Cythusly's weblog » Wil Wheaton http://cythusly.com Newcastle Brown I'll drink you down to the dregs I'm hell on legs I'm drinkin' again! Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:34:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Star Trek: The Experience is Closing http://cythusly.com/2008/07/star-trek-the-experience-is-closing/ http://cythusly.com/2008/07/star-trek-the-experience-is-closing/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:27:21 +0000 Tyler http://cythusly.com/2008/07/star-trek-the-experience-is-closing/ I have fond memories of Star Trek: The Experience. From days spent going on the ride, shopping on the Promenade of DS9. I spent so much time at this place, I spent my 21st birthday there – drinking white russians and playing slots because that’s all my mind could handle. It didn’t even register the $250 jackpot for about a minute.

So… I guess all I have to say is “So it goes.”

Who knows, maybe they’ll even do another Experience someplace else in the country? I know I’d visit.

[From WWdN: In Exile: Star Trek: The Experience is closing]

]]> http://cythusly.com/2008/07/star-trek-the-experience-is-closing/feed/ 0 Scarlett Johansson sings Tom Waits http://cythusly.com/2008/05/scarlett-johansson-sings-tom-waits/ http://cythusly.com/2008/05/scarlett-johansson-sings-tom-waits/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:46 +0000 Tyler http://cythusly.com/2008/05/scarlett-johansson-sings-tom-waits/ I heard about this a few months (almost a year?) ago and thought it could be a cool idea, and it was even really hot that Scarlett Johansson thinks enough of Tom Waits and his music to do an album of all covers of his songs… but you hear that reverb/echo/synth sound to her voice? That’s the same shit they did to Cher when she could no longer keep on key to save her life.

Scarlett is okay looking, I enjoy looking at her. Hell, I wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers, if you know what I mean, but I do believe she has no business singing. This glam, synth-pop shit (or whatever it is) that has been done to Wait’s music is… horrifying. I can’t say she’s got a horrible voice, but what the fuck have they done? Everyone remember her singing karaoke in ‘Lost in Translation’? I do, it wasn’t horrible. It was actually kind of cute and endearing.

I don’t outright hate this album, actually when I first heard about it I was kicking myself and trying to figure out how I would go about purchasing it (whether I’d go into a record store I never go to so as not to look like a complete douche to the people who have come to know and respect my taste in music)

Anyway, give it a listen for yourself and decide for yourself-


-Tyler

PS, I stole the imeem.com link from Wil Wheaton: In Exile.

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