Eric Striffler Update #3!

Today was Eric Striffler's FINAL CLUE before the big revealing tomorrow at 10 PM EST

This morning he informed everyone that he would be on Blogtv at a random time durring the day and the clue would be available for only 5 minutes. So I sacrificed my Saturday to stay on Blogtv from 10 o' clock in the morning allll the way until around 4:30 PM. I didn't leave my computer for more than a few minutes.

When he finally went online we saw two DVDs. One was of Saw II and the other was Saw IV and there was a plus sign in the middle. There was also the message "Simple math will help you solve this clue."

The clue meant Saw VI. The second part of the clue was a clip of a man talking and then right when he was done talking someone else started talking but was cut off after only a couple words. Everyone there immediately recognized the second voice as Eric Striffler. We then put together that a little while ago, Eric talked about wanting to interview the director of Saw VI. And he did.

Everything that was revealed to us over the course of this whole ordeal will be released TOMORROW at 10 PM EST when the countdown finishes at eric-striffler.com

-Josh CV

What's Still To Come In 2009 (And What Isn't)

So it seems like the best of the year is coming up at the end this year (hopefully) with this months, District 9 being freakin amazing starting it all out. September starts a wave of huge releases.
Tim Burton's new animated movie, "9" releases September 9th. I just saw a new trailer for it with the tag line "This is not your little brother's animated movie." Which I thought was siiiick.
A series of great bands releasing CDs: Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin and Paramore. And I'm not a huge fan but AFI also.
October has movies like the highly anticipated Where The Wild Things Are movie and SAW IV which looks and hopefully actually turns out to be better than the third and fifth. The posters and clips for it are incredible and very different than anything we've seen from the Saw series.
Zombieland which looks hilarious also comes out in October.
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT: Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie Shutter Island has been moved from its October release date to February of next year! This is a huge let down for me because I was soooo excited for this movie. Now we'll have to wait.
Also in October the extremely highly anticipated side project from Linkin Park's Cheser Bennington, Dead By Sunrise debut album which I cannot wait for.
Of course, New Moon in November. Right now I can't really think of anything else but I'm sure I'll think of something right when I post this.

-Josh CV

Eric Striffler Update #2!

Today we got more clues from Eric Striffler!

First we saw a paper on his live blog that said Revisit The TERCER SPOT (which is Top Secret backwards) but what we actually had to do was go to eric-striffler.com/topsecret2 which gave us a phone number to call
The phone number didn't work so what we really had to do was dial it backwards (just like TERCER SPOT) That lead us to Eric's SayNow number with a message telling us these letters: NOMIGKSRON. Unscrambled: KOMING SOON. Since Eric's youtube login is ErickWithNoK we went to eric-striffler.com/comingsoon
At that website the rest of the envelope from the last website was revealed as PTR 3 which stands for Pass The Remote 3, a series on Eric's youtube. Theres also a huge scramble of letters and numbers. It's unknown what it says at this point other than the capital letters spelling out WELL DONE. It's possible that thats all it says but I don't know. Don't know when the next clue will be.

-Josh CV

Eric Striffler Update! 8/23

Ok, Eric's little game is getting INSANE! Here's what we have so far as of today:

A link to a countdown that ends right before midnight on August 30- www.eric-striffler.com/whereiseric

Another link to a strange picture of an envelope that says "Top Secret" with a coffee mug covering part of a message that ends in "--R 3"- www.eric-striffler.com/topsecret

In the live blogtv today he said (on the chat because all that was on the live stream was a piece of paper with the link above on it) its not a new channel or a date or 3 seconds.

Right before the live blogtv ended another paper appeared that said 8/26 9 PM EST. Which means there will be another live show, probably no real answers, and another clue.

-Josh CV

Eric Striffler!

Sorry I havent posted about this earlier, I've been pretty busy lately.

On Thursday night, Eric Striffler did his second All Night Live Show on BlogTV. From 7 PM til 7 AM the next morning he broadcasted live on blogtv.com to almost 700 viewers! Throughout the show the number of viewers went up and down and eventually settled around 500 and then dropped to a little above 200 at the end.
It was absolutely AMAZING. I had such a great time watching (I stayed the whole 12 hours). His friends Paul, Joe and Rich were all there and Jillian made an appearance for a while too. They made prank phone calls, had iTunes giftcard givaway contests and took calls on SayNow. I got through on SayNow just as they were closing the lines ): Anyway it was really great and I can't wait until the next one.

In other Eric Striffler news, yesterday Eric posted a video saying he will be LEAVING YOUTUBE. At the end of the video was a backwards message that when played in reverse said "If you believe what I tell you, I have a bridge to sell you." What that means, I have no idea. He also has an image at the end of the video. If you take a picture of the image on your iPhone with a special application, it brings you to this website: eric-striffler.com/whereiseric
On the screen all it has is a countdown that end Sunday August 30 right before midnight. This could either mean that Eric is moving all of his videos to his website on that day which is also the day he starts college or just that his website is opening and the whole leaving youtube thing was a joke. Or something else entirely, I don't know. Either way, I know for sure he will continue to make videos.

-Josh CV

School Schedule Surprise

Found out today when I got my schedule that AP Music Theory is only 4th period which means I only have 2 classes on B Days! So I start school at 10:00! I'm so excited about that

Also, tomorrow I was going to go to Warped Tour but now I will be staying home to watch Eric Striffler's ALL NIGHT LIVE BLOG! From 4 PM-4 AM (7-7 EST) Eric Striffler and a few of his friends will be on his live blog. I watched his first one a few months ago and it was HILARIOUS! If you can make it through a whole night and have nothing else to do I recomend watching. You can watch it here: blogtv.com/people/ericstriffler

For updates on the show follow Eric on Twitter: twitter.com/erickwithnok

-Josh CV

MR. FML!

Eric Striffler has two channels on youtube. One which he puts his original videos and short films and one where he does movie and music reviews and different updates of interesting goings on. His sister, Jillian who appears in some of his videos did her first ever "Mr. FML" game last night where you can send her your best FML via Twitter and she would pick the best one. I've talked to her on Twitter before as well as Eric and last night I was given the honor of being the first ever Mr FML!
Big thanks to Jillian for that! you can follow Jillian on Twitter here: twitter.com/jillstriff

You can follow Eric here: twitter.com/erickwithnok

And watch Eric's videos here: youtube.com/ericstrifflervids
and here: youtube.com/erickwithnok

-Josh CV

Quick Post: Dead By Sunrise, Three Days Grace

Dead By Sunrise is the INCREDIBLY HIGHLY anticipated side project of Linkin Park's lead singer, Chester Bennington. The debut single off the debut album, Out of Ashes was revealed today on the bands myspace page. The song is called Crawl Back In and it is available for purchase on iTunes August 18. Album is release October 13. Check out the song here: www.myspace.com/deadbysunrise

Three Days Grace's new album will be released on September 22 and the album cover has been revealed on their website. The album will be called Life Starts Now and the debut single will be called Break. The single's release date is unknown right now. Check out the album cover here: www.threedaysgrace.com

-Josh CV

Strikeforce

Tonight I went to the Strikeforce fight at the HP Pavilion, originally to see my cousin, Josh Thompson but he was out for an injury. It was still hecka fun though! Gina Carano defended her title against Cris Cyborg. She lost which sucks cuz shes freakin hot haha. And she lost her undefeated streak. Gilbert Malendez won and defended his title which I was excited about cuz I wanna see Josh Thompson win it back from him.
After we went to an after party for Josh and hung out, got some food and Cung Lee was there! Which was sick. It was a good night. Gonna make the best of these last 10 days of summer!

-Josh CV

District 9 Review!

Of all the movies I've every seen, District 9 was by far the most difficult to watch. Not because of the content of the movie but because getting in to see it was hard. Without a parent I needed to sneak in which presented a few problems. First I couldn't find a believable movie to buy a ticket for so I ended up having to get Julie&Julia. Didn't work. They were suspicious right when I said the name. I (was actually with my brother and friend, Tyler so when I say "I" I mean "we") waited back for a bit and once I saw people going in I made my move. I was in and was sitting down for about ten minutes when I guy came in and asked for my ticket. I didn't have one so I was escorted out. I went home pissed and was determined to get back in so later I went to Saratoga (with my mama) to see it again. Obviously this time I couldn't get kicked out.

District 9 is about an alien species that "crash" lands on earth and the aliens are being held in an enclosed area called "District 9" by an organization called MNU. In this movie there are no well known actors (except the lead character who looks and sounds a little like John Oliver from The Daily Show, but its not him haha) which I think adds to the movie as far as paying more attention to the story and meaning. The lead actor, Sharlto Copley, did however, do an amazing job. The story which was based on a short film, was extremely well done and of course Peter Jackson did an amazing job, as usual. If you're not into the whole science fiction thing, don't worry because this movie has it all. Action, amazing story that is actually really touching, about friendship, love and everyone being equal. The movie is a little political but don't let that stop you from seeing it if you're not into that kinda thing because it has so many other things. Really just something for everyone. So definately see District 9, you WILL NOT be disappointed, I promise.

-Josh CV

Paramore, Ahmir, Murphys

Today was the premier of Paramore's new video for their single, "Ignorance." I watched it this morning on MTV.com and it is amazing! Hayley Williams... Sooooo hot haha. The video is sick and the song is also amazing. Cannot wait til their new album, coming out September 29 AND I'm seeing them in San Francisco October 2.

On youtube today I came across a musical group called, Ahmir. For the past couple days, a video was in my subscriptions section that said "Jonas Brothers Cover..." I was hesitant to watch because it said Jonas Brothers but now that I watched it, I wish I had sooner. It was a video of someone who I subscribe to who was advertising this band, Agmir's youtube page and when I heard them start singing, it was incredible. Check them out here: youtube.com/ahmirtv

Today I went to a place called Murphys, CA with my mom, brother and two cousins. We explored some caves and went zip lining. Got lost and found a lake which inspired me and my cousin, Lan to take a trip to a lake around here next Thursday. It was a really fun day. Got some quality music listening time in on the long car ride and had fun while I was there, just a good day.

Tomorrow I'll be posting a review on here of District 9! Can't wait to see it, I've been waiting so long!

-Josh CV

Two Songs One Music Video

Ok so lately I've been really wanting to make a music video. I've made some before (that you can see at youtube.com/lpiscoo) but those were just funny ones I made with my friend, Erfan.
I really want to make a serious music video that I would write and direct for a band or singer or anyone who makes original music that I know. So obviously not a major label band or anyone but just someone I know. If anyones interested let me know and lets figure somethin out

In band news, me and Blayke got a really good start to two songs that we are hoping to have done very soon. One is a slow song that we want to make acoustic and the other is heavier. They both have great potential and I'm excited to see how they will turn out.

-Josh CV

Intro Blog

One of two blogs today. I've gone through many different blogspots but this will be my last I promise and I'll stick to it.
I'll be updating this one with news of my band, my videos and just stories of interesting things that happen to me.
Ok I'm about to post my first real blog!

-Josh CV