Hackensack

On 12.01.09, In Anime, Cars, Family, Friends, Games, Music, By Philip

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything of linguistic substance, but lately I haven’t had much to post about besides Evey.

First of all, Katy Perry’s MTV Unplugged live CD is absolutely amazing. I love her voice so much. She did a brilliant cover of a Fountains of Wayne song, and the entire album has a “lounge” feel to it. It’s really worth checking out if you appreciate beautiful singing.

Anyway…

Yesterday I hit the 400 mile mark on Evey. When I got the car, it had 20 miles on it from the factory and the PDI at the dealership, and I took a picture at 22. The odometer reading grows so quickly. :P Come tomorrow, I’ll have owned her for a week, and I couldn’t be happier. Every time I walk up to it, I smile. There’s liking your car, and then there’s this – finally having a car that I once called a dream car. I just flat out love this car. It’s so much fun to drive. :D Everything about it is fantastic, right down to my switchblade key. I think between the Camaro and the Chevy Volt, GM is really looking up (Chevy Volt > all hybrids).

Last week was pretty awesome. I took off on Wednesday to pick up my car, and then I had the rest of the week off for Thanksgiving to enjoy it.

And speaking of Thanksgiving, I hope everyone had a good one. I usually make a post about being thankful, but I guess I’ve just been neglectful of my poor blog lately. :( We had delicious food (duck and deer, mmmm), and I have plenty of leftovers in my freezer right now. The rest of the holiday was spent with family and friends.

Now, it’s Christmas time and I guess I should be happier about that, but I really enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday. :P The tree is up at my parents’ and I put up a little one at the apartment, though I only turned on the lights once.

Other than that, I’ve been watching way too much anime and playing Starfox 64 a good bit. :)

I need to get back in the habit of updating this thing regularly, because I hate making this catch-up posts where I have to condense a bunch of crap into something readable (or slightly readable :P ).

-Philip

 
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Make Way For Kat!

On 09.01.09, In Friends, Games, Life, Music, By Philip

This past week has been pretty awesome. I used to have a lot of boring days, but not lately. I even went to Bourbon Street with MC, her two friends from Arkansas, Becca, and Joseph! I had a hurricane from Pat O’Brien’s on the 4 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina…pretty unintentional, but kind of funny nonetheless. It was so much fun! :D

I also saw Inglorious Basterds on Sunday with Trent, GP, and one of their friends that I don’t know that well, but have met before (Drew). Incredible movie. Definitely watch it if you’re not squeamish.

So, I know I do this off and on with bands I like, but I’ve been really into Fall Out Boy’s lyrics lately. It (re)started with “My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon,” but I just realized what one of the allusions in “Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet” means, and it’s just incredible.

“And does your husband know the way that the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?
Does he know the way, does he know the way of the crickets that would convince me to call it a night?”

So the song (in my opinion), is about an affair this dude is having with a married woman, which you can tell from that first line. But the second line I never understood. But then, thanks to the Internet, I realized that “crickets” was a reference to Jiminy Cricket, who was Pinnochio’s conscience. So that second line is basically saying that his conscience is trying to make him quit having this affair, which is such a simple thing to say, and this song has such an incredible way of saying it. AHHH, I love how awesome Fall Out Boy’s lyrics are, and Patrick’s vocals are incredible in this song.

This YouTube video automatically starts at the above mentioned lines, and the lines immediately following those lines are sung so emotionally powerfully, it’s just epic.

Also, I have been playing Starfox 64 a little. My old high score is so epic, there’s no way I’ll ever even get close again, haha.

-Philip

 
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Xbox 3(years late)60

On 01.25.09, In Games, Life, By Philip

I bought an Xbox 360 Arcade and Guitar Hero World Tour (the version with just a guitar, not the whole band kit) the other day. Mostly because I’m bored and it gives me something to do. Guitar Hero World Tour had a better song list than Rock Band 2, and I don’t really need a hard drive or a headset or the 2 crappy games that came with the Xbox 360 Premium, so that’s my justification for why I bought those two things in particular.

If I don’t get bored with it within a couple of months, then it’s at least a better purchase than my endeavor with the Wii!

Wish there was some Fall Out Boy on here, but at least there’s Paramore. :P

-Philip

 
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Shadowrun

On 07.30.07, In Games, By Philip

A while back when I bought Halo 2 for PC, I got Shadowrun for free. Now, I wasn’t expecting much out of a free game, but I couldn’t install it anyway because the game requirements were too much for my old desktop and my NVidia drivers for Windows Vista on my laptop blow. So, I went ahead and installed it on Gravemind last night and ended up playing for like 2 hours. It’s a really neat game – a FPS with magic!

 
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Poppy Brothers Senior

On 07.23.07, In Games, Technology, By Philip

I ordered parts to build a new PC. Yeah, Mac Pros are just too damn expensive (note that I said expensive, not overpriced. >>). Well, that knocks out my computer purchases for the next 3 years. :P Now, where are those laser TV’s I was hearing about last year? >>

Keith got an iPhone and he brought it over yesterday. The screen on that thing is absolutely gorgeous and everything works really well (except trying to talk on Meebo >>).

Why did I buy a Wii? Ha.

However, Kirby’s Avalanche FTW.

 
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My Weekend…Because I’m That Bored

On 05.21.07, In Friends, Games, Life, Work, By Philip

On Friday I got a call from Brian, who was at the LSU Fire School with a flat tire. I went over and got him and Josh (yeah, Red) and brought them to Auto Zone (for some fix a flat) and back, which was futile, because when Brian pumped the tire up, it had an egg in it. He couldn’t get his spare to drop down, so his parents had to come up to Baton Rouge to bring him a spare. He offered to buy me dinner, so we went to Plucker’s while Josh was in his fire school class, and I saw Kara Helgeson and Charles Beard and a couple other people that I recognized but don’t know their names.

After we ate, I went and dropped him off and then went to Clifton’s apartment to play Halo with him, Dylan, Ethan, Trent, and some other guys. I got there about 7:45 and we played until 2 A.M., so it was a good time.

Saturday I woke up at 2:15. Damn that felt good. Did some shopping too.

And right now, I’m updating my blog as I’m waiting for clips to import into iMovie. Yes ladies and gents, “Team I.S. – The Movie” has started production. Fear for your lives.

Next time I think of something I can talk about, I’m going to video blog it. Just because I like to be on the cutting edge of web trends and technology. …yeah.

 
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Wii Hours of the Night

On 02.14.07, In College, Games, Life, By Philip

I went to Wal-Mart at 12 AM this morning to see if they’d sell me Wii Play (haha, isn’t my title witty? *cough*), but they wouldn’t. The lady was rather nasty about it too. I think she would’ve bitten my head off had I not pulled out a broken Ubuntu Live CD to slash her with. Ah, the power of open source.

Anyway, what I ended up doing instead was waking up this morning and refreshing Best Buy’s website until Wii Play’s “Coming Soon” button changed to “Add to Cart,” and then I bought it online and did In-Store Pickup, and went and got it earlier tonight. :D It’s pretty cool for a $10 game (it comes with a Wiimote, which is $40 by itself, and the game is $50 total, so $10 for the game and $40 for the Wiimote is $50). So now I’ve got all the Wiimotes I want for now until Nintendo releases a rechargeable one or something…and I’ve got a neat new little game. I think I’m done buying games for now. I might look into the new SSX game, but other than that, all I’m waiting for is Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

I studied for about 15 minutes at work yesterday and ended up with a 74 on the Mass Communication exam. I guess that’s okay, but I really wanted to do well this semester. :(

Cartel, Cobra Starship, Boys Like Girls, and apparently Permanent Me as well, I am looking forward to your concert. I hope it is awesome! I’m sure it will be.

Last week I watched Disc 1 of Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (…Rumbling…Hearts *shiver*) and I should be getting Disc 2 in this week, so I guess to further depress myself, I’ll watch that this weekend and during the Mardi Gras break. That show can depress me all it wants to – I love it.

 
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Glad That Didn’t Sneak Up On Me…

On 02.12.07, In College, Games, Technology, By Philip

…*cough.* Apparently I have a Mass Communications exam today at 5 P.M. Good thing I thought it was tomorrow!!11!1111!

I’m kind of pissed off that you can’t upgrade from Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows Vista Ultimate. It’s the first time I’ve ever had a problem with the “there’s 20 different versions of Windows” thing, but now I see one of the reasons why that’s so ridiculous. Chalk another one up to Apple… Anywho, I guess I’ll just wait until I buy another computer to install my copy of Ultimate on, and I’ll just leave my nice Enterprise install alone.

Wii is still awesome, and Hotel Dusk Room 215 is a really neat game – it’s like a book really, except I get to use a stylus to touch things. :O

 
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The (After) Life of the Party

On 02.10.07, In College, Friends, Games, Life, Music, By Philip

Now that Fall Out Boy’s CD is actually out, I can say that this CD has some awesome choruses. <3 Fall Out Boy. Call me emo all you want fools, I’ll be jamming out! :D Pete Wentz is the only emo thing about Fall Out Boy anyway.

Hung out with Keith and Becca and Nick today. It was fun. We played video games and stuff at Keith’s house. Keith made cocktail weenies and meatballs and lemonade and Becca made brownies and it was all very good. Thanks guys. :D We went to Best Buy and stuff and I bought Fall Out Boy’s “Infinity on High,” Hotel Dusk Room 215 for Nintendo DS, and some DS game cases. I hope I wasn’t too depressing to you guys.

My mom owned the crap out of me and my dad in Wii Sports Bowling twice tonight. She doesn’t even like video games but she loves the Wii and the DS. Nintendo really got it right with those systems.

 
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RR & Happiness

On 02.04.07, In Games, Humor, By Philip

I don’t think Keith Carroll is going to like this comic very much, but it made me laugh out loud.

After going to a couple places three days in a row, it finally paid off – I found a Wiimote! :D Thanks Target! :D Now I just have to get Wii Play when it comes out on the 13th and I’ll be all set!

 
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