The VMAs were Sunday night. Although most of the show is shameless advertising and sucking up to celebrities, if you can struggle through and just watch the live performances, its not too bad (especially with Tivo.) One of my favorite bands, the Foo Fighters, played all night from a hotel suite in the Palms hotel. They sounded absolutely fantastic and even brought a few guest vocalist to share the stage with them. Lemmy from Motorhead sang lead on Shake Your Blood, a song off Dave Grohl’s solo album, Probot. Also taking leads was Serj from System of a Down doing Dead Kennedy’s Holiday in Cambodia.

The trailer for Iron Man hit the net yesterday. After watching it for the first time, I had to take a moment to collect myself and wipe the tears out of my eyes, this was followed by a short high-fiving spree as I ran around the office. This trailer looks AWESOME! Robert Downey Jr is a perfect choice as Tony Stark, the millionaire businessman with a drinking problem who builds the Iron Man armor, and helps form the Avengers. John Favreau is the director, and is best known for his breakout genius film Swingers, and the recently box office baby, Elf. While the trailer doesn’t reveal too much, it is enough to get the fan boy community worked into a frenzy. If they somehow squeeze in cameos by other members of the Avengers (Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye) then this could cause simultaneous nerdgasms nationwide.

This morning, Splash Damage released the LONG awaited demo for Quake Wars. Following the enormous success of Enemy Territory and running on the Quake IV engine, this game looks like it could be burning up LAN parties for a long time. My group of friends has played Enemy Territory at every single LAN party. Combining addictive RPG elements and adrenaline pumping first person shooter play, this original ET has been known to soak up entire weekends. One of the charms of the original game was that it would run on basically ANY system. I am a little concerned after seeing game play footage that the sequel will require massive upgrades in order to play.

The latest video by The Hold Steady is so good I had to embed it. It features Zorro playing the pipe organ and a priest riding a stick pony. Well played sirs, well played indeed.