Lagwagon - "Resolve"

See, pretty cool huh.

This album is flat out great. Comes out November 1st on Fat Wreck Chords. Definitely nice to have a new studio album from them. Blaze (2003) was good, but Resolve just seems overdue. A nice thing about it is there is a nice little bonus hidden track there which is just a Joey Cape acoustic version of "The Chemist" which is the great song which is only available on their "Live In A Dive" album that came out earlier this year. Resolve is a tribute to their original drummer Derrick Plourde who died this year. This album has some more somber songs as you'd expect, but also has some rockers on it which give it a good sense of balance and diversity while maintaining a pretty good level of quality throughout. I definitely say any fan of Good Music™ should pick this up when it drops on November 1st.

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Welcome to Modojo v2.0

Testing this new entry system since I migrated from Blogger.

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REVmote... WTF?

A remote control? Not exactly. This is the "Controller" for the Nintendo "Revolution" and was revealed a day ago at the Tokyo Game Show. "What The Hell" seems to be a common phrase uttered when most people found this out. There are actually motion sensors or gyros or some shit inside it that can detect movement on all three axis. This would be useful for fishing, baseball, and many other types of games. There is also a port at the bottom which enables other items to be hitched to it, such as this analogue stick which would make first person shooters more akin to PC versions which are controlled primarily by a keyboard and mouse. Definitely going to have to have some real demonstrations to fully understand just exactly what Nintendo is trying to accomplish with this, but it seems at least somewhat promising. One thing I really like is that Yuji Naka is reportedly very excited by it. Yuji Naka is the creator of Sonic The Hedgehog, and Samba De Amigo (among others). A NiGHTS sequel would seem like a perfect match for this control method, as would a Samba De Amigo sequel which I've personally been wanting for about five years now. One can hope though. More information and actual demonstrations will take place at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) next May, if not sooner, but right now, much is unclear about this.

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Kickoff, Quick Cash, And a New Headset

The Raiders played the Patriots on Thursday. Nice to get the NFL season off to a start. Kerry Collins put up good fantasy numbers (3 TDs, 265 pass yards, 2 rush yards, 1 INT) but beyond that he looked pretty stale. What I mean by "Stale" is he was the most immobile quarterback i've seen in quite some time. He would never leave the pocket even as it would collapse around him. He also tried to hit Randy Moss too often and neglected the other WRs. Overall it wasn't a bad game, but you could tell they were pretty rusty and not ready for the defending Superbowl champs. final score, Pats 30, Raiders 20.

I got a new headset for my cell and for XBOX Live. A Jabra C250. pretty cheap, but actually quite comfy and combined with my phone, extremely loud even on the lowest of settings. That's more my phones fault though. I still wish I had bluetooth though cause cords seem to be going bad on me lately and bluetooth essentially eliminates the need for all cords save for power.

I had to set up the interweb on one of my mother's friends PCs. it took like ten seconds to actually do it, but I went ahead and uninstalled the USB modem driver cause she didn't need it at all and set everything up. got paid 20 bucks for it too. score!

I just noticed my audioscrobbler page was different than it was last time I'd checked it (which was quite some time ago) and I'm not a fan of the colour scheme or style. you can check out the link to the right or just click here. I didn't realize I listen to that much music. wow. at current count it is 27,999 tracks played since January 24th of this year. that doesn't include iPod listening either which would probably add about 25% to that total.

Well that's all for now.

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PayPal hates New Orleans

Well, maybe not exactly, but they make it a pain in the ass for someone to set up a successful PayPal donation fund. I'll explain.

Something Awful set up a donation fund through PayPal to give money to the red cross for the efforts to aide the citizens of what was once New Orleans (and the surrounding areas (region?). They used PayPal to get addresses and names from donators so they could provide them with free merch as a reward for being generous human beings. PayPal saw that they were quite successful (30 grand in about 9 hours) so they froze the account. I'll not regurgitate all the details, but suffice it to say that PayPal makes it nearly impossible for honest people to conduct massive donation drives with their service. not because it's incapable of handling it, but because they don't trust people. you can read the rest at their website www.somethingawful.com.

as for me personally, been a pretty mediocre/shitty week. my AC adapter to my laptop now has a short in the cord somehow, as does the headset I use for XBOX Live and for my cellphone. my .mac is going to expire in less than a month, and my XBL in November. I'd sell my semen, but I'm afraid I wouldn't get near enough for it, or selling plasma, but again I'm presented with the same dilemma. If only I were a beautiful woman I could do one of many things. have my eggs harvested and get tons of cash, or whore myself out to horny guys with cash to burn. unfortunately none of those is possible (and frankly the last one is kinda disturbing to think about) so I'll just have to continue my efforts to get a job which thus far have been fruitless and I've not a clue why. Conspiracy? Perhaps. Shitty? Most certainly.

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