Blame GTAIV / Warped Tour

GTAIV. We all know know about it's fun gameplay, great graphics, good story, awesome online play, etc. But did you know that it is solely responsible for a Taxi Cab Driver murder? Atleast that's what Thailand says. Earlier this week GTA IV was pulled from store shelves in Thailand due to a teenager "attempting to recreate a scene" from GTAIV. The young man murdered a taxi driver and robbed him to see if it was as easy as it is in GTAIV, allegedly. Ladda Thangsupachai, director of the ministry's Cultural Surveillance Centre had this to say, "This time-bomb has already exploded and the situation could get worse. Today it is a cab driver, but tomorrow it could be a video game shop owner." Next thing you know it could be the world if these dang kids get a hold of Red Alert 2 and learn how to command armies!! The horror!. This is just another case of "let's blame videogames" because it's easy to blame that disc in the 360 then the parents, you know - the people raising the kid for what happened. Thailand's not done informing us of the dangers of these videogames just yet. A few days later they released a list of the ten most dangerous videogames out there, they are:

1. GTA
2. Man Hunt
3. Scarface
4. 50 Cent - Bullet Proof
5. 300
6. The Godfather
7. Killer 7
8. Resident Evil 4
9. God of War
10. Hitman

So be sure to burn these games if you have them in your possession before your running a muck with G-Unit or fighting off a legion of undead mythological creatures with your blades of Chaos. Thanks a ton Thai Ministry of Health for this invaluable information.

Aside from the madness that went down in Thailand, I went to Warped Tour 08. They made a stop in Saskatoon and that's way too close to here for me to not go. A bunch of bands played but the ones that I was there for were: All That Remains and Protest The Hero. I got to meet ATR and I caught a bit of MC PeePants himself spittin' rhymes on stage too. It was an outdoor event and there was a lot of variety there. A bunch of different tents were set up for merch, there was a freestyle rap thing going on all day and even some de-bugg 360's sporting the not yet released Facebreaker along with Rock Band kiosks. A very interesting band was there performing right next to scream-o and emo stages, it was like trance/dance music or something. I forget the name of the band but it is two brothers, one is was wearing a black spandex suit with a gold cape - complete with a gold crown. The other had very tight jeans on with a black fishnet top and they were both dancing around on stage to pre-recorded beat samples from a keyboard. It's a little hard to explain but it was Tim and Eric caliber of funny/weird/awkwardness - I loved it.