Obama is not just a Grammy-award winner.
Posted on Wednesday, December 3 2008 @ 06:46:42 Eastern

You may have heard that Obama has won a Grammy this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zra956hgy30

But did you know that he also a two-time Grammy winner?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album

That ties him with Orson Welles and Maya Angelou in the same category. 'Nuff said. 

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Update: Now 5th on Guitar on Rock Band 2
Posted on Saturday, September 13 2008 @ 04:07:56 Eastern

YOU MORTALS!



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Who? THE Who.
Posted on Friday, July 18 2008 @ 01:36:25 Eastern

Special guest appearance for Rock Band 2 tie-in gig. Orpheum Theatre. Los Angeles.

Initially uninterested. Feet hurt after standing at E3 showroom pavilion for seven hours straight. Also played DDR. All three similar, very similar versions. Became more uninterested as day went by. Went anyway.

7:20pm. A bit late. But no worries. Special guests appear at 9:00pm. Play Rock Band 2 in the meantime.

Go upstairs. See Alex Navarro - awesome drummer and prior editor for GameSpot - next to Rock Band 2 stages. Lots of plasmas. The center plasma was framed. Wanted to shred it with my telekinetic fret-skills. (This is my journal entry, shut up.)

Watch Alex tear up drums. Tear up vocals, guitar, and drums myself. See Alex get giddier as 9:00 approaches. Okay, made that up. Actually see Alex keep his cool, but know his soul is getting giddier. Ask him who the special guest is. See Alex understand my emphasis of the word who. Watch him kinda, sorta, not really, but yes confirm.

Find my seat in the auditorium. 400-seat max or so. Find Blake Morse, fellow GameRevolution editor, in side aisle seats about six rows back from the stage. Find that seat is being saved. Find myself not caring. Find myself in argument three minutes later. Find myself moving aside. And then moving back again, because person found another seat. Mega-douche.

Mention to Blake, a bass player for Apple Pie Hopes - local Berkeley/San Francisco group - that the rumor is that it's "The Who". Hear him say that he's not going to believe it until they appear.

They appear. Blake blows his lid off and starts using heartfelt to-be-symbol-covered words.

Ridiculous standing ovation for the next two hours. (We weren't fooled again.)

Highlights: Roger Daltrey has still got the pipes and mic tricks. Pete Townshend breaks guitar string. Jests that the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith bundle comes with Steven Tyler's underwear. Crowd roars.

Back in hotel after three hours. Feet hurt like mad. Stood the entire time. But would stand even longer.

Come on, it's The #%*ing Who.


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Complete Hysteria
Posted on Monday, June 2 2008 @ 17:08:58 Eastern

Cause I want it now...



...I owned bass on Hysteria for fun....   read more...

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Ideas on GR Member Reviews?
Posted on Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 19:04:02 Eastern

So aside from my request-a-critique post earlier, which I will postpone until later (if you want me to look at your review, just PM me and I'll check it out), I'm wondering if any of you have ideas that will help the GR member review section grow....   read more...

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Submit Your Review Here For A Critique
Posted on Wednesday, April 23 2008 @ 18:05:00 Eastern

Some days, I find myself with some spare time and start reading knickknacks here and there, one of which are GR member reviews. I have always thought of featuring great GR review writers that take time out of their busy lives to write a review for...   read more...

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How NOT To Be a Jerk on Rock Band Online
Posted on Sunday, April 6 2008 @ 01:11:06 Eastern

To all current and future pricks who continue to select "Player Match" in Rock Band:

- Do not disconnect just because you\'re doing poorly and especially if the song is a minute away from ending. You don\'t like death drians, and...   read more...

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Draqq's Journal: Brawl Bought
Posted on Monday, March 10 2008 @ 08:20:27 Eastern

Draqq's Journal, March 10th, 5:09 am, Berkeley, Current Residence.

Still awake. Can't sleep. Chaka-chaka-pata-pon. Recall today's trip.

EBGames. No, Gamespot. Want Brawl. No reservation. Re-evaluate own intelligence. Day after na...   read more...

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Metacritic to learn ABCs?
Posted on Monday, February 25 2008 @ 16:33:35 Eastern

For all the power that Metacritic has taken away from the individual reviewer, the substantial trade-off is that every reviewing site has been condensed into one powerful number. Even EA has been against the wall trying to defend its drop in Metac...   read more...

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Will Wii Be Fit?
Posted on Thursday, February 21 2008 @ 20:28:18 Eastern

Speaker: Takao Sawano from Nintendo. Japanese name, Japanese person, Japanese language. How am I gonna... Oh, radio headsets... channel 1 is in English. Some woman in an enclosed booth translating the speech into something I can understand. The...   read more...

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