This morning I got tired of squinting to see the display on my cell phone and ripped that fucker apart to wipe the dust off of the inside of the display.
That will be my Big Accomplishment at work today, unfortunately.
It is snowing a ridiculous amount right now, and I am not excited about it. Maybe if I were at home, but not here.
I defeated #2 in No More Heroes last night, who was a strange alcoholic girl with a baseball bat (some serious suspension of disbelief needed to accept her as an actual adversary, I mean, a baseball bat versus a light-sabre? Come on.)
Onward!
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February!
1. We have been lax the last couple weekends regarding wallpaper removal. We did get the living room and dining room done, and now just the kitchen remains on the first floor.
2. Regarding Heretic Pride: Definitely more accessible than Get Lonely, contains perhaps the catchiest song on the subject of being murdered by an angry mob, invokes the word “autoclave” without reservation, and H. P. Lovecraft during his years in Brooklyn (what more must one say?).
Generally terrific.
3. We have promised ourselves a short trip to Columbus when we finally finish removing wallpaper throughout the entire house. Currently projected to be sometime in mid-late March. There will be food and revelry, no doubt.
4. Recently watched The Constant Gardener and Children of Men. I enjoyed the latter much more than the former, but both were good.
5. So glad No Country for Old Men cleaned up at the Oscars, cannot wait for it to be released on disc, along with like 176 other movies.
6. Picked up No More Heroes a few days ago. Despite the main character being utterly unsympathetic, I am charmed by the game in some way. It might be the mix of artistic direction (some odd form of cel shading), 8-bit charm, and (let’s face it) light-sabre fighting. The game is also so utterly strange. For example, whenever the main character unleashes a special attack, he appears to yell the name of a dessert (like, “Blueberry cheese brownie!” or “Raspberry Fudge Sundae!”). While in this super powered mode, a tiger walks across the top of your screen toal a finish line. This acts as your countdown timer. But the cat does not disappear when time has expired, it just hangs out in the corner of your screen, pawing ineffectually. Your character rides around town on an akira-style super bike, picking up odd jobs like collecting coconuts, mowing the lawn, and murdering Pizza Company CEOs (of course!). The protagonist (if he can really be called such) is an anime-obsessed sociopath bent on killing ten supposedly higher ranked assassins. On the way, he obtains the additional incentive of convincing some other female french sociopath to sleep with him if he can kill all ten.
What?
I’m sure I’ll have a final update on this (odd) gem when I finish off the last two assassins later this week.
7. Work is being a pain in the ass, but otherwise, things are going well.
8. I am sooooo ready for Spring weather to arrive, please.
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