Tuesday

Playing Silent Hill in the Real World

"You don't often see Silent Hill at the center of a "games made me do it" controversy, but a thirty-five-year-old man claims that Konami's psychological horror series inspired him to break into a hospital basement and shut off the electricity. The man, identified only as Jan H., claims to have been in a state of psychosis and believed he was playing the game.

Jan infiltrated the basement of Sophia Hospital in the Netherlands last April, where he shut off the power and forced a blackout for forty-five minutes. People were trapped in elevators and doctors had to manually keep intensive care patients breathing. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.

Amazingly, he was found not guilty in a trial last week as the court ruled Jan had "no idea of the true consequences of his deed." Jan claims that, during his warped state of mind, he believed that shutting off the hospital power would allow him to acquire a toothbrush as part of some convoluted Silent Hill puzzle."

I've never been jealous of a psychotic person's state of mind. Until now.

I need to solve this puzzle for him.



~Destructoid

& Kevin

Monday

Hey Champ

I approve of this amazingness.
I listened to 10 seconds of The Cool Kids remix, which opens with the line "For real? Like, what the hell is this?" - which summed up my exact thoughts.


You can download the mix here.

Sunday

Ben Butler & Mousepad - Other Islands

Remember that movie Junior? Where Arnold Schwarzenneger gets pregnant? haha, that was funny.
Anyway, enjoy this amazing song.

Ben Butler & Mousepad - Other Islands from chris pell on Vimeo.

Thursday

Lupe Fiasco - Enemy of the State: A Love Story (Mixtape)

I've more-or-less been sleeping on Lupe for a while now.
But I'm finally awake!
He raps over Radiohead's National Anthem, he samples Street Fighter sounds, what are you waiting for?

Wednesday

Mother Mother - Hayloft (live)

Was just assigned to write a little storythingy about this band for The Coast.
Hadn't heard of them before tonight, but I already love them.
The singing is hyper, the beats have swag, I must dance.

Japoramarama

The Japanese have blessed us with many-a-things: non-American, non-European automobiles, the soup splashguard, etc.


And now they present the greatest spectacle thus far:

The Automatic Mario Queen "Don't Stop Me Now" 自動マリオシーケンサ something-or-other.... Remix!


Thanks for the heads up, Kevin

Stina Nordenstam - Little Star

Just found this Swedish.. experimental pop artist,
who's apparently been around for like 15 years.
Sounds like a shy, insecure Bjork. I likes.

Check out more of her stuff here.

Tuesday

Shaun Boothe - Poor Boy

I respect this guy for the use of the Bohemian Rhapsody sample alone.
Looking forward to his upcoming 3D mixtape project.