I’ve been playing lots of Rock Band (well, not lots, but whenever it’s convenient and Sam’s up for it) and I’ve gotten quite a taste for it. I don’t play too many music or rhythm inspired games (DJ Max Portable and Lumines, if that counts, along with now Rock Band). If anyone hasn’t played it before, and thinks they probably won’t like it, I’d suggest you give it a whirl (or at least a twirl) before you say no to it. I personally never understood what the big commotion was before I had ever played it, but now I’m smacking things happily and failing nailing all those guitar solos like the rest of us happy Band players.
In mostly unrelated news, I do believe with the end of October, my annual season of feeling more than a little depressed has, since starting, come into full bloom, with leaves falling and everything. I really can’t say (or maybe I don’t like saying) why I always feel so bad this time of year, but I do know that Halloween (yes, that’s last night, considering when I’m writing this) is pretty much my least favourite day of whatever. It’s right up there beside Valentine’s Day and those rainy spring mornings where you wake up and the sky is still dark and it’s cold and wet outside and you’ve got school or work and it’s too cold to not wear a coat and you just know it’s gonna be a miserable day and you want to lash out at something or go into the corner and cry, or like that one morning I had way back when when I woke up with “…big, big girl, in a big big world…” in my head and I cried myself back to sleep. I hate these days.
I don’t know, folks. I’m a complicated man with complicated problems and complicated thoughts, but I’d like something simple, something sweet. Will the Internets deliver?