fear not, we're alive!

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. Junior year stress has been piling on top of all three of us, making getting together to podcast extremely hard. However, I'm fairly certain that there will indeed be a new episode of CRZ coming up soon, if not this next weekend. So stay tuned, and thanks for your continuous support!

Forum now open!

Yes, you read right! I finally got around to finding an OK free message board service. The layout needs some work, but oh well. Go check it out and register!

URL: http://notsoeviltrio.proboards66.com/index.cgi

a little advice...

OK, yeah, I know, I haven't fixed the layout yet for all of you....IE users. But hey, while you're waiting, how about you watch Veronica Mars. Seriously. One of the best things I've ever done in my life. I think Nan also agrees with me, and in due time, Ellie will too. It's truly an amazing show, and Buffy-esque, so if you haven't seen it yet, now is the time! Besides, if my glowing praise hasn't converted you already, maybe the fact that Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, and, yes, Joss Whedon himself all have roles! Not to mention Joss Whedon loves the show as well.


...But I'm sure you all knew that.

Veronica Mars - Pilot
Part: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

No excuses! :3

CRZ on digg

I submitted the CRZ feed to the new digg podcasts section. Interestingly, the people over at spotanime.com submitted it first, but they got the feed wrong so nothing was showing up. ^^; I applaud them for the effort, though. :3

Anyway, if you're a digg user, go digg it! Feel free to comment too.

If you're not a digg user, I encourage you to sign up. It's an awesome social bookmarking site. It's where I get all of my tech/random news.

P.S. you may not be able to see it right away; it still has yet to be approved. I'm guessing, though, within the next few hours or so it should be A OK~

welcome to crz: the blog v. 2.0!

Okay, I finally fixed it. I think. Maybe. Not guaranteeing 100% awesomeness in IE (or for that matter, Safari, Opera, or any other browser besides Firefox...), but oh well. Expect a few tweaks here and there, but for the most part it's complete. So yay. We were *really* overdue for a layout change.

Anyway, keep the episode 6 reviews a' coming! And while you're at it, check out the recommended podcasts underneath the links section. More to come there as well. :3

heh...

Sorry about the crapified state of the blog right now. It's 3:23 in the morning. I've been working on this annoying layout for a few hours now, and I STILL (for some annoying crap reason I have yet to figure out) can't get the div layers aligned.

What's uber annoying though, is that I *thought* I was complete a few hours ago - it looked PERFECT on the blogger preview thing, right? But when I actually published it, it looked like utter crap. And it's still not working. Meh.

So the moral of the story? DON'T trust blogger's "preview" option. It doesn't work.

Anyway...

...I want to sleep, so I'm leaving it like this for the time being. Sorry for the inconvenience - I'll try to fix it tomorrow. :3

Episode 6 is up!

After an extraordinary long delay, Episode 6 is finally complete! iTunes should be updated eventually, but if you simply cannot wait, check the feed to download. Feel free to discuss the episode in this post's comment section. :3

Enjoy!

upgrade + news

Hey, just letting you all know that we finally upgraded to the beta version of blogger...so if there are weird kinks or something, that's probably the reason why. Hopefully they'll fix themselves.

As I mentioned in a comment or something, we're fairly certain we're getting together on Sunday to record CRZ Episode 6. w00t! If you have any questions you want us to answer in the podcast, or if you want to send in fake hatemail since we don't have any for our "who hates us this week" segment, feel free to do so.

See you soon~!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Back: The Complete Joss Whedon Q&A

New TV guide article on the highly anticipated Buffy comic!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Back: The Complete Joss Whedon Q&A
by Ileane Rudolph

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan alert — the Scooby Gang lives! If you've been waiting since 2003 for the answer to little sister Dawn's series-ending question ("What are we gonna do now?"), it's finally on its way. Creator Joss Whedon is preparing Buffy: Season 8, but this time around the adventures are in comic-book form, arriving in March 2007 from Dark Horse Comics. We talked to Whedon about Buffy, today's TV and his many other projects.

read more....

the secret's out~

Okay, this has nothing to do with anything Whedon-y whatsoever, but I'm posting this on here anyway because
a) I feel like it
b) some of you may appreciate it
c) I CAN >:3

As some of you know, I'm really into Japanese pop music. Ayumi Hamasaki's (you may know her from Inu-Yasha...she did one of the theme songs "Dearest." Anyway, she's my favourite J-Pop artist.) new album "Secret" was leaked recently and I've uploaded it for you guys to download.















album: Secret
artist: 浜崎あゆみ (Ayumi Hamasaki)
language: Japanese
file size: 86.1 MB
[ download ] [ buy ]

Enjoy! And comment ~ I'd like to know what you guys think. :3

Bones

I don't know how many of you already watch the amazing show Bones, but if you don't, the week after next's episode is probably a great time to start. Why? Because not only is David Boreanaz the shit, but DAVID DUCHOVNY (a.k.a. Mulder from The X-Files) directed it. And it's looking extremely promising. Besides, what can be better than my two Davids?

Common Rotation and the day that will live in FAMY~

So as you all know (or most of ye), Ellie, Nan along with our comrade Kat went to the Common Rotation Concert at World Cafe Live in Philly D last Friday. Suffice to say it was quite possibly the coolest day EVAR. The concert was so amazing - honestly, their CDs and mp3s cannot even begin to compare with how they sound live. The difference is staggering, so if you've given them a listen and like what you hear, go to one of their concerts because you will be blown away.

Anyway, after the amazingness, we all went down and bought tons o' merchandise from our pal Jordan. We then were able to snag a pic with the band and we left briefly because it was uber crowded and we were kind of in everyone else's way. We decided to delve back in, however, because we didn't want to end on a saddish note (Adam was a bit distant). We went back in armed with out made I ♥ CRZ sign. I approached Adam and said something along the lines of, "This is going to sound really geeky, but my friends and I have this podcast and we would really appreciate it if you could sign this piece of paper for us." Adam then took the sign. Nan was like, "It's a Buffy podcast." Adam then said, "What does CRZ stand for?" Ellie said, of course, "Cool, refreshing zima." I'm unsure if he got the reference - I mean, he was of course in that episode, but you never know how much these people actually remember about what they're in since they're not all obsessive about it like we are. ANYWAY...he signed it "AAAAAAAAH!" And then he put "-> that's for refreshment", and signed it. I was completely SHOCKED because as you know we say "Ahh" in our little intro thing, so it was very coincidental/ironic/A SIGN!? He was uber nice about it, and after me saying thank you like a BAJILLION times (looking like an idiot, of course, I was like shaking my ass off), we left. I was like, "Come back to Philly!" We ran away, and Ellie, as we left, screamed SO LOUD, it was hilar. Anyway, we'll probably tell this story again in our next podcast, but I thought you all should know.

Ellie, Nan, feel free to elaborate on this post if you so desire. And oh! Piccys!

The Not-So Evil-Trio and Common Rotation
The SIGN!

Enjoy! (there are more to come, later...)

I'll update again once I know more news about when the next podcast is. Due to upcoming weeks of the tech variety, time is going to be slim - at least for Nan and me, since we're very involved in our school's production of Into the Woods. But hopefully we'll be able to find time soon, because I really want to chat about Season 6, as I haven't had a good Buffy chat in a long time.

Oh, and to those people out there who are like "ZOMG LIEK ANGEL IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN BUFFY": you're whack! :O

Peace out~

coming soon (hopefully): new layout.

I've been working on my design skills over the past couple of months, and suffice to say, I have improved greatly since I made this crap layout. I'm in the middle of designing a brand new one. I had one fleshed out and almost ready to go...but then I realized I really hated it, so I'm starting over.

Here's a taste of what's to come (this weekend maybe??):




So keep your eyes peeled.

And as for Episode 6? Well, Ellie, Nan and I have been so busy with school, it's not even funny. So...we're thinking sometime later on in October. Maybe a special Halloween release? A Halloween Photoshoot (because we're that bored)? TRICK OR TREATING AT DAVID B'S?! There is a ton in store, so stay tuned. :D

Thanks for your support!

Episode 5 up!

Yup, that's right - Episode 5 is up. A little late than expected, but nevertheless, released. We hope you all enjoy - we had a lot of fun making it!

Thanks for your support!

EDIT: If you're experiencing any sound quality issues (aside from that god-awful cheap mic-induced screechy noise that sometimes occurs), please comment here or email us!

the day you've all been waiting for...

...is almost here! Tomorrow at around 12:00 midnight EST (so I suppose for us, it's technically Saturday...) a brand-new episode of cool, refreshing zima will be released. So get psyched, people. Thank you for your support and patience!

paypal

A certain fan named Kim emailed us encouraging us to make a paypal account. I had this epiphany - why did I not think of this before?! It's pure genius.

In any case, we now have a paypal account through which we can receive generous donations from people just like you! All proceeds will go to enhancing the quality of the podcast/site.

So what are you waiting for? Donate today!

some news + new poll

Hey guys, sorry we've been so scarce this summer. You have no idea how much we've wanted to get together and do Episode 5. But alack. We've each been busy with our own respective craps, and it seems like whenever two of us are free, one is away.

We're all hoping that sometime soon after August 22nd we'll have time to record Episode 5 before school starts up again. I'm fairly certain this will happen, so I hope you guys can hang on until then. :D

Also, new poll. Check it out and vote away! We're all interested in what you guys think. And to further your knowledge pre-voting, here is a sample of something I whipped up a few weeks ago. I'm not sure if Nan, Ellie and I have really agreed on what we're doing yet - this is merely speculation at this point. We haven't really had a good sit-down talk about it.



As I said, this is just preliminary. But I thought maybe a little mock-up would help with the voting.

Anyway, thanks for your support, and look forward to the next podcast within the next couple of weeks!

CRZ worldwide!

This is just for reference and, it is rather interesting. This is a list of countries I've seen access the feed (I can see live hits via feedburner). If you're a fan, and from a country not on this list, please comment here and I'll add you. <3

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan

a couple of randomesque notes

Hola amigos. First of all, thanks so much for your feedback! We've been getting more emails recently after the release of Episode 4, and that's been really nice - we love hearing from you guys. We also, obviously appreciate the comments and voting, so thanks a lot.

Speaking of voting...well...let's just say I'm not an idiot. Now, I'm not going to name names (or in this case, places), but I check all of the IP addresses that come in, and check for multiples. You know, like poll spammin'. And I'm not just talking about voting "holy crap you suck beyond all considerable belief" 8000 times. Even if you vote "I shall evermore bow in your holy name" 8000 times I'll be forced to take action. So let's just say for the record that henceforth all poll spammers will be sentenced to a nice IP blocking curtosy of yours truly. So there is your warning, people. You know who you are. Heed it.

In other news (or perhaps lack thereof) The status of Episode 5 at the moment is currently unknown. Nan is off being all film-y at the moment. For a month. So as it's looking now the next episode will probably created and subsequently released sometime in mid to late August, at best. In any case, Ellie and I will try to keep you all entertained for the next month and a half - we have a few plans up our proverbial sleeves, so stay tuned!

P.S. A awesometacular "thanks" to whomever put us on Whedonesque.com again - that was vair nice of you, and I believe it also contributed to a small surge in the mail of the E variety.

Episode 4 is up! Finally!

So sorry about the delay there. Trust me, there was no one who wanted it up more than I did. Please let me know if there are any issues. I sort of went about it differently this time, so hopefully it works.

In any case, please enjoy!