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Jem, Finally Woken

A little disappointed by Beth Orton’s last album or already bored with Dido? Then check out Jem’s Finally Woken. Much hipper and cooler than the other English-Alternative-Female-Singer-Songwriter-Folk-Pop-Meets-Electronica last offerings, one could say that this album is not actually a new sound. In fact I had mistaken Jem for Beth Orton or Dido, or even Poe (remember her? her last album was really, really good, too bad no one bought the album) when I first heard her on the radio. But all that aside, this is a solid hipster type album with plenty of good hooks and smooth lounge, head bobbing moments. Go buy this album now, get in on the ground floor before you hear this album a million times at the Gap or Starbucks.

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Okay, I’m not usually someone whose much into politics, but we have got to vote Bush out of office. I’m tired learning how badly we were tricked into invading Iraq. The latest stories from Richard Clark is making me sick. He claims that Bush basically ignored the terrorist threat when he took office and was applying the old cold war thinking. He then further claims that Rumsfeld want to bomb Iraq immediately after 9/11 even though all the FBI and CIA were saying there was no connection. The Bush administration was looking for any excuse to invade Iraq. We’ve only proven to the Arab world that the US does really want to invade and control the Middle East. Normally I’m willing to give the President the benefit of a doubt, but I think there’s overwhelming evidence now that there was no real reason to invade. Okay, stepping off soap box now…..

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Finally caught up with one of the best games on the Playstation 2, Final Fantasy X. This is one amazing game. Although its based on the RPG / Adventure game concept, this game is really more of an interactive movie. The entire game is made up of a series of cut-scenes with some fighting and character building in-between. The parts where you have to engage in battle to build character experience is turn-based, so the good news for someone like me is that you can take your time and think through your actions. This is not a game for button-mashers or people with short attention spans. The story is very well developed and the interface is easy to learn.

The only bad thing game-play wise is that you can’t skip over cut-scenes you’ve already seen in cases where you have to restart from a save point. Some of these scenes are very long, in some cases I just sit and read a magazine while waiting to get to the battle that I previously lost. Another complaint is that you can’t save whenever you want, I’ve sometimes spent nearly an hour getting to the next save point, guess I probably should of paused the game and left the PS2 on instead of losing sleep. But these are minor problems, the real problem is that I’m losing whole weekends playing this game! If you haven’t played this game, go out and buy it now.

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Here’s a couple cool websites for buying original art without having to be a millionaire.

nextMonet

GUILD.com

Afterimage

Found these sites from Forbe’s Best of the Web. They have some pretty good listing for all kinds of stuff, not just financial website.

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Just discovered that there’s finally an alternative to KROQ in LA! There’s a new radio station called Indie 103.1. Like KROQ, they play modern rock, but they have a lot more variety and don’t play the same ten songs over and over! Hopefully, they’ll last a while. This radio station has changed format more often then I care to remember.

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