not the bad way that word is used. Coon is simply Cartman's super hero name. That should be enough info for you to figure out that this episode is AWESOME! It's all basically a parody on "The Dark Knight". The boys at South Park did a GREAT job of parodying the movie in a hilarious way. South Park is also one of my favorite shows of all time!!

So in general, I did nothing today but watch new episodes of my two of my favorite shows.

P.S. Image is from here.

Thanks for reading!
PEACE!!!

I Went Out Today

I did. I went to the mall. Walking. Man, I gotta get a car. I can't wait for it. It's gonna be awesome! Anyway, I didn't really do much there. I just wanted to get the hell out of the room. It was fun to leave though! I went to a Target, a Best Buy, and a Gamestop. I didn't buy anything from Target or Best Buy. I DID get 2 games from Gamestop though. I got my little brother "Lego Batman". I keep hearing great things from this franchise so I'm glad I got this for him. For me... I got "Drawn to Life"! This is a game where YOU get to decide what your hero looks like! Yes!! YOU get to draw what character you play as!!! Oh man I can't wait!!! I have SOOO many ideas for who I will be playing as! No!!! Not Mario! I'm thinking of all the characters I've made over the years! It's gonna be awesome! Here's a video on it.



AWESOME RIGHT?!?!

Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Monday! That means I'm back!

Okay, so in case you didn't notice, I will NOT be regularly posting on the weekends. Why? I don't know... Just to have a break from the week I guess.

Over the weekend I didn't do much of anything. I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess again after a couple of months not touching it. I told myself that I was going to beat this game by the end of the week but I am only at like the 4th dungeon or something like that... I don't really know how to tell the progress with this game... I just got the Zora armor and am now looking for the next Fused Shadow. I think that's pretty early so I'm not sure I will be able to do what I want to by the end of the week.

This week is my spring break and I didn't go home! Ticket prices are very weird... It would have actually cost less to go to New York rather than Houston! WTF is that?!? Oh well... I'll just stay here for a week trying to beat some video games. I also have some homework to do so I'll guess it'll be good to stay here. Also I need to chillax. Been a long couple of days.

Well yeah. That's today's entry! Boring as boring can be! Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Ummm... I'll go ahead and make up for last night with this...

A Quadruple Post!!!

You read it right! Tonight I will be featuring:

• An explanation to you why I didn't post anything last night and I'll give you some cool proof!
• An album review!! YAY!
• Another awesome comic strip from the guys at Buttersafe!
• Some news from Marvel!

Okay so the reason I didn't post yesterday was because I had to go in to the studio here at school to work on a new project for my Animation Principles class. The assignment was to make our character's head rotate 360 degrees, 3 times, and then make then show an expression. It was basically an assignment that made us learn more about 3-Dimensional space in 2-Dimensional animation along with working on character's expressions. Well you all knew this was coming so here goes my new animation! It came out great! My teacher really liked it! Anyway, here it is!




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And now for an album review....

The Avalanches - "Since I Left You"
Released November 27, 2000 on Modular Recordings


My first review will be of The Avalanches' "Since I Left You". I think this album was VERY well put together. It features TONS of sound bites from all recorded times of media. Anything that has been recorded for anything might have been included in this album. These guys actually put all these songs together in a very wise way. It all sounds like it belongs. I really give them praise for having the feeling of how these sound bits could fit together. One thing I REALLY like about this album was that there isn't really a single song. Every track on here continues into the next one. So it's all basically one big track. I think some of you guys out there wouldn't like this because it never really gives you break from song to transition to song. There aren't really any breaks in between these songs to make them stand out from each other. Actually, I currently have them on my iPod and am listening to all my songs on there in a random order. Every time one of their songs comes on, I have no idea what I am listening to. A song would sound like it starts from, basically, a random point but actually that's how that track starts. This would be the one major flaw I can pick out in this album. These songs don't really have the ability to breathe and have life of their own. They all work together to make the entire album sound like a super track. Now I also think this is what is great about this. Because the album is all strung together like this, I feel that it can take you away to where The Avalanches want to take you: A funky fresh place where music plays with your senses and just makes you want to dance. Overall , this album is GREAT. That's just what I think though. Now, I haven't really thought about how I'm goint to be ranking these reviews... Stars? Numbers? Hmmm.... OH! I know!

Here's a sample of one of their songs:
"Frontier Psychiatrist"

The Avalanches' - "Since I Left You" - 5 Tips of my Cap out of 5 (Sure it's corny and cheesy but it'll catch on.)

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Looks like it's time for another hilarious comic stip from Buttersafe!


LOLOLOLOLOL

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The final post of this massive entry will be a bit of Marvel News. Looks like some movies have been pushed back. It's not horrible news but it is a little disheartening... I wanted to watch these movies sooner! Oh well... I guess I can wait... I mean if these movies will be anything like Iron Man then at least I know I will be waiting for something fantastic!


Well then... Thanks for reading this LOOOOOOOOOOONG post. It was a bunch to read and I'm glad you guys made it all the way through. Once again...
Thanks for reading!
PEACE!!!

Just a Video of What I Did Last Semester

Here's a video that everyone in my class really liked! All we had to do was use all the information we learned through-out the semester and put it to work. I used Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, and Aftereffects to make this movie. The characters in it are my own that I have created and developed over the last 5 years.The music is all from a game called "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" by Nintendo... Gotta give them their props! The video is supposed to be of a team of kids that control elemental super powers going to fight a super evil bad guy. Oh and also, it was only to be one minute long. Any questions, just ask me. Well then... Here you go!


(sorry about how crappy it looks... had to reduce it's quality so that Blogger could upload it. :( )

And once again... Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!!

Yeah Soooo....

We had to evacuate my dorm building today...
It just turned 7 p.m. and I hear this massive knock on my door. "Hello? Mario? Everyone! We gotta get out we're evacuating the building!"
O_O
I immediately got my wallet, keys, and phone and got out of my room. We were all instructed to go to the cafeteria. At this point, my roommate and I had NO idea what was going on... We just went along with what was said... I'm not gonna lie... I was concerned... about all my stuff in the room! What if something happened to it all?!

Anyway, all of the South Hall residents were in the cafeteria just waiting... And waiting... And waiting... What were we waiting for? An answer... Why were we forced to evacuate? Well... It took them an hour to tell us what was going on... I think we could have heard about it sooner... Maybe right when we got to the cafeteria?!

Well what happened was there was a suspicious package left behind our building. The school didn't want to take any chances so they called the bomb squad, the police, and ordered us to evacuate. I don't know in what order but that's what happened. We were notified of this at 8 p.m. We were also told that we couldn't leave until the bomb squad finished their business. That would take an hour more.

So we waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Finally it was 9 and as promised... We got to leave! The administration actually stayed true to their word! I think that was awesome! But really... I lost TWO hours of my life for some package that turned out to be nothing at all! Oh well... I would rather have lost those 2 hours as opposed to exploding....

So yeah that was my night... Earlier today I had Intro to Psych and Figure Drawing. Both were pretty tight. In Psych we learned more about motivations and why we do certain things. In figure drawing we experimented with charcoal. I did pretty well if you ask me! :D.

Well that's all folks! Thanks for reading! PEACE!!!

Funny Stuff

So about 2 weeks ago I had my first character animation pencil test here at Woodbury. I had to first create a character and then develop it into something I can animate. Well I chose a clown because that's how I roll. After getting approval, I had to then animate my character walking. I did with, I have to say, great results! I converted it into a video for you all to see so... HERE YA GO! Mind you it IS short because it is only one walk cycle...




Next up I want to show you guys a hilarious comic strip from http://www.buttersafe.com/
I think these guys produce pure gems and this is only one of them:



Thanks for reading!

PEACE!!!

It's Time to Begin

Here we go... My name is Javier and I have decided to go ahead and start up my own blog!

I have been thinking about doing this for some time... I just never really had the will to actually start it up. I don't really know what finally convinced me to start... Maybe it was Kate... Maybe I finally snapped... Either way I thought it was time to make a blog.

On this blog I will have:
News from around the web that grabs my attention the most (consider this a warning... It will most likely be Nintendo and Marvel news)
Album/ Song/ Band reviews
Comic/ Artist/ Author reviews
And of course, blog entries from yours truly. I will try and not rant too much but, eh, you know how it is out there right now.

Being a freshman in college means I don't really get to communicate that much with my friends from high school. Even when I do talk to my friends, I can never really tell them exactly how things are here at Woodbury University. I figure that maybe this can help get the message across more. I still want to keep in touch with my friends and I only hope they want the same.

Thanks for reading and wish me luck!

THE SUPER MARIO HAS ARRIVED!