I didn't think I'd have the time to write the first "official" entry of this blog so soon. However, while it's fresh in my mind, I'd like to get stuff going.
First, I suppose I should give a little bit of an introduction. My name's Bryan Willett. I'm 27 years old, and I live in a small northern town in New Brunswick, Canada. I'm currently in college taking Business Administration, about to wrap up my first year. I travel daily to-and-from classes, amassing nearly two hours of driving per day. I don't mind it, but by the end of the week, my knee is hurting (we'll get to that later). I'm a gamer, which means I play video games. I list myself as semi-pro in that category because I sometimes play in competitions, but most time play for fun. I'm huge into sports (mixed martial arts, hockey, soccer and baseball being among the top), and I'm an avid music fan, listening to ALMOST anything.
Now that you know a little about me, I suppose I'll get to the subtitle of Chapter 1. This weekend, I enjoyed a few NHL playoff games (even though the team I cheer for is no longer playing for - for that, I curse Pittsburgh and their annoying Penguins), a few movies (including a very funny one called "The Losers" based off the DC Comics series), and a boxing match that became a serious one-sided affair.
Let's start with the hockey, because that's where some of the amusement comes from. So far in the playoffs, every team I've gone "GO xxxx GO!" for has lost, and have since been eliminated. So, I've decided to take this to another level and proclaim myself "The NHL Prophet of Doom," where whoever I cheer for will lose the next series. Thus far, I've picked Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston and Chicago to lose their series. As of this writing, Pittsburgh vs. Montreal is tied 1-1; San Jose leads Detroit 2-0; Vancouver leads Chicago 1-0; and Boston leads Philadelphia 1-0. Game 2 for both the Boston/Philadelphia and Vancouver/Chicago goes tonight. While my predicting doesn't guarentee a sweep, I would love to see everything come to fruition. Can you tell I enjoy being the villain, yet? :)
Onto the movie I saw with a very close friend on Saturday. A nice action film called "The Losers" was on tap. For those not familiar with "The Losers," it's a comic book series produced by Vertigo Comics, which is a division of the DC Comics universe. Fans of the TV series "Supernatural" would know the movie's star Jeffery Dean Morgan who plays John Winchester, the father to the brothers. Zoe Saldana, who played Uhura in the "Star Trek" remake, Chris Evans ("Fantastic Four" movies, and the forthcoming "Captain America: The First Avenger" movie) and Jason Patric ("The Lost Boys", "My Sister's Keeper") also star. The movie is about a group of US Special Forces operatives who get screwed over by their mysterious boss, and are left for dead. It's a revenge story (which are usually fun), filled with a lot of action and explosions. While it didn't do that well with the critics, my friend and I enjoyed it. I would recommend it if you have a couple of hours to kill.
After I got home from the movie, I was happy to learn I hadn't missed the Floyd "Money" Mayweather vs. "Sugar" Shane Mosley fight. I'll be honest, I was pulling for Mosley, but kida knew Mayweather would come out with the win. It was good to actually see Mayweather in a bit of trouble in the 2nd round, but it also left me disappointed because after Mosley couldn't finish Mayweather off, he went into a total holding pattern. I call this the "BJ Penn Effect" because of Penn's tendency to almost give up if he can't finish the fight early, or be dominant througout each round (see: Penn vs. St-Pierre I & II, Penn vs. Hughes II & Penn vs. Edgar). In my mind, Mosley suffered that mental lapse and made it look like he had blown his wad early. I give all the credit in the world to Mayweather, who weathered the storm (and was almost knocked down) only to come back and sweep rounds 3-12. The only problem Mayweather has now is that nobody's really going to want to see him fight until he faces Manny Pacquiao. With Mayweather's demand for Olympic-style drug testing rather than abiding by the State Athletic Commission's way of doing things, I honestly don't think this is going to happen any time soon. Pacquiao has a thing about needles. Whether it's a childhood phobia or something, I don't know. I honestly stopped paying attention to the whole thing when it became evident that the deal to have Mayweather and Pacquiao fight was going to fall through. Regardless, unless one side relents (which probably won't happen), we're pretty much going to be stuck with a tie for the best pound-for-pound boxer in Pacquiao and Mayweather's division.
Random Thoughts:
I'm surprised that PETA didn't have prostestors at the Mayweather vs. Mosley fight, especially after Mayweather came to the ring not only wearing pure leather, but what looked to be dyed black mink fur not only on his walk-out robe, but his boxing trunks, too. I wonder if my friend Kevin Iole - who is one of the best boxing/mixed martial arts reporters out there - can confirm the fur being on the trunks. Interesting to note, Mayweather had a full-blown chinchilla thing going during his Wrestlemania 24 match with Paul "Big Show" Wight.
If Michael Cammalleri's sick soccer-like goal in yesterday afternoon's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins where he kicked the puck up in the air, and batted it into the net, isn't one of the top goals of the entire 2009-2010 season (playoffs included), whoever's in charge of making the list should be fired. I'm not a Montreal fan, but that was amazing. Right up there with Jeff Carter's goal off the puck drop.
The Halo: Reach multiplayer beta goes live in a few hours. I'm kinda glad I have a 120GB hard drive for my X-Box 360, as the download is 1.2GB. Thing is, I don't think I'll be playing it at all today. Sadly, the maximum speed I get at home is 164kb/second. What's worse is that I'm willing to bet I have to stay IN the game, and not back out of the download screen for it not to stop, which means I won't even be able to play any other games offline. Thankfully, I have a plan in place if that happens. It's called TV series on DVD :)
Hope you enjoyed the first "official" entry. If you have any comments, feel free to leave them. Like I said, I may actually respond.
Until then, BMW has spoken.
*NOTE* This was edited at 8:33pm GMT to fix the name of the Philly player that scored off the faceoff.
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