Darth Drabek

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

This is gonna be fun! I just need to bust out the digital camera when I get home to show off some of my prize possessions.... I thought Hohner only made harmonicas. That acoustic ooks like a beaut though.

Some sort of dessert-ish thing left out on a tray in the break room. It's got golden grahams and marshmallows glued together by chocolate and caramel. Not bad.

Can I interest you in a dynamite cover of that song by one of my favorite bands? LINK to amazon site with 30 second clips in windows media and realmedia Right now: Billy Bragg - It Says Here When you wake up to the fact That your paper is Tory Just remember, there are two sides to every story

DOA Beach Volleyball for the Xbox was one of the more popular games for a crowd back in the dorm days. It wasn't quite up there with Mario Kart or Goldeneye on the n64 or Virtua Tennis for my beloved Dreamcast, or even the five-year, five-team dynasty we had going in NCAA Football 2003, but we still enjoyed a nice beach volleyball game. And the gameplay really couldn't be easier to pick up.

Velvet Crush - Why Not Your Baby

OK, time to pile on about how great Malk dialogue is. I love the monikers that they come up with.... ESPECIALLY the conversations with Skelter. Absolutely fantastic...if you're a Beatles fan, play as a Malk.

Cold pizza. I may have graduated and got a job, but I haven't changed my diet much.

(removed the Crimson King reference) I had an enormous (like 36" by 52" or something like that) Clash poster from their "Westway to the World" video thing up in my college house. I'm a big fan of everything from the streetpunk swagger of "I'm So Bored With the U.S.A." to the heavy dub of "One More Time." They might not have been "the only band that mattered," but they sure as hell were better than the Sex Pistols. P.S. Although Audioslave gets props for covering "White Riot," Cracker's take on the song is much better. They did a fantastic reinterpretation of it as a country song, complete with twang and fiddles. My favorite Clash song.... hmmm. Either "Clampdown" from London Calling or "Safe European Home" from Give 'Em Enough Rope.

I take it you got your new CD, pixies. The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Beatles - Don't Let Me Down I just found out today one of my co-workers actually interviewed Pete Best, the infamous ex-Beatle. He said he was a really nice guy with a lot of interesting stories to tell. He was working as a welder while the Beatles were touring the world, but I guess he made a killing in royalties when the Anthologies came out a few years back, because he's on a few tracks. Of course, the paper my co-worker used to work at made him buy his own phone card to call England. Typical.

Nope. Don't even know what that is. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Six Months in a Leaky Boat

NICE! New music rocks. I'm gonna have to head to the library with the USB drive again, hehe. These work computers are horrible. I mean seriously, what office is still using pre-USB computers? I don't know the specs on it, but it's a Power Macintosh 4400/200, and slower than Patrick Ewing. Ryan Adams - A Kiss Before I Go

Now that is a vision worthy of a music video, Kor. It could be like Spinal Tap playing the formal at the Air Force base. I had some hipster friends that were big into the whole noise-art-rock thing and, like I said, they pretty much though S&E was the Holy Grail of Indie. The low-fi thing never really appealed to me that much. I'm really diggin everything on Crooked Rain, although "Cut Your Hair" is starting to get old. "Gold Sounds," "Range Life" and "Silent Kit" are my favorites so far.

I remember Speaker for the Dead had the piggies; was Xenocide the one with the Asian-types with OCD and Jane the holo-girl? I remember those two had some points in which I was seriously trudging through them simply out of stubborness. Ender's Shadow was very good. A lot of the "good" was just recycled ideas and nostalgia for the first book, though.

I played KOTOR on Xbox and later, PC. I thought the PC's controls might be awkward, but by only real beef with it after playing was the inventory and menu screens being super-small if played in higher resolution than 800x640. I hear they fixed that in TSL.

Just finished Bloodlines as a brawling Toredor who seduced anything on two legs. Kudos to B Mitsoda and everybody else who wrote that fantastic dialogue! I think I'll play it again as a Malkavian... or maybe a Tremere.

Pavement - Elevate Me Later I really like the Crooked Rain album... from what I hear it's more melodic than their earlier work. Is "Slanted and Enchanted" worth all the hype it gets? I'm not much of a hipster, so I don't own three copies of it and play it every Sunday.

Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes Their singer is the indie-pop hipster's dream girl. She's purrrrty.

Steve Earle - I Ain't Ever Satisfied

Oh man, the Steelers were firing on all cylinders yesterday. They had some serious momentum going for them. Hopefully it carries over the Super Bowl! Even if I wasn't a Steelers fan, I probably would have rooted against the Broncos just because I really don't like Shannon Sharpe (as a broadcaster).

thats a great song Pete. I was so gnarly and I drove my dads car Lost In The Supermarket / the Afghan Wigs <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was a surfer and I was a skatepunk... Haha, yeah that is a great song by CVB. What a weird band. Get their cover of Pictures of Matchstick Men if ya don't have it. 10X better than the original and 100X better than Ozzy's version. Now: Big Star - Thirteen Would you be an outlaw for my love? Great line.

Welcome back, B-dawg. Social Distortion - Bad Luck

^^ Good song, yourself. Automatic for the Peeps is a good album. Especially "Find the River."

Went on a Tony Hawk binge last month, totally destroying the last two versions (THUG2 and THAW) with mad combos and sick lines. Fear my skater jargon! Double kickflip! Beni-hannn-naaaa! Now that I took the plunge and bought Bloodlines, I haven't been able (or willing) to play anything else for about a week. I just tore up the Fu Schnickens lab with Barnaby.