Sunday, September 18, 2005

Rasterbated too hard, no more ink.

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Alex- He looks nothing like the Son of Man to me.

*rimshot*

Doc G- Oh, I will. :|

Shin- And he lives on.. THROUGH THIS MOUSTACHE!

Tony- Apparently, in the trailer, you can see dirt on Snake's face get wiped off by a bead of sweat.

Not that I can tell on my computer. Windows Media Player is fucked.

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I'm in this community service program at school called the Key Club. Because of the running thing I haven't managed to do too much with the club (I tried to help out at the local fair but nobody bothered to give me any information about it), but today we were supposed to wake up early and clean up trash rather close to my house, so I figured I'd do that.

So 6:30 comes around, my alarm is blaring, and in my state of half-awake confusion I was thinking "God damn, another school day," and remained in bed. Then I remembered, "Oh yeah, Saturday, Key Club thing" and tried to get out of bed. I crawled out, reached for my cell phone, and texted my friend saying I wasn't going.

I don't quite regret it. I got to sleep in, I didn't have to touch garbage, and I didn't have to stand on the side of the road in a bright orange vest as people thought I was being penalized for stealing an iPod from Radio Shack.

Also, I woke up to my friend calling me, which led to another one of our epic phone conversations. I miss seeing her for more than fifteen minutes a day.

After I got off the phone with her, Ethan called me, telling me that the music festival he got a ticket to featured The Arcade Fire.

I proceeded to scream at him for five minutes until he hung up.

I went to the festival's main page- It was KROQ's Inland Invasion in Devore- and luckily for me, they were going to stream a live webcast of it.

So I sat there for a while, tolerating the bands that came before them.. Kasabian angered me (any band with jumping, instrumentless vocalists does), Fishbone was okay but dragged on too long (I've never been a fan of ska), and The Bravery sounded the same in every song. Eventually, The Arcade Fire showed up, and I was sort of happy, but at the same time sad because I wasn't there in person.

But because I'm a dork, I wrote down the setlist and little comments. So read it, bitches.

They started off with Wake Up, which pretty much sounded identical to the album version. I don't even recall any variance in the vocals. Then they went into Laika, which was standard as well. While they were switching instruments out, Win Butler started talking about the "tough times" people are going through in the world today. One of those places, appropriately enough, is Haiti, so they predictably jumped into that one. Generally, I'm not a fan of that song, but there were some nice harmonies in this version that I enjoyed.

Then they went into No Cars Go, which I was not expecting, but it was a welcome surprise. The part where he shouts "Old folks, let's go" and such was incredibly energetic. Tunnels was strange, because it involved a harmonica, and I did not know that.

Then out of nowhere, once that song ended, he shouted out "This is for all the motherfuckers out there" and they played Power Out, which seamlessly went into Rebellion, the last song. They all had their death stares on, which was sort of ominous.

Anyway, it was sort of a nice consolation to see it over the internet, but I really would have liked to be there. Also, Ethan managed to snag me this shirt, which I will be paying him for the next time I see him.

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We got the electric guitar restringed today. The damn thing had three broken strings before, and it wasn't playable for shit, but that's different now.

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Apparently, Hideo Kojima saying that Metal Gear Solid 4 is his last MGS game, again. He's done this for three of them now.. But this time, he's also saying that Yoji Shinkawa will be leaving the franchise as well, which may give it some sort of evidence this time around.

To be honest, I sort of want them to end. I don't want Metal Gear to be the kind of series that is milked for ages, until it's a crippled shell of its former self. From what I've seen, I'm thinking that Snake will die in this game, and if he does so, I want it to be in a blaze of glory. Glory, damn it.

Though I wonder, what the hell is he doing with a knife and a rifle? That's not very CQC.

Then again, I don't recall Solid Snake ever knowing CQC. Damn Kojima and his mindfucks.

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Also, another warm and fuzzy Revolution thought: Mario Paint.
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