Unrelated Facts
Moving day is Saturday. Although, to be fair, we have our current apartment until the end of the month, so it's not as if we have to quite do the full-court press, if you will.

Mass Effect is apparently dropping for the PC on the 28th. I'm trying to decide if I need to squeeze it into my budget right away, or if I can wait for a little bit. Either way, I'm very excited about this. Knights of the Old Republic single-handedly made me think that the Star Wars franchise was not altogether inherent crap, so it should be quite interesting to see what they (read: Bioware) do with a world of their own devising.

And I know, I could have looked all of this up ages ago. But I haven't. I've taken a look at little detail bits of the world, but I have somehow remained wholly ignorant as to what goes on beyond the fact that there's a main character who needs to go Save the Dairy Bar. (Every game, ever, devolves into "save the area most important to the main character from destruction. So, I now summarize this as 'Save the Dairy Bar', because it's funnier that way.) Oh, and there's apparently some girls kissing if you like that sort of thing, I guess. I'll stick with the straight and narrow, thanks.

I would point out here that my character in KotOR, despite being played when I was notably younger, was fully heterosexual, so it's not a recent thing. But that would be solely for the purpose of pointing out that the only character that she could have been romantically involved with that was the same gender she actually killed without bothering to recruit into the party. Actually, I didn't realize until my second playthrough how many people I could have allowed to live to see the end of the game, but eh. Ruthless works.

I was going to tell my brother to take his meme and stuff it, since that's kind of my thing, but I decided to really break form and actually do it. Seven songs I'm interested in right now. Whatever.

1. Breath (Breaking Benjamin)
I've been a fan of Breaking Benjamin for a while, in a very light sort of way - I think they make songs that really tug at a certain emotion quite well, and it's cathartic to indulge in a bit of overwrought anger and resentment at the world for a while. If you don't like the other things they do, you won't like this one. If you do, it's more of the same. I just like it a bit more than most.

2. The Mayor of Pussytown (Adam Sandler)
I've heard this one over and over, and yet it still at least makes me grin every single time.

3. Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis)
There are two parts of my brain that sound off on this one. The first points out that it is what amounts to an American Idol song, with all of the substance you'd expect from that, with nothing redeeming about it but an engaging melody, inoffensive lyrics, and decent vocals. The damn thing is catchy, though, and I'm a sucker for melodies that sound like they're building to something.

(Also, as a footnote to anyone reading this, I had absolutely no idea of Ms. Lewis's ethnicity until I looked the song up on Wikipedia. There's a point to be made about British cultural integration here, I know it.)

4. Goodbye to Carolina (Lyle Lovett)
My dad introduced me to Lyle, and this song still remains the essential song when you're moving, I believe. I sang it when I moved out of UCONN, I sang it when I moved out of East Hampton, I'll be singing it when we move out of here. Situational, sure, but it's on my mind lately.

5. Mole From the Ministry (XTC as the Dukes of Stratosphear)
This one is kind of an odd pick, as since Elaine introduced me to them I've generally had at least one XTC song running through my head at various points through the day. This week, it's this one.

6. Don't Let Us Get Sick (Warren Zevon)
Moving also usually brings the stew of worries I call an emotional state to a boil. This song calms me down.

7. Walk of Life (Dire Straits)
My musical to-do list reads something like this:
- Get some Dire Straits albums.
- Get Elaine to like Dire Straits better.
- Also get that BNL album you're missing.