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Unflushed…inflated. Any correlation?

First of all, I apologize for the long hiatus. I got really into my job at Steppingstone as an intern this summer and then got into my RA job and the school year. But here’s a post for you now, and I hope to keep it up as the semester winds down.

Very often when mentioning a song that I like and its artist, I then get asked if I have heard other songs or albums from that artists. It is a reasonable question to be asked; I am not trying to say otherwise. Barring a few artists, though, my music library is more random than coherent. I’ll have two songs from System of a Down, then one from Talking Heads, one from Alice in Chains, etc. I mostly run into music from video games such as Rock Band and Madden, hence the variety of artists. I also have a bunch of songs from video games such as Super Mario Galaxy and Brawl. I love video game music a lot.

Lately, in terms of music, I’ve been listening to Disturbed. I was first introduced to them with the song Down With The Sickness. I later heard Stricken on Guitar Hero 3. I grew to love David Draiman’s voice and listened to the album Ten Thousand Fists. I bought that album and Indestructible; I don’t really like their older stuff as much. Their music has a nice balance of intensity and serious messages lying underneath. I’ve also lately gotten into an indie artist by the name of MC Lars, who makes satirical songs about the music industry and pop culture. In these two examples. Sometimes, in examples like these, I get into the whole album and love it. Most of the time, though, it’s picking one or two songs from a batch and going on to the next one. My musical interest is quite sporadic.

I’ve pretty much watched more hours of TV this week than I have in two or so weeks combined. I watched Criminal Intent on Sunday, SVU on Tuesday, Law & Order Wednesday, the Listener Thursday, and a NBC special Tuesday and Wednesday.

An episode of Criminal Intent came on Sunday, and I enjoyed it. I liked how Detective Nichols admitted that his parents fondled him a bit too much and led him to having an issue with a kind of self-centeredness. He said something like that, anyway. I felt Detective Wheeler was more involved in this episode, as well, which was nice to see. I don’t think she gets utilized enough; it’s nice to have a by-the-book detective with a quirky one, but the by-the-book detective, namely Wheeler, needs to have a bit more stage presence.

On Tuesday, I luckily caught the first part of a NBC special of the White House. It was very informative. I also realized that Rahm Emanuel is missing a finger. It’s unfortunate. I also found it funny when President Obama himself went out to buy the West Wing staff and Brian Williams burgers at Five Guys. Makes me kinda jealous. But either way, the second part of the special showed Wednesday night, and I found that pretty satisfying as well. I’m glad they have things like this to try to keep us as much in touch as possible.

I talk about the other two Law & Order shows and The Listener after the break. Note that there are some spoilers for the season finale ahead if you intend on watching it and haven’t yet.

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Because I honestly want to start from the Central Avenue in California.

This is a response that popped up when I typed in “Central Avenue Station” into the MBTA’s Trip Planner. For the record, Central Avenue is a trolley stop on the Red Line. If you don’t type “Central Ave” and instead type “Central Avenue”, however, you get this. I can see that this is just Google Maps working its mojo, but entries it returns to you should only be limited to the state of Massachusetts and within the T’s reach.

While searching for “using DLC on another wii” in the Rockband forums, I came across this message (click to zoom):

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