Rave #1: Tom's Got Shingles

Hey I was talking about new features and this is one. I'll Rave about something I think is good or someone I know said was good. Just cause someone else said the thing was good doesn't mean I won't actually check it out though. So heres my first rave:

Tom's Got Shingles



   I'm not a big rock fan but I'll listen to some rock every once in awhile. I especially like it when small bands do covers of famous songs, and thats exactly what the band Tom's Got Shingles does. My friend Jessica(I know your reading this :D) told me about them and said that "Their awesome live and they have great energy and crowd connection." Heres their bio from myspace by Mike a member of the band:

   "Tom's Got Shingles is a Colorado Springs based alternative and rock cover band. We started playing around town in Dec '06 and have been going strong ever since. Why "Tom's Got Shingles"? Well, our keyboardist Tom...got shingles. The guys showed up for practice one day and asked, "Where's Tom?" to which I replied: "Tom's Got Shingles!" The rest is music history! Tom lives up in Denver now with his new bride. Occasionally he'll come down for a show and rock with us! When are you coming down next Tom??? "

So thats a little about Tom's Got Shingles. And just cause they do a lot of covers that doesn't mean that they don't do original songs. "We're working on a couple....and we have one already." says Mark another member of Tom's Got Shingles. Check out when their next gig is if your living in Colorado cause from what I've heard you'll have a good time.

What You Should Be Listening To #1

    Hey another feature I just thought of, What You Should Be Listening To. This feature is music I listen to that I think you should listen to other then 50 cent or Jim Jones or Fallout Boy. Take my advice or not but I guarantee that if you do you'll be way happier by listening to some stuff with actual meaning.

Definitive Swim


    The first music you should be listening to is actually a compilation of artist and a free download! Click the link above and get to downloading. This Album includes El-P, Mr. Lif and a new favorite of mine Cage. Cage is being called a emo rapper but "Blood Boy" is a great tale of a boy that hasn't stopped bleeding since birth. Also a great remix to the already great song "Brothaz" by Mr. Lif is included now featuring Cannibal Ox. This album is defiantly a great start in underground hip hop in my opinion, so pick it up cause its free!!! Check back later and i'll post when each artist of the great label Def Jux albums are coming out.

Aesop Rock "None Shall Pass" - Aug. 28

Cage "Depart From Me" - Spring 2008

Cool Calm Pete "Lost" - Out Now!(note not newest album came out 2005)

Hanger 18 "Sweep the Leg" - 2007

El-P "I'll Sleep When Your Dead" - Out Now!

Mr. Lif "Mo'Mega" - Out Now!

What I've been playing this week #1

   Hey this is the start of something I'd like to keep up on, What i've been playing this week!

   This week I've been playing a bunch of games on and off. These games being Wild Arms 3, Dark Cloud 2, Disgaea 2 and Ultimate Spiderman, Not really a bunch but w/e!

Wild Arms 3(7.5)

    This game is okay but after playing something like FF XII its hard to go back to a tradition rpg. The Wild Arms series always tried to make the random battle less repetitive by allowing you to push a button to avoid them but you can only do this a certain amount of times before the game forces you to battle. This is good so you keep your level up but bad because random battles are plan annoying after awhile. I find myself picking up this game and playing it really to just find out whats gonna happen next.


Dark Cloud 2(9.0)

   This game was awesome, and I say was cause I finally finished it! I bought the game when it first came out go to the very end lost the game and never finished it. Now I'm happy to say I finished it and the ending was a little blah. I wont spoil it for anyone that hasn't played it yet but not what I was expecting from the ending. Also the game was great but near the end I hate to force myself to finish it, probably because the difficulty ramped up probably because I didn't do to well finding the items to increase my health.


Disgaea 2(8.2)

   Bought this game a few months ago and stopped playing because its hard! I played many other games from Nippon Ichi such as Makai Kingdom and the first Disgaea but this ones 10X harder then those. Its hard mainly because the single maps throw almost puzzle like battles your way. One requires you to manipulate the geo, which most story maps don't make you do. Also in case you didn't know manipulating the geo is hard...at least to me. I'll finish this game eventually.


Ultimate Spiderman(7.1)

    This is a game I bought because I love Spiderman. I had actually finished it before and started it again....just because. Probably because I read that the Spiderman 3 game wasn't good and wanted to get my Spiderman on if you will. Very short game I finished it in one day, I think I finished it in 2 weeks the first time through probably because I had school.

The start of something big?

      Hey...... This is Andrew or Andy or An-D whichever is cool to call me. Anyway this is my second attempt at a public blob site the first being very short lived because of my lazy ass. I was running it with my ex girlfriend Jessica, who will probably be my only reader of this but w/e.

    So this blog is gonna be about everything and anything probably mostly video games cause I love them. This is the intro so not much on info but I'll make one right after this with what i've been playing might even make it a feature of something......w/e I'll figure it out. Anyways enjoy and I hope I keep in there even if I dont have any readers.