My wallet is so not looking forward to the next four months. November is going to be particularly bad. Granted I still have most of the Christmas money I scraped together last year but right now I'm tired of everything costing so bloody much. And, to be honest, these release schedules suck. Why? After spending roughly $5 a month for music and books from January through most of August, I dropped roughly $300 on DVDs and books this month (and then naturally amazon.com screwed up my order, sending me two sets of the DVDs I ordered so now I risk having another $215 charged to me if Mom doesn't send them back on time because the second set is of course arriving at my house the day AFTER I leave for school), this is what I have to look forward to (yes yes, I know, I'm such a fanboy, now deal with it):
September:
The Final Prophecy comes out September 30. Prophecy and Change comes out sometime in September (it seems this will be a good month for prophecies, wonder what else I'll find).
October:
Nothing yet. Thankfully. Ah, for some small favors.
November:
Jars' Who We Are Instead (no link, nobody seems to have the artwork yet) comes out November 4 (as a side note, "Show You Love" and "Sunny Days" are good, although I have my doubts about "Trouble Is"; tracklist to follow at the end of this post, if I ever get there). The Unifying Force comes out sometime in November. The Extended Edition of Two Towers comes out on November 18. Unity comes out in November. The last two seasons of B5 on DVD are, presumably, coming out in time for the holidays, meaning they will be a birthday and/or Christmas present, if I have anything to say about it. This means, were Warner Bros a sane company, one would come out in October and the other in early December. Since Warner Bros is, in fact, not a sane company, and the universe conspires to make my life as miserable as possible, they will in fact both come out in November.
December:
The Grand Crusade, DragonCrown War book 3, for which I've been waiting nearly two years, comes out December 30 (side note: that cover is incredible, just like the other two, three if you count The Dark Glory War). Return of the King, not to mention the LotR Trilogy Viewings, releases in December -- the third and final birthday present I'm getting from New Line.
And I still have all my school books to buy.
*sigh* I don't want to be rich, I just want all these things to be free.
Who We Are Instead tracklist:
01. Show You Love
02. Lonely People
03. Amazing Grace
04. Sunny Days
05. Only Alive
06. Love Like Mad
07. Faith Enough
08. Jealous Kind
09. Lesser Things
10. Shipwrecked
11. Trouble Is
12. Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
13. I'm In The Way
14. My Heavenly
Notes: Ron Aniello (Lifehouse, Guster, Barenaked Ladies) and Ben Mize (Counting Crows), as well as a couple others, are gainfully employed on this album. "Amazing Grace" is not, in fact, the hymn, but an original Jars composition.
-David
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