First, for those of you who are wondering: I finally managed to stop playing "Space Siege."

*cue chirping crickets*

I finally got around to loading up and starting "Halo" on the PC. I have only one thing to say about it:

What's the BIG DEAL?!? It's an average FPS at best. The only "oooo... ahhhh..." I've gotten out of it was being able to max out the graphics on it.

"Half Life" and "Half Life 2" blow it out of the water. 'Nuff said.

Moving on...

I'm still giving some of my older CDs a second listen for my next music review extravaganza. No, it's not a metal band... if you're American, odds are you've never heard of them... and they're the largest piece of my music collection. I should have part one (of 3, I think) up this weekend, barring a major disaster.

I'm still on the lookout in my local music stores for the missing 5 studio albums of my Iron Maiden collection. I did get a copy of "Fear of the Dark" (to replace the cassette) and "A Matter of Life and Death." Now all I need is the self-titled debut, "Killers," "No Prayer for the Dying," "The X Factor" and "Virtual XI" ("Killers" and "Prayer" will be replacing totally worn-out tapes).

I managed to find some good bargains at Wal-Mart for movies: "Hellraiser" (has it really been 20 years since it was released?!?), "The Mist" (good movie... real downer of an ending), "Say Anything" (chick flick, date movie... my wife likes it, so I don't care), and "The Dark Knight" (loved it in the theatre). I'm currently searching for "Troll 2" (it came up a lot last blog... :lol: ) and "Toxic Avenger" (I'd almost forgotten that movie...). Like I said: I'm an absolute sucker for a bad movie.

Not much else going on, so I'll cut it short. Have a safe week, secure in the knowledge that spring is almost here (unless you're Australian... then I am truly sorry, but autumn is almost there).