There was always something special about the cartoons back in the day, I would be stuck to the screen. I remember Mumra from Thunder Cats really scared me and pissed me off, I don’t know how many things I broke swinging a stick around saying “Thunder Cats, Thunder Cats, Thunder Cats! HOOOOOOO!”, I remember even hitting our Sony Tri-Color TV back in the day, and it weighed around 60 Kgs.

My List

• Thunder Cats – The best cartoon of the 80s, Panthera was cool always making gadgets and still kicking ass
• Voltron – The best of the 80s
• Silver Hawks – They were really cool!
• Centurions – Man and Machine Power Extreme! I wanted to be Ace McCloud, always wanted to fly!
• Brave Star – Some many different powers!

Worthy Mentions

• He Man – I wanted his tiger!
• GI Joe

I have been saying I want an Iron Man suit for the longest time, but looks like one fan went ahead and made his own War Machine suit from the initial spy releases of the images. At first I thought these were promo images from the movie, but turns out this is a real suit made by a fan, its fantastic and looks as good as the movie.

Even Jon Farveau the director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2 loved the suit so much he tweeted about it, the proportions of the suit is fantastic. Anthony Le did an amazing and realistic job of the War Machine suit.

Link: GeekTyrant

Places such as these in Kuwait are far and few, I was invited to the soft launch of a Home Theater & Home Automation Company in Tilal Complex. I didn’t have very high expectations, but the staff asked me to pass by during the soft opening and to say my expectations were blown out of the water is an understatement. When you walk in you have 6 areas with their displays and different setups, such as dining room, outdoor area, living room, bed room and a few variations.

The setup was very nice but I’m not one who really gets impressed by just some pieces of equipment wired up nicely, what I like is the thought process that was put into designing the way they are setup and the products they choose for indoor or outdoor use. And what I liked the most is the knowledge and understanding of the people, it isn’t your run of the mill electronics store, these guys knew about sound resonance, sound deadening techniques for home theater rooms, the right equipment for the right needs and surprisingly for the shine and show their prices are reasonable. They even had some nice Optima projectors which had amazing blacks and I enjoyed watching Live Free or Die Hard. They had a very interesting home automation system which integrates with your iPod or iPhone which the they were using, not just the panels on the wall.

The home theater rooms were fantastic, they had three rooms, one was very nice with the sound and visuals, one was amazing and the third room just completely blew me away with the 9.2 setup meaning ( 9 Speakers & 2 Sub-Woofers which shook the room like an earthquake). I loved that they were showing off the highest end home theater with the Matrix. There were a few tacky things that I didn’t like but I wasn’t there for the taste in furniture, they have an amazing store and I hope it is successful and everyone should check it out to at least see some of those theater rooms with the ridiculously comfortable seats, I didn’t want to get up but there were other people who wanted to see so I had to get out of the room after forgetting that I wasn’t there to watch the whole movie.

Location:
Tilal Complex Mizanine close to the Cafe
Tel: 2482 6846

Seriously.. there is a season two, sometimes you don’t know how bad material gets on TV but this is just horrible. It shows how dumb some people are and how dumb some of these entertainers are. Click the link to complex to read the story about Ray J’s opinion about some of these women, the best part is that he names them based on his opinion of the girls. I honestly think he just managed to convince a bunch of executives to make a show about him so that he can hook up with these women.

Link: Complex

Now this is something to look forward to, Michael Bay has just announced that he is currently getting on board for Transformers 3, even though he previously mentioned that he wanted some time off to work on other projects but I’m assuming the money was too much to resist. Now I have something to look forward to from this amazing story line, and I am one who does enjoy his dose of Transformers, I’m really hoping for a damn good movie with a really good story line. Now for the funny part is what was happening off set, it seems that Michael Bay and Megan Fox hate each other more then the Autobots hate the Decepticons, they have been taking blows at each other all year long since the launch of Transformer 2 Revenge of the Fallen, so I’m not sure how she got on board for this movie but it seems she is, and the best part is seeing what Michael said on his blog.

P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to your health, please consult your Doctor to determine if this is right for you.

Pain and Gain is right after shooting of Trans 3.

Link: Autoblog

This is probably one of my all time favorite songs, I haven’t heard a song which really caught me like this one did. I know its mainstream now but my hat goes off to Kid Cudi as artist, he mixed rap with dance in a very unique way and you can really listen to the lyrics. The song just get stuck in my head, I can’t help tapping my foot or doing something to the beat, the original and this remix. The video below is NSFW but the one above is fine.

The Lingerie Football League kicks off its season this Friday, so we thought we would give you a little preview.The concept originated in 2004 with a Super Bowl halftime alternative special called the Lingerie Bowl. In the past I believe the Bowl was a bit of a joke, featuring models who really couldn’t play football. However this season all that has changed. While the women are certainly beautiful, and they still wear lingerie, now they can play too. This fall, ten LFL inaugural season teams will compete in a twenty week season with games being played at major arenas and stadiums. The weekly broadcast will be shot in high-definition and will be available via cable television as well as online streaming.

When this first came out a few years back it was just a half-time show in the superbowl and they had one game last year. And now for the first time they turned it into a full season with all the teams. I don’t think people should take this lightly, they are bunch of hot girls but this is a contact sport so somebody is gonna get roughed up. It took a genius to put this together, and I for one am gonna enjoy watching some of these games, I’m curious to see the skills of some of these girls who have been on these teams for a while now and I have gone through some intense training.

Link: Gunaxin

Now this is an interesting concept, turning 15 bikini clad girls into musical instruments for a cool song. I didn’t think the song won’t come out as good as it did, must have taken them sometime for the girls to get the beat right and that seems to be some cool conductive ink.

Getting worked up for the new Transformers movie, and I still love the original. After some thorough research you can check out the list below, I know there are a few probably who are going to pop up in the movie that we have yet to know about but its going to be damn good.

The Autobots:

• Optimus Prime
• Ironhide the weapons specialist, who transforms into a GMC Topkick
• Ratchet the medic, and a Hummer H2
• Bumblebee, who will now be a 2010 Chevorlet Camaro.
• Arcee, the female Autobot, who will be Megan Fox’s pink motorcycle.
• Jolt, originally a Decepticon, but in this he’s a good guy. He’ll be switching into a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid
• Jetfire, an older Decepticon who switches sides, and transforms into a SR71 Blackbird jet. One of the older transformers so he has his kinks
• Skid and Mudflap, a.k.a. “The Twins” a.k.a. Chevrolet Beat and Trax concept cars.
• Sideswipe, who was a bright red Lamborghini in the original will now be a GM silver Corvette Stingray concept car

And for the Decepticon Cast:

• Starscream, Megatron’s one-time second in command. He’s a F-22 Raptor jet.
• Scorponok, the memorable mechanical scorpion
• Sideways, who is the Audi R8 crashing through a building in the trailer
• Ravage, the mechanical jaguar
• Soundwave, who was originally a cassette player in the toys, he will now be an orbiting space satellite.
• The Doctor, a spiderlike droid who can turn into instruments of torture
• Wheelie, a small radio-controlled truck
• Demolisher, one of the Constructicons that transform into construction vehicles
• Devestator, a giant robot formed by all the Constructicons (Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and Mixmaster) joining together.
• The Fallen is an ancient robot, the Transformers’ version of Lucifer, whose arrogance caused him to be banished. He’s the key to life on Earth and Cybertron.


Link: Cinematical







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I have gotten caught up with a lot of TV shows over the past couple of months. There are a lot of good shows and some shows I haven’t been able to watch since I got caught up with the others. Since I have managed to watch a lot of shows, I’m just going to write quick opinions about the shows, if you want more info you can click on the name to find out more information.

Current TV Shows – What I’m watching on a weekly basis

• Fringe – Best of the new breed of shows, keeps you on the edge of your seat.
• 24 – Jack – No more needs to be said
• Lie To Me – A great new show about a man who can tell if your lying from your facial expressions
• The Mentalist – A man helping a federal agency with all the cases they face
• The Unit – Special forces unit and this season is the best season of this show
• Smallville – I am hooked on Smallvile and can’t wait for Clark to fly
• 90210 – Drama in a Beverly Hills highschool, always fun
• Burn Notice – A secret agent trying to piece together his life while stuck in Miami, action packed
• Trust Me – Two guys in an advertising agency who always have to complete their tasks and facing competition internally and externally, pretty damn funny



Funny Shows:

• The Big Bang Thoery – I laugh so much it hurts, really
• 30 Rock – Alec Baldwin is hilarious
• Chuck – Chuck just can’t seem to stay out of trouble, a very easy and light show to watch, and he has a bunch of funny guys he works with.



Back Burner: – Shows that I watch but I have them on pause for now

• Battlestar Galactica – Waited until the season ends to watch it all one go!
• Friday Night Lights – Story got a little lost but I will watch it later
• Gossip Girl – I do like this show but I’m caught up with other ones for now



Pending Shows – Good shows I heard about but I have yet to see:

• Damages
• Doll House
• Kings
• Castle
• Terminator The Sarah Conner Chronicles
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