Ten years ago I saw my favorite band perform for the first time at a music festival. It wasn't very satisfying, as they were the second-to-last to perform after a long, long day in a very crowded area, but they otherwise never came near Hickville, Iowa. Two weeks ago on Friday the thirteenth, being that I now live in a rather large city, Hanson ( Read more... )

Oh man, ever hear a song you really, really like on the radio, look up who wrote it, and discover you absolutely hate the rest of the music that singer/band has done? I'm feeling that way about OneRepublic. Their song "All the Right Moves" caught my ear in a Walgreens of all places and I heard it later on an XM station where I could catch the band' ( Read more... )

I've been slowly but surely ripping my music collection onto my computers over the past few months, ever since buying an mp3 player that can handle such a load. For some reason, I encountered an mp3 that wouldn't open in Windows Media Player and thought, what the heck, I always meant to download Winamp again, so I looked it up for the first time in ( Read more... )

I have no clue how long it'll be up, but AOL has Hanson's new album streaming in completeness right now. I'm only on my second listen, but I think I'm not going to regret buying this CD when it comes out -- which I was going to do, preview or no, but I appreciate the early listen.

I'll admit, I skip around on Underneath a lot, so I wasn't entirely ( Read more... )

Wow. I'm listening to Hanson's MySpace page 'cos they have a CD coming out and I was checking for new songs. Thing about Hanson's MySpace? If you're not carefully monitoring the songs, you eventually reach their older stuff, a.k.a. "Mmmbop ( Read more... )

Okami is the video game that never ends. I'm about to face a Final Boss-style monster that I will not name for Spoilers, but there's all these sidequests left that I didn't have the ability to complete until this dungeon and I can't leave it. So I checked an online walkthrough and, sure enough, despite this being the second Final Boss-style fight ( Read more... )

Is it a sign that I'm clinging to the past when the new Butterfly Boucher album comes out only in mp3 format and I'm waiting to hear if an actual CD will ever be out too? 'Cos damn I don't like mp3 albums. My computer doesn't have infinite space, you know. Besides, I just like having the physical item. This is also why I strongly dislike eBooks as ( Read more... )

Ickies, this cold feels gross. My sore throat has gotten better, but I still need 7-Up or, better, lime juice to calm it every so often. I would have never guessed lime juice would be helpful for something like this, but it sounded really yummy and I decided to have a sip. Most liquid will help my throat for a few seconds, but lime juice will keep ( Read more... )

Maaaybe shouldn't have done this, but Utada Hikaru's new CD This is the One is out and was only eight bucks at Best Buy, so I bought it. I've found with Utada that I love her music half the time, despise it the other half, so this is rather a gamble. But the songs I do like by her are so good, I thought the eight dollars won't be wasted even if I ( Read more... )

Okay, wait, what the heck is this? And why does ANN's page on it only mention the American staff when the DVD claims to be in both languages? Is it a movie? OVA? A giant slideshow/flashback with Ryuk's commentary? A complete retelling of the series from Ryuk's point of view that will last another nine discs? Who made it anyway, the American or ( Read more... )