Hock Show Weekend Top Five for June 14th – 20th, 2009
1. Happy Father’s Day! Happy Father’s Day to any Fathers out there. Yes, technically it fell on the day *after* this Weekend Top Five, but you know what? I don’t care. It’s my site, dammit. So call your dads, ok?
2. Nokia Invents World’s Most Ridiculous Phone. Nokia expects that in five years they’ll be able to roll out a phone that will be able to harvest “ambient radio waves” in the air to power the cell’s battery. They’ve already been able to get it so that it can slowly recharge a battery which isn’t currently in use, and are working on ways to keep the process going while you’re texting about how awesome your phone is.
3. Michael Bay Going to Release the Most Tender Love Story Where the Couple Explodes at the End. Michael Bay said this week that he’s “sick” of the action genre, and being pigeonholed as the “Guy who makes everything explode,” so he’s only going to take scripts for non-action movies from now on to prove that he can be a good director. Somewhere, Jane Austin is rolling in her grave. What? Mr. Darcy exploding is exactly how “Pride and Prejudice” should’ve ended.
4. The UFL Has a Draft. The United Football League had it’s inaugural (and only) draft this week, filling out many of the spots on its four teams with NFL and CFL castoffs who were unable to find new teams this summer. Tell me you’re not excited by that epic Brooks Bollinger/Tim Rattay playoff game. Er…To see Adam Archuleta again? Would you settle for knowing that San Fransisco drafted a Long Snapper because he was literally the most talented player left on the board?
5. Activision Wants to Give Up on the PS3. The company believes that the PS3 is too expensive and that SONY’s failure to announce a price cut at E3 is the death knell for the system. Despite, I guess, the fact that SONY basically had the best games at E3. SONY doesn’t seem to care too much, and I can’t really blame them. I mean, I don’t know what they’re going to do without 15 movie tie-ins and Guitar Hero 11.