Lazy Friday

Friday, November 23, 2007 by admin.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

I had a great time with my friends. The food was great! We watched “Live Free or Die Hard” and marveled at the crazy, over-the-top effects and that-would-never-happen moments. That being said, I still loved it. Justin Long is great with the one-liners and you can’t go wrong with Bruce Willis.

I also got a chance to try Guitar Hero 2 for the first time on PlayStation 2. For those of you who don’t know, Guitar Hero is a video game that uses a guitar shaped controller with which you “play” along with the music by hitting five colored buttons on the “fret” and then strum using a button that acts like a pick. This is harder than it sounds. Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child Of Mine” kicked my butt! The song that I thought was the most fun to play was “Surrender” by Cheap Trick.

I tend to stay away from video games because I remember how many hours I wasted in my early 20s playing video games. My problem is that I don’t like not being good at something. This game awoke my normally submerged competitive nature. My first score was just over 7000, which the kids say is higher than they got on their first crack at it. Maybe they were just trying to make me feel better. My highest score was about 25,000. Not only was it hard, but my left arm is killing me today! I used muscles I didn’t know I had. Mmm, maybe Guitar Hero could constitute a work out…

It is fun, but addicting. I might have to break down and buy a game console just so I can beat it. I think it’s more frustrating because I used to play the guitar. I think that created a different level of frustration for me because I was trying to play like you would a real guitar. On another note, if you haven’t seen it, you should check out the Guitar Hero South Park episode. I highly recommend it!

I’ll leave you all with a reminder that the much anticipated Battlestar Galactica: Razor premieres this Saturday on the Sci-Fi Channel. Follow the link for more info and to check out the Razor Flashbacks they’ve been showing during Flash Gordon.

Also, let’s pray that the writer’s strike ends soon because Sci-Fi has announced they’ve stopped production early for the holidays on next season’s Battlestar episodes because of the strike (see “Strike Idles Bionic Production” here). Most shows have already stopped production or will soon because they have less than six weeks of material left until they’re out of scripts.

The writer’s have agreed to go back to the table for talk to end the strike on November 26. Let’s hope for the best! You can see complete coverage of the strike here at Yahoo! News.

Posted in A Little of Everything, TV, Movies | Print | 1 Comment »