Skywarp!

I know that they're obviously going for the chick market, but so far they've released 2 catchy songs. Anyone have their album?

I really like that Harley picture, but why is she hanging out in Brooklyn?

2 Skinnee J's -- Sugar & Candy (Mid-tempo rap gem) 311 -- Running Weezer -- Death and Destruction The Darkness -- Black Shuk Andrew W.K. -- Long Live the Party The Strokes -- The End Has No End Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Suck My Kiss Audioslave -- The Last Remaining Light System of a Down -- Highway Song Foo Fighters -- Walking After You (Very well done acoustic song) Sublime -- Badfish The Presidents of the United States of America -- Mach 5 Kinks -- Mr. Pleasant

Yeah, I'll probably be the cop or the bouncer just because I need someone that can take a lot of hits. It's cool that all the characters have their strenghts and weaknesses. The screenshot I saw of the janitor brandishing a broom was pretty funny, too. I might just have to go out and pick this up tomorrow...

Cool. So what's the verdict?

Cool. I'm just loving the premise of playing online with three other people. Like at first, you're alone, and then you hear shots coming from the adjacent room, then run in there and team up with someone else. And if I don't make it, I can come back as a zombie to terrorize the survivors. You can even use nail guns to board up doors so zombies can't get through, or move furniture in the way. There are already stories of selfish players who fled a fight and proceeded to board up a door on someone else in a room with zombies. A classic survival-horror movie asshole.

She leaves you on a sentence that's supposed to cause reflection, but it's ruined by an advertisement for a talking Ann doll right underneath the article.

I'll be holding out until then as well because next week I, too, will be in Florida.

Actually, I think the best TF-Nintendo analogy would be to liken the Gamecube to Bumblebee...the little cute system with a lot of heart that doesn't make much of a splash storyline-wise.

Have you seen the "What's on TV Tonight?" listings? Hilarious.

That's right. Nintendo is the face in this three-way feud. Gamecube: "This is the end of the road Galva...I mean, X-Box!" ::Gamecube then throws X-Box through the wall. Then Gamecube unleashes the power of the Matrix to blow up Playstation 2 to the tune of Stan Bush::

The "OMG! OMG! Angle jobbed at a house show what was Vince thinking!" Hour on WNBC.

::As second poster, quicky gets out building materials to build a dam to hold back impending rushing flood of bitching::

I realized picking up Phantom Planet "The Guest" was a bad move on the first run-through. And there was no point to me getting Reel Big Fish "Everything Sucks".

Yeah, that's totally their worst one. Don't worry--it gets much better.

Best Drummers Let all the bitching and re-arranging begin.

I've never heard any Gruvis Malt stuff or even this song, but I thought the lyrics were too cool not to pass along. The Great American Bottleneck This message is to every musician speaking out against file sharing: get your facts straight, and stop regurgitating everything the major label tells you. Anyone still clinging to the cage-format for music is either a middleman or lazy. Squidnecks You major label suckers make me laugh Do you really think your label would come out and say, "Hey we cut your paycheck in half because you've got to help pay for the 250 billion copies we give away. Have they mentioned when they cut new releases by 25% sales dropped 4.1% and they blamed it on P2P? Have they mentioned that they responded to that drop by raising the cost of your CD $1 every year? Does that seem like a good business move to you? Or does that smell like fear? Ask yourself what kind of business would cut research and development first? I'll tell you: the business that's about to make it's bed up in a mother fuckin hearse. While Hilary Rosen and the RIAA are trying to convince you that free listeners are a bad thing, those same five labels that pay them are charging you $500,000 to buy you spins While you're negotiating whether or not the latest Napster pays you 1/3 of a cent per download, Comcast and AOL are turning the information highway into a toll road. you know the end is near when Britney Spears is calling it a moral issue they've positioned you right between their wallets and your fans they can't really expect to turn the tide with a few pathetic lawsuits So you gotta ask yourself how does one stop a flood? You build a damn. IT'S THE ISPs, IT'S THE ISPs! Comcast will have every last consumer on their knees starting with 5.3 million subscribers to cable access high speed they own the wires, so they can discriminate with bandwidth and queuing fees guaranteed monopoly by the FCC so We're standing on the verge of an artistic cleansing of biblical proportions I say bring it when the wickedness of big business is great in the earth and it will even try to sell the waters that it's drowning in marching two rappers two rockers two composers two programmers onto a pirate ship in a free-market flood until businessmen are businessmen and art is art again. Rock this is not an issue of children not recognizing value in art this is an issue of children recognizing value-less art getting artists paid doesn't even play a part The truth is for the first time since it's creation, the playing field of American music was almost leveled, and that, in the opinion of five big wallets, is unacceptable. Finally the world was given a voice to respond to the one-sided conversation conducted by the music industry for the last 80 + years. Anyone who tells you that we've always had a voice, and it's in the form of money spent, knows good and well where your money goes when there's only one product on the shelf. You disagree? We can discuss it every four years in November This already happened but most people weren't alive or don't remember. Radio showed up in the 20's and labels panicked, declared unlicensed broadcasts illegal, and lobbied all sorts of garbage until Capitol Records came along and broke ranks in '42. When they rose to the top of the pile, the other labels woke up and embraced radio too. we already know how the story ends - the new technology becomes consolidated and sold to one or two old white men. Maybe the RIAA isn't right, it's just afraid. Afraid that artists will find a new way to get paid maybe removing profit from the picture will expose the parasites who spent 19 million in campaign donations every year to extend your copyrights we'll see who's still making records when there's no compensation. if there's no beer at the party, the only people left will be there for the conversation. Maybe art is only art when it's depraved. Maybe the deck is so stacked, we need to start from scratch. We're standing on the verge of an artistic cleansing of biblical proportions I say bring it when the wickedness of big business is great in the earth and it will even try to sell the waters that it's drowning in marching two rappers two rockers two composers two programmers onto a pirate ship in a free-market flood and though I may soon be swept away I can't wait to see who steps in to take my place

The guy turned the whole supposed purpose of this war in which he sent over 500 troops to die and more injured into an "Oops! This whole horrible war was a silly misunderstanding! Silly 'Ol Bush! Ha ha ha!" moment. THAT'S why it's not funny. Well, it was funny on the most surface level (I laughed when I heard it was the President showing pictures of himself looking under tablecloths for WMDs), but when I realized that he was making light of the deathtrap he created, well that just seems like an asshole thing to do. Plus, it's the kind of sitcom situation that really makes him look like Trey Parker's "That's My Bush!" image of Bush. Except the idea of "comic sitcom folly in goverment leads to horrible war" is only funny in fiction. I'm not a liberal. But it's amazing the lengths to which a lot of people here defend every thing the man does, like a bunch of robots.

But whos to say they aren't just a bunch of angsty little fuckers and the studio was trying to find some angsty fuckers. Its like guys like Stained. Their first few albums were full of pain and shit, then Aaron Lewis kicks his drug habits, get married and has a daughter and their last album was nowhere near as dark. I think these guys are writting what they feel, its just if one of them is successful, the studio flood the market with more guys who feel like that, instead of creating them. Sometimes, yeah, I think the angst is real. Jonathan Davis of Korn, for instance, went through a lot of fucked up shit and you can tell he's not an image that was created. Everything about Linkin Park, though, from lyrics to song structure and even how all the songs sound the same, feels too much like a strict formula. I think that they are more image than anything. Who knows though, I've never seen "behind the music" type stuff on them, so I can't rightly say. It's just the vibe I get from their music is artificial.

Weezer -- Falling for You Holy cow! I think I've got one here Now just what am I s'posed to do? I've got a number of irrational fears That I'd like to share with you First, there's rules about old goats like me Hangin' 'round with chicks like you -but I do like you- And another one: you say "like" too much But I'm shakin' at your touch I like you way too much My baby, I'm afraid I'm falling for you 'n I'd do 'bout anything to get the hell out alive Or maybe I would rather settle down with you Holy moly, baby, wouldn't you know it? Just as I was bustin' loose I gotta go turn in my rock star card and get fat and old with you 'cuz I'm a burning a candle you're a gentle moth teaching me to lick a little bit kinder And I do like you - you're the lucky one No! I'm the lucky one Holy Sweet goddamn! You left your cello in the basement I admired the glowing the stars and tried to play a tune' I can't believe how bad I suck, it's true What could you possibly see in little ol' 3-chord me? But it's true - you like me, I like you too I'm ready, let's do it baby

I knew all along that Linkin Park's angst sounded forced. All their lyrics are vague references to "the pain inside" and "darkness". I really can't stand that sort of bad high-school notebook-margin poetry. And the guy lost all credibility when he gave a blowjob to Nickelback, the one band that's a big mainstream artist and I have yet to meet someone that LIKES them.

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I don't think I could agree more. The gameplay is always what kills it for me. There's only so much of randomly hitting people with bats and other objects that I can take. The storylines are good (moreso in Vice City than in GTA3) but after recently repurchasing them on Xbox (after having both on PS2 before I sold them and the PS2 last year) I remembered why I didn't mind parting with them in the first place. Now I'm looking for a good place and good game to trade them in for....Ninja Gaiden (I have it rented for the weekend) is getting up there in consideration for that game. Hooo lordy.... I think the part that makes some people claim that GTA games are the best is actually what makes them unbearable: maybe there's a really good reason why there aren't so many games where you just can run as far as your heart desires before hitting the map's edge. It takes so long just to get to any destination in those games. Having a whole city to explore is essentially what makes it BORING.

You don't know the difference between "publisher" and "developer", do you? EA is just distributing the game under their banner. As Prez stated, Free Radical is actually MAKING the game. But as I stated, I wasn't sure if that meant Free Radical would be making the game, or if they split, or if E.A. just bought the rights and gave the job to someone else.

Imagine the people that were planning to get married Saturday and sunk thousands and thousands of dollars and months of meticulous planning into the day. It's almost comical unless you're living through that nightmare.