Darth Drabek

I was making my leaps of logic based strictly on the lyrical content. You know, the whole "God is bad. He makes people fight each other" motif that someone seems to inject into every thread. Anyway, The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl Edit: and I forgot to note that Kirottu is taking a little walk to edge of town and across the tracks... to where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom, etc. etc.

Yeah, unfortunately I had to make that past tense. During my YouTube searches of five minutes ago, I ran across a more recent video (on Lifetime TV, no less ) that makes it look like poor Ann went crazy on the buffet line. The Ventures - Pipeline

There was a time where I could adlib the entire acoustic intro to that classic. Not THIS extended acoustic samurai intro, of course. Seriously, there have never been any better female rockers than Heart. And Nancy Wilson was one fine piece of tail, so that's another point in their favor. Stereophonics - T-Shirt Sun Tan

Wow, looks like Hades found his new theme song. I'm surprised he's not listening to Slayer yet. Ryan Adams - My Winding Wheel

Yessssss.... Not bad for a audience recording. Not bad at all. The Twilight Singers - Forty Dollars mangy dog without a collar find me love for forty dollars i got love for saaaaaaaale come on, get some before it gets stale

I smell ya, homeslice. The only RTS's I ever got into were Warcraft and Z. I think "casual" would be a good description for my forays into RTS gaming.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God's Hotel

I gotta say, you guys totally lost me. What with your "necrons" and your "zao" and all.

DMX - Jukebox Hero

there are things i'd like to do but i don't know if they will be with you As for me, I'm listening to: The Wrens - North to Nothing

Afterhours - The Thin White Line My friend and I had a conversation with the keyboardist and guitarist for these guys over a few beers after their show had ended. It was a mixture of broken Spanish on our part and broken English on theirs. My buddy is a worldly fella, so he was actually able to have a decent conversation with them about Italian politics. I mostly just smiled, nodded and listened through that part, heh. I hear they are very big in Europe. Can anyone confirm or rebut this? I'm curious, because I saw them in a very small club here in the U.S.

Chris Cornell - Also, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros -

That makes sense in my book. I kind of like it when you're forced to stray from your chosen running crew. One instance that comes to mind is the Leviathan in KOTOR, where the more plot-centric characters accompanied your PC, but you needed to pick someone who might have spent most of his/her time polishing the ship for the daring rescue. Also, splitting the party in KOTOR 2 was a really cool way to force utilization of more NPCs while adding to the "large-scale conflict" feel of the endgame. Of course, it would bug me if I had to use a character who hadn't built up any XP from adventuring with my PC. That wasn't a problem in KOTOR, where all party members gained XP whether they were in the fray or not.

Heh, I like seeing the various responses on the BG1 NPCs. I kind of expected Khalid to be a wimp, just from the one line in BG2 when you release J-heezy from her cage. "Maybe we'll find Khalid hiding under a bed along the way." The fact that members of your adventuring party would snipe at each other to the point where they would actually leave the party to settle their differences in battle was something I had never seen before, and it really adds to the role-playing immersion. Now if only Lloyd Bridges was still alive to voice a character, preferably a CG knight errant with a penchant for telling long stories about how he lost various limbs in various battles ... We'll settle this the old Navy way. First guy to die... loses!

(w00t) Beeee-autiful. The video kind of reminds me of The Graduate, minus the middle-aged seductress. Tom Waits - Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38) If the film-noir genre had a soundtrack, you better believe this would be on there.

You, sir, have been foiled. :D Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die

Every link on this page is good. I'll try to keep it going. R.E.M. - Find the River That John Cale version of "Hallelujah" is pretty good, man.

you walked in, just like smoke with a little come on, come on, come on in your walk On a semi-related note: I'm listening to the Backbeat Band - Please Mr. Postman

Yeah, Satriani is the man. Somewhere I have Crystal Planet on CD...I have fond memories of listening to that album as I played F-Zero X for Nintendo 64. That album (especially the title track) was a perfect fit for that game. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Little Empty Boat

Twilight Singers w/Lanegan - Live With Me/Where Did You Sleep Last Night Yep, still awesome. Just checking. And now.... the most awkward, fascinating and altogether awesome interview I've seen for a long, long time. The performance is okay, too, although I like several other versions better.

Great live vid of a classic! I like how they rock it out live! BTW the Kinks bass player looks like he's about 5 foot even. Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

I just bought BG1 on Amazon for about eight bucks. The shipping cost almost as much as the game! It came to $14 and change, all told. I figure I should probably play the original, as I've enjoyed the sequel so much. I hear there's not as much NPC interaction in BG as in BG2. But, I believe one of the IE modders groups created a mod that added a good amount of banters with your fellow adventurers. I might have to install that along with Tutu when the game arrives on my doorstep. I'm looking forward to beginning the adventure that I've completed ... I figure I'll use the NPCs I know from BG2 unless there's some exciting characters who jump out at me.

In the spirit of community-building, I offer my most sincere wishes for a happy birthday to you, good sir. Your not-so-subtle hint in my own thread did not go unnoticed! And to the birthday thread-haters, I implore you to take a step back and realize that such a personal touch is lacking from many other larger forum communities (I'm looking at you, Bioware!). If my subtraction is correct, he is 18 years of age on this fine Monday - a landmark year in a man's life. Depending where he lives, he could either partake of a nice cold beer - or legally purchase pornography! Cheers!

Nick Cave with Shane MacGowan - Rainy Night in Soho All three of the songs with MacGowan are fantastic.

I didn't see the steroids one, but the LOTR episode was fannnn-tastic. Maybe my favorite part was when the crew, decked out in Tolkienesque dress, travels by some kids playing Harry Potter. Then Cartman essentially calls the kettle black, heh heh.