kings and human beings standing in the way ignite the castle towers, then the hotel, make them pay naked on the inside, they're outside looking in seems a shame to spoil a game, but i know it aint the same it's a slow confetti western playing in my head oh waste my time, don't put a fire upon the bed just pretend we never met

Unofficial top five recent artists (until i can figure out how to get at the inner workings of iTunes, it's going to remain unofficial):

1.	South
	I seem to be perpetually revisiting With The Tides, and i am perpetually realizing what a brilliant album it is. Moreover, i think the Groove Decoration mix of "Dub Remedies" from the Constantly Burning ep is my favorite song of the last six months ... i find myself listening to it over and over. I just downloaded their first album From Here On In today, and i'm expecting more great stuff.
2.	Catherine Wheel
	Keep seeming to find myself lost somewhere in "Ursa Major Space Station" or "Strange Fruit" from Chrome.
3.	Stereolab
	The sheer volume of great music produced by these guys is staggering. You could spend hours listening to Refried Ectoplasm, Switched On, and Aluminum Tunes, and those are just the compilations!
4.	New Order
	A friend made me a copy of the bonus disc that came with a limited number of the US copies of the Retro box set. "Such A Good Thing" is one of my new NO favorites.
5.	The Boxer Rebellion
	I only have two of their songs, "Watermelon" and "Palisade", but they're being played over and over.

SSX 3 is so friggin huge it's almost ridiculous. You snowboard down a number of courses on a single mountain, with three different peaks. Certain events take you through mutliple courses, and others take you into the backcountry where you can almost go anywhere. When not entered in specific events, you can "free ride", where you can hunt for cash, goodies, or bonus challenges littered around the mountain. It's almost inconceivable that they fit all this on a single disc. Viewtiful Joe is a great game as well. I've now obtained all three of Joe's viewtiful powers: slow mo, mach speed, and zoom. When reading about this game i was a bit perplexed as to why these elements were so interesting, but in action they work great. They turn an otherwise ho hum platformer into a gaming landmark. The cel-shaded visuals are awesome too.

Cudicini
Johnson	Terry	Gallas	Bridge
Makelele
Veron		Lampard
Duff
Crespo		Hasselbaink

As i've moved on (at least temporarily) from Winning Eleven 6 International, i have no Master League squad news. Instead, i'll throw out the squad i would field if i were in Claudio Ranieri's shoes as Chelsea manager. With this formation starting regularly, Mutu, Grønkjaer, and Desailly coming off the bench, and a modest rotation system, we could be brilliant. Duff and Lampard particularly have shown in recent weeks that they have hit their stride. What needs to stop immediately is this bulls*%t about having one squad for the Champions League, one for the Premiership, and i imagine soon one for the FA Cup. The aforementioned Lampard and Duff have proved they are the spark plugs to get this team cracking, and deserve to play regularly, even in the Champions League where it seems Ranieri seems to favor the players with previous experience in Europe. If anything, the gutsy performance by those two against Lazio should dispel that line of reasoning.

Veronica and i carved pumpkins last week ... well, i did. Veronica's pumpkin is still sitting in its virgin state on our kitchen table. She did me the favor of emptying the guts from my pumpkin, since that smell makes me gag. I then carved out a nice malicious face. The pumpkin guts then proceeded down our sink drain and caused a pretty hefty clog, which then caused the p-trap under the sink to start leaking. We had to call our landlord to come out and fix it. I knew this pumpkin was evil ...