Funny

Now for another nerd rant by Or 2.

I do not know if I said this before but "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads is Zarnyx's theme song in Rock Band 2.

Being the lead singer for The Oxtails (yes, it's really supposed to be Sariel, I know), and on solo tour with Zarnyx means it is not often I put him on any other instrument.

This weekend with Sexual Chocolate (MC is delusional and quite skeevy with his 'well-placed' shark - ::shudder::) and Sports Bra (hilarious!) filling in as guest artists in Zarnyx's band, I relegated Zarnyx to guitarist.

I would just like to say that

1. Zarnyx looks incredibly great holding a guitar.

2. I'm debating whether or not to spend a good chunk of my $85,000 on a really expensive guitar for him (MC, I did not steal your gig money. I maintain that I have been touring solo for quite the while and I am rich for my awesomeness - hahahaha. Beetchie? Don't judge me and don't hate because I gots cash for hideous goat head guitars)

3. I am convinced that the Rock Band characters have 'personalities' and that each one has a song they go extra nuts on. I discovered that not only does Zarnyx go insane when singing "Psycho Killer" but he goes crazy while on guitar on that song too. It's seriously funny and seriously scary at the same time.

We're still trying to figure out what G.'s theme song is. I hope it's a Maiden song. That just seems right.

Currently: burnt out from September and not even half the month has gone by yet. Yeesh. I'd say it's my own fault but that wouldn't really be true, would it?

Sore Throat, Teary Eyes

An apology to Frass is in order.

H1 made plans for me without my consent, and Beetchie and I went to see Up today.

Save yourself the trauma, Frass. I cried through the entire thing! Finding Nemo's got nothing on this!

It was really good though. I enjoyed it a lot unlike last year's Wall.E. Sorry H1, I just didn't love that one too much.

Beetchie and I had a good weekend filled with good eats including frozen treats:



A Pink Cloud from the Treat Station.



I was told it's a strawberry soda ice-cream float. I liked it much more than Beetchie's Coke Float.



We also had cold stone creamery - banana caramel and some sort of nuts. I think that's the first time I actually enjoyed ice-cream from that place.



not pictured - curried duck, dahl, rice, parotha and again with the chocolate sheet cake.

We also got in a fair amount of Rock Band.

The Oxtails pulled many smooth moves as per usual including having a theme of "No Clothes Look" for many of our performances in Amsterdam. What can we say? Sariel and G. are hot biatches who deserve to show their tattoos of gold fish and cats!

I probably pulled too awesome a move on the very last song played though. Belting out "Master Exploder" to save Beetchie really did its number on me. While I can usually sing this (on a good day), singing it about 2.5 times this weekend plus many other vocal streneous songs (curse you, Bruce Dickinson!) and not getting enough sleep from our work misadventure on Friday of coming home at 4 AM only to sleep for an hour to be back at work 3 hours later really effed me over this weekend.

My throat hurts.

But we had fun times, Beetchie. Fun times.

Oo! Band Manager played bass too! I was quite happy that H1 picked up the guitar today.

Currently listening to: "Never Could Have Been Worse" by Tsuneo Imahori, from the Trigun the 1st Donut Original Soundtrack.

Merry Christmas, Beetchie.

She came and she looks cute. Her hair looks very stylin', as do her boots and I'm liking her bass even though I think the colour could have been a little bit better.
She's grainy like Zarnyx but as we've discussed, that's how they're made.

Rants of the Nerd Variety

Zarnyx is awesome.

I know I say it a lot but it's true, I love him best out of all my characters.

But I guess his 'suave' personailty is suited best to a microphone if he were to be a Rock Band character, and since that's the instrument I use in the Rock Band franchise, I made him a singer too, as I've noted before.

Last week Saturday I ordered a custom made action figure of him. Obviously, I could not create him in game exactly as I've drawn him but I was happy with what I did.

I received no notification of shipment but he showed up today at the house without warning, which not surprisingly, is much like my character would do.

I was quite worried that they got it to me so quickly and with good reason.

Even though Harmonix botched my figure by giving him shades instead of glasses, no barbed wire devil wristlets like I wanted, he's 'grainy' and his mouth is open more than I draw him to be (well, he is a singer in the game after all, I guess), I still love him.








Here's how he's really supposed to look in game, minus the umm...mean mouth. Heh.



Awww. Cutie.

Currently listening to: "Spaceman" by The Killers. I didn't think I'd like much by them this much since my Killers O.D. back when their first album came out but I'm really loving this ridiculous song, probably because I am determined to have Zarnyx master it in Rock Band 2. Oh, I can't wait to have another go at it. It was hard the first time when I never heard it before.

Oh yeah

Did you people know that 2009 is the Year of the Ox?!

Oh yeah, the Oxtails are going to rock it next year.

It's our year after all.

Obsession(s) of the Week(s): 11/10/08 - 12/15/08

Dragon Quest IV



Being a Weapons' Dealer?



That's awesome! For a while I played as a Merchant named Taloon (I think that's what it was) and who knew being on the side of the selling could be so much fun? Well, we all know how I hate to spend my hard-earned, monster dropped monies - so selling weapons to louts really worked out for me.

Soul Eater



With Professor Franken Stein. I love how cute he is - got white hair, glasses, has a great voice actor, a sense of humour, bad-assed, a giant screw in his head...



...and is damned freaking insane.



Everything can be dissected. Self included.

Justin Law



Another great character from Soul Eater, which has proven to become quite a shock fest, action-filled, great art and edgey anime. Justin's a sweetie - A priest who travels around the world with a sense of happiness to kill. Did he bring enough coffins? And what Japanese Rap/Rock track are we listening to?

Hidan



Hidan is indeed that bastard that killed Asuma. And while I only stopped crying last week, a month after the death, I actually like that foul-mouthed Akatsuki member. "Oye! Fuck you, Kakuzu! Whose side are you on?" Yeah. Fuck me because I don't know whose side I'm on either - Akatsuki or Konoha.



Hidan and his crazy rituals. He may hate the lengthy rituals himself, but they're part of his faith and he has to follow through. He's particulary strict (and extremely fond) of the part about leaving no target alive.

Rock Band 2



I swear, I don't know over half the songs in RB2 but it's been an even more fun experience even though the changes were slight in-game. I do miss my square on my chest for my girl which everyone seems to hate, but I created my love Zarnyx. He's not perfectly Zarnyx but he works for me. I'm sure you A.s like H1 will hate him too. Other than that, RB2 is fun times that I can't wait to share with Beetchie!

Currently listening to: "Wake Up Dead Man" by U2.

Sons Is Here!

And she already managed to sully my ears by dirtying up "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" by The Offspring.

All I'll need now is for MC to create his character Sexual Chocolate again with the new and improved 'fro that has a 'fro comb in it and I'll have the entire Rock Band 2 cringe experience!

::shudder::

Burn!

It was an insult to Paramore and Hot Topic.

I was playing Rock Band 2 last night and chose some song in Austin TX. I think it was Sonic Youth but I'm not sure. Whatever it was, it was totally cool rock song by a considered to be cool rock band.

The joker creators at Rock Band tossed Zarnyx a question.

Essentially I was asked, "Hot Topic wants to sponsor your gig but wants you to sing Paramore's 'That's What You Get' instead. You'll get lots of cash for it. Do you want to switch songs?"

Well, that certainly sounded fishy - Hot Topic and Paramore in one sentence? Yeah. I mean, it sounds about right but suspect at best.

Anyone who knows Paramore is probably an emo I don't want to deal with. Probably. The lead singer surely is an annoying little emo girl but I digress.

Anyone who knows Hot Topic knows that it was slightly cool when it was unknown all the years when. And then emo happened and Hot Topic thought they should go in the direction of the Emo. You can't really blame them because Emo kids are usually privileged children who have their parents money (and lots of it), self-made depression, and less than stellar taste in music.

Beetchie, shut up! I am not Emo! And I'm not whining, that was a forceful "Shut Your Ass" kind of Shut Up, I can assure you.

I digress again.

So, lured by curiosity and extra money to get more piercings (not that I would spend money without your approval, Band Manager H1), I went ahead and sold out.

After I finished the gig, Rock Band made sure to drive it hard that I had Sold Out in case I was Emo and didn't realise that having Hot Topic sponsor me and singing Paramore is anything but the coolest thing since crying.



You see that, right?

I LOST 30,000 fans.

Ahahaha. That was true greatness. I only got $250 too. Tch. Cheap bastards.

To the assholes who are paying attention to the fact that I got five stars on Paramore, it's just that like that time with that ass song by Fall Out Boy, I had to learn the damned song in order not to fail and I'd be damned if I let any of those assholes make me a fail a song.

Anyway.

They're grainy but here are some pictures of my beloved Zarnyx in Rock Band 2 form. I'll take better pictures at some point.





He is of course, wearing an awesome red jacket that he was born with, Band Manager H1 and not bought without consulting you first.

Currently listening to: "Get Clean" by Anarchy Club. I finally found this song. I didn't unlock it yet in Rock Band 2 but I always hear it at the start up load screen and I love the music. The lyrics leave much to be desired but I can just ignore them.