Glad you got more writing done.
Golden Sun is indeed awesome, even I can admit, as a non-JRPG fan. Only thing I don't like is the combat, which, sadly is a pretty large chunk of the game. lol
I actually was. Got the ending with James McCloud not thirty minutes ago. lol
Well, if I'm allowed to go from what I've seen and read, Bioshock: Infinite for both platforms seems to be a strong early contender.
Really loved all the vocal harmonizing today, particulary "Yangtze River Shanty" and the one with the long name anteceding it.
Only one I wasn't really fond of musically was Po Lazarus, it just bothered me they weren't all in sync with each other.
I'm sad to hear your friend Tom has vocal cancer, I like his voice.
As for work songs, "16 Tons," "I've Been Working On the Railroad," and a couple other obvious ones come to mind. I also thought to myself after seeing this, "wait, wouldn't the women from Princess Mononoke have a work song?" I was correct in that assumption, but sadly the version from the movie is not available; the one I saw up was muted for copyright infringement, the rest are covers. Oh well, you can at least get the nice melody from it off Youtube; although it's nothing like the cadence of these work songs, really.
Star Ocean and Morrowind... always heard of those, but never played them. Eleven bucks is a great deal, though!
I have the Castlevanias after Dawn of Sorrow on DS, still haven't finished Order of Ecclessia.
I don't know anything about Naruto, but I did see a Let's Play of that game online, and it looks like the fighting game I've been wanting to play. I know there was something with the similar concept of having a large open-space arena released for Dreamcast, but I forgot the name of it, and that Naruto game just looks awesome.
I was prepared to say, "holy shit, that sounds awesome, the team that perfectly captured Metroid in 3D working on Megaman?!" Then I saw the footage, and wasn't so impressed.
Mostly, it's the aesthetic; sure, the X series was darker story-wise, but I never gave a rat's ass about the stories (I only played X and X2, before the series was ported to Sony consoles and given anime cutscenes), and the X series still had a certain animated charm to it. Its levels may have been wastelands much of the time, but there was a lot of personality in them, whereas the game I just watched look like if Halo Chief was transplanted in a stage of Portal, only it was a straightforward FPS involving none of the personality and interesting mechanics from Portal.
It just looks so bland and generic, and I'd prefer to see X's face. I mean as much as I don't care about the story, it is clearly made important that his human-like traits are what make him unique, so why make a generic cyborg, that doesn't even have the iconic arm cannon, but some boring gun?
I love Retro and what they've accomplished, but this just looks like it was headed in the wrong direction, so cool as it sounds, I'm not too upset it was scrapped. Street Fighter X Mega Man is still awesome anyway, and that's free. 
I only know Footloose and Top Gun themes, but based on those, that man's a genius. lol
As for Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac is a great band, but I wonder how it feels to be placed 100th on a list of 100 best guitar players... there are a lot of things I don't agree with Rolling Stone on.
I think in many cases, limitations are found through challenging one's self. Like that time Jordan tried playing baseball.
Well I've always liked Peppy, at least personality-wise, but yeah they all kind of act like Fox is their dad or something.
