I love being a man (sometimes)... I packed all my junks in about 5 minutes. Now I have time for CoD4.

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MFing Metal Gear Beta update is at 30% complete. I started it five hours ago. These are some biloxi speeds here or something. It's all Konamis fault. It's using an elaborate mirror system.... I'm uploading at 5kb/s... i'm downloading at just over 1. the best i've seen i was downloading at 4kb/s, but i was uploading at 33kb/s... so whoever is leeching me is making out much better than i am.

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cd update for a while

Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
Black Francis - svn fngrs

I haven't bought a Frank Black record in years... but when i saw that 'Black Francis' was releasing a new record, my pixies pavlov reflex went off and i instantly preordered it... weird... so it showed up today, and i was like 'why the heck did i just run off and order this?', i threw it in and i'll be damned... it actually sounds kinda pixie-ish.

so then i did some reading, and it turns out thats what he was going for... this is the 'last' recording as Black Francis. and its good. well... maybe not just like the pixies... but its much weirder than his folk country roots rock records. it's like 8 bucks or something on amazon.

phantom planet is much different than their other records... this one is the 'arty' record i guess.... they kinda have a slight radiohead vibe... which is a compliment i guess because EVERY band thinks they sound like radiohead, but this one actually does sometimes. you ask any band what they sound like and they'll say 'like radiohead but...' and then whatever makes them 'unique'. its funny... in the late 90's early 00's, bands said this, then they got into the thing 'like coldplay but...' and now its back to radiohead. right on.