Random Thoughts Part II

Just some random nonsense...

• There has been a lot of Lost backlash over the first part of season three. The main complaint being that it dished out more questions than answers these days. After two seasons, if you haven't figured out that this show does not operate under the principles of "immediate gratification", then you should stop watching. Seriously. Don't watch anymore. Luckily this show rakes in enough money on DVD that it is never in danger of being cancelled, even if the ratings slip.
• Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News needs help of the psychiatric variety.
• I think I've "outgrown" hip-hop for the most part. I listened to new albums by The Game and Jim Jones of the Dipset and I thought they were garbage for the most part (between both albums only 9 songs weren't deleted after one lesson). However, most hip-hop magazines and message boards actually think these are hot albums. Sometimes I watch BET and I want to throw up. I think BET actually is making me a racist but that's another post. Hip-Hop like basketball is a young person's game I guess. As I look at my iPod and see that this year, there is more indie rock and pop than hip-hop. Actually, every year, there is less and less hip-hop that interests me. That said, I'm still looking forward to Jay-Z, Nas, MF Doom, The Clipse and Ghostface's upcoming album. I don't know. Is it just that I have an old ear? I feel like William in Mallrats staring at the Magic Eye poster looking for the ship.
  
• Speaking of my iPod, I'm down to 300 MB left on my 60 GB iPod. I've managed to hold out for a month now, deleting a song or two a day, then adding an album but I'm either going to have to part with a lot of music or I'm going to have to buckle down and buy an 80 GB. It's sad because jazz is always the first to go.
  
• In a perfect world, everyone would be watching Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy and The Wire.
• Even though between my television watching, my Netflix movies, going out to the movies and my general chores (laundry, ironing, laziness, etc.) I barely have time to play video games any more, I REALLY want to buy Guitar Hero II. Maybe it will convince me to have people over every once and awhile. It just looks like too much fun.
  
• The Shins' Wincing The Night Away is already my favorite album of 2007
• My favorite albums from this year right now are Badly Drawn Boy's Born in the U.K., the soundtrack for Shortbus, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton' Knives Don't Have Your Back, Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and The Dears' Gang of Losers.
• Since when did People Magazine become Out magazine? They've "outed" Lance Bass from *NSync, T.R. Knight from Grey's Anatomy and now Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother. And yet, Tom Cruise eludes them.
• I still want to learn French but c'mon, let's not kid ourselves.
• My boss for the last two Christmas gave gift certificates to iTunes Music Store. The first was for $200 (!) and the second for $50. Do you know how much I have left? $161. If I know I can get it um...elsewhere, I won't buy it. Too bad I can't use it towards an iPod.