when/where'd bumble say this??

i'll believe it when i see it of course, BUT tommy's been there 14yrs & knows enough not to say stuff that has no chance of happening... or does he??
i just dunno...

if i hadda hope i'd hope it's new material/a live release rather than more [north american] shows.
but i am hopeless.

mark lanegan band

only a couple of weeks away

in SS there is an option under the #1 or #2 button where you can adjust the sensitivity of the wii-mote. think it's something like 'beginner/medium/pro" the three options & if you select pro it means you don't need such large thrusts of the wiimote you can perform the actions with an easy flick of the arm/wrist.

as for SMG2, well it's head spinning & head melting. hilarious & achingly fun.
it's not only platforming perfection, it's nintendo perfecting their own blend of magic. exhilarating, breathtaking fun.

and at a time when videogames are obsessed with narrative as an attempt to justify their maturity or their worthiness as art, nintendo polish their imagination, wonder & splendour into the simple joys of what really make videogames special & unique (& artistic). it is sheer unadulterated pleasure. even when it's being mean & difficult it's then it achieves an heightened hilarity (star 242 anyone?!). you jump, bash goomba's, solve puzzles & rescue the princess - like all mario's, simple but effective. but the level design this time around is the greatest they've ever come up with.
it's like it pushes the laws of physics to breaking point, & then dances on it's grave.

in 20+ yrs of playing games, none have kept me smiling as long & as often as SMG2.

nightrain is the greatest guitar solo of all time
whipping post from the fillmore east is the next greatest guitar solo of all time

then SCoM, obv
or maybe TWAT(!)
well TWAT's the solo of this century. not much competition tho sadly

i do get what axl means about the first SCOM guitar break/solo. that section is just blood on the tracks, heavy in the best possible way. the second is a screamer of course. but it's splitting hairs really.

i said about the man on the street, in reference to the preposterous claims of weilands iconic status.

& i don't believe it's an unfair assumption on my part. i know in my circle of friends & family the vast majority of them would be "who?" & the few that would know him aren't overly concerned with his output & are more likely to laugh @ his drug busts & silly behaviour. (i actually asked one of my mates after reading this thread a few days ago, a guy who grew up w/grunge music, if he knew scott weiland - he didn't have a clue! & this guy was first in line to buy Pearl Jam tickets when they played Belfast, to give you an example of his intensity. when i first met him we spent half an hour making puns from Alice in Chains songs to kill time in work. yet he doesn't recognise the name scott weiland lol!). i am as sure as sure can be if i stopped a 100 people on the street in Belfast NONE would know who scott weiland is.

now if you ask people about TRUE icons, they will know.
it's a p simple test.
do you know who martin luther king is?
do you know who scott weiland is?

it's ridiculous to suggest scott is an icon when you compare him to truly iconic people.

& ftr - i couldn't care less who insults axl. nirvana & kurt cobain are one of my all time favourites, so is slash for that matter.
i don't care about scott or stp or VR as i think they're derivative & boring & offered absolutely nothing new, fresh or original. they were all pointless. it has nothing to do with whether he likes axl fucking rose or not. hell most of the time i don't like axl.

& also, fwiw, i do have the pulse of the world.