I come home today from my week at the beach to find out at rolling stone that....



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Wolfmother is no more..... I hope that all members of the group move on to a bigger and better Zeppelin cover band

I've been pondering for months what Eden meant in Pixeljunk Eden. Pixeljunk Racers and Pixeljunk Monsters were simple to figure out, they were about racing and monsters.... So I looked up on Wikipedia and figured out how dumb I am as Eden is an obvious reference to the Garden of Eden in the Bible......

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anyways, Eden is a blast to play so far. When you master the controls, it can get very smooth and you can really look cool while playing. There are plenty of problems I have with it, but I won't get into that now... I'm just trying to unlock all 10 of the gardens for now, and I'm not worried about collecting all the Spectra just yet(and surprisingly not going for the trophies for now)... but I do want to say this game has a feature that is going to be a MUST for all games going into the future:

We need that... and strategy guide pages

I hate to say it, but I COMPLETELY forgot TV on the Radio has a new CD coming out this year.... and soon too... and I was reminded by that by this fantasticly positive preview on RollingStone.com... I guess that's another 10 bucks on great music this year(music blog coming I guess)

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Last week, Rolling Stone nabbed a first listen to TV on the Radio’s excellent Dear Science, due out September 23rd. Produced by the group’s multi-instrumentalist Dave Sitek, the album finds the Brooklyn group fine-tuning what they did best on 2006’s Return to Cookie Mountain: tweaking and looping and distorting a grand arsenal of aggressive percussion, new wave synths, epic guitar noise and various kitchen-sink devices, then layering them all into a big, beautiful art-rock symphony.

But of all the instruments on the new record, the most compelling one is Tunde Adebimpe’s voice. On the blazing anthem “Dancing Shoes,” which sounds like TV on the Radio’s answer to R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” the rhythm of his words pound like a beating drum: “I’ve seen my palate blown to monochrome, hollow heart clicks hollow tone.” Album opener “Halfway Home” begins with a guitar riff that recalls Cookie single “Wolf Like Me,” but as a Smiths-like melody kicks in, Adebimpe delivers the lyrics with the dreamy, sing-song quality of a nursery rhyme.

Of course, the guy can also just belt out some powerful singing when he needs to — especially on the funky R&B track “Cryin’,” where his falsetto rivals Prince’s. Thematically, Dear Science addresses similar themes to Cookie Mountain — namely, that these might feel like End Times, but love can get you through them. And the bands’ Brooklyn friends help drive that message home: members of the Afro-funk group Antibalas lend some golden horn rave-ups to “Red Dress” and Katrina Ford of the Celebration delivers lovely harmonies on the epic, orchestral closer “Lovers Day.” Over marching-band drums, sleigh bells, hand claps and distorted horn loops, her voice dovetails nicely with Adebimpe’s as they sing, “Swear to God we’ll get so high we’ll melt our faces off.” And the sentiment is right-on: this creative tour-de-force could be an epic drug album, too.

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So they are now officially 2-3 with putting out succesfully great 2-D games. This isn't saying that Pixeljunk racing was bad, it just wasn't as fleshed out of an experience as Monsters or Eden, even though it was at the same price.

Monsters didn't hit me as much as the Eden demo has today though. I guess I'm just so surprised at how great and epic the levels feel(with some levels taking me up to 10 minutes just to get 3 of the things, sorry, forgot what their called). The levels are so vertically high and the swinging mechanic is just so awesome and fun when you learn how to use it. The graphics set itself of and the music is FANTASTIC. Once again, great job to the people over at pixeljunk for putting out such great 2D games. The best way to describe is is Flow with actual gameplay and better sound design, can't wait to purchase this next week.

in light of all the popularity of Hamburgers... here's a first... in a new series