Something to Remember

Never buy from the EA Store again.

NOA on the other hand, keeps fueling my love of everything Link.

I got my posters today that I spent 330 of our Nintendo coins on, and they are beautiful.

I really need to organise my room...I'm not sure where I should be hanging things and putting things into place.

Ugh.

Currently: Wondering how best to tackle the treat boxes this year.

O.M.G.

I am so excited right now!!!!!

A new The Legend of Zelda game at some point this year!



Ooooo, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks...

Could it just be a gross misuse of the DS? I don't really care!

I'm happy to see that KuSeph (or is it KuSep or KSep? I can't keep track) has returned, and with a conductor's hat! He's so cute!

Does this mean I should wait to see if they release a bundle for the DSi?

Hmmm...

Currently listening to: "Penny Lane" by The Beatles.

Cleaning and Doin' Stuff II

The D. Gray-Man and Soul Eater shelf has been sorted out for now, until more volumes of the D. Gray-Man manga come out and more Soul Eater figures are acquired.

D. Gray-Man



Allens All Around!





Black Star



Death The Kid



Black Star's No. 1! So he and D the K cover up the rivals



Soul Eater Evans!



And uh, Hottie Adult Link, where did you come from?



Oh, the capsule in the background, you say?

Currently listening to: "Space Junk Galaxy" by Koji Kondo and Mahito Yokota, from the Super Mario Galaxy Original Soundtrack. Ooo, gotta remember to put this on my end of year review list as well.

70 hours + and Counting

I've been meaning to post on this for a while but I figured I'd finish LofZ first before I said anything.

Nintendo Wii is goo'd times.

I feel sorry for all the losers who should have pre-ordered. Even that MC, even though that was awesome that you stayed outside all morning in front of Nintendo World to get yours.

When it came to the Wii, I did not mess around. It was pre-ordered on the first day reservations were being taken and picked it up the Sunday after I got back from London & Scotland. I feared for my life when all those kids were staring at me all hateful like as I walked out of Nintendo World but ah, the smirking.

I know, I'm evil.

The HOchieS and friends have had fun with the Wii thus far. We played many hilarious nights of Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (I cannot wait for Beetchie to come around tomorrow so I can hand her ass to her in Paper Sumo Wrestling. Har Har except I best shut up before she lays the two-toed smack down on me), Wii Sports (especially that damned boxing) and I've logged about 70 hours on The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess.

I finished it and though it was a good game, I felt it wasn't as fantastic as they made it out to be. I did, however, have some goo'd time moments with Midna, Wolf Link and my favourite Archery Take Downs and the really scary moments that gave me night terrors when those evils dropped from the sky.

Bughie J. tells me I did not love the game as much because I'm now a Zelda expert as I've played too many in that series. I suppose that's partially true... Still, it was good. You know how I love my Hottie Adult Link. And how can you not? Let us look upon him together:



Ah, goo' looking, even as a wolf.

One last message to Link: you know, if you held on to the Master Sword, bullsheet would stop happening to you, right?

So, yes, it's cool walking by Nintendo World most mornings and seeing peeps lined up for their systems but like HOchie 1 says every time - "Losers, you should have pre-ordered."

That's right, a winner is us.

Or 2's Review: Part I - The Awesome Times

In pictures:

Here we have poorly scanned tickets to the good times: U2, Foo Fighters, Weezer & Audioslave.

And here from that time I was 48th Street & 5th Avenue Ho.

I will thank you for not laughing at me like Miyamoto san did.
Isn't Link the cutest?





And to the right - the top of his head where the signing was done. So can anyone tell me? Does it say "Shigeru Miyamoto" or does it say "Idiot Child"?
Note: Ignore the hand and ugly fingernails.

And now for some other things worth mentioning in the Month of October:

1. Keane (opening act for U2)- You keep rocking out to music that is virtually impossible to rock out to, little keyboardist!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Hot Hot Heat (opening act for Weezer & Foo Fighters) - Enjoyable enough for me to buy 3 songs from your band off Itunes and trying to fanagle your albums for a friend.

Blegh, Egleh

I just spent an hour filling up a shopping cart at a certain online store in preparation for a certain costume for Halloween and presents for a friend for Christmas. I got to the end of all only to realize Halloween is only 6 business days away. With UPS ground (you know, the cheapest of all options) that'd be 5-10 business days... Lame. So I tried to check my options for priority mail and they wouldn't give me a total right now. Looks like I'll be making a trip downtown on Monday, if not sooner. Haha, yes. After all that fuss, you'd think I was screwed but no. I can always make the trip downtown to the store. I can still be screwed, mind you. What if they don't have the products I need?

The downtown store is not Chinatown therefore the Pai Mei costume is out. I will not be making a Halloween tree this year, hanging candy bags off it, sitting near the tree and distributing one knock to the heads of children who get greedy and try to take more than one bag of candy. Sorry to disappoint all who got wind of my Pai Mei idea but not really, I didn't go around telling people and getting them excited. Thank you other HOchie.

Most days during the week i.e. for those days when the HOchies have food to take to work, a comment for the day is marked on the food container with the HOchies name and date then put into the fridge. Each comment relates to whatever we have going on that day. And from now on, this blog will contain the luncch comment for the day so that we may remember the gOOd times. Or ponder why we wrote that to begin with...

As for the title of this entry - I'm off to glide from boko baba to boko baba, jump INto some trees, cut down some bushes (and collect the rupees within because you know, those monsters totally lose money under the bushes all the frickin' time. I have to say though, they're quite poor. 1 rupee, pssssshhhhh), fall off ledges and drown in the river. All because I needed to take a nap.

Currently playing: "Fillip" by MUSE
Luncch Comment for the day: "Where is the Boss Key?"
Phrase for the day: "I know who did it...it was Crabpeople." Indeed. Indeed...

Let's Go Back...To The Before Time

As in September 24th, 2005. Don't worry, it's not that far back. I'd like to recall some good times that happened the week leading up to October. Seeing Corpse Bride with my friend Beetchie. The movie itself was alright. It wasn't of the "Nightmare Before Christmas" variety/quality storywise but animation wise, well...We don't expect anything but greatness.

Good times, I believe I said. I'm getting to that right now. Beetchie and I went to St. Mark's right after the movie. We strolled over there from Union Square and found ourselves in the most hideous, boring street fair. We talked about her three week adventure in Europe this past August. The bottomline: Spain is full of thieves. Germany is full of fleas.

Then we milled around the Japanese grocery trying to decide to buy one item neither of us had tried. There were lots and we felt a little overwhelmed but finally we agreed on a strawberry type pancake thing. It was decent but meh, I think we've had better.

Then we stormed Toy Tokyo. And I will storm it again sometime soon, mark my words! We had fun and we bought tons of Gloomy Bear things (hence the picture at the beginning of this post)...Postcards and toys. I love the dead white boy. I know it's wrong. I know. I'm sorry. Truly.
We were having a hard time finding Luigi paraphernalia for Beetchie to have signed by the man himself - Shigeru Miyamoto san. For those of you who don't know and I'm sure there are many though it's not right. He is the creator of such legendary Nintendo games as...Wait for it. The Legend of Zelda (ooooo....ahhh), Mario and Donkey Kong. To put it this way: he's often described as the spielberg of video games.

The signing was on the day after and Beetchie and I had every intention of going early on the day of the signing to line up. However, after overhearing our conversation about looking for Luigi, a patron of Toy Tokyo approached us and said, "oh, you guys are going to the signing by Miyamoto tomorrow, right? You should probably go soon. My friends are already lining up there." What? No...

So with this in mind we traipsed some more in St. Mark's on a hunt for Luigi (Toy Tokyo can give us Yoshi and even stinkin' Toad but not Luigi...Poor thing, he gets no respect). We came up zilch. I was sorely disappointed to see that a mario pocketgame which I rocked as a kid back in Trinidad (and no longer had in my possession) was being sold in this vintage videogame shop for 129 dollars.

We then went to Kenka - this funky Japanese restaurant in St. Mark's which Beetchie fondly refers to as "the one with the raccoon with the big balls and red glowing eyes out front". It was quite good. Next victim...uhh, friend who comes around, they're coming with.
Dinner was followed by cream puffs are too good for me to talk about right now because it makes me sad that I don't have one to stuff into my mouth right now...
After the ...Dessert...Yes, dessert...We made our way to midtown to scope the situation with the Nintendo store. When we got there at 8.30 pm - like the guy said, people were waiting. People had been waiting from as early as 7 a.m. Freaks.

So what do we do? We became freaks too and camped out! Securing spots 46 and 47 in line was good times and thank goodness we didn't give it up considering when we left after the signing over 1,000 people were waiting to see the Man and he was supposed to do only 200 signings. So yes, I became a 48th & 5th Avenue Ho. Sleeping (using the term lightly because at most I got only 30 minutes of sleep before an idiot whose name was ironically Isaiah started preaching about the Zelda series) on the street next to my good friend and some random kid from NJ.

With no Luigi to have signed, Beetchie opted for the only worthy thing at the stupid Nintendo store - a 1UP Mushroom t-shirt. I bought a copy of "The Wind Waker" as backup. But thanks to the other awesome HOchie - my little figure of Link was brought to me the next morning. I happily went with him to the signing. Fiddling in front of the Man who was wondering what the hell I was going to give him to sign since I had nothing in my hand and finally fishing little Kujaseph (that's a gross misuse of a name to give Link, I know) out of my pocket to have signed. I gingerly put him on the table in front of Miyamoto san and Link unceremoniously decided to throw himself down. Miyamoto balanced him and started signing away but could not give me his English/Japanese signature. Instead I got it in Japanese and I was confused as to why the Man was drawing on Link's little green hat. Oh, and I was laughed at when I brought Link out of my pocket...either because a/ Miyamoto thought I was cute or b/Miyamoto thought me an idiot. I suspected the latter so I had to research the internet to ensure he actually signed his name and not 'To Idiot" on it.

After being on the street and dirty for so long, Beetchie and I wandered angrily (thanks to the messed up subway runnings and that thanks to the damned yankees game and ha, they're not in the w series anyway...muwahahaha) over to her Aunt's sushi restaurant for some good time lunch. Unfortunately I was not very hungry so I could only manage one roll but it involved soft shelled crab and eel. What was really good was that lychee iced tea. Mmmmmm.
Ok, so finally after being on the street and dirty and in a sushi restaurant and dirty we parted ways and I went home. Took a shower. Came out smelling like 5th Avenue as opposed to 48th & 5th. Went to bed soon after...went to work the day after. Was persecuted for my insanity. Came home. Got incredibly ill. Stayed home for two days due to the cold I mostly likely got from the random NJ kid who sat next to me on the street. Went back to work...still ill but had no more days to spare. But it was still worth it!

October 1st: It's Saturday!!!! And I was taken to dinner by the family and it was awesome. Ah, good times...good times.

Goo'day.

Music currently playing: "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" by The Cast of Avenue Q.