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Bought some shoes for my girlfriend off eBay. They weren’t expensive or anything, but I had to return one cause they were the wrong color.

Last week I got GTA IV for Xbox 360, like many others did. I had it preordered from Amazon. Sure I could’ve pirated it, but big games like these deserve my money yes? It’s really a great game, even if a lot of people only know about its violence. It’s depiction of the faux New York city is awesome and the details are great from the way different fake brand names are represented down to random pedestrians talking to each other. It truly is a city that feels ‘alive’. On top of that, it’s a fun game with a fantastic story.

My Rock Band drum pedal finally snapped. It was hanging on a little piece of plastic and supported by duct tape around. But it finally gave in. I decided to get a “Pedal Metal” off ebay to fix it. Sure I could’ve just got any piece of metal to support it, but this makes it look cooler.

The drudgeries of work lately keep me unmotivated to come in every week. Nevertheless, I force myself out of bed and make the long drive like many others do. I’ve been looking for another job since I am currently employed by contract periods. The lack of “secured” employment offers me another non-contentedness factor. I am currently pursuing a government job with the city of Los Angeles. Can’t do better than government work as far as security goes as it doesn’t have to worry about bad financial periods. Thinking about the economy also worries me. Housing market is down, stock market is down, dollar value is down. Little things help me think less about it and move on every week.

Monday, I come in to submit my time card for the previous week to ensure I get paid. Although it’s an online system that I can do at home, I only do it at work. Wednesdays I look forward to Zero Punctuation as it’s my new favorite weekly Internet thing. Basically, it’s game reviews of usually bad games, with lots of comedy and swear words. Thursdays I look forward to a new episode of Lost. Fridays I look forward to seeing what new songs will be released for Rock Band, and if it’s something good, it’s something to look forward to downloading on the next Tuesday.

Speaking of Rock Band, they announced there’s going to be an in-game music store to make it easier and more visually pleasing to find and buy songs. I like.

If it were up to me, I’d put these songs in. However, I may not have thought some of them through. I was going to list some of The Doors songs, but later realized they don’t have a bassist but instead a keyboardist. That wouldn’t work in the game I guess.

Full Albums:
Metallica – Master of Puppets (or just the Master of Puppets song, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Battery)
Nirvana – Nevermind (or just Smells Like Teen Spirit, Lithium, Come As You Are) (In Bloom is already in the game)
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Songs:
311 – Beautiful Disaster
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long, Back in Black
Aerosmith – Dream On, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way
Arctic Monkeys – Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell, White Wedding
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Blur – Song 2
Bon Jovi – You Give Love a Bad Name, Living on a Prayer, It’s My Life
Cheap Trick – Surrender
Chevelle – the Red
Chicago – 25 or 6 to 4
Cranberries – Zombie
Cream – Crossroads, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room
Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water, Hush
Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing
Eagles – Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane
Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein (oops, no vocals!), Free Ride
Foo Fighters – Everlong, My Hero, DOA
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
George Thorogood – Bad to the Bone
Golden Earring – Radar Love
Green Day – Basket Case, Jesus of Suburbia, When I Come Around
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City
Heart – Barracuda, Go Crazy On You, Magic Man
Incubus – Stellar, Drive, Nice to Know You
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile, All Along the Watchtower
Jimmy Eat World – The Middle, Sweetness, Work
Journey – Any Way You Want It, Wheel in the Sky, Don’t Stop Believing
Led Zeppelin (not ever likely) – Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Immigrant Song
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way, American Woman
Living Colour – Cult of Personality
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man (3/11), Freebird
Megadeth – Symphony of Destruction, Hangar 18, Skin O’ My Teeth
Metallica – One, Fade to Black, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood, Kickstart My Heart, Shout at the Devil
Muse – Knights of Cydonia, Time is Running Out, Stockholm Syndrome
My Chemical Romance – Dead!, Helena, Welcome to the Black Parade
No Doubt – Spiderwebs
Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train, Bark at the Moon
Pantera – Walk, Cowboys From Hell
Queen – Crazy Thing Called Love, Another One Bites the Dust
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade, Killing in the Name
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge, Otherside, Scar Tissue
Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil, Paint It Black, I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Rush – YYZ (no vocals), Spirit of Radio
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979, Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Sublime – Santeria
Sum 41 – Fat Lip, We’re All To Blame, Still Waiting
System of a Down – Spiders, Chop Suey, SCIENCE
Tool – Lateralus, 46 and 2
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday, Vertigo, Mysterious Ways
UFO – Doctor Doctor, Rock Bottom
Unwritten Law – Seein’ Red
Van Halen – Hot for Teacher, Eruption, Panama
Weezer – Island in the Sun, El Scorcho
Who – My Generation
Wolfmother – Woman
ZZ Top – Sharped Dressed man, La Grange, Velcro Fly

Another non eventful Christmas has past. The only thing I’m enjoying is the time away from work. But then I look at my smaller paycheck and feel sad. I got a Sony PSP and Rock Band as late presents and am currently enjoying those. Rock Band drums are great! Typically during the Christmas break I watch a lot of movies, and this year I did catch a few. I was able to see I Am Legend, Walk Hard, and Sweeney Todd. All of which I really really liked.