What the hell do you buy with a lame $15 Wal*Mart Gift Card that you recently got for a Christmas Bonus? Well thankfully just released on DVD(and Blue Ray) for a lovely price of $14.95 is the latest in the Family Guy Star Wars Spoofs Something, Something, Something, Dark Side a loving remake of The Empire Strikes Back movie. SCORE!

So lame Christmas Bonus spent, package unwrapped and watched the minute I got home this morning I have to say just like the original Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back movie this outing of the Family Guy spoofing is better than the first one as well. I was laughing so much through out the hour long episode that I can forgive this one for not coming in a Widescreen version. I mean really Full Frame who does that anymore. But that is the only bad thing I have to say about this show.

Extra content is alright. I'm not a big commentary person but there is another version of the show that has interesting popup facts which made the second viewing just as enjoyable as the first viewing. Even if some of the longer content ones were harder to read since they weren't always on the screen long enough to read them completely. Another one of the extras is a short table read of the third film currently titled "We have a bad feeling about this" which is the spoof of Return of the Jedi and from what you see there you know that it's going to be funny as well.

There are a ton of running gags though out this show including the classic fall and knee grab skit and it's done by an AT-AT, oh yeah and baby AT-ATs. A lot more of the show's cast make appearances as well as some extra characters. There is just a lot of stuff going on and it's just so much fun to watch as both a fan of Family Guy and a big Star Wars geek. You definitely can't miss this.

Check out the trailer here.

Tired of Clone Wars reruns? Have you seen the same handful of episodes enough times to mute the sound and recite the entire episode's dialogue by yourself word for word? Are you excited to know that the next season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will start next Friday on October 2, 2009. I know I'm excited for the next season it looks like it's going to be kicking it up a notch this season and get a bit more intense and darker than the previous season.

But before that it looks like Cartoon Network will be having a mini marathon of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on this Sunday (Sept 27, 2009) with previews of the next season as well as what looks like some other things as well. OK, OK to me it looks like a really lame Star Wars fan made music video with lightsaber guitars. While I'm really excited about the new season I'm rather played out on the old season and really don't want to watch the mini marathon myself just for the little bit of new stuff they'll have for the next season and who knows maybe they're just showing the trailer for it as the preview. That doesn't mean that I haven't seen some new stuff like this 2nd youtube trailer.



So this is what I gathered from watching the trailer. It looks like to me they might actually have a season long plot instead of random episodic battles on random planets with no clear direction in the story. It'll be a nice change from last season, that's for sure. While it looks like it'll be mostly about the main bad guy Cad Bane the Bounty Hunter, who was introduced at the end of the last season, it will also toss in some good oldies like a shape changer bounty hunter like the one from the second movie and ZOMG! Mandalorine warriors, oh hell yes. It also looks like they'll be tossing a bit more relationship stuff at us as well including a possible past relationship for Old Ben. But I did like that little bit of foreshadowing with Ani and Padma when he sees her hugging another guy. Actually it looks like this season will be all around darker and more intense than the previous season which is another great thing maybe we'll see some good saber battles where something other than the robots get a sliced and diced. After all none of those bounty hunters are in the third movie. I'd love to see for a season ender Cane's hat smolding and cut in half floating to the ground with his body slumped on the ground in the fuzzied out in the background and the doer of the deed will be Ahsoka. Well I can wish anyways right.

Another week has come and gone and a bunch of stuff has been going on this last week. Thankfully all good stuff this week. Have had a lot of condolences for my mother's passing which is nice yet I haven't heard anything from my sister about the memorial services maybe we'll hold off on that until we receive the ashes back. Anyways on to better things. I did finally purchase a new digital video camcorder this weekend and will go out this morning and give it a test drive at the autocross assuming of course it doesn't get rained out. Yeah you see we got a ton of rain on Friday and Saturday and we are supposed to get more this morning as well. I love the rain...well when I'm not driving in it anyways.

The camcorder that I picked up was a Samsung SCMX20 which so far looks like a great camera but we'll see when I get the first videos uploaded. Also since I'm just messing around with it at the moment I only picked up a 2gb card (for $10) as I'm waiting for the prices to drop on the larger gb cards. Since I'll be uploading new videos I also did a bit of fall cleaning of my youtube videos and went from 248 videos down to 65 to make room for new stuff.

Not only did I get the camcorder this week but I also picked up a magazine release from Tactical Solutions for my Ruger 10/22. Installing it was easy but hmmm I don't think it fits as good as it should so I'm thinking I might have to take it in to get adjusted. Other firearms related purchases were a speedloader and snapcaps for the Model 15-3 Combat Master, a new flashlight for the shotgun and of course more reloading material. You can find a few more pictures on flickr. Of the other stuff that I ordered last week only the Apple Vol 1 book showed up and it is definitely an awesome art book. If you like Robot you'll love Apple. I just don't know when a second volume will be out. So I'm still awaiting my Tein Umbrella/shirt and the Megami magazine (that'll take the longest though so meh it'll get here when it does). Not entirely a bad haul for the week that's for sure.

If you do take a look at flickr you'll also notice that I also uploaded pictures of the recently aquired Haruhi Suzumiya Gothloli figure and a bunch more images of Lamborghinis. I'll talk about the Lamborghinis in their own post later but I have to say that Haruhi was much bigger than I thought she was going to be (she's my first real anime figure actually) but she is way awesome. Makes me wish I also pre-ordered her gothic punk sidekick Asahina Mikuru too.

Thankfully that was it for crazy purchases this week (un fun bills took up the rest) and the rest of the week was pretty much taken up by work and playing Star Wars The Force Unleashed. I finished the game but was going back and finding all the holocrons and finishing up the bonus missions. It's an all right game but I have issues with some of the game play and OMFG that Deathstar part was a major pain in the fucking ass. Which is why the roommate finished that part actually.

With that it's the end of the week and I'm off to the autocross for testing out the new camcorder.