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Mom Pwns U
So I got my kid Dragon Age but I said he couldn't play it until he did all his chores and found my Beatles Past Masters CD that's been missing for a week after he borrowed it. So he did his chores and then went into the disaster that is his room and started sifting through the wreckage. He came out about every ten minutes telling me he "couldn't find it" and had "looked everywhere" and couldn't I just "burn a CD off his laptop" or "buy a new one". No. Twice he came in with other CDs of mine that have been missing for months. Finally after ninety minutes I decided I should go in and help him look.
So I walked in, looked at his night table at a stack of CD jewel cases, picked up the stack, and underneath was an upside-down naked CD. It was my Past Masters disc. I picked it up. I walked out.
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What happened to steadycams?
I just tried watching an episode of Stargate: Universe over on fancast.com and I see it is filmed Battlestar Galactica-style with handheld cameras for that "Kent State Massacre" feel which is so popular with TV dramas these days.
Of course, I can watch shows filmed in vomit-o-scope like that for about 20 minutes and then I break into a sweat and have to go lie down. I was lying down while I watched this and I still only made it about 20 minutes.
Barf.
I don't get the appeal of having the camera constantly shifting and sliding around. It was cute with Blair Witch Project (which I also can't watch) and after that it was officially old. In ten years all these shows are going to look horribly dated.
Well darn. Stargate: Universe looks like a neat show, but I can't watch it.
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Ah! Keith David is everywhere!
He haunts my dreams!
I just finished watching my son play through the campaign of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (he wouldn't let me play with him because he wanted the whole screen, the dork!) and I won't give any spoilers except I thought the end credits were incredibly cool and clever, and worth playing through the game if for no other reason. Also, the Arbiter is in the game. See if you can spot (hear) his voice!
When we went to GameStop to grab the game I also picked up a little Halo 3 RC Hornet which supposedly you can fly around in your house without destroying anything... but I'm going to try it first outside tomorrow as its supposed to be nice for Veteran's Day. The Halo 3 RC Warthog is a lot of fun so I have fingers crossed. If I don't get it stuck in a tree it will show up in HAFT for sure.
Ooh, also, thanks for all the awesome recommendations on good music in my last Journal. I am slowly working my way through. My WoW cronies recommended I try the Pandora and last.fm sites and with the good starting places I'm really hearing some neat stuff!
Okay, must go back and see what the boy is doing now. There was a bunch of post solo mission content and online multiplayer stuff he was going to try. I don't know that it's really my cup of tea (I like shooting aliens more than people due to squeamishness), but the graphics are beautiful. I'm so impressed with the modeling. I just love us humans. We're so clever with our art and computers and rock and roll, yeah? GO US!
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Music Library Challenge
Hey music loving friends,
So I have this music advisor, Michael Adamczyk, he's about 70 and he's been teaching me composition. He's a really talented guy and composes a lot of music himself. His style is fairly modern along the lines of Villa-Lobos. Anyway, we were having this talk about "the kids these days" and modern music etc and he was saying basically that only it's only interesting to listen to classical music or possibly jazz and everything else is boring and repetitive. Which I sort of agree with... I mean, if you take the lyrics out of most music, it is pretty repetitive...
HOWEVER I know there is some really interesting music going on in the pop, alternative and electronic world. I just don't know where it is.
Anyway, I'm trying to come up with some music that isn't classical, jazz, or written before 1955 that I would consider musically interesting or particularly lovely, as in interesting harmonies, rhythms, techniques etc. I don't think that production or lyrics is particularly important...
Do you have any suggestions of a song or two to put on my CD of "Ten songs that prove there is hope for humanity"?
PS: I just gotta put a Beatles song on my CD... which one? My kid voted "Here Comes the Sun" Maybe the Medley from Abbey Road?
PPS: Extra points for an example of musically or technically impressive Rap. LOL
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Trick AND Treat
Right now I've finally retreated to my room; my son Spyton is having friends over for Halloween. I had to man the front door from 3 to 7 (official trick-or-treating hours for our town) and then I was in charge of snacks and then acquiring dinner and other entertainment.
So I missed out on a Halloween party I'd been invited to, but I still dressed up, as I remember always thinking it was cool when moms came to the door to give out candy dressed up as a witch or whatnot.
So I dressed up ... well it was supposed to be as a vampire. But my son balked at me putting in my fake fangs or putting on the giant bat wings. He said it would be embarrassing in front of his friends.
AS IF THEY DON'T ALREADY ALL KNOW I'M A WEIRDO BY NOW!!!
But okay, so I just went like this, right whatever:
One bad thing about getting older is you can't really dress up as a fairy princess or Batgirl or Tinkerbell or ... other young things. I was bemoaning this and one of my kid's friends helpfully suggested I could go as the Crypt Keeper. Yes. I'll... keep that in mind. Thanks. A BUNCH!
Anyway, best costume that came by tonight was a teenaged boy with a crazy black wig on and a little toy chair on a string around his neck with a sign that said "Senate Seat" with a price tag on it. Yes, he was dressed as ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. He was full of win.
Halo Action Figure Theater
The Steve n' Lois Chronicles
presents
Issue #187 Never Too Old Too Shame (Comme un Pez Dispenser)
Today's Vocabulary Words
whatnot
balked
bemoaning
the crypt keeper
ousted
Top 50 Costumes at the 2009 London Marathon WTF
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There's cat hair on Steve now
Well my son is feeling pretty sick. I figure he has regular, non-swine flu as I took the shot for regular flu and am only mildly sick. I figure if he had the swine flu we'd both be miserable. He's supposed to have friends over for Halloween on Saturday and I have about a zillion snacks and candy bars ready to go. So, he better get better! In the meantime, thank goodness for Mystery Science Theater 3000 and other vids we' we've found online.
Oh, also, Sparky, as usual, wants to help with HAFT. He likes all the warm lights I use. He is not helping. This is not helping:
Halo Action Figure Theater
The Steve n' Lois Chronicles
presents
Issue #186 Moar Mouthwash (Votre thalamus était délicieux)
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