Pikachu's special power is oblivousness

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Christmas Light Hero, Hero

So this year because of little baby poop-pants I didn't really go crazy with the Christmas lights. Hard to hang lights on the roof when you've got a newborn strapped to your chest. Next year though... Christmas light Rock Band! Poop-pants should be old enough to man the drum kit by then.

Not in twenty JILLION years!

how could you not believe this face?
So for the 20 people that still play Guitar Hero over Rock Band, it was pretty big news that Kurt Cobain was going to be included as an unlockable character in Rock Band 5. I guess it was also pretty big news to Courtney Love. She rocked out on her twitter this week with the following;

"not in twenty JILLION years would i EVER have allowed this and this islethal."
"we get NO money for this, travesty, Frances gets NO money for the rape."

~ tmz.com

...so she never would have allowed it, but the real travesty is that her daughter isn't getting paid? And as far as "the rape" goes, I'm pretty sure Kurt wrote a song titled "Rape Me", so really wasn't he kinda asking for it?

But wait there's more, Courtney wasn't the only one chiming in on this. The other boys from Nirvana released a statement (I'm guessing not via twitter. You can tell by the lack of the word rape).

"While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character," they said. "This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in 're-locking' Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future."

~ yahoo news

There's a line there that I feel bears repeating. "This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants". Oh sweet Moses! What kind of anarchy is this!? If you start letting players use a character with any song they want, where's it end? Before you know it Obama is killing your grandma via death panel.

Oh yeah, it should be noted that Acitivision acquired the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Love but I don't think they twittered about it. I'm pretty sure it doesn't legally count.

Guitar Hero Hero

Ok... I know it's dorf meets nerdcore, but quite frankly I don't care. MC Lars new album This Gigantic Robot Kills is available in stores and itunes today. It's a great album, and I'm not just saying that because he's the pudgy white MC I've always wanted to be. check it out, or ask me to play it the next time you're riding in my sentra.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars

I've only played Guitar Hero once, but I'll be damned if this isn't the bee's knees. Why do I have to look at Kobe and A-Rod prance in their underwear when the "viral marketing" division is rolling out sweetness like this?



+1 for picking an awesome song.