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*hugs Angela's avi.* awesome avi. Darling too.*hugs darling's avi.* Yeah....that explains why not much progress in the contests too.

Just try soemthign Angela. Usually Bio and the others steal the good ones. hm......the only time I've actually won I blieve in the caption contest with when bio made me first because ofhte Leroy Jyngkins thing, asidde from that if I 've won any other contests I dont' remember.

Surrounded is probably one of my favorite songs on the album. I actually like Under a Glass Moon the least. Still like it though. But Metropolis is probably my overall favorite song by Dream Theater.

I only got Awake recently. I like the Mind Beside Itself suite, (which is Erotomania, Voices and The Silent Man) which I pretty much listen to altogether, as one big song, rather than 3 separate tracks. Lie is always awesome. But the one that stood out most for me was Space Dye Vest. Kevin Moore was a kick a** composer.


Well, a Change of Seasons is technically an EP and not a full fledged album, and all the other songs on it are live covers. Which, the Big Medley I love. But yeah, the Change of Seasons song is like, worth its own CD.

Overall, I think Six Degrees is definitely not my favorite album, but the Six Degrees suite, the "Disc 2" of the album, basically, is like, one of the best things they've ever done, IMO. 40 minute epic.

You don't like the quiet, acoustic songs, do you?
Train of Though is just metal. It's always good, when I'm in that heavy mood. Endless Sacrifice is probably my favorite song on it.

As if, man. Octavarium was sick. Especially the title track, but I loved every track on the album to an extent.

Yeah, Systematic Chaos is probably my second favorite album of theirs. No fillers on that one, each song is very distinct and has a very different sound to it.
EDIT: Favorite song: Ministry of Lost Souls


Well, the two albums of theirs that I don't have are "When Dream and Day Unite" which was their first album. It was pretty good, there's a few memorable tracks on it, but this was before James LaBrie, so because they had Charlie Dominici as the singer back then, they kinda sounded like Queensryche. So take from it what you will, it's like old school DT music, with Queensryche singing.

The other album of theirs that I have yet to buy is Falling Into Infinity. I listened to many songs from it though, and here's the thing. When they were making the album, their record label got massive staff changes, and they were kind of pushed into making a "Radio Friendly" album. It's still good music, but it's all 4, 5, 6 minute songs, so there's no epics on it. Which kinda sucks. But there are some really good songs on it like Peruvian Skies and Hollow Years. Actually, you might not like it so much, because overall, it's a fairly soft album.

Their newest album, Black Clouds and Silver Linings is awesome. It's like Systematic Chaos in that it's got very different sounding songs, and all of them are fairly heavy, or epic. The only difference is that conceptually it's the opposite of Systematic Chaos. SC was telling all kinds of stories with vampires, evil spirits and whatnot, and Black Clouds is all about real life stories that happened to John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy. They're pretty cool, though. So I definitely recommend it.

But Scenes From a Memory, their album from 1999 is I'd say their best album. It's a concept album, first of all, so it's got its own murder mystery storyline thing going on, which is aweseome. But musically it's also really diverse. It's got slow, powerful ballads, it's got really crazy fast heavy tracks, it's just awesome. A lot of DT fans consider it their favorite, and I do too.
Actually, if you watched the American version of "DBZ: The History of Trunks" where it shows that alternate future with Androids 17 and 18, and Gohan loses his arm... There's like 4 or 5 songs from this album in the movie, during fight scenes, and some other scenes. That's actually how I found out about Dream Theater in the first place.

Yeah, all my friends are all busy with exams and stuff, too.
I'm not in school, so I'm good. cool


So I picked up Lunar: Silver Star Harmony for PSP last night, and I gotta say I'm really into it. It's a remake of an old school game, so it was made back when RPGs were actually FUN, and not just pointless grind machines like they are today. I'm loving it. Not as much as Persona 3, obviously, but still, this is definitely one series that was definitely worth revamping. I hope they remake Lunar 2 for PSP as well.

I'm thinking about getting an RPG,but in the past I have never really been that big of a fan.So,now that I have a sudden interest,any suggestions on RPG's that didn't dissapoint?

anything within PSP DS WII X360 or PS2

Yes, Persona 3 and 4 are the best RPGs I've played in the past decade. I suggest starting with 3. 2 you'll never find, and 1 kinda sucks. Their storylines are irrelevant anyway.

However, if you ARE gonna try persona, you might as well wait for July and pick up Persona 3 for PSP, which is gonna have an optional female main character, so you get a choice, and even if you don't care about that, having it on the go is probably preferable. But if you don't wanna, I'm sure you can find it for PS2 anyway.

And also, like I said, I just picked up Lunar for PSP and I'm loving it so far, so I'd recommend that as well.

You're also a Tales of Symphonia fan, yes?

So, which do you prefer, Symphonia or Abyss?

...Choose your next words wisely, Persian.