As most of you know this past Thursday I was in New York City of the Comic Convention. First off it was a sensory overload. There was so much to see and so much to do that I was amazed by just how much my girlfriend and I did get to on the opening night. Did most of my shopping that night. At which I picked up an Rooster Teeth book of their comics and got it signed by Gus(voice of Simons in Red vs. Blue). Then we picked up some free swag from Intel and a few other booths. Got some replica badges from some show we enjoy. Hit a few other booths and really just got a lay of the land if you will. Maybe picked up a few other items. We also ate dinner ad McGee's Pub which is what the pub in How I Met Your Mother is based off of. IF your in NYC and need a good place to eat check them out. Not expensive and a great atmosphere.

Then came Friday, which was started off with a great big queueing line. Then we headed to the panel for Once Upon A Time. Which was a great panel. Got to watch the first episode as tho it was on dvd. Get show, hope that it sticks around and people enjoy it. Then the creators/producers came out and talked about the show and were the idea came from. It looked great, a little rough around the edges, but it was the pilot so that should be smoothed out over the season. Still watch the show if you can. Then we stayed in the same room to see Felicia Day Spotlight panel. Which was hilarious. It was monitored by Chirs Hardwick asking Felicia and Sandeep Parikh on their own web series (The Guild for Felicia and The Legend of Neil for Sandeep). But most of the panel was on the guy dressed like Bumblebee(picture is coming). Then there were questions that were funny, weird, and serious. Then we had some time to hit the show floor. Were my girlfriend picked up and book Geek Girls Unite and was agle to get it signed by the author who was at the booth. I picked up the first Cyanide and Happiness book and later got it signed at their booth by all four creators. Then we did some more shopping and browsing. Then we eventured to the next panel which was Robot Chicken(many pictures taken and coming soon). Then we went to see the spotlight panel on Mark Hamill. Which was great, just the line was setup wrong and some on the people, including us, that we were in line with almost didn't make it in to the panel. But it was amazing, funny, and full of great stories and he even was asked to say Why So Serious? in his Joker voice.

Then there was Saturday. Boy was it full of cosplay customes. Some I could figure out, most I had no clue. But that was the day of Authographs for us. We got Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, Jewel Staite, Brian O'Halloran(more for me and I got a pic with him), and James Marsters. Then we watched some Quidditch, which was odd being inside and on cement floors, but still exciting to watch. The there was some food intake and wine being consumed. Then there was the disappointment of The Walking Dead/The Avengers panels line situation. Which was a big thing and the people incharge of NYCC did comment about it on a websitehttp://www.mediumatlarge.net/where they talk about the event in whole and the situation with IGN Theater. So that was a disappointment, but we somehow saved the day.

Then came Sunday. One it was the last day of the con and two we didn't get all of the autographs that we wanted. My girlfriend was upset that she couldn't get my ticket for Mark Hamill, and the booklet even had his times down as Friday and Saturday. So we go to the autographic area and my girlfriend Eliza Dushku's autographic had which point I am not standing in line with her as I am getting Mark Hamill's autograph. Then we walked around the show floor, watched more Quidditch and go to see the panel on Jim Henson's early works and what they have planned in the future.

Overall a great event, met some great people at the convention, and got to see so get things. Also I got to get pizza and hang out with James Marsters.

So I just got to chapter 5 in Dead Space. So far the game is great. Looking beautifully gruesome and sounding like I should have Issac grow eyes in the back of his helmet and on the top, just so I can see almost ever angle. Gravity jumping is fun to a point, but is still very helpful in moving. Still learning to mange the nodes and what to use each one on. I hit my first frustration point. That would be the asteroid shoot'em up. That took some getting use to and got my frustrated more then it should have. I did get to feel like I accomplished something after it was all over. I only really feel that after completing a game. Looking forward with on eye behind my hands at what is coming next.

Dragon Age is a game series that I have not played. I got into Oblivion over Dragon Age. But I am starting to reconsider my thoughts on not buying into that series. I play Mass Effect, so Dragon Age can't be that bad compared to that other Bioware mega series. And weather or not you like Felicia Day and The Guild, she just started up Dragon Age: Redemption. With the help of Bioware and Machinimathe series just started today at midnight pacific time. It was visually interesting, and she cast Doug Jones of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and many other roles that require heavy makeup or appearance changing material. It looks ever promising and Felicia's character is in the new Dragon Age 2 DLC Mark of the Assassine.

So thursday is the first day off NYCC. I will let you all know my thoughts and experiences after it is all over. I just don't have a laptop and will not be able to write anything during the event. But in an update for the event John Landis is no longer attenting, but Seth Green and some of the other players behind Robot Chicken will be there. So will Mike Judge, The cast of The Avengers(Chirs Evans, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Tom Hiddleson, and who know who else), then there is Eliza Dushku, Kevin Conroy(Batman, Batman Arkham Asylum/City). I am now also excited for Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofilo, and H. Jon Benjamin. So I will upload photos of what I can. See you all after the con.

So now that The Blob film is out of the way let us move on to a film that I got scared of at the age of 15. I decided to watch this film on sunny afternoon. Why? You may ask. Why not go outside and have fun. Well it was a sunday afternoon and there was nothing really going on and I was tired from homework. Anyway back to the point. My reason for watching this film was that I have seem the ending so many times that I know what was going to happen and who would make it. Thinking that I would be fine with that bit of information I sat down and watched...

Boy was I scared out of my mind. From the tree eating, to the white grim reaper figure, to the door turning into an orange portal and not the fun portal. I was never so scared of a film till that point. I still can't believe I got scared on a sunny day and yet enjoyed the film. I recommend to anyone who wants to see a great horror film, just don't watch it alone like I did in the middle of that day and repeat the story of being scared.

Being a self named "movie freak" I will regale you with a list of films that I own or have seen that scared me beyond what I was comfortable with. Some will be silly and others will be serious. So lets start off with a silly one. I watched this film when I was about 4 or 5. I did not finish it from being scared and running to the basement to watch something funny on tv. So remember that I was younger then the age most people would watch this film.

Saddly that film was...

Ok you can stop laughing now. Thanks. It was the first film with Steve McQueen I saw and I was scared when the old man turned into the blob and started to eat the nurse and I believe the doctor. Missed the famous movie theater and dinner scenes. Both were filmed in a Phoenixville, PA. Not that far from where I live. I really was scared and still remember that I ran to the basement and watched Double Dare on the tv. It helped me out that day and while I find it silly now I didn't that day and it was the first film that would scare me, just not the last.

So my girlfriend came down to visit while my parents were on a vacation. The one day we walked around the stores one the main street in a city I live near. We spent about 2.5 hours walking around and found some amazing small stores and some odd stores that didn't really work for us.

But we did stop in a comic book/collectibles store. Well being that NYCC is so arriving, we decided to walk in and look around. Maybe find something to get signed or just something to collect or read and enjoy. Well she picked up The Guild small novel, two The Guild comics, and Dr. Horrible. I picked up the first two Sin City novels, one to get signed hopefully, and two I wanted to read them before the film was released, but never found them individually. My girlfriend also picked up The Walking Dead Book One for me. I hope to get it signed by Robert Kirkman.

After lunch we headed to Target. Where I picked up Season One of Archer. Yes I still watch cartoons in some form. I don't like every episode but I do find many of them to be extremely hilarious. I also got a surprise, which was that my girlfriend will be paying the $75 to get me a photo with Mark Hamil. Not sure on the price for an autograph, but a photo is just better proof that I met the man.

No real gaming news. Still plugging away at what is on my plate. Looking forward to the new releases that will be fighting over my(and your) money for the holiday time and winter days stuck inside.

Thanks to everyone that commented with ideas in my last blog. It really helped and gave me some new ideas and ways to look for entrys.

I was about the age of 2 when I was taken to see Oliver & Company from Walt Disney. Thou I don't remember the film and how could I, being two I don't remember much. Still if I would have know what was going to happened I would have made that my first dvd purchase.

The first film that I bought was most likely something that I though was amazing and really was just good. It's not like now. Now I take my time with which films I see in the theater or on dvd, depenting on the release of the film. Not saying that very film I see is amazing and worth your money to see or was worth m money, but I try to get what I can argue as a great film. Unless I start off by saying I really just like the film, I know its bad, but I just like it.

A film that I like and know is bad is the film "The 'burbs". Not Tom Hanks best or and of the casts best film. I just like how stupid funny the film is and I laugh at all the bad jokes, and silly situations they get into. Don't see this film thinking, that Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Cory Feldmen are going to blow your socks off. Just see it if you want to laugh regardless of the bad jokes.

There were plenty of great films that I own that I picked out and it took me some time to get. Se7en in the black case with the composition book that houses the two dvds was the only version of the film I wanted. I also was picked with Star Wars and only wanted the original trilogy, which I got the dvd with both versions of all three films. The Godfather was a trilogy I wanted and was not expecting to get right after mentioning it to me family as a gift. But my family stopped in to visit and celebrate and that was when I got the trilogy on dvd in the black case. When I saw "No Country for Old Men" in college on campus I was sold on the film. I didn't care with dvd version I got just as long as it was wide-screen. Didn't care for the extra stuff added in the special dvd. One film that I received that took about a year or two to get was Platoon. My dad and I watched it one day and he told me that he was trying to buy it for me after Christmas one year. He just could not find it anywhere to buy it. This is before we started buying things online, which is where we now buy most of the harder to find movies and tv shows. Still one holiday or b-day in the future I removed the gift wrap and there was Platoon on dvd.

Other ways I picked films up was from trailers, catching it on tv after the opening, or friends who watched a film that was in theaters at the time but no where near me or them. I picked up the indie film "Black Sheep" because of the trailer. It is every independent and not amazing in the normal meaning. I picked up "Serenity" from I believe a free HBO weekend and fell in love with that film. The writing was amazing, funny, and different. I picked up Juno because of my girlfriend watching it on her computer. I wentto Target and picked up the dvd with the small script of the whole film.

Films are a passion for me. I love to watch movies, almost any genera with the exception on certain horror films. I watch films over and over and remember lines. I will watch a documentary film if it is on something I find interesting or I'll watch a foreign film if I think I may enjoy it. Like Amelie or Paris, Je T'Aime, or Pan's Labyrinth.

I even have some oddball films like Haggard or Hotdog Casserole. Both were made in Pennsylvania, not sure of how avalible the films are thou. There is the performances of The Blue Man Group, Blast, the stand-up of Carlos Mancia, Lewis Black, and the Christmas specials of SNL.

So I own a large number of dvds which must be hitting 200 if its not over that yet. I don't expect on stopping anytime soon. I just have one problem and that is storage for all of them right now.

In other news:I am obviously running low on blog ideas and am reaching out to you. Any ideas that seem like something I could write that would be worth your time reading, just leave me the topic idea. thanks.

So I watched the trailer for Saints Row: The Third. Never played the games, wasn't sure about them and didn't know anyone that played them to ask what they thought. I will say that I like the concept of the game, the look, and all of the custom abilities you are granted. Unlike the GTA series, which I too play and enjoy. But this is not about which games is better. Their bothgreat games, it all depends on what your looking for from the game that matters.

Anyway, I was watching the trailer subtitled "Power". So the trailer starts off with a billboard for the Saints gang. Then a car pulls up and some old guy gets out with to women at least half his age. They accent an elevator in a building to the penthouse, which is The Saints holdout. Their having a party and there is drinking, dancing, and other things going on. Then a shot rings out, or would if the song "Power" by Kayne West was not playing. But then something odd happens. Kayne is silent and you hear "21th century schizoid man". That is when I started to enjoy the trailer. I like King Crimson and think more people should listen to their records. The thing about it is the songs work well together. So it got me thinking of some other songs that may work to getter, but not done by me.

I got on to the trailer because I was watching the trailers for Dead Island with the song by Giles Lamb with the piano. Very eeire, yet beautiful and appropriated. I enjoyed the song combined with Dead Island, but now I can see people using the song for games they think it should be in. Some will work, like the Saints trailer I talked about, I found one that ran backwards and used the Giles Lamb song. There will be ones that don't work or are great with out the song or the backwards play.

If you are going to change the song in the trailer, use something that is different. I did that for Red Dead Redemption. I cut the sound out of the trailer and added in Muse: Knights of Cydonia. Like if I could find a trailer for Gears of War I would use DeadMau5: Raise Your Weapon. If you use a song that speaks to you when you listen to it and then you get the feeling that "hey it could work for this trailer" try it. See what happens, and if it doesn't work out try something else.

So on Oct. 13th till the 16th I will be withmy girlfriend in New York City once again. This time not to see a Broadway musical, I don't think anything could beat How to Success, or see the Harry Potter Exhibit, which is in Australia right now. No this is a trip to attend the New York Comic Con. Yea its not the big on in California, but there are some famous people that will be attending that we bothwant to see.

The big name that got this whole thing in our minds was Felicia Day of The Guild fame and Buffy, Eurecia, and one episode of House that I enjoy.

Then I started to look at the list and there were quite a few names on there that I was excited for.

There in entertanment guest were the part of Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. Then there is Stephan Lang(Avatar, Conan"the new one", and Terra Nova, and other films), next was John Landis of Anmial House, The Blues Brothers, and An American Werewolf in London, then there is my geek moment of meeting Mark Hamill.

Some other people that we hope to meet are Jewel Staite(Firefly), James Marsters(Buffy), Jane Espenson(Buffy, Angel, Firefly), Peter Mayhew(Star Wars).

In the comic side I want to meet Brian Kirkman(The Walking Dead novels), Frank Miller(Sin City, 300), Brian Azzarello(Joker, 100 Bullets), Tood McFarlane(some very wicket collectibles), and Stan Lee.

We will be able to see a quittdich match. There is a league of college teams. Yea this is a big deal as some of the teams in the league on the east coast anyway are Yale, Penn State, Pittsburg, Harvard, Boston U., Villanova, and many others. This is a world league too, which is just amazing. I don't know which teams will be playing, but I can't wait to see one for my first time.

The event is the 4 days, with the first day being for the press, professionals, VIPs, and 4 day ticket holders, so I will be there walking around getting my swag and meeting who I can when I can. I'm also looking forward to stopping by the RoosterTeeth booth and getting one of the seasons on dvd signed and picking up a shirt.

So excited, can't wait, will tell you all about it afterwards, if you want to hear me rant about it. If your in the city and happen to get in I'll be there. Look me up somehow.

I am one of the few that get excited for the Oscars. I even make picks for a few of the awards. I'll go as far as pick a film that i believe should win even if I didn't see the film. Last year I did just that with The King's Speech. I did not see it, but I did want it to win the Best Picture Oscar. I did not The Social Network to win, so much that I have yet to watch that fantastically talked about film.

So why am I talking about the Oscars now, when the show is not till late February, early March? Well now is the time for the films that want to be up for the Best Picture or Lead/Support awards come in full force. That is not to say that a film that came out after the deadline could not be considered, it's just not going to be fresh in the voters mind. Well there are plenty of films that are coming out that should fill up most of the nominations.

Drive: A stunt driver by day turns into a get-away driver in-between takes. Going to be better then any of the Fast and Furious sequels.

Moneyball: General Manager of the A's hires a computer wiz and they in turn change baseball.(One of the films I really want to see).

J. Edgar: Clint Eastwood directs the biopic on the first head of the FBI.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Gary Oldmen is looking for a mole in MI:6. That mole could be Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, or anyone else in the cast.

The Artist: A black and white film that shows how some actors and actresses could not handle the change from silent to talkies.

The Ides of March: A political drama where an assistant finds out more information then needed and faces a problem.(I didn't make that sound as good as it real should be).

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo: A hacker and a reporter team up to take down some conspiracy. With a relatively unknown actress in the lead female role and Daniel Craig in the lead male role. The trailer looked great and hopefully the film will too.

There are more films that are coming out that could be added to the list but there are more then I could find. One thing I have to agree with the awards is the lowering of the number of Best Picture nominies back to 5. 10 was too much and films that got on there did not necessarily need to be on there. District 9 while I enjoyed it, it was not the Best Picture of the year or even in the top 3. Then there was the talk about Pixar winning the award, I would have loved for them to have won it. But they win the best animated award almost every year. Cars 2 is a different case so I won't get on that subject. Still 5 is a great number and it will help cut on the time of the show.

So I picked up a copy of Dead Space a few days ago. I wanted to play it for some time and just never got around to it. Then one day I was thinking of all the games I missed that I wanted to play and Dead Space was near the top. I'm on the opening portion of chapter 4.

So far I am enjoying the game. Been shocked a few times, surprised a little more and even disgusted at one point. But I was just thinking about it and I have come to a conclusion. If they(I mean Hollywood) were to make Dead Space into a movie(I hope they never, ever do) I would not see it.

1) It may be made by Uwe Boll and that is never a good thing.

2) If it is good, then it will not be the same as the game(in experience), they most likely will change the story to fit the time frame, which I have no real beef with.

3) If it is a great, scary sci-fi film. It will be true to the game in most aspects. Then I will remember watching Alien, Polterguise and the end of Event Horizon. At which point I will scream till I pass out and need to watch 4 comedies just to counter the images of the film.

4) I am fine with the game. I'm not really sure exactly why. I'm not a big horror game player. Aside from Resident Evil 2, 4, 5 and Dead Space I haven't play that many others.

So yea, fine with video game horror, not so much with film horror. Anyway, Dead Space is turning into a great game. I'm playing it on easy for right now, just to see what the game is like. After a short break I'll give it the respect it deserves and play it on the other difficulties. But that is going to be some time as I am now juggling three games at once. All of which included shocks and lots of blood, more then any horror film could hold. Still I'm enjoying them.

Till I think of something worth writing for you all(I'm running low on subjects, suggestions would be appreciated).

Song I was listening to:

Oogie Boogie's Song

Rodrigo y Gabriella

Nightmare Revisited