I'm sick of this...

Even when I lurk in areas for "Mormons who are different", I get the feeling I don't belong. You see:

1. I'm not the stereotypical person who has been wronged by society. I'm not punk or goth, although I might be emo. That is, if I ever learn exactly what "emo" means. I'm more of a progressive rock listening geek myself. I'm into science fiction, MST3K, Prisoners of Gravity, Rush, Genesis, early LucasArts adventure games (read: Zak/Mansion timeline), Hitchhikers Guide and B-movies. I'm fairly liberal minded when it comes to politics.

2. I'm the daughter of a first counselor and as such people think I have a comfortable living in the church because of that. I'm sorry but it doesn't always work that way! My callings came from something other than my family status... but again I'm not sure what that is.

3. I'm not at BYU nor am I in a singles ward. Good for me.

Now, could someone direct me to where I "belong" or if I even belong at all?

I've got a new favorite song.

Funny story of how I found it:

I was at the LucasArts website looking at the "old-school" files they put up for the 20th anniversary. There's not a lot from the Maniac Mansion series sadly- just some art from the early design stages of Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. I was happy that some images from the first game's box art turned up in the 20th anniversary banner. Sadly it wasn't Purcell's kick-@$$ painting from the rerelease that was stuck on the back of the box. Why?!? That's the best piece of art in the original style and I've only seen a crappy scan of it!! GIVE US GOOD LOOKING PURCELL ART!! GIVE US GOOD LOOKING PURCELL ART!! And while you're at, fix the error in the description for the game. Dave and his friends were in university, not high school. Here's your proof!.

Errr...

Okay, back to the song. I was looking at video files to see if they had uploaded the opening to Day of the Tentacle, which they hadn't. I looked around some more and found a copy of the opening credits of an adventure game called Full Throttle. The theme song from the game was this amazing progressive rock/progressive metal song called Legacy by The Gone Jackals. I found an MP3 copy over at TentakelVilla and now I'm a very happy Teddog. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the album this song is from?

Here's the lyrics:
December '61.   
my Dad's wages light.   
Still on that salary   
we, all four, could sleep tight.  

Right now if you drank from   
that very same well,   
you'd need a run of luck   
to score a bed in a trick hotel.  

Is this the legacy of   
too much for too few   
that I see?  
The kind of legacy that's   
tossin' some good men   
to their knees. 

The "Great Society's"   
maligned concrete cage   
sits dead and vacant now -   
at least it kept out rain.  

With all those corners cut   
the cracks grow wide and near.   
I heard some cash was saved   
but where it's gone ain't clear..  


Who goes down next I don't know.   
I don't know nothin'   
anymore.  
Tomorrow's legacy that's   
layin' in state   
awaits reprieve. 

I always thought that when a man goes down   
you do your best to pick him up.   
But how can the milk of kindness trickle down   
when it's syphoned off and cheats the cup?