Monday Morning Commute: 9/21

It’s Monday. Late Monday, to be precise. Just got done with a long day of tutoring and staring at college chicks. Shit, don’t tell my girlfriend. Anyways, everything is utterly boring on the internet today. Nothing I feel like really churning over, and over, and over again. There’s fifteen sites that can all tell you the same thing. So instead, I’m going to try and interact with you guys on an idea I got for a weekly column:

Monday Morning Commute.

Every Monday I’m going to detail the various things I’m either currently or will be watching, reading, playing, and listening to in the next seven days. It’s Monday. You’ve got a long week of school, work, or compulsive masturbation to get through. Tell me the arts that you’re indulging in, to stave off suicide. Check out my list after the jump:

Playing / Halo 3: ODST

I know this shit isn’t out yet, but I’ve cleared my gaming board to make way for this. I’m overly eager to play this son of a bitch. I don’t really know why. I haven’t been blown away by a Halo title since the original. I think it’s the new narrative approach and the fact that you don’t play as Masturbate Chef again. It’ll be nice to play as some general scrub running through the madness. I’m rocking this shit at midnight, which means, according to the reviews, I will have completed the game by 2:30 am.

Watching / Mad Men Season 2

If you’re not watching Mad Men, you’re missing out on the best god damn show on television. No, seriously. You think everything else is good, but this takes a fat dump on it. It’s steaming and smells of whiskey. My friend Patrick Mars tells me that The Wire is better than this, but I haven’t seen it. So, with the caveat that I may enjoy LOST and BSG more, this has to be the tightest, best written show I’ve ever seen. I’m currently two episodes into season 2, and I predict I will have conquered the entire season by Sunday.

I’m also dabbling in the latest season of The Office, and watching The Patriots get the shit kicked out of them.

Listening / Every Time I Die: New Junk Aesthetic

ETID rocks the shit out of my ass. Seriously. Sonically, it blows craps out of my sphincter. Their newest album New Junk Aesthetic came out last week, and it’s been in heavy rotation since then. I’m also listening to new Shadows Fall which is pretty blase, but satisfies my need for refried Maiden riffs and the same double-bass beat they’ve been hitting since 1991.

Reading / The Brothers Karamzov

I have been reading this monolith since like, January of 2003. Alright, only since the beginning of this year. But whether it’s because I’ve been too tired and didn’t think I’d be giving it a fair shake, or I’ve stopped to read something else, I haven’t conquered this sack of shit. It’s dense as hell, super-brilliant, and generally enlightening. Dostoevsky makes me feel like an intellectual ant. I enjoy it.

I’m also trying to catch up on last week’s issues of Batman and Robin and Captain America: Reborn sometime soon.

So what are you doing this week?