Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome To The MasqueradeThis is a post for the fall preview. I'll talk about Television series, Music, Video Games, and maybe movies. We'll see how long this post is.

It's going to be a good fall. A quick list has been added to the Home Page. By the way, I typed up "Worth A Fortune" post a few weeks ago, it was just I was lazy and didn't upload it for some reason. Probably the same reasons why I have 10 posts typed up and just sitting around either on Google Docs or my hard drive. Anyways, this post isn't about that. It's about other things so let's just pick one and start with music.

Skillet released Awake a couple of weeks ago. I clump it into the category of Collide/Comatose CDs. Pretty much the same sound. I like that sound, so Awake sounds good to me. The songs "Hero" and "Monster" are probably my favorite from that CD. Like I said, their sound didn't really evolve much from Collide and Comatose. Not a bad thing, but I generally like it when bands change their sound, or evolve their sound. Still a good CD and I recommend it. You can buy it at ITunes or the Skillet store. I think I saw it at Best Buy as well.

I was looking forward to Thousand Foot Krutch's new CD Welcome to the Masquerade for a while now. It was finally released last Tuesday. I felt it was going to be good, but it is beyound good. It's their best work yet.

TFK has always evolved or changed their sound. They teamed up with the producer that did their second CD, Phenomenon, and they said the sound would be similar to Phenomenon (little bit harder). I would say yes, to that statement, but it is definitely an evolved sound from it. With The Art of Breaking and Flame In All of Us were very much modern Rock sound. However, the first three songs of Welcome to the Masquerade ("Welcome to the Masquerade", "Fire It Up", "Bring Me To Life") are definitely harder, which I find awesome.

This is definitely my favorite album from TFK (I love all their albums, though). After those first three songs, it slows down a little bit, just to give you a break. Then it comes back with some more harder songs. It's a good mix, and I wouldn't change a thing. Love it and highly recomend it. You can buy the CD from ITunes, Bestbuy, WalMart or straight from TFK. They also released Deja Vu, which contains the CDs Phenomenon, Art of Breaking, and Flame in All of Us. So if you are new to them, that's a good deal. Set It Off is missing for some odd reason.

Other music is not out yet and is highlighted on the home page. I do want to expand on Dead By Sunrise. Dead By Sunrise is Chester Bennington's side project (he's from Linkin Park). I've talked about it before, but now we are close to the release. Dead By Sunrise consists of members from Julien K as well.

They are alright, but there are two songs that I won't listen to anymore on their CD. The rest of the songs are good though. Their music video for "Kick The Bass" is a good representation of why I DON'T like two of their songs. Kick the Bass is a good song though. I suggest you don't watch the video. Anyways, I digress.

Dead By Sunrise releasd the single "Crawl Back In" which is great. I like it. Also a music video for it. I kinda like the video for it. You can see the "Emo"ness of the Julien K members. It's not a Linkin Park music video (which are some of the best videos I've ever seen) but it's good. I'm looking forward to their CD "Out of Ashes" October 13.

John Reuben's new CD I also want to expand on. It doesn't hit stores until December, but he is releasing 4 singles and music videos. He's already released "Town Folk" and "Jamboree", which can be found on YouTube. The other two, "Confident" and "Nobenah" get released September 15 and October 20, respectively. Good times. So far I'm digging the sound. I have a good feeling about this album. I've noticed that I instantly love every-other album of his. I grow to like his others. And this one, Drugs, Sex, and Self-Control is an every-other album. Good times.

Television now. Supernatural started on Thursday. Epic is all I have to say. The Season premier was just epic. It's going to be a good season. Lucifer is roaming about, and it's up the Sam and Dean to kill him. If you haven't watched the show, go out and buy season one through 4 either on DVD or BlueRay. It's my favorite series. I kinda miss season 1, where they expanded on supernatural lore, like the Windigo, Bloody Mary, and stuff like that. The demon hunting stuff is good, but it was kinda cool to see some of supernatural stuff.

Then we have House. I need to watch Season 5 yet. I have season 5 DVD sitting on my DVD rack.

Then I need to rewatch Heroes Season 1 and 2, and watch season 3. I have all them on DVD/Blueray. Watch season 1 and then waiting a few months and then watching season 2, didn't help. I forgot a lot of details from season 1 so I need to rewatch them.

Dollhouse is a good series. I have to admit, it started pretty slow, and wasn't great. But then the series picked up about half way thorugh the series. I like it a lot. I'm glad the renewed it for a second season.

Dexter is just awesome. Not much needs to be said about it. If you haven't watched it, you should. Buy the DVDs. I know the show is a Showtime series, which is a premium channel, but that's not an excuse for missing such a well written show. Not to mention the fantastic actors. Michael C. Hall is a great actor, and he was in Gamer, which I will hopefully talk about.

I want to highlight a few video games. Batman is getting fantastic reviews. I haven't gotten around to buying it, but it will be a future purchase.

Darkest of Days got bad reviews so that will not be a buy. Saying the premise is great, but the execution is flawed, not to mention needs polish and the AI sucks.

Section 8 is being praised for it's multiplayer. IGN gave it an 8/10 and they talked a lot about the mulitplayer. The single player is a little shallow, but the multiplayer is where it shines apparently. I might have to pick this one up.

Alright we're caught up. I was going to put Trine on the "Games to the Video 6," but now I'm glad I didn't. The release date has been pushed back so many times for the Playstation Network. They ran into snags apparently. It's good that they are making sure the game is done before releasing it though.

WET gets released very soon. If you preorder from Gamestop or Amazon, you get 10 bucks off. The demo is available and it was very fun. I think I may have to preorder it just to save some cash. still have 3 days.

Torchlight was at PAX, and a lot was announced. All three classes are announced, the release date is officially October 27, and people loved playing it at PAX. Perfect World, Runic Games publisher, has the rights to sell the game exclusively through their website for the first month, but it will be available on Steam and such after that. Also, early next year it will be in box form. I'll have to see how Perfect World's distribution system works before I buy. I like Steam's system so I might have to wait another month.

Not to mention Borderlands is very close to October 27 so I might be consumed by that. So I'm leaning towards picking up the game in November from Steam or something else. We'll see.

Also, the official price is 20 bucks [Torchlight]. A must buy.

And one of my favorite things I heard about was the God of War Collection for the Playstation 3. God of War and God of War 2 on one BluRay disk, optimised for 720p, and they are adding trophey support. I'm gonna buy it, but that's because I'm a fanboy of God of War. Also, 40 bucks. That's like buying both games as Greatest Hits on the PS2. My PS2 lens needs to be cleaned so this is kinda good that I don't have to worry about freezes because of dirty lens. Plus, right before the release of God of War 3 and gives me time to replay the first two. Either November or December this year. I've heard both dates.

I think I'll wrap this up. It's long. I as going to talk about some movies, but this is a fairly long post and yeah. Enjoy and look forward to movies in the future.

"Oh god. Is that a molar? Do I have a molar in my hair. This has been a really stressful day."
-- Chuck, Supernatural