Soonish(ish) is a word that means "maybe soon, maybe not so soon." So therefore, it was an accurate word to describe when this post would come.

I have playing right now a man named Sufjan Stevens, whose album "Illinois" is one of the best things to come out this year. He was brought to my attention by Noranna, in Australia. So thanks! I ordered it in the mail with stuff from The Weight, Rocky Votolato, Antony and the Johnsons, and more. I decided it was time for me to invest in some more folky, acoustic type stuff, as well as some more alt-country. Yay for expanding musical horizons.

Cam and Charlie and I were out at Lucky Joe's, our favorite sit and talk bar, and Cam and I got to talking about videogames. The Xbox 360 is out, and really, from the first batch of games, I'm not impressed. The graphical quality is not really that much advanced from this generation's games, and the games themselves really do nothing new at all. It's like they just rereleased the Xbox at twice the price with a cool new design and a power source that's bigger than some people's houses. I'm sure this is just a problem with the first batch of games, because they had to rush to get them to market quick, and really, while it doesn't sound like the 360 will change the face of videogames, it does sound like it will feature huge advances in in-game physics and storytelling, thanks to its three terribly powerful independent processors. But what's really interesting to me is the way the Nintendo Revolution's controller has changed in my viewpoint. For those of you who don't know, the Revolution, coming out mid-late next year, will have a controller that looks like a TV remote. It has one big button, a couple others, and a D-pad. No analog stick. The analog stick, along with other add-ons, will be able to stick out of the bottom of the controller via a port. But the way you play games with this thing is you wave it around, and it detects the motion of the controller. While it sounded pretty stupid at first, I got to thinking, and imagine playing a tennis game and actually swinging the racket, or actually aiming the gun in a first person shooter. Playing racing games you could actually turn the steering wheel, playing football you could juke by jerking the controller to one side. Playing Zelda, you could swing your sword. This, I feel, if it's done right, could really change the way games work, and it's one reason why the Xbox 360 isn't as exciting as it should be. No matter what advances it makes, it will be the same games repackaged that we've been playing forever. Not that I don't want one. I do. I'm a videogame nerd and I want it. But I'm not willing to pay 900 bucks for one on Ebay.

On the same token, Cam and I are going to try to write a top 10 videogames of all time list. And I need to get my top 10 CDs of 2005 out here too, since there's really nothing else coming out worth looking at for the rest of the year.

Cam has this little thing called 20 Questions, and what it does is you think of something and it asks you 20 questions, and then it guesses, and it's almost always right. It knew we were thinking of Playstation, a lego block, an emu, and even a sponge, though we didn't know anything about sponges to answer its questions correctly. Danny put it right when he said "This is like the coolest thing I've ever seen!" You all should go to Toys R Us or something like that and buy one, and watch as it BLOWS YOUR MIND!

I start my new job in two weeks from today, and I still don't know where I'll actually be working. I've been trying to get a hold of these people for a week now, and I can't get them. I can't quit my job at Officemax until I find this out, because if they want me to work in Springs or like Limon or some crap, I'm just not going to take the job. Limon, by the way, sucks. You can see it on highway signs hundreds of miles away from the place, making you think it'll be this big metropolis hidden away in eastern Colorado. But no, it's just some little shit town with an outhouse, a mule, and maybe a truck stop, and like three toothless hilbillies playing the banjo and spitting in a pot. The highway signs for I-70 east should just say "Jack Shit: next 500 miles," because that's the kind of honesty I want from my street signs.

Speaking of street signs, there needs to be some kind of system for placement on these things. Ever try to find someone's house in the dark? You have to sit at each intersection for 10 minutes trying to figure out which corner the tiny, unlit street sign is on, and then you have to get out of your car and cut down the tree that's grown in front of it so you can see it. I hate street signs.

I wrote my last paper ever for school today. It's a sad little five page affair involving no research and really very little academic merit. Tomorrow I give my last presentation ever for school. With and to a bunch of honors kids who probably care about this thing. Me, on the other hand, I don't. Even though technically it's my final. Don't care. Couldn't be bothered to give a shit. I'm out of shit to give. I'm keeping my shit from now on. It feels good. I feel like I should celebrate this feeling, but I dont' know when I'll have time or friends to celebrate with. Everyone will be busy with finals, and then I start working full time. But it seems like graduation and a birthday should be too good of a good excuse to get people to buy me some drinks to miss. I don't know if that sentence made sense.

How about that Colbert Report? That is some funny shit. I know because my DVR records every single instance of the show because it's too stupid to figure out which ones are reruns. So I have to go through and delete like 10 episodes of that and the Daily Show every day, since Comedy Central plays it at 12am, 2am, 9am, 11am, 7pm, and 9pm every day. Does it seem like maybe they need a new show to take up some of that time?

Lost is on break until January 11th, apparently. This gives me time to watch the second season of Deadwood. Cam and I also tried to come up with a top 10 list of TV shows in the past 10 years, but we only came up with like 3, which really says more about the state of TV than our memories. What it says about TV is, it's a huge giant waste of time.

I now have a friend in China. My cult is slowly spreading across the world. Watch out, Lichtenstein, your time is coming! I'd give her more of a shoutout, but China's government blocks this site because it knows these words I write would incite a full scale revolution. Like this: Hey China, suck less! Good thing they can't read that. Or else they'd be like "Oh wow, this is amazing, I never thought about sucking less. Maybe I should!" and then they'd tear down their repressive government, form a religion around me, and shower me with gold and women. Yeah, good thing China blocks websites like this one. Dangerous stuff.

I guess that's all.