Dusty Chalk

I was taught that a true Long Island Iced Tea is seven (?) white liquors with no sour, tea nor cola, and the taste can be quite convincing. I say, experiment until you figure out the right proportions. Something like - Vodka - Tequila - White rum - Triple Sec - Gin - Vermouth? Here's a recipe (or two) that utilizes only lemon juice and simple syrup. This is a good "at-home" experiment, because they have to add mixer of some sort in bars.

Pfff. That sounds too much like work. Your problem, you try a different over-the-counter medicine. And sorry to hear about your back. Don't mix painkillers and beer. Too much. I like Left Hand Brewing Company. And Bell's. And Weyerbacher. Seriously, I like Audio-Technicas. And AKG's. AKG K1000 is a great complement to the Sennheisers.

Pick better advice. - or - Listen to the same advice through different headphones. Guess which one works better.

Battle of Nowy Dw

I never get tired of that video. There's something sublime about how it starts off all straightforward and dry, and somewhere around the point where you've caught yourself laughing at him saying "this is rock 'n' roll", he just takes off and lets loose.

Listen to non-boring music? It's not the headphones' job to make the music interesting, it's yours -- pick something else out.

Yeah, another X-Can fan here -- I have the current V8.

Yeah, it says 125 now.

speaking of logos, Android Lust's current one is pretty cool: PS This album foggin' rawx. I love the dubby element they added -- reflects the amount of dubbiness I heard at the concert. Did I mention I went to a concert? Feels like the first time in forever. Bassist was playing a six string fretless, if I saw correctly, and had groove...serious, serious groove.

:drool: Not because the 'can of soda' reference makes me thirsty, but because that amount of power reserve makes me ...well, drool.

:eep:

rested and drank plenty of fluids

IQ rawx Me: Android Lust, The Human Animal (also "second-to-last thing I bought", along with a T-shirt -- couldn't bring myself to spend $90 on the Resonance set)

Only because I forgot -- he is on my list.

I'm actually not that voracious a comics reader as I used to be. Of those, I've only read Ex Machina -- which is good, but not as good as Fables or Sandman. I would say go with Preacher first, which is wonderful. Sin City is fabulous, although if you've seen the movie, you've seen a little over half the stories in them. Still, worth it for A Dame to Kill For. I tend to go by author: - Gaiman, of course -- just read everything by him. Even little oneshots like Creatures of the Night and Black Orchid are worth the price of entry. Total fanboy. - Bill Winningham -- definitely becoming a Bill Winningham fan. - Warren Ellis -- you mentioned Transmetropolitan -- hell yes, by all means, anything he touches... - Frank Miller -- a little too misogynist for my tastes, and the men are all a little too macho, but he plays to his strengths, so who am I to judge? Plus, sometimes it turns out quite fun, such as Dark Knight Returns, etc. - Garth Ennis -- yeah, I mix up Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis all the time...fortunately, they are both good, so...who cares? - Alan Moore -- a bit verbose, but necessary for what he does - Steve Niles -- lots of one-shots and short runs, but he comes from old school horror and short stories, so they're all good -- the entire 30 Days of Night run (lots of short stories, and the first book was so much better than the movie), Remains, and Wake the Dead stand out. He has a serious black comedy bent, so it's not as serious as Sandman, but still some very human stories. - Dave McKean -- anything illustrated by Dave McKean I find interesting -- Cages was hard to follow (you think?), but I'm such a fanboy, I didn't care - Ben Templesmith -- another illustrator and sometimes writer -- great stuff in Singularity and his entry into the Dead Space curriculum is eye-opening -- he does to comics what Hero did to movies. But another one that's less "literature" and more just plain worthwhile reading. Oh, and Joss Whedon -- I've been enjoying Angel Season Six and Buffy Season Eight quite a bit, but pretty much everything he touches is quite good (The Runaways, for example). But I was already a Joss Whedon fanboy before I started either of those, so if you're not, I have no idea how it'll come across to you. But if you do, start with Fray -- some of my favorite moments in comics are in that one.

Oh, here she is, Avarice:

Goddamnit, there's one missing. Which one is it? I presume "Vanity" is "Pride"? Then it would be "Greed" that's missing, no? Is there one for "being anal retentive"? How about "entropy"?

Sandman is great, but by all means, read Fables. There are a couple of endings to minor arcs that certainly are very satisfying. In fact, this last one was so grandiose, I thought it was the end to the series. And by no means read the Walking Dead -- that one is never intended to end. But it's very good.

Dude! That sucks!

Mankind is Obsolete

Android Lust w/Mankind Is Obsolete -- lead singer of mko is hawt; sound was awful, but could tell they were doing interesting things, so bought their CDs...AL -- couldn't hear the guitarist enough, other than that it was great. Crowd was too small, though -- you know it's bad when you make more noise than everyone else...combined. Bassist & drummer were groovy as hell, & the guitarist was a madman.

Cold sesame noodle

Preppies' sweater arms spin comically? This. I actually found it fairly easy to solve, mostly because I was scared that a spooky face was going to pop up and try to give me a heart attack. Also, there was something about the three-dimensionality that seemed to lift the path off the background, so it was easy for me to see if whole sections would go anywhere or not.

Congrats, and I agree with Jacob on the name.