How Comic Con made me love being a geek again.

Last week (July 23,24,25,26) was Comic Con and it was such an awesome, geek invigorating experience for me, that I had to share it as the first episode.

So I talk about Comic Con, the people, the Geek love, and the re-awakening of something that I thought died along time ago.

I also briefly talk about the maturation of Geek Culture and why some of that may not be a great thing.

I reference my Flickr Stream from Comic Con .. so if you want to check that out , it is here : [ Flickr ]

Hope you enjoy!

So, I have been wrapped up in so many projects that I have not been keeping up with the Geek blog, and for that I apologize, but in an effort to make up for that I am going to be launching a new audio podcast for the geek blog called $deep = this->geeks->thoughts();

If your not a programmer then the humor in title of the podcast will likely escape you, and maybe it will even if you are a programmer, but fear not, this cast will not be limited to programming, and most likely won’t focus on that much at all, since there is soon to be a PHP podcast coming to the site as well.. It really will be me talking about random geek topics.  Comics, movies, games, computers, tech, photography, whatever.

It may not even always be me.  I will open the cast up to Allen and Nick to do as well, whenever they feel the compulsion.

So you’re thinking, why in gods name would I want to sit and listen to you ramble on about geek stuff.  Well, you might not, and if not that’s cool, but truth be told the three of us are pretty knowledgable, and even have a decent sense of humor, so you might just find that we entertain and educate you, and you will more then likely share quite a few of our views, and when you don’t let us know, we love discussion.

So for what’s worth, it will be here on a indeterminate schedule with no real set length other then a guarantee that it won’t go more then 10 minutes or so.

You will be able to find the podcast here, and I will be pushing the feed to iTunes as well.

Apple’s  iTunes Store has sold and served over five billion songs to date.

The digital download service is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs.

Apple also said that iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day,  making iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store as well.

iTunes also offers a catalog of over 20,000 TV episodes and over 2,000 films, including over 350 in high definition video.

As an Apple TV owner, I can say with some confidence, that barring any foolishness from the broadband providers that Apple will likely dominate this industry for some time.   None of the other internet set top boxes come even close to matching the usability and convenience of the Apple TV.

Users can rent movies and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods, iPhone and on a widescreen TV with Apple TV. iTunes Store customers can also purchase new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the same day as their DVD release.

Oh, and RIAA and MPAA… Suck it.  This proves that if you find a viable online way of providing content, people will pay for it.  Stop trying to muck it up and get on board…

Set pictures of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which has a release date of May 1, 2009, are starting to pop up on the net, with Wolverine in full World War II gear. Wolverine’s true age has always been a mystery, due to the long life given him by he regenerative abilities.  What can we expect from the upcoming movie release?

Set seventeen years before X-Men, the film will focus on Wolverine’s violent past, and given the WWII scenes, the movie will likely include flashback sequences.The Weapon X program, and his early encounters with William Stryker, and his interactions with other mutants will be explored, including his complex relationship with Sabretooth / Victor Creed.
This Wolverine movie is going let us in on some of Logan’s missing memory.  The relationship with Sabertooth and how that plays out is something that I really excited about seeing, since I was dissapointed with the complete lack of screen time Sabertooth got in the first movie. Since, we see him in army fatigues, it begs the question of whether they will include the time he spent in concentration camps, and whether we will see any “prequel” encounters with Magneto who also spent time in the camps.

From the information leaking out, it certainly looks to be shaping up to be a dang good movie, and will hopefully set the tone for the summer movie run in ‘09.

During the summer, at least, I like to try and make it to a new movie each week since there are usually several good ones being released …

This week, we can look forward to, or dread as the case may be :

Kung Fu Panda

Anything with Jack Black gets a few points from me, but given the quality of cartoons and animated movies these days, this one seems to be a step backwards.

Will I see it ? No, not in the theater anyway, this is a DVD movie at best.

Don’t Mess with the Zohan

I like Adam Sandler, I really do, but this movie just looks really really horrible.  Generally with a movie like this, all of the really funny parts are in the trailer, and when watching the trailer I just kept waiting for something funny…

I guess I missed the humor in an Israeli special ops guys having sex with a early 60’s grandmother in the bathroom of a hair salon…

Will I see it? NO.  In fact.. Hell NO!

Mongol

Mongol is an Oscar-nominated historical epic directed by Russian filmmaker [ Sergei Bodrov ] (Nomad). The film chronicles the early life of Genghis Khan, who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

I am not a huge foreign films fan, but this one looks pretty incredible and I will likely check it out, if for no other reason then I am very interested in Genghis Khan, and love a good historical epic.

Check out the trailer :

Will I see it? Yeah, I think this one is theater worthy, and I would love to see stronger, more epic movies coming into the US.

Not the music, but the hip-hop lovin’, back slide spinnin’, should have been a Porsche but ended up a Pontiac , transformer voiced by Darius McCrary.

Several sources have reported spotting both McCrary and a Pontiac Soltice on the shoot for the new Transformers movie.

Other rumors have Robert Orci stating :

I’d love and think we could almost barely manage ten on each side, with some front and center and others as more supporting.

In the past Bay has denied that Jazz would return, but we all know how producers and directors like to screw with our heads while they make films.

As for the 10 autobots, if I have a say, I would love to see Hound return.