More Lemurs

This time, they are the Lemurs of my mind.

I Was Leap Leap Leaping Along...

Lemurs are exciting creatures.

I saw three of them today at the Nashville zoo do really bizarre things. Including sit together in a circle and pose in strangely Buddha-like positions. The Lemur pictured above is one of the 3.

He approached when we came up to his habitat at the Zoo. I've decided to call him Elijah.

My friend Will has noted on many occasions that monkeys are "like the little catmen". And lemme tell you, world, Lemurs are DEFINITELY like little catmen. Just check out Elijah up thurr. He is a small cat-man, no?

Oh, you wanna know what's truly freaky (but fascinating) about Lemurs? Their hands are like human hands. No seriously. They move their small hands and use them to manipulate objects just like I would.

Wild Things

Hey, world. I haven't blogged in 10,000 years it would seem.

But, all that's about to change.

Well, maybe. I just like the sound of the "But, all that's..." phrase. Don't you?

Where The Wild Things Are the motion picture is coming out soon and I'm mighty excited. I think we all loved the book when we were little and I hope everyone still loves it. Because, guys, The Wild Things are what's up.

So, If you don't know, Mr. Dave Eggers (of McSweeny's fame, Away We Go fame. +Other Fames) wrote the script for it. And Mr. Spike Jonze (Of Pharcyde videos fame, Being John Malkovich fame, Adaption fame + other fames) is directing the movie.

I have to say, Where The Wild Things Are looks like its going to be one of the coolest things. And, Jonze really seems to be making the film with a lot of respect. Giving it a sort of realness a lot of "kids'" movies don't have.

I mean, the Wild Things look real. They aren't the throwaway CGI crazo beasts that look like they were just projected into the movie but obviously aren't there. The Wild Things look and they move and they act like they're real, living things. And that's because they aren't CGI.

Unless it's done with incredible skill, I think CGI injected into live action looks like butt. There are countless examples of butt CGI-in-live action moments. Remember the season finale of Buffy season 3? With the big snake demon? Looks like ass, right?

Beyond the look of Wild Things, it also seems like Max won't just be the typical hero of a kids' movie. I think (at least I hope) Dave Eggers wrote more into Max's character than just the cuteness that main-character-kids are. I think Max will actually be a character and will be an active part of the story. Not just some cute little dude they stuck up there for us to stare at and go "awww..."

I am basing all of these thoughts on The trailers. But, aren't they well-put-together trailers, though? They're very nice.

The trailers make the movie look sort of insane and beautiful. Which, I guess, is what being a kid is. Or, really, what living is.



Also, my cat looks like a wild thing:

Guess Who's Back?

Alright, It's The Senior Partners! We officially are up in this with our 1st song: The Kingdom.

The Senior Partners is Rex Horner, Ronald Metellus and myself. We do big things in the hip hop world. And in other world's as well. Especially the Milk Dimension. You heard me, Klaus. Watch out for the Seniors, buddy.

Friends, you can stream The Kingdom Here. "The Kingdom" is produced by Rex with vocals by all three of us. I put a couple o' samples on it. So I hope people enjoy it.

I would have embedded it into this post, but Imeem is basically sucking on a wee-wee now. They're only allowing 30 second streams to be embedded onto blogs and other non-Imeem sites (buttastic!). How foolish of them.

Here is 30 seconds of "The Kingdom". if you want the preview. You can hear Rex rip up the track (a a lil' bit of the chorus, too):

The Kingdom - Senior Partners

Word.

Oh, and if anyone wants a "download" of this song, hit me up with an email: supernickvogt@yahoo.com. I will hook you up.

Beyond Good & Evil 2: It Looks Awesome

Peep this video the good people over at 1up posted last week. It's extremely badass.



I never played the first game, but I have wanted to check it out for some time now. I plan on picking up a copy of it. Ubisoft really holds it down for videogames. Some of my favorites have been made by them, they're probably second to Capcom in the "Nick Vogt's Favorite Game Companies" list.

And, while I haven't played the 1st Beyond Good & Evil, two Ubisoft games in particular have really blown me away. One: There's Rayman 2, which is a platformer with a great art style, cool characters, and a good story. Umm, You might not know this, but video games don't usually have good stories. Especially back during the N64 (or the "fifth gen") era of videogames. Back then, the only games with good stories really were RPGs (Final Fantasies for example) or like Metal Gear Solid. Granted, Rayman's story was saturday morning cartoonish, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, the characters and the plot of Rayman really was reminiscent of some of the best saturday morning cartoons I used to watch.

Speaking of Metal Gear Solid, Rayman is also a game by a (as I like to call them) " videogame auteur". The Metal Gear series, of course, is made by the brilliant and probably insane Hideo Kojima and Rayman is by the French auteur Michel Ansel. Incidentally, Ansel is also making the totally badass-looking Beyond Good & Evil 2. Ansel is certainly a great asset for Ubisoft, and probably for the country of France in general (although France has many assets including crepes and, like kissing).

Unfortunately, after Rayman 3 (which I didn't play but it was supposed to be good), the series has kind of gone to buttsville. I am not really a big fan of the Wii Raving Rabids games. Games made up of all mini games are just uninteresting to me. I think they're way too hectic and quickly lose my interest. Although, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves for the Wii is just so bizarre (and the mini games are so short) that I think it works. That game really keeps your interest in a "what the fuck is this?" sort of way. It's good fun.

Hopefully, in the future, Rayman will return from this Rabids crap and enter get into another platforming adventure. I'm sure they could make a new Rayman platformer that's just as good. There is reason to hope for that, actually, because the upcoming Rabids game: Rabids Go Home is not gonna have Rayman in it at all. That might mean Ubisoft is moving Rayman away from the Rabids franchise and possibly back into the world of platforming.

The second Ubisoft game that is really dear to me is Assassin's Creed. Obviously, it's a very different game than Rayman. While the story of Assassin's Creed isn't nearly as interesting and absorbing as Rayman's (typical alternate history conspiracy stuff) the game play definitely is. The strangely slow but rhythmic and combat and especially the parkour movement elements of the game really made me feel like I was Altair, and like I was having his adventures and tumbling through ancient cities. I think no other game has pulled me into its action like Assassin's Creed. And, with a new Assassin's Creed on the way, I'm excited for all that to get to get taken to the next level.


I think the 2nd Beyond Good & Evil is gonna rock out, and it really is looking like a combination of two of my favorite games. From this bit of footage, I can definitely see parkour/free-running elements from Assassin's Creed will be in the game and (from what I've heard/read about the first Beyond Good & Evil) the interesting story and colorful characters (including animal people!) of Rayman. I'm looking forward to it. If you like the videogames, you should be, too.

The Movement

Hey there. This here blog: Awesome Town is my official Blog as of right nowsers.

I have another blog you may want to check out over at Wordpress called "World Heroes" but I'm (For all intensive purposes) abandoning that project and focusing on Awesome Town.

Why? Well, World Heroes was for a class assignment and Awesome Town isn't. World Heroes was very "themed". You know, it was about heroes. Awesome Town really isn't so themed. At all. But, it is awesome.

Also, I get to be chief of Fire Saftey here.

Stay Awesome.

Yeah!

This is Awesome Town. We Made it.