Note: Blogger was having some issues last night, so here is yesterday's blog.
I got back a bit ago from an absolutely AMAZING show. It was Ludo's Broken Bride Tour. As soon as I saw that the tour was named for the Broken Bride, I had to go. Broken Bride is a considerable stand out in my library. The epic rock opera is something that I have wanted to hear live ever since I first played the entire disc. Prior to tonight, I've heard every song on the cd played live, except Morning in May. But to hear them all played as if it were one extended song? Simply amazing. I loved every second of it and didn't want it to end. When we reached the end of the story, I wanted them to go back to the beginning and do it again. I actually had goosebumps while they were playing in places I've never had goosebumps before. Seriously! Have you ever had goosebumps on your thigh? I hadn't had it either until tonight!! I wasn't even aware it could happen. Boy was I wrong.
Ludo wasn't the only band that took the stage tonight. I met a guy Without A Face. He was pretty entertaining. I don't think Greg, Patrick, or Tommy liked him, but I did. I find it kind of weird, because he sounded a lot like Stephen Lynch to me. Those guys LOVE Stephen Lynch, but when somebody does his shtick outside of a comedy show all of the sudden you don't like it? I can't understand that. After him was Meese. They weren't exactly my cup of tea. Sounded a lot like Coldplay, and I'm not a fan of them for some reason. I couldn't tell you exactly what was wrong with it, but it just rubbed me the wrong way. Their last song was pretty good though, shame I couldn't recognize it if I heard it again.
Then there was Ha Ha Tonka. I didn't know anything about these guys when I showed up, but I left wanting to get their stuff. They sound a lot like a Lynyrd Skynyrd or some other country like rock band. It was very righteous. They had a bunch of energy up there and I really enjoyed the whole experience with them. There was a portion where they ditched the instruments and just did an a capella song, and it was fantastic. They were pretty unassuming looking guys, but they could definitely belt out a tune.
That's really about it. I played a bit of Smackdown vs RAW 2010, but it's been pretty uneventful. That'll change this weekend. I'll be leaving early Saturday for Chicago and not coming home until Sunday afternoon. We'll see how that effects this nice writing gig I'm reestablishing for myself.
Later folks!
-Daniel
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Mini-cation Here I Come!
Once again, I'm up later than I'd like to be, and I'm doing something that's only going to make it worse. But I need to keep doing this so I get in the habit, and I get better. The ball keeps on rolling kids!
I finished up Brutal Legend last night. ... AND I CAN'T WAIT to play it again. I actually wanted to reboot it and hit New Game, but it was 2:30 AM by the time I finished the finale (and a nice little achievement gem). I'm serious too, all I want to do is play this game again but I'm going to hold off. As promised, I rented Smackdown 2010 last night, and I need to be playing some of that.
...
After I get my memory card back from Patrick. Ah hell, I just realized that. I went over to his house today to do a nice trade of Rock Band Metal Track Pack for a 1600 Point card. I brought along my memory card because I thought we would end up playing some Rock Band. I wanted to show off a creation of mine that is still in progress. We didn't play Rock Band, but we did play Smackdown. He bought a copy. I put my memory card in there, presumably to save some sort of data to it, and I totally left it there.
Just in case you were wondering, we only played two matches. A Backstage brawl where John Morisson (Pat) knocked out Evan Bourne (Me). Then there was a Championship scramble that ended with a successful defense by time out. We didn't do an actual one on one match, sorry folks.
I will have plenty of time tomorrow to get better at this game though. For some reason, my skills lack at the beginning of every new game. Presumably because of lack of practice. I'm sure when 2011 comes out I'll suck again though. But I've got plenty of stuff to keep my interest tomorrow. I was going to do some comic organizing and make sure that what I haven't read is everything that I want to read. In other words, I want to fill potential holes in the series that I regularly read. But it doesn't look too likely that will happen since it's supposed to rain tomorrow. I ain't walking to Kyle's and back with comics and a cardboard box in the rain. That's just be a complete waste. At least I'll be able to figure out what I might need and order them to my liking.
Tomorrow night should be great though, even if it is raining. LUDO is going to rock the crap out of the Pagaent tomorrow. I know it's only been about 5 months, but it feels like I haven't seen them in a really long time. I guess when you like a band that much and have seen them so many times that it feels longer. They also don't have a Christmas show planned this year, so it'll be longer before I see them again. I think ditching the Christmas show is for the best. When I went to the show in 2007 it was a whole big deal. There was a chair on the side of the stage for Santa Claus, who sat there the entire set. The set looked completely awesome. They had people handing out hot cocoa to people waiting in line. It just felt so much better. Last year it seemed like they bought a couple blow up Christmas stuff from Wal-Mart and had a space to get a picture with Santa. It just wasn't as special last year. Maybe I just had high hopes from the awesome experience I had the prior year.
But this concert will be held to some high expectations as well. They're going to be doing the entire CD Broken Bride on stage. I really love the crap out of this CD. It's like a 30-minute movie for your ears, and it's just such an awesome disc! I could go into detail, since I thought up a bunch of points of why I like it during my morning walk, but I'm way too tired to stay up that long singing their praises. If you have one of these shows coming close to you, I suggest you go. Plus, I hear you can pick up Broken Bride in stores. That'd be so much more convenient than having to pick one up at the show. Then you can listen ahead of time and be prepared for the epic tale that you'll be hearing.
Seriously, it's going to be great. And the best thing is that it's basically how I officially kick off my mini-cation! I've got the next four days off. FOUR DAYS! I'm jacked about that alone. But it's only a good vacation if you go somewhere, so we're gonna head up to Chicago and hob-nob around there for a day. Catch some Halloween fireworks, which still doesn't make a lick of sense to me, but whatever the hell works for them I guess. I need to do some searching online and see if there's a good Halloween store in downtown Chi-town. I'm still costume-less, and I can't stand it. At least last year at this time I knew what I was going to be.
We'll see what happens though. I'm sure it'll be great.
-Daniel
I finished up Brutal Legend last night. ... AND I CAN'T WAIT to play it again. I actually wanted to reboot it and hit New Game, but it was 2:30 AM by the time I finished the finale (and a nice little achievement gem). I'm serious too, all I want to do is play this game again but I'm going to hold off. As promised, I rented Smackdown 2010 last night, and I need to be playing some of that.
...
After I get my memory card back from Patrick. Ah hell, I just realized that. I went over to his house today to do a nice trade of Rock Band Metal Track Pack for a 1600 Point card. I brought along my memory card because I thought we would end up playing some Rock Band. I wanted to show off a creation of mine that is still in progress. We didn't play Rock Band, but we did play Smackdown. He bought a copy. I put my memory card in there, presumably to save some sort of data to it, and I totally left it there.
Just in case you were wondering, we only played two matches. A Backstage brawl where John Morisson (Pat) knocked out Evan Bourne (Me). Then there was a Championship scramble that ended with a successful defense by time out. We didn't do an actual one on one match, sorry folks.
I will have plenty of time tomorrow to get better at this game though. For some reason, my skills lack at the beginning of every new game. Presumably because of lack of practice. I'm sure when 2011 comes out I'll suck again though. But I've got plenty of stuff to keep my interest tomorrow. I was going to do some comic organizing and make sure that what I haven't read is everything that I want to read. In other words, I want to fill potential holes in the series that I regularly read. But it doesn't look too likely that will happen since it's supposed to rain tomorrow. I ain't walking to Kyle's and back with comics and a cardboard box in the rain. That's just be a complete waste. At least I'll be able to figure out what I might need and order them to my liking.
Tomorrow night should be great though, even if it is raining. LUDO is going to rock the crap out of the Pagaent tomorrow. I know it's only been about 5 months, but it feels like I haven't seen them in a really long time. I guess when you like a band that much and have seen them so many times that it feels longer. They also don't have a Christmas show planned this year, so it'll be longer before I see them again. I think ditching the Christmas show is for the best. When I went to the show in 2007 it was a whole big deal. There was a chair on the side of the stage for Santa Claus, who sat there the entire set. The set looked completely awesome. They had people handing out hot cocoa to people waiting in line. It just felt so much better. Last year it seemed like they bought a couple blow up Christmas stuff from Wal-Mart and had a space to get a picture with Santa. It just wasn't as special last year. Maybe I just had high hopes from the awesome experience I had the prior year.
But this concert will be held to some high expectations as well. They're going to be doing the entire CD Broken Bride on stage. I really love the crap out of this CD. It's like a 30-minute movie for your ears, and it's just such an awesome disc! I could go into detail, since I thought up a bunch of points of why I like it during my morning walk, but I'm way too tired to stay up that long singing their praises. If you have one of these shows coming close to you, I suggest you go. Plus, I hear you can pick up Broken Bride in stores. That'd be so much more convenient than having to pick one up at the show. Then you can listen ahead of time and be prepared for the epic tale that you'll be hearing.
Seriously, it's going to be great. And the best thing is that it's basically how I officially kick off my mini-cation! I've got the next four days off. FOUR DAYS! I'm jacked about that alone. But it's only a good vacation if you go somewhere, so we're gonna head up to Chicago and hob-nob around there for a day. Catch some Halloween fireworks, which still doesn't make a lick of sense to me, but whatever the hell works for them I guess. I need to do some searching online and see if there's a good Halloween store in downtown Chi-town. I'm still costume-less, and I can't stand it. At least last year at this time I knew what I was going to be.
We'll see what happens though. I'm sure it'll be great.
-Daniel
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
You give me that funny feeling in my hand
Word up everyone! Those who came back from yesterday, good to see you again. Those who are just coming around ... you haven't missed much.
I'll let you know, my fingers are still in pain from yesterday. I had to redo the flags on the entire bike rack. That meant clipping off approximately 200 zip ties and moving all of the tags contained inside into NEW holders, then zip tie-ing (don't think that's a word) them. And cutting off the excess. Using the piece of crap cutters we have, it hurt my hands. In the middle of the palm, and the middle joint in the finger. It's still in a bit of pain and tender. Really sucks. My precious trigger fingers.
I was able to finish up that bike rack project today, and got moved onto a different project right after. That's what I'm good for, projects. Point me in a direction and stuff gets DONE! They want to redesign the entire lawn & garden area into Christmas. I should say VIRTUALLY all of the area. There is a small portion already done. Oh, and they want to do it by 7 AM tomorrow. So by my clock right now, they have 10 hours. When I left 2 hours ago, they hadn't made much progress.
I wouldn't be holding my breath that they get it done.
I took back my Futurama Vol 1 DVD that I bought Sunday. It's one of those crappy cases that tries to hold 2 discs on a flimsy insert. Naturally, the insert was broken and laying inside the DVD case. When I got the new one, I shook it a bit to make sure it wasn't in the same condition. It wouldn't' really matter in the long or short term, because it was also the only one they had left. So when I get home today, I open it up, same damn deal. I'll just suck it up. It's not a big deal, the discs aren't rattling around, the insert is rattling around with the discs securely inside it. They'll be fine ... I think.
I just got the e-mail fro Patrick, and it seems the Wrestle Mania 26 trip is one it's last leg, and about to be amputated. I try not to covet things that I'm not going to get, so if the trip gets redesigned into a PPV-viewing party at somebodies house, I'll be fine with it. After all, I do get my mini-cation with the KLiQ this weekend. Should be fun.
I'm gonna get some game on right now. I rented Smackdown 2010, but I'm gonna finish Brutal Legend first. Just got to.
Later
-Daniel
I'll let you know, my fingers are still in pain from yesterday. I had to redo the flags on the entire bike rack. That meant clipping off approximately 200 zip ties and moving all of the tags contained inside into NEW holders, then zip tie-ing (don't think that's a word) them. And cutting off the excess. Using the piece of crap cutters we have, it hurt my hands. In the middle of the palm, and the middle joint in the finger. It's still in a bit of pain and tender. Really sucks. My precious trigger fingers.
I was able to finish up that bike rack project today, and got moved onto a different project right after. That's what I'm good for, projects. Point me in a direction and stuff gets DONE! They want to redesign the entire lawn & garden area into Christmas. I should say VIRTUALLY all of the area. There is a small portion already done. Oh, and they want to do it by 7 AM tomorrow. So by my clock right now, they have 10 hours. When I left 2 hours ago, they hadn't made much progress.
I wouldn't be holding my breath that they get it done.
I took back my Futurama Vol 1 DVD that I bought Sunday. It's one of those crappy cases that tries to hold 2 discs on a flimsy insert. Naturally, the insert was broken and laying inside the DVD case. When I got the new one, I shook it a bit to make sure it wasn't in the same condition. It wouldn't' really matter in the long or short term, because it was also the only one they had left. So when I get home today, I open it up, same damn deal. I'll just suck it up. It's not a big deal, the discs aren't rattling around, the insert is rattling around with the discs securely inside it. They'll be fine ... I think.
I just got the e-mail fro Patrick, and it seems the Wrestle Mania 26 trip is one it's last leg, and about to be amputated. I try not to covet things that I'm not going to get, so if the trip gets redesigned into a PPV-viewing party at somebodies house, I'll be fine with it. After all, I do get my mini-cation with the KLiQ this weekend. Should be fun.
I'm gonna get some game on right now. I rented Smackdown 2010, but I'm gonna finish Brutal Legend first. Just got to.
Later
-Daniel
Hello again, to all my friends.
I've noticed that this world is giving me not so subtle hints to get back at this stuff, so here I am again. While it's true that Hit the Buttons failed as my new Next Level start-up, I see no harm in transforming it into my personal blog. Since most of my stuff will revolve around videogames, it's still central to the topic.
First and foremost, I am on a total skid in the Hodge's Cup season right now. The season wasn't starting out too great for me, but I've been making it worse recently. I was just under .500 for the season going into today, but I took a sharp dip downward. For some reason, I just couldn't find the twine if I were wrapped up in it. NOTHING went through.
If I believed in the stuff, I'm sure I must've jinxed myself. I brought a notebook around for the purpose of writing down my personal stats. Last year I had the MVP (Scott Gomez), so I still think that I can pull something out of this season. It will be hard, because my brother Ryan has two guys who have more points than games played. My best has a point every 2+ games.
But there is still plenty of hockey left to play (unless you're Bob, he's 2/3 done). I took the time to write down the rosters while I was there, so one day this or next week I'll sit down for 5-6 hours and try to put all that stuff in. If it takes too long to get my team together, I'll probably just roll with that for now and slowly work up the rest of the league. But I need practice, I need something to break this slump.
In other news, I've been playing a bunch of Brutal Legend. (I have no idea how to get an umlaut on here) People have been bringing up the game in my casual hang outs, so I love getting to be able to tell them what I think about it. I don't want to get too in depth, because I plan on writing a review for it here. I also have a bunch of story-spoiling stuff I want to write about too, so that will be two articles (blogs) dedicated to Brutal Legend. It's a good place for me to start this season to bring myself back into this business. If I can keep up with myself during this season, then I shouldn't have much trouble keeping pace during the other months.
Speaking of the season, I'm going in to Hollywood tomorrow to spend one of my free rental coupons. I'm not entirely sure what I want to rent though. I was going to use it this weekend and get something like Dirt, reasonably new and something they'd probably have deep in a weekend. I wanted to get it then so I would have it the full time before I went on my mini-cation this weekend. But I noticed that Borderlands and Smackdown 10 come out this week, so I'm struggling with which one to get. I'm obviously going to finish Brutal Legend, tomorrow in all likelihood, but I'll have plenty of time to get deep into whichever I rent.
I managed to finagle Thursday off so I could go to the Ludo show without any incident, and I already have Friday off since I thought we were taking a weekend in Chicago. If I rent Smackdown, I might not have to buy it later and could wait until it dips down in price to get it for collection purposes. If I get Borderlands, I could just be setting myself up for another Fallout, a game I'd like to play but don't have the time to sink into it. I'm still not sure, but since Hollywood doesn't open until I get to work, I'll have until I come home to figure out.
Kyle's does open up in time for me to go on my way to work. And I'm totally falling behind on comics. I'm sure I have enough to read for multiple hours for the next week, and still have a couple left to bring in to read on lunch. It's not that I'm falling out of love with comics, I think it's mostly that I have a PSP so I can sink BILLION of hours into Final Fantasy 7 on-the-go. I should shelve the PSP for a while just so I can catch up on other stuff I could be doing during that time. Final Fantasy Dissidia started sucking up my precious lunch hour, and then when I got far enough to just be leveling, I gave it up to Final Fantasy 7. I know, I need to put these fantasies to bed, but their so damn addictive!
It really does speak to my love of FF7 that I keep on going back to it like this. I actually learned a couple somethings that I didn't know about the game before hand. I had no idea that Yuffie was so good with the Morph materia. I've been trying to get a game where I basically max out the characters. I want to make beating Ruby relatively easy. The best way to do it in my book is by getting a lot of the materia you'll need, and max your stats to use them effectively. I've been doing good with the materia (6 Counter Attacks, 2 mastered; Knights of the Round at 3 stars I believe, and a couple of Mimes) but I haven't really rolled up my sleeves and tried to max some stats.
This time I am and knowing that with the Conformer, Yuffie doesn't take any penalty for Morphing has meant the world to me. She already has a maxed Attack Power, and I'm working on Cloud right now. I figure I'll get Barrett and Tifa, maybe Cid and Vincent, then work on Defense. That'll take me a long time though, so shelving it sounds kinda good right now.
Thanks for sticking around on my inaugural re-debut of the Daily Blog. Tomorrow will be more about personal life, since I anticipate getting on here after work. Not a lot of gaming time from wake to work to home.
Enjoy the day folks, make it shine!
-Daniel
First and foremost, I am on a total skid in the Hodge's Cup season right now. The season wasn't starting out too great for me, but I've been making it worse recently. I was just under .500 for the season going into today, but I took a sharp dip downward. For some reason, I just couldn't find the twine if I were wrapped up in it. NOTHING went through.
If I believed in the stuff, I'm sure I must've jinxed myself. I brought a notebook around for the purpose of writing down my personal stats. Last year I had the MVP (Scott Gomez), so I still think that I can pull something out of this season. It will be hard, because my brother Ryan has two guys who have more points than games played. My best has a point every 2+ games.
But there is still plenty of hockey left to play (unless you're Bob, he's 2/3 done). I took the time to write down the rosters while I was there, so one day this or next week I'll sit down for 5-6 hours and try to put all that stuff in. If it takes too long to get my team together, I'll probably just roll with that for now and slowly work up the rest of the league. But I need practice, I need something to break this slump.
In other news, I've been playing a bunch of Brutal Legend. (I have no idea how to get an umlaut on here) People have been bringing up the game in my casual hang outs, so I love getting to be able to tell them what I think about it. I don't want to get too in depth, because I plan on writing a review for it here. I also have a bunch of story-spoiling stuff I want to write about too, so that will be two articles (blogs) dedicated to Brutal Legend. It's a good place for me to start this season to bring myself back into this business. If I can keep up with myself during this season, then I shouldn't have much trouble keeping pace during the other months.
Speaking of the season, I'm going in to Hollywood tomorrow to spend one of my free rental coupons. I'm not entirely sure what I want to rent though. I was going to use it this weekend and get something like Dirt, reasonably new and something they'd probably have deep in a weekend. I wanted to get it then so I would have it the full time before I went on my mini-cation this weekend. But I noticed that Borderlands and Smackdown 10 come out this week, so I'm struggling with which one to get. I'm obviously going to finish Brutal Legend, tomorrow in all likelihood, but I'll have plenty of time to get deep into whichever I rent.
I managed to finagle Thursday off so I could go to the Ludo show without any incident, and I already have Friday off since I thought we were taking a weekend in Chicago. If I rent Smackdown, I might not have to buy it later and could wait until it dips down in price to get it for collection purposes. If I get Borderlands, I could just be setting myself up for another Fallout, a game I'd like to play but don't have the time to sink into it. I'm still not sure, but since Hollywood doesn't open until I get to work, I'll have until I come home to figure out.
Kyle's does open up in time for me to go on my way to work. And I'm totally falling behind on comics. I'm sure I have enough to read for multiple hours for the next week, and still have a couple left to bring in to read on lunch. It's not that I'm falling out of love with comics, I think it's mostly that I have a PSP so I can sink BILLION of hours into Final Fantasy 7 on-the-go. I should shelve the PSP for a while just so I can catch up on other stuff I could be doing during that time. Final Fantasy Dissidia started sucking up my precious lunch hour, and then when I got far enough to just be leveling, I gave it up to Final Fantasy 7. I know, I need to put these fantasies to bed, but their so damn addictive!
It really does speak to my love of FF7 that I keep on going back to it like this. I actually learned a couple somethings that I didn't know about the game before hand. I had no idea that Yuffie was so good with the Morph materia. I've been trying to get a game where I basically max out the characters. I want to make beating Ruby relatively easy. The best way to do it in my book is by getting a lot of the materia you'll need, and max your stats to use them effectively. I've been doing good with the materia (6 Counter Attacks, 2 mastered; Knights of the Round at 3 stars I believe, and a couple of Mimes) but I haven't really rolled up my sleeves and tried to max some stats.
This time I am and knowing that with the Conformer, Yuffie doesn't take any penalty for Morphing has meant the world to me. She already has a maxed Attack Power, and I'm working on Cloud right now. I figure I'll get Barrett and Tifa, maybe Cid and Vincent, then work on Defense. That'll take me a long time though, so shelving it sounds kinda good right now.
Thanks for sticking around on my inaugural re-debut of the Daily Blog. Tomorrow will be more about personal life, since I anticipate getting on here after work. Not a lot of gaming time from wake to work to home.
Enjoy the day folks, make it shine!
-Daniel
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