So Long 2008

It’s been fun.

And actually, yeah.  It has been.

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Started up on the next round of GameAxis articles, played some games, and have to gear up for more IGN stuff next week.

More Slacking

Staying Indoors

Another Quiet Day

Another Quiet Day

Did laundry, played games, scored The Road Warrior on Blu-Ray on eBay…

Ho Hum

Another new week another day of messing around with WipeOut HD and… other stuff.

Just Another Thursday

Rock Band was played. Oh, how it was played… my shoulder hurts.

Hadoken In The Bar

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Sunday afternoon was spent wandering Queen’s Park because of The Word On The Street Book & Magazine festival, which is just all the publishers in the Toronto area (and there are a lot of them) setting up tents to promote that crazy literacy thing that supposed to be all the rage with the kids these days.  After that however, we went over to Bloor and the Italian restaurant Rocco’s to attend an event in their bar; the launch of the Streetfighter Tribute art book.  The Wife’s Chun Li picture actually got selected for the book and since the publishers are local, they invited her to come down, sit at the table and do that Signing Thing while a Streetfighter tournament (not with the new SF IV, but the older versions on the PS2) was held.  It was a bit alarming in one sense because admist the hooting, hollering and general machismo I suddenly realized that I felt EXACTLY like I was in a sports bar… but surrounded by nerds.  I still have no idea how to react to that.

And, randomly, here is another picture I took from WipeOut HD, with a Bladerunner-y sort of feel to it.

Anime Characters Live

For whatever reason, we finally got around to messing about with Rock Band again (though not in the competitive we want to be #1 on the leaderboards thing again, so much as “Hey, this game is fun to play.”), and while we were at it, we picked up a few tunes including a new song called Monsoon by a German group called Tokio Hotel.

When I first heard the song, I honestly had trouble figuring out whether the singer was male or female. I figured that checking out YouTube would quickly settle the matter. As you can see from the picture of the band on the left, the issue became even further confused.

Wikipedia was once again my friend however, and confirmed that the guy is a guy and is named BILL.

However, taking one look at the fellow in question immediately made the Wife go into Paroxysms of Passion and she immediately declared that, were she younger and single, she would be Totally In Love With This Dude, because of the fact that this is the first time she’s ever seen someone who wasn’t cos-playing actually look like an anime character just freshly stepped off the screen of some game or vicious ninja/vampire fest. In a fit of Separated At Birth, she made the connection between Bill and this guy:

This is Axel, of Kingdom Hearts II fame. Your standard issue, generic, angst-ridden, pretty boy in a trench coat (of sorts) who may seem cruel and evil, but is really just misunderstood, and can open his heart to the right person (of which, of course, most girls fantasize they are in fact that person). Girls. Go figure. All I know is that Axel had an interesting mean streak to him, and he talked up a good fight, but wasn’t really much of a match for a Keyblade wielded by one of Pure Heart And Noble Intentions. Moral ambiguity gets you nowhere in a Disney game and Sora’s inhuman goodness proved that.

Also, here’s the music video in question with the oh so catchy song that we now own for Rock Band. Amazingly, these guys were just playing in town on May 16th. Had we bothered to pick this song up sooner, I’m sure we somehow would’ve ended up checking that performance out.

Another Quiet Day