What are you listening to at the moment? One Post Per hour

[MrLinc]

This song again, I've been listening to it several times a day during the last week:
Amaranthe - "Maximize"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfk7YZJtmeo

[Silicone Carne]

One - Metallica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw

[Gemini37]

I am listening to an audio book titled Ready Player One authored by Ernest Cline and Read by Wil Wheaton.

After seeing a mind blowing trailer for the movie adaptation coming out in March 2018 directed by Steven Spielberg I had to know more and found a download-able copy. It is fantastic !!

Plot
Teenager Wade Watts lives with his aunt in the "stacks," a poverty-stricken district constructed of trailer homes piled on top of each other. He spends all his spare time logged on to the OASIS as a "gunter" (a portmanteau of "egg hunter"), an avatar under the moniker Parzival, reading Halliday's journal Anorak's Almanac and researching films, songs, and TV series from the 1980s mentioned therein, as well as playing classic video games. One day, he realizes during a fit of boredom that the location of the first key is on the world of his online high school, in a re-creation of the Dungeons & Dragons module Tomb of Horrors. He meets Art3mis, a famous female hunter and blogger who had been exploring the place, but is then able to solve the puzzle first by defeating its adversary Acererak in the video game Joust. He is awarded the Copper Key, and Parzival appears on the "Scoreboard", attracting the entire world's attention.

Parzival completes the Copper Gate puzzles by playing through the Dungeons of Daggorath video game, and then role-playing Matthew Broderick's character in the film WarGames. Art3mis clears the gate shortly afterwards, as does his friend Aech. His fame enables him to make a living by endorsing virtual products. Nolan Sorrento, head of operations at Innovative Online Industries (IOI), a multinational corporation bent on taking control of the OASIS and monetizing it, attempts to recruit Wade to assist them in finding the egg, only to be swiftly denied. In retaliation, Sorrento attempts to kill Wade by blowing up the stacks under the guise of a meth lab explosion; he barely escapes death, but his aunt and neighbors are killed in the blast.

Wade lies low, taking up the persona Bryce Lynch and a residence near IOI headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. He briefly considers an alliance with Aech, Art3mis, and two Japanese gunters, Daito and Shoto, who have also figured out the puzzles. Instead, he and Art3mis progress in a friendship, but when he asks her out, Art3mis declines. IOI operatives called Sixers attempt to assassinate the two at the birthday party of OASIS co-founder Ogden Morrow, but are unsuccessful. Five months after the finding of the Copper Key, no one has made progress on the next clue, the Jade Key, during which Wade finds himself more isolated from both Art3mis and Aech.

When Art3mis finds the Jade Key, Parzival scrambles to planet Archaide, where he plays a perfect game of Pac-Man, only to receive an ordinary quarter as a prize. Aech provides a hint leading him to the planet Frobozz where he solves the text adventure game Zork. Sorrento, who had tracked Art3mis and Aech using a premium locator item, quickly establishes a base there to farm their company's avatars with keys, and soon unlocks the Jade Gate and acquires the Crystal Key.

Parzival unlocks the Jade Gate, a Voight-Kampff machine in the Blade Runner universe, and completes the arcade game Black Tiger as a character from the first-person shooter perspective. Using his knowledge of Rush, and playing "Discovery", the third track off of their album 2112, he acquires the Crystal Key, but discovers a clue that Sorrento overlooked regarding the conditions to unlock the final gate. As he messages Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto with his solution, Sorrento publicizes the location of the Crystal Gate at Castle Anorak, but that he has an impenetrable force field around it.

In an elaborate plan to infiltrate IOI, Wade engineers his assumed identity and is arrested and placed in indentured servitude in tech support. While inside IOI, he uses black market passwords and security exploits to hack into IOI's intranet where he acquires a wealth of information including footage of Daito's murder where the Sixers infiltrated Daito's real-life apartment and threw him out of the building's 43rd floor, killing him. and the attempt on his own life, as well as plans to kill Shoto and Art3mis in real life. After escaping the corporation, he shares his information with his friends, and publicizes a gathering of avatars to storm the castle. They are interrupted by Ogden, who offers them a safe haven at his home in Oregon. Wade meets the real-life Aech and Ogden, but not Art3mis and Shoto, who are already hooked into Ogden's immersion pods.

The day of the battle, Wade uses his planted hack to bring down the barricade, and a massive fight among avatars ensues. Parzival uses Ultraman to fight against Sorrento's Mechagodzilla Kiryu. After defeating Kiryu using Ultraman's numerous abilities, Parzival and friends unlock the gate, at which point the Sixers use an artifact called the Cataclyst to destroy the castle and all the avatars. Parzival survives from having an extra life (granted by the Pac-Man quarter), and declares he will share his fortune with his friends as he enters the Crystal Gate. With Sorrento and his Sixers on his heels, Parzival plays Tempest, role-plays King Arthur and various characters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and finally retrieves the Easter egg in Adventure. His victory grants him control of the OASIS, including wiping out his enemies' avatars, resurrecting his friends' avatars, and a Big Red Button that would wipe OASIS once and for all. Sorrento is arrested for the murder of Daito and for conspiring to kill Wade and the others. Back in Oregon, Wade and Art3mis finally meet in person and rekindle their relationship with a kiss.

[Silicone Carne]

Yellow Lebbetter - Pearl Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJ65v_C-eI

[-Wizz-]

Try the impossible
Lee Andrew & The Hearts


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfKE_yKK7E

[-Wizz-]

Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
The Orlons


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kzlIKWGH2w

[-Wizz-]

Its my party
Lesley Gore


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNiGi5u_gM

[-Wizz-]

Mrs Brown
Herman's Hermits


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWisXwv_sI

[-Wizz-]

Daddy's home
Jermaine Jackson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDsrKAb2pgI

[Leprechaun]

Rob Thomas - Pieces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O11UikJigxo