Or does each new edition to the Endurance Run make you want to go out and buy Deadly Premonition more and more...

It isn't you...

haha... it looks so horrible, but so damn compelling...

That's the charm of the game. :p

i think what gets me the most is his smile... its just...haunting.

Yeah... It's so bad that after a few seconds becomes so good.

it pierces the soul...

Music's the same way, eventually when that brass band starts up during the investigation you get all "Yeah, let's roll!"  I really can't explain it, it's almost like an inside joke between you and the game.