Wow… 43 seconds in and I was hooked. This really took me back to laying on the floor in my parent’s living room, under a blanket and staring wide-eyed at the TV. “The Neverending Story” was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, and it still holds up to be an excellent fantasy movie, even by today’s cgi-laden, big-budget standards. Very few movies have the heart, suspense, humor and faintest dash of creepiness that make this movie work as well as it does. And of course, few people that know this movie can think of it without getting the chorus of it’s famous theme song stuck in their heads for hours. There are a large number of memorable tunes that stand out throughout the film, and I think Gijs was able to capture them perfectly in this medley.

More Info: Official Gijs van Winkelhof Website

Sorry Bryan… I couldn’t help myself.

Turisas‘ touring accordionist, Netta Skog, doing a cover of Nightwish’s Dead to the World. Not bad at all. She was quite impressive in concert as well… hopefully Turisas keeps her on board for their next album.

More info: Turisas’ Wikipedia Page

www.heavymetalgeek.com

Coming soon.

UPDATE (12-12-2008): It’s come. As you can probably tell, plans changed and the site’s name was updated from Bloodtrocuted to Heavy Metal Geek.

I better start saving now… at this pace, I have a feeling I’m going to be broke by the time Christmas rolls around. And this isn’t even counting all of the other movies release dates I have in my calendar. haha

May 22 – Indiana -freaking- Jones (horray movie ticket prices)!
May 24 – Memorial Day Weekend @ The Cottage (horray gas prices!)
May 31 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
June 14 – Father’s Day Weekend @ The Cottage
June 17 – Dethklok, Chimaira & Soilent Green
June 28 - Pirates of the Magician Weekend (yaaarrrrr)
July 18 – Dark -freaking- Knight!
July 19 – Kate & Kurtis’s Wedding
Aug 9 – Chad & Natalie’s Wedding
Aug 18 – Judas Priest, Heaven & Hell, Motorhead & Testament
Sep 5 – Nightwish & Sonata Arctica

Since getting my (se)XBox 360, I’ve been having a great time playing GTA4, COD4 and a number of XBox Live Arcade games. It’s the first console I’ve owned since my Nintendo 64 and I’m really having a blast with it. Overall, I think it’s an excellent addition to my ever-growing arsenal of overpriced electronic toys. There was one thing, however, I was having a bitch of time to get working: streaming my music and videos from my computer to the XBox.

I wanted to explodify some bitches to the soothing voice of King Diamond and here was my XBox being a total cockblock. I couldn’t seem to get the damn thing to see anything on my laptop. I wasn’t lucky enough to have Windows Media Center Edition and even after adding them to Windows Media Player’s library and sharing it out, the XBox still couldn’t detect anything… and jesus, did it take a long time to get everything added (I guess that’s the downside of having nearly 130GB’s of music).

However, after some research, I finally found an easy solution to my problem. It’s name is Winamp Remote.

This sexy little program uses Orb, which I’d played around with a bit before I acquired my iPod. Essentially, it lets you stream your music and video over the intertubes to nearly any device that can get on the web. Install, choose the directories you keep your music and videos, and HAZAH, your media is streamified. This is very useful if, say, you wanted to listen to the new Pyramaze album you “acquired” overnight or catch up on that episode of The Office you downloaded the other day. Simply log into Winamp Remote’s site and stream it from your machine at home. But, as I mentioned before, it’s greatest advantage is getting shit to load up on your XBox.

After signing up and getting the program installed on my laptop, I was able to select the ORB device from the XBox’s device selection screen, and I’ll be damn… I could play my music and watch my Divx videos in the comfort of my couch! Such convenience!

Check it: www.winamp.com/remote