The Darkness – Permission to Land
Three words: Love. This. CD.
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Franz Ferdinand
I was originally thinking that this CD would probably get the lowest rating out of the five I am reviewing this week. But it's grown on me while listening to it a couple more times.
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Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
This is the first album from the Black Eyed Peas that I've owned, so I can't speak to the addition of Fergie to the lineup. I can say it's a nice hip-hop/dance CD that I enjoy.
Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
The latest double album from Outkast is a lot of filler, but a lot of good music too.
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Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane
Life with Jane must have been pretty interesting, if in fact these are all "Songs About Jane". She certainly was the inspiration for some pretty good songs.
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A review a day for a week?
As mentioned before, I'm a big fan of the Pepsi/iTunes promotion. As a result of the free songs I downloaded thanks to the cap codes, I even went out and bought, or received as a gift, five albums by the artists I liked the most. So, I'm going to try to post a review each day of one of these albums. Check back later today for my Maroon 5 review.
Catharsis
This past weekend, I went through the geek cleansing ritual of recycling my old computers. Yep, that's right, all of them. The old PPro 180 my dad gave me as a hand me down from his work, my AMD K6-2 350 which I just recently retired, and a couple of motherboards, parts, and the ancient Packard Bell 14 inch monitor that until a couple of years ago made me eyes hurt from looking at it for too long. It actually feels pretty good to only have 2 computers (my main computer and my wife's laptop, which is mainly used just for Quicken). And there's a lot more room in that basement closet now for all our other junk!
Bento lunches
Who needs a cool lunchbox when your lunch looks like this?
Bad restaurant
Lisa's friend Suzy was in Annapolis this weekend to, no kidding, meet her friends from MarthaStewart.com. That's a whole other story. The main thing I want to do is warn anyone off Ego Alley, the restaurant where we went to dinner. We figured that we should eat early, since it seemed that there were a lot of prom night kids out and about, so we stopped in to Ego Alley, which had been suggested to us by someone as a relatively kid-friendly place to go to eat. So we went in around 5pm. I immediately noticed that there were people smoking at the bar, and mentioned this to my wife. She hadn't noticed, as the ventilation was pretty decent for such a small place. So we picked out a table in the back near the fish tank so Ellie could watch the fish. Placed our drink order (the only redeeming quality, they had John Courage on tap, a beer I enjoyed whilst in London. As it turns out, a lot of places in Annapolis have it), figuring the smoke wasn't bad enough to make us leave. We should have left.
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