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My Big Dumb Day


On 04/25/2015 at 03:04 PM by KnightDriver

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It's another big dumb day picking up new media to consume. I also hit up the fast food chains: Wendy's for a chicken sandwich and McD's for a hot tea and Miis via Spot Pass. Soon I'll hit up a coffee shop and get my hour of reading done before work. Right now though, I'll share with you all my music and game finds in the wilds of suburbia. See picture below.

                     swag425

I found one of the two albums I needed for my 1970 Metal playlist, Black Sabbath's Paranoid. The other one, that I didn't find, was CSNY's Deja Vu which had a hard rock tag on wiki probably because of a song or two with Neil Young's distorted guitar. I think that's the album with the song "Woodstock" on it. It has the best guitar solo Young ever did, in my opinion.

Along the way, I spotted some other stuff I wanted to listen to. Shown is a Little Feat box set. I'm interested in their first few albums with Mothers of Invention bassist Roy Estrada, but I'll give a listen to all their 70s albums too. In that stack, not shown, is: Ry Cooder Live in San Francisco (2013), the Cure's Disintegration and ELP's Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival '72. 

In the stack with Black Sabbath is: Captain Beefheart's - Safe as Milk (their first in '67), Black Country Communion's Live Over Europe (members: guitar wizard Joe Bonamassa, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes - played with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath; drummer, Jason Bonham - son of late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham - ; and keyboardist Derek Sherinian - of Dream Theater fame) and CCR's - Willy and the Poor Boys (their fourth album).

Now to the meat of the matter, the games! At Gamestop I got Mystery Dungeon Shiren The Wanderer for DS for $2 on Jeremy Parish's recomendation (he's at USgamer.net and Retronauts.com). Then this big dumb fighting game Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage for $6. I aspire to the big dumb life that is Kenshiro's. I just need to become a punching machine and find a woman with the sex appeal and attitude of a UFC fighter.

And speaking of women, the saleswoman at Gamestop was the perfect employee. She didn't upsell the heck out of me (insurance on a DVD? Are you kidding?!) and made sure my Fist of the North Star had the booklet in it. I'd kiss her if that wasn't totally inappropriate. Unless, of course, she knew I was KnightDriver, and then she'd be totally ok with it. . . I'll answer myself: "dream on lover boy!"

And that was my day. Time to get some coffee and read my Black Science graphic novels. Good times. 


 

Comments

transmet2033

04/25/2015 at 06:42 PM

I remember somebody asking about the scratch warranty on a DS game.  Do I want it?  What the heck do I need that for?

KnightDriver

04/27/2015 at 01:04 AM

OMG. That is even more crazy than disc insurance. GS has gotten so full of themselves and overly professional. I like a game store with some personality, not a slick operation working you over with every kind of money grab.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

04/25/2015 at 07:34 PM

Damn if only she knew you are Knightdriver!

KnightDriver

04/27/2015 at 01:10 AM

I'm getting bolder. More time in the gym will help with that. Can't unage myself though. Maybe hair dye? You can only do so much. Still, love will find a way. Or I will. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

04/27/2015 at 02:28 AM

that's the spirit!

daftman

04/26/2015 at 08:00 AM

Shiren for $2 is a great deal for the amount of game there. Personally, I think that game would frustrate me too much Undecided I need more of a definite sense of progress.

KnightDriver

04/27/2015 at 01:30 AM

I think it will frustrate me too, but what the heck. I played Wizardry last year like a rogue-like. I played until my party got killed and then stopped; no turning the system off quickly to avoid losing the party and no rescues. It was a challenge to see how far I could get. 

Kathrine Theidy Staff Alumnus

04/27/2015 at 04:50 PM

Nice finds. I picked up a complete copy of Shiren for $2 a while back, but I didn't really play the game as I ended up playing something else I bought with it. It's probably also too hardcore for me, but I should still probably give it a shot sometime...

KnightDriver

04/28/2015 at 01:56 AM

Good for you it was complete. Mine's just a loose cart. Gamestop doesn't have cases for their DS games anymore. 

Alex-C25

04/28/2015 at 11:21 AM

Since the DS games are becoming more and more loose from their boxes as time goes, maybe I should look for a DS cartridge bag or something.

KnightDriver

04/28/2015 at 03:53 PM

I got one with my last Club Nintendo reward points. 3 to 6 months though for delivery. Maybe I'll get it during the summer.

mothman

04/28/2015 at 11:27 AM

Cool purchases but Beefheart is a He not a They. :)

KnightDriver

04/28/2015 at 04:01 PM

Possessive. The apostraphe is almost invisible there in the text. I just watched a music video of something off Trout Mask Replica from 1970 or thereabouts. What an interesting band to watch, and what presence and timing and voice Don van Vliet has!

NSonic79

05/01/2015 at 02:41 PM

next time try this line..

"The game has the booklet? If you weren't a gamestop employee I'd kiss you!"

*brief pause*

"oh what the heck, come over here!"

60% of the time it works everytime....

KnightDriver

05/02/2015 at 03:11 AM

I only left a creepy message on the feedback web site. Next time I go in there, I'll give an even more creepy knowing smile. . . Ok. I'm lying. I'm not a creep.

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