I saw Transformers yesterday with my friend Billingsly. If you are reading this now and haven’t seen the movie, stop what you’re doing, grab your wallet/purse and RUN to the theater. This movie is so awesome that I would have to create a new language in order to write a review that would do this movie justice. I was a little nervous seeing this being a such huge fan, but this far exceeded my expectations. Growing up I had a a plethora of Transformer toys, proudly wore the T-shirt, and watched every single cartoon including the movie. Basically this live action version is a celebration of my childhood. Now if we can only get that GI Joe movie, Thundercats, and He-Man movie, I could die a happy person. I was so pumped after seeing the movie, that we loaded up the truck and went to Target to see what kind of Transformer toys they had. I ended up choosing Barricade, whats scarier than an evil police car than can transform into a killer robot?

While at Target yesterday looking for toys, Billingsly noticed they had four Nintendo Wiis in stock. This is a uncommon sight for most places, because of the low supply (Nintendo insists on shipping by sea), and high demand (they’re so much fun!). Nate had asked me earlier in the week to find him one, so after calling him on my cell, he had me grab one. Later we walked by the same cabinet that had previously housed four consoles, in the span of 10 minutes they were now down to one.

Killer Barricade wallpaper.

Joystiq has a HUGE hands-on preview of Rockband.  It includes the announcement we’ve all been waiting for: “They’ve added some rhythm functions to the microphone as well, and you basically whack your hand on the top of it to do things like shake a tambourine or in the song we played, play more cowbell. That’s right, the Blue Oyster Cult hit “Don’t Fear the Reaper” is in the game, and you can provide as much cowbell as you want.”  I need MORE cowbell RIGHT NOW! I cannot wait until November to play this game.