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Games Music shopping

Game: Guess the BMG Music Catalog CD

A while ago we posted a GUESS THE CD game, where players would have to guess the name of the CD based on the track listing that you provide.

Here’s a variation on the theme: guessing the song based on the listing provided in the BMG Music Catalog sales brochure.

You don’t remember the BMG (or Columbia House) Music Club?

<old man voice>Yeah, I remember when we had to purchase our music the old-fashioned way, through the mail.  We’d have to go through a magazine listing and select the CDs, albums, audio cassettes, or 8-track tapes that we’d like to purchase; send in a postcard with a penny taped to it; and in 4-to-6 weeks, a package would arrive containing our selections… and we’d be lucky if they got the shipment right, or if they were in original packaging instead of being labeled as “special to Columbia House”.  We didn’t have any of this new-fangled instant over the Internet-get the music instantly kind of crap.  We had to work at getting our music.  And we liked it.</old man voice>

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Funny Games

Flash Fun: Achievement Unlocked

Looking to kill about ten minutes of free time?

Why not challenge your friends and neighbors to beat your best time at ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

All you have to do is move your elephant through 100 different tasks on the maze-like screen. 

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Funny Games Websites

Game: Broken Picture Telephone

BROKEN PICTURE TELEPHONE is a free web-based party game, a variation of the old “Telephone” game you played as kids at a 5-year-old’s birthday party at Shakey’s Pizza back in the day.

The Telephone Game was where everyone would sit around the table, and the first person would come up with some silly tongue twister or crazy saying.  They would then whisper the phrase to the person next to them, who would then have to whisper it to the person next to them, and so on and so on until the last person says whatever was whispered to them.  The hope is that the original phrase will make it around the table intact, but it never seemed to work out that way.

Broken Picture Telephone (aka “BPT”) is sort of like that, but with a twist:

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Games Music News Video Video Games

LEGO Rock Band Announced, and 10 Lego Music Videos

LEGO ROCK BAND has been announced for Christmas 2009 release.

The announced songs include:

If you were wondering what a LEGO ROCK BAND video game would look like, it could look something like this:

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Games Music

Game: Guess the Mix

Here’s another game you can play on long car rides:  GUESS THE MIX.

Come up with a themed mixtape consisting of 10 songs.  The theme can be anything you’d like:  cars, breakups, cooking, songs that feature cowbell…anything you’d like the theme to be.

There are three ways to play this:

  1. Play the mix for your friends.  This option allows everyone to hear the songs that you’ve chosen, and is the best version to play if your friends do not have a large musical brain to pull from.
  2. Tell your friends the track titles.  This option is for the more experienced player, as they will need to know what those songs sound like on their own.
  3. Tell your friends only the artist names.  This is the most advanced option, as it will require your friends to determine what songs from those artists would combine into a single theme.  For hardcore players only.
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Games Travel TV

Competitours: The Amazing Race for Non-Reality-TV Whores

Last night, CBS pre-empted THE AMAZING RACE to show some lame awards show.  Don’t they realize that all the TAR fans want to do is watch Phil and the racers wander the world for our amusement?

Many of my friends have the same philosophy when it comes to appearing on a reality-TV show: they won’t do it.   (Granted, one person I know did whore himself out to the reality TV gods, and everything seemed to work out okay for him, so maybe my survey sample needs to be increased a little bit.)

Still, if you are interested in experiencing The Amazing Race as a vacation instead of as a game show, you will want to check out COMPETITOURS: THE AMAZING RACE FOR REGULAR PEOPLE.

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Games Music TV Video

Two Golden Shower Videos

Golden Shower was a Brazilian band that hit the net in the early 2000’s, and over the next few years spent some time creating interesting mashups of video, electronica, and graphics. 

In 2002, Golden Shower released the song and video entitled TOTAL CONTROL, and began to win even more awards and recognition for their work.  The video is a tribute to the classic Tyco TCR race sets from the late 70’s-early 80’s.

Those of you who remember those Tyco TCR race car sets should have fond memories of the excitement an awesome TCR layout could be.   And it was always your friends who had the cool track setups, wasn’t it? 

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Gambling Games TV

Lessons Learned from THE BEST DAMN POKER SHOW

I’ve been watching THE BEST DAMN POKER SHOW on Fox Sports Net. 

It’s a tournament-based series, with two teams of (mostly) amateur poker players competing against each other and coached by poker pros Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth.  For whatever reason, I can’t watch most poker programs on TV, but shows like this one or Bravo’s prematurely cancelled CELEBRITY POKER SHOWDOWN that offer decent, approachable advice for the casual player (along with a little bit of personality and humor) are more entertainly watchable for me versus the more serious World Poker Tour or High Stakes Poker shows.

Besides, who wouldn’t want to get free poker advice from Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth, or Phil Gordon (an early commentator on CPS)?  As such, I turn you to one small piece of advice learned from season 2, episode 5, of The Best Damn Poker Show