back from the...

well i'm not back from the dead (not sure how a zombie would be able to keep a blog) but i am back from being MIA from this blog.

I'm taking a little break from WoW, been so for a couple of months now, getting all rested up before the big expansion release coming up!!!

I have been doing another type of gaming in it's place... miniature war gaming with Warhammer 40k. I think i might be addicted haha. I'm playing with a Ork army, games been 1500 and 2000 points. I'm still learning a lot but getting it all down. Its really fun, both playing and painting your army.

In zombie news, who can't wait for 'The Walking Dead' tv show!!! I know I can't but have no fear its almost here! I also saw Resident Evil After Life a few weeks ago, not bad. It was a little better then the last but doesn't really reflect any of the games story like the others but I still enjoyed it. Also, Survival of the Dead is finally out! I saw it awhile back on Verizon fios, they had it on demand before you can see it in theaters and now its on DVD. I got the special edition (from Canada) and now my '.... Of the Dead' films are complete once again until GAR releases his next one. GAR said in a interview that he does plan on at least 2 more being made, hopefully.

If anyone out there still reads this blog, let me know by leave some comments. I am going to bring this blog back to life... just gotta do some dusting around here, its been awhile.

a little lazy

yup, i've been a bit lazy as you can tell.
Sry for not posting in awhile

Not much has been going on in my little world
I just bought Champions Online... At first I wasn't sure how well it would be but after playing it last night, i'm impressed. I don't think i'll drop WoW for it but i'll for sure be playing it for a little while.

news on the zombie front:
I haven't heard much information about GAR's new movie Survival of the Dead. I can't wait to see it!

I did hear a report that said horror movies are becoming more popular and one type is the most popular... zombies!

it makes me feel proud lol

There is a new zombie movie fron Sony Pictures coming on Oct. 2nd called Zombie Land



it looks like its more of a spoof film, i'll be seeing it for sure and i'll give my review of it.

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well, i'm at work at the moment
i'll try to post a little more then i have lately....

till then

new stuff going on

alright, I have a few new things published on AC, check it out! there is a link around here somewhere lol. if you can't find it, here it is: http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/461015/tj_garcia.html


my other half has opened a shop online, if you are into tie-dye shirts, she has lots of them handmade herself! check it out and of course buy a few :p

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5370017

Well, I haven't bee up to much lately. I might have another recording gig coming up. A band contacted me wanting to record a few for a demo, thats a little extra $$ for me, yay. I've been working on my band as well, of course :P Grimya, just click the name to visit the official myspace page.

also, i'm designing a intro for a new show called Random Access DFW, a buddy of mine, Rance Adams (click his name for more info) asked me to do that for him, this is great practice for me and a way to get my name out there. I'm using Adobe After Effects to do this, i'm also making a few images for the show as well using photoshop.

well, i'm at work atm...

I'll see you later!

Batman (pt2 review)

Ok, my post yesterday talked about my first experience playing the new batman game - Arkham Asylum. (official site here)

and now this is pt. 2 which i'll go into more detail.

First off, the demo was only 1 mode - Challenge mode. Since the game isn't fully finished there were a little bugs in the graphics. That will get polished when it is done. The demo was only for PS3 (i'm looking fwd to the xbox demo). A friend and manager of gamestop told me they just got the demo in and I ran strait to it.

The fighting system is the main thing i was most impressed by. 1 button is worth a thousand words... errr ass kicking more like it. Its amazing how just the press of 1 button can do so much. They made it very simple and very enjoyable. Its never the same punch/kick either and its how you use the controller. Once you get the hang of it you can stack up a huge combo just using that 1 button and knowing how to move correctly. There is another button which is just amazing, the counter attack button, it is flawless. With that then pressing the normal attack button you can do so much. The fighting is really fast pace and nonstop so you have to keep on your toes and always remember to use your counter strike because you'll be facing against groups of bad guys and they all attack you from all sides. Again its all how you move in the game.

Its kind of hard to explain.

Lets say this bad guy comes up from behind and tries to kick you, press the counter button, you'll grab his leg turn around and back fist him (it varies) then throw him, you then, while in the same motion, can more to another guy and then hit him, and you can do this nonstop till they are all down. It sound easy enough but you can get in trouble if you aren't paying attention to guys around you. anytime your moving around someone can come up behind, side etc.. and get you.

This is the most exciting game i've ever played. I'm impressed how well this turned out. Again i don't know how the full game plays but the Challenge mode is amazing. BTW this mode is you in a prison block area fighting groups of guys (each time getting larger and smarter even weapons as you go)

You don't fight against any named villains, i'm very curios how the fighting them would be like.

There is also different modes you can select that allow you to see differently. I didn't play around with that to much, but one mode is a x-ray mode you can pin point the person's bone while attacking.

and of course you can throw your bat stars etc.. i didn't play with that to much either. I was to busy melee fighting, that's just how awesome it is, you forget about everything else lol

The game is on xbox, ps3 and pc. The CE is a bit expensive ($99.99 on xbox, you can get it cheaper off amazon link is below)
Bonus Items Include:
* Waynetech Batarang Storage Box.
* 14" In-Game Design Batarang (stand attached).
* Dr. Young’s Journal (50 page full color character encyclopedia).
* 2 Sleeve DIGI-Pack Including:
o Game
o Behind the scenes 5 chapter series DVD, including: interviews with Mark Hammil and Kevin Conroy.
* Exclusive Collector’s Edition Challenge Map DLC.
* Manual.

Idk about you, but i plan on getting the CE game... its just that good

greetings

well, I didn't do much for easter. I had sun. mon. and tues off. It went by way to fast. I finished my painting (below this post) and did some house cleaning.

exciting huh? lol

I'm really trying to finish some books i've been working on for years now. I also plan to enter a contest that Blizzard is doing w/ World of Warcraft. You write a short story about your character and if they like it you get goodies... grand prize gets a trip to Bliz's HQ, dinner w/ their team and the Frostmoure sword.

Yesterday me and my other half spent a few hours at the laundry mat (our washer broke down a couple of months ago...) While there, I got kind of bored so i started to spell her name out of pretzels lol she said it was the most romantic thing anyone has done lmao being sarcastic of course. But she can say, no one else has ever spelled her name w/ pretzels lol.

rain, lighting and all that

Well, i'm at work atm, not really working, i had to come here to pick up my other half. So I went back up to the office and decided to burn some time on the interwebz.

I had no idea we were supposed to be getting a storm here (Dallas, TX area) I was at home (enjoying being all alone, doesn't happen often) then BOOM, very loud thunder that shook the house. Kind of surprising. On my way over here there was a nice light show, lots of lighting. I brought my camera w/ me so i might step outside to take a few pics. I'll post them later; maybe tomorrow, IDK.

I applied at Fry's (huge electronics store) I love that place. I can spent hours in there lol I need more money...

I still plan on making a fake movie trailer for a fake movie i thought up... (drum roll) NINJA BUNNY!!!!! (applaud here)
It will be a easter bunny that kicks butt... hopefully i can. I'm going to 'borrow' a easter bunny suit from where my g/f works (easter bunny set)

Also today I got some good news... Day by Day Armageddon 2 is about to come out!
Day by Day is the best zombie book i've read. I highly recommend it to all my fellow zombie fans. You can find it here: Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel)


the official site is: http://www.daybydayarmageddon.com/

alright that is all for tonight... happy easter everyone

till then...

before i go 2 sleep

Well hello there. Yes, the pic you see is a photo of my monitors and as you can tell I am a WoW addict lol because you know... no one knows that right? lol

to the point... I'm lv 77 tonight (cheer with me.. ready? Yay!) I'm trying hard to hurry up and catch up w/ my buds. I shouldn't of took that break... oh well, i needed a little time away from WoW

in other news...
Still no Xbox and i'm really missing Street Fighter 4 and Left 4 Dead... damnit this sucks. again, please donate and help the 'LordT6 needs a new xbox cause fund driver thingy' hehe.

ah, one more thing. This morning on my way to work my check engine lite came on. Hopefully it's nothing to bad. I don't have another car... I'm taking it to the dealership tomorrow after I drop of my g/f at work. If its gotta stay overnight... then i hope one of my friends can drive me home because it will be one very long ass walk. yes, its still under warranty (unlike my dead xbox which is a paper weight) I drive a Kia Spectra btw if anyone is wondering... 10yr/100k warranty Its a 2007 I got it brand new and I only have about 35000 miles i think.

well, i'm kind of sleepy. I didn't get much sleep last nite, I was up really late... more on that later. Its bed time...

till then....

upcoming games of interest

I sold my copy of GTA IV awhile back, but I might have to buy it again. This looks pretty damn good. You can get your copy if you haven't yet here: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned

Ok, enough of that.
moving on shall we?

I got some news,,, we i'm happy about it.
I beat Street Fight IV, now wait a min... I beat it many times, I've unlocked all characters and all that good stuff... but I beat it on Hardest w/o losing a match!!! yes, thats right... w/o losing. I'm proud of myself... (either clap or roll your eyes here)

I'm almost at 200+ wins online now...

well, i'm at work atm... so back to work i go. just wanted to make a little post about gta expansion that looks awesome and my sf4 update...

well....

I've been getting a few things done. My band is moving forward little by little (Grimya)
I'm trying really hard to get on top of my money issues... slowly but surely.
I've gotten the coolest zombie game ever!!! Left 4 Dead on xbox 360

But sadly... i'm still not lv80 with my main on WoW... damn it takes a long time. And every freakin quest on my server is camped... to many are doing the same quest... so i'll hold back a little and hopefully i don't have to wait 20mins just to kill one guy...

ah, today is the so called 'thanksgiving'...
I'm part native american,, my great grandparents were full blooded...

anyways,
I don't like to call it that because of:

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THE
REAL
STORY OF THANKSGIVING

by Susan Bates


Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.

The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.

But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.

The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.

This story doesn't have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast. But we need to learn our true history so it won't ever be repeated. Next Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to Thank God for all your blessings, think about those people who only wanted to live their lives and raise their families. They, also took time out to say "thank you" to Creator for all their blessings.