March 13th, 2011 | 
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I recently purchased the latest Get Up Kids album out of respect for their previous records. This is a band that I felt I grew up with each album release. Each album, itself, showing a distinct sense of maturity. It all ended quite nicely with Guilt Show.
When I picked my first Get Up Kids album I was a little too old to be inspired by the band’s misconstrued emo tag, as I came to it from being a fan of undiluted punk rock. The band’s pop-punk style contained more melody and was a nice change from the other stuff I listen too. However, it still maintained an under-produced, live sound that I think is integral to good music. In fact, by the time I saw the band live – it was their final show and it was a fantastic show.
After 7 years since Guilt Show the band has released an album that takes a new and occasionally misguided direction…the band decided to layer sounds and noises in novel ways throughout each of the album tracks. It is messy particularly through headphones – I had trouble finding a good anchor song on my first playthrough of an album. Often introduction to songs drag out in an unnatural way causing the album to lack a sense of flow.
The simple hooks and melody of the past are there, they are just buried beneath artistic nuances. There are some strong tracks – Regent’s Court is pure vintage Get Up Kids and Tithe is old school goodness once you subtract the intro. Read the rest of this entry »
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A couple of folks decided to run the high school novel through its paces on the NES. I love the idea to literary classics being turned into retro video games.
How about:
1. Super Lord of the Flies – A beat’em up!
2. Catcher in the Rye Sandbox Action title
3. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Point and Click Adventures
4. To Kill and Mockingbird RPG
5. Call of the Wild Adventure
Sounds like some good literary gaming!
A fantastic song about a silly little thing!
One day you go out and buy two shirts. One catches your eye immediately and its one that you could use to cruise on special occasions. The other is maybe a bit a plain but you’ll wear it on your lonesome or during errands. It is literally a beater – you don’t pamper it all – you just use it and never think twice. You can wear it when you are sick. The first shirt – well, it holds out for a “special occasion” – you take care of it and treat it well.
Once the “cruising” day comes you don your fancy shirt and skip off into the town. Maybe it doesn’t happen in the first hour or the second but at some point you realize that you’d rather be wearing the other one. In fact, the other one feels more like you than the fancy one ever will.
How come we aren’t supposed share our birthday wishes? All of mine usually involve spending time with someone I consider significant. It seems to me if I never say anything, it would never happen. Than again, I say things all the time and nothing seems to happen.