Matthew McSweeney's Blog

  Won at Brands Hatch Cleveland Denver Edmonton Eurospeedway Lausitz Houston Las Vegas Motor Speedway Long Beach Mexico City Milwaukee Mile Monterrey Montreal Portland San Jose St. Petersburg Surfers Paradise Toronto Zolder Did not win at Assen Laguna Seca Las Vegas Street Circuit Miami Bayfront Park Mid-Ohio Mont-Tremblant Vancouver

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 - Game Boy Advance, Xbox (2x) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 - PS1, PS2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 - PS1, PS2, PC, Game Boy Advance Tony Hawk’s Underground - PS2, PC, Game Boy Advance Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 - GBA, PC, PSP Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland/Sk8land - PS2 (Collector’s Edition), PC, DS, GBA Tony Hawk’s Project 8 - PS2 Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam - DS Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - DS Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure - PS2 Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX - PS1, GBA Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX 2 - Xbox, GBA Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder - PS2, GBA Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer - Xbox, PS2, PC, GBA Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray - Xbox, PS2, PC

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater - 18 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 - 29 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 - 16 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 - 15 Tony Hawk’s Underground - 25 Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 - 20 Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland/Sk8land - 22 Tony Hawk’s Project 8 - 20 Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam - 15 Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - 19 Tony Hawk Ride - 12 Tony Hawk Shred - 11 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD - 10 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 - 10

  Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Warehouse - Woodland Hills, California School - Miami, Florida Mall - New York Chicago Skatepark Downtown - Minneapolis, Minnesota Downhill Jam -  Mojave County, AZ/Clark County, NV Burnside - Portland, Oregon Streets - San Francisco Roswell, New Mexico 5 unknown locations for levels in GBC version Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Hangar - Mullet Falls, Montana School II - Southern California Marseille, France NY City, New York Venice, California Skatestreet - Ventura, California Philadelphia Bullring - Mexico Chopper Drop - Hawaii Skate Heaven - Outer Space Hoffman Factory - Oklahoma City Rooftops - Boston Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2x Club - London, UK Construction Site - Dallas, Texas Skate Park - Tampa, Florida Subway - New York City Sky Lines - Detroit, Michigan Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 Foundary (unknown Canada - Calgary, Alberta Rio - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Suburbia - (based on Munich, Germany) Airport - Honolulu, Hawaii Skater Island - Middletown, Rhode Isl...

Roger Ebert I have no idea why Rob Reiner, or anyone else, wanted to make this story into a movie, and close examination of the film itself is no help. "North" is one of the most unpleasant, contrived, artificial, cloying experiences I've had at the movies. To call it manipulative would be inaccurate; it has an ambition to manipulate, but fails. The film stars Elijah Wood, who is a wonderful young actor (and if you don't believe me, watch his version of "The Adventures of Huck Finn"). Here he is stuck in a story that no actor, however wonderful, however young, should be punished with. He plays a kid with inattentive parents, who decides to go into court, free himself of them, and go on a worldwide search for nicer parents. This idea is deeply flawed. Children do not lightly separate from their parents - and certainly not on the evidence provided here, where the great parental sin is not paying attention to their kid at the dinner table. The parents (Julia Lo...

It was too painful being a donation attendant since usually for 3-5 hours, I had to pick up donations from customers who were in their road vehicles and give them a receipt if they wanted it, put the donations in the soft line and the hardline bins from the blue bins, use my box cutter to cut up boxes and put them among the discarded boxes, write down and put sticky notes on donation bins before re-opening them, put recycled things in the black cart on wheels and empty it out once it got full, salvage clothes when I’d take the clothes from the bin and put them in the machine and press it down once it got full so I could continue doing it, empty out the bins with recycling stuff, scan books to learn what I should do with them where I’d salvage them, put them in a bin underneath if it was accepted or put them on the rolling carts if it was a hot list book and help bring shopping carts back into the store. All of that caused me to pace around and feel very bored because it caused me to li...