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Been going to gabber, breakcore and jungle shows lately.

Haven't been reading a lot the past few months, mostly because I haven't gotten a comfy chair and lamp for my new apartment (lame excuse), but I'm in the middle of/recently finished: 

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin

Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill

Some Chekhov shorts

Five episodes in I've given up on the second season of True Detective, feels like a parody of season one, but not self aware enough to be funny. :-/

Massively disappointed to hear NBC canceled Hannibal, which is probably the most visually creative show on tv.

Really enjoyed the first two seasons of Silicon Valley, especially now that I'm in an organization that mirrors a lot of silicon valley tropes (scrum, tons of buzzwords, etc).

Still playing through GTA V, which I bought day of release for PC. Writing is still pretty stilted and off-kilter, I don't think Rockstar is anywhere near as funny as they think they are. I spend most of my time exploring the mountains on a dirtbike in first-person.

Still spending a fair bit of time in driving sims with my G27 pedals/wheel/shifter setup. Mostly Assetto Corsa (here's a video of me poking around the laser scanned Nurburgring in a very fast car): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyiyNaRYOno" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyiyNaRYOno  (embed didn't work for some reason) 

Well? How are you wasting your time?

Books: I'm re-reading the Song of Fire and Ice series right now. Crazy to see all the foreshadowing and everything when you go back through and re-read them, plus now that I've read it once, I notice smaller details that really add to the experience. 

TV: I really don't watch much TV, though I have it on in the background pretty often. I mostly leave it on reruns of sitcoms I like.

I started watching Spartacus, like Reb, but lost interest in Season 2. I thought the new actor was awful.

Other than that, I mostly wait around for new episodes of Archer.

Video Games: 13 year old USAF would be incredibly disappointed in me. I haven't really played any video games since I started the process of moving out of my apartment/into my house at the beginning of May. I can't access my PSN account, and honestly just don't have a big enough desire to play to go through the hassle of going through tech support. 

I did play through one of the HALO games I hadn't played before when my SO brought her 360 out of storage, which I enjoyed. 

I think I'm boring now....

TV: lots of junk.  I loved hannibal, but seemed to lose interest during the current season.  I watched 2 episodes and the rest are sitting on my DVR.  Penn and Teller Fool Us just started and I'm a sucker for magic.  I binge watched all 5 seasons of GoT in the past month and a half and I'm hooked.  I was also lucky enough to avoid knowing too many spoilers going into it.  I work 2nd shift, so if I don't DVR it I'm not going to randomly watch something and get sucked into it.  

Video games: candy crush. 

I'm a pretty boring person these days.  

Still really into the folk-punk thing. Been listening to a lot of Andrew Jackson Jihad, which is always great to have playing when students come in for office hours.  

Also started getting into proto-country, which has been kinda cool. It started with a mild obsession with Jon Snodgrass after seeing him on the Revival Tour, but now I'm into Drag the River pretty hard. It's good stuff for sitting on a porch and contemplating your life. 

Other than that, just keeping up with feeding my love of pop music. I really dig everything about Taylor Swift's latest album. 

Oh, and for some reason, I've been listening to a lot of Run the Jewels while I drive. Dunno what that is about. 

Oh it's so boring. 

WHHAAATTTTTTTTT

Oh they're frequently overtones. (Look up his cat...)

That was the last time I played. 

Oh man, I know what you're talking about...

Also, I'd like to point out that Cthulhu is kind of a chump. I know he's supposed to embody madness and chaos and the futility of human toil and all that, but some dude hit him with a boat and he got so angry he missed his his one chance to reclaim the Earth. I suppose time is meaningless to Cthulhu, and he'll be more than ready next time the opportunity rolls around, but that all still seems kinda lame to me. Yog Sothoth is where it's at. If you're gonna be all quirky and worship a fake god, seems the guardian of all the secrets of the universe(s) would be the way to go...

Edit: "Guardian" may have been the wrong word here. Perhaps "keeper" would have been better. Without having looked into it, it seems to me that Yog Sothoth was perfectly willing to dole out the limitless knowledge of the universe to anyone who sought him out. Seems to me his purpose was to embody the idea that too much knowledge could destroy those who sought it. Either way, those stories interested me more than the Cthulhu stories.

Oh they're frequently overtones. (Look up his cat...)

Is it good? 

I really liked Trunk Muzik 0-60 but have not tried out anything else he's done. 

Books.   "Tigers in the Mud" by Otto Carius,  The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 3 volumes, over 40 pounds of hard back adventures of my two favorite comic strip characters. I have been reading that with my youngest son. 

TV.  Hulu has taken over on the nights I don't watch "Naked and Afraid" and my DVD collection of "The Walking Dead".

I started reading book one of the Game of Thrones series, its a good book so far, looooooooooooong though.

I've started watching Ballers and The Brink on HBO.  I'm enjoying both although I'm not head over heals for them.  I also have gotten into Dexter, I enjoyed it a lot more after getting past the first few episodes.

Oh on the topic of podcasts, I've got a rotation of The Giant Bombcast, GBEastcast, How Did This Get Made?, The Attitude Era Podcast, Cinema Swirl, and A Mediocre Time. 

I use either the Podbay app or the Soundcloud app. 

Granted, I understand that, but I just can't justify it for myself.

I use Stitcher, has some good options like saving them for offline, save shows as favorites in different playlists.  You can even set a sleep mode with it too for various intervals.  Has most of the podcasts I listen to in one spot or you can search by categories and such.

You just have to keep working at the clash man, you can progress without spending money.  Obviously their wgoal is to get you to buy stuff but you can make it happen without spending money.

I am constantly afraid to reply to threads now, after my last reply stayed at the top for like 3 days.

I don't want to be the one who kills mother.

Accompanied my wife to the county courthouse because my 11 year old stepson's father put paperwork in to get full custody.  He worked on my stepson the better part of Spring and Summer and filled his head with grand times to be had by living with Dad and his new toys (quads, kayaks, Jeep, etc.) and how Dad would coach him in his sports at his new school.  He assumed that my stepson would be able to tell the judge where he wanted to live.  Much further than the truth.  This was just an informal hearing to find cause for a change in custody.  Nobody allowed but Mom and Dad.  The boy was seriously pissed that he wasn't going.  Even told my wife of "eff off" when she told him he wasn't going.  Dad ran a real number on him.  The hearing did not give him full custody but my wife agreed to shared custody, so his weekends have been expanded.  Instead of Friday-Sunday, he now can have him every other weekend starting on Thursdays after school starts.  The boy has been with his dad since the hearing so I have no idea what to expect when we get him back this weekend.

Man that feels good to unload this.  Apologies to all that have become my unwitting emotional Maxipad.

Other than that, been keeping up with my shows:  The Strain, The Last Ship and Humans.  Looking forward to Fear the Walking Dead as well as Heroes Reborn.  Might even gander at the new Supergirl series...

The writing and direction of that show were insultingly bad. 

The actors did their best with the scripts they were given, and were maybe the only non-disgusting part of the whole ordeal. But that story was dumb. And that script was atrocious. And the direction was boring. 

Ugh. 

Started reading Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics. It is amazing, and I wish I could read it in Italian...

I think the best thing I heard as an example of this is about reaction to dialogue. 

In the first season, Marty reacts, especially early on, exactly how you'd react if someone like Rust started talking about philosophical pessimism and "man walking into the final sunset" and about tasting the psychosphere of aluminum and ash. Marty straight-up rolls his eyes, reacts in a really put-off way, and eventually tells him to stop talking all that nonsense in the car because it sounds bonkers. When someone starts talking about Usenet-circa-1997 babble around you, that's a totally natural reaction. 

In the second season, Frank says "it's like having blue balls in your heart" and everyone just reacts like that would be a totally normal thing another human being would say. 

Listening: No artist in particular, just whatever catches my ear at the time. Or whatever station my Sirius is on while on the way to the gym or work. 

Reading: Alcatraz #1259 - While touring The Rock this summer, I had the opportunity to meet the author, William Baker and get a copy signed. I recently read David & Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell and I would suggest it to anyone. I finished Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain a while back and got a ton of laughs from it.

Watching: Fear the Walking Dead, I'm really enjoying this story line so far. I enjoy mindless shows like American Pickers and stuff on the Food Network too. And sports.

Playing: Destiny, awaiting The Taken King to drop. I'm playing on 360. I'm currently looking to buy a Nintendo DS and pick up some of the Pokemon games just for fun.

Otherwise, I'm working a lot. Psychiatry is booming right now! It's nice to see some old faces around still.

 

Watched the first couple episodes so far, pretty good show.

they are bad, and hard, I should sell them to Walmart, that's how most of theirs are when you buy them.

Eville wrote: Well, I crossed over to the dark side and got a Mac, for a number of reasons.  I was tired of lugging my 17.5" 11lbs gaming laptop through airports, which I frequent.  Its battery life was horrendous.  But most of all, Microsoft has been trying to mimic the OS X interface for years now, and doing a very poor job of it.  So I broke down and got a 13" Macbook Pro with all the fixings.  I've only had it for a few hours now, and I have to say I'm entirely happy with it.  The only thing my old one had that this one doesn't is a dedicated GPU.  I don't see that being an issue though.

What do you fly in the AF?

I too binge watched the making a murderer... Holy cow, insane show, that county is so corrupt! 

LMAO

Music, been listening to a bunch of local bands, Doc Watson, etc. 

If you like fantasy, I really enjoyed the Dragon Prince/Dragon Star series (serii?) by Melanie Rawn.

Dang... TWO!

I saw one on local craigslist for $40... Looked brand new, I called and it was gone already. 

It would be fun to mess with one! 

I found The Hobbit audiobook today. Will start that tonight. I'm glad the library has a lot of audiobooks.

I find reading to be too static? I have a hard time reading and not start thinking of other things, then realizing I don't know what I just read. Being able to drive, work on other things, doing puzzles, or cleaning and lubing the paintball gear while listening to a book really helps me keep attention to the book. I was curious how I would react to listening to the book because listening to the priest at church also makes me start thinking of other things.

Is he the one that did the original audio books way back when? If so, he's GREAT.