Updates from September, 2009

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  10 Unique Album Covers

  Fantikerz 12:40 am on September 3, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  The art on the cover of an album reflects the style of the artist and what their music sounds like. I don’t know if it’s coin­ci­dence, but I find that a lot of really great songs are accom­pa­nied by some equally great album art. Per­haps that’s because I’m totally anal about my album art (I can’t stand hav­ing place­holder cov­ers in my library). Any­way, I just thought I’d share a few that always seem to pop out when­ever I’m scrub­bing through my library. Who knows, some of these might give you some ideas for a cre­ative project.

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  10 Shows You Should Have Seen

  Fantikerz 11:40 am on August 23, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  Prime time tele­vi­sion is a cruel place. If a show scores below two mil­lion views con­sis­tently, you can expect it to be cut by the exec­u­tives. Some­times that hap­pens to truly great shows that just hap­pen to be com­pet­ing with other already pop­u­lar pro­grams like Amer­i­can Idol or even the Super­bowl. Nonethe­less, while every­one else is watch­ing Simon Cow­ell in his ill-fitting shirts, there are still those one mil­lion loyal view­ers wait­ing to see what hap­pens in their favourite (albeit unpop­u­lar) series.

  Today, I’ll be shar­ing some of those shows that had great poten­tial, but a bad time slot. With all the garbage on TV these days, it might be good to shed some light on some shows that were unique, well pro­duced, or ahead of their time.

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  9 Videos That will Amuse You

  Fantikerz 8:12 pm on August 9, 2009 | 3 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  Every­one wants to relax once and a while and become entranced by the stu­pid humor that YouTube so gra­ciously har­bors. Once in a while, I come across an amus­ing video that should be much more pop­u­lar than it cur­rently is. In this post, I’ll share some of those videos with less than 300,000 views (at the time of post­ing) that will surely make you laugh or smile. No guar­an­tees though.

  Just a warn­ing: these videos may be stu­pidly funny, so your self-pride may be at risk. It also might be a good idea to watch these when you’re alone, as some may be dis­taste­ful for the workplace.

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  Amusing Emails Vol. 1: I Hat You

  Fantikerz 9:11 pm on August 4, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  I was try­ing to find a past email thread when one caught my eye, then another, and another. It seems that for every idi­otic email I had got­ten in the first part of the year, I replied with a sar­cas­tic / zeal­ous / humor­ous mes­sage. I’ve totally for­got­ten about some of these so I fig­ured it may be fun to share.

  The first one comes from a per­son who uses the alias Dor­gles. It isn’t exactly hilar­i­ous, but it may serve a chuckle to a few.

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  Things that Irk Me

  Fantikerz 7:35 pm on June 6, 2009 | 4 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  Sit­ting here wait­ing for my Steam items to down­load (Mir­rors Edge and Assassin’s Creed, thanks for ask­ing), I began to pon­der the phrases, words, and actions that are my pet peeves. I now present them in a neat, alpha­bet­ized list that you may use as a ref­er­ence when com­mu­ni­cat­ing with me.*

  Just know that there’s not any par­tic­u­lar rea­son for writ­ing this, and you shouldn’t take any­thing seri­ously — unless you’re Anthony or George. There might even be some things that you agree with, but don’t be sur­prised if there isn’t. In all seri­ous­ness, this post is really self-centered and is mostly a joke.

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  Why EvilChicken Failed

  Fantikerz 3:44 pm on June 3, 2009 | 12 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  It began as a good idea, and a month later the ball was rolling. Max, Alec, Cameron, and I were going to col­lab­o­rate on com­bin­ing their majorly active sites into one large one. Sev­eral hun­dred thou­sands of vis­its a month was the plan, and we actu­ally reached those num­bers it in the month of  May. This would be a big ven­ture for all of us, but soon things went sour and 3 months later the site was announced to be clos­ing until fur­ther notice. Why, you ask?…

  If you’re not aware of what EvilChicken is, you should go ahead and skip this entry. Things are going to get in-depth and it’ll be hard to under­stand at points if you weren’t there from the beginning.

  Before I go on, I’d just like to pref­ace this by say­ing that I’m not try­ing to shift any blame around, but instead out­line the short­com­ings and faults that led to the site’s demise. This should also serve as good ref­er­ence mate­r­ial for any­one that wishes to start a large, com­mu­nity ori­ented site.

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  19 Provocative Tracks

  Fantikerz 5:09 pm on May 24, 2009 | 2 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  I call a song provoca­tive when it pro­vokes you to think about or do some­thing. The best ones even evoke some sort of emo­tion or mem­ory, but those are rare and vary depend­ing on the per­son. In this long over­due post, I out­line some of my favourite provoca­tive tracks. These usu­ally get my juices flow­ing — be it for work or for play — I tend to do bet­ter after lis­ten­ing to these. Lame sound­ing, I know, but it’s true.

  There’s a lot of gen­res here, and one of them is prob­a­bly going to spike some of your inter­est… just take a peek inside.

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  10 More Awesome Songs

  Fantikerz 7:23 pm on October 11, 2008 | 8 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  Since my last post about out­stand­ing songs, my col­lec­tion of the said genre has grown (almost dou­ble!). So, on this gloomy day, I thought I would take the time to share them with you. Unlike last time, let’s jump in right away, and I’ll explain why each song is great as we go.

  These songs are in no spe­cial order, and as always, I’ll try and make the selec­tion as diverse as pos­si­ble. If you don’t like one song, just keep going though the list and you’ll prob­a­bly find some­thing you can enjoy.

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  11 Catchy or Feel Good Songs

  Fantikerz 10:09 pm on August 24, 2008 | 7 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  All this post is about, is feel good , and catchy, songs. As a music junkie, I come across them quite often, and I even have a playlist of them on my iPod that’s 150-ish songs deep.

  What makes a song catchy? A nice beat, of course, with some­times clever lyrics. The same thing goes for the feel good songs, which will prob­a­bly have some more mean­ing­ful lyrics.

  I fig­ured some of you might enjoy some songs on this Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Here are some of the bet­ter ones, after the break…

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  BT: You're F*cking Awesome

  Fantikerz 8:10 pm on August 22, 2008 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  It seems that lately, all I’ve been post­ing is things relat­ing to music. Why you ask? Well, why not? I can do what­ever the hell I want to! If you don’t care about that, then come on it, and take some candy.

  Alright, so let’s talk about the title. BT: he’s amaz­ing and he’s f*cking awe­some. Alright, so that cov­ers the title. Now, let’s talk about why he’s f*cking awesome.

  Well, it only just occurred to me 10 min­utes before writ­ing this, that I hadn’t estab­lished myself as a total BT fan­boy on my blog yet. I couldn’t let that stay, so, here I am. Now, more to the point. BT is a musi­cal force that has been pwn­ing for years. So many years in fact, that you might even know some of his songs. Flam­ing June, Sim­ply Being Loved, etc., being some of them.

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