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| Tuesday, June 6, 2006 10:24 AM |
| Wampum |
 by Fëanor |
Saw An Inconvenient Truth this weekend. It made me cry. A documentary that consists almost entirely of a lecture on the environment given by Al Gore made me cry. That probably says more about me than it does about the movie, but still. Very effective, powerful, emotional, enraging, riling. Convinced me that if Al Gore had become president in 2000, he'd be well on the way to saving the world by now. Made me want to go home and make a lot of changes in my life. Of course, my apathy and laziness quickly took hold and pretty much the only real change I've made is that I'm now more likely to turn off the light when I leave a room. But I really do plan to look into green energy, and what more I can recycle. One of these days...
Guitar Hero rules me. I was going to say I couldn't remember when was the last time I was this addicted to a game, but actually there were a few pretty recently that I was very addicted to (Baten Kaitos, before it became tedious; Paper Mario; The Third Age). I guess I just get addicted to video games. Anyway, I'm doing pretty good, I think. Pretty much blew away the Easy difficulty level of Career Mode, with five star performances up and down, and even did a couple of songs at 100% accuracy. I got all five stars in the first two venues of Medium, too, but then things started getting hard, and now I've had a number of four and even three star performances. Still haven't lost, but I've slipped perilously close to the red a few times. Anyway, I'm nearly done Medium. When I first started making money in the game, I spent it on unlocking songs, but then I saw that one of the new characters you could buy was the Grim Ripper, and I knew I had to have him. So I saved my money, and now he's mine. I used to play exclusively as the Eric Clapton, '70s-looking guy, but now I'm the Grim Ripper, all the time, every time. It's so hardcore. I've also now bought all the songs and a handful of cool guitars.
We also got the Logitech wireless controller this weekend on Peccable's recommendation and it's pretty sweet. Now we can play head-to-head Katamari, too. But I don't know how often we'll do that; it's not as cool as it could be.
UPDATE: Btw, have resolved to not read House of Leaves at night anymore. Damn, that book is creepy. And quite enjoyable. Have just discovered it has extensive appendices and am trying to decide whether I should read them now or wait until I get to the end... Will probably at least read the letters from Johnny's mother. Definitely want to avoid any possible spoilers, though. |
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