-What you are reading
-What you are playing
-What you are watching
-What you are listening to
And what you may be excited for.
I am reading a book called Dead Man's Boots by Mike Carey. It's a story about an exorcist in London who is trying to solve a mystery of serial killers coming back from the dead and possessing people with the aid of an intelligent egomaniacal zombie and a lesbian succubus.
This is actually a really cool take on the urban fantasy genre, which has thus far been used as a codeword for "hey, a hot chick gets felt up by a vampire and/or demon and/or werewolf in this book." It has some really cool ideas on ghosts, zombies, demons, werewolves and poltergeists.
My sole critique is that the main character is a little bland. Not surprising, since most urban fantasy tends to be rather typical in its portrayal of characters (either hardboiled male detective or feisty, asskicking grrl detective) and this one doesn't really come back from that. It's definitely worth picking up if you like urban fantasy, but don't like covers depicting girls with back tattoos, or if you feel your mystery thrillers don't have enough evil demons made out of cats.
I am looking forward to playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. It's the first game I've seen to try something innovative with the idea of "predator" gameplay and I'm looking forward to see how that pans out. I watched the first ten minutes of play and my thoughts were that it resembled Bioshock, except with less flashing lights and Killer Croc was in it. Reports say the demo looks solid, so I think I will be picking this up soon. Mr. Parcelan fucked around with this message on 08-07-2009 at 07:13 PM.
I'm playing Heroes of Newerth - a DotA clone with a better netcode
Colbert Report and The Wire
Final Fantasy 6 Ending Theme, the 21 minute version.
What I'm Playing: City of Heroes and Dawn of War 2. I got my first 50 (Sen. McCarthy, Thug/Poison MM) during the recent 2x XP weekend and playing with Goons makes the game pretty great.
What I'm Watching: I have Season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica sitting still shrink-wrapped on my coffee table waiting for my girlfriend (MY GIRLFRIEND) to finish Seasons 3 and 4.0. It's kind of driving me crazy having it sitting there, but not watching it.
What I'm Listening to: Same shit, different day.
that's about it, not playing anything. Nor do I really listen to alot of music. I try and golf as much as I can. But I would never slander a real golfer by saying I was one. It's ugly, really ugly!
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-What you are reading
The Kite Runner. I'm sure everyone's read it by now but if you haven't, do so.-What you are playing
Final Fantasy XI. I just became a Summoner and now I'm gearing up to get my Avatar fights. :3-What you are watching
Desperate Housewives.-What you are listening to
Nothing particularly new.
Just buttoned up the Dawn of War II single-player campaign. Two word review: It owns. Hell, I kind of want to buy some SPESS MAHREEN minis and paint 'em as Blood Ravens. Plus, it made a nice benchmark for this new computer. Just gotta beef up the memory and I think I'll be good for StarCraft II.
There's tons of games coming out that I'm excited for, but in the short term I'm looking forward to Brutal Legend, if it'll ever come out, Wet, and Halo 3: ODST (yeah, yeah, I know Halo isn't very popular around here; if it makes you feel any better, I don't suffer any delusions about it being THEH BREST GAME EVAR!!1). There's plenty more, but jeez, I could make a whole post just rattling off the titles of anticipated games.
I hardly ever watch TV or go to the movies, but I might see the new G.I. Joe flick. I hear it's actually pretty good, in a stupid action movie sort of way (not that I was expecting Citizen Kane or whatever, but still). District 9 and just plain 'ole 9 both look awesome; can't wait.
Been listening to chiptunes a lot lately, though while writing this I was listening to Holst's The Planets ("Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" specifically).
Sigpic shamelessly stolen from Kate Beaton.
-What you are playing
Rock Band 2, baby. Starting to FC songs on Expert, which is way better than I'd ever thought I'd do.
-What you are watching
I really like that show Wipeout. It's like MXC, but with white people failing instead of Asiatics.
-What you are listening to
Goatwhore, Metallica, Static-x, and the like. Hoping OTEP's new album is good.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Playing: Sims 3 and GTA:IV. It's my personal dichotomy, deal with it.
Watching: I've recently gotten hooked by the HBO series "True Blood".
Listening: Same stuff as usual. Rock reached musical perfection in 1977, it's a known fact.
I'm kinda jazzed by the though of getting the Ghostbusters video game.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Callalron wrote:
I'm kinda jazzed by the though of getting the Ghostbusters video game.
Do it. You'll be supporting an awesome ECer. 
-What you are playing
Advance Wars: Dual Strike on my new DSi, and Divinty 2:Ego Draconis, an excellent RPG for the PC.
-What you are watching
Just started the latest season of Lost. Holy shit, time travel.
-What you are listening to
I've uploaded all Metallica Albums to my iPod. So that's what I am listening to.
What are you excited for Captain Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 08-09-2009 at 04:33 AM.
My birthday in September. It's going to be a huge BBQ. 
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I am looking forward to playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. It's the first game I've seen to try something innovative with the idea of "predator" gameplay and I'm looking forward to see how that pans out. I watched the first ten minutes of play and my thoughts were that it resembled Bioshock, except with less flashing lights and Killer Croc was in it. Reports say the demo looks solid, so I think I will be picking this up soon.
Here's the demo.
Playing: Second Life, Sims 3 for a bit, but back to Sims 2, Fallout & Expansions & Mods.
Watching: Hells Kitchen, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Pretty much the entire Adult Swim weeknight lineup.
Listening: 70's, Hillbilly Rock, GreenDay, NIN, Bowie, Stones, some dance, some trance, some EBM, some goth... nothing cutting edge or unheard of or left unmocked.
I've not read any book in ages, the internet has spoiled me with its instant gratification. The last thing I started trying to read was Elminster in Hell.
-What you are playing
I'm currently in the midst of trying something worthy to play. I got bored of WoW, tried CoH and got bored of that, about to try some Guild Wars or DDO. Looking forward to playing Champions.
-What you are watching
Supernatural. It seems cheesy but my cousin said it gets better later on.
-What you are listening to
Rise Against
