Metal Gear Solid Drinking Game

I'm a huge fan of this ridiculously awesome franchise. For a little while, Metal Gear Solid 3 (the Subsistence version) was the best game I'd ever played (until Resident Evil 4, subsequently displaced by Super Mario Galaxy).

Anyways, if you want to drink yourself into a coma, check out this drinking game from Sexy Videogame Land.

"You will need:
A copious portion of American beer.
A bottle of Russian vodka, well chilled.
Six pack of Red Bull, probably sugarless, since you don't want to get sick.
Some good, coarse salt.
Either lemon juice, lime juice or sour mix.
Calorie-Mate. Or something edible, to keep your stomach steady."

Basically you drink American beer if something red-blooded and American happens (checking out chicks, nukes). Russian stuff, Kruschev, etc, then drink vodka. Betrayal: eat lemom and salt then drink vodka to wash the bitter taste out of your mouth.

Funny. I'm totally going to replay MGS3 one weekend with this.

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La Blogotheque: Take Away Shows

So this French site La Blogotheque (Link below. Helps if you speak French) (I'd tell you more about it but I don't speak French). Thing is, they have these awesome mini-concerts by indie-pop stars of the minute. The shows are tiny and intimate and usually in a very strange location. I posted earlier about Vampire Weekend's Mansard Roof (recorded in the back of a van). Other awesome videos include St. Vincent- Marry Me (lying on a bed) and Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (in a freight elevator. Ripping paper provides the percussion). So damn if these shows aren't awesome. Don't miss them.

"We're from Barcelona" - I'm From Barcelona

#24.1 - I'M FROM BARCELONA - We're from
Uploaded by lablogotheque

Description from the site:

"About Takeawayshow.com

You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens. Those are the Take-Away Shows, the weekly Video podcast from french weblog La Blogothèque.

The Take Away Shows are a Video Podcast produced by the french weblog La Blogothèque. Every week, we give away a session, shot with a band, in an unusual, urban environment.

Sessions are always filmed as a unique shot, without any cut, recorded live. We usually haven’t much time to record them, so the groups have to be spontaneous, to improvise, play with what they have with them, and with their environment, whether there’s a public or not.

The Take Away Shows are produced by La Blogothèque, based on an original idea by Chryde and Vincent Moon. They are directed by Vincent Moon, and supported by Kidam, who lends us the cameras and shot some of the sessions.

Our partner for the english version is the wonderful american site Daytrotter, who gives away twice week incredible audio sessions from the bands they love. Go and check their site !"

www.takeawayshow.com
www.lablogotheque.net

101th post! W00t!

Ah. The intelligence of the internets

In my Inbox this morning:

"ShawnkaseySays has left a new comment on your post "Daft Punk - Alive 2007":

Your dumb as FUCK. Those are the damn robots from Dr. Who. A British show, that comes on scifi. So before you even dare to utter the name daft punk again. Make sure you know what the fuck your talking about.....fucking noob.

Publish this comment.

Reject this comment.

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Posted by ShawnkaseySays to The Frontier Psychiatrist at 7:35 AM"

Dear Mr. ShawnkaseySays (if that is indeed your name):

Those are indeed the Cybermen, from Dr. Who.  Good eye on you there.  If you read my post you might see that I referred to the sound of Daft Punk as similar to the concept of the world dominating robots from the venerable British science fiction franchise. It actually airs on BBC, then replays on SciFi.  I'm not sure exactly what I'm a "fucking noob" about though?  Listening to Daft Punk?  Identifying robots in pop culture?  Additionally.  Check into the proper usage of "your" vs. "you're".  So who exactly is "dumb as FUCK?"

Never argue with the man holding the microphone.

Excelsior!
The Frontier Psychiatrist

P.S. Thanks for reading.

Bigfoot on Mars?

I, for one, would like to be the first to welcome our Sasquatch (or possibly Yeti?) Overlords.

Mars Rover picture from 2004.  Look closely in the bottom left of the pic, zoomed in.  (Make your scroll bars about 1/2 inch from bottom left, and about 1 1/2 inch from bottom on the x axis.)

Photo. Link

Google News. Link

Vampire Weekend - "Mansard Roof"

I swear,these La Blogotheque folks are damn geniuses. Exhibit #232. Music blog fave Vampire Weekend play sans amps inside cramped van.

Just wow.

#80.1 - VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Mansard Roof
Uploaded by lablogotheque

You Suck At Photoshop

If ya'll need tips to photoshop something into a picture. You know, in case your wife cheats.

Copyright Free Photos Courtesy of the Library of Congress

Check out this Flickr Stream of 3000 copyright free photos released into the public domain by the Library of Congress.  This is the America of the early 1900s.  Many many pics of baseball players and ladies working on planes for WWII.  Check it.  Link

Stream for Free: "In The Future" by Black Mountain

My other most anticipated album of the year. Sounds like: a shaggy Black Sabbath/Pink Floyd but from now instead of the 70s. Heavy, dude. Stream the whole thing on their myspace page.

Link

Cheap Cell Phone Shipped?

36 bones gets you a cheap third world model unlocked pre-Slivr Motorola MOTOFONE F3 GSM (wikipedia link) that is exactly the phone that my ex-girlfriend was issued in Argentina when she studied abroad.  Might be a nice backup phone. $36 includes shipping.

Link

Stream for Free: "Disortion" by The Magnetic Fields

One of my most anticipated new records for the year (I was a bit disappointed in i after the masterpiece of 69 Love Songs). Well apparently old Merritt has been listening to a whole bunch of JAMC.

Stream the whole album here at myspace: Link

Tech Crush: Asus Eee PC

I am just about obsessed with this little thingie. Subnotebooks are definitely the wave of the future, and Asus leads the field now because of two factors: price and size. This little baby is only 9" from side to side, with a 7" screen. It weighs two pounds. Its about the size of a hardback book. Stats: 900 Mhz Celeron, with 512 MB RAM, built in WLAN, and 2 to 4GB Solid state drive. The solid state drive is much less fragile than hard disk, and it boots up like instantaneously. Full size (if cramped) QWERTY keyboard makes data entry substantially easier than a Blackberry keypad. Perfect compromise between a PDA (too small) and a laptop (too big). At only $400 for the 4GB, its a steal.

I seriously need one of these dudes, but I may hold out for the 8GB model for later this year.

Asus Eee PC page. LINK
Slashdot story. LINK

Cool Blogs You Might Not Be Reading

Pajiba: Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
Link

The writers at Pajiba take glee at lambasting all the crappy shows and movies that come out of Hollywood and point you in the direction of movies that won't waste your time. Scathing/bitchy and well written. Bonus! One of the editors is from Fayetteville, AR.

Newsweek's Level Up Blog by N'Gai Croal
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The smartest gaming blog ever? Maybe. N'Gai is more interested in the social impact of gaming rather than the actual technical achievements. He's intersted in the human machine interface of gaming, hates backtracking, and I generally agree with what he has to say. Plus I love his email correspondence with the guy who runs the next blog.

MTV's Multiplayer Blog by Stephen Totilo
Link

Smart and funny and an incredible navel gazer (he regularly posts his own chats about games with other bloggers.) Great posts from last year included his defense of Desktop Tower Defense as the best game of 2007. N'Gai and Stephen recently teamed up with Slate's gaming editor Chris Suellentrop and NYT gaming writer Seth Shiesel to talk about why 2007 was one of the best years for gaming ever. Read it here (LINK)

BoingBoing Gadgets by Joel Johnson
Link

All of you who know me know that I worship at the temple of BoingBoing. Well the newish gadget section is no exception. This guy might be the funniest tech writer ever. Sort of reminds me from Joel from MST3K. Examples of writing include:

"Random Thoughts on the Wii Remote and Sex:
Why hasn't someone combined the 3d positional Wiimote controller from the Nintendo Wii and a—excuse me for being crass but I believe this is now the parlance—fucking machine? You've got three axis control plus rotational sensitivity. Seems possible. Once you had a one-to-one mapping of the Wiimote and the machine, you should be able to broadcast the positional data over the net without much problem. You might even be able to wire vibration feedback from the machine to be sent to the Wiimote."

And a post on an automatic donut maker that, in a perfect world, would win a Pulitzer. Link.
Plus, his litmus test for whether you will like his writing is the excellent Overdrift, which I have mentioned here and forced my friends to watch incessantly.

Liveblogging 4 Zelda Games

This is a pretty weird but kinda awesome challenge. This group of dudes is trying to play all 4 of the 3D Zelda games (Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess) in 48 hours. So far they are a good deal of the way through Majora's Mask.
They are taking up a collection for charity too.

Check out the live stream video here: LINK (no pun intended).

Video: "Woke Up New" by Mountain Goats

Best breakup song ever? You're killing me John Darinelle.



"And I stood there like a buisness man waiting for the train.
And I got ready for the future to arrive."

New Blog Announcement

All around good dude CKindrick has a new blog up at
www.monkeybulb.com

He's all into advertising and social consequences and video games.
Check him out, seriously.

Today's WTF from Warren Ellis

Man Cuts Off, Microwaves His Own Hand

HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) - A man who believed he bore the "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.

from Warren Ellis

Ack. Pulling weeds.

So no posts in a while. Well boys and girls that's about to change rapido. Turns out, I'm about to have quite a bit of time on my hands. Big changes over at the FPsych homestead. What that means for you: Daily posts of the crazy shit I find on the internet, served up fresh for you.

Everyone raise a glass to FPsych. He's had a hell of a week.