10.15.05

Losing wits and money

Posted in Music, Personal at 13:54

Bah, I bought a new CD yesterday. After my meeting at the Planetarium, I called my mum at 11 am to hear if she wanted to go out for lunch. Unfortunately she’d had breakfast an hour before, so she suggested I pick her up at noon. This left me with an hour’s time to kill, so I took a walk down Strøget, the central shopping street of Copenhagen. On the way, I first dropped into EB Games, which had no interesting games except Fahrenheit which I plan to buy when the price has dropped a bit, and then the music section of Fona 2000. I found no less than three albums I wanted to hear: Ten Thousand Fists by Disturbed, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness by Coheed & Cambria (good lord, what were they thinking when they came up with that title!), and Dark Light by His Infernal Majesty.

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Mood: Dorky
Music: Disturbed - Stricken

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10.01.05

Contraband

Posted in Music at 14:39

I picked up Velvet Revolver’s “debut” album, Contraband, yesterday. For those of you who don’t know of VR, I put “debut” in quotes because the band is basically Guns ‘n’ Roses with the frontman from Stone Temple Pilots. But anyway, it’s a remarkable album, I downloaded it via a bit torrent about half a year ago when it came out just to hear if it was any good. I only really liked their first single, Fall to Pieces, but there were a couple of other interesting songs, so I pulled all three songs onto my MP3 player and left it at that.

When my harddrive died on me a few months ago, I lost all the songs I didn’t have on my MP3 player. By then I’d actually grown to really like the other two songs as well, Slither (which became their second single) and Sucker Train Blues. So yesterday I figured I liked those three songs enough to justify a purchase of the album, and I dropped by Fona to get it. Today I’m pretty hyped about the whole album. Fall To Pieces sort of unlocked the two other songs for me, and then I could suddenly understand the entire album. I don’t think there’s a single song on it that I don’t like a lot now. Especially Big Machine and Loving The Alien have joined my favourites.

So now I’ve listened to this CD on random/repeat for several hours straight. Now comes the next stage in my consumption of the album: Attempting to rip all the songs to my MP3 player. Finding a copyright protection which puts skips in my songs would kill my good mood with great efficiency, so they better not try any funny stuff. But I have no reason to think they’d be so stupid. Yet.

Mood: Satisfied
Music: Velvet Revolver - Headspace

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09.16.05

Purchase of the week

Posted in Games, Music at 15:22

I invited myself to spend some money today. The first object I bought was the latest album from Foo Fighters, In Your Honor. I’m listening to DOA right now, and though I’ve heard it many times before on the radio, it seems to sound a lot better now that I have paid for it. A strange psychological mechanism perhaps, but one I happen to appreciate - this way you don’t feel that your money are wasted. And of course the really awesome thing about this album is that you get two CD’s for the price of one! As they say on the cover, “One loud. One not so loud.”

The second purchase I made is Half-Life 2. You have no idea how many times I’ve recieved the “O_o” treatment when telling people I did not own Half-Life 2. It’s like the damn game is Gamer Canon - if it’s not part of your game collection, you may not consider yourself a computer games enthusiast. A reaction I would not have been surprised to get, but from which I was mercifully spared by some strange coincidence, is “but how could you possibly expect to get a job in game development if you don’t own Half-Life 2!?”

If you’re wondering why I didn’t buy it before, the reason is very simple. I got it now mainly for the ability to play some of the DAZZLINGLY plentiful modifications for the game. These modifications have only just begun to be released, and now I got the game for a mere 99 kr., less than a third of the price it cost when it was brand new. I’m not very interested in the game itself, being that I am a pansy who does not appreciate getting my pants scared off my ass. I played the game at a friend’s, but only up to the point where people started dropping Headcrabs on me, then I knew it was time to back out while my dignity was intact. Now that I have the game, I do plan to play it as long as my nerves can take me, but to give the poor quivering fellows a break, I’m gonna cheat. In fact I’m gonna cheat as much as humanly possible. And there’s nothing you can do to stop me!

Mood: Happy
Music: Foo Fighters - DOA

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