The Spirit of Getting Your Tail Kicked
Players who participate in WoW Battlegrounds from the 8th to the 24th get a Competitor’s Tabard with 4 linked colored rings. What could that refer to? Battleground winners *may* get a gold medal summoning a special dragon pet.
So, I jumped into my first PvP Battleground ever today: “Warsong Gulch”, a capture-the-flag competition. Great Cthulhu, but that was lame. I see the enemy, and I’m preparing a spell – oh, I can’t move while casting, and they’ve run off. Okay, another enemy, and I’m using my lower-damage instant spell – oh, their warlock has “feared” me, and I will now run in circles while they zap me dead. Okay, I’m back, and I’ve infiltrated their base… oh, wait, the enemy Priest just killed me with a single instant spell. Yes, that’s right, their Healer class one-shotted me.
Hmm, three captures for the Horde, and they’ve won. How many did we have? Oh. None at all.
I have the tabard. I’ve lost interest in the pet.
Surrender the Werewolves
I wasn’t a fan of Kid Rock before, but he’s dead to me now. How can a digital mashup of “Werewolves of London” with “Sweet Home Alabama” be a ‘new song’ even with new lyrics? It’s not even a re-recording of the music, he just loaded them both into GarageBand and went with it. Total junk.
On a brighter note, when I switched radio stations, they were playing “Surrender” by Cheap Trick. To my amusement, I found myself muttering the “Guitar Hero 2” chords under my breath during the song: “Red, (beat, beat), orange, (beat, beat), green…” I do it for Dance Dance Revolution cuts too. Anyone else do this?
Event Liszting
Glad I caught the first 40% of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra show two years ago, and the last 80% one year ago, as they’ve decided not to come through Hampton Roads this year. Closest venue will be in Richmond 🙁
Let’s Not Do the Time Warp Again
MTV is planning to remake the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
What a complete and utter waste of time and money. Something as bizarre as RHPS happens once. You can’t make it better; after all we don’t keep going to see it because it’s good. We go to see it specifically because it scrambles one’s brain, rinses it, and hangs it up to dry; all the while supported by Richard O’Brien’s catchy songs, Tim Curry’s matchless hamming, and a theater full of fellow weirdos who, for 100 minutes, are in the same headspace with us.
I wish them good fortune – they’ll need quite a lot of it.
Music of the Spheres
The British Broadcasting Corporation puts on yearly classical music concerts known as The Proms. This year, they’ve added a Doctor Who Prom to the lineup, and you can hear it online at the BBC iPlayer site until August 3rd.
The concerts are audio broadcasts presented by Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones), and include performances of soundtrack music from the new series as well as classical music that “you might find on the Doctor’s MP3 player”. There will also be a special short TV episode on the BBC website called “Music of the Spheres” which, if it’s like the other online trailers and specials, can technically only be watched from computers in Great Britain. (I’m quite sure that my fellow Whovian geeks are working on that as I type this.)
There’s a program online listing the included compositions. If you’re interested in orchestral music, enjoy!
EDIT: Aaaaand the online player just locked up on me. I am having a day of Internet servers crashing repeatedly. With luck, they’ll get it fixed.
EDIT 2: ‘Tis back. Clearly, the server couldn’t handle the Doctor spamming Moonfire.
One Small Step
Thirty-nine years ago today…
“Houston… Tranquility Base here… the Eagle has landed.”
From that day on, mankind could only be limited to one fragile world if they chose to be. For the most part, we have chosen that, but I don’t think that state of affairs is permanent. I don’t believe we can afford to let it be so.
A-one, and a-two…
So who was I listening to in the car on the way to work today?
The Dresden Dolls and OreSkaBand. I would have liked to see OreSkaBand when they were here this week, but I couldn’t exaclty take Tuesday off 🙁
I blame my musical taste on my mother, who tricked me into liking classical and folk in addition to the rock I got off the radio; and Tom Monaghan, who ate little more than ramen through his college years in order to acquire a huge and supremely eclectic CD collection.
When someone asks me what they’re likely to find on my iPod, I answer “almost anything from a Bach symphony to Japanese bubblegum punk.”
Walked a mile-and-a-half today. I really need to do this earlier in the morning before the mercury tops 80.
