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Dominic Sacco


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Gender: Male
Age: 24
Sign: Scorpio

City: Billericay, Essex
Country: UK
February 22, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  chill
Welcome to my bi-monthly blog. This time I've got some spectaculastic visual and aural treats in store for you.

I round up the best things of 2007 - including the top game, pair of boobs, film, album and more.

I know I'm two months late - send a letter to 1 Really Care Road, Italy.

Videogame of the year

Right, let's get the geeky one out of the way first. Truth be told I'd been a little disappointed with what the games industry had to offer me in 2007, right up until the end of the year. When I played Mario Galaxy. And realised it was just Mario in space. With a Wiimote.

Then I finished that in two days and put Bioshock in the X360.

And something magical happened.

I thought it was shit.

Then I picked it up again a month later - gave it a few more hours chance, you know, as gamers do. And my God, what a game.

WHAT. A. GAME.



I can't remember the last time a little shiny disc moved me as much as this. Rapture is the most immersive, disturbing yet strangely enticing world I've ever left my virtual footprint in, for years.

You're stuck in a post-anarchic underwater world where science has gone a bit rabid and humans have began using experimental chemicals to give themselves powers. No, they're not heroin addicts.

I mean, you can shoot bolts of ice from the palm of your hand. Set things on fire, shoot electricity. Hell you can even open your wrist up and send out a swarm of bees at your enemies - most of which are psychotic 1950's rejects, all battling for power in one giant watery sinbin.

Then you have the choice of saving these little girls who go around plunging their needles into people to retrieve genetically-enhancing chemicals, also known as ADAM (no, not my mate/drummer). Or, for more power, you can kill the little hos. Thing is, they're protected by these hideous creatures in space suits, rather disturbingly named "Big Daddies."

Before this turns into a review, the moral choice the gamer faces, its engrossing story, deep character interaction and sheer nasty/brilliant killing fun, makes this my game of the year. Plenty of twists, plenty of scares, plenty of setting-some-crazy-anarchic-arseholes alight and watching them run around screaming their lungs out.

10/10

TV show of the year

We could be Heroes. Just for one day.



Ah David Bowie. How we completely misinterpreted your future-reading ability for some nonsense songs about spiders on mars, before labelling you a freak. You were right, well almost. I think you'll find your lyrics should have been, "We should watch Heroes. For more than one day."

Hiro Nakamura is one of the most unique characters I've seen in years, and his innocence, enthusiasm, accidental humour and TIME STOPPING ABILITY makes for the most captivating viewing I've ever seen.

Did I mention he can stop time? And teleport places?

Then you have the other heroes (and villains), Claire the hot little cheerleader who is physically invincible, Matt the thought-hearing cop, Isaac "I can paint the future" Mendez, and Nathan Patrelli, the congressman who can fly.

Then there's Peter Petrelli who just gimps off all the other heroes.

Anyway I must stop talking about this show now and go and watch episode 12...

10/10

Album of the year

Thrice - The Alchemy Index

Two CD's. Twelve tracks. The most mature, awesome, soft yet hard-edged music I've ever heard. Like a fine wine, Thrice have aged perfectly with time. And this music is just beautiful, just beautiful. I prefer the water element disc, but the fire one is equally brilliant.

Listen to "The Whaler" or "Night Diving".

10/10

Film of the year

Epic. Just epic. Read my review of it in another blog, I'm not writing all that out again. P.S. My mate Wiggy got a new nickname after this film - Sam witWiggy. He calls me Morgan FreeDom so I had to think of something.



10/10

Boobies of the year

If this was based on the boobies I saw the most, it would be Haz's, so I'm going to be biased on this one and say my girlfriend.



P.S. Lindsey Lohan. I didn't say that. As much as I hate her and I think she's a rotten bitch inside, she seems to be ten times fitter each time I read about her in The London Paper, either for getting arrested for drug abuse or pulling another celebrity's hair out. But by putting her picture next to the story, the paper is failing, because the text just isn't getting read...

10/10

Well those are my top five things of the year (excluding personal life).

Sacco's life - a glimpse into the magic of 2008!

For anyone who cares, I just passed my driving test, and my girlfriend gets back in two weeks, so I'm a happy guy right now.

I've also just compiled a CD of local music for charity. Find out more at The Objection 2008 Myspace page

What were your top things of 2007?

Currently listening:
Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
By Escape the Fate
Release date: 04 June, 2007
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Andy

 
'Album of the year'... Dom, have you lost your mind?! Do you remember 'The Illusion of Saftey' and 'The Artist in the Ambulance'? They were GREAT Thrice albums, I think this new Thrice have totally alienated the people who loved them to start with.
 
Posted by Andy on February 26, 2008 - Tuesday - 4:52 PM
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Dom
Dominic Sacco

 
I can see your point, and understand many other Thrice fans frustration over their change in direction, but I personally love it. They sound like a new band, but it's still them, Dustin's lyrics and vocals are still amazing, and their experimentation makes them stand out much more than "just another post-hardcore band from America".

They've evolved, almost like Muse, and I love it :)
 
Posted by Dom on March 2, 2008 - Sunday - 5:17 PM
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