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Subtle enough hint about what I'm going to talk about ;)?

Wowzers! I'm really enjoying it! The game is very fluid and quite possibly the most beautiful game on the 360! Played quite abit of the online mode and about 3 hours of the story... While I feel I've only just scratched the surface of the Campaign, the multiplayer already feels a little stale... Our Posse (Me, Aaron and Tom) took to the west and claimed some bounties. Great. Except there were 3 of them. The death matches are quite fun... but the "Dead Eye" is way to cheap... (Dead eye - power up which allows you to hold down the RS and take precision aim at you enemy, almost 100% instant one shot...) So far however, 8.5/10.


Next, Music Videos!

Two standing out (both shown to me by Gem <3 :)) atm as brilliant. It's helped by the fact that I love both the bands, but both really grab my attention as stylistically wonderful and their celebrity cameos certainly help :)



Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun

Stylistic game of tennis which for me at least symbolizes life as a game of Tennis. The court is black and white, it's a constant battle in which you are the underdog against the pressures of celebrity status and masked corporate powers, until you realize you're your own worst enemy. Either that or its the trailer for PONG the movie ;) An all star cast of Joe Jonas (boo), Jake Gyllenhaal (woo!), Lil' Jon and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan (meh) help to make it a truely exciting video. The song (well, tbh the whole of 'Contra') is ace too!



The Gorillaz - Stylo.

What a fucking amazing video! Pushing 3D animation with a mix of Gorillaz semi-politcal craziness, a killer track and some Bruce Willis. It's all gravy baby! Watch it and feel alive :D (They were also just on Jonathan Ross).

I've also taken the very strange step and bought both the videos off itunes... Weird yes, but they're such good videos they actually add to the experience of listening to the songs (for me at least...) Something to talk about in the dissertation? Has video killed static album art? I think so ;)

Tomorrow, Penguin Book Goodness!

M x

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