Wrap It Up

Well, it's that time of the year again. TV season finales and a couple series finales. Now I am a serious tv watcher (which is ironic because back when I was in Australia I didn't watch much tv at all). Now most of the shows are over, I feel like putting my 2 cents on how they ended.

Heroes: One of my favorite shows but it seems to be a real hard show for critics to like or for fans to accept. I have never followed a show which has been dogged by critics so hard. Sure, the show had a couple mis-steps (the whole of season 2, Claire being undeniabably stupid soo many times, characters doing 180 in their motivation) and I can't deny that but as a whole, the show was enjoyable and most of the characters have a place in my heart. With the announcement that the last season was the final season, it was a shock. The show still has stories to tell and I hope it gets that chance.

24: I was never a massive fan of 24. I liked the concept when the show came out and watched a couple episodes. It was not until I came to the US and watched tv with my family that I got into it. I can seriously say I have commited 2 and half seasons to 24 and those 2 and a half seasons were very enjoyable. Again like Heroes, people say this finale is merely a spring-board to a movie so I don't know for sure if the story is over yet but it ended well. Jack didn't die, him and Chloe are cool and the bad guys got what was coming to them including the President.

Lost: The big one. Unlike Heroes or 24, Lost's ending has been planned since the end of Season 3. So did they pull it off? I say yes. It wasn't as pieced together as I and others hoped but it delivered. Epic showdown between Jack and MIB? Check. Reunions with cast members we haven't seen in a minute? Check (nice to see Shannon and Sayid together again). A explaination for everything? Umm no, but I don't think that was the writers intentions. They wanted to keep things up for interpretation and people will be discussing it for awhile. I enjoyed it through and I think Lost will go down as one of my favorite series of all times (a spot held by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and umm, that's it).

Fringe: OMG hurry up with the third season already... Oliva being held captive. William Bell's death. Mirror Universe invading ours! An awesome end to an awesome season. Oh and Olivia looks smoking hot as a red head. Hope she keeps that look for a bit.

There were other shows (CSI, Private Practice, Desperate Housewives) but that's my main bunch that I really follow.

Another thing I am really disappointed about is the new shows coming out from all networks really haven't caught my eye. Hopefully something comes along to fill the void left by my favorite shows ending this year.

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'Jungle Jim' Preview

So one of the things I have been mucking around with is this new game I got on Xbox Live. It is an indie game called 'Newton's New Tones'. It is a basic but fun to muck around with music maker. Now it is nothing complex but it gets the job done.

Then it dawned on me, I have been looking for suitable instrumentals for my 'Helping Hand' series (follow it on UTube or my sister blog 'Apocryphic Videos') and I can actually make a specific beat I can use.

The inspiration behind 'Jungle Jim' is a combo video by KYSG using the Jungle stage from Tekken 4. Using this as my basis, I am going to do Yoshi's Poison Breaths tutorial on the 'Mystic Forest' stage (the Jungle stage successor) in T6 with my new beat that I created. It'll be a minute before I upload this specific video but here is an advance preview of the actually beat itself that I came up with.

I am really excited for this and I might use Newton's New Tones for other instrumentals if this works out.

BONUS: Damn Kid Kennedy coming online during the middle of my video and lol you can hear my momma hollering right at the end of it.

The name 'Jungle Jim' actually comes from a all region supermarket near Arcade Legends. Cincinnati locals know about it.

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Paying it Forward

Well this post is actually a massive plug for my brand new video series which I am dual broadcasting on YouTube and my video blog.

I have recently learnt how to perform alot of the 'harder' moves in Tekken and now I have decided to pay it forward and share with the general populace.

A couple of these moves already had tute's dedicated to it but this is the first dedicated multi-character series on YouTube and also alot of the moves I am showing don't even have one video dedicated to them (*ahem* Armor King).

'Helping Hand' is going to be an on-going series too and if the auidence chimes in and asks for tute's which I haven't planned on doing or tute's for certain moves earlier, I might see what I can do.

All in all, I hope people enjoy and appreciate what I am aiming to do.

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Resurrection

So it's a new month and I actually had a good idea what songs I was going to use for this month for once. I actually should have used these last month when I had my dry spell but for some strange reason I didn't think about it till April's player was uploaded. Anyhow, the central theme of this month is one of my favorite artists.



Kenna... mysterious, musical and down right awesome.

Turn: A song Kenna wrote for his 'Summit on the Summit' project (www.summitonthesummit.com). This songs shows Kenna's ability to make haunting melodies and at the same time be involved with something important. The water crisis is real and it's nice that Kenna is giving back.

Resurrection: Produced by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park fame and featuring Lupe Fiasco, again Kenna wears his heart on his sleeve and dedicates this song to the Haiti effort. A truly inspiration song and one of my favorite songs of this new year hands down.

Dumb it Down: Not a >II< song but Lupe has collaborated with Kenna on 'Resurrection' and other songs, he was also a big participant in the 'Summit on the Summit'. This ties all three songs together. Dumb it Down is one of my fave Lupe songs because of his clever word play.

Well enjoy!

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The Difference

So it's May already... wow. I'll be uploading some new music tomorrow, actually found a couple songs I want to share and rave about.

This blog however is dedicated to the difference between my two main blogs.

This blog (aka apocryphicvisions.blogspot.com) is my everything and the kitchen sink blog. I will blog about everything and anything here. I might review a game I played or a flick I recently saw (I definately am going to review Iron Man 2). I'll post about music or stuff that annoys me on this blog too.

My other blog (aka apocryphicvideos.blogspot.com) is my purely gaming blog. It's dedicate to my Raged Death Combo series, sneak peeks at other projects and soon a place for my 'Helping Hand' tutorial series.

One or the other, both them further the brand of Apocryphic Visions, my company.

Well till next time.

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