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I've listened to a few live shows with the new vocalist Stu Block and he's great. So I knew I'd like this new album.

Genres of metal... hum... I started with an Accept album my band mate lent me one stormy night. I was heading home after a rehearsal while a huricane was raging. The sky was black and lightning ripped through the sky. That night created the perfect music video to the opening chords of Balls to the Wall. I was hooked ever after. Since then I've sampled all sorts of genres. Iced Earth is sort of Power Metal I guess but I'm also picking up the new Behemoth album next month and they are decidedly Death Metal. So I'll check out anything. There's good stuff in every genre I've found.

Harley Quinn's one of my favorite characters after I saw that Batman Animated episode where she first appeared, and I used to read Paul Dini's Gotham City Sirens comic too that was made up of Poison Ivy, Cat Woman and Harley Quinn. That sold me on her as well.

I feel for you. I feel for the trees too. The Lorax isn't pleased.

Despite loosing their lead vocalist way back, they are still amazing. Stu Block is a great replacement and the guitars are as frightful as ever.

This one has a DVD full of extra stuff. It made me think of the extras you get with movie DVDs. I'm sure they were thinking of that. They got to give you something to get you to buy real media instead of downloading it. I would've bought it as just a CD anyway 'cause I'm crazy like that.

I went back to BestBuy today and turns out the Deluxe version was labeled 16.99 but was actually 12.99 when I took it to the counter. It has a DVD with a making of video, a couple versions of the album mastered in different ways, a 5.1 surround sound mix of most of the songs, and some other thing that might be an interview or something. It's a sweet set with a lyric book full of creepy artwork. I'm very happy with it and it was the price I wanted afterall.

Yea I was saddened too after I got Live in Athens and realized it was the last album with Barlow on it; however, Stu Block is very very good and I'm very satisfied with his performances. They have been rotating drummers around lately. The new album has Rapael Saini who replaced Brent Smedley, but after recording the album, Jon Dette became their drummer.

You my friend, are right on the money. That's exactly what I was thinking. The third series of Black Adder is my favorite. Hugh Laurie as the Prince of Wales was priceless and there are amazing performances by: Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid in Harry Potter) as Samuel Johnson, Chris Barrie (Rimmer in Red Dwarf) as a French jailer, and best of all Stephen Fry (of Fry and Laurie) as Duke of Wellington, reunited with Hugh Laurie in the last episode to give Hugh a big giant swat on the face. I nearly died laughing.

I think I started reading Atomic Robo because of Scott Wegener's art. I love the way he draws metal things like tanks and planes and such. It reminds me of the art in Valkyria Chronicles.

Then I kept laughing at the dialog and noticed it was really smartly written too. That's when I had to go find all the old trades and read everything.

Just reminded me of a bunch of games to add to my wish list on backloggery: Cave Story, Bastion and Dust: An Elysian Tale.

I was in a Diner during the snow storm. What a weird surreal place that is on a night like that.