...makes me feel like i've opened a website through google image search. I don't like opening websites through google image search, the header always annoys me. This new header annoys me because.... (repeat ad nauseum)

I don't think that this topic is going to be very game related to be honest, it will still be packed full of geek though so erm... keep reading :|

Alongside my hatred of new headers, i have developed a hatred of "The Internet" and itsreluctance to allow me to write anything in brackets that ends with the number 8. Try it. Notice it. And then watch the hatred in you blossom.

Speaking of blossoms (I am the sultan of segue), my cactuses or is it Cactii? actually, I prefer Cactuar (geek? yes.), yeah, my cactuar have started to blossom.I mentioned this in passing to someone today and they warned me that this was bad and meant the imminent death of my hardy plants. (oh yes, I tell people about my cactuar, I am thelife andsoul of the party)It turns out that this person is a fool, I've googled it and it appears to be a good thing, so my conscience is clear, the death of a collection of plants that are famously able to survive with very little care and commitment would have bared heavily on my shoulders. There is a reason for this talk of cactuar though, I have a pretty big and ugly looking cactus that looks like an odd acid fueled Final Fantasy enemy. I am considering buying some FF VII figurines and taking a photo of them battling the beast... what do you mean I have too much time on my hands?!?

Other news, I've purchased a number of things lately designed to improve my life (some more than others). Firstly, I've bitten the bullet and paid over the odds for an old 160 Gb Ipod, my new(ish) 80Gb Ipod wasn't big enough any more, so now I have twice the capacity and therefore a mission to find more and more music. Idiscovereda torrent folder on isohunt called 'Freak folk for dummies' (google it!!!)- it's got about 4 gigs worth of bloody good albums on it, I had a lot of the albums already but I still managed to find almost 2 gigs worth of gems on there that have improved my collection greatly, there are a lot of the staple albums that everyone has to listen to at least once such as:

Beirut -Gulag Orkestar

Cat Power -Moon Pix

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f# a# (infinity)

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

Sigur Rós- Ágætis byrjun

The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin

Tom Waits- Rain Dogs

Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

And there's others in herethatI haven't listened to before but am looking forward to hearing, I've never heard of a band called 'The Gerbils' but I like the idea of finding out about them! So yeah, if you own or enjoy any of these mentioned bands/albums then I'd recommend looking for this torrent, it will take a long time to download (it took me 12 hours or so) but it's worth it, if anything just look at the list and be inspired.

For those of you that can't be bothered googling this, here is the link...

So there you have it, a blog about things that annoy me, cactuar and good music. I spoil you all with such greatness.