Darth Drabek

Yep. Games are art. Look at all those people at E3 or the other gaming expos. They're like museum openings where all the artists show off their newest creations. The gamers can appreciate the art the devs make by playing it, but playing the game is not an art. Now, a modder, that's somebody who's got the tools of the trade, but they're aren't a pro. But that's why modding is such a big step - it lets the masses create their own art.

Yes. And also, haven't there been several artists who have created art based on the fact that people would interact with it? My memory is hazy (my last art appreciation class was at 8 a.m. a few years ago), but I remember some avant-garde dude who inserted himself in a cube of some sort and became part of the exhibit. Capturing the reactions of the people was part of the reason he did it. You can make the argument that walking through a sculpture exhibit is "interaction." Just perceiving art differently than the person next to you makes that piece of art interactive. Is a screenplay considered art? What about a landscape designed by an artist fluent in a certain type of graphics software? Sure they are, so why wouldn't a combination of the two be considered art? So, again: yes.

Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Gypsy Kings - Hotel California

I..I can't post just one! Teenage Fanclub - Alcoholiday Fountains of Wayne - Radiation Vibe Elvis Costello and the Attractions - No Action

I agree with Enoch about the time management issue. Yeah, the Seahawks got a couple of tough breaks on the calls, but Hasselbeck made some very poor decisions at the end of the half and at the end of the game. I say Hasselbeck, and not the O Coordinator because he pretty much took the game out of the coach's hands by calling audibles on the line. That's fine, that's what a QB has to do, but you can't throw it over the middle with no timeouts on third down, if you're short of the first down.

Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

pixies, I wish your camera didn't suck. I'd love to see a close-up of that 1940s Martin.

Here's a pic of my electric. I used to play a white Squire Strat, but I upgraded that sucker when I got the money and the skills to justify it. You can also see my bass, which our bassist was using that day. This photo is of my short-lived (but earth-shatteringly awesome) punk rock band The Vice Presidents, the only band I've done "frontman" duties in.

L to R: My Ibanez Soundgear bass, my 1960s-era Gibson acoustic (inherited from my grandfather, who taught me the basics), and my Alvarez Regent acoustic. My Gibson SG is not at my current location, but I'll find a picture of that baby pretty soon.

For the "shader" thing.... Check to see if your graphics card supports Shader Model 3.0, which I believe is the newest one out there and it comes with Direct X 9.0. I ran Bloodlines with a integrated GeForce 4, 512 MB of RAM (even though the video card was stealing 64 of it) and a 2 ghz processor. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but it installed and ran correctly when I used all the fixes on the vampireplanet forums. I don't think you need top-notch Shader support (b/c that integrated card sure didn't have it), but you might need some sort of support.

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.