Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Because my son’s domination of the television and, indeed, the entire living room by his 24/7, non-stop playing of Call of Duty 4, and his loud, loud, continual swearing, homophobia and racially-tinged epithets which is, of course, your standard Xbox Live experience really made it impossible to get anything done that required thought, I consigned … Read more
Rock Band’s first complete album download is not… Nevermind or Who’s Next, as we’d been told. It’s Boston’s first album, Boston, which has pretty damn near all the best songs they ever did (I like “Cool the Engines” and “Amanda” off their third…) Did I buy it? Um yeah kinda immediately. Back in high school, … Read more
I haven’t done even a tenth of the gaming I usually do in a given week. Between my sister Hillary getting hitched in Boston; my sister Genjer and niece Jazzmin coming up from NYC to spend Easter weekend here in Connecticut; and the siren’s call of Rock Band demanding the return of the (in)famous Buzzkillaz, … Read more
Wanderlust’s “I Walked” comes on the MP3 player and I think how wonderful that song would be with Rock Band. I should Audiosurf it. Last night, I strapped a microphone to a broom handle with hair ties, took up plastic guitar and was a one-woman band for awhile; singing and playing guitar at the same … Read more
Cyanbane challenged me and other Rock Band-enabled bloggers to come up with our “Top 10” songs we’d like to see on Rock Band. I have way more than ten songs I’d like to play on rock band, but I came up with ten that all are built around guitar-bass-drum-vocals, should be challenging enough to be … Read more