Too Much Guitar Hero

I had some bizarre dream today where I was walking around in what seemed to be an area of my home town, Edmonton. It was at a McDonald’s that was sitting on the other side of a parking lot for Beaumaris shopping mall, and I had my Guitar Hero controller slapped on.

It was a summer day, so the weather was fine and the sun was mild but comforting, and I noticed that there were a lot of other people–teenagers and adults of the male persuasion mostly–that were walking around with real guitars strapped on. A lot of Gibsons and Fenders all over the place. I was really puzzled by this, though strangely not puzzled at all about the fact that I had my controller slung on my neck, and was getting strange glances of approval from all the real guitar players hanging around.

So I went into the McDonalds and it was there, sitting at a table, I found Michael J. Fox and Christian Bale. There were also a whole bunch’a guitarists. It turns out that for some reason that particular McDonalds was holding a guitar contest, and Fox and Bale just happened to be there. The contest started, and the guitarists took off, I hung out with Mike and Chris and showed them how to play Jimi Hendrix’s Spanish Castle Magic on Guitar Heroe despite the fact that I had no PS2, game, or TV to hook the guitar up to.

Bleah. Maybe it’s time to get a real guitar…