It was a brief, but somewhat relaxing, weekend. Today begins another week of Tendril recording, hopefully wrapping up the rhythm guitars, bass, and starting on my vocals. Then it’s off to Beaumont on Saturday for a show with the Toadies. Looking forward to that show, but not the drive.

Got the Venture Bros Season 3 Blu-Ray this week. It’s pretty rad. The art is all classic Atari-ified, and it includes a bonus soundtrack CD (which, although not something I will listen to very often, since it’s mostly “big band” action-cue type of stuff, is still cool to have and a nice bonus.) Plus, a full season of episodes on ONE disc? HECK YES.

So this happened, which is pretty hilarious.

Transformers Animated just started back up week before last, starting with a full hour and a half debut movie/episode in which all kinds of cool stuff went down. Best Transformers series since G1, by far.

D’espairsRay’s new album Redeemer (of which I posted the PV of recently) arrived on Saturday, and is a really all-around great record. I’m already pretty sure it will make my Top 10 of ’09. Also really, really good is the new Hikaru Utada album This Is The One, which I just got as well. Some of her songs are just disturbingly well-written. And I’m still listening to Supporting Caste heavily.

Finished Resident Evil 5 early this morning. It was a great ride. Really had trouble getting into it at first, but eventually things started clicking. I think the problem was coming right off of Dead Space, which in my opinion is a better game overall. (Certainly when it comes to controls and scare factor.) RE5 is basically Resident Evil 4, way prettier, with a better lead villain. Plus Jill Valentine! Blonde! Looking forward to many replays and co-op mercenary mode in the future. I still lament Resident Evil’s becoming more action-y rather than survival horror, and the complete loss of suspense or creepiness that it once had, but I remain a fan.