So there I am, 4:00 PM eastern standard time. It's usually the time I leave from my work at a call center somewhere in Buffalo. But I'm sticking for 2 1/2 hours of overtime. The TVs are showing CNN (they should be showing the call volume at the center instead). Suddenly, the word breaks out, by 5:00 PM eastern, it's known that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson is hospitalized, not breathing, and not looking well. By the time my overtime ended at 6:30 PM eastern, the word had broke out. The King of Pop, dead at 50.

The music…

What's been going on:

1). Acquired the latest batch of hip-hop…with Kanye West's first 3 albums. Should be some good hours of hip-hop…already enjoying a few songs off The College Dropout. For some strange reason, I've found myself popping in The Black Album rather than Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt as people said I would.

2). Linkin Park released a new Underground LP…only problem is…well…here, take a listen to a few tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X33v85WunY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MVTZ4XUJsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fY3QGGM-gw

Um, yeah, anyway, I just heard a sample that Mike Shinoda's playing around from the new album and it sounds awesome…looks like the signature…

Woo…beginning to do overtime hours at work starting next week. So need to get a permanent full-time job though.

Anyways..

FIRST TRAVIS BARKER, NOW…CHI CHENG!

Well, last week, I learned of the car accident involving Deftones's bassist Chi Cheng. It's not looking great right now as he is in stable condition, but still will be under doctor supervision. It's sad news to a lot of fans including me. At this moment, we won't know when Eros will come out. All I can say is, get well soon Chi.

On another note, Korn named a song off Life is…

Over on my home board (soon to be a secondary board) at Gamefaqs on the rock board, I finally blew a horn on a contest gone wrong.

I was running a Best Rock Album of the 90s contest there with complicated rules, but as the contest ran, the users got WAAAY too aligned with indie. I don't know, but I felt the contest was rigged in the wrong direction. I don't know if it was the format, or the nomination process that brought in way too many indie stuff that I didn't care of. Too many other genres got shafted…

Well, on my home message boards (gamefaqs), there's a board dedicated to rock music. Last summer, I ran a contest to determine what the best rock album of the decade was. There was only 123 entries, so posting the top 60 is probably the best thing to show.

While it was strictly around rock music, there were some metal albums (but not as many) in the contest. Here is the top 60. This is merely opinions. Let me warn you, if you are a super-heavy metal listener (either true or false), you will not like the list…also, the board seems…

Ah yes…Friday…in another hour, I'll be heading off for work. Let's see what hot on my mind right now

WIKIPEDIA'S MISTAKE

Often when I want to know a band/artist, I usually look it up on wikipedia, and it gives me the usual, years active, members, and of course, the genre.

But not anymore. I don't know who's idea it is to remove "genre" from the artist/album boxes. I want to know what style a band does. It seems the higher-ups think that the genre box is vandalized by others who do not know which genre to put bands/albums/song under. It's…

First off for fellow Americans, The Buffalo Bills are now 4-0!! W00T…Superbowl, here we come…Fuck the Cowboys!

Now, here's some things this week that's been going through my mind.

Nas

As the weeks go on, I'll be listening to more hip-hop…no, not Soulja Boy or Lil' Jon. But I'll be listening to more good rappers…including Nas.

While away from scrobbling, I heard Nas was releasing a new album…it was originally titled "Nigger", but well, yeah…it had to change, and so far after listening to Untitled, I have to say, pretty awesome and now going up my list (small…

I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing. Each week, I kind of discuss what's on my mind regarding music…and a few other things.

First off.

METALLICA, GUITAR HERO, HELL!

So, we all heard the word…Metallica's new album Death Magnetic has been out for over a week now. Been getting great reviews, and is one of my favorites for this year. The problem though is the quality. Word has been going around that the rip used for Guitar Hero World Tour is better than the CD rip (which I have). I'm probably going to have to…

Yup, it's official. For a week now, I've been on a new computer…the memory is 10 times faster than my last one, and a bigger hard drive. Just installed the remaining programs…except for the last.fm client (that comes next week). So much stuff to listen to.

A note that today, for the first time, I BOUGHT…a Metallica album. That's right…I bought an album from the band that was greedy during the Napster crisis. Yes, the new album Death Magnetic is RIGHT HERE…in this house. Sounds awesome as well. I'll try to write a review in the coming days.

It's been…

It's crashing these days…I've told my father several times to change the god damn computer, but he won't listen. In addition to some of my music, a lot of important files are on it and one of these days, the computer will crash and the hard drive will be damaged and I'll lose a lot of my files. My music files though can be easily replaced as they're on another computer as well.

But the problem is it's memory…the computer simply restarts suddenly without no reason. The problems began when we tried to change and boost up the memory. Something…