http://bustermachine.com Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:34:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unless you've been hiding under a closet all this time, you might've heard of a certain movie called The Dark Knight hitting theaters everywhere. Well, it so happens that it set a single-day box office record by taking in $66.4 million on opening day! It surpassed the previous record of ... http://bustermachine.com/uncategorized/the-dark-knight-breaks-box-office-records/ Since the Summer season's started already, details have come up on the Fall season shows! Here's the Fall 2008 Anime lineup: And here are the titles I'm totally looking forward to: Gundam 00 Season 2 Kurogane no Linebarrels TodaDora! Clannad -After Story- Lucky Star OAV Casshern Sins Nodame Cantabile - Paris Chapter To Aru Majutsu no Index ef - a ... http://bustermachine.com/anime/fall-2008-season-anime-lineup/ The other day, I stumbled on this book, "The Dumbest Generation" written by Mark Bauerlein, some professor at Emory. Essentially, the book argues that people under 30 are less smart than previous generations because of things like the internet and video games and facebook and wikipedia. And we don't read ... http://bustermachine.com/life/the-misunderstood-generation/ What do you consider as a happy moment? For me it's sitting in a park on a summer's day eating my lunch, listening to something good (or not), sitting there and taking it in, feeling the sun and pie warm me, and not doing anything but just watch people pass by. ... http://bustermachine.com/life/moments-of-happiness/ News from Anime Expo via ANN confirms that the first season of Gundam 00 will be broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel starting November 17! Two episodes will air weekly. The cast for the Gundam Meisters has just been announced as well: Setsuna F. Seiei - Brad Swaile Lockon Stratos - Alex Zahara Allelujah ... http://bustermachine.com/anime/gundam-00-hits-the-local-airwaves/ I'll be going home for the holidays, and I'm pretty excited. I mean, we do all the same stuff on the 4th with the barbecues, fireworks and all that but somehow after all the hard work I've done this year it's a great feeling to go home and be with ... http://bustermachine.com/life/holiday-blues/ Check out this amazing AMV by someone from Nicovideo! He spliced the OP and EDs of Full Metal Alchemist and placed in characters from Final Fantasy 6! Very nostalgic. XD Now that they've announced Chrono Trigger for the DS, I wonder if they're planning to release FF6 for it too... I ... http://bustermachine.com/anime/final-fantasy-6-full-metal-alchemist-oped-amv/ Perhaps the biggest news of the year for me, Square Enix officially revealed that they're working on a Nintendo DS port of one of the greatest games ever: Chrono Trigger! This RPG broke new grounds when it was released for the Nintendo SNES with it's epic story, unique battle system ... http://bustermachine.com/games/square-enix-unveils-chrono-trigger-ds/ Parodies are an excellent source of comedy, and since we're in the Youtube generation, movie fans everywhere finally had the chance to make their own! Check out these hilarious self-made movie trailers, many of which are surprisingly close to the real trailers! And with news that Youtube will be extending ... http://bustermachine.com/movies/hilarious-self-made-parody-trailers/ Some people had the extremely lucky chance to watch a screening of the most anticipated film of this summer: The Dark Knight, and they made reviews! I'm not much of a comic book fan but I loved Batman Begins with it's realistic, gritty interpretation of Batman, and from the reviews ... http://bustermachine.com/movies/the-dark-knight-gets-early-reviews/