11/17/4

Okay, link for the week: "I'm Not THAT Adam Levine!" Hysterical stuff. Strongly reminds me of Matt Besser's "May I Help You, Dumbass?" from a few years back.

They had the baby this morning, a week early. 8 lbs 10 ozs or something like that, a healthy little boy. Congrats to S. & C. Just as a kind of style motif, I'm keeping people I talk about anonymous, like referring to The Band, which is silly really, since the only way to find this blog is to also blatently find all the music sites and other personal pages of mine, which detail these people at length. I dunno why, but I'm gonna keep doing it.

I actually spent a lot of time over the weekend updating The Demo Barn site, since I hadn't scanned any of the newer covers since around 2000. Digging all those out also got me to add several that hadn't been mentioned before, so my current total is up to 78 demos that I possess in some form or other. I really need to get back into recording more, cuz I miss doing it. Moving into this townhouse a few years ago really killed my spirit a lot, I think. Time, money and kids have reorganized my priorities (sounds like Darkside Of The Moon), bit I still think there's room if I could conquer my depression and laziness, this creeping malaise. Another Pink Floyd reference, perhaps on my mind because of my gift to my brother.

Monday was his birthday, and he's a huge PF fan. The only recording he still didn't own was the Zabriskie Point soundtrack, which was an obvious gift choice once I thought of it. However, after racking my brain for over a week, when I finally thought of it was Monday. So I had to call several record stores to find one with it IN STOCK so I could buy it and get it to him that same day. I ended up picking the kids up from school and immediately driving to the Tower Records on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, who had one copy and were holding it for me. As if in two hours time someone else was going to stroll in and snag a soundtrack to an obscure Italian film from the late sixties, notable only for the fact that some of the songs on it's soundtrack were performed by Jerry Garcia and The Floyd. My brother was, of course, very happy with the gift.

As a side note, the guy at the counter commented on my T-shirt that reads "Don't make me go Zelda on you!" and features icons from the early Nintendo games. We had a brief nerd-fest discussion on our mutual coolness for appreciating old-school video games ("Yar's Revenge rules!"), but only afterward did I realize I should have pulled out my biggest Zelda brag. On only my second time completely through A Link To The Past on SNES, I ran the entire game in one sitting, from 7 am to Midnight, without dying once. Anytime I got close (low on hearts and out of fairies) I would use the ol' mirror to warp to the dungeon entrance and go recharge (even in the midst of a boss battle), so that does account for some of the time, because I could probably run that game in four hours now (maybe).

The point of it was that at the end of the game it gave you a score. The original Nintendo and later games on the N64 and Gamecube had a number as you loaded a game for the number of times you died, but I had yet to play those at the time. However, I suspected that's what the score represented and argued this point with my brother, stating that (like golf) the lower the number, the better the score, but he was convinced it was rating of some other kind, such as how many items and secrets you'd discovered. To prove my theory (now certainly confirmed as correct), I played the one-long-day-and-never-died game, which resulted in a score of 1 as the credits rolled.

Okay, I need to get in the shower and head off to work....

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