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Happy Friday - What year is it?

Where the hell did January go? Here I am with all my end of 2009 tasks to catch up with and January 2010 is already almost over? Geez, McFly.

Yeah so I've been a little slow to post all my recaps of last year (Year of the Ox collages, a tally of all my irrational fears from '09, etc.), but hopefully I'll get to some of it next week with the CO-OP '09 gaming reflections and wot not. 2009 was a really tremendous year for me. I didn't do everything I wanted to do, but I did a lot of things that I didn't expect to do, so, bonus. Sad to see it go. Hope 2010 is a solid year.

Anyway, Friday's tune is Grizzly Bear's cover of my favorite Hot Chip song "Boy from School". I got it from GeekWeek (which is another cool TypePad site you should follow).

Grizzly Bear - Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover)

Listen! Team Teamwork releasing Final Fantasy 7 Hip-hop Mashup

Remember the fellows who put together that  Ocarina of Time hip-hop mashup album, Ocarina of Rhyme? They were Team Teamwork, and in three days they're releasing another mashup album, this time matching hip-hop stars like Jay-Z, Gucci Mane, MF DOOM and more over the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack. Considering that I listen to the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack more often that you'd imagine (just look at my last.fm for proof), this was very exciting news to me.

I got a sneak peek at the ablum last night, and I have to say, it's pretty good. Vinyl Fantasy 7 is definitely better than that ear bleeding Crank Dat One-Winged Angel mashup I posted a while back, with some catchy tunes to boot. Ocarina of Rhyme is still my favorite, but hearing hip-hop over the Jenova theme and the song from Costa Del Sol is pretty fresh.

Look back soon for a link to the whole album (which, if you do some Internet detective work, you can listen to now), but in the meanwhile here's a sneak leak peek at my favorites.

Skyzoo + Wale - Lyrically Inclined (Jenova)

Gucci Mane - Stoopid (Costa Del Sol)

Oh, and don't miss out on Golden Saucer vs. Ice Cream Paint Job. Probably my favorite track so far.

UPDATE Download the full album here!

UPDATE 2 Uh oh. Ante Up + Battle! gets a cease and desist?

Soul by Kydos Studios looks pretty creepy (but awesome)

All the rain in San Francisco these past few weeks has given me cabin fever, or at least a good excuse to sit in bed and download a surplus of games on my consoles. Sunday was WiiWare/Virtual Console madness day, in which I purchased and played Muscle March, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, as well as ye olde Golden Axe and Streets of Rage. 

Next stop, downloadable games from the Xbox 360. In addition to the charity DLC, courtesy of The Behemoth (they extended their charity run through to this Friday, January 29th), after watching the trailer teaser for Soul by Kydos Studios, I'm really digging the creepy vibe. I haven't played a horror game in a while, let alone one that involves a soul traveling through hellish mazes to get to heaven. Sounds like a winner to me, and it's only 80 points! I'll let you know how things turn out.

Soul Trailer via IndieGames

Fantastic Four fight Donkey Kong style

If you haven't been following Covered, it's a great blog run by comic artist Robert Goodin that collects series of comic book covers reimagined by a wide range of artists. Today's illustration is Anthony Vukojevich's interpretation of an old Fantastic Four cover from 1964. Anthony took the original cover, featuring the Fantastic Four battling the Hulk on a construction site, and remixed the whole scene á la Donkey Kong. Fun stuff!

Again, Cosplay is in fashion for 2010. Katamari buns? So hot right now.

Here it is. The second case in less than a week that this year's fashion trends are all about Cosplay Chic. Last week it was Alexander McQueen's The Spy look for fall 2010, but Walter Van Beirendonck's men's fall collection is all about the Prince of the Cosmos. Big plastic Katamari ear covers will be the new Kayne West sugnlasses this summer. Make it happen, world!

P.S. In other lazy Sunday news, I just got Muscle March for WiiWare and boy are my arms tired! I'll write a little about it this week, but does anyone know if there is an unlockable character?

Walter Van Beirendonck via Kanye West | Thanks TrainBrzezinski!