I’ve been listening to a lot of Death Cab for Cutie’s 2001 album The Photo Album. It’s been on repeat for the better part of a month now, I think. I can’t wait for Narrow Stairs to release.

Yesterday I received a nice surprise in the mail – my preordered Metal Gear Solid 4 was supposed to come with a DVD including the entire history of the MGS games and a beta code for Metal Gear Online, which I didn’t think was coming since I preordered it via Gamestop online. I was afraid it wasn’t coming so I did fill out the web form to receive a beta invite and was lucky enough to be accepted into that – so I gave away my second code. The DVD was actually pretty neat and was more structured than I could have hoped for. The end credits also tied the game’s story into several aspects of political history. It was very cool. As extremely excited for the game as I am now, I also can’t wait until Friday when the postponed beta should hopefully start, provided their are no further obsticles.