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Bing Image Mad Libz: In response to threats from North Korea, the U.S. will send former 7th Heaven actress Jessica Biel, secretly a wererabbit, and apparently soon to be former "T-Mobil Girl" Cary Foulkes, secretly a werecat, to beat on Kim Jong Un until he surrenders.

So rather than a nuclear explosion, the attack will look like this:

This is the only video I could find with Alice's Beast Drive, so skip to :45

or just pretend Un is the rabbit in the first part, and Biel is the wolf?

And if you're curious, this guy would be Dennis Rodman, I guess:

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury wasn't the best received game ever upon its release, I specifically remember reading the Electronic Gaming Monthly score as a 6.0 for "just barely above average," or something to that effect, but I didn't care ... although the metacritic score is 75, so apparently it wasn't receieved quite as poorly as I thought it was at the time. 

The point is, despite my misconceived perception of how the game was reviewed at the time being mostly negative, I just wanted my own version of that awesome game I had seen my older brother and his friends play on Playstation way back when. I think it was Bloody Roar II I remember seeing, and I've always appreciated fighting games with single player campaigns that have a bit of story between each fight, and it was awesome to see the arena turn to a virtual reality black space with lights in the corners when characters would perform their special moves.

Unfortunately, the Gamecube version didn't have the still-frame storylines between each fight, but it did have the environment change for Beast Drives, morph animations, and characters intact. Like Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, it was cool to have my own version of something I remmember my older brother playing on one of his Playstation consoles.

Plus, despite not having the in-between fights cutscenes, you did get a clip of anime for any character you beat Primal Fury with... which usually raised more questions than answers, but the animation was pretty good.Just had to make sure to beat the final boss, and this annoying, cheap, grappling elephant man.

I'll never forget this elephant

It was fun to play with friends too; if Super Smash Bros. Melee wasn't feeling like the right choice or getting too hectic, but we still wanted a fighter, this could always be pulled out. It was good times.

Anyway, after looking at some videos and images of different Bloody Roar installments, I've noticed how similar a lot of the stages are. Like covers of old stages if you will. So I've decided to do "Cover Charge Saturday" and post some of my favorite covers songs.

First one is a song I only like the cover version for. I like NIN, don't get me wrong, but the original "Hurt" is a bit much for me to take; no offense to its fans, but it actually grates on me pretty bad.

The Johnny Cash version on the other hand is a simple but very effective stripped down version that makes me well up every time I see the video for it. I recall Reznor loving what Cash did with it, too.

The second is one that's become synonymous with the 60s, Vietnam movies, and rock and roll, and rightfully so considering it made the original songwriter Bob Dylan take license from it for his own version, and by his own admission say Hendrix improved on what he did.

My dad, a huge Dylan fan, has always said Dylan's nasally voice was never everyone's thing, and he was a much better songwriter/lyricist than musician; while both he and I do actually prefer Dylan originals in some cases, I think this version of "All Along the Watchtower" has become the definitive one, really.

Finally, it's one of the most covered songs of all time. I am one of those young whippersnappers that doesn't really like Leonard Cohen's low voiced original, but loves the cover versions. He deserves credit for writing it, but if Dylan's nasal grates, so can Cohen's monotone on me. That's not my take on either artists' voice as a whole, I acually like Dylan on "Hurricane" and I'm sure I could enjoy Cohen on a different song somewhere, but in any case, this is far and away my favorite version of "Hallelujah," by the late Jeff Buckley. Where Hendrix had a more involved and intense version of Dylan's song, and Cash had a more natural one of Reznor's, Buckley has a more raw and emotionally powerful one than Cohen, in my opinion. Not to rag on anyone who likes Cohen's, or the version in Shrek II for that matter, to each their own, this is just my personal favorite take on it.

Have a great  rest of the weekend!