Another Great Deal for Super Mario Galaxy 2

Super Mario Galaxy is easily the must-own title of the Nintendo Wii. The graphics, gameplay mechanics, and motion controls are essentially perfect and the game is more or less a sequel to Super Mario 64 which was one of my favorite games growing up. Since the original has sold almost nine million copies over the last few years and was universally praised by every single critic that has ever played it I figured that at least one or two of you might own it and might be interested in its sequel.

Amazon.com occasionally runs deals for pre-ordering games and they're currently doing a pretty amazing one for Super Mario Galaxy 2. Placing an order on-line will not only get the game shipped to you for free once it's released, but it will also add $20 to your Amazon.com account toward the purchase of a future video game. So if you were already planning on picking this title up and were also planning on picking up another video game at some point again in your life for either the Wii or any other console, then click here (or on the image link) and enjoy!

Music Playlist - Fall 2009

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview (most of) the playlist on iTunes.

1. "WTF?" OK Go
2. "Empire State of Mind" Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys
3. "Hounds of Love" The Futureheads
4. "Half of My Heart" John Mayer featuring Taylor Swift
5. "Some Kind of Nature" Gorillaz featuring Lou Reed
6. "How I Got Over" The Roots
7. "Lovers in Japan (Acoustic Version)" Coldplay
8. "Lazy Eye" Silversun Pickups
9. "Heartbreak Warfare" John Mayer
10. "Always in the Season" Pomplamoose
11. "The Anthem" Arts the Beatdoctor
12. "Bittersweet Dirt off Your Shoulder" Jay-Z & The Verve
13. "Aquarium Girl" The Kapluckus
14. "Meantime" The Futureheads
15. "Stylo" Gorillaz featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack
16. "Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second" Starfucker
17. "Take Me Home" Firstenburg/Edwards
18. "Skip to" the End" The Futureheads
19. "Sweepstakes" Gorillaz featuring Mos Def and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
20. "Friends, Lovers, or Nothing" John Mayer

Purchase Daria: The Complete Series for Thirty Bucks

Head's up! One of my favorite shows is available for cheap by mistake!

After years of putting it off in favor of focusing on such quality programming as The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat 2, 16 and Pregnant, and The Hills, Mtv made the announcement back in January that they would finally be releasing a complete collection of their critically-acclaimed animated series, Daria. However, when the product began showing up as "in stock" on Amazon.com yesterday, it was listed at almost fifty dollars less than the MSRP. I really doubt that this is intentional and they'll probably have this fixed within twenty-four hours, but knowing Amazon.com's customer service if you manage to place an order before they fix the price they'll honor it AND ship it out to you for free since the order is over twenty-five bucks.

The link I've included to the item shows it as $44.99 (another reason why I assume that this is a mistake) but visiting the actual page and putting the item in your cart/checking out should show it as $27.99.

Best of luck and let me know if it works for you.

The Best of 2008

Almost a year and a half late but butter late than never, right? Here's my list from 2006 and here's the one from 2007.

Movies
1. Synecdoche, New York
2. The Dark Knight
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. WALL-E
6. The Wrestler
7. Religulous
8. Changeling
9. Milk
10. Iron Man

Novels
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
4. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
5. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

Albums
1. The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley
2. Pretty. Odd. by Panic! at the Disco
3. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and Prospekt's March by Coldplay
4. Way to Normal by Ben Folds
5. You're Awful, I Love You by Ludo

Playlists
Spring 2008
Summer 2008
Fall 2008

THE BEST OF

2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

Purchase Windows 7 for only $29.99

Just a head's up, from now until January 5th, 2010 college students have the opportunity to purchase Windows 7 for for just $29.99 instead of the regular $119.99 that it usually retails for. So if you're running Vista (or even if you still have XP like I do) and are looking to upgrade your PC now's the perfect time to do it. Click here to see if your computer is compatible with Windows 7.