08.14.06

And She Sings, Too

Posted in Anime, Gaming at 12:49 pm

So, Utada Hikaru is teh l33t at Tetris. Wow.

Some other odd things I noticed about her– she was born in the US (so I probably have her name backwards– meh, culture clash), wrote her first songs in English, and damn, “Kremlin Dusk” is a really good song (except for the ending– should have faded out).

Actually, the rest of that album (Exodus) is kinda meh, really. “Dusk” and “The Workout” are probably the two best tracks. I really wish her cover of “With Or Without You” had seen an official US release, and not just on the Japanese MTV Unplugged, but… yeah.

Aaaaanyway. Tonight I’ll be watching the last of Ah! My Goddess, finally. It seems like the series has been mocking me since Tekkoshocon; it’s been hard for me to find, and when I do find it I’m broke or between paychecks. Luckily I managed to grab the last volume on my way back from Pittsburgh, so there’s that.

About Pittsburgh, actually. I went down there to do three things, primarily: visit Pez, play obscure German board games, and get more than thirty seconds’ worth of experience with DDR SuperNOVA. Depending on how you view life, it’s possible that one of these is reprehensible but more than made up for by the other two– which one is up to you and varies from person to person, but I honestly don’t care which one since I don’t share that viewpoint. I can say with absolute certainty that all three missions were accomplished. The arrows were plentiful, the board games sufficient in their obscurity and Germanity, and the visiting full of quality.

A quick note about SuperNOVA: I have never been more humbled by a “new” DDR mix than I was yesterday; however I realize now that it’s mostly to do with some tweaks the game did to the step timing, in addition to a fair amount of exhaustion. So I’m sure we could have done all those really weird new songs I picked, under optimal circumstances, but the circumstances were not optimal.

I’m having a little trouble staying focused, here, folks, so I’m going to cut this short. Talk to you all later.

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