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This is funny coming on the heels of my tirade about people who suck-ify the classic rock station, but...

...is there anything quite like listening to ABBA and dancing around? I say: nay, there is not. There's something so joyously silly about every song they sing, from the crazy nordic accents and knowing the women have almost no idea what they're saying to the subject matter that is as gleefully mean-spirited as the music is toe-tapping.

I mean, I set my iPod to ABBA for like five songs, and they've already covered nymphettes baiting older men ("Does Your Mother Know?" a personal favorite); gold diggers marrying rich solely for the purposes of maintaining a slothful lifestyle ("Money Money Money"); lonely women desperately seeking one-night-stand, god-gifted lovers for an all-night fuck session ("Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man Afer Midnight)"); and singers having to perform despite being really, really not into it any more ("Super Trouper"--especially uncomfortable if you know anything about how the group broke up and why they've stayed broken up despite the promise of billions if they went on tour again).

Come on, you have to admit they're the supergroup for a reason. If The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, ABBA's bigger than the King of the Cosmos.

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I think I will buy Warriors Orochi. I can't not, can I? I need to use up gift points at Best Buy that will expire this week otherwise, and it will bring much joy and love into our home for the PS2. I can sense that it is feeling neglected as feiran is much (and rightly, don't mistake me) besotted with her new XBOX 360 toy and I've been playing nothing but Eternal Darkness on the GameCube. Yes, the PS2 does not deserve desertion. I have to buy this game--for the children! Er, sorta.

I actually do feel bad for the PS2. Best console ever, you ask me. It did everything I wanted from it--how could it not with its huge library?--and it's been a great time-waster over the years. I recall fondly more games on it than on any other console. The next-gen stuff hasn't blown up my skirts either. The Wii is cute, but games-wise has nothing to offer me (unless it ports Pokemon Snap, in which case it will be my new favoritest thing ever). I'm not much of a Nintendo fan anyway, no matter my turn-around on the GameCube. The PS3 is still far from being much more than a joke. The XBOX 360 is by far the most impressive, but I've yet to really find the game that makes it a must-have. I might change my mind when I get hands on Rock Band, but so long as I can still sling a few riffs on new Guitar Hero and Karaoke Revolution releases on the PS2, I will do that (I have the gear, so it's cheaper) instead.

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Speaking of feiran's shiny new console: are all 360s that loud? I swear, it sounds like its got little gnomes hand-spinning the discs, it makes so much fuss over playing games. I can't recall my brother-in-law's being that loud, but I was using it in a larger room and it was farther away, so maybe?

Also: I can never play DOA Extreme 2. Ever. It's that stupid beach volleyball excuse for jiggle-tits in floss bikinis (I think Ctrl+Alt+Del covered it best). However, the addiction factor is Animal Crossing-worthy with all the shit you can buy back-and-forth for each of the girls. EACH HAS HER OWN SELECTION OF SHIT THAT ONLY SHE CAN GIVE TO THE OTHERS. No, no, no. I must not touch the console. It will eat me. Three years later, I will wake up, walk away, and yet spend the rest of my life having nightmares about breasts.

This won't be too hard to opt out of. The real challenge will be for me to stop back-seat-drivering feiran when she plays (she won't seduce all the women! Why not!? IS THAT NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE GAME!?!). I think she pointed out this game to me as an acceptible Trinity-friendly 360 game because she's already tired of me paying way too much attention to her DOAE2 doings.