The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum

Director extraordinaire Bret Ratner was recently interviewed by MTV and talked about the possibility of bringing the phenomenon of Guitar Hero to the big screen. Ratner, you fucken hack! I really hope that Mr. Ratner can get this project off the ground and see what kind of artistic angle he can come up with as far as translating the video game experience over to the big screen and not turn it into a 2-hour long commercial for the product. Check out the story over here at Aintitcool for the details. Would you go see a Guitar Hero movie?

I catch flak from people for being a lifelong Canseco fan. It's true. Ever since I was a child, I remember seeing this latino dude hitting baseballs out of stadiums and breaking ground by creating a whole new category in America's favorite past time and that inspired me greatly. Dude was badass. Then he began to suck. He tried pitching, the whole baseball off his head thing and then he stopped playing baseball. Then came the entire steroids thing. Never held none of that against him. No matter what happened, he has been and will always be, that guy who was blasting baseballs and along the way inspired me as a child. So when I heard that he was going to be in town last Friday, I told myself I would meet him. We drove to the casino, asked a lady if he was still inside and she confirmed it. Then I bitched out. So we drove over to Full Circle Brewery in search of a little liquid courage. The $10 cover charge killed that plan and directed us over to El Torito. After a few, we headed back to tackle Canseco. And I did. Well, not for real but I did take that pic up there and walked up to him, asked to shake his hand and he agreed. I said thanks, walked away with a smile on my face and this thought running through my head: For being Mr. Steroids, he sure has a pussy-ass handshake. But the kid inside of me was back on the Little League field in Firebaugh doing cartwheels with my Jose Canseco glove.

Are you still not getting enough Guitar Hero in your life? Well then, read on ladies and sirs. Yesterday, Activision released a Guitar Hero mini-game widget exclusively through Game-Life, which you can embed in your own blog or website. The widget is played through the keyboard but with only three available songs which are: "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour, "School's Out" by Alice Cooper, and "Metal Heavy Lady" by Lions. Difficulty can't be changed and is set to easy, medium and hard respectively. Get on the Top Ten Leaderboard and win free shit from Activision and Rocket XL. Clever marketing from the folks at Activision as the battle between Guitar Hero and Rock Band continues for the music game market. Go to Game Life and get your own widget or steal ours. Enjoy.

The other day I was surfing on the interNETS and I came across an awesome deal happening over at Toys R' Us. Long story short, I picked up Guitar Hero 2 for a grand total of $36 brand new. Awesome deal, indeed. But the real cost: me realizing how much I suck at these kinda games. Yeah, I haven't had the chance to master the digital axe quite yet but I can't beleive how some of my friends are able to shred on this freaking game. I guess perhaps I'll just wait until that Photoshop Hero comes out. Then I'll be on top, mofo's! If you like that comic, go over to Penny Arcade and check out there comics. Real good stuff going on there.