For the first time in a LONG time, I was completely pleased with the Academy Awards. Those who deserved to be recoginzed, were (which was especially gratifying in the case of best song, when the duo from Once beat out 3 songs from Enchanted. 3 CRAPPY songs). A very good show this year... and I'm excited to see all of the new films that are coming out in the coming year.

Moving on... I purchased No More Heroes today. I'm having a good time with it so far, although I can certainly see why people have complaints about driving from place to place. Travis' motorcycle drives like a tank, and the graphics of the city are far from beautiful. I'm excited to get more into it this weekend.

I also bought Kirby 64 on the Virtual Console this week, as my girlfriend is a huge Kirby fan. I'm pretty disappointed by this one. Kirby's Adventure on the NES is one of my favorite NES games... and Kirby 64 doesn't retain that magic, but does maintain almost the exact same gameplay. It's hard to explain why I'm disappointed. I just wanted more. Oh well.

I preordered Smash Bros last weekend... and I'm really looking forward to next Sunday. I had a Gamecube for only a short amount of time, so I was never really able to dive into Melee as much as I wanted to. I'm excited to explore every nook and cranny of Brawl. I'm thinking about investing in second and third Gamecube controllers (I already have one, as well as a cla$$ic controller... and I'm not going to make any of my friends play with a Wiimote) for the event... but we'll see how that goes.

In Rock Band news... I was pretty disappointed with the DLC this weekend, which is a bit odd because I consider myself a fan of Nine Inch Nails. The problem? I don't really like any of those songs. The Perfect Drug is okay, I guess, but I think they can do better next time. I'm excited for tomorrow, when we will find out the DLC for next week. Crossing my fingers for something good.

- Reggie