What's On My iPod

No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend" - "Return of Saturn" is by far the best No Doubt album, IMHO. This is my favorite song from it. Again, who doesn't love Gwen?


Sick Puppies - "All the Same" - This song just never gets old for me, and it has this very warm fuzzy video... if you've never seen it, it's a must watch.


Stone Temple Pilots - "Plush" - I was lucky enough to see STP live... and although Scott Weiland (lead singer) has had a trainwreck of a personal life, that man can sing. There's no studio making his voice better, that is for sure. This clip is from "Storytellers", the quality is pretty good.


Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me" - In the spirit of Halloween.


Baz Luhrmann - "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" - I'm not sure I dig the video much, but this song is pretty cool.


Now I'm heading back to my Sega Rally Revo game for the Playstation 3... I may not be able to feel my fingers in the morning!

My Video Vice

Hi. My name is Lora, and I'm a video game junkie.

Heh! Okay, no... not really. But I love, love, love console gaming. This would explain why we forked out way too much for a Playstation 3 - especially since there really isn't a wide variety of games released for it yet. Here's what we're playing right now:

This is a screen shot from Ridge Racer 7. I like cars that go fast. :) Let me clarify... I don't like Nascar games - there's no real excitement in driving on an oval track for me. I do like street racing tracks and I particularly enjoy rally racing. Ridge Racer 7 is seriously hard to play and I find myself wanting to plant the game pad into the television. I guess I like being abused by a video game, cause I keep playing it. I'm hoping game companies start releasing some more titles soon...

I think my all-time favorite racing game was Rumble Racing. It combined all the elements of racing with the need for aggression. You can race alone or cooperate with a partner to take out your opponents with weapons... Of course this game was released in 2001 and has yet to see a follow-up title. I also enjoy Burnout as a racing game, because the whole idea IS to crash. Now that, I have mastered! There are several titles under the Burnout series, and just about every one has been extremely fun to play.

Playstations 1 & 2 also had its share of good RPG games such as Gauntlet Legends and lighter titles such as the Spyro series. I haven't seen any as of yet for PS3 that catch my attention, but I think there are less than 10 to choose from.

Coworker S. and a couple of the other guys from work get together now and then to play some of those shoot-em-up games for the PC, and he's asked before if I wanted to join in on the fun. I think it would be a blast, if only 1) I could actually play those first person shooters and 2) I liked PC gaming more. I tried the PC gaming, and just couldn't get sucked in. If I could be on the sidelines to watch them and do the golf-type commentary (as well as talk smack from the sidelines), that'd be a better idea.