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Seth Falk is kind of an incredible dude. He’s under 30, has a zoo license (the only one in downtown toronto), and under his company, Hands On Exotics, he owns over 90 exotic animals. From desert lizards to 20 lb Columbian Pythons, lion headed rabbits, …
ERRRRYBODY FRY A YAM!! Cook dem foo foo too. How this doesn’t have four trillion hits yet is beyond me. Ghanaian food rap is the next big thing. Don’t sleep on this.
By Jesse Ship Posted: 11/27/2012 5:21 pm EST
It’s not just the gaming — the hyper-jumping, mega-blaster shooting, sword-fighting or robot-crashing action — that makes a great video game.
The best video games also have rich characters you feel emotionally invested in, smart plotlines that keep your attention, and, in an area that’s constantly underrated, great musical scores.
Twin the right music with the right video game and you have something you’ll not only want to hear for 80, 90, 100+ hours of gameplay, but something that you could genuinely consider “classic” music — whether of the orchestral variety, or “classic” in the sense that it’s timelessly awesome.
We rummaged through the boxes of our old gaming systems (Sigh,Sega FYI Genesis is 24-years-old now) and classic cartridges to determine the best video game soundtracks.
Zelda (multi-platform)
Huffington Post Canada | By Jesse Ship Posted: 11/27/2012 5:25 pm EST Updated: 11/27/2012 5:25 pm EST Anyone who has played video games in the last three decades has at some point likely taken a trip to Hyrule — the land ruled by gaming’s beloved and oft-kidnapped princess Zelda — throughout the franchise’s …
In what could be interpreted as the biggest “Eff You” to Microsoft Canada’s darling baby flagship store at Yorkdale Mall, Apple is moving in two stores over. And to add insult to injury, their plot is monstrous — doubling, or even tripling the Windows-based square …
With tomorrow’s opening of Canada’s first Microsoft store at Yorkdale Mall, you could say that we are one step closer to living in the tech-oriented society envisioned in flicks like Back To The Future 2. Apple of course has always been an innovator, but when the software and hardware provider of the masses (i.e. Microsoft) opens up shop and starts pushing their ultra-inclusive ‘all-in-one’ Xbox integrated touch screen monitor computer systems, it’s time to take note, the seas are changing.
Behold! A 6,800 square-feet of slick Microsoft and Windows 8 wonder. The entire shop is lined wall-to-wall with LCD panels that mimic the tiles from the new operating system, shifting, blinking, and refreshing with hip and friendly scenes that have something for everyone, from christmas baubles, to gardening projects, and the compulsory half-pipe and skateboard scene. I wonder when the breakdancing montage is coming out…. But what really hooked me is that staff can sync phones to the panels to coach customers on how to use the apps or just demonstrate general functionality.
It will be interesting to see what level of customer service is available at the shop. The store managers and Microsoft rep insisted that all staff will be well versed in all aspects of Microsoft culture and software from Excel 2013 to Halo 4 to trouble shooting Microsoft Office for Mac, but when I asked an orange-shirted staff guy polishing up the sales counter if he could tell me anything about bootcamping Windows 8 on my Macbook, he told me he’d have to check with a technician… Hmm, so I guess they aren’t all ‘geniuses’.
Aside from that, Microsoft is really trying hard to become an all inclusive lifestyle brand with collaborations like the TFC and FIFA controllers. I’m not sure why they went with pink (was it to match with a Microsoft colour scheme ?), I fear the pink might just fuel the fire for the TFC haters, and confuse their fans.
The Microsoft store opens officially this weekend with a free outdoor concert by the San Franciscan Grammy-winning mellow pop/rock band Train whose “Hey, Soul Sister” song has found it’s place in thousands of retail play lists. Oh and they will also have THE GREAT ONE, Wayne Gretzky, in the house, playing Kinect Hockey with some lucky, lucky fans. Will The Microsoft store take off? We’ll have to wait and see…. which leads to the next post…… Yorkdale Apple Store Relocates Two Stores Down From Microsoft!
Despite the rugged sounding name, the Edinborough Innis & Gunn Brewery have only been around since 2003 and was founded, Dougal Gunn Sharp, who used his middle name and his brother’s, Neil Innis Sharp, to title it. A group of 30 or so staff from …
Duke Slammer is the latest moniker from established techno maverick, Luke’s Anger. As he said in his BBC Introducing interview, he enjoys “looking for albums that sound like Prince but aren’t as good” to help create his electro-boogie, spandex-obsessed sound. You can hear ‘GO$$IP’ from …
Man, how I wish I had an extra $20 to blow in my monthly budget on Craft Coffee, who deliver three 4 oz bags of specially curated artisan beans to your door on a monthly basis. While this vid is beautiful, honest and sent my coffee-lusting receptors into overdrive, there’s something about Michael Horn’s (founder and CEO), drawl that is spot on with Louis CK’s indie barista impression from his “Chewed Up” tape. If you are easily offended by Louis’s arbitrary imagination, perhaps you should avoid his bit and skip straight to the moka.
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Once again, I was scared, frightened, yet quite excited to be tackling another assignment for Musicworks, the world’s leading magazine in experimental music. This month’s issue had Juno-winning electronic artist Tim Hecker on the cover, whom I helped nominate this past spring! Click the articles …