Bushmeister

I just watched the HD trailer for Square's next game "Infinite Undiscovery", and despite the silly name the intro movie was convincing. Then they started talking. Oh god. Also, my gamertag on Live is Johan Gasmask. I'm pretty SOL as far as actual online games go, but maybe someone would like to play some Army Of Two/Crackdown/GTA IV with me.

Well, the tales he tells of the band and his own prowess as a musician/person could very well be considered humorously putting themselves down. Forgot "Ska Sucks" by Propagandhi. Also "Back To The Motor League" which calls out college rock artists, but the entire song isn't just about the music industry as such.

Napalm Death's album "Enemy Of The Music Business" is pretty self-explanatory. Dropkick Murphys have "Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced" which is a pretty humorous song from the viewpoint of their guitarist.

"Kneel To The Cross" by Sol Invictus (although Agalloch does a way better cover of this) "The Wandering Jew" by Reverend Bizarre "Christian Incoherent Drivel" by Carpathian Forest

Plus, like it or not, Civilization lends itself horribly for online play. It is hardly even worth it to fire it up at drunken LAN parties. Although it is funny when all our games break down when someone discovers Judaism and everyone starts trying their damnedest to raze every city with Jewish faith in them.

"On The Way Home" by Lykathea Aflame. What?

Modest Mouse, Boards Of Canada and the Fahrenheit Project compilations have garnered some "WTF" reactions on here, so I'll go with those. My personal favorites are in order "Other People's Lives", "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" and "Blue Magnetic Ocean" by Solar Fields.

That you most certainly aren't not.

There already is a sort of a backlash effect in the works, at least with the people that I originally discovered MSI with. There is a segment of the fanbase that have grown to be quite vocal about their mainstream popularity and how it's affecting their sound for the worse. I sort of agree, I though that "You'll Rebel To Anything" was for the most part a pretty shitty album, but the newest seems to be quite good from what I have listened to it. I am a fan of the band but I hate other fans of the band. And I think that both Jimmy Urine and Steve Righ? are pretty good on the vocals, they have amazing range.

I hate the guitar solo on Marduk's "World Funeral". Right after the second verse, the band stops playing for a second and then the solo picks up, and it is just some of the most boring, inane and inappropriate guitar playing I know of. Plus without a rhythm guitarist the solo leaves the song completely without riffing for its duration. <--- link to the official music video for those brave enough to withstand it. Also another example of how black metal bands just can't do a good music video, ever.

Currently listening to one of the best technical death metal albums I have ever heard, that being "Elvenefris" by a Czech band named Lykathea Aflame. RIGHT NOW it just hit my favourite song on the album, track #6 "On The Way Home". This has been my definitive summer album for two years now. I swear, every time there has been a nice, long sunset, I've set this particular track on, climbed out of the window and had a smoke on the roof, the riffs echoing around my room and out of the small window and past me, out to wherever my cigarette smoke blows I can only hope that this summer can offer similar experiences in my new apartment.

Here's some great atmospheric ambient/shoegaze music, from the SomethingAwful.com forums and in free distribution. Siesta http://www.myspace.com/thesiesta <--- The MySpace links to the full album Colugo http://www.last.fm/music/Colugo/Music+for+people <--- Full album download on Last.FM Conelrad http://www.munchhouse.com/conelrad/ <--- Two EPs and one LP worth of stuff, my personal favorite out of the three. "Community Shelter Planning" is awesome.

I love that album title. Love it to goddamn bits. It feels like if you could combine with into a single entity. My number one album... That is an exceedingly hard choice for me. I've had the pleasure of listening to some really great ones over the years. However, I would go back in time and to the one album that originally startled me to my path, Napalm Death's "Scum". Besides the music which I really enjoy, there is also a great emotional load in it for me. It is the epitome of how my good times began.

Three is an amazing game if you suffer from insomnia. Also go get Space Colony. It is a sim-game about building a colony. In SPACE. Also Startopia which is kinda similar to Dungeon Keeper except you build spacestations shaped like enormous metal doughnuts and there are no paladins and it is in SPACE.

Kotiteollisuus My list consists mostly of metal bands, surprise surprise. Týr have some amazing songs sung in Icelandic, which is a badass poetic language to begin with. Then there's a whole slew of black metal bands who sing in French, both from France and Canada: Peste Noiré, Vinland Anti-Christian Kommando and Hell Militia. Some German viking metal bands, like Bombensturm and Thrudvangar as well. Most of the other stuff from countries whose languages I probably couldn't understand are ambient music most of the time, so it doesn't really matter

As well as www.metal-archives.com, who are pretty intricate about defining the bands. They also have a lot of other good info, so it's a real time-saver/time-waster if you're into any sort of metal music. The userbase tends to be kind of horribly elitist for the most part, but then again that is true for 95% of more close-knit Internet communities I don't personally go altering tags, unless there's either multiple tags for a single album (case in point, Behemoth's "Satanica" had two tracks tagged "black metal", one tagged "extreme blackened death metal" and the rest as "death metal") or if the tags are so inane that they give me brain haemorrhages. The afforementioned "extreme blackened death metal" is a good example of what causes me to slam my keyboard with impotent rage.

"Apocalypse Now: Redux" and "Cross Of Iron" top my list. "Redux" was an amazing experience in the movie theaters, and "Cross Of Iron" gets the nod for being one of the rarer films that explores the war from the German POV. Yeah, there have been recent movies that have done that as well, but they were more like dramas rather than war movies ("Downfall" is an AMAZING film however, heartily recommended for its potrayal of the last days of Berlin) Although "Die Brüche" is a good film as well, however I don't think that it has survived the test of time that well. Very few war movies of the era have, in my opinion.

I have now downloaded the game on three separate occassions, and every time the flight missions get me. Every single goddamn time. I don't even shed a tear anymore when deleting that shit because it makes me so mad.

LAN battles in Medieval II with bigass castles, three players to a side and a points advantage to the attackers. Shit gets so ridiculously massive that you start thinking that losing two thousand peasants to take one castle gate is totally acceptable. Crazy how the game comes close to the real thing, eh.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Yes, I like dicking around. I like causing chaos and mayhem, and the quests are fun to boot. But flight school? Fuck. That. Noise. FUCK. THAT. NOISE. Also, "Arcanum: Of Steamworks And Magick Obscura". I love the setting, the story seems kind of cool and I even like the graphics - but the UI and game mechanics are just so painfully glitched and either ballbustingly hard or laughably easy depending on whether or not you want to absolutely break everything in the game or not. Oh Troika Games, you had it all after Black Isle and then you went and fucked everything up.

He just looks weird because he is not drunk off of his tits on rum and cursing at everything in sight. Give it time, boys, I'm sure he'll make a fine cap'n!

Several words: "Cold Pizza". Traffic congestation 414. On Mono Pro. Yeah, don't even consider it.

Straw Dogs is an amazing film, and one I feel is criminally unappreciated by most people. It is visceral in a way that hardly suited "mainstream" films at the time (although, to be fair, A Clockwork Orange WAS released in the same year), and is still pretty brutal in its potrayal of human nature. In recent horror movie news, I watched a bunch of movies from the past 5-6 years over the weekend, and found quite a few pleasant surprises in there. It is good to see that the excessively banal torture porn trend of the past decade or so hasn't pervaded all facets of the horror movie scene, because goddamn it is getting boring beyond all belief. Fucking hell, at least do it right if you have to have gallons of gore on the screen and/or need the feel to rip off of Wes Craven's classics Anyway. The following films get a big thumps-up from me: Session 9 - Great psychological horror, emphasizing exactly the aspects of terror that I enjoy the most: fear of the unknown and the nature of humanity. The small cast pours a lot of effort into the characters, the location of the film is absolutely terrifying and while the plot twist might not be the greatest of all time, it still left me satisfied while wishing to know more. Also, Simon is awesome. Behind The Mask - The Rise Of Leslie Vernon - A horror/comedy that sets itself apart with a very fresh and almost never-before-seen take on the tale of a slasher film. Shot in most part in a mockumentary style from the perspective of a sociopath preparing for his masked murder spree, it does both a great job at parodying all of the undying slasher movie cliches while at the same time playing up a good horror movie that plays by its own rules. While the atmosphere isn't understandably the most intense until the later parts of the film, the energetic main villain kept me entertained throughout the film. Also, Robert Englund cameo! And as a final nod... The Tripper - A serial killer who looks and talks like Ronald Reagan stalks and kills a bunch of innocent hippies on their way to Woodstock. Nothing more needs to be said about this.