MTV and Harmonix have sealed the deal in creating a “Rock Band” style game featuring the Beatles. While the game will not be called Rock Band, it will work with the existing instruments. It won’t contain all of the Beatles songs, however,  but it will sample from the entire discography from Please Please Me through Let It Be. It will also mark the first time the Beatles go digital – legitimately. All I can say is good luck trying to play While My Guitar Gently Weeps on hard! George Harrison and Eric Clapton have set the bar impossibly high.

Pushing Daisies

I read some news going around that Pushing Daisies got the axe from ABC, but this is not true. Yet. According to Kristin Dos Santos of E!, Pushing Daisies simply has not been given the order to fill the back nine of episodes of the season. Where episode 13 was meant to be a two-part episode concluding with episode 14, producers have been told to make episode 13 stand-alone so it may serve as the series finale in the event that the last nine episodes are not ordered.

Via E!Online:

The current rumor being spread is that Daisies producers were told by ABC to treat episode 13 (which begins filming Monday) as a series finale, which some fans have interpreted as definitive news that the network decided to cancel the series.

Not true, say my sources. Producers have not yet been told whether they will receive a pickup for the remaining nine episodes of the current second season, and that is still a possibility.

However, it is true that producers were asked to change the plan for the 13th episode, which initially was a two-parter, with payoff in the 14th episode. ABC told producers to make number 13 a stand-alone episode and to “cover all bases,” meaning that the episode should be able to serve as either a series finale or a launch pad into the final nine episodes of season two.

While the final scene of episode 13 would be a powerful final image of the series (it involves Charlotte Charles), I’m told there will be many storyline threads left unanswered, and trust me, you fans will not be happy if you don’t get those back nine and the resolution to those stories.

Network sources at ABC tell me that the call on Daisies’ fate might not come for a few weeks, as the decision-makers want to see how viewing patterns shift after the election on Tuesday.

The good news? Last night’s episode was up a million viewers.

I happen to be one of the fans of this show, so I would definitely not be happy if Pushing Daisies didn’t get the order for the rest of the season.

If you haven’t yet seen Pushing Daisies, you’re missing out. It’s the story of boy loves girl, girl dies, boy brings girl back to life, boy and girl can never touch again or girl will die again forever. Sound strange to you? You’ll have to watch the show to understand!

I’ve decided to kill the Wiki, since it has proven to be more of a pain in the ass to update it than to just use WordPress for updates. I didn’t need a wiki anyway.

Christoph pointed out that I had forgotten to add the ability to turn off CTI for comments, which reminded me that I needed to also provide the ability to turn off CTI for posts and pages as well. Thus, this post was born.

TSE2.1.0 is available here and you can get more information on TSE here.

Sex Drive
He's Leaving Virgin Territory

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My first impression going in to Sex Drive was that, while it had potential, it was most likely going to be just another teen sex movie à la American Pie and Road Trip. As it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised.

The trailer introduces you to Ian (Josh Zuckerman, Feast) – the geeky virgin, Lance (Clark Duke, Greek) – the suave ladies’ man, and Rex (James Marsden, X-Men) – the jock older brother. Felicia (Amanda Crew, 15/Love) makes a brief appearance in the trailer, but is a big part of the movie – playing Ian’s BFF and unobtainable love interest. Oh yeah. And Seth Green (Robot Chicken) has a minor part as Ezekiel – the sarcastic Amish guy – but who wants to see Seth Green anyway?

The Summary: [Spoiler Free] Ian meets a girl online who says she wants to have sex with him. Lance tells Ian that he would be stupid not to make the trip to have sex with the girl, while his brother Rex thinks Ian is an idiot because he thinks “Ms. Tasty” is probably a guy. Ian and Lance plot to “borrow” Rex’s ’69 GTO Judge while Rex is gone for the weekend, but Ian has forgotten that Felicia is supposed to spend the weekend at his house, so she ends up tagging along – not knowing the truth behind the road trip. Ian is uncomfortable because he likes Felicia, but Felicia likes Lance, but Lance is totally oblivious to this and continues flaunting his promiscuity. Rex finds out that his car was taken and goes after Ian. The car breaks down in Amish territory, and Ezekiel proves to have the skill to fix the car – for a price. Or not. He’s a sarcastic guy. Fun and adventure is had by all.

There are several one-liners in the movie, most of which come via Seth Green, but the majority of the comedy comes from the situations in the movie. I recommend, if you have a dirty mind, that you should go see Sex Drive. It is, to me and most other people I’ve talked to who have also seen it, the funniest movie since Superbad.

And please remember, if someone asks you if you if you’d like a rolling brown-out, JUST SAY NO!