Jeremy Bent

Category: Reflection

  • 30 Years Old

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    I turned thirty a couple days ago. The celebration at McManus, where people I love sang to me multiple times, was in stark contrast to my first birthday in New York (age 23). I had just come back from Thanksgiving in Rhode Island, having spent three unsuccessful months in NYC. I felt like a failure…

  • Paying for Music

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    I had a long discussion with my friends Heather and Mike a month ago, sparked by these articles. If you don’t want to read them, they’re about how insane it is to steal music from artists you respect. Our discussion was about why I was still stealing. Up until a month ago, here were my…

  • Talkin’ ’bout Roleplaying, Y’all

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    I bought a pen and paper RPG this week for the first time since, well, frankly I can’t remember. But definitely since college, so at least 7 years. I’ve been following developments in RPGs since then, playing here and there, but I haven’t felt the need to buy one until I saw that they re-released…

  • Honky Tonk Badonkadonk: A Cultural Train Wreck

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    I’ve been listening to a lot of good/bad music recently for my blog, Good Songs Bad Lyrics. On GSBL, I comment on songs from the last 50 years that are lyrically sloppy or weak, or videos that are notably ridiculous. I’m always hunting for “Worst Lyrics of All Time!” lists, and seeing what people have…

  • Four Years Strong

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    9/11 will always have an undeniable significance in New York, but it also happens to be my NYC anniversary. In 2005 on September 11th, I took a Dominican shuttle bus from Providence to New York with a bunch of suitcases, my bass guitar, and next to no prospects. It was, as plans go, a terrible…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sony PlayStation 3

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    My current gaming rig and beloved black monolith. I got mine through a friend for wholesale, tax-free, so I did ok in regards to the insanely high pricing for the PS3. System: I was looking to upgrade to the PS3 as soon as I saw two things – Rock Band and Final Fantasy XIII. That…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Microsoft XBox

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    I have no idea what possesses me to buy these freaking things, but I bought this, I think, in the winter of ’02. I suspect there was a sale. System: Microsoft’s first real entry into the console world was pretty good. The controller pictured was not the one I had. I had the smaller, more…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sony PlayStation 2

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    I saved for a while, adding $20 bill to my little stash each week to eventually buy a used PlayStation 2. I owned this from like 2002-03 and then again from 2006-08. System: I had one of the original PlayStation 2s, which means in 2007 it stopped working consistently due to many of its plastic…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sega Dreamcast

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    I don’t know what possessed me to get one, but I believe I traded in my PlayStation for this guy. System: I know I got it freshman year of college, which might explain it. I had a crazy amount of disposable income freshman year, when all my work-study cash went to dvds and nonsense instead…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sony PlayStation

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    I loved the Super Nintendo, but come 10th grade, there would be no denying the events of 7-7-97. System: I remember going to Funcoland (still called Funcoland, not GameStop, at the time) to trade in my SNES and games for the original PlayStation. Final Fantasy VII was out, and it was not to be denied.…