The other day, somebody told me that they weren't feeling the Christmas spirit because things have been "complicated" this year. I don't know why, and I'm not sure they did, either. Something about being busy, maybe a money issue, I don't know. I replied with, "Christmas isn't complicated. It's only complicated if you make it complicated." And I firmly believe that.
They say the holidays are can be stressful. I can see why they would say that, even though I don't agree with it. Maybe it's because I absolutely love Christmas and everything about it. Maybe because I'm generally a pretty relaxed person and I don't get stressed very often. Maybe it's something else, which I'll get to in a second. I just don't think that Christmas is very complicated.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Eight More Games I'd Play If I Owned the Other Consoles (in no particular order)
A year ago, almost to the day, I posted a blog about games bearing the title, "Thirteen Games I'd Play if I Owned the Other Consoles." If you want to read it, you can see it here:
http://adamsblogaboutstuff.blogspot.com/2009/09/games-id-play-if-i-owned-other-consoles_23.html
The basic premise is simple. I own a Wii. And, I love it. I play the Wii all the time, and I have an absolute blast while doing so. You'll find no complaints here; the Wii is a great console with great games and I love it. But, being an active member of the video gaming community, it's impossible not to take notice of some of the great games out on other consoles as well. I'm not saying I'm disappointed in the Wii; I love it to death. But with three great consoles on the market, and some awesome gems on all of them, you're going to miss out no matter what your choice (unless you can afford to own all three, of course. Which I can't.)
http://adamsblogaboutstuff.blogspot.com/2009/09/games-id-play-if-i-owned-other-consoles_23.html
The basic premise is simple. I own a Wii. And, I love it. I play the Wii all the time, and I have an absolute blast while doing so. You'll find no complaints here; the Wii is a great console with great games and I love it. But, being an active member of the video gaming community, it's impossible not to take notice of some of the great games out on other consoles as well. I'm not saying I'm disappointed in the Wii; I love it to death. But with three great consoles on the market, and some awesome gems on all of them, you're going to miss out no matter what your choice (unless you can afford to own all three, of course. Which I can't.)
Monday, May 17, 2010
The Man on the Silver Mountain, a Tribute to Dio
Musically, 2010 hasn't been a good year for me so far. A couple months ago, Scorpions (a.k.a. the single greatest band in the history of music) announced that they are retiring. This will be their last tour, the latest album their last one. It was some sad news, but then yesterday I got some worse news.
Heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer yesterday afternoon.
Heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer yesterday afternoon.
If More Classical Literature got the Dante's Inferno Treatment
Video games often take their inspiration from existing media. Movies, television, comics, anime, even music has their creative juices exploited by game companies. And yet it seems as though in all this time, once thing that inexplicably escaped it is literature. That's not to say that books have never been adapted into games, because they have, but with literally millions of books out there, it's surprising that there aren't as many literature-based games as you might think. How many works of classical literature would make great games? How many have actually been turned into such? Exactly.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Day the Music Died - A Lesson in Rock 'n Roll History
Helllllooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaby!
NOTE: This blog is a day late. It was supposed to be posted yesterday, on the anniversary of the actual event, but I got a late start writing this and didn't make it time. I had written too much not to finish it, so I decided to just post it a day late. Sorry about that.
Everyone likes music, plain and simple. In the modern day, there's a lot to choose from. Pop, metal, techno, hip-hop, grunge, even country. Most of them are a form of, or at least descended from, rock. Even modern country has more in common with contemporary pop than it does the cowboy western ballads of old. Unless you listen to world music or classical, pretty much any popular genre of music nowadays is a from of, or closely related to, rock.
NOTE: This blog is a day late. It was supposed to be posted yesterday, on the anniversary of the actual event, but I got a late start writing this and didn't make it time. I had written too much not to finish it, so I decided to just post it a day late. Sorry about that.
Everyone likes music, plain and simple. In the modern day, there's a lot to choose from. Pop, metal, techno, hip-hop, grunge, even country. Most of them are a form of, or at least descended from, rock. Even modern country has more in common with contemporary pop than it does the cowboy western ballads of old. Unless you listen to world music or classical, pretty much any popular genre of music nowadays is a from of, or closely related to, rock.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Headbanging Toddlers
I just ran across this ad in the musical instruments section of craigslist.
Drummer looking for band...ages 10 and under (Rome)
6 year old drummer is looking for bandmates. Interested in metal but will play other genres. Please, nobody over the age of 10. Looking for guitarist(s) and bassist.Wow. Um, that's interesting. I'm all supportive of getting children started on music at a young age, but take a look at the first part of the second sentence. "Interested in metal." Um, huh? Let me see if I have this straight. This SIX-year-old, as in not-even-a-decade-old, wants to play in a metal band.
I'm trying to figure out just what's going on here. It could be a complete joke, made by some pranksters. Maybe some wise-ass teeangers, or a babysitter who saw the kid hitting the drums and decided to make a laugh of it. But let's assume that it's a serious post. It's obvious the kid didn't write the ad (unless he did, in which case I take back any criticism I have of the very concept in the wake of his sufficient writing ability.) I'm guessing its the work of his parents.
I have three theories for this. For starters, the kid is six years old? How effecient can he be at drumming? I'm not going to say that child is incapable of playing drums well, but what are the chances? Perhaps the parents heard the kid banging away on his drums one day and thought, "he's making a lot of nonsensical, incoherent noise. Hey, death metal is nonsensical, incoherent noise! Let's put him in a band!" The second theory is similar, except instead of taking advantage of their "gifted" child, they have mullets and still wear tight leather pants to Queensryche* concerts. In their refusal to grow up themselves, they've thrust a drum set in front of their child in hopes that he'll be the next Rikki Rockett**.
Of course, there's always the possibility that he just looks like this:
Drummer looking for band...ages 10 and under (Rome)
6 year old drummer is looking for bandmates. Interested in metal but will play other genres. Please, nobody over the age of 10. Looking for guitarist(s) and bassist.Wow. Um, that's interesting. I'm all supportive of getting children started on music at a young age, but take a look at the first part of the second sentence. "Interested in metal." Um, huh? Let me see if I have this straight. This SIX-year-old, as in not-even-a-decade-old, wants to play in a metal band.
I'm trying to figure out just what's going on here. It could be a complete joke, made by some pranksters. Maybe some wise-ass teeangers, or a babysitter who saw the kid hitting the drums and decided to make a laugh of it. But let's assume that it's a serious post. It's obvious the kid didn't write the ad (unless he did, in which case I take back any criticism I have of the very concept in the wake of his sufficient writing ability.) I'm guessing its the work of his parents.
I have three theories for this. For starters, the kid is six years old? How effecient can he be at drumming? I'm not going to say that child is incapable of playing drums well, but what are the chances? Perhaps the parents heard the kid banging away on his drums one day and thought, "he's making a lot of nonsensical, incoherent noise. Hey, death metal is nonsensical, incoherent noise! Let's put him in a band!" The second theory is similar, except instead of taking advantage of their "gifted" child, they have mullets and still wear tight leather pants to Queensryche* concerts. In their refusal to grow up themselves, they've thrust a drum set in front of their child in hopes that he'll be the next Rikki Rockett**.
Of course, there's always the possibility that he just looks like this:
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