Star Wars: Compressed

thanks to Tony S. for this entertaining little gif. If you missed the beginning of the feature, just wait a few seconds for the encore presentation.

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Nintendogs? Meet "Nintengirls."

Wow, Nintengirls! Part of me wishes this was real. It's not that I'd actually buy it or anything. I mean, I might set up an account on Gamefly.com, get a new P.O. Box address and rent it. Okay, not even. I'd probably just steal a copy out of morbid curiosity. Because what would be the point of this game? I mean, besides... well, you know. In Nintendogs, you raise a dog from a puppy. What would you do here? Raise girls? I won't even get into the potential touch-screen applications.

Set

Here's one of the stage sets we created for a group who came to our hotel recently. We also did their sound and video. I guess they told us they wanted the theme to be "purple."

We said "okay."

More Late Nights

Well, that's my excuse for now, anyway. Who feels like typing away; going all Doogie Howser at night when you've just been working for ten hours, and it's already 1:00 in the morning? Not I.

10/11/2005

Well, I've been working late these last few nights, so I haven't really posted much here.

I did happen to catch a little of the New York Yankees embarrassing defeat on T.V. at work last night. The fact that the Yankees suffered two humiliating post-season eliminations two years in a row suggests the existence of a wise and benevolent God. The video footage of Bubba Crosby and Gary "Hot Head" Sheffield colliding on the warning track, allowing the Angels to score two runs and take a 3-2 lead, indicates a chance that there is still goodness and mercy in the universe.

Of course, the jury is still out on all of this, but now we have some pretty compelling evidence.

Getting Cooler

It's finally beginning to get a little cooler here in Houston. Today's high was only around 80º, and according to weather.com, it's currently a cool and comfortable 64º. Since it's fall, I'm feeling particularly homesick for the Midwest. Autumn has always been my favorite. There's nothing like an overcast 60º day in October with the leaves beginning to change. It invokes that pensive sort of melancholy. A similar thing can happen down here, but it lacks the splendor of fall in Indiana.

Katrina is currently karaoke'ing with some co-workers for a "girls night out." Here am I left to my own (electronic) devices. Yes, I got a few more classic video games for the collection, today. Namely, Shadowgate for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Metroid and StarFox for the Super Nintendo. I swear to God, if you were to hang out with me for a week, you'd swear you died and woke up in 1994. You'd probably try to ask me why I insist on living in the past; but you'd never finish your question before I'd plug my ears with my fingers, close my eyes and loudly begin singing "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. Don't try to save me.

Recent (and semi-recent) classic game related acquisitions:


Jim Henson's Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival (NES)

-A used Sega Dreamcast with two controllers and a VMU memory card!
-Shenmue (Sega Dreamcast)
-Expendable (Sega Dreamcast)
-Virtua Tennis (Sega Dreamcast)
-Dynamite Cop! (Sega Dreamcast)
-Galaga (NES)
-Shadowgate (NES)
-Jim Henson's Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival (NES)
-Super Metroid (SNES)
-NBA Jam (SNES)
-Super Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
-StarFox (SNES)
-Donky Kong Country (SNES)
-Capcom Classics Collection (PS2)
-Sega Classics Collection (PS2)

A History of Violence

We went to see the new David Cronenberg movie, A History of Violence, tonight. This one gets my recommendation. Viggo Mortensen is now an A-list movie star, and I'm glad he's not making crap movies. Of course, I've still never seen Hidalgo. Ed Harris plays a great bad guy and look for William Hurt to steal the show. I tend to lean towards character driven movies these days, and AHOV is a really deep and complex character study. It also has some really well-crafted dialogue and great pacing that many, or I should say, most movies lack.

On a completely different topic, Katrina revealed to me she knows how to ride a motorcycle. This, I need to see.

Now That This Site's Working

Seems like every time I came here to post something in the past few days, Blogspot has been down for "scheduled maintenance." Now that it's up, I can't think of anything to say. Isn't it ironic? Don't cha' think?

Report on Austin Show

We got back from the Capitol city of Austin earlier. My review of the Chesnutt/Richman double billing would be a positive one. The venue was in a VERY small University of Texas cafe/bar called the Cactus Club located right in the Student Union. Vic's set was great, but it went by really too quick. He had a few problems with his mostly crippled hands cramping up while playing guitar and had to literally pause in the middle of a few songs to bend his thumb back into place, but he played through it. It was a really low-key set, too with most people sitting on the floor so everyone could see the wheelchair-bound singer. I really like how the quiet songs were puctuated by his souring voice and awesome lyrical ability. Since it was a double billing, they only played about ten songs each. Jonathan was slightly impeded by a seemingly nasty cold, but, as always, he played a very entertaining set, too. Everyone left happy.

Aside from the show, Austin proved to be a pretty interesting town filled with students, hippies, bums, and pretty much every combination of those three, including the drop-out student turned hippie-bum. I guess that's pretty much any college town.

Best bum sighting, though - on a freeway intersection near the IHOP, there was a forty-year-old guy holding a sign that said: "37¢ short of a soft shell taco."

Off to Austin

We're on our way to see Jonathan Richman and Vic Chesnutt in Austin, TX.

Be back tomorrow.