daughter to the pop veneer.
I'm not a big fan of Coldplay, but their new song Violet Hill (and accompanying alternate video, below) have me thinking I might need to check out the new album set for release in June. ...Or maybe not. Either way, the video's good for a nervous laugh.
"From the windows, they were watching while we froze down below..."
Much more entertaining than the original video, made up of Coldplay's usual fall-flat video stylings.
The strength of this urge is so GREAT - at times - my gritted teeth and clenched fists and straining ears can barely contain me - clawly at my shell - a NEED to crawl into another - the box of some crunching song or other - right there, all feedback and warm kick drum.
And you shake and you bleed while I sing my song...
If I ever wanted children - which I don't - and if I ever created a slideshow of pictures of my creepy little baby - which I won't - this would totally be the background music.
Leave it Jonathan Coulton to come up with a song like this that I actually like.
The next iteration of the Xbox needs to materialize soon.
The PS3, flawed gaming system that it is, is currently the cheapest and most versatile blu-ray player you can find. Then there's the Wii, which for all its shortcomings, is a fun little novelty and still offers a very usable and (for the Wii) sophisticated web browser.
Now that HD-DVD has been officially pronounced dead and the Xbox 360 still lacks a worthwhile internet browser, the 360 finds itself behind the pack in everything but gaming. For a console that was touted as being the home's all-in-one entertainment center, it's disappointing to find it becoming anything but.
As a sidenote: Third party applications such as MCEBrowser that are available for use on the 360 make internet browsing possible, just not practical. Frustrating to use at best, it's a poor substitute for functionality that should have been included from the start in a console distributed by the makers of the world's most popular internet browser.
