The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

Okay, so, this is 1 of three… gotta geeeeeeet this dooooooone. So here I go. Looking at the inclusion of TMBG and Freezepop on this list, I have a good feeling. Let’s see what happens.

The Giant Head’s Mix

1. Hey Sandy by Polaris Jupiter or Thor, eh? Some talking and stuff, I see… Hmm, okay, so it’s… yeah, got a guy singing with lots of echo-y-ness. AI Yai Yai Yai… Mmm, it’s nice enough, I suppose. Not like… mind-blastingly awesome or anything. That Duh da dut da duhhh thing with the guitar is kinda neat. It’s kinda… light-feeling… Also seems to have a lot of instrumental interludes, apparently. Huh. And it just kinda ended.

2. Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants Ahhh, classic Giants. TMBG was the band that got me to listen to music, actually. Flood was one of the first CDs I ever bought… if not the first, it’s been a long time. But oh, how I love them. Their new stuff is… it’s still pretty great compared to like… “Rock Song” as me and my friends call it, but it’s not quite as wonderful as some of the older things… they’re pretty great in concert, though I do wish they’d actually STOP playing this song in concert. I get that not everyone at these things goes to EVERY SINGLE CONCERT they have like I do, but… you know. They could play something unexpected and neat. Like Number Three. I dunno. Anyway, TMBG = Thumbs up. I don’t have much to say about Birdhouse other than that. Heh.

3. Big Day by Tahiti 80 Mmm, I’m liking that base line… come and get it, eh? All falsetto action, I see… mm, this is quite catchy, isn’t it? Yeah, it is. It’s not rocking me, perse, but it’s infectious. I like it. This would make bad-ass background music to something… I dunno what. Some sort of really neat montage in something or something. Such a Big Day! Or like the opening credits to some movie or something. Just to get a little closer to you, I see… yeah, I really like this song. It doesn’t sound like there’s 80 of them, though.

4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 by The Flaming Lips I have heard about the Flaming Lips time and time again but I have never heard one of their songs. So I guess I can hear this one, eh? Not… off to a good start in my opinion. It’s slower-paced. The song has the word “battles” in it, it should be peppier, shouldn’t it? I mean, I’m glad she won’t let those robots defeat me, but… mm, yeah, it’s really kinda losing me. The lyrics aren’t like… witty enough for me to get over my irrational hatred of slow songs. There’s some sort of little vocal instrument-style part in the background, I hear… oh, I realize I think I heard a Ben Folds cover of a Flaming Lips song before, but I suppose that doesn’t count. Yeah, probably not.

5. Riverbank by Pelle Carlberg Doo doot, apparently. There’s a xylophone in the background, I think? It’s all… it’s nothing that’s catching me. It does have a lot of Doo Doots, though, doesn’t it? It’s very light. A lot of this CD has been light. What the fuck do I mean by Light, anyway? I dunno. Dut, and it’s done.

6. Spanish Bombs by The Clash at Demonhe… no, wait. Heh. There’s some strumming there. And some singing in an accent, apparently. It’s got that constant duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh underneath it. And the brush-y high hat thingamajig too. What are they even saying? My brain isn’t like… grabbing any lyrics besides “Spanish Bombs, blah bleh blah blah blee blah blah…”
 
7. Stellas Was a Diver and She Was Always Down by Interpol Nice of them to tell me the title before they started, in cause I got distracted more. There’s some drums and droning over and over guitars… and he’s like… talking, barely singing… Yeah, people are easily distracting me from this song. There’s no energy behind it. It’s just kinda… floating there, you know? Well, I guess this drum soloish part has a little more energy… but yeah… floating, that’s a good word. There’s just floating sound over him talk-singing… that’s not very exciting to me. Hmmm, it keeps going… and going… and going…

8. The Ghost of Genova Heights by Stars These people seem to be famous, or made of burning gases, so that could be promising… there’s like little keyboardy stuff in the background… hmm, this isn’t too bad, but I’m gonna hope for a “Break It Down” coming up here in a second… come on… come on… aww, all they did was add some cymbal action. And now we’re singing all falsetto style. I notice a lot of talk about neighborhoods. Yeah, this isn’t bad, but I’m not tapping my foot with the beat, so it’s not like… a full winner… but I can listen to this, most definitely.

9. Pop Music is Not a Crime by Freezepop I like Freezepop. I just ordered the album this is on like… yesterday, because I didn’t realize it was out until yesterday. I… don’t think this one is going to be one of my favorite Freezepop songs, but it’s still fine. Favorite Freezepop songs? Chess King, Boys on Film, Freezepop Forever, Stakeout… yeah. It’s good to know it’s not a crime, though, for I do enjoy Pop Music from time to time, yesyes. I do enjoy the blippy too.

10. Once Around the Block by Badly Drawn Boy Oooh, okay, I’m liking that weird guitar… I’m hoping it keeps that up… oh yeah, kinda… swing-y there…? That’s kinda nice. Is there going to be vocals? There are! And the vocals aren’t even badly drawn! At the same time, for some reason I feel like an instrumental with that start might have been neater. Still, it’s kinda neat music, isn’t it? It does tend to repeat quite a bit back there, though, as it keeps going… Oh, a little scat there, I see. Shibbity bow woooow! Or something.

—One Shower and Rock Band Break Later—

11. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi by Radiohead Like those drums. Quick. And there’s some guitar, I see… hear…. and it goes and goes and goes… now Radiohead, they’re the intelligent fellows who gave away their latest album and accepted donations, didn’t they? Even at free, I didn’t check it out, though. Didn’t really know too much about them or care about them, but I saluted them. Hmm, okay, they added vocals, but it’s nothing strong. Everything is just basically the same thing repeating in the background. I’m also not hearing much description of weird fishes. Isn’t this supposed to inform me of the local fish population? It is kinda building more and more and more as the song goes on, though… and of course, as I point that out, everything cuts off… Hey! He said Weird Fishes! The background is fairly… water-y, too, so I guess that’s appropriate. And now it’s built back up for the bridge, I suppose. And it keeps going with some singing and nearing the ending aaaaaaaand… cuts off and it’s done with a cymbal thing! Alright, I suppose.

12. Jesusland by Ben Folds I’ve said what I thought of Ben Folds before, but people probably only read the ramblings for their CDs, so I’ll say it again. I like this faster, funnier stuff, but a lot of his music is very slow emotional, which probably fits the piano well, but I don’t care for. I like stuff like Underground, Jackson Cannery, and, my favorite, For Those Of Ya’ll Who Wear Fanny Packs. This is basically a song by Ben Folds that I wouldn’t listen to. It’s upbeat at least, but it’s not… his singing is light and arsty… oh, wait, here we are at the refrain with the people coming in behind him. That’s alright, I suppose. But yeah, it’s all rolling, walking forward with the little beat and piano… I don’t know, as per usual I fail at trying to explain why the music isn’t engaging me. I need to be engaged to really like something (although I have recently discovered a love of fun orchestral stuff, as I find listening to the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra while writing really helps me, as I’m not tempted to sing along with it, and I like the music) to really get behind it, you know? And when I have something to help me do that… say… Rock Band or Guitar Hero or any music game, really, I can get more into a song I wouldn’t like otherwise… anyway, the point is, this isn’t really getting me, although it is definitely a nice little song. The End.

13. No Right Angles by Ben Lee Is this guy part of The Bens? I remember that from somewhere… and there was one guy who had this song that was like “Tell me all the rules, girl… I just wanna get along” that I liked… and I saw that guy on Conan and he was like… a midget compared to Conan… is that this guy? I don’t think it’s this guy. His voice is different. I just rambled about nothing there. Okay, so it’s slow like the last song but with no piano… it’s got that beat… and the same sort of light singing that doesn’t often engage me because I want to sing along with vocals and I want to fucking SING, you know? Bam. Anyway, do you know how hard it would be to have no right angles in your life? You’d have to like… build a special house and never leave it. It’d be annoying. Like… people would have to take things out of boxes for you before you put it into your house. Okay, you can tell with my random thoughts that I’m not enthused with this song, sorry. Oh, it just kinda… ends… with lots of silence.

14. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Oh my. Oh. Oh my. I… I might as well kick it. Man, his voice is kinda grating… low low HIGH HIGH low low HIGH HIGH low low HIGH HIGH low low HIGH HIGH. Also, DJ Jazzy Jeff, let’s been more Jazzy, perhaps? Jazz-licious? Man, it fades out for awhile, doesn’t it?

15. Hammering in My Head by Garbage Oooh, blippy fast. I’m sort of a fan of Garbage. I honestly haven’t heard a WHOLE lot of their stuff, but I haven’t heard a track of theirs in a game I haven’t liked. I think I have one album of theirs, too, Beautiful Garbage, and it’s pretty good. Man, that’s kinda dramatic sounds behind it… oh, now it got all light and oooooh all of the sudden… okay, back to the dramatic beats. Mmm okay, yeah, it’s a pretty good song, but I can’t say I’m completely won over by it? I’d listen to it again without hesitation? I might rip it when this is all done. But I’m not… I’m not sitting here rocking out… you know? Mmm, there’s some growly-ness at the end, here, I see. Fade away.

16. Kid A by John Mayer Oh, Guitars. Shocking. Or not. I dunno why I wanted to say they were shocking. Yeah, this is back to songs more like… like before the Fresh Prince songs… We’ve got some heads on stairs? Okay… yeah, he said it again, I didn’t hear it wrong… That little squeaky noise is kinda neat… I assume that’s being made on a guitar somehow… I guess kinda… sliding the pick up a string that isn’t vibrating, maybe…? Oh, that… hmm, it’s fading out now. Oh well. A lot of silence here… and… aaaaaand… done.

17. Sugar Water by Cibo Matto I know this person… I’ve heard songs by her before… they were pretty decent… I think… hmm… okay, Sugar Water… okay, here’s a rhythm… and some singing… it’s all kinda laid back, really… makes me sorta feel that way, too… hmm… La la laaaaaa… la la la la la la… yeah, my attention from it keeps fading. Whatever that means about the song.

18. Winter Spring Summer Fall by The Postmarks Duh daaaa dutdaaaa… hmm… ooh, female vocalist, I didn’t actually expect that… it’s still light… so light… whisper-y, now… and back to normal… light light floaty light. Hmmm, she seems to have been falling for you for several minutes now… man, I think my concentration is fairly shot, I’ve been interrupted so many times… Sorry… oh well, just one more, I’ll keep it together.

19. Lithium by The Polyphonic Spree Your head is a good place for friends to be… and they shouldn’t have broken their mirrors, that’s bad luck. Ooh yeah, they built it up for that yeah yeaaaaaah yeah part, I like that. I’m glad he’s not sad, though, that’s good. Yeah yea-a-ah yeaaaaaaah! I like that part very much so, cause it’s all intense. Ooh, here’s some bridge with the intensity still up… he’s not gonna… what? I can’t understand that word… what, he’s going to kill you? Dammit, singing guy! Murder is not the answer! Yeah yeaaaaaah yeah! Man, there’s still a lot of song left. Are they going to vamp for all of it? Oh, okay, go back to that part, that’s alright then! Oh, okay, and this little piano-y part until the end fade here… and… yeah.

Okay, that was a pretty decent CD. I could probably listen to all of it again without too much of a problem. I got distracted by people several times during the thing, but at this point, if I waited for when that wouldn’t happen, I’d never get the damn things done, you know? So I did it. I hope that’s okay.
1 down, 2 more to go. Goodness.

Firstly, Rock Band is FUCKING AMAZING.
I bought it today on a whim, and I spent HOURS singing for Spaeth, Jonathan, and I’s band, Sass of Potatoes. And it was COMPLETELY FUCKING AMAZING. Oh man. So much fun. Come over and play it with me, dammit! I gotta learn drums.

Okay, so anyway, here’s the warning line: I’m going to talk about what passes for my “sex life.” So, you know, if that sounds like something you’d never want to read, don’t keep going, okay? I just… I censor this blog too much, I think. The whole point of me keeping the blog in the first place was to keep myself more in touch and honest with my feelings and not bottle them up.

I want to sort of talk about love. I’m sure I’ve talked about it before, but spent the day rocking out with my brother and Jonathan, watched a movie with them and Essner, snuggled with Brer and he left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling as he went to bed, and then Ecks came on and we talked and I got yet another warm and fuzzy feeling… and it’s just… gods, I’m so damn lucky to have so many people who are awesome in my life. But the thing is, the two guys I am so… that I love… they don’t talk. They don’t know each other. I don’t know if I talk about Ecks enough with Brer. I mean, they are separate. Brer is my boyfriend. He is. I love the shit out of him. If it wasn’t a horrible idea for the long run, I wouldn’t hesitate to move near to him and be with him. It’s never been in question that I love him to death, and Ecks understands that, and has a girl he’s sorta dating anyway. We’re extremely good friends and writing buddies and we do… other things… and that’s awesome. Ecks knows about Brer, I talk to him for relationship advice… but I don’t really talk to Brer about what I do with Ecks. I worry about that.
I don’t talk about him because, I dunno, I never feel like it’s something I need to bring up? I mean, it’s not like anything I feel is wrong happens. Trust me, I worry about EVERYTHING and I never worry that my relationship with Ecks is betraying my serious romantic love for Brer in any way. At the same time, I feel like he might not want to hear about it, you know? Isn’t that weird, hearing about that? But I’m sure he doesn’t want to be in the dark, either… I don’t know, I guess I’m probably writing this to start the discussion between us.
I mean, okay, Brer and I have talked about, you know, third parties. There is nobody I’d feel more comfortable bringing in than Ecks. But Brer doesn’t know him… you know? I can’t suggest him because of that, because it has to be someone we’re both familiar with, you know? Close to?
I don’t know. Obsessing over these ideas is probably stupid, in the end. Like I said, if I felt something was wrong in all this, I would worry about it, because I worry about the stupidest shit you could ever believe. I guess that’s like… one thing about my current relationship situation that I’d like to change, in some respect. Get these two special people in my life talking, at least.

Okay, see, this is also a technique to get me to liveblog a CD tomorrow to get this off the top of the blog. Heh. Goodnight, people.
*cough*RockBand’sAwesome*cough*

Before I get started with the review, just a few things. One, why the fuck was I completely entranced by this comic for like… two days? I have no fucking clue. Two, yes, I have THREE Listening Time CDs to liveblog now. Bleh, I am failing at that… I hope to get on the bandwagon soon… one is all Christmas music, for fucks sake! I can’t wait much longer!

Anyway, Earth Defense Force 2017. I got it for my brother for Christmas, you can probably pick it up at budget prices like I did, and you should, especially if you have someone else to play with.
There are tons of things wrong with the game. The graphics are just a little over budget PS2, the gameplay is really repetitive, and your AI-controlled teammates talk CONSTANTLY about NOTHING, which would probably annoy the shit out of most people, but Jonathan and I find it pretty hilarious because it’s so bad. In any case, Bioshock this is not.
What you get is a game that is a TON of fun with two players and completely mindless. There is a joy in blowing shit up, you know? That is what Earth Defense Force gives you. Take a friend and play split screen mulitplayer. You both can pick two weapons, that you switch between whenever you’d like. There’s completely useless weapons and completely crazy ones. I think there’s something like 171 weapons in all? Most are slight modifications of other weapons. Like, for example, you’ve got a wide variety of assault rifles with different rates of fire and damage amounts, etc. But you also get crazy shit like the Acid Spray Launcher and, our favorite, the Air Tortoise, a homing missile launcher that fires missiles that move so slowly you can nearly outrun them, but who explode gigantically. Anyway, you pick your weapons and you run into short missions, 53 in all. You don’t have ammo, (Except on a few guns that completely suck) you only have reload times. Some are long, some are short. You blast rockets at gigantic ants, jumping spiders, flying space ships, and giant robots over and over and over. The combat is completely ridiculous, with huge swarms constantly coming at you and the realism level being so that you can fire a single rocket at a skyscraper and it will collapse into a pile of rubble. There are also some vehicles, too, but you don’t use them because they control like crap and are so damn slow.
So you fire and you fire and you fire, and you pick up Armor, which increases your max health permanently, and new weapons, and you shoot some more until you beat the mission, and then you move to the next one and do it all over again. There’s little strategy involved besides “Don’t fire the rocket launcher at an enemy close enough to get you caught in the blast.” Yet, trying out all the ridiculous weapons is a good time, and bringing a friend along, like most games, makes the fun increase quite a bit. Jonathan and I are yelling at our AI teammates in the same stupid mannerisms they talk in, blowing shit up, and loving every minute of it.
There’s a versus mode, but it’s not really worth mentioning. Well, besides the AIR TORTOISE BATTLES Jonathan and I have done. We both equipped two Air Tortoises, and entered the battle. We were at separate ends of this huge map, and we just started firing the things at each other. The rolling and running from these slow-moving missiles is hilarious fun, and it’s actually kind of tense, since it takes so damn long to reload one of them. Give that sort of match a try, perhaps, but you’ll never touch it otherwise.
But seriously, just blowing shit up. It sounds so simple, but it is so fun, and completely worth 20 bucks, if you have a friend to bring along. To say anything else is just to repeat myself over and over again, I think.

Go ahead, have a look around. Is it to your liking? What’s that? You’ll take it? Awesome, cause YOU DIDN’T HAVE A CHOICE! TIME IS MEAN LIKE THAT! MUH HA HA HA!

Anyway, welcome to 2008, a year of endless opportunities, or at least 365 days worth of opportunity. What have I been spending this opportunity on so far? A little bit of writing, but mostly being moody. Off to a great start, I’m sure. I did go to a pretty spiffy party at the Burners’ last night, though. It was much more fun than I expected.

Mama, at random, drew me another picture of Tailrazor. I guess she was unhappy with the previous version? I thought it was great, myself… anyway, I should still share it, because it’s great artwork, so here it is. The other picture captures more of… who Rebecca is, though, in my head, so I’d point your imagination more that way for how I’m going to write her and treat this as really neat, badass art, because it is neat, badass art. Yesyes.
I’m still actually working on Role-Playing, by the way. I wrote a good thousand words on it last night. That’s like… progress, or some shit.

Something I am not making progress in, though, is FFXI. Which sucks. But I have new games to play, I haven’t gotten back into it. Mm… I need to, though. Also, I am not making progress in liveblogging these CDs in this stack here, which I’m sure you’ve noticed. Oh well.

So I wrote for the first time in a long while tonight. I finished the second chapter of Arc 1 of Role-Playing, which I had started a little… fuck, I dunno, a long time ago. It was surprisingly easy to get back into it. I just read it and kept going.
Anyway, I hope I can keep writing. Bother me about it, dammit! The plan, I guess it’s a new years resolution thing, even though it’s not quite here yet, is to write a couple pages every night when I get home from work, instead of the pointless fucking around I normally do. It worked for one night. I even got a lot of writing done while talking to Ecks, which was surprising.
I finally got back to my Role-Playing project because Mama drew me this, which is awesome. It is really nearly perfect. I like the hair, which I didn’t really give any direction on. That’s how I’m going to picture her hair from now on. I don’t feel like she’s quite as tall as she should be, but other than that, it’s exactly how I pictured her. But seeing Tailrazor exist like that made me sorta go and want other people to understand who the hell she is. That requires writing the damn story. So first I did a test podcast of the first chapter, which went well, or so Ecks and Kale tell me, though I’m going to end up re-recording it because I go too fast in parts… and now all this writing… I can do this shit, you know? I can write a story and make a podcast, I really can. Keep me on it.

In other news, speaking of New Years a few paragraphs ago, my work schedule has been moved so I get off at 9. I can go to Layne’s New Years party! I just hope Essner can go so he can show me where it is… I’ve only been to Layne’s new house once, and I didn’t drive, so I have no fucking clue how to get there. Anyway, that’s exciting.

Also, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters continues to completely enthrall me, so much so that I go to bed at 2 and say “Eh, I’ll play for a while in bed and then sleep” and then later go “Holy shit, I need to put the damn game down because it’s 5 in the morning.” I should write a review of it. And liveblog these two Listening Time CDs. And keep writing on Role-Playing. Just generally be constructive, I guess. That’s what I should do. Yeah.

Goodnight!

Merry Chrissymas, people!
Here are some quick highlights from mine.

• My mom got me something that surprised me and that I wanted: a 500 Gig external HD. Score! Now if only I had somewhere to plug it in in here…
• Jonathan got me Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters as well as some Microsoft Funmoney (he says to buy Rez HD when it comes out) Anyway, I wasn’t expecting Ratchet and Clank, but from the bit I’ve played it, it plays millions of times better than other such games I’ve played on the PC (Monster Hunter Freedom, Daxter) because the camera doesn’t suck ass. I’ll play it some more in bed tonight, but already I’m liking it more than I expected. I may have to pick up Up Your Arsenal and Going Commando on the cheap.
• I got not one, but two copies of I Am America And So Can You. Colbert would be proud, I’m sure, though less proud when I return one. Oh well.
• My family still enjoys Scene It: Lights Camera Action. The game could explain the rules better, though, so you know when it’s a round where you have to buzz in. But I got everyone upstairs to play a game, and everyone was having fun, even though it’s obvious Mom doesn’t like doing the worst, even though she does. I’ll have to pull everyone up here again soon. It’s nice actually being able to share what I spend like… all of my leisure time doing with my parents, even if the game is quite a bit different from most of the games I play.
• I got Guitar Hero III, but not Guitar Hero II, so I only have one guitar… that will be remedied tomorrow, I think, with a combination of returns money and Hastings credit. GHIII on Medium is quite a bit harder than I remember Guitar Hero being. Like, I can still beat it, but I’m nowhere near acing them. Maybe I’m just out of practice.
• I think my presents went over well, though I’m sure I’ll be coaching my mother on how to use her iPod for weeks to come. But that’s okay. She was already bragging to people about getting one, and how she’s so technological or something. Heh. So Mission accomplished there.
• Earth Defense Force 2017, which is one of the things I got for Jonathan, is an incredibly mindlessly fun game with humorously horrible voice acting, and I recommend it to 360 owners. We just got done playing a lot of Co-op, and it’s a blast.

Jonathan’s going to bed now, cause of his crazy early shift tomorrow, so I believe I’m going to try out Zack and Wiki and then lay down and play more Ratchet and Clank. I hope you all had a great Chrissymas, too! Mine went pretty darn well. Heh. Goodnight!

Last night, I dreamed that Brer dropped by work to kiss me, but just to kiss me. He couldn’t or wouldn’t stay, and left, and I cried quite a bit.
I must be missing him a bit more than I thought. Though that’s a bit selfish, I suppose, he can have Christmas with his family, same as I’m having Christmas with mine. He’ll be back soon anyway. It’s not like I’m in tears constantly or anything silly, but it does seem like my subconscious is trying to say something, especially since I rarely dream.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that for no reason. Merry Chrissymas Eve, people. Go spend time with your families and have fun, yeah?

See that list in the last post? Yeah, I did none of that today. Which means I need to do the picture-taking tomorrow! Score! I guess I should find out when Jonathan is working tomorrow… I’ll do that now… okay, he’s off tomorrow. Awesome. That’s when I’ll take pictures. The rest I can do real late at night or whatever, no big deal.

Anyway, I got Shivam’s Festivus gift to me in the mail today, and it… I dunno. It was quite a feeling. Here’s the unwrapping I did for the site, cause that was part of it… here’s his response, and here’s me trying to explain my feelings about it more in response to his response… in any case, it’s really quite neat, and it has significance for him and what he thinks of me, and it… it made me that kind of blushy, embarrassed sort of happy, you know? It was really sweet. It certainly wasn’t the sort of feeling I was expecting to get out of it when I joined up for this Festivus exchange, but man, it was neat… it really does stick out, though, among all of my stuff. It’d look nice with all of Mom’s stuff in the little curio thing downstairs, but this is mine, and she wouldn’t like the significance anyway… so it’ll set on top of my computer, at least for now, until I think of a good place for it… it… yeah. Shivam did well. It certainly moved me in some way, since I’ve literally spent most of the day trying to think of how to word my feelings about it, and I still don’t think I’ve succeeded. But hopefully explaining around the mark will give you some idea, I dunno.

Oh, how did I do in my gift-giving? I think well, considering Calorie Mate looked up my AIM account to tell me he liked it when he got it. I guess since I’m linking to Talking Time posts, I can link to that one too. I don’t think I’ve talked about how my gift went over yet, right? This isn’t rehashed? I hope?

Anyway, guess I best get going to work now… I got a caffeine withdrawal headache begging for a big caffeine drink. MERRY FESTIVUS.

Here is a well-worded rendition of this epic tale. Oh, the horror! That said, they are all fun, especially Bookworm Adventures, which is the reason I went Popcap game shopping. Stuff like Zuma and Peggle is really good for use during podcasts… I haven’t played Bejeweled 2, but I played Puzzle Quest for who knows how long so I know what to expect… I have no idea what Insaneaquarium is, but I own it now. I might try it after I finish this post. Anyway, I bought them because I wanted them and I wanted something to keep me occupied until Christmas (I find that I only have about an hour or two of FFXI in me a day, at most) and I wanted to reward myself for doing better than expected in school and actually saving a good deal of money up… I think I have more money in the bank right now, split between my two accounts, than I have had in my life. (Granted, this is not an insane amount of money we’re talking about or anything, but still)  It’s kind of a nice feeling, especially since I haven’t been especially working towards it… I think I might let that slow-building savings account eventually go towards some sort of lappy, like the EEE PC (if it drops another 100 bucks, I was so sad that they overshot their estimated price by like… 200 bucks, I was ready to snap one up), or just a new computer in general…
Anyway, the point is, expect at least a review of Bookworm Adventures, because it is completely great. It was even mesmerizing Jonathan as I played, and he sat next to me and called out possible words for me to look for. I have a feeling I’m going to wish it was longer, though. It would also work really well on, say, the DS. They should get on that. They have other Popcap crepe on there, don’t they?
I also just bought the new Halo 3 maps. We only played like 3 custom Foundry levels, but already I realize this was a good purchase. It was fun as hell. There was a really well-done game type Morbid Coffee made called Love on a custom map called The Battlefield (I hope you get that joke) that did a really good MGS sort of experience that will be even greater when he goes and tweaks it a little more, for example. It’ll be awesome. Too bad I’m working again Sunday, so it’ll be at least another week before I can join the Tyrants on Halo Night again.
In other news, I don’t have a Robogoose yet. This saddens me, because I’ve used like 30 Robotic Eggs. I waaaaaaaant it! Even though I’ll never uuuuuuuuuuuse it! Especially since I bought that P.R.E.S.S.I.E.!
And now, a list.

Things I still need to do before Chrissymas (not in order of importance)
1. Listen to and blog the last Listening Time CD in my stack
2. Finish up the little stuff I need to do on Grandma’s presents before I can no longer get to one of those photo printer thingamajigs.
3. Wrap the rest of the presents.
4. Fuck, I dunno… play more Bookworm Adventures? Something like that?

Create Your Own Video

I dunno, I had fun playing with it, and surely it’s better to look at than that huge Listening Time Liveblog, eh? Even if I think it’s good I got the listening blogging done with… and will do another CD’s worth tomorrow…