Saturday, November 24, 2007

Either I have been bitten by the dreaded Aptos tse tse fly, or the last few days of overeating and mayhem are catching up with me, because I am worn the hell out.

However, I had a fun Turkey day. Thanks for hosting Enron. I have not been that overstuffed ever, that I can remember. Also great to see your place Aeryk. Can't wait to come back sometime! Aptos definitely reminds me of circa 1985 South Bay. Nice feeling to the place.

If any of you guys are interested in picking up a couple of games, Fantasy Flight is having an overstock fire sale and some of the card games and board games are in there. I picked up Kingdoms and the Lord of the Rings expansions for $5 each.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Hey Eric didn't you or one of these guys say you had that game SKATE for the 360? I was just watching a bunch of vids and it looks really awesome and everyones all saying its better than Tony Hawk. Oh yeah, so I joined SA Forums recently (man, i pay 10 bucks for drinks when Im out whining and dyning the ladies, so fuck it) and they got a site called GoonSkate which has a bunch of their vids. LOOKS rad game!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Monday, November 19, 2007

Sunday, November 18, 2007

| read books and play games

How do you find time?

Maybe it's the Saturday workday thing, but I'm pretty much busy most of the times, after I get home I hardly have enough time to cook a good dinner before shipping off to anchors.

But good stuff.

My dad visited me this weekend from California, so we went to Tagaytay mountain, which is famous for a small volcano that last erupted in 1964, since then it's dormant. The view is great as it looks down the oceanside. My dad went to this place when he was a kid, so it was quite nastalgic for him and it was cool that he took me there to continue the tradition, I thought. Then we went to the casino across the street! I won 4000 pesos, in about 5 minutes. I doubled down twice, I figured I try my luck in a row in Baccharat (such a lovely gentlemans game)

Sunday, I didn't do much except grocery shop and excercise.
Glad to hear No Country for Old Dudes is good! I wanna see it, but I def wasn't into some of their movies. I'll try to catch that one soon. I'm actually looking forward to Beowulf. Neil Gaiman baby! Haa, I'm a fucking fanboy. The reviews have been pretty positive (people say the story is pretty good) but the stop-motion looks WEIRD to me, so i dunno... but fuck it.

Tell me what to read! I'm almost done with the re-read of Storm of Swords and I kinda don't wanna go right into the 4th book afterward. I need to give it some space or its gonna read just as so-so as it did when it first came out (think I was going through burn-out at the time also.)

I might re-read Maus. Just looking at some websites about it and I got all watery-eyed. That shit was sad (but good.)

Oh I got the Sega Genesis Game Collection for the PSP - pretty rad... SOME of it! Oh my god, how awful was Altered Beast!? CRAP! But Sonic 1 & 2 are tops, Vector-Man is actually cool, Comixzone is surprisngly decent, and then theres all the Phantasy Star games (but I dunno if I'll ever give them an honest go... I have Final Fantasy Star Tactics taking up my RPG Mojo right now.) Oh god, Golden Axe 1-3 are pretty darn bad (wish they woulda put Streets of Rage on there! That was an awesome game!) There's a bunch of other random ones on there. 3 Ecco games (tried 1, it seemed cool - never really played it b4)

It's funny, there's a bunch of "unlockables" on the game, like interviews, some other arcade games, etc.. but the interviews!!! They're with the various game designers... Japanese dudes... speaking Japanese... with NO subtitles... Gee, thanks for those sweet unlockables! :(
That was hilarious. I couldn't bear to watch the video, but I listened to the whole thing....

I saw No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers' new movie, today. Daaaaamn. It's really brutal, and very good. There were some really strange choices about the storytelling in it (well, one, really -- but it's a doozy) but they really make it work. Definitely up there with their best stuff, even if I won't see it a billion times like Big Lebowski or Raising Arizona.

Also saw American Gangster recently -- another really good one.

I also, and this will make Eric proud I think, picked up the DVD set of Flight of the Conchords. Holy shit, this show is HILARIOUS. Even more bizarre than the music clips make it seem like (although they're always the highlight). I especially liked the one where Jemaine keeps insisting Bret is bulimic. And that putting a wig on him while he was asleep, and spooning with him, wasn't gay, because he was pretending he was a woman.