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20, November
Nov. 21st, 2006 12:24 amYeah, okay, so I started playing DDR six and a half years ago and I mostly stopped playing two and a half years ago, but whatever. Tonight I had quite a workout, as I went to the gym and lifted weights, then drove down to ACME Bowl to play Bemani games. The first thing I did was play IIDX, where I passed 20 November on Light 7 and failed it on 7 Keys. :) Played another game of IIDX, then went over to the DDR Extreme machine. Keep in mind that in the last year I've played DDR maybe twice. I only actually remember once, that being when Krispy and I played one game of Supernova hanging out in Shibuya.
So I play 20 November on basic. No problem. I play it on standard. No problem. I play it on Heavy. No problem, but this 14-year-old-or-so girl jumps up on the player 1 side of the machine halfway through and starts bar raping along with the song for whatever unknown reason.
Song ends. I turn to her.
Me: "Don't you kids ASK before jumping on anymore?"
Her: "Uhh.. umm... uh... sorry?"
Me: [rolls eyes]
Her: "What was that song called, anyway?"
Me: [as the machine shows my final set of 20 November, 20 November, and 20 November] "It's CALLED 20 November. Do you know what today's date is? It's the 20th of November."
Man. Kids these days.
Anyway, awesomely enough, the arcade cleared out except for one other guy around 9:45pm -- I hear they kick out the under-21s after 10 -- and so I actually played about five games of DDR, some Extreme, some SuperNova. I can still pass 8-footers, and I thought my knees were just fine, until I tried to climb the stairs when I got home and got a twinge. Bleh. It's not as bad as it used to be, though! I think I could actually probably play DDR again if I was careful about it. I'd like to at least try out all the new songs on Supernova at some point. But, you know what songs I'd rather play again? Strictly Business, Sung Suk, 1.2.3.4.007, Starian, Kick The Can, Wonderland, Young Forever, One Two, etc. BRING BACK K-POP GODDAMNIT!
It's funny for me to remember past 20 Novembers:
2000: I had 2nd Remix and a Japanese PS1 and that was it, having only been playing for a few months at the time. But I played 20 November, goddamnit.
2001: I had a party and had people over to play DDR, but since it was nearly Thanksgiving we only had like 15 people show up, but we played 20 November in both DDR and Beatmania. I remember that Barbara brought Katy and Seth to it, and Bob Rost and Krispy were there too, and I think Marybeth and Marc too. Isaac and Carolee were there because of my reference to the "para para all nerds", and I think Rebecca and Angel were there, and Carl obviously too, and maybe even kw. Hmm.
(side note: finding the old video of me and Rebecca doing our "Let The Beat Hit 'Em" routine at DDRFest 2002 was fucking awesome. At the time I think I thought we sucked but looking back now that was actually pretty good.)
2002: Hung out at IZ with the usual suspects. It was a Wednesday night, and at the time, Farren and I had this "let's go hang out at IZ and go to Krispy Kreme afterward" thing going on every week, which was awesome. So that week we just had a lot more people along with us. I still sort of remember that, Kiefer making these two guys step off the DDR USA machine so we could play 20 November, since at the time, it wasn't on Max 2, and Extreme hadn't come out yet. (Those were the days.)
2003: Went to IZ and got my first ever AAA, which was, ironically, of 20 November. And of course the only person who saw it was Tada, even though I actually went to IZ with Farren (and by then the big Bemani crowd had dwindled due to drama and other crap, plus IZ had started to suck). Also, I remember having that Schmidt #20 t-shirt, but I never saw it after I moved out of the Greenlake house. That and my Tsuboi #7 are probably the most prominent things I lost in that move.
2004: I was back in Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving, and since Bayani had to leave town early, he and Kate and I ended up going to the UC and playing our traditional DDR together on 19 November instead. Having run into rjmccall at the DDR machine, the gang of us adjourned to run our sore legs off playing Capture The Stuff With Flags.
2005: I went to ACME for the first time. At least then, when I got on the IIDX machine, the guys who had been playing saw me picking 20 November and were like "Holy shit! It's the 20th of November!" unlike today. My sinuses acted up, too, which sucked. I guess I should be glad that also didn't happen today. Maybe I am in better shape now.
Wow, things have changed in six years. I still remember that tiny apartment in Pittsburgh, where I had this one room that literally had exactly enough floor space for two DDR pads. Life was so much simpler then.
So I play 20 November on basic. No problem. I play it on standard. No problem. I play it on Heavy. No problem, but this 14-year-old-or-so girl jumps up on the player 1 side of the machine halfway through and starts bar raping along with the song for whatever unknown reason.
Song ends. I turn to her.
Me: "Don't you kids ASK before jumping on anymore?"
Her: "Uhh.. umm... uh... sorry?"
Me: [rolls eyes]
Her: "What was that song called, anyway?"
Me: [as the machine shows my final set of 20 November, 20 November, and 20 November] "It's CALLED 20 November. Do you know what today's date is? It's the 20th of November."
Man. Kids these days.
Anyway, awesomely enough, the arcade cleared out except for one other guy around 9:45pm -- I hear they kick out the under-21s after 10 -- and so I actually played about five games of DDR, some Extreme, some SuperNova. I can still pass 8-footers, and I thought my knees were just fine, until I tried to climb the stairs when I got home and got a twinge. Bleh. It's not as bad as it used to be, though! I think I could actually probably play DDR again if I was careful about it. I'd like to at least try out all the new songs on Supernova at some point. But, you know what songs I'd rather play again? Strictly Business, Sung Suk, 1.2.3.4.007, Starian, Kick The Can, Wonderland, Young Forever, One Two, etc. BRING BACK K-POP GODDAMNIT!
It's funny for me to remember past 20 Novembers:
2000: I had 2nd Remix and a Japanese PS1 and that was it, having only been playing for a few months at the time. But I played 20 November, goddamnit.
2001: I had a party and had people over to play DDR, but since it was nearly Thanksgiving we only had like 15 people show up, but we played 20 November in both DDR and Beatmania. I remember that Barbara brought Katy and Seth to it, and Bob Rost and Krispy were there too, and I think Marybeth and Marc too. Isaac and Carolee were there because of my reference to the "para para all nerds", and I think Rebecca and Angel were there, and Carl obviously too, and maybe even kw. Hmm.
(side note: finding the old video of me and Rebecca doing our "Let The Beat Hit 'Em" routine at DDRFest 2002 was fucking awesome. At the time I think I thought we sucked but looking back now that was actually pretty good.)
2002: Hung out at IZ with the usual suspects. It was a Wednesday night, and at the time, Farren and I had this "let's go hang out at IZ and go to Krispy Kreme afterward" thing going on every week, which was awesome. So that week we just had a lot more people along with us. I still sort of remember that, Kiefer making these two guys step off the DDR USA machine so we could play 20 November, since at the time, it wasn't on Max 2, and Extreme hadn't come out yet. (Those were the days.)
2003: Went to IZ and got my first ever AAA, which was, ironically, of 20 November. And of course the only person who saw it was Tada, even though I actually went to IZ with Farren (and by then the big Bemani crowd had dwindled due to drama and other crap, plus IZ had started to suck). Also, I remember having that Schmidt #20 t-shirt, but I never saw it after I moved out of the Greenlake house. That and my Tsuboi #7 are probably the most prominent things I lost in that move.
2004: I was back in Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving, and since Bayani had to leave town early, he and Kate and I ended up going to the UC and playing our traditional DDR together on 19 November instead. Having run into rjmccall at the DDR machine, the gang of us adjourned to run our sore legs off playing Capture The Stuff With Flags.
2005: I went to ACME for the first time. At least then, when I got on the IIDX machine, the guys who had been playing saw me picking 20 November and were like "Holy shit! It's the 20th of November!" unlike today. My sinuses acted up, too, which sucked. I guess I should be glad that also didn't happen today. Maybe I am in better shape now.
Wow, things have changed in six years. I still remember that tiny apartment in Pittsburgh, where I had this one room that literally had exactly enough floor space for two DDR pads. Life was so much simpler then.
