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Yeah, I had gained roughly that by the end of last year cause I was taking my girlfriends out to eat too damn much. I've only now started running, but because I had the time to do it, I was only walking three miles a day along with using an app called Noom Weight Loss Coach on my phone to track calories. I hate cardio too, but walking is nice, allowed me to get out and listen to music.

That book sounds vaguely like Catcher in the Rye in reverse, or maybe Dead Poets Society in reverse? Probably I'm just making too much of a connection with the depression and alternative/boarding school themes. Either way, interesting. 

Everyone should love sherbert, it's awesome. I'm glad we agree on that. lol

This article appears to have been written before all details were in, but I think I remember it was in fact a heart failure.

And I've seen Rob Zombie on Conan or some such talk show talk about how he was raised in a circus pretty much, and learned a lot of his showmanship and strange ideas from that. He performed on that same show, and I really wanted to see him live myself after that.

That Raiho plushie is pretty cool; I've always been interested in the Persona games story, not sure how long I'd last at a JRPG dungeon crawler like SMT though.

I'll need to look up that song.

And it's cool, that's why the summaries are there, I don't expect everyone to want to hear me drone, say "uhh" and smack my lips trying to breathe for fifteen minutes.lol

But I've been trying to get myself to do at least these little audio clips so I can eventually try and do a podcast like I've wanted to for a long time. I kept making excuses like not having the best equipment, but at least by sucking it up and talking into my phone I can start getting a rythm going again, and as is said on the first track of The Heist, "the greats weren't great because at birth they could paint, the greats were great because they'd paint a lot." Having not been on air in any form for over a year, I'm having to start over somewhere to get where I want to be. Don't worry though, I need to improve my writing skills as well, so I can definitely have something more friendly to the podcast averse in the near future.

I'll go ahead and mention that there's a deluxe edition of that CD in case you're interested. I just received the normal one, and love it, but deluxe has three extra songs: "Victory Lap," "Castle," and "My Oh My" which is his tribute to Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Neihaus. Of course, I don't know how much that version costs, and you can just do what I will and download whichever of those songs you like off iTunes, just thought I'd mention it, cause in retrospect I might have asked for that version. lol

As for Ozzy, he definitely has a genuine love of music that to me seems to almost conflict with the darker tone of the heavy metal genre. He smiles and bounces around and seems to play metal because it's fun and provides himself and others a damn good time, as opposed to doing it cause it's edgy, which is refreshing. And he always was a bit edgy, but I don't get the perception he was trying to be, just that he was trying to have fun in ways that could come across as such.

As for Jack, all work and no play do make a dull boy, as my three years with Residence Life taught me, but now I find myself wanting and needing to work more than I currently do. Hopefully, some warehouse shipments come in or something. lol Oh well, all part of my journey to find balance. Thanks for the comment as always!

Only game I think I ever really played for story first and gameplay second was MGS and its series. Not that the gameplay was bad, just that I don't think I'd be as willing to keep with its stealth action focus unless the story had hooked me.

The two and a half minutes I watched of that trailer you posted sure do look nice, and looks like a bit of variety thrown in with those water-way segments; I know what you mean about "sandy brown" shooters, this one has a much more clean futuristic vibe in its aesthetic I'm really digging, as it's a nice departure from the "everything in ruins dystopia" I'm used to seeing in too many games now.

I was actually going to mention it sounded a bit like NIN, but I'm a bit ignorant of industrial so I didn't want to let that show. Nice to know I was on to something. lol

No problem. Only Ozzfests I've been to were '07 (free tickets!) and '08 (Dallas, TX only, Metallica headlined and brought King Diamond!) but I saw Type O Negative with Hatebreed and 3 Inches of Blood in one of those years as well; I actually hadn't really heard of Type O before then, but I do like "Black No. 1" and was sad their singer died.

I remember on 1up, riffcompelsme had written a blog about when Will Smith's wife was there. lol Shadows Fall was at Ozzfest '08 as well and had a great set, never saw Rob Zombie, Sepultura, or Mudvayne live, but though I'd especially love to see Rob Zombie live, Hellyeah! (Mudvayne singer, Pantera drummer, I forget who else) and a band whose name I forget that was made up of former Sepultura and I think Soul Fly members were at Ozzfest '08 as well.

I really like the original as well, glad they didn't try to fix what wasn't broken, apparently.

I really need to get a 3DS when more money comes my way.

I used to love going to the local Blockbuster when they had those kiosks to print the photos you had taken from the game, or something like that. I loved going to Blockbuster just for that any time I'd rent the game.