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What I’ve been watching:

October Sky – Great great movie. Go see it! A++

EdTV – OK. Nothing special. Has a few laughs. C

The Matrix – Great action flick. Best thing Keanu Reeves has done since Bill and Ted. A+

Never Been Kissed – Drew Barrymore as a nerd? She actually pulls it off. Pretty good. B+

Death Warrant – Jean Claude Van Damme + Very few fight scenes = incredibly boring movie. D-

What I’ve been listening to:

Marvelous 3 Hey!Album – These guys RAWK! Go get it. A+++

Sugar Ray 14:59 – Not bad. Pretty diverse album. “Every Morning” is definitely the best song on the album. B-

Garbage Version 2.0 – OK so far – haven’t listened to the entire thing.

New Radicals – If the guy could sing, it would be much better. And calling yourself a band when it’s really a solo act is awful pretentious. C+

Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up the Girl – A little too “alterna-trendy” for me. Good songs for the most part. B

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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season… make the most of it, and remember the TRUE meaning of the holiday. It’s not being with family, or warm feelings or any of that stuff – it’s the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ!

DIVX

Next issue – DIVX. I’m sure you’ve seen these commercials from Circuit City. Stay away from it like the plague! I support DVD completely – it is a great format, and is destined to replace VCR’s the way CD’s replaced vinyl and tapes. But with DIVX, you’re basically paying $400 for a Pay-Per-View machine. You get to pay $3.50 every time you want to watch the movie… how nice! You also have to make sure you have a credit card and phone jack near your TV… and I don’t have either one. Now, you can pay another $15 or so to get a movie “upgraded” to free play…. unless you want to take it to a friend’s house. Then they have to pay the $3.50 fee every time as well.

Doesn’t make much sense when you can buy DVD’s for $10-20 (which have more features to boot), and rent them for 5 days at Blockbuster for $3, does it?

DiVX is a surly piece of consumer electronics. From penny-arcade.com
DIVX is a surly piece of consumer electronics. From penny-arcade.com