Stuff I have consumed lately

[alias_sqbr]

Dessa, "A Badly Broken Code": Another album discovered through fanvids :) Dessa was a poet before she got into hip-hop, and it shows. She has a nice voice too. The first album I've ever bought complete from iTunes! Here's a sample song: Alibi, about helping friend escape a bad relationship.

Polly and the Pirates: A funny, cute little graphic novel about a proper young lady in a semi-Victorian San Francisco who finds herself tangled in the affairs of pirates.

The Reluctant Infidel: A moderate British Muslim discovers he is ethnically Jewish, and goes on a quest to understand what that means. I tried really hard to like this movie, but eventually had to skip to the end. It's heart was in the right place, and it had funny moments, but most of the jokes tried way too hard and were painfully awkward.

Echo Bazaar: I've been playing this Lovecraftian browser-based text game for a while. I got bored of it a while ago but bought myself an "exceptional friend" pass for a month while Cam was away, and figured out how to make it more fun: be willing to pay for and use the objects that raise (or in some cases lower) your stats. It make levelling up much quicker and allows you to skip boring sections more easily. Yeah, ok, probably obvious to anyone with sense. I just today became a Person of Some Importance, huzzah :D

Comments

[tree]

i got into dessa through fanvids as well. that's how i find most new music these days, really.

[sqbr]

I also get a lot from fanmixes :)

[velithya]

dessa ♥

I already had two of her songs on my HDD! I guess I must have picked them up somewhere at some point. FUSHIGI MYSTERY~

I should buy her album, her stuff is lovely.

[kerravonsen]

Yes, that's how I discovered Evanescence (many years too late, but still, enjoying them now).

[kerravonsen]

The Reluctant Infidel: A moderate British Muslim discovers he is ethnically Jewish, and goes on a quest to understand what that means. I tried really hard to like this movie, but eventually had to skip to the end. It's heart was in the right place, and it had funny moments, but most of the jokes tried way too hard and were painfully awkward.

Darn, it sounded like a really interesting premise.

[sqbr]

It's a pretty good album.

[alias_sqbr]

I know, right? And in between the painful jokes there was some good social commentary.