Jurassic Radio #41: da na Na NA!

This week, you’ll have to forgive or skip past what is likely the geekiest moment in the history of this program.

See, about 10 days ago, I did my taxes. I got a roughly $1,200 refund, which is awesome. Moments later, I’d spent it on my Newegg shopping cart, which included enough parts to make a quasi-godly computer.

Well, after some nearly catastrophic operator error, said computer has been assembled, and it’s systematically destroying every other priority in my life.

So magnificent and so enduring is this feeling that I completely forgot to mention the outstanding THE MISADVENTURES OF P.B. WINTERBOTTOM on Xbox Live Arcade. I also checked out DARWINIA+, but you won’t hear about that on this podcast. No, it’s just me, my avatar and THE SIMS 3. That’s one tremendously embarrassing confession, but heck, it’s a tremendous game. I’ll get to DAWN OF WAR II and DRAGON AGE just as soon as my pretend chess prodigy boyfriend Parker gets a job.

Fortunately, the Gameodactyl and Gamegnathus pick up my slack. Gameodactyl’s been completely consumed by the reportedly fantastic MILES EDGEWORTH: ACE ATTORNEY INVESTIGATIONS, while Rambo is still hip-deep in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CALL OF PRIPYAT.

(I can play that game, too! Cuz I GOT A COMPUTER, Y’ALL. But I’m going to finish SHADOW OF CHERNOBYL first, because I have that. God, computers are hardXcore.)

But that’s not all! We wrestle with ethnocentric anxiety as we dissect Gogol Bordello’s “Live from Axis Mundi” DVD, which you can find here or on iTunes for about $10.

With music from Team Teamwork, Four Tet and Five Iron Frenzy.

PODCAST

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Jurassic Radio #41: da na Na NA!

00:00 – 34:07 — What we’ve been playing

ACT BREAK — Team Teamwork, “Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg – Still D.R.E. (Getting treasure)”

34:32 – 53:07 — Gogol Bordello, “Live from Axis Mundi”

ACT BREAK — Four Tet, “Circling”

53:28 – 1:12:58 — The news, what’s coming out

OUTRO — Five Iron Frenzy, “Third World Think Tank”