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Fez. A fantastic game.

Fantastic in most literal sense of the word.

It’s coming out early 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade (fingers crossed for Mac/PC/PS3/Wii ports).

The game is an evolution of the 2D to 3D gameplay ideas seen in games like Super Paper Mario and Ectochrome.

Fez will be mindfuckery at its very best.  I can’t wait.

Stuck in My Head, Thursday, 9:33 AM EST, 7/2/09

Creepy Vintage Advertisements

I came across this short list of 15 creepy vintage ads, here’s a couple of the better ones.

Creepy Suicide Pig
SlicedPig

Pears Soap: Moisturizer & part time baby killer?
SoupDisaster

Source: The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time

Stuck in My Head, Tuesday, 6:27 PM EST, 6/30/09

Holy shit, this song is great:

In Season Right This Minute…

Apricots
Hard-Necked Garlic
Blueberries
Green beans

Coming Soon:

Nectarines and peaches in abundance
Peppers in abundance
Cherry tomatoes

In case you were wondering…

[Via Serious Eats]

Joe’s Blues/Funk Review : Episode 7 – “Medeski Martin & Wood”

Medeski Martin and Wood

I’m sure some of you have heard of this band before. They’re a very talented Brooklyn-based jazz/funk band that gear their albums towards kids, although most of their listeners are 20-30 somethings. They play songs such as “Hickory Dickory Dock”, but add their avant-garde, funk, hip-hop style to them. It’s not really something I’d listen to all the time, but it’s perfect for parents who want to play songs for their kids, but want to enjoy it themselves. Juicers, keep these guys in mind when you have a little bastard of your own baking in the oven.

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Stuck in My Head, Sunday, 8:40 PM EST, 6/28/09

This is the band we saw in Prospect Park: Dr. Dog

Favoritism: Blogs

Let’s cut to the chase.

I visit other sites besides juicetheblog (as I imagine the rest of you all do).

Here are some of my other most read ones (whom will have a permanent placement on my “Best Reads” RSS folder):

Offworld:  BoingBoing’s gaming spin-off site.  It’s a fantastic place to keep up-to-date with the most interesting happenings in gaming culture, both independent and mainstream.  Bonus points for having a clean design and good signal-to-noise ratio as far as quality/douchebag commenters are concerned.

Daring Fireball: John Gruber’s blog revolving mainly around Apple/Mac/iPhone related news, but often venturing out into other topics such as: checkers, writing, pop-culture and more.

Kottke : Jason Kottke’s “weblog about the liberal arts 2.0″ which is really just a front for a listing of the some most interesting pieces of multimedia and/or writing on the Internet.  Highly recommended.

Now I have others, but I’m really interested in finding out about some other gems from the rest of you, my esteemed fellow Juicers.

(Feel free to edit the post, or post your picks in the comments, I don’t really care).

Stuck in My Head, Friday, 6:08 PM EST, 6/26/09

The Transformers Go To Hollywood

Time Wastes Too Fast, by Maira Kalman

A quick,  indescribably entertaining (and informative!) blog post from Maira Kalma, in admiration of the life and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson.  Accompanied by some pretty awesome artwork and really cool photographs.

Maira Kalman - Time Wastes Too Fast

Michael Jackson Dies From Cardiac Arrest

michael-jackson

Michael Jackson, 50, died due to cardiac arrest inside of his home earlier this afternoon. The staff found him and called the paramedics, but he was dead by the time they got there.

Update: MSNBC recently mentioned this about today’s shocking news:
“So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers running Google’s news section interpreted the fusillade of “Michael Jackson” requests as an automated attack for about half an hour Thursday evening.”

Civilization by Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla (director of Demolition Man), brings the world this piece:

Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell.

I think it’s rad and trippy as all heck (watch for the Stay-Puft Marshmellow man cameo, Joey!)