I am depressed and have a headache, and I am thinking seriously about going out and getting a bottle of Laphroiag and a couple Padrons. IN that spirit, I ask you:
What are you reading?
What is in your DVD player?
CD Player?
X-Box (or other console- I have X-box)?
What are your plans for the Easter weekend?
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Forgot to add this:
Reading: Some crappy pulp fiction by Robert Ludlum, the name of which I don’t remember.
DVD Player: Deadline (documentary about Death Row)
CD Player: Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerels
X-Box: Just finished Knights of the Old Republic and Knights of the Old Republic II, which may be the greatest RPG games since the original Deus Ex (PC) and one of my all-time favorites, Vampire: The Masquerade. I am eagerly awaiting Jade Empire and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but right now I am just biding time with Star Wars: Battlefront and the exceptionally made Brothers in Arms. If any of you have any games that were like KOTOR, please let me know. I hated Morrowind.
Easter plans- nothing special.
Fargus
Reading: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
CD Player: Sunny 16, Ben Folds
DVD Player: The Incredibles
Gamecube: Tony Hawk’s Underground 2
Matt
Reading : The Confusion (Neal Stephenson)
DVD : Equilibrium
CD : DJ Teddy – Sounds, Form, & Color (Deep House)
X-Box : Halo 2
Gamecube : Mario Kart – Double Dash
PS2 : La Pucelle Tactics
Gameboy SP : WarioWare
Probably more info than you cared for. :)
Matt
Kimmitt
Reading: Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz.
DVD: Wishing I had Deadwood
PC Game: I’m still hooked on Neverwinter Nights.
anon
VHS: The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (just be sure to book 2 hrs before you start watching it)
jack
The Road to Madness–a Lovecraft compilation
Working my way through all the commentary on the whole EE LoTR
Music is kinda random….whatever pokes out from the shelf, y’know?
PS2–Silent Hill, The Room
John Cole
NEver Winter Nights was great, too- but I loved Baldurs Gate and especially Baldurs Gate II more (pc). Bioware just seems to have the magic touch, which is why I am looking forward to Jade Empire so much.
KOTOR was Bioware, too.
S.K.
Get Morrowind for PC, then you get to mess around with just about every aspect of the game. As for an XBOX RPG, Fable is pretty good.
bg
Book: The Iliad
CD: The Killers
DVD: The Clone Wars
PS2: Gran Turismo 4
Easter: Nothing
Brian Linse
What are you reading?
-Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and his Architecture, by Robert C. Twombly
What is in your DVD player?
-Slapshot, starring Paul Newman
CD Player?
-Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins “Dancing”
X-Box (or other console- I have X-box)?
-Halo
What are your plans for the Easter weekend?
-Sleep
Walter Sobchak
Reading: Conquistador by S.M. Stirling
DVD Player: Collateral (however, when talking about movies, I always have to recommend my favorite comedy of all time: The Big Lebowski, the film from which I acquired my pseudonym. If you need to relax and have a good laugh, this is the movie for you.)
CD Player: Just to put the dorkiness factor right over the top, I’ll admit it – the soundtrack to the new Battlestar Galactica mini-series. And Tricia Helfer is fucking hot.
X-Box: Don’t own one, but I’ve been playing Freespace 2 on my PC lately, and I sort of cycle between Civilization III, SimCity 4, and Unreal Tournament.
Easter plans: Heh. I’m going to Foxwoods Casino. I’m, er, let’s just say, “not very religious”.
David Margolies
Natural History of Ferns by Robbin Moran
VHS Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturgis)
DVD Some French movie (I forget the name)
CD Love songs, Marlene Dietricht
No X box
Easter: Service Saturday Night (we do a vigil, in the Eastern Orthodox style, though we are Episcopalians). Easter Day: nature hikes — the wildflowers in California are the best they have been in years.
Benjamin Williams
Reading: Atlas Shrugged
DVD Player: Garden State
CD Player: Moe.
X-Box: Halo 2
Easter weekend – Snowboarding, and coloring eggs with the kids.
Jeremy Osner
Reading “The Economist’s Tale” by Peter Griffiths, and “Call it Sleep” by Henry Roth. No movies lately. My CD Player lately features a lot of “Your Favorite Ice Cream Song” by Lionel and Kizzie.
Drew
Book: Conspiracy of Fools : A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
DVD: Simpsons season 4 and Curb season 2
XBOX: Sitting idle – haven’t played it months
Easter Weekend: Drink a little beer and do work for school
Ken Layne
John – I’m not a prolific commenter (meaning, I hardly ever leave a comment), but I’ve been relying on your site a lot lately, for reasons of sanity. So I will play along with the listy list in the spirit of community:
What are you reading?
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbons. Got a nice set of the first three volumes for Xmas and am going through them all, slowly and carefully. And R.A. Wilson’s guide to modern conspiracy theory.
What is in your DVD player?
Deadwood, season 1 various discs, and “Smiley’s People,” an English production with Alec Guiness as George Smiley. Very well done, and pretty damned dark.
CD Player?
A burned bootleg disc of Johnny Cash / Bob Dylan sessions from 1968 or ’69. Just got it off some web site. Ragged and lovely. And a lot of other Dylan (mostly recent stuff) because we just saw him live and he was outrageously good, as was his band.
X-Box (or other console- I have X-box)?
I have no game system, but I want one, and I may well buy one with the IRS refund. That Grand Theft Auto looks good, and I would probably buy the latest Star Wars game you can play online with a million other dorks.
What are your plans for the Easter weekend?
We already celebrated the Spring Equinox (it was a savagely cold & snowy winter and we’re glad to see it pass) and the dog caught & killed another jackrabbit, so the Easter Weekend will be an afterthought. Friends are visiting from out of town and wine will be consumed.
Thanks for your good work.
Veeshir
What am I reading?
Bedroom; The Warlock (sequel to the River God), not as good but pretty good.
Bathroom: Essays From a Democracy at War by Bill Whittle.
DVD:three seasons of Soap
CD:Whatever’s in there.
Computer games:Civilization II, Panzer General II.
Plans for Easter:Going to the range. I have yet to fire my new/used Sig SP2340 or my Wasr-10 (AK variant) with my new 75rd drum or my new/used S&W .44 mag (it’ll blow your head clean off) and later, making some lasagne.
Even after 20 years of atheism I still feel weird not going to mass on Easter.