WTF!?

Written By Quinn Aguirre for ‘the Flow’ www.theflowshow.tv

Harmonix has made the claim before, with BEATLES ROCKBAND, bringing in multiple harmonies. Theyre at it again, that the latest installment will change the way we look and play video games. They released an Xbox 360 demo for Green Day: Rock Band that actually teases a bit of information about the direction that Rock Band 3 will be taking.

Playing the demo, which lets you play both “Welcome to Paradise” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”.., the demo seems open ended or just unfinished. The only option is to replay the two songs or quit. Upon quiting users are greeted with a screen for Rock Band 3. But it doesn’t even say Rock Band yet all the usual suspects or their but this time comes with the addition of another icon, which is clearly a keyboard.

>^o.0^< What the heck keyboards?!~ This definitely opens up alot of music possibilities to acquire and offer users. It most definitely will make playing songs feel a bit more authentic, letting people completely ‘play’ or act out the song as it is performed, case in point the piano ending on Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs”. Hopefully that will get retreated instead of having to tap it out on our guitars now.

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is a bad actor. In his defense, though, he’s an even worse rapper. Fortunately, there is one redeeming quality you can’t take away from the Bulletproof star: He’s willing to put in work.

In preparation for his latest role in Things Fall Apart, a straight-to-DVD movie which 50 himself actually wrote (gee, now you KNOW it’s gonna be good), 50 Cent put himself on a strict liquid diet, losing a whopping 54 pounds!

Liquid diet? Looks like this foo has been on the Whitney Houston diet.

Of course, actors losing or gaining weight for their roles is not uncommon in Hollywood…

Tom Hanks cut weight for Cast Away.

Christian Bale looked like a living skeleton for his role in The Machinist.

Robert De Niro made headlines for gaining 60lbs. for Raging Bull.

…I guess the thing that makes 50’s transformation so noteworthy is that his musclebound physique had become like a brand for him. It’s surprising to see any significant change in direction from someone we all thought was a one-trick pony.

50 Cent even had his trademark tattoos removed, as well… Damn, that’s a lot of effort to go through to win a Razzie!

Oh, in case you’re wondering, Things Fall Apart is the fictional story of a promising college football star who is diagnosed with cancer (hence the weight loss). The film is directed by Mario Van Peebles and is set for a 2011 release.