My president is just so fucking cool.

Spiritual Rights

Quick recap since last post. I played the shit out of Hotline Miami (see previous post) and it was amazing. It only lasts 4-8 hours depending on how dedicated one is to getting all the secrets and wrecking all the high scores, (I totally was), and it really is the best indie game I've played in quite a while. It is super violent and at the same time really trippy, but under that facade it's basically just a puzzle game soaked in Quentin Tarantino films and acid. Would I recommend this game for the ten dollar asking price? F yeah. It's well worth every penny and it has the best soundtrack of the year as far as I'm concerned. Check it out here at their bandcamp site. http://soundcloud.com/devolverdigital/sets/hotline-miami-official

I totally went to 3 concerts in 6 days and that was pretty sweet. I checked out Dropkick Murpheys on Saturday and they put on a pretty decent show. There was a time in my life when I was 12-14 when these guys were the bees knees as far as I was concerned and they served as the first bridge in my music tastes from Pop-Punk to Punk-Rock (yes there is a distinction) which would eventually lead me to where I am today and for that I am forever grateful to this band. They put on a hell of a show and I went totally loaded so that helps. I realized after the show that at 23, I may be a bit old to rock circle pits because I totally felt like I had been in a couple of car accidents the next day. Totally worth it and they put on a pretty good show.

Fast forward to Tuesday and I saw one of my favorite bands, Andrew Jackson Jihad at the Triple Rock in Mpls. Holy balls that was an amazing show. For those of you not introduced to AJJ they are a Folk-Punk band (yep, that's totally a genre) and they just make awesome awesome music. On their first release they were just two dudes who played an upright bass and an acoustic guitar playing some really insightful/hilarious/slightly offensive music and they have evolved into a full band playing more prototypical punk rock with a slight country flair (hard to explain, still awesome though). Anyways it was an awesome show. They played some Misfits covers as well as a Dead Kennedys cover so that was awesome. And about 3 songs in somebody threw/dropped a knife on stage and they totally played it off and just held onto it for most of the show while at one time waving it in the air during the encore. Just check em out. They're cool.




The last show I saw was Trampled by Turtles who were back in Fargo. They are an alt-country/ folkish band from Duluth and they put on an alright show. I had seen them two years previous in the same place and it seems like a year of constant touring might be taking a toll on them as they just didn't have much in the gas tank. They still put on a hell of a show and they looked like they were having a good time, but they just seemed tired. I don't know. Still worth the 15 dollar admission fee.

Hotline Miami

I need to buy this game. Best part? 10 bucks.

Well That's Settled

The new Pig Destroy album, Book Burner, absolutely slays. Easily the best metal release of 2012 and possible album of the year. Holy shit. They haven't come out with a new album in five years, but they must have spent every minute of that time getting pissed off and writing music.

Best part? It's streaming on NPR. I love America.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/14/162728112/first-listen-pig-destroyer-book-burner

Tandem

I'm pretty sure I subconsciously hate the idea of any free time based off of my recent actions. 

I have in the past month done this:

-Start watching Season 2 of The Walking Dead.

-Start watching Freaks and Geeks.

-Try to keep up with the new series of Doctor Who.

-Burned through the first two books of A Song of Ice and Fire (the books from Game of Thrones).

-Started reading book three of the aforementioned series.

-Attempted to get caught up on all the games I bought from the past Steam sale which is in and of itself a lost fucking cause (Alan Wake, The Walking Dead (videogame this time, also very good), The Binding of Issac, Civilization V, Borderlands 2, and Super Meat Boy.

-Thought about getting caught up on Mad Men as well as Dexter, but quickly realized that would be a poor choice if I ever wanted to sleep again.

Thank god winter is coming so I'll have more time to piss away on this stuff so that by spring when the flood waters start rising again I'll be caught up with all this stuff, but then again there will have been another Steam sale so... yeah. 

First world problems suck.

Sup

I suppose it's time to do my monthly update. Guess what? I'm going to New York City for a few days and I'm leaving tomorrow. I don't have any sort of grand plan as to what I'll be doing there, but I'm sure I'll find a way to have a good time and do all the slightly touristy stuff without going full Japanese tourist.

I'll probably give a full report once I get back Mondayish.

The new Flying Lotus album is pretty fucking sweet. Until The Quiet Comes reaffirmed my faith in humanity and I've been fascinated with it since it began streaming on NPR a few weeks ago.

How about that election going on, huh folks? Jesus, I still can't wrap my head around how one debate resulted in such a huge swing in the polls. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Obama didn't whip his dick out during the debate and play piano with it. The polls seem to indicate otherwise.

Here's my new background. It combines two of my favorite television programs at this time, Breaking Bad and Adventure Time. http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/2320668

That's all for now. I might start to post more regularly, but who knows. Probably not.

Knuckles.

With the Whitest Kids U' Know's 5th and final season they decided to end every episode with clips from a full length feature film they created titled, "The Civil War On Drugs." In it, Trevor and Sam essentially start and end the Civil War because of marijuana. Some guy decided to splice all the clips together and make the film whole. God damn it's funny