I am taking a break from Modern Warfare 2 this week to continue on my idiotic quest to finish some of my other games and to get my money’s worth out of them by playing them for more than fifteen minutes per year. Kim joined me on the couch to help me crunch my way through the absolutely awful drudgery of finding all of the Alien Logs that I needed to find for the Alien Archivist achievement in Mothership Zeta, the more odd-ball expansion for Bethesda’s soul-crushingly good (though it’s caused more than enough spergin’ from the basement dwellers at No Mutants Allowed) Fallout 3. As someone who will literally play anything that even barely attempts to portray a post-apocalyptic world, I’m of course infatuated with this now-aging gaming goodie, and I’ve been getting more and more stoked over the coming sequel – Fallout: New Vegas. It isn’t enough, of course, that it returns us to the original wastelands of California, nor that it brings us back to fighting those old iconoclasts like the NCR or Caesar’s Legion. No. One of the other things that really gets me about the Fallout games is the music. And Fallout: New Vegas doesn’t disappoint so far, featuring Frank Sinatra’s Blue Moon in its first trailer (which is by now also pretty old news). So, for this Monday’s random music treat, here’s some Sinatra, with a side of post-societal irony.

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