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It’s about time

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This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD

Fans can look forward to a September filled with classic Star Wars nostalgia, led by the premiere of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy video game and the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic Star Wars trilogy.

I really don’t mind most of the cosmetic changes George Lucas made to the original trilogy, but stuff like CGI Jabba in A New Hope and “Emo-Vader” in Return of the Jedi is distracting.

I suppose I can sell my 10 year old LaserDisc copies now…

Edit: Of course, right after I post this, I realized that HD-DVD and Blu-ray make their debut this year. I wonder how long it’ll take for the original versions to make it to this next generation of discs.

Edit Edit: As more information has come forth, this looks more and more like a lame money grab. No anamorphic encoding, no surround sound, etc. Basically they are the same as my 10 year old LaserDisc copies. No thanks.

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Now this is fun

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Just found a link to Dean Gray presents American Edit – basically they took Green Day’s “American Idiot” and took bits and pieces of other songs and mashed them all together.

So you have “Boulevard of Broken Songs” which combines “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” with Oasis’ hit from a decade ago, “Wonderwall” (with a cameo by Aerosmith at the end) And it works surprisingly well 🙂 They have several other tracks from American Idiot worth checking out.

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Why are the worst songs the most popular?

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“Hollaback Girl” first song with one million commercial downloads

For the first time since the advent of commercial digital music downloads, a recording has passed the 1,000,000 mark in download sales. The song, former Billboard #1 “Hollaback Girl” from Gwen Stefani’s debut album Love. Angel. Music., had sales of approximately 995,000 downloads as of Friday, September 30. The recording has averaged 15,000 downloads per week since it’s release on November 25, 2004.

Now, I like Gwen Stefani. Some of the stuff No Doubt did was amazing; but her transformation from Orange County cutie to ghetto-fabulous has been incredibly contrived and baffling. Moreover, “Hollaback Girl” has to be the most insipid piece of songwriting (and I use that term loosely) I’ve heard in years. Yet for some reason unknown to anyone with the slightest shred of musical taste, it’s incredibly popular.

That s*** is indeed bananas.

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Now this is some information we all can use

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How to Survive a Freestyle Battle Rap

…cuz’ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a potentially dangerous situation where I needed finely-honed battle rap skills.