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vovatI have three different items on the agenda this evening:
1. There was a dream I had on Friday night that was kind of like a movie or something, and I think I was playing a part in it. Both a truck and a sign at an intersection had my name on them, and I was in a parked car when another car crashed behind me. For some reason, I had to drive the car with the people from the crashed car in it. Then we were talking about someone (possibly me, but maybe not) having to learn Swahili, but for some reason this person had to learn Chinese first. So we started looking for an embassy or something, and ended up at a dinner party.
2. Does anyone know of any good DS games for someone who's not so great with the eye-hand coordination stuff? I especially like RPG's, but I might be willing to consider some other stuff. Final Fantasy III is a given, as is Animal Crossing (I gave a copy to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje for Christmas, and we'd be able to visit each other's towns and stuff). I've seen other RPG-type games mentioned occasionally, but I don't know whether any of them are any good, so I'd appreciate any opinions you might have. Actually, when looking through lists of games on Amazon, so many of them are based on movies and TV shows. I've talked about that kind of game before, and how they can seriously vary in quality, but the market really does seem over-saturated with them. I guess it makes sense, though, since it's a lot easier to crank out some of those than to have to come up with original stories and characters. My favorite, though, is when you get games that are trying to ride a movie or show's popularity without really being associated with it. Like, of course there's an official video game for Bee Movie, but there's also another bee-related game that came out around the same time.
3. I've listened to both Michael Showalter's and Michael Ian Black's albums. Before listening to them, I asked Beth what she thought of them. She said she thought Black's was more consistently funny, but Showalter had some even funnier moments interspersed with more boring stuff. I think a lot of it comes down to how Black is a more traditional comedian, at least as far as format goes. I mean, it's not TOTALLY traditional, since it's not all set-ups and punchlines, but it's more traditional than Showalter's. His act often relies more on delivery, repetition, and just plain weirdness (the latter probably best exemplified by the "employees must wash hands"/poop jangling bit, which I saw him do live, and which is included as a bonus feature on the CD). His best bits include the one about how Starbucks used to sell Akeelah and the Bee but no other movies, the Restless Leg Syndrome one, and his riffing on someone in the audience who apparently brought cats to the show. Unlike Showalter's album, which might be termed episodic, Black's flowed quite easily from one bit to the next. I'd heard most of his material at the two shows I attended, and I'm a little disappointed that his bit on college didn't include the comment about how fraternities and sororities are an extension of high school (which some woman near me booed at the show last year). Comedy albums don't really hold up to repeat listens as well as music albums, so I doubt these two will be in frequent rotation for me, but they're still a lot of fun.
1. There was a dream I had on Friday night that was kind of like a movie or something, and I think I was playing a part in it. Both a truck and a sign at an intersection had my name on them, and I was in a parked car when another car crashed behind me. For some reason, I had to drive the car with the people from the crashed car in it. Then we were talking about someone (possibly me, but maybe not) having to learn Swahili, but for some reason this person had to learn Chinese first. So we started looking for an embassy or something, and ended up at a dinner party.
2. Does anyone know of any good DS games for someone who's not so great with the eye-hand coordination stuff? I especially like RPG's, but I might be willing to consider some other stuff. Final Fantasy III is a given, as is Animal Crossing (I gave a copy to
bethje for Christmas, and we'd be able to visit each other's towns and stuff). I've seen other RPG-type games mentioned occasionally, but I don't know whether any of them are any good, so I'd appreciate any opinions you might have. Actually, when looking through lists of games on Amazon, so many of them are based on movies and TV shows. I've talked about that kind of game before, and how they can seriously vary in quality, but the market really does seem over-saturated with them. I guess it makes sense, though, since it's a lot easier to crank out some of those than to have to come up with original stories and characters. My favorite, though, is when you get games that are trying to ride a movie or show's popularity without really being associated with it. Like, of course there's an official video game for Bee Movie, but there's also another bee-related game that came out around the same time.3. I've listened to both Michael Showalter's and Michael Ian Black's albums. Before listening to them, I asked Beth what she thought of them. She said she thought Black's was more consistently funny, but Showalter had some even funnier moments interspersed with more boring stuff. I think a lot of it comes down to how Black is a more traditional comedian, at least as far as format goes. I mean, it's not TOTALLY traditional, since it's not all set-ups and punchlines, but it's more traditional than Showalter's. His act often relies more on delivery, repetition, and just plain weirdness (the latter probably best exemplified by the "employees must wash hands"/poop jangling bit, which I saw him do live, and which is included as a bonus feature on the CD). His best bits include the one about how Starbucks used to sell Akeelah and the Bee but no other movies, the Restless Leg Syndrome one, and his riffing on someone in the audience who apparently brought cats to the show. Unlike Showalter's album, which might be termed episodic, Black's flowed quite easily from one bit to the next. I'd heard most of his material at the two shows I attended, and I'm a little disappointed that his bit on college didn't include the comment about how fraternities and sororities are an extension of high school (which some woman near me booed at the show last year). Comedy albums don't really hold up to repeat listens as well as music albums, so I doubt these two will be in frequent rotation for me, but they're still a lot of fun.
