Well... not exactly. But I took one big giant leap for adult hood, I sold my last console. I sold the gamecube along with three games (Metroid Prime 1&2 and Madden 2002) along with all the paraphenial. Though they wouldn't take the controller copper chewed up, cheap skates.
For a whole host of reasons I decided to ditch the cube. Money is tight is the big one, didn't play it anymore was another big one, and I figure with it being decomissioned and replaced with the WII their won't be too many good games out for it anytime soon.
I also sold my beatles greatest hits 1 and 2, I like the beatles, think they're all that people say they are, but I just was never in the mood for them. Plus greatest hits albums in general are good, but in a lot of ways the songs are taken out of context of their specific albums. I still have Sgt Peppers as that's the best Beatles cd ever and worth keeping. Sold a few other cds, friends dvds we had, Hotel Rwanda (too depressing to keep). Also all our VHS which we got 5 bucks in store credit.
I did take some of the money I had and got two cds that I couldn't pass up. Two david gray cds A Century Ends and Life In Slow Motion. I'm a pretty big David Gray fan and have gotten into his old stuff finally. It amazes me this guy was making this amazing music back in 93 when I was listening to crap like green day and Nirvana. I mean those two bands are good in their own respects but they have more style than David Gray, the man has pretty much no style. He's been compared to Dylan so many times that its a bit old but he's just himself and his music definately conveys that. Nirvana and Greenday seem to convey their generations more or perhaps a specific world view, which is not a bad thing, but it can be if you don't feel like you fit into their world view.
So anyway, I've listened to Century Ends a bit on the way home and its pretty good old simple stuff. A guy on my hall back in college heard me listeing to White Ladder and told me if to get into his older stuff, here I am 6 years later finally taking his advise. This CD is pretty amazing considering it being made in 93 and putting that into the context of what else was classified as music back then. And its his first CD, that I know of, and is really strong. Flesh was great too, a little short, but a good sophmore album. I got Century ends for only 6 bucks, good deal.
Life In Slow Motion I've only heard a few of the singles off of it. I've read about it a lot and listened to the 30 second previews on itunes and it was on my list of cds to buy and since I got it for 9 bucks I'm pretty happy. I'll definately be listening to these tomorrow at work as I try to pass the time by.
I was going to get a game for the DS, my only means of video gaming now. I picked up Metoes but for 25 bucks it seemed a bit steep so i put it back down. Its like tetris only different. But Crabbman is coming up this weekend and he's getting a DS and we're going to swap games. He'll take Final Fantasy 4 and Metroid Hunters (which are technically his anyway) and I'll borrow Castlevania. So I'll still have a game to play.
That was another thing I sold Street Fighter and Metroid so technically I don't own a game for my DS. I'll have to remedy that sometime. I want to get some of the brain teaser games.
Lost time....
***an hour passes***
man lost was good.
Posted by holtonian at October 4, 2006 09:00 PM | TrackBack