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I forgot to mention in my last post about how elated I was when I found out that Starcraft II has been announced. There's a 20 minute gameplay video on IGN that makes me nearly pee myself every time I watch it and it only showed a few new things. Blizzard has stated that it'll be out "when it's done." I don't care how long it takes, cuz Blizzard makes addictive games. Oh, and if you watch the video..watch it til the end(especially if you've played SC or any other RTS).
I have to say, despite other people's criticisms of Linkin Park's new cd, I'm quite pleased with it. It's more mellowed out with a more controlled sound, but I find it's just as if not more meaningful than their previous work. Mike and Chester's voices together in a song has been something I've missed for a long while. It's cool to see Shinoda and Rick Rubin worked together to produce the album too.
I watched "Good Night, and Good Luck," earlier today. It's a fantastic movie that I'd recommend to anybody, although some might not find it as interesting and important as I do.
"I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence. I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is--an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate."
"I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. Heywood Broun once said, "No body politic is healthy until it begins to itch." I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers. It can be done. Maybe it won't be, but it could."
"This instrument(TV) can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful."
All quotes from a speech Edward Murrow gave in 1958. Too bad it's still applicable to television today for the most part.
I have to say, despite other people's criticisms of Linkin Park's new cd, I'm quite pleased with it. It's more mellowed out with a more controlled sound, but I find it's just as if not more meaningful than their previous work. Mike and Chester's voices together in a song has been something I've missed for a long while. It's cool to see Shinoda and Rick Rubin worked together to produce the album too.
I watched "Good Night, and Good Luck," earlier today. It's a fantastic movie that I'd recommend to anybody, although some might not find it as interesting and important as I do.
"I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence. I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is--an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate."
"I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation. Heywood Broun once said, "No body politic is healthy until it begins to itch." I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers. It can be done. Maybe it won't be, but it could."
"This instrument(TV) can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful."
All quotes from a speech Edward Murrow gave in 1958. Too bad it's still applicable to television today for the most part.