posted by Qais on December 27, 2007 10:06 AM in Music
I am a voracious beast. My addiction to new music is near insatiable. My days are usually spent with at least one ear crammed with ear bud and a constant stream of noise flowing through it, occasionally dipping into my babbling brook of new things to snatch forth music like a wriggling fish for your enjoyment.
Akala may not be for everyone. There's a fair bit of rapping/rhyming going on over the incredibly hot beat and for many that can be an immediate turn off or appear in a song and completely ruin it. I'll be honest, on first listen I was angered at the initial appearance of Akala rapping over the track. My funky fresh beats had been stepped on by a feckless, supposed master of rhyme.
Eventually I found myself to enjoy the lyrical stylings of Akala; the lyrics are just right for strutting down the street on a rainy afternoon, head bobbing in time to the fat bassline, pretending you're electro living in the land of the light.
posted by Qais on November 8, 2007 9:19 AM in Games
I'll be honest, the first thing I noticed about ScrewJumper was the confluence of aviator caps and goggles. I'm a simple man with simple needs and I simply love aviator caps and goggles. Toss in characters with proportions straight out of Megaman, a techno soundtrack, a whole mess of neon, and some 'splosions and I will happily purchase damn near anything.
ScrewJumper features head to head multiplayer as well as four single player modes. It also offers chain explosions to go along with your bitchin' techno and neon, providing the gaming methadone to your E4 heroin. Even after watching the video several times it's difficult for me to ascertain whether the game will actually provide me with more than an hours worth of fun, however my hankering for cliche character archetypes (the reckless one, the aloof one, the crazy one, and the leader) simply won't allow me to miss out.
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