This past Monday Jerry, Keith, and the 2 Ford Boyz visited Casa Boonie foe our inaugural playing of the 4th Edition D&D rules. I haven't played D&D since '96, and it's the only RPG I've actually followed through on playing after I purchased the rules. Keith has been playing with the gang at Dealnews and enjoying it, so much so that he talked Jerry and I into getting the rules. Afterward he talked his kids into playing, mainly so he could DM. He's evil like that.
The game itself was nerdy enough without any important details to pass along. Keith has us running through the adventure in the back of the DM guide, which the rest of us are neglecting to read at least until this adventure is over. Suffice it to say that the adults (me and Jer, seriously) and Keith's kids were pretty much on the same level. We didn't really know what we were doing until the 3rd encounter. I, a Jamaican Dwarven Fighter, had to convince myself to rush headlong into the enemy since I was a tank with no ranged weapons.
Lord Ford has been checking the Widgey page for mention of the game and pics, but I had to tell him this is an unsanctioned event since it breaks Rule #3 of Widgey Night:
Alas, little Fordlings count. Although they brought brownies, so we may be tempted to bend the rules a little.
After expecting much hoopla in choosing which movie would become my 1000th DVD, I managed to pick it up in a sales bin at Wal-Mart for $5.00.
Hard Candy.
Oddly enough, I noticed this movie in the background of another site about a year ago.
In unrelated news, all of my paragraphs today will consist of one sentence.
After weeks of planning, I finally made my sojourn on a Spiritus Trip, this time to Nantahala for my first rafting experience. It turned out to be a fun trip, a good trip. A trip I survived despite the 20-odd hours of driving.
Ok, it was only 4½ hours of driving, but winding mountain roads make it feel like forever.
I could go into boring you with details, but here are 6000 words worth of pictures from the end of the trip:
I'm violating the copyright of posting these pictures, but I like to think of it as saving their bandwidth. Here's a guilt-induced link to the original picture source.
I'll try to share some stories later. Right now I'm just glad to be back home.
I've ended up using YouTube for my song references, so for those of us with YouTube blocked at work, today's post makes for great at-home reading!
I've come across songs samples that I'm sure are given credit somewhere, but I haven't been bludgeoned over the head with the original source and figured a couple of things out all on my own. I'd like to share those homemade discoveries. If you've already discovered them, just silently gloat how much faster on the know you are over me.
Kid Rock - All Summer Long. This songs borrows its chorus from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama". It's pretty obvious and widely acknowledged. I was on the way home from Mom's and heard someone request "Kid Rock's Alabama Song" followed by a mini-discussion about Skynyrd. What I think is overlooked is the opening piano riff is "Werewolves In London" by Warren Zevon. Why isn't this Kid Rock's Alabama Werewolf song?
Thanks to watching Blue Crush last week I finally found the answer to a melody that's been bugging me for years. The synthesizer rhythm (I'm not sure what you would actually call it) in "Cherry Lips" by Garbage has always sounded familiar. Right before the end credits of Blue Crush they play "Everybody got their something" by Nikki Costa which has the same beat, just a little slower. Surprisingly, these 2 songs came out close to one another, with Nikki Costa's being released May 22, 2001, and Garbage's song released in Japan December 27, 2001.
Although I pride myself on my movie trivia skills, it's nice when some music trivia just falls into place. It makes me proud of all those years I spent working at Disc Connections (Alabama's First All-Compact Disc Store).
I'm 1 DVD away from 1000.
That's kind of an arbitrary "1000" though. Depending on how you look at it, I could be way past 1000 or nowhere near 1000.
I have 999 titles listed, regardless of whether they're on DVD, Blu-Ray, or BetaHD-DVD. Within those titles I have seasons of TV shows. Take Star Treks, for example. I list each season of each series separately, so those end up being counted as 30 or so titles. For the X-Files series I entered all 9 seasons at once, thus counting them as 1 title instead of 9. What happened to consistency?
I don't have 999 discs. Those seasons of TV shows can have anywhere from 2 to 7 discs per season. I'd hate to have the free time to go back and count discs. I've thought about it, though. Then I thought it'd be interesting to see what the total running time of all my discs is - kind of like how iTunes displays it at the bottom.
Regardless of the minute details, I'll end up getting my 1000th DVD next Tuesday. My first DVD was the original Starship Troopers back in 1998 (I think). It was the movie I wanted on DVD to see in Widescreen and for the special features I thought it would have. 2 weeks ago I got Starship Troopers 3, not a movie I would want for any special reason, although it was amazing how Casper Van Dien doesn't age. Hopefully the 1000th will end up being something special and/or memorable. I wonder if there'll be a party?
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