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Nick is going to die
Today I drove all the way out to the BVM and played DDR on the 4th mix machine there. Nobody was really there except Chris who now works 9-4 weekdays there (he used to work weekends). The next DDR tournament is July 13... which is the weekend Tim was coming to town. (So I have to decide, or figure out some way to do both). I thought it was going to be July 20, but I was wrong. Eh. DDR was fun enough. I mostly just did random stuff... my "usual warmup set", and some doubles, and one show-off set of Kick the Can Maniac, Shooting Star Maniac, and One Two Maniac (because there were some people watching me play). I full-comboed the first two and only missed like 2 on the third. w00t. (Yeah, I know they're no big deal, but it looks impressive to non-DDR players watching the stream of arrows come up the screen. And actually, I was sight-reading One Two, which I had never played on Maniac before.) Really, my happy moment was getting 220/238 perfects on B4U Trick, which, if I enter the next tournament, is my assault song, not something retarded like My Summer Love.
Anyway, after driving there successfully and back, which was a feat in itself for me (for those that don't know, the only DDR machine in Pittsburgh is like 40 miles out of the city), since it was my first long drive by myself, I showered and changed and then went to Fatheads for dinner with the Wednesday zephyr dinner crew. Since most of us won't be available for dinner on Wednesday it worked out. I had a lot of wings and potato chips. I think the amount of food would have usually been too much and made me sick sick sick, except I was ravenous from DDRing with no food. I got to sparkle at everyone. Whee.
After dinner I hung out with Eli for the evening. We rented Moulin Rouge, which neither of us had ever seen. I wanted to rent Ghost World, but C.Video didn't have it, and since I still have 5 free rentals on my membership there (anyone want to help me finish them off this summer? I'll either rent real stuff, or I'm thinking of grabbing a few of their Japanese movies I haven't seen yet for the heck of it) I wanted to rent from them rather than going elsewhere. So we got Moulin Rouge and watched it. I don't think I liked it as much as expected. Everyone told me lots of good things about it, and I guess they were true, but there was something more painful than humourous/entertaining usually about hearing the rock opera songs. The directing was really good, and it was a nice story and stuff, and Nicole Kidman was fantastic (but somehow I couldn't believe Ewan McGregor was really singing - it looked like bad lipsynching a whole lot of the time). Eh. I don't feel like it's a few hours of my life wasted or anything, but I just don't get what the big deal was about it.
After Moulin Rouge, I showed Iron Dragon to Eli, with a 20-minute explanation of it. He might play sometime, but as usual doesn't seem too interested. Shrug. After that we talked about stuff and played a whole bunch of Big Boggle, which usually had rounds ending with him beating me by 1 point but me always finding cooler words.
Now I am computing and soon I will sleep.
Tomorrow IMSO is in Wean 4623 at 7pm again, for people who want to play DDR on a big screen. I'll be showing up late. Whee.
Anyway, after driving there successfully and back, which was a feat in itself for me (for those that don't know, the only DDR machine in Pittsburgh is like 40 miles out of the city), since it was my first long drive by myself, I showered and changed and then went to Fatheads for dinner with the Wednesday zephyr dinner crew. Since most of us won't be available for dinner on Wednesday it worked out. I had a lot of wings and potato chips. I think the amount of food would have usually been too much and made me sick sick sick, except I was ravenous from DDRing with no food. I got to sparkle at everyone. Whee.
After dinner I hung out with Eli for the evening. We rented Moulin Rouge, which neither of us had ever seen. I wanted to rent Ghost World, but C.Video didn't have it, and since I still have 5 free rentals on my membership there (anyone want to help me finish them off this summer? I'll either rent real stuff, or I'm thinking of grabbing a few of their Japanese movies I haven't seen yet for the heck of it) I wanted to rent from them rather than going elsewhere. So we got Moulin Rouge and watched it. I don't think I liked it as much as expected. Everyone told me lots of good things about it, and I guess they were true, but there was something more painful than humourous/entertaining usually about hearing the rock opera songs. The directing was really good, and it was a nice story and stuff, and Nicole Kidman was fantastic (but somehow I couldn't believe Ewan McGregor was really singing - it looked like bad lipsynching a whole lot of the time). Eh. I don't feel like it's a few hours of my life wasted or anything, but I just don't get what the big deal was about it.
After Moulin Rouge, I showed Iron Dragon to Eli, with a 20-minute explanation of it. He might play sometime, but as usual doesn't seem too interested. Shrug. After that we talked about stuff and played a whole bunch of Big Boggle, which usually had rounds ending with him beating me by 1 point but me always finding cooler words.
Now I am computing and soon I will sleep.
Tomorrow IMSO is in Wean 4623 at 7pm again, for people who want to play DDR on a big screen. I'll be showing up late. Whee.
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too bad I work so late tomorrow night or I'd definitely show up....does it run past 9:30-10-ish much? if so, I might consider stopping there. can I bring my boy?
for those that don't know, the only DDR machine in Pittsburgh is like 40 miles out of the city
really? i heard there was one at Dave and Busters in the Waterfront. maybe I'll ask the community if anyone has played it.....
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there is no DDR at the Dave and Buster's... all they have is Pump It Up, which is a DDR-like game but is not as good as DDR.
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BTW, please don't kill me.
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Hrm, I wonder if I can find any other dead horses...
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J and I recently saw "Strictly Ballroom" for the first time. I'd rate that and "Romeo + Juliet" higher than "Moulin Rouge" on the Baz Luhrmann set of movies. I think I like R+J the best of the three, but that's cuz I've seen it quite a few times, while I've seen the other two only once.
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while watching moulin rouge i kept noting that he did a lot of the same directing tricks in it that he did in SB... namely his way of directing dancing/music scenes, and his use of color to represent certain people...
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Hey, don't knock it until you try MSL300 on DDR MAX 2 (yes, My Summer Love heavy on 3x, hohoho; Ponta kun came up with the name :)
Sana270 is lots of fun.