Grumble grumble weekend posting
At the end of the week it will officially be December and the end of this posting every day for a month. Ha! While I've enjoyed writing on a regular basis and getting reconnected with all my blog friends, there is something to be said about not having to post at 10:30 on Saturday night because you forgot to do so earlier and your obsessive side won't let you slip a day.
We saw "Tenacious D" and I have to say: meh. I definitely laughed at some parts, but maybe the humor is just a little off of my own. Like the beginning sound check? Where they are animated and they fart around the theater showing you the surround sound? And then a tagline comes up that says, "The audience is baked"? Yeah, that KILLED. I haven't seen a reception like that since the first "White Girls" trailer at the Cobble Hills theater.
The time was listed wrong online, so we had an hour to kill before the movie started. Luckily, some genius built a Dave & Busters next to the theater, so we threw away some cash riding motorcycles and killing zombies, though not at the same time (but wouldn't THAT be a fun game?).
Here's a piece of advice: stay away from the airplane game. Because even though you will be tempted to climb into a cockpit simulator and fly through the air on a vibrating seat, it won't happen because you will get confused about how to accelerate, drive off the runway a little bit, and the game will tell you that's not allowed and you will lose. About 15 seconds after sitting down. Who ever heard of a transportation-related video game where you lose for straying off the road? All I know is the fun of the motorcycle game comes from accidentally plowing into chain link fences, mowing over cheering pedestrians, and dying by unintentionally driving your bike into the engine of a plane.
We have that airplane simulator game at my theater too ("played" it and was equally frustrated). I felt like a man who'd just awoke from a 30-year coma and was trying to play video games for the first time.
I know you must get this in Denver, but seems a great place to look for your final books, no?
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html?ref=books
I am very, very bad at all video games, period -- but Larry has a Simpsons game, and you can just drive around town and run over people. They all say different things when they get mowed down. My favorite is Grandpa.