How are you entertaining yourselves?

[ramtower]

Music:
Scissor Sisters: Tah-Dah (two-disc version)
I like it so far, but I haven't listened to this enough yet because of
The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
Brilliant. I loved Picaresque, and I've heard longtime fans complain about the addition of more contemporary instrumentation (in the form of 60s-style organs), but I can't stop listening to it.

Books:
Drawing of the Three: Stephen King
I'd gotten through the first third and then given it a rest for a bit. Now I'm back. I like it. Book three's in easy reach, too, thanks to Taxman.
The Ode Less Traveled: Stephen Fry
Poetry primer for aspiring hobbyists. Fun stuff, and well written, with a good focus on language

[Brian Reed]

Music:
Whatever soundtrack I get my hands on during writing hours. I've been listening to Battlestar Galactica Season 2 soundtrack a lot lately, as well as a smattering of Final Fantasy XII. Geek music for geek writing chores. When I'm not writing, I'm not listening to music because I'm usually listening to Howard Stern.

Books:
I was tearing through the Dark Tower and stalled out at the start of Book 3: The Wastelands. I still love it and I just haven't been reading due more to spending free time with games or new comics I've fallen behind on.

Games:
The DS is king at the moment. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Rocket Slime, Mario vs Donkey Kong 2, Cooking Mama -- it's gaming insanity.

[mewelke]

Books:

Three Days Till Never by Tim Powers. It took longer to get into than most of his books, but last night...best chapter ever.

Games:

Saint's Row. I don't know that I'd enjoy it if I sat down and just played for hours and hours, but playing it a half hour to an hour at a time I'm having a great time.

Company of Heroes. Almost done with the campaign, but I'll have to get good at multiplayer just to crush Mark.

[ramtower]

oh, right... Games.

I can't play much with my hand all becasted, but I can play some low-speed, low-reflex games:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Defcon (poorly)
Clubhouse Games
Rhythm Tengoku (GBA, not DS)
[Some unreleased titles]

[Brian Reed]

oh, right... Games.

I can't play much with my hand all becasted, but I can play some low-speed, low-reflex games:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Defcon (poorly)
Clubhouse Games
Rhythm Tengoku (GBA, not DS)
[Some unreleased titles]


We must play some Defcon. I was playing the demo constantly, bit the bullet and bought the damn thing and now... I never play it.

[Howlett]

Books: Strangers by Dean Koontz and I might start re-reading The Stand tonight.

Music - Nothing specific. Mostly the usual stuff I listen to. Mark Knopfler, Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen.

Games - Replaying the Metal Gear series and Silent Hill series.

[ramtower]

I really liked the Stand. Have you read Robert MacCammon's Swan Song? It's basically the same thing with a more overt metaphysical angle. But I liked it. Granted, I read it before I read the full version of The Stand.

[ramtower]

We must play some Defcon. I was playing the demo constantly, bit the bullet and bought the damn thing and now... I never play it.

...I want my hand back.

[Howlett]

I really liked the Stand. Have you read Robert MacCammon's Swan Song? It's basically the same thing with a more overt metaphysical angle. But I liked it. Granted, I read it before I read the full version of The Stand.
Nope. Haven't read it. Haven't even heard of it actually. I'll keep an eye out.

[Brian Reed]

I loved The Stand -- right until the end. It felt like a cop out to me. But that was also... God... 16 years ago? I should give it another read. Especially now that I live only miles from the CDC labs featured in the book.

[mmbalto]

Books:
Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower - still looking forward to seeing how this all ends

Games:
Need For Speed: Most Wanted (360) - got pretty far into it a long time ago and am trying to beat it now
Texas Hold 'Em (360 XBL) - trying to get $1M bankroll
Company of Heros (PC) - about halfway through the campaign
Metroid Prime: Hunters (DS) - about 3/4 of the way through the game and have no interest in going any further

Porn:
Yes

[Noodle]

games: watching and listening to my wife play rhythm tengoku.
battlefield 2 has sucked me back in. cant get enough of it. want to get company of heroes but am broke, soon though.

books: just finished Perdido Street Station. took me while to get into it but then... ohh man its great. loved it and cant wait to read the rest of his books.
now reading How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. its fun, talks about hoolings and thugs around the world and soccer.

music: nothing in particular, although i am obsessed with the saturday morning reggae show on KEXP, positive vibrations. i can listen to this all day long
http://www.kexp.org/programming/progpage.asp?showID=8&1413=38997.375-1&96=38997.375-1&20=38997.375-1&256=38997.375-2

[jason hissong]

watching the cards/mets

currently reading: the satanic verses

[Busman]

Books:
None
Movies:
None
Music:
None
Games:
EVE - about 30-60 mins a night
Defcon - I've played through the tutorials, really enjoy it and want to play again. Brian, let's try setting up a day game tomorrow, the 8 hour kind or whatever, you'll probably win because I'll be at work all day.
Other:
None

Work:
bout 8am-10pm or 12am each day

\o/

[TheContact]

Books:
Last Call - Tim Powers
I really should be going through this book faster, but I keep forgetting to set aside time to read.

Games:
Okami (PS2)
What a totally sweet game. Outside of the voice synth, I've liked everything about it.
Star Fox Command (DS)
Been enjoying this so far, though I'm not too far into it yet. It'll get more play the next time I'm at an airport.

Music:
Amputechture - The Mars Volta
I can't get enough of this album. It might be even better than De-loused in the Comatorium. Tetragrammaton is just an insanely good track.
The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens
Pretty good supplement to Come on Feel the Illinoise, but I can really do without a hundred remixes of Chicago.

Movies:
The Departed - saw this last weekend, I think it's Scorsese's best work since Goodfellas.
Hopefully I'll get around to seeing The Passion of Joan of Arc this weekend. Depends on how much time Scrubs, hockey, and Okami take away.

[tymothil]

Music:
Really hard to be specific about this, what with the DJing and all. Sometimes I'm listening for pleasure, sometimes for work, sometimes for both. At this exact moment, I have a mashup of The Sisters of Mercy, The Beastie Boys, and Gwen Stefani called "Waiting For Lucretia's Party" playing. And that comes pretty close to summing what I've been listening to up, actually.

Books:
Just finished reading Hunters of Dune, the first half of the finishing of the Dune series. Not sure how I feel about it, it was an odd mix of crap and brilliant.

Also, just finished re-reading the Sandman series. Strangely enough, also an odd mix of crap and brilliant, with much less on the crap side of the ledger.

The stuff I'm reading currently (I tend to have several things I'm reading through at once, along with other magazines and comics. I'm probably more of a reading geek than anything, my reading for pleasure time is usually at least 2-3 hours everyday).

Re-reading Imagica, 'cuz Theresa just read it for the first time, and talking to her about it made me want to read it again.

Reading a collection of short sf stories I found in a box behind my work.

Reading Dracula, which I also found in the box, especially because it's one of those older books that I'd never actually read.

and re-reading "My Cousin, My Gastroenteroligist" my Mark Leyner. I always seem to need to have one book by Burroughs, or Leyner, or Ballard, or Finnegan's Wake or similar non-linear style going.

TV:
Battlestar Galactica, I'm really liking this season.

House, which I love the dialog in, but really don't care too much about the plot.

Bones, which isn't really all that good a show, but it's usually not too stupid, and is fairly funny. Plus, the characters are actually developing as it progresses.

Movies:
Just saw Little Miss Sunshine. Liked it a lot, the last 10 minutes of it or so had me laughing harder than I have in a theatre in a while.

Saw Beerfest. Was stupid and funny, but it needs to be watched in a friend's living room with a lot of beer on hand.

Games:
Just got a new video card, so I can finally play Oblivion, so I have been.

Plus re-playing Dungeon Siege, Carmageddon 3, Serious Sam 1, Civilization 4, and, lord help me, been playing some Dungeon Hack. Oh, and Anarchy Online, occasionally.

[ramtower]

carmageddon...3? Is it any good? I was only just waxing nostalgic about carmageddon the other day.

[tymothil]

it's ok. same game, basically, some of the physics are even worse.

[Mitchel]

Music:
Rascal Flats, their latest CD is AWESOME. There is not one bad song in there. It doesn't have the theme for Cars that my daughter loves but I bought that one on iTunes so problem solved.

Magazines:
CADalyst
3D World
Computer Graphics World
Digit
Your ocasional bodybuilding magazine.
Honestly if I don't get it for free as a courtesy subscription like Computer Graphics World and CADalyst I won't buy it, news are a lot more fresh on the internet so why spend my money.

Books:
Waiting on Change your Genetics by Eric D. Marchewitz
plus researching on Patrick Arnold, the chemist behind the BALCO scandal and father of prohormones. Don't take steroids but I love to read about what is out there, specially the designer "legal" ones.

Sports:
Working out.

TV:
Smallville
Heroes

Games:
Too time consuming.

Comics:
Ms. Marvel (of course)
Civil War
Frontline
New Avengers
Anything Alan Davis, Kevin McGuire, Ariel Olivetti, McGuiness or Cho.
Anything Wonder Man; still waiting for the damn Bowen lame leisure suit minibust to arrive.

[Brian Reed]

Books:
None
Movies:
None
Music:
None
Games:
EVE - about 30-60 mins a night
Defcon - I've played through the tutorials, really enjoy it and want to play again. Brian, let's try setting up a day game tomorrow, the 8 hour kind or whatever, you'll probably win because I'll be at work all day.
Other:
None

Work:
bout 8am-10pm or 12am each day

\o/

I don't know why, but I was sort of itching to go back to EVE the other day. Maybe it was the allure of having an MMO I could play while I was working.

Then I started an Orc Warrior on Dragonmaw instead.

And, yeah, we ought to try some Defcon.

[GelfXIII]

Music: (other than random shuffle, which is what I usually default to)
Mark Knopfler - Shangri-LA
The Donnas - Gold Medal
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Evanescence - The Open Door
Grateful Dead - Hampton VA - 3/27/88
John Lennon - Lennon Legend
Kinks - Come dance With Me
Kitaro - Full Moon Story

Magazines:
Studio
Creative Cow
Post
MacWorld

Books:
A Feast for Crows - George Martin
The Scorpion's Gate - Richard Clarke

Sports:
Football!!!

TV:
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Who
Lost
Veronica Mars
Heroes
Studio 60

Games:
Civ IV
World of warcraft
City of Heroes

Comics:
My (current) monthly pull list:
DC:
Action
Astro City (any and all that come out)
Batman
Batman: Mad Monk
Birds of Prey
The Boys
Detective
Ex Machina
Fables
Jack of fables
Justice
Legion of Superheroes
Planetary
Superman
Superman: All star

Dark Horse:
BPRD
Conan
The Escapists
Hellboy (any and all)

Image:
Fell
Cross Bronx
Invincible
NYC Mech

Marvel:
Agents of Atlas
Amazing Spider-Girl
Amazing Spider-Man
Astonishing X-Men
Captain America
Civil war (But I'm ready to stop now)
Daredevil
Eternals
Exiles
Fantastic Four
Ghost Rider
Heroes for Hire
Kabuki
Moon Knight
Ms Marvel
New Avengers
New Excalibur
Nextwave
Powers
Runaways
She-Hulk
Ultimate FF
Ultimate Power
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimates
Uncanny X-Men
Wolverine
X-Factor
Young Avengers

plus a few Miscelaneous titles like:
Atomica
Angel
Buffy
Dracula vs. Capone
Full figure something-er-other
Red Sonja
Spike
etc.



... no wonder I dont have any money, huh?

[Brian Reed]

Look at you, bringing the geek and covering every corner of your entertainment.

[GelfXIII]

Look at you, bringing the geek and covering every corner of your entertainment.
:D
Was it the Grateful dead boot, or Macworld that gave me away?

[Howlett]

Music: (other than random shuffle, which is what I usually default to)
Mark Knopfler - Shangri-LA
The Donnas - Gold Medal
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Evanescence - The Open Door
Grateful Dead - Hampton VA - 3/27/88
John Lennon - Lennon Legend
Kinks - Come dance With Me
Kitaro - Full Moon Story

Magazines:
Studio
Creative Cow
Post
MacWorld

Books:
A Feast for Crows - George Martin
The Scorpion's Gate - Richard Clarke

Sports:
Football!!!

TV:
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Who
Lost
Veronica Mars
Heroes
Studio 60

Games:
Civ IV
World of warcraft
City of Heroes

Comics:
My (current) monthly pull list:
DC:
Action
Astro City (any and all that come out)
Batman
Batman: Mad Monk
Birds of Prey
The Boys
Detective
Ex Machina
Fables
Jack of fables
Justice
Legion of Superheroes
Planetary
Superman
Superman: All star

Dark Horse:
BPRD
Conan
The Escapists
Hellboy (any and all)

Image:
Fell
Cross Bronx
Invincible
NYC Mech

Marvel:
Agents of Atlas
Amazing Spider-Girl
Amazing Spider-Man
Astonishing X-Men
Captain America
Civil war (But I'm ready to stop now)
Daredevil
Eternals
Exiles
Fantastic Four
Ghost Rider
Heroes for Hire
Kabuki
Moon Knight
Ms Marvel
New Avengers
New Excalibur
Nextwave
Powers
Runaways
She-Hulk
Ultimate FF
Ultimate Power
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimates
Uncanny X-Men
Wolverine
X-Factor
Young Avengers

plus a few Miscelaneous titles like:
Atomica
Angel
Buffy
Dracula vs. Capone
Full figure something-er-other
Red Sonja
Spike
etc.



... no wonder I dont have any money, huh?
:shock: Sweet monkey Jesus..........

[GelfXIII]

:shock: Sweet monkey Jesus..........

Yeah. Tell me about it.:scared:

[Mitchel]

And, yeah, we ought to try some Defcon.

Hey Brian, any chances you visiting Orlando Megacon on February?

[Brian Reed]

Hey Brian, any chances you visiting Orlando Megacon on February?

Probably not. I expect my only travel next year will be Emerald City, with a chance for San Diego or Chicago, but probably not all three.

[Cardinal Braxiatel]

I'm reading Crooked by Brian M Wiprud. he's the author of Pipsqueak and Stuffed and called 'the funniest tough guy writer there is' by Lee Child. Harlan Coben is on the Wiprud love parade too. Start with Pipsqueak tho'. Each book is standalone but read better in the order published.