So as some of you may have noticed, I didn’t post at all last week. Quite simply, this is because I spent pretty much every waking hour at work. Hell I gave up sleep­ing hours to be there to. Wednes­day I was at work for 18 hours, got 4 hours of sleep, then went to work the next day for a fun-​filled 31-hour shift. A word to the wise, if you are ever installing ISA server into your topol­ogy, for the love of all that is sacred and pure make sure you put it onto a sep­a­rate server then the one hold­ing your web­site. Trust me on this. Unless you want to be awake at 3 am, 6 hours before your project is being pre­sented to 100 impor­tant people and your envi­ron­ment being totally bollocksed.

Another help­ful tidbit: if you are tired enough, you can actu­ally sleep on a cement floor! I proved this by pass­ing out in our con­fer­ence room for nearly two hours. I say passed out because it wasn’t sleep in any sense. I actu­ally felt worse when I was roused. Ah well, such is my work-​life.

Onto the random para­graphs that sum­ma­rize my life in the past little while!

I’ve been obsessed with the newest season of Sam & Max by Tell­tale Games. This season (with the excep­tion of one episode) blows the first season out of the water. I’m not saying that the first season is bad, far from in actu­al­ity, but this sea­sons writ­ing and direc­tion are much tighter than the last season, and I’m rather look­ing for­ward to the last install­ment. I pray that they con­tinue making more seasons.

There’s a new Den­tyne com­mer­cial out that I’m in love with, and thanks to a little inves­ti­ga­tion Theresa and I found the band that made the song. Ben’s Brother is the cul­prit, and after lis­ten­ing to their myspace page, I went and tracked down their 2007 album: “Beta Male Fairytales”. It turns out that though ‘Stuttering’ will be a super hit single, the rest of their music is pretty much top-​end awe­some. I’ve offi­cially become a fanboy of them and pray that they visit Canada at some point in the future. I’ll make sure to do a review of the album this week. For those look­ing for a copy of the track (which cannot be down­loaded from the bands MySpace page there is another MySpace page that fea­tures the down­load. How long it’ll be up I don’t know so I sug­gest get­ting it while it’s ‘hot’.

So a new Panic! At The Disco album came out. Con­sid­er­ing how hyped up the first CD was, I’m a little shocked that this went so under the radar. I’ll admit I liked them when I first heard of them (I was vis­i­tor 63 on their MySpace way back in the day.. and I still have their orig­i­nal 3 track releases). Then they got huge and over-​played. Then they dis­ap­peared. I was expect­ing them to burn hot and then fizzle out after the first album. Then I heard about “Pretty. Odd.” two days before the release date. I got my hands on a copy recently and I’ve gotta say that it’s a dras­tic depar­ture from their last album. “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” was all about being bouncy and ener­getic and bor­der­line insane. “Fairly Odd” is toned down and dare I say, a more matured sound than before. I don’t know whether I like it or not. I’ll try and review their newest album this week as well.

I was recently rec­om­mended an artist called Matt McIn­tosh on Last.Fm and I have to say that I’m at least a little impressed. Very haunt­ing, toned down, with a weird-​hollow voiced sound to it. I’ll try and review this one when I get the chance. Appar­ently he’s made a lot of music in the past.

Last thing to note, I’ve been get­ting more into Twit­ter, though I’m not entirely sure why.

Until next time folks.

So kiss me again
Cause only you can stop this stut-​stut-​stut-​stuttering
Kiss me again
And ease my su-​su su-​su su-​su s-su-s-suffering

Ben’s Brother - Stuttering

Corey sign­ing off