I know I rave about Alice all the time, but I really think you all should try it!

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I thought you might be interested in an online service called Alice.com. I use Alice, and I think it’s a great way to buy household essentials (stuff like trash bags, dish soap, and toilet paper) and avoid the chore of running to the store for these goods. It saves lots of time and everything is shipped to my door free.

If you are interested, click on the link below to sign up, and you’ll get a $10 credit in your account after you spend at least $50 on the site.

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I’m going to start off and say that none of these albums are bad. I’m just saying that I was super excited for these to drop, and I was overly disappointed. Enjoy!

1. Wiz Khalifa – Deal or No Deal
   I loved Wiz Khalifa’s mix-tape, Flight School, but Deal or No Deal was super disappointing. It’s a shame because Wiz has the potential of being one of the next big rap stars, but this album drop isn’t going to help his career. It’s on Amazon for $5 though, can’t pass any album up for that price. Good single “Say Yeah“.
2. Paramore – Brand New Eyes
   This album got me so excited with the single, Ignorance, but it was a huge disappointment compared to Riot. Nothing is really catchy about this album… I mean, it’s not bad. It’s just something I have to desire to throw on from time to time.
3. Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk
   One listen through, no real reason to go through it again. I loved the single, Love Drunk, and the next single was good too, but after I got to the song with Taylor Swift, I was done with this album, I’ll go back to their Self-Titled Debut, it was amazing.

1. Blueprint 3 – Jay-Z
   Probably my favorite Hip-Hop album of all time. Easily the most listened to album this year in my iTunes. The album has no skippable songs and flows perfect. Also has my favorite song of the year, Young Forever.
2. Never Better – P.O.S.
   P.O.S. would have easily been my favorite Hip-Hop album until the Blueprint 3 dropped. That being said, this album stands out from the mainstream radio rap that is so excessively disappointing. Side note – one of the best live shows of 2009 too.
3. Manslaughterer – Schaffer the Darklord
   I’m sure no one knows who STD is, since most don’t know what nerdcore is, but when I downloaded this album, I couldn’t believe how clever every song was. From rhymes jumping from how blood carries oxygen to non-stop movie references to an amazing integration to popular video game sounds, it’s a perfect nerdcore album.
4. Nothing Personal – All Time Low
   This album brings me back to the days of Blink-182 and Sum 41. Going back through my iTunes, I can’t believe how many plays I put through it. On top of that, it’s just a perfect album to throw on when your in a good mood.
5. Daisy – Brand New
   I adore Brand New. While Daisy isn’t my favorite Brand New album, it still stands out to me. I love it. It’s so different from their last two and while all three are amazing, Daisy is so creatively different that it fits perfect in my top 10 of 2009/
6. Congregation of the Damned – Atreyu
   I couldn’t believe how good this album was. I was a big fan of Atreyu back when The Curse dropped, and then I dropped them off my playlist until now. While I may have missed a couple albums in between now and then, this album was one of the best musical buys I made this year.
7. The E.N.D. – Black Eyed Peas
   Boom Boom Pow may have been the most downloaded song of 2009 (iTunes and Amazon) – but I love the energy (no pun intended) in this album. Reminds me of overnights at work, reminds me of just being excited at the moment.
8. Not Without a Fight – New Found Glory
   Another impressive, unexpected album. New Found Glory was always hit and miss for me, but this album rocked my iPhone for quite a long time. Catchy, flows well, worth a listen.
9. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
   I think what I love the most about this album was the songs with no lyrics. Not saying the lyrics are bad, cause 1901 is one of my favorite songs of this year, but this album was quite impressive. This is also probably the most “chill” album on my top 10 this year. Not a bad thing.
10. Weezer – Raditude
    I’ve always liked Weezer, but never enough to make an entire album buy. While Red Album might have been my first big step into Weezer, until the terrible reviews, I’m glad I waited until this album to drop. Can’t Stop Partying will definitely be played at my Wedding.

This week is the 8th episode of Game Failure. Host (Steve) talks with Bryan about games they’ve been playing, console price drops, and a lot of Sony news, ironically. We also go over Half-Life, Penny-Arcade, Batman, and LittleBigPlanet!

It’s been so long!

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So a lot of people look at me and ask how can I afford a new Car, a new Macbook Pro, a Kindle. … a 61in TV… so on. I mean, honestly, I work a “$10″ an hour job 40 hours a week, and I have a second job that rolls in about 10 hours weekly. I mean – I’m not working 80+ hours with no free time.

I tell people I’m just really good at managing my money, and they just look at me funny. I admit I don’t go out to often and drop $40 a night on drinks, but I can say that I do drop anywhere from $100-$200 a month on some form of entertainment whether that would be movies, music, and/or games.

How I manage my money isn’t rocket science… it only took a couple hours, and yeah, it’s a lot of work at first, but once your done setting it up, your done with having to worry about it.

If you guys wanna know how I did it, let me know. I’d love to share.

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Alice is an awesome shopping program that I think everyone should try. If you spend $50, you get $10 back, and this is going to be $50 that you would spend anyways, cause everyone need toilet paper.

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I’ve been putting a lot of work into my other site, Game Failure. Just thinking out loud right now, but mostly I wish people would tell me how they like the site and podcast? Something I should keep doing? I think it’s going well so far, I just feel so busy lately… Anyways. Let me know what you guys think, if you care? Cause I do!

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My Amazon wishlist:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/312AIZID1QJQT