Darth Drabek

Shenmu 2 is five bucks used for the Xbox at my local video game fence. Is it worth my money (and time)? Notes: I have played a bit of the dreamcast game at a friend's house, and I was impressed. I did not purchase it, however, but then that was before I started playing RPGs.

Yessssssssss..... Matthew Sweet - Winona I needed some calm music the last few days, due to a very hectic weekend.

Matthew Sweet - Nothing Lasts

U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!) Feel the groove. It's nice, isn't it? It's also nice when Bono isn't trying to save the world and just writes about love. Example no. 2 U2 - In a Little While

Twilight Singers - There's Been an Accident photo by Joe Del Tufo, 5/31/06, Philadelphia

Also, today I heard "Wonderwall" in a Burger King bathroom. Cake - Alpha Beta Parking Lot breathing in the fumes of so many idling cars right beneath the sign with the dusty yellow star watching the sun go down I wonder if he's talking about Gold Star Chili? Many college campuses have a Skyline or Gold Star Chili-type establishment, often near fraternity houses...

That is some interesting stuff about the falcons. I've been to South Dakota myself on several occasions, but never to the northern lands. I've even got a Wall Drug bumper sticker on my guitar case. My fiancee's brother is stationed at an air force base in North Dakota. He hasn't said much about it, except that it was exceptionally cold in the winter, and he's a Cleveland native, so he's used to cold winters.

I had an all-Oasis weekend a few weeks back. It was so refreshing to hear a song like "Some Might Say" again and say "Damn, nobody's making music like this anymore." I think SA's Dr. David Thorpe said he had heard "Don't Look Back in Anger" on the radio, and it was the best thing he'd heard in a while. Of course, he then followed with how that song is awful and it's a real comment on the state of modern music when Oasis sounds good by comparison. I laugh, because it's funny, but I really do think Oasis is pretty good on their own (until Be Here Now, of course). Tom Waits - Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38)

I'm no guidance counselor, but my advice is to intern at a neighborhood weekly-type paper one of your first few years out of high school. They usually need the help, and that way you'll know for sure if it's something you'd want to spend the rest of your life doing. In hindsight, I wish I had done something like that. Academics in college is generally presents the noble profession of journalism, but at an internship you would see the grim realities of the industry. i.e. Let's do another story on the big car dealership doing a renovation, because they're our biggest advertiser. Or let's critique the police force's spending because the chief's been withholding public records.

Those guys are really good, although occasionally depressing. I don't know the song you listed, but I do know a big heartbreaker by them called "She Takes Her Clothes Off." And she said, "I'm gonna be another Marilyn, Bleach my hair, and get real thin, And everybody's gonna wanna dance with me"

Sometimes, like when you get to tell a great story of amazing people beating adversity into submission with a sharp stick, it's worth it. The rest of the time, it's a pain. Awful hours, awful pay, and dealing with lots of people who a) don't trust you or b) want to use you. I never wanted to work for a daily, but like many young idealists, I thought I'd review albums for Rolling Stone. That dream died when I went to college and realized how many people had the same idea. So trade weeklies became the new dream job after a slick internship with a magazine that covered the plastics field. Problem is, the good ones require three years at a daily before they'll hire you. Three years at the daily I currently write for would be like 30.

Ooooooooooh! I've never heard the original. Ted Leo's cover is pretty cool though. the tyranny of distance couldn't stop the cavalier so why should it stop me? i'll conquer and stand free (those may or may not be correct, kinda off the cuff)

I am often nostalgic for my old summer janitorial job at a school. I could just go off on my own for hours and clean desks, shovel mulch or mop floors. Nobody bothered me, I just received my orders at the beginning of the day from the head custodian and did my thing. Now, people are always bothering me. Write a story about this, write a story about that. Write a story about my new business and write it just like this. We need you to get so-and-so to say this particular thing, there's the story. Don't these people know my creativity must not be caged? :cool:

Heh, and besides, I wouldn't want them to get too rich so they'd lose their street-cred, now would I? Wilco - A Shot in the Arm

I actually don't have any of their albums. I just saw them live on two separate occasions, and I have the songs from their web site. I know, I know, I should support these indie bands with my hard-earned dinero, but at least I do the word of mouth thing and go to shows, eh? Anyway, the singer/guitarist used to be in a band with a guy I used to be in a band with, too. We had an excellent discussion about Rocket From the Crypt at their Youngstown show a year or so ago. Their web site is www.interfusenoise.com.

I could imagine a thick clot of hipsters at that show, all trying to maintain their detached look while in a crowded space. Had to be an amusing sight. I think you'd like Interfuse, Laozi. They wear their Fugazi and Sonic Youth influences on their sleeves.

Interfuse - Nixon's Widow Awesome noisy indie-punk band from Akron, Ohio. I saw these guys at a dingy club called The Lime Spider. Still in my short list of best bar names ever.

I'm a professional muckraker! I write for a daily newspaper, where ANYTHING can be made into a big story if we try hard enough.

Mr. Bungle - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

The Suicide Machines - Sometimes I Don't Mind A love song, to his dog. But not in the gross way.

I see my question sparked a minor debate... I found an IWD demo disc that came with my BG2 and played a bit last night. During conversations with NPCs, I found myself waiting for interjections that never came.... and it made me sad. The combat was fun, although I died a lot.

Holy cow man! I actually cracked up at work over Patton shredding guitar as a bard. "Inspire courage."

I love the ending to that song. What a great last verse. Wilco - Misunderstood you're back in your old neighborhood the cigarettes taste so good but you're so misunderstood you're so misunderstood edit: looks like Eldar snuck a standard in there while I was typing.

A girl at one of my old band's shows was overheard to say "Oh my God! They sound so much like Soul Asylum that I want to cry!" Now, this is funny for several reasons. Number one, no one else had ever said we sounded like Soul Asylum (This is NHD we're talkin about, Kor). Number two, I'm not sure if her exclamation was a good or bad thing. Soul Asylum - Just Like Anyone

It's never too late for Soul Asylum! Soul Asylum - Homesick woe is me, i am so homesick but it ain't that bad 'cause i'm homesick for the home i never had Deep, man, just really... deep.