The Broken Record

Phew! Been kind of a whack past week or so. I can't seem to get anything right on the ball, and floundering a bit. Seeing how recent events in my personal life have once again lead to me having nothing but oodles of spare time to fill, I feel the need to post an update of what I'm doing as a reminder and motivation for myself. not like anyone else is going to do it eh! HA!

Current projects, latest activities ETC:
Exercise: Since dropping out of the gym a year ago, I never got back into the fitness thing and have found myself getting fatter. Since space in the Porn Bunker is limited, I have come up with what I was calling "The Prison Workout". A series of exercises that could be done in a 6'x3' space. My plan was to start this last week, but I'm piss poor with self discipline. However, Robot Girl Tron on her Blog mentioned the 100 push-up challenge. So I decided last week to start that challenge this week. Today actually, when I get home from work. I did the test last week, and I scraped out 8 push-ups, so I'm going to try tier 2. I'm not fully convinced that I was doing them correctly, but what the hell.

New Listening Project: A few weeks ago I mentioned seeking out the "50 Greatest Out Of Print Records" as picked by Mojo magazine. Hard to believe, but these are a bitch to track down via legal means or torrents. In searching for these though, I have found a great start to the "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" collection. Up to 675 anyways. A few years ago I did the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of All Time". It took me a year and a half and was dead annoying. I didn't learn my lesson though, so I'm going for the 1001 list, and have already begun. Future blogs will detail this list, in chunks of 10 albums similar to my previous experiment. Anyone interested in joining me can feel free to let me know and we can go about trading.

Red Dead Redemption: This game is like heroin to the eyes. You just kind of daze over and get hypnotized by it. When I first got it last Wednesday, I was a bit unimpressed since it felt like I only played about 20 minutes of the 90 minutes of cut screens and what not in the story mode. Then a friend came by and we dicked around in the "Free Roam" multi-player for about 6 hours and decided this was one of the all time greats. Having played another hour of the story mode, and there is a shit ton of stuff to do in this one. Much like "Grand Theft Auto", I'll never finish this game, but it's dead fun to just wander about getting into trouble with out doing the actual missions. Good stuff.

I really hate Green Day now: I was never much of a fan of this band. Kind of thing where if they came on the radio I wasn't offended. A few weeks ago they came out with "Green Day : Rock Band" and since I'm a useless slut for the Rock Band games, I snagged a rental copy and imported all 40 odd tracks into ROCK BAND 2. Fuck me but was that a mistake! Easily, this is the most annoying band to ever be declared "The most important band of the decade". To play the songs on Rock Band, you find that they are either shit hard strum patterns for a plastic guitar or dead simple, and in both cases so repetitive you're just waiting for the songs to end only to find that they average 5 minutes for these turds. Forget about the monotone wine for Billy Joe Whatshisnames vocals... I was hoping for a case of what usually happens with Rock Band, and that's getting a better appreciation for the music. Instead, my general non-caring of the band has turned into a full blooded hatred of them. I can't wait for RB3 to come out so I can block these fuckers and never have to play them again!

That's about it I guess. Been a lot of sadness the past week, and this is all the kind of positive stuff I can think of.