Time For A Reboot!

Reboots ruin everything. The once good Spider-Man movie series (except for 3, which was rubbish) is about to be ruined by a reboot which was conceived faster than anyone could say "sequel." Honestly, the web slinger's origin story has been covered and re-covered more times than Don't Stop Believing during karaoke night at the local dive bar.

And it's not just movies, video games are another common offender. Such as the upcoming reboot of the Devil May Cry series in the form of "DMC" which is supposed to be more gothic and more anime which is exactly that series needed: MORE ANGST. Frankly, I don't even know why they're rebooting it; I never knew interest was slipping, probably because I started caring.... never.

But really I just feel cheated by reboots. It's as if everything that came before gets a sign stuck to its temple that says "Not Our Best Work" as if we're supposed to just disregard it all as they buy it all back. As if they're saying, "Yeah, we didn't really try last time and it's such a mess it's not even worth attempting to save at this point."

THAT
BEING
SAID

I'm rebooting [and ruining] my blog! Everything that's come before really isn't my best work and in all honesty, I wasn't totally trying last time and after my "extended" Christmas "break" it's really not worth attempting to slide back into this as if everything's sunshine and rainbows and nothing ever happened. (And by "ruining my blog" I mean, "writing it again.")

So, now the important questions:

Q: When will it update?
A: I don't know! Whenever I have enough marginally funny things to say about a given topic and enough big words to make it look like I know what I'm talking about.

Q: What will it be about?
A: Whatever I bloody well please. More movie reviews, video game talk, and whatever other random complaints I have about the world in general.

Q: Here's what will become of Revolt Against Radio.
A: That wasn't a question...?

Q: Sod off.
A: But that last answer was a question.

Q: What is this, Jeopardy!?
A: Back to the point...

Revolt Against Radio will continue but not on this site as I want to [eventually] expand its scope. As such, I will be deleting the RAR posts from this site as they've already been transferred to revoltagainstradio.blogspot.com which will be the eventual home of that feature once I get back into it.

Sooooo yeah, go do something else now, I'm done.

All I Want For Christmas...

And now for your listening pleasure, is the first official year of the "All I Want For Christmas" playlist. Same idea as the Halloween one; Christmas themed rock that will be up on the site till the end of the month. Yes, it's largely dominated by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Gary Hoey but that's largely because they both do awesome Christmas music and because it's hard to find good Christmas themed rock that isn't raunchy (such as "Mistress for Christmas by AC/DC, "Killing Myself for Christmas" by Sick Puppies and others. Granted, these are good songs, but not quite what I'm going for in this list.)

Anyway, enjoy the list! Next week's Revolt Against Radio should also be Christmas themed. Have a Merry Christmas!

This Is Halloween

You may have noticed the new gadget at the top of the site that makes heavy, spooky music emanate from your computer's speakers. This is the first official year of the This Is Halloween playlist: a playlist dedicated to Halloween themed metal. I technically created Version 1 last year but had nowhere to put it since it wasn't embedding in MySpace (no one would have seen it there anyway) and because Facebook wasn't allowing such things. Well screw Tom and Mark Zuckerberg, I have a blog now! Besides, this year's version is better anyway. Better songs, better arrangement, fixed links, awesome background image.

Yes, there's some notable artists missing from the current list. Some I want to add in the future include Ozzy/Black Sabbath, White Zombie, Slipknot, Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage and more but I haven't found suitable songs yet and I'd like to keep the playlist to about 15 songs so I have room to grow each year.

So may your nights be filled with metal. At least until shortly after October 31st when I'll be pulling it down and prepping the upcoming Christmas playlist =D

Happy Halloween! \m/,