Darth Drabek

Why thank you, Surrrrr! I'm just glad I have a place to spew my accumulation of useless rock trivia. For example: Soundgarden - Into the Void What started as a simple Black Sabbath cover grew much cooler when bassist Ben Shepherd realized that Ozzy's vocal pattern matched the rhythm and cadence of Chief Sealth's poem written to the new Americans claiming manifest destiny and attempting to take his tribe's land. Here's a excerpt from the poem/lyrics: How can you buy or sell the sky Or the warmth of the land, it's strange to us We don't own the freshness of the air Or the sparkle of the water How can you buy them from us The white man doesn't understand our ways For he's a stranger who comes in the night And takes from the land just what he needs

"...Like I need a hole in my head." The Boxer might be my favorite S&G tune. That last verse is pristine. "I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains."

Joining the nostalgia parade.... In high school, I lifted weights religiously. I had to if I wanted to ever see the field. I was too slow to run the ball, too small to be a lineman, and I couldn't catch or throw very well either. But I was strong, and it was a small high school, so I was able to start at guard for two years at 165 pounds. At my peak, I straight-bar squatted 400 pounds. I fell off the wagon in college, where I became preoccupied with other things. Lately, I have taken up running (something I never could stand unless it was during a sport of some sort) as a way to combat weight gain from my sedentary job. For me, running with an mp3 player is essential. And because I can't run very far, my obsolete 128 MB nomad is big enough for me. I still eat too many burgers, and get too many empty calories (because I'm not willing to give up good beer), but I do eat a lot of fruit and drink mostly skim milk, water and black coffee.

Actually, you shouldn't end sentences with prepositions if you can help it. "To" is a preposition. But this is a forum, not a term paper or research article, so no one is going to castrate you for it. Well, maybe that Spellmar character will. I've heard some stories.... Cracker - The Golden Age (live)

You know who I miss? GOA. He was a friendly face (err... of Yoda tokin' away) and a voice of reason in many debates when I first started lurking around these parts. Many thought-provoking posts, that one had, huuurmmm.

I'm-a-cookin up a report, you'll see! I was considering Laozi before you even suggested it, Kor.

Cracker - Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now) What the world needs now Is a new Frank Sinatra So I can get you in bed :cool:

As promised earlier this week... Ben Folds - Fred Jones Part Two fred sits alone at his desk in the dark there's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall he has packed all his things and he's put them in boxes things that remind him that life has been good twenty five years he's worked at the paper a man's here to take him downstairs and i'm sorry mr jones.... it's time there was no party and there were no songs cause today's just a day like the day that he started and no one is left here that knows his first name yeah, and life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change they don't change anything you get off someone else can get on and i'm sorry mr jones... it's time the streetlight it shines through the haze casting lines on the floor and lines on his face he reflects on the day... fred gets his paints out and goes to the basement projecting some slides onto a plain white canvas and traces it fills in the spaces he turns off the slides and it doesn't look right yeah, and all of these bastards have taken his place he's forgotten but not yet gone and i'm sorry mr jones and i'm sorry mr jones and i'm sorry mr jones... it's time

Social Distortion - Dear Lover

As do I, COF. As do I. Which is why it makes me sad when I see PC commandos (here and elsewhere) bash consoles. What of all the great games of our youth, from the SNES and Genesis? Are they to be simply discarded, like that two week-old milk in the fridge that has started to change forms from a liquid to a solid? I posit that they are not! But I digress.... let's not make this a(nother) console vs. PC thread.

Yeah, my video card is what I'm worried about. I was told and told and told "Don't buy a computer with a video card integrated into the motherboard, the shared memory is a bad way to game, etc. etc." but what did I do? I listened to my wallet instead of my gamer friends. BTW, I was wrong about my processor. It's AMD 2600, which is NOT 2.6 ghz, but about 2.1. Why? Hell if I know. And my graphics card is a GeForce 4 integrated with 64 MB shared memory, I believe. Still only 512 MB ram though, but ram's cheap, so I could probably up that to a gig without too much fuss. The game sounds like a lot of fun, and the story seems cool, so I'd like to play it. I'm not too optimistic though. Why didn't they just make a console port before they went bankrupt so I could play it on my Xbox? :cue several forum members pontificating on how the computer is the only venue for decent RPGs and consoles are the creative sewer responsible for Madden and Mario Kart:

I'd like to play this Bloodlines game, but it's not on consoles and I'm not sure my PC can handle it. I've got 512 ram, 2.6 ghz and plenty of hard drive, but my video card is a lame integrated GeForce something or other. I can run KOTOR (with good frame rate if I turn off a few graphical options) and GTA:SA with minimal slowdown. Do I stand a chance?

The Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene Part One As I breathe All the evidence is piling up against me As I breathe In the essence rare that's falling from the vine And if you knew Just how smooth I could stop it on a dime You could meet me at the scene Of the crime.

Boston - Feelin' Satisfied Classic rock is good for the soul.

Yeah, sounds like some kind of life support stretcher, eh?

Duke Nukem Forever. All kidding aside, I won't be buying one for a few years anyway until the price drops a few hundred (if I buy one at all), but I would love to see next-gen versions of some of my favorite series: Road Rash and Virtua Tennis come to mind. That tennis game was so much fun for the DC back in the day. Another Hydro Thunder would be nice too. Also, more story-driven, party-based RPGs in the KOTOR vein would be very welcome indeed (Star Wars universe totally optional) and might persuade me to buy one sooner. And where's my Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold sequel?

Have you heard the "Rockin the Suburbs" album he put out after he went solo? There's some top notch catchy piano rock on there. It also includes one of my favorite songs, "Fred Jones Part 2," a story of a man losing the job he's had for years, of the older generation being phased out of society. I think I'll post it in the lyric thread in the next few days. And as if the song weren't good enough already, it has backing vocals from John McCrea from Cake!!!! Right now: Afghan Whigs - My Curse

I was there for a little while in the KOTOR days. There was a really nice guide there to basic D&D stuff like attack rolls and saving throws, as well as a character building guide. I think they realized that with KOTOR they were going to have a large influx of Star Wars fans who were not familiar with math-intensive games, and so kudos to them for their patience. Of course, once I initially came here for KOTOR 2 news, I never went back to Bioware's boards. The people and discussions here are much more interesting.

That's one of my favorites by Leonard Cohen... and here's another, although I like the Johnny Cash version much more. Bird on a Wire Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I, if I have been unkind, I hope that you can just let it go by. And if I, if I have been untrue I hope you know it was never to you. Like a baby, stillborn, like a beast with his horn I have torn everyone who reached out for me. But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong I will make it all up to thee. I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch, he said to me, "You shouldn't ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, she cried out to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" Oh like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.

Enough with the Chappelle-ing, gentlemen! Please! I will not have my reputation (as chronicled in KQD's flawless T.O.M.B.S. report) tarnished by inadvertently derailing the T.O.M.B.S. thread itself! (Or is the PnP section like WOT where sidetracks and tangents are the rule, not the exception?)

Wow, I've made it! Got my star on the Obsidian forum walk of fame (well, the equivalent anyway). Thanks for the report Kor, and thanks to all you loons for making these threads so fun to read! And although I wouldn't be surprised if it was a lyric, I did pull the aforementioned quote from Chappelle's show, but I only quoted it before the Rick James skit had been beaten into the ground by everyone and their brother yelling "I'm Rick James, b*tch" all the time. Well, I guess I'll have to cook one of these up for somebody now. I'll have to think on it for a while, but I will eventually do it. In the meantime, you know where to find me.

New Wheel of Time, eh? What does that make it, the 44th book? I stopped reading those books at about number five. I just reread Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders trilogy, which is most excellent. Not too much other than that, at least not lately. I want to read the three new Hobb books that supposedly continue the Farseer saga, but I won't do it without rereading the first three. I don't remember much about them except that there was a secret passage and there was some serious sibling rivalry in them, haha.

I don't think it would be possible, because there are so many different decisions your PC can make throughout the game. Unless...... LA/Bioware made the largest Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book ever!

Hehe, in the more recent live version he changes the lyrics to "...band that wasn't even together..... they're called Guns N Roses."

Todd Snider - Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues (a lovely parody of the scene I grew up loving) Hey, hey, my, my Rock 'n roll will never die Just hang your hair down in your eyes You'll make a million dollars Well, I was in this band goin' nowhere fast We sent out demos, but everybody passed So one day, we finally took the plunge Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge. Washington State that is. Space Needle ...Eddie Vedder ...mud 'n' honey! Now to fit in fast, we wear flannel shirts, We turn our amps up until it hurts, We got bad attitudes, and what's more When we play we stare straight down at the floor, wow-ee Pretty scary. How pensive ...how totally alternative. Now to fit in on the Seattle scene We gotta do somethin' they ain't never seen. So, thinkin' up a gimmick one day We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play -- a note. Under any circumstances. Silence ...music's original alternative. Roots grunge... Well we spread the word through the underground, that we were the hottest new thing in town. The record guy came out to see us one day, and just like always, we didn't play; it knocked him out. He said he loved our work. He said he loved our work, but he wasn't sure if he could sell a record with nothin' on it. I said tell 'em we're from Seattle. He advanced us two-and-a-half million dollars. (harmonica break) Hey, hey, my, my, rock 'n' roll will never die, Hang your hair down in your eyes You'll make a million dollars. Well, they made us do a video, but that wasn't tough, 'Cause we just filmed ourselves smashin' stuff. It was kinda weird, 'cause there was no music, But MTV said they'd love to use it. The kids went wild, the kids went nuts, Rolling Stone gave us a five-star review; said we played with guts. We were scorin' chicks, takin' drugs, then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged; well you shoulda seen it. We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place. Then we smashed our sh*t. (harmonica break) Well, we blew 'em away at the Grammy show, by refusin' to play and refusin' to go. And then just when we thought fame would last forever, Along come this band that wasn't even together. Now, that's alternative ...hell, that's alternative to alternative. I feel stupid ...and contagious. Well our band got dropped, and that ain't funny, 'cause we're all hooked on drugs, but we're outta money So the other day I called up the band, I said, "Boys, I've taken all I can, "Shave off your goatees, pack the van... "We're goin' back to Athens."