After posting how I had given Metallica one last chance by listening to the entire Master of Puppets album and finding it good but not impressive the general response from everyone here and anywhere else was that I should listen to Ride the Lightning and possibly ...And Justice For All. While I couldn't see myself changing my opinion on the band I still decided to give Ride the Lightning a whirl and right after hearing the opening track "Fight Fire with Fire" my exact thoughts were "this is already better than Master of Puppets". I then listen to the rest of the album and I must be honest, it's a ****ing good album, I'll even go so far to say that it'll cracked my Top 25 Albums list when I look back and finalize it. Right now, the only songs keeping me away from listening to the intro for "The Call of Ktulu" are "Soulstone Splinter" by Sonic Syndicate and "Trial by Fire" by Testament (haven't listened to any other songs off that album it's off of, only because I'm not sure if I'll like it or not).

As for ...And Justice For All, I've listened to the first four tracks and the title track is the only one that's impressed me, "One" is a really good listen though, "Blackened" isn't half bad but "Eye of the Beholder" is just another Metallica song to me. We'll see how the rest of the album fares, but regardless I love the cover art, it's just so brilliant.

Beyond that I saw Pineapple Express a couple weeks ago and all I'm gonna say is that it's random and messed up. I saw it with my best friend Jesse and all he had to say is "that move just made me want to get stoned, that's it". And last week I decided to go and buy Need for Speed Most Wanted, which I've lost a lot of my skill at since I remember it not being as cheap (difficulty-wise). The cop chases are still awesome, but I just wish there were some better cars and more parts to customize. I'm really hoping Undercover will be like Most Wanted just with the improvements I'm hoping for an online mode that's similar to Carbon since the online for that game is really what made it worthwhile.

And I'm hoping to pick up Too Human after I get off work tomorrow (rather than do shifts of 4 PM to midnight when we get trucks in they're having me do shifts of 3 to 9 the night of the trucks and then go back the next day 6 AM till noon or earlier if we get done before our actual manager gets in), and while there have been a lot of naysayers (which really doesn't surprise me, everyone's been treating this game like the plague ever since it was announced at E3 '05) I don't care since I enjoyed the demo and since IGN said those who like random loot drops will like it I'm all the more for it.

Too Human Gamespot Score-5.5

SHUUUUUNNNNA!!!

I can't believe myself, I'm a high school graduate about to start my first year in college in just eight days and I couldn't feel more nervous and dreadful towards it. It seems I'm basically alone when I say that I actually enjoyed my high school years, and after hearing how college is much different and much more challenging (this is also while looking at some of the differences between high school and college as I write this) I can't think of a single reason as to why I should be looking forward to it.

Now, unlike most people who go to college I'm going to a community college for two years and then plan to go to a university but I'm going to a community college nearby home since I personally still want to stay in the home I've been living in, I STILL don't have a car or driver's license and I'm not going to deal with rent bills if I have the option not to.

And yet I always hear about how people say college was the best time of their lives, yet it sounds like it's a lot tougher and harder to manage outside of having more freedom with the classes. I'm sorry, but that just does not add up for me.

I don't know, I just feel really insecure about the whole scenario. Can anyone help me out?