Darth Drabek

A toast to the Wiggins! (If you have a son next, don't name him Peter - but you know that )

My personal favorite PJ song.

Better Than Ezra - Porcelain

The Who - Eminence Front I never knew this great song was by the Who until I heard it introduced in GTA San Andreas. Introduced by Axl Rose, no less! What a freakin' coup for Rockstar - for him to come out of hiding to voice that DJ. He must be a gamer. By the way, Rockstar Games deserves some serious awards for their radio stations in Vice City and SA. They probably already have some. Awards, that is.

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

The jaw-dropping intro track to a beautifully complex concept album about adultery: The Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene, Part 1 Tonight, tonight I say goodbye To everyone who loves me Stick it to my enemies, tonight Then I disappear Bathe my path in shining light Set the dials to thrill me Every secret has its price This one's set to kill Too loose, too tight, too dark, too bright A lie, the truth, which one should I use? If the lie succeeds Then you'll know what I mean When I tell you I have secrets To attend Do you think I'm beautiful? Or do you think I'm evil? Will you take me for a ride? The one that never ends Too loose, too tight, too dark, too bright A lie, the truth, which one shall I use? If the lie succeeds Then you'll know what I mean When I tell you I have secrets To attend Tonight, tonight I say goodbye To everything that thrills me As I throw the chains I forged in life To shatter on the floor As I dream all the evidence Is piling up against me As I breathe all the essence rare Is falling off the vine And if you knew, just how smooth I could stop it on the dime You could meet me at the scene of the crime

Maestro, some pop culture-inundated novelty music, if you please? Nerf Herder - For You I would hire the A-Team And I'd crash the General Lee I'd make ****tails like Tom Cruise And I'd rollerblade with Corey Feldman for you I'd do anything for you Just about anything for you I'd do anything for you, for you I'd sing the whole soundtrack to Xanadu I'd dance like Kevin Bacon in Footloose I'd catch Pac-Man fever too I'd lose a case on The People's Court for you I'd do anything for you Just about anything for you I'd do anything for you, for you And I'd bid too high on The Price Is Right And I'd sweat to the oldies all night I'd be depressed like Morrissey And slayed by Buffy every week I would do anything for you I would fight the Karate Kid And I would get arrested on CHiPs And I'd get a Michael Bolton tattoo And I'd change my name to Kenny G for you I'd do anything for you Just about anything for you I'd do anything for you, for you

Well, I was thinking about getting a sandwich....

Yikes! Well, that's the last time I try to pose a philosophical question around here. I'll just go back to burdening my species with my existence.

I believe some of the intellectuals among us have used it as proof that mankind is reverting to the "state of nature." So how about it, Obsidian fora-dwellers? Is it Hobbes or Rousseau? Is man born evil, chock-full of sin, or does civilization make him that way? :ph34r:

You mean like this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yikes. Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected.

Along with most of my generation, it was Super Mario Brothers, the Commander Keen games and later, Wolfenstein 3D. However, the first system I actually owned was the revered Sega Genesis. I have to be thankful that my bundle package came with that fresh, new Sonic the Hedgehog game and not the old guard: Altered Beast or some garbage.

Lovely. Gas prices have shot up 50 cents per gallon over two days. Time to dust off the ol' bicycle. Five bucks (which doesn't get you two gallons of gas anymore) says the religious right calls the hurricane "God's punishment" for American tolerance of homosexuality. (I suppose that last bit belongs in the other thread)

mc chris - Fett's Vette Got a job to do and Darth's the guy that delegates Got somethin against Skywalker - someone that he really hates

Haha... yeah, he's got some really grade-schoolish rants all across the album. "You better hope you XXXXing miss me if you catch me drinking whiskey." That just blows my mind. " But what I'm talking about is...... TED LEO! YEAH! (w00t) Seriously, the man is fantastic. I saw him in Cleveland a few months ago for 10 bucks. 10 freakin bucks. He's got three full-lengths that are better than most of the stuff I own and he's playing shows for 10 bucks. At least they were turning people away at the door, so people are catching on. One of my favorite Ted Leo songs: Biomusicology Had we never come across the vastness of pavement The barrenness of waves and the grayness of the sea Never lost, and never been misguided We'd have never reached seas so shining

This is really unbelievable. Maybe some of you have seen the footage from Gulfport, Miss. Well, I was down south two spring breaks ago working with Habitat for Humanity and we visited Gulfport for a few hours. Nice town, really. Lot of beautiful homes on the water. Too bad it's GONE now. The whole area is absolutely destroyed. Wiped off the map. I saw video on the news of the Hard Rock Cafe that we drove by when we were down there.... it was pretty impressive, as Hard Rock Cafes go .... it's just rubble now though. Rubble that could piece together a 50 foot guitar, that is.

There are some sections of the Illiad that are quite boring, but if you step back and look at them with historical perspective, they make sense. Like the awful chapter where Homer simply recites the names of every family that sailed to Troy to fight. It makes for some dull reading, but think about it this way: During the first few generations of telling this story, that chapter could be the most important part to some people. The Greeks listening to the story were waiting to hear their ancestors called out as legends... and if you weren't related to Ajax (big or little), Odysseus, Patroclus, Diomedes, Achilles or Teucer, that chapter was pretty much your only shot at "glory." Audience appeasement: always a big part of the oral tradition.

Note on translations: I read Fagles' Illiad and Lattimore's Odyssey. I prefer Lattimore's work, it's not quite as spartan (pun INtended!). But seriously, the difference wasn't as pronounced as when I read the Tale of Genji for a Japanese History class... I wanted to repeatedly puncture my professor with a sharp stick for assigning the Seidersticker translation after reading a little of someone else's version.

Haha, I was taking a course in college called "Greek Gods and Heroes" last winter I believe - anyway, I posted a really long comparison between the plot of TSL and that of the Odyssey. It went over like a lead balloon if I remember correctly. But yeah, mythology is FUN! (I will read your post and comment, Eldar. Just not right now.)

Hades just doesn't like Christianity because it has epic levels. You should end the game as a level 7 apostle, not a level 35 Prophet/Martyr. Seeeeeecretssssss: I can still perform many of the fatalities in Mortal Kombat II, even on a modded Xbox SNES emulator with different button mappings. It's amazing how those button combinations have engraved themselves in my mind.

Cool! (King of indie rock) Ted Leo has covered "Dirty Old Town" as well. He even titled his concert DVD "Dirty Old Town."

Well I don't think it was actually written by Shane MacGowan or any of the Pogues, so it could be the same song. That album had a few covers of traditional Irish pub songs, and "Dirty Old Town" might be one of them. I can't be sure without digging up the liner notes. I can give ya the last verse: Gonna get mysellllllf A good sharp axe Shining steeeeeeel Tempered in the fire Gonna cut you dowwwwwn Like an old, dead tree Dirty old towwwwwn Dirty old towwwwwn :D

@Eldar: Bosstones MIGHTY MIGHTY....Bosstones MIGHTY MIGHTY :D I used to listen to those guys all the time. Started with Impression That I Get and worked backwards through their catalog. Great stuff, especially the "Don't Know How to Party" album. Nice one, Baley! That's one of my favorite NOFX numbers. If I wanted to post another song as long (and as good ) as my deleted Nick Cave tune, I would search out the lyrics to their masterpiece, "The Decline." Eighteen minutes of concept punk done so damn well that I want to give a copy to everyone who bought Green Day's "American Idiot" and ask them to pick the more accurate commentary on society. And which one just rocks harder. Either way, NOFX wins. Don't think... Drink your wine... Watch the fire burn.... His problems, not mine.... Just be that model citizen.

I have never heard of Brazilian Girls. I assume they have them, because, well, the population would be steadily dwindling if they didn't, but.... Annnnyway, I'm listening to The Pogues, "Dirty Old Town."

Kannnnnn-yeeeeee West! The College Dropout album. "The New Workout Plan" has a chorus that is eerily reminscent of Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat." I'm pretty sure this is one hip hop rip-off that was unintentional. Oh yeah, and that Fear Factory song is sweet. The whole "Demanufacture" album is actually. When the kick drums come in my heart just skips a beat.