Hey all! Ryan here. Um, so yeah. I guess I'm releasing my first Chat Radio podcast. Soonish anyway… I'm listening to the rough edit right now, and it could use some cuts here and there. Anyway, yeah. Podcasts are beginning, moving into that new wave of internet phenomena then. So stay tuned for those, if you care.

…God I wish I didn't have a 12-year-old's voice.

After three months of happy memories and excellent service, my iPod got fudged. It god fudged baaaaad. No more OAR on my weekly junk food run. No more Fall Out Boy while I'm mowing the lawn. No more Bound Together while I'm out for an evening stroll. I'm not gonna lie. It hurts.

It all started a couple days when I went to charge it. Plugged it into the PC and left to play video games. Came back a couple hours later and it said that I could update teh software. Sure! Why not. So I did. I left for…

NEIGHBOUR SURVEY TIME!! READ MY JOURNAL AND CROMMENT! I'M NOT FIXING THAT TYPO!

Ah. You know the rules, right? Well If you don't, that's too bad.

1.Silens (12.5379)
~Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, Tadashi Ikegami, Jun Ishikawa - N/A
~Capcom Sound Team - 4
~ŠJ”­ŽºPixel - N/A

2.Overclocked (9.6318)
~Gackt - N/A
~Hirasawa Susumu - N/A
~Yasunori Mitsuda - N/A

3.Halfwit72 (7.6249)
~Cinderella - N/A
~Whitesnake - 153
~Mötley Crüe - 142

4.Goldenrody (6.3573)
~Rush - 87
~Pink Floyd - N/A
~Led Zeppelin - N/A

5.neko_courtney (6.2431)
~Something…

*I literally posted this exact same entry in my blog, sans tags of course*

E3 starts tomorrow, but I've got something else on my mind at the moment: Guitar Hero 2. A couple days ago, the first few tracks in the game were revealed, which got me thinking about which songs I'd like to see. So with the revealed tracks ignored, Here's my dream track list for Guitar Hero 2 (Not necessarily in order of difficulty, but arranged in such groups).

Life Is A Highway
Takin' Care Of Business
Roll Me Away
Baby's Come Back
Chicks and Cars

Blue Collar…

Five years ago or so, I was really into playing Unreal Tournament. I thought it was a Godsend. Though I never played online, mind you. No, other people were far too good for me. So I stuck to a group of computer-controlled players that, over time, I began to consider real people with unique personalities, and pretty much played as if I were playing with a bunch of friends. What can I say? I was really anti-social back in those days. I did have real friends, but couldn't be arsed enough to do stuff with them. But I'm getting off-track…

I didn't bother doing a Round-Up last week because I didn't really listen to a lot of music that week. I was barely even on the computer. This week was even worse, but I'll do a simple one anyway. We'll just go ahead and pick a favourite album and song for each of the ten.

1. boston - boston - more than a feeling

2. fall out boy - take this to your grave - grand theft autumn - where is your boy

3. alkaline trio - crimson - back to hell

4. oar - stories of a stranger -…

This week's gonna be standard issue, just a short blurb about what comes to my mind when I think of each band.

1. Motoi Sakuraba - Yeah. Got my paws on the soundtracks to both Baten Kaitos and Baten Kaitos 2. Forget Nobuo Whoever, this is the composer you want for awesome tunes. I'm totally hooked on the true mirror ~guitar ver.~ and the valedictory elegy ~guitar ver.~. The guitars make me squeal like a schoolgirl.

2. OAR - I told you that they'd be hanging around here for a bit. Very sweet band that's definitely got a sound…

So I've been thinking lately. Yeah, don't do it often, but every now and then… But that's besides the point! So I was on the bus the other day and I was listening to the less-popular half of the Guitar Hero soundtrack, and it got me thinking about how sad it is that so many people will never get to experience some of these bands/songs. Mostly because like half of them are composed of members of the Harmonix staff, and not a whole lot of people will ever play the game. Anyway, check out the track listing and try to…

I wrote this all out once already, but it got blown up somehow, and I don't feel like doing it again, so I'll take a page from Something Awful's Video Game Article and do one-sentence "reviews". though they won't really be reviews. Just one sentence about something vaguely related to the band.

1. firehouse - Prime Time is totally as good as their earlier stuff, no matter what any music snobs say.

2. We Are Scientists - There's a fansite that offers up most of their music at http://www.nebulizemymind.com/music/music.html.

3. Hawksley Workman - Treeful of Starling > j00.

4. Thrice…

So I was working as normal the other day, and I had revolution stuck in my head. It's a great song, so I didn't mind it being there. But then I was struck by a stroke of genius. Maybe not genius per se, but it was at least an interesting means to an end.

Lately I've been "trying out" all sorts of new music in an effort to expand both my library and my tastes. You know, diversity and all. But it was then, while I was pulling shit back and forth (as that is pretty much all of my…