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Her new album dropped a few days ago, Anak Ko. It's pretty darn good! For those unfamiliar: She basically does what people "bedroom pop" or "dream pop", which I guess when you listen feels like an appropriate genre name; although this latest effort is perhaps a bit less lo-fi. I haven't read the credits for Anak Ko, but I know on previous albums she's played a lot of the parts (guitar, bass, drums) on several tracks. As a wannabe-multi-instrumentalist, I really appreciate the DIY approach. She does tour with a band though and maybe they got to play more on this album. I dunno. Any other fans out there?

I dunno man, the Dodgers are so good. Kinda hard to believe this Dodger team hasn't won a World Series... But you're right, if anybody is going to give them a hard time then it looks like it would be the Braves (right now at least...)

Bit of a rough stretch for the Jays lately, but you can't fault them for losing to the Dodgers. LAD has too many good players - they can't fit them all in the lineup. Such a stacked team. Nice to see a win last night though. Bo is the best.

Been too busy with my guitars and catching up on anime in the evenings. Haven't had a chance to keep going in Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon. So that's on the todo list for the weekend.

I can't tell if I'm watching this show because I genuinely enjoy it or if I'm just hate-watching I like some of the developments at the village but I would also like to get Taiju and Yuzuriha back into the story.

Taiju is the best character in this whole show

No thanks

Are you watching any classic anime right now? What does interest you when it comes to anime? Get a thread going to tell us all about it

I did a summer job at UPS during college. I processed packages going Canada->U.S., checking that the waybills were completed correctly, etc. Night shifts, 8pm-4am IIRC, all summer long. Tedious as hell but I had some cool coworkers at least. After I graduated, I did some shitty sales jobs (call centre, door to door) for a bit to pay the bills while I focused on music. But then I settled into a job with an office services company for the next few years. Started on a night shift working on a digitization project at an financial firm. Night after night of scanning and QCing boxes upon boxes of their customers' records. Then I moved to a day shift at a corporate office as team lead of the mailroom / print room. Pay wasn't great but that was such a fun job. We did a bit of everything there. Then 8 years doing volunteer work on education development projects in Vietnam. Moved back to Canada in 2016 and got a job doing outside sales. Not exactly what I had hoped for, but overall it's a pretty good gig.

You never had Zelda back in the day? Or just never beat it back then? I had a pretty decent collection of NES games when I was little but for some reason or another never got Zelda. I must have rented it at some point...

Thinking back to the classics, Contra has always been a favourite of mine. Super C is one of my all-time top games.

I never had a Super Scope but I did have Mario Paint with the mouse and pad. That was a super fun game to play around in.

I was pretty hyped about it for a while there, but a couple years ago I just never got around to watching the new episodes and i guess I never felt like I was missing anything Started feeling like the show was going to go in too long for my looking.

The only TV shows I used to bother with were Homeland and The Walking Dead. I think I'm 2-3 years behind on both. Probably won't ever bother picking them up again. I'm also not a big movie person... so I guess I'm all caught up! But I'm sure there's a pretty long list of anime I still want to see eventually.

How many episodes of something do you have to watch in a row (and for how many days in a row?) in order to consider it binge watching?

We should all post more about baseball

I'm gonna be rocking the Purple Mountains album and the Silver Jews discography all week. David Berman killed himself earlier this month, I think it wasn't even a month after the Purple Mountains album dropped.

Do it MORE

C64/DOS games at my cousin's house, and then Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on another relative's NES. Died right away but I was hooked My folks bought me an NES shortly after that first experience with Mario.

Recently: The answer might be the Project Diva games. I've gotten so much entertainment value out of these games. All-time: Probably Mario Bros. Honorable mention to Final Fantasy.

Chocolate croissant + coffee for breakfast Pizza + beer for lunch Dinner TBD

I've never tried a RetroN but they sound like they'd be handy. Wow they're expensive though

Nice. Did you get the real thing, or a RetroN / something like that?

My phone - until I took it out to check this place - and probably some pocket lint

My nephew was reading manga on his phone at a recent family gathering so I ask, what are you reading? Cause I'm the almost-hip uncle who kinda gets the stuff he's into. He says: Berserk. I'm like don't tell your parents about this one I meant to start reading this way back, I think after the first season of the new anime wrapped. Never got around to it though. How many pages is each chapter on average? Edit: looks like my local library has up to volume 39 available. Guess I'll start borrowing some.