Apparently I have retreated to my days of being 18 again. Not that it's really all that exciting, but I have been reading and playing video games non-stop for the better part of a week. My brother returned home for a few days before moving to Chicago for 6 months, and he left his copy of Gears of War 2. To which I reply, "Hells Yes."
The game play isn't that great, but the story is cool and graphics are undeniably solid. And I have yet to play another video game where you take a chainsaw gun and slice an alien from groin to mouth. I wish it was real life, because then those pricks from The Hills wouldn't stand a chance.
It's games like this that make me really happy I splurged nearly $500 for an XBox 360 a few years ago. However, I have not purchased a new game in over a year, which makes me sad on my investment. For the past few months, it has been a very expensive and high-tech DVD player. But I vow to make that all change. I am going to buy more games and probably soon. I'm one of those who treats games much like movies. I hear about them, scout them, read reviews of them, and then buy the good ones. Hopefully the studios will come through on the new Batman game and Bioshock 2.
With the reading part I went to the SP public library and got an official library card. I know that is so 1998. I checked out Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame. I'm about half way through and I'm pretty sure I have the twist figured out. For a mystery story it's pretty cool and has a lot of the elements I enjoy reading about. Plus, the movie comes out in a few months and I figure I should have it read by then. I'm trying to improve my speed since I read about as fast as Brando moved through a buffet line.
And I'm pretty pumped for the movie with Leo. Mainly because I want to see DiCaprio with a Boston accent again. "Ovah here, throw tha bawdhy in the fackin' harbah."
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