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Playing : WoW
Watching : The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, just finished Eden of the East
Listening : The Sa-Ra Creative Partners – Nuclear Evolution – The Age of Love, anything by Minilogue, Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Reading : Teh Interwebz

I haven’t thrown on my 360 in a month, unfortunately. I’m playing Pokemon Platinum every so often when I’m not blogging. Its entertaining. I’m also listening to the 3oh!3 album…good times.

Reading: Infinite Jest (only 1000 pages to go!)
Watching: Better Off Ted is the only show I’m currently invested in. And I’ve got Let the Right One In from Netflix
Listening: Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear and Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Playing: Ghostbusters!!!

Currently making my way through season 3 of The Office, my favorite show after King of the Hill, another Greg Daniels masterpiece. I play a lot of Mario Kart Wii, watch a lot of Food Network (I’m an aspiring chef!), and love reading anything I can get my hands on (news, magazines, anything). Other than country, I enjoy just about anything new or interesing, musically, but I’m particularly a fan of Blue Note era jazz and classic R&B.

Playing: Resistance 2 and Fall out 3
Watching: Every movie on the AFI Top 100 list this summer
Listening: Beatles
Reading: Lots of Sci-fi: Heinlein, Tolkien, Card, Butcher, Rothfuss

Playing: Tiger Woods 10, NCAA 09 (I’m already quivering in anticipation for 10, although the demo disappointed me), Burnout Paradise, Mass Effect XBL tag SmartAssJew315
Watching: All sports all the time aside from the occasional On Demand Movie and the Simpsons/Family Guy duo on Sunday.
Listening: I listen to most everything, but I’m trying to give Dylan (who I’ve never been a big fan of) a last shot before I dismiss him forever…he’s actually surprising me.
Reading: Not much, but I read A Separate Peace for my mother, Homer Simpson Goes to Washington, which I should have read for a class in the spring, and about to crack into Middlesex

Playing: Tiger Woods 10 and Resident Evil 5

Watching: Just started How I Met Your Mother. Amazing. And of course the Bravos nightly.

Listening: Relapse – Eminem

Reading: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. wicked interesting stuff.

Also, as a side note, I’ll be starting journalism grad school at Syracuse University on Monday, just to let you guys know a little more about me.

Playing: Baseball Mogul 2010, Empire: Total War. (I heart strategy games!)

Watching: The West Wing – Season 1, Braves baseball on mlb.tv, Fox News Channel

Listening: The new Dave Matthews Band album, all other DMB, Oasis, The Greencards, Stone Temple Pilots… pretty much anything except country and gangsta rap. Digital Underground and Run DMC kick it.

Reading: The Ender Wiggins series by Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game, Speaker For The Dead, etc.), anything by Tom Clancy, Arthur C. Clarke (R.I.P.), Frank Herbert, and Douglas Adams.

Reading: Just finished “The Stalking Moon”, an older western style novel from T.V. Olsen. It throws a lot of people from it because of it’s western setting, but if you enjoy books that build suspense and make you hear noises in the dark at night, you will love it! Also, the movie with Gregory Peck is amazing (just don’t watch it by yourself at night—it will seriously creep you out!).

Watching: Been watching a lot of Law and Order: SVU during the day, usually Braves and whatever I can find on TV at night.

Listening: Best of Chevelle mix on my iTouch. Love that band!

Playing: Unfortunately I’m stuck in Georgia away from my PS3 for at least another few weeks, but when I get back I plan on diving back into 09 The Show and anxiously await the release of NCAA 10. My PSN tag is KingSize13. For now, it’s games on my iTouch and the Backyard Sports on my computer (don’t hate, those things are actually really fun!)

Also, I’m working on finishing a class for Seminary, and me and the wife are still recovering from our accident back during Easter, so hopefully things will get back to normal for us in the next few weeks!

The only thing I watch is MLBN since I work crazy hours and it is summer with nothing new on TV.

I’ve been listening to one of my favorite bands lately, Doves. They came out with a new album in April but I celebrate their entire catalog.

I’ve been playing alot of Tiger Woods 10 and Forza 2 with some Halo 3 thrown in for good measure. On the PC I play Out of the Park Baseball 10. It’s a text based baseball sim. I love that game.

Reading: Just finished Angels and Demons and I’m reading 3 Nights in August right now, about Tony LaRussa

Watching: Braves games, new movies, Daily Show

Listening: Dispatch, Phish, P Groove, Kings of Leon

Playing: I’ve started going back to COD4, Fallout 3 occasionally, and The Show 08. My team is completely stacked because I made Hanson, Medlen, Heyward, Freeman, and Schafer and they are all amazing. I always end up adjusting players skills so I got Justin and BJ Upton for 2 minor leaguers and made them really good. I was wondering if there is much of a difference between 08 and 09 – enough to buy 09?

Reading: The “Tunnels” series…just finished the second book, “Deeper”. Also reading the Percy Jackson books. Yes, I teach 5th grade.
Listening: Nothing new. The Police, Duran Duran
Watching: Seinfeld DVDs.

Reading: Finished up Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami, and I’m starting reading Patient Zero by Jonathan Mayberry.
Watching: I still don’t watch much tv aside from baseball. My favorite cartoon is still The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack if not obvious by my xbox avatar.
Playing: Still playing Left 4 Dead on almost a nightly basis, and still playing Resident Evil 5. Those are the only games in which I actually care about the achievements, and I have 50/50 in L4D, and 49/50 in RE5. I also recently completed the Chrono Trigger remake for the DS…
Listening: Ida Maria, Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun (Atlanta local), and a litany of older stuff on my ipod; Cheap Trick, Talking Heads. I got an HD tuner for my car, and it’s probably one of the best acquisitions ever.

After the holiday, I’m taking a brief baseball sabbatical for the meat part of the week; first a visit up to Raleigh/Durham, where I’ll be seeing the Durham Bulls host our Gwinnett Braves on the 8th, and if all goes well according to plan, a day trip to Tampa on the 9th to see the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Rays. If anyone’s in either of those areas and wants to say hi, I’m all for it.

Reading: A book about conspiracies, can’t remember the title though, lol.
Watching: Well im currently addicted to Lets Plays on Youtube. If you don’t know what it is, you should check them out.
Playing: MLB 09 The Show, UFC Undisputed, Rock Band 2, Chrono Cross (eventually)
Listening: My favorite listens at the moment are: Interpol,Dead Kennedys,Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiona Apple, Arctic Monkeys

Reading:I just finished reading Steve Martin’s(yeah, wild and crazy guy, that Steve Martin) two novels, Shopgirl and The Pleasure of my Company. Pleasure of my Company is awesome, and hilarious in lots of places. Now I’m finally going to force myself to read Twilight, so if I don’t post hear anymore it because I turned into a 14 year old girl and am crying in the corner becasue my life sucks and I’ll never find my own vampire boyfriend.

Playing: Lord of the Rings Online, and a little Guitar Hero III and Aerosmith

Watching: Just picked up Season 1 of the original Transformers series. Waiting on the Blu-Ray release of the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings films. I watch Braves games every day of course, and NCIS most every day. Other stuff that I throw in the DVD player often: Firefly & Serenity, 300, the 2008 Iron Man & Hulk films, 2007 Transformers film, the Crow, and if I want something funny I usually go with anything from Kevin Smith, Major League, an American Pie movie, or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Listening: mostly just listening to the MLB channel on XM when I’m in the car.

Reading: Nothing much outside of my research, and SI and Wired.
Playing: (360) Call of Duty: World at War, Tiger 10, GTA IV
Watching: I want to see Public Enemies, just watched Kelly’s Heroes on DVD
Listening: Kings of Leon, John Prine, Michael Jackson

Reading: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Don’t know why I’ve never heard of or read this before; it’s freaking genius.

Watching: The only shows that have new episodes on are Tosh.O and True Blood, which are both pretty great. I go see most of the movies that come out, even though about 80% of them aren’t very good.

Listening: Spinnerette, Brody Dalle’s new band; it’s nowhere near as good as The Distillers, but it’s interesting. And Manchester Orchestra has been a constant part of the rotation for a while now.

Playing: Nothing. Between trying to go to games and make an independent movie, I just can’t find time to play any video games. Alright, I occasionally play Punch Out and Mario Kart on my friend’s Wii.

Reading: I Was Right on Time by Buck O’Neil (must read for any baseball fan)

I forgot to mention that I’ve been watching my old Top Gear episodes as of late. It may be my favorite show on TV. You may have seen it on BBC America, but those episodes are so chopped to hell they aren’t worth watching. Download them off the internet. If you like cars and you like comedy, this show is for you.

Reading: Nerd alert…I spent the majority of the my life curiously interested in Warhammer 40,000 and a few months ago a friend of mine let me borrow the Eisenhorn trilogy of novels and I was blown away. I’m all in now, currently on the second book of the Ravenor trilogy and I just ordered a bunch more from their website. If you enjoy sci-fi I highly suggest checking them out…it’s like a really violent Star Wars atmosphere.

Playing: Multiplayer…Gears of War 2 and COD 5. Campaign…Prototype and Sacred 2. Still need to play the two most recent DLC for Fallout 3. Games I’m most excited for…Darksiders and Mass Effect 2. Love video games.

Watching: Halfway through with that show Freaks and Geeks from back in the day. It’s hilarious seeing Jason Segal, Seth Rogan, and James Franco in the roles they play. Also finishing up the second season of Homicide: Life on the Street (good, but it’s no Wire), and just started the show Firefly. Hoping the new season of Always Sunny in Philadelphia is better than the last one…pretty much the only show I watch on TV these days, normally stick to DVDs.

Listening: Current ipod setup contains…Arcade Fire, Funeral; Death Cab for Cutie: Plans; Emery, In Shallow Seas We Sail; Gatsby’s American Dream, Volcano; The Get Up Kids, Something to Write Home About; Imogen Heap, Speak for Yourself; Manchester Orchestra, Mean Everything to Nothing; Portugal the Man, It’s Complicated Being a Wizard; Secondhand Serenade, A Twist in My Story; Silverstein, A Shipwreck in Sand; and Saosin, S/T…among others.

Sorry, may have gone a little overboard on the italics.

Reading – The Visitation, SI, photography books, local papers at work

Playing – Been working too much to play my games this summer, but when I do, I play Team Fortress 2 (Steam ID: HomieJay2k6), Garys Mod, and Bioshock on my PC. I am 1337 cause I pwn teh n00bz, rofflecopter

Watching – Watched The Hangover and Transformers 2 in theaters recently; absolutely LOVED The Hangover. Other than that, the 3 DVDs that I loop through my player at night while I sleep are Anchorman, Pineapple Express, and Dumb and Dumber. Big fan of The Matrix and Jason Bourne trilogies as well.

Listening – I’m still with my all-time favorites like Rage Against the Machine and Breaking Benjamin, but have given in to some of the new trendy bands like 3OH!3 and Flobots. I also have been on a kick of digging around Myspace music pages for underground hip-hop artists. (Paper Tiger is sick)

Watching: Burn Notice
Reading: Just finished “A Day at elBulli” and now reading Bouchon.
Playing: Rainbow 6 “Lockdown” – Have my kid for the summer and he loves that one, and Quantum of Solace.
Listening to: Lots of Alice N Chains for some reason…

Watching: Labyrinth, as in, right now. Oh man, David Bowie in those leotard pants; what a weird movie. Jennifer Connelly was smoking hot in that movie; too bad she couldn’t act at the time.

Reading: The Eragon series. Its a little played out and pretty generic, but I can get into the story most of the time.

Playing: Left4Dead! Why can’t I quit you?? I also just finished up Fallout 3: Broken Steel. Man I do love me a good post apocalyptic setting. My next game is probably going to be finally learning how to play guitar hero while unpatiently waiting for left4dead 2.

Listening to: Nothing specific at the moment, but I’m a classic rock junkie.

First of all, lemme start by saying, genious idea for a fanpost. Really, kudos yondaime. Pleasantries aside, my list…..

Reading: Moby Dick, Fahrenheit 451
Playing: Alien Hominid (Game cube), Punch Out (Wii)
Listening: Somewhere in the Between- Streetlight Manifesto, Supporting Caste-Propaghandi
Watching: Casino at the moment, Breaking bad season 1 my bro just turned me onto, greAT show….

too bad I missed a huge chunk of it over the vacation…. but i also got to miss the DLowe and Hanson starts too so it wasnt a total loss.

Reading: The Kill Artist – Daniel Silva, A Painted House – John Grisham (amazing read, apart from his usual law stuff, and has LOTS of baseball in it!)

Playing: Flight Control – ipod touch (dont knock it til you’ve missed appointments playing it in the waiting room)

Listening: Phish – 09 tour thus far, Gentleman Auction House, Paulson, People in Planes

Watching: CANT STOP WATCHING ROLE MODELS!!!!!! Over and over, but that replaced Pineapple Express and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Anything even remotely related to the Apatow/Phillips clan is worth marathoning.

I really enjoy these threads.Google to know what the Braves community enjoys in their spare time. Cause working sucks.

Reading: Just put down Atlas Shrugged to start reading Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Atlas Shrugged is f*cking horrible. Warbreaker is alright, but Brandon Sanerson is writing the last three books in the Wheel of Time series, so I thought I’d pick it up to hold me over.

Playing: Havne’t played my 360 in awhile. Nothing good out yet. Waiting for the new content for Gears of War 2. Waiting on upcoming games like Assassin’s Creed 2 (first rocked so hard though it was repetitive), Mass Effect 2, HALO ODST, Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising (open ended FPS sounds awesome), etc.

Listening: Haven’t heard any new bands recently. Love Silversun PIckups, Muse, Deatchcab for Cutie & Snow Patrol.

Watching: Haven’t been watching a lot of tv, since most series don’t return till the fall. like watching Hidden Potential on HGTV though. I enjoy PTI as well, but who doesn’t? Going to see Transformers 2 this coming weekend.

Reading: Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Playing: I still play Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on the PC. I realize that game came out nearly a decade ago, but I can’t get over it. Haha, thousands of people still play it online. It’s a blast. If you want a game to play, it’s ten bucks at Wal-Mart.
Watching: I watched the Pitchmen marathon on Discovery the other day. Billy Mays was absolutely hilarious. Fantastic sense of humor and a great guy. I love Family Guy, but it seems like they are running out of material. Braves everyday. And I have to say yall, I love The Nanny. Haha, shoot me now but it is a fantastic love story.
Listening: I listen mostly to contemporaty Christian music but some secular groups I like are Sister Hazel, We the Kings, Blink 182, The Early November

Reading: A one volume history of World War I. I just finished reading a book about the summer of 1914, so it seemed like the natural development. Odds are I will reread my book about the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 next. I’m a history buff. I am wiling to admit this.

Playing: Nothing. I was playing NBA 2K9, but then my roommate moved out and away it went. So I before you a man without a game to play.

Watching: Seinfeld reruns. Also recently rewatched Wrath of Khan. To all you Star Trek haters, I am not a big fan, but that is a legitimately good movie independent of the “Trekkie” thing.

Listening: Alternating between Kings of Leon and Kanye West Pandora stations.

Reading: Can’t remember the last time I finished a book, but I read almost nonstop on the computer. Sabermetric baseball sites of course. Basketbawful has a great series of stories called Livin Large about his 300 lbs, 7 foot college roommate right now. And I always visit the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Watching: Professional Starcraft. PLAYGUUUUUU! I have a seemingly infinite queue of movies to watch, but next up is the Last King of Scotland.

Playing: I’m playing some of the games I couldn’t afford 10 years ago by not paying for them now. I finished Xenogears a week ago and I’ll hit up some Chrono Cross sometime.

Listening: I loved Pandora for a while, but it started getting old so I dug up some old music on my computer. A lot of Chinese songs I got back in High School and then some punk (or pop punk) like Blink 182, Hit the Lights, New Found Glory, etc.