I've been working heavily on writing a new series as of late, a revamped concept on a script I had thought up of while I was still in high school, carefully writing out the characters, rethinking major plot points, and trying to find some sort of reasoning behind the motivations for each and every one of the characters in the film. Unfortunately, it involves one of my biggest fears.


Zombies.

Yeah, the living undead. I'm fucking SCARED of them. It doesn't help that some of my best friends are absolutely fascinated with the subject. More often than not, regular conversation turns to the survival of the living during an outbreak. An oddly bleak subject, naturally, but it's given me quite an amount of fodder to write with.

Writing these series has proven to be the most stressful, crazy thing i've written in quite some time, and gives me nightmares. Most the nightmares involve the characters I wrote myself (with some scenarios I later incorporated into the series, thank you), but a lot of the times, I would find myself scared of the dark. I've started to stay up late to the wee hours of the morning, something I had never even considered on doing until about a year and a half ago. The relative calm that comes over my neighborhood (and family members sleeping) can be rather soothing, if you can block out the squaking parrots and the ghettobirds patrolling for the latest felon to wander only blocks from where i live. This opportunity has a large caveat- that same lull also brings forth the fear in the imaginary within myself.

I fear sometimes for the imaginary things I had created in my mind- the zombies that once attacked a character in a script now has a slight chance to exist in reality, waiting for me on the other side of my door.

It was a silly fear, but enough to give me certain amounts of stress when writing, and that stress would in turn affect said writing, to the point that it would be... unnerving.

Talking to Primo's brother, Andrew, I relayed to him my fears in such a case. He smiled, and gave me a solution- "come up with an imaginary weapon".

I was puzzled, but he explained it rather well- if you fear the imaginary, come with an imaginary weapon to fight it.

As such, I've been carrying around a cheap little BB gun pistol, a PP9 replica that's probably 1/2 (or even less!) scale replica of the actual gun. I know it isn't real- i left the orange tip on there for safety, but it's there to fight off the imaginary, to reinforce my own mind that I am the one in control.

Oddly enough, it works. When I walk around my house, I'll carry the gun in the pocket of my robe or my jeans, or if I have a particularly heavy scare, I'll walk around the house toting the small pistol in my hand.

The zombie nightmares have gone down to a minimum, thanks to this cheap gun i bought off of amazon.com (it was .99 cents, if i recall correctly. It was something I bought off of the site that was a simple joke).

An odd way to explore the power of the mind and imagination, but there you go.

The Razr I've had for about five years now finally gave out. The thing couldn't send out text messages properly, and placing a call would just force the phone to reboot itself time and time again. I got pretty pissed off at the thing, and so I finally decided to give it up. I wanted a smartphone of any kid, so long as it wasn't a PalmOS based handheld or something in windows mobile (hee, windows mobile. the thought of its memory manager still gives me the shivers. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea, anyways?). So my options were... quite limited.


If there was an Android based handheld on Verizon Wireless' plan, I would be getting that phone in a second. All the crazy cool things Android has begun to do really interests me (The newer incarnation of the Android OS is fascinating me), but it's Verizon, after all- the choices are either smartphones or Verizon OS based phones with small keyboards. So I went with the next best thing.


I gotz me a blackberry!


The Blackberry Curve, to be exact. I had heard too many horror stories with the Storm to even have me consider it- a neighbor had switched to it and had more than one problem with it, goiing through two or three Storms before he gave it up for something else. So I just went for the next best thing on the Verizon service plan it doesn't cost too much more than I was paying for already, and thanks to a sale, i only paid about $120 bucks for it. (Deus ex machina says I'll be finding the phone dropping in price after i type this, but I don't mind at this point, I have it, why regret the purchase?)



The sister and I went together to get the same phone (she later decided to get a pink one, to separate the two. At one point, the service rep almost activated the pink phone on my account) One of the sales reps at the Verizon store tried to get me to move up to the Storm, but i wouldn't budge, sharing a look of "ooooh heelllll noooo" between myself and my sibling. He later gave me a dirty look when I snorted when he asked me about singing up for the Verizon Hub thing. Who needs it, really?

So yeah, I'm about two/three weeks into using this phone, and I'm fucking loving it. I switched the domain name for teammayhem.net over to be used to Gmail, so I'm able to use a lot of the gmail apps on the phone. IMAP support is incredible on the application, and I'm really liking the OS overall. The syncing program for the Blackberry to sync with my mac is a crashy bitch, so I decided to sync everything to my google account. My address book is on google, and both my mac and my blackberry sync to it, so all is well. Next step is to fix up the calendar to sync properly, but that's going to be a bitch and a half to try and figure out. Maybe for when I have more time, or a lead I could follow.

The apps I use on a regular basis are:


AIM- I talk to a bunch of my friends on AIM still, and having it on the go is great. It's fun to be talking to a friend and having them slowly realize 20 minutes into the conversation that I'm actually at the supermarket shopping for beer (Hi Katja!).

MSN Messanger- Again, it's for conversation, but Levi just spams me with it and sends insults. Lovely times.

TwitterBerry- I love me my Twitter, and this just an extension of that addiction. Works well, have yet to try the TwitPic support.

Opera- The standard browser on the Blackberry is great (and I still use it from time to time) but to view full pages, I switch over to the Opera browser. It's a full fleged browser on the blackberry, rendering pages at a decent clip to make certain sites easy to read.

Pandora- Pandora on this phone is terrific, just plug it in to my stereo and pick a random band to listen to as i drive. SO good.

The only big gripes I've had are the lack of apps on the device. I've got my standard set of apps I use all the time, but naturally, there isn't that variety, that pizazz of titles that can be found on the iPhone, hell, even on the Android system. With the creation of the "Blackberry App World" earlier this month, it's a start for some great opportunities on the handset, but the pickin's are slim so far. I'll probably talk about this thing more once i have more time to send it through stress tests, but it's a step up from the Rzr.

Yeah, i'm too busy right now. Check back in a week or so. I'll have news then.

The view from my desk. It gets cluttered quite a bit.

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Took this image (clumsily) of a heavy amount of hail we got on the ground here in California. Never have I ever seen it hit the ground this hard. It sounded like the roof was about to just cave in after only a couple of minutes. It's finally died down, but i got to slide around on my driveway for the first time.
 
 
It was fun!

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I've been the only person in my household with any sort of MP3 player, my classic ipod mini still serving me well on my drives out and about. With my mother receiving a gift of an unopened iPod video, the only person left in my household was my sister, who had resorted upon mix CDs of various genres strewn about my mother's car, and the terrestrial radio stations she deftly navigated for her favorite songs.

After Christmas, my sister looked into getting her own iPod, using the gift cards for Ebay as her means to purchase a used one at a reasonable price. She finally settled upon the fatty iPod mini, to which she received with much glee, having found it at a great deal compared to most. She wanted me to take a look at it, so she waited patiently as i hooked it up to the mac in my room.

She waited as i made the discovery of music already loaded upon the pink iPod- various punk bands and popular music that made her squeal in glee, things I would never have on my own music collection, Britney Spears and the like. It was only about 2 gigs worth of music out of the total 8 gigs available, so it was an added bonus to the cost of the iPod. I went back to the iPod status menu, looking at the bar at the bottom that showed the size of the various things available on the iPod. 2 gigs of music and... video? Thinking it was more free stuff, i quickly moved to the video tab, only to find porn.

Porn on a used iPod, a title over 50 characters in length describing some act of sexual nature in great detail that I know would probably be illegal in Utah. I stopped, staring at my computer with a dropped jaw and incredulous smile as i called my sister over. "Teresa, you gotta see this!" I said with a laugh as i pulled open the title bar more, describing more raunchy things done with a latina (and a goat, but thinking back on it now, I think that may have been a joke). She looked in horror as iTunes generated an album cover, a random frame from the pornographic movie with the right asscheek of said Latina. "DELETE IT!" she yelled out, covering her eyes as I deleted the video.

I wiped the iPod 3 times, to be safe.


Be sure to check those things you buy on Ebay, mmmkay?

Oh man, i wish there were more commercials like this.

Keeping myself busy. That's what I've been doing. I've been working on my portfolio, realizing I don't have enough pieces for it, so it's simply pre-production galore. Trying to secure locations, gather a list of possible actors, figuring out possible shooting dates, the list goes on and on. After New Years, my life has finally quieted down a bit so that I can finally get back down to work.

The work has doubled for me as I've moved to HD, or at least not full HD (I'm working at 1080i). My new camera, while being small, is a beast in nature, and now, I'm having some hardships with the format. My computer can barely keep up with the large file sizes, so I have to have lots of patience as files render. I'm also forcing myself away from using Final Cut Pro as my main offline editor, locking down my sound and cuts on FCP, then moving to After Effects for color correction and special effects, lacking down cuts using that program, and it doesn't help that effects is being a two timing whore. But hey, the camera pumps out an image that's been goddamn gorgeous, if my photoblog has anything to say other than looking mighty purdy. I'm really excited about youtube's new widescreen look- for the work I'm thinking about doing, it's probably the best so I don't feel like I'm having to shortchange ideas for short films because "they don't work on youtube" (that whole thing was a rubbish idea in my mind anyways, disregard it entirely. )

Oh hay, here's another screengrab. This is footage FROM the Rose Parade, or at least the pregame stuff. I'll be uploading small clips I won't be using in a short film up on my own personal account on Youtube. Or Vimeo. Haven't decided which one yet.




There's a batch of new scripts I've been able to finally accomplish, and everything seems to fall into place. I'm going to launch my own personal site soon, and get ready to announce the main projects I've been quietly working on for my own since I left Cornstalker. There's whole batches of ideas that I wanted to try beforehand that i can now successfully attempt to accomplish.

Thank god, school's done. Well, until February, that is. I'm currently relaxing at a freind's house, letting him and his brother sate their addiction to various shooters and fighting games on my PS3, which I had left at their house in order for me to concentrate on my studies and finals . I swear, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is has been played more often on my PS3 than any other game thanks to those two. It's a game that's aged (for the year or two since i's been out) quite well. Their current addiction is to go through each and every one of the levels on Terrorist Hunt, trying to beat them on the hardest difficulty setting. Their conversations and arguements while playing games together have been utterly amusing to me, down to brotherly bickering (mocking falsettos being one of their favorite methods over the use of a certain weapon or tactic to use. I might record their arguments and have it overlaid recordings of their gameplay, once I get the necessary equipment.

There are no plans for classes for winter inter-session for me- i personally don't like it, but i haven';t been able to do any major work on my own projects during the semester, but i hope to get this time to get the projects done. I'm writing up proposals and such for the projects, as they're going to require quite a bit of manpower. I hate talking like this in a vague sense, but I'm waiting until deals are finished and some major work is done and out of the way before i start talking about things.

Some of the projects i've been working on have had me searching for the proper CMS engines to build upon. While I don't want to build an outright blog and have a chronological order to all the data, I'd rather have a hybrid of sorts- to hold the information I wish in a spacial order, but have a front page blog that can keep people updated on the overall information on the site. Well, only heavy testing will help me turn out results of any kind, really.

Oh yeah, I turned 21. Go me.

Aaron McGruder's doing some funny shit on YouTube. Having John Witherspoon on is just one of many.

So I'm keeping sort of a photoblog in conjunction with my regular blog. I'm using Posterous for it, which is a pretty bitchin' blogging site designed to be posted through email. Ch-ch-check it out.

Has anyone seen my tripod?

This is a little piece i just felt writing, just for the hell of it. I thought about GTA IV some, and seeing a friend just recently play through the multimillion dollar game made me think a bit about the whole experience of the game. I wrote it a long time ago, and I just found the whole review on my Google Documents account. So uh, here it goes.

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Yeah uh, this is not a photograph, but a screengrab from my new camera. HV-30. HD footage. I'm busy working on some projects with it. Will write more when i have a chance. Or not being pre-occupied with twitter.

I'm on Raptr, a social gaming site designed to carry people over from one online ID to another. I've fallen in love with it, and it's reaaally sweet to play with it. Try it out!

I'm on the site now, under the usual username.


btw i'm sick.

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

(ps, i look like crap.)

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Writer's block is common for many artists- i know of plenty of webcomic artists that struggled to get work done only to feel that their art or their current output is less than satisfactory. To simply call it writer's block is rather unfair- I rather like to refer to it as artist's block. Any artist can get it, whenether it may be something so simple as not being able to draw a simple sketch or a musician unable to get the concepts in their head played back upon their musical instrument of choice. As of late, I find that my artist block affects me in cycles.

I basically dabble in multiple fields, including writing, filmmaking, minor photography, and website design. When one of the fields feels stifling to me, the other flourishes. As of late, I can't seem to get any work in my website design field done AT All, but I feel much more inspired in the case of writing- I'm getting scripts done with much more fluidity than before. I've gone back and looked at older scripts that I had done on old Word macro templates and pulling out the funny parts that I had written back in middle school/beginning of high school and seeing what I can do with all of it. There's some small funny bits i found, but most of it was simply sophomoric humor that would barely fit in say, the Disaster or Date Movies. (I wonder if I could ever combine them all and sell it as a bad parody movie. Somehow, those always make money.)

I had been using the popular Final Draft program for my mac for quite a while, and I had found it to be rather buggy and well... antiqudated. C'mon, a decent program on the mac has to at least use the mac's own native spellcheck program, right? Nope! Final Draft uses it's own spellcheck program, and that has proved to be inadiquate for my needs (the program doesn't even bring up its own spellcheck, persistently frustrating me), . I made the recent move to Celtx, an open source pre-production suite, and that has made the difference between night and day. While it doesn't have the technical complexicty that Final Draft holds, the program does do a good job of tying in the script to other parts of the pre-production process. It's rather simple to tie a character sheet together with whatever props I may need to use, what parts of the script is being shot on a certain day, and other aspects of the post production. Best thing, it's fucking free (fucking just adds the fact that a program of this level should have some sort of price attatched to it, and being free just sweetens the deal for me). I can't complain with that now, can i? There is a download serivce available to make the program availalbe to multiple people, but if it had some sort of syncing system in place (with wikipedia-esque editing service) i would be golden.

But anyways, back to the original topic. I feel that some of the parts of my artistic enviroment feels restrained at times, while in other times, other parts of my artsy fartsy brain seems to flourish with great gusto. My techy part and my writer parts seems to have been much more proactive, while trying to do any sort of graphic design work or anything along those lines (website design) seems to have gone dead. I've tried FORCING myself to get work in those fields done, but they end up looking subpar and crappy. Thankfully, I need more scripts done, so i'm not feeling that far behind, I'm just afraid i'm going to have to play catchup to hit my own personal deadlines.

Well, back to work. Maybe.

I will soon. I'm in the midst of coding, writing, and preproduction.

At the onset of E3, Sony announced a video store similar to the Xbox Marketplace, but for the PS3. I was sort of worried that they would be pulling the "me too!" mentality that comes with the video game market, but I am impressed by their ability to integrate it into the overall Playstation system seemed flawless and almost... right on the money. The minimalist design of the cross media bar is perfect for the multimedia function of the PS3. My only complaint so far is the rather obtuse way the store handles charges. First, you have to buy money to put into your online "wallet". From there, you're able to buy stuff off of the store. Lovely. Really lovely. Hey, the iTunes store is perfect in its integration that there is no step between putting in your information and actually buying the media- it's one click shopping. What stops Sony from implementing this mindset? It doesn't hurt their sales at all, and would probably help them in the long run. Hey, this game's cheap, click and download. Another thing they can at least take down from the iTunes mentality is the season pass. Buy a season pass, and get the latest episodes as soon as they're available on the store.

Xam'd is an anime from the animation studio BONES, and as such, has a hiugh artistic quality when it comes to the animation. The character design is similar to that of Eureka 7, with many characters sharing simiilar styles and looks to those in the E7 series. A slight steampunk look is given to many of the characters, with the setting being similar to modern day japan. The whole series is about 26 episodes, and within the first two episodes, I was hooked. There's an entire subplot of tension between the different countries in the show (only described as the North and South), and even an entirely separate religion within the show.

Unfortunately, this had to come with a caveat. The entire series can only be rented, not bought. And at three dollars per episode (this is just the regular resolution, not the HD- HD can be rented for one dollar more) this is a serious money sink, and yes, the series is great, but not as great as to have such a ridiculous cost of about 78 dollars at the offset. I like the show, but no, please god no, don't make me pay this fricking much for a show, dammit.

It is available on the bit-torrent, if you want to check it out. That's where I'm going from now on.

The earthquake that hit only yesterday was a strange reminder of what is to come in the southern california area- my geography teacher spent every other class speaking on the "Big One" that is to come. His voice kept nagging me constantly after the earthquake, as did his jokes nobody laughed at.

The earthquake struck as i was playing Army of One on the PS3 (a pretty fun game, not without its flaws). I had just... uh had some flatulence only seconds before, so the start of the earthquake felt as if it was another gaseous outtake. But as soon as it kept going, and parts of the house started to shake, I jumped up, running out of my room (in my bathrobe, no less) to meet my sister, who was rather scared of the earthquake, running over and diving under the table and ordering me under with her. She stayed there after the earthquake ended, prompting me to attempt to coax her out from under the table (her reasoning- "THERE MIGHT BE AFTERSHOCKS!"). My sibling later became even more distressed as the phone lines were jammed, her distressed cries wore on for hours until my mother was able to calm her down over the phone.

Our family has already prepared something of an earthquake kit, but i think in the coming months, we're going to be working on it a bit more. A rather popular comment going around the southern california was that this was one of the bigger earthquakes in quite some time, so the younger generation that hadn't been able to go through larger earthquakes got a taste of what is to come. The big one is coming, yes, but it would be a good idea to be prepared for when that time comes.

Personally, I'd take earthquakes over tornadoes. I was freaked out of earthquakes ever since Wizard of Oz, and those terrible homemade footage of the tornadoes has been a mainstay of FOX TV specials has only affirmed my fear of the natural disaster.

Man, all this talk of natural disasters gives me the nagging urge to play SimCity 2000, build a city, and destroy it. With UFOs.

The past week of mine has been rather... adventurous, to say in the least. I probably had some of the strangest things happen to me the past week than the last three months combined. No, Tuesday and Thursday has been some of the greatest fun I've had around LA, and just recently have I been able to actually... recuperate my sleeping habits thanks to it.


With the coming of E3 to my home city of LA, there were multiple meetups for Los Angelinos to enjoy- even though E3 was press only, there were many events open for the general gaming public to enjoy. Capcom had a party to allow the public to play Street Fighter 4, for example. I wasn't very open to most of them- I doubted I would be able to go to Kotaku's party, for it was held at a bar (I'm only 20). I was simply looking through them all when one caught my eye- the Playstation.Blog meetup, appealing to me as I was a fan of the blog.

The Playstation Blog meetup was on tuesday, held at the King Taco a couple of blocks away from the main LA Convention center, and found half of the whole place taken up by fans of the Playstation community. They were easy to spot, as most of them had PSPs on them and were... well, nerds. Free food was offered there, so much of it that when regular people off the street noticed all the nerds were getting free food, they would pretend they were with us (the King Taco people caught on quickly and began asking people what the party was for).

Here's a picture of everyone who came, exempt maybe four or five people that left early:


(finding me in this picture isn't hard AT ALL)

Free shirts celebrating the Playstation blog's 1st year of existence were given out, and I was able to meet Jeff Rubenstein, the guy in charge of the official playstation blog. He had a kickin belt buckle that had the Triangle, Square, Circle and X of the playstation controller on it. He held a PSP tournament for a limited edition PS3 with Metal Gear Solid 4- unfortunately, I had no PSP, so I couldn't play in it. I simply just talked to people and watched the tournament, and that was fun enough for me. I find that I am nervous when meeting people, but when finally getting the courage to do so pushes me to say the first words, the nervousness melts away, and it was fun talking to other video gamers that were as knowledgeable as I was in the industry.


Talking to people there, I met with two of the writers for one of the sub-blogs for the Joystiq community, PS3 Fanboy, Andrew Yoon and Jem Alexander, as they walked in late thanks to a previous appointment. They were engaging to talk to as the PSP tournament wore on, and as the party wrapped up, both had a tired look on their faces, a look i recognized after walking around a convention all day. I offered them and some other bloggers rides, which was met with many thanks. After giving them a ride, they mentioned I should go to the Joystiq meetup party, and I would get some good schwag from the party for my kind ride. I hadn't thought about going, but the idea of free stuff... well really, would you have passed up the free schwag?

The Joystiq Party was held at Mahalo.com headquarters in Santa Monica- and that was FUN. Rock Band 2 was there, as well as multiple people from the Playstation blog meetup that recognized me there. Meeting the joystiq crew was well... fun. Each and every one of them were incredibly fun to talk to and very kind. I'm used to the very uptight and anti-social webcomics crowd, so to talk to these people about video game topics was engaging. I was supposed to play a game of Rock Band 2 with some of the people from the Playstation Blog meetup (Jeff Rubenstein included) to perform System of a Down's "Chop Suey" only to be replaced at the last minute by someone else. They failed their performance, and I would like to believe it was due to the lack of... well my awesome self.

Once the party ended, I ran into Christopher Grant, one of the head bloggers and the host of the Joystiq podcast. I offered to help clean up the place and to offer a ride to some of the bloggers, which was once again met with incredible enthusiasm. After cleaning up, I stuffed into my car five bloggers, three being Andrew and Jem (again) as well as Ludwig, another of the podcast hosts. (I leave out the names of the other bloggers for a purpose) We set out for the Joystiq crew's hotel in Beverly Hills. On the way, someone in the car suggested food, and i drove to In-And-Out burger, packed to the brim with customers. Sitting in the car with some exhausted bloggers while lines for The Dark Knight snaked around the back of my car made me realize that I would have been home right now, on IRC and on my PS3 playing games, and to get out like this was... refreshing!

After getting the burgers, we drove down a major intersection, sitting in a second turn lane of a very busy street to hear someone heaving in the backseat.

Someone was throwing up in my car. I stopped the car in the street as to let the person continue to throw up into the street, and finally made the left turn into the turn lane onto a small grassy area. As soon as we stepped out, the sprinklers went off, spraying everyone with a fine mist. I rushed into the back of my car, trying to find something to help out the sick person with, only to find an empty brownie pan and random objects my sister had left in my car. I couldn't help but laugh at the whole situation- it was probably after midnight, sitting in a car of people i didn't know, getting soaked, and any other person would have been enraged at this point, but I loved it. I loved every second of it. The realization that NO one would believe this story.

After getting all the wet people back into my car, we drove to a swanky little hotel in beverly hills. Imagine this senario- a '92 LeBaron pulling into this upscale hotel in beverly hills and getting valet parking in the process (again, yet another surreal part of the evening) at about 12:05 am. I went upstairs to the Joystiq HQ- a medium sized conference room with a long conference table, mini-refrigerator, and TV/DVD combo.

I simply sat there and watched as the Joystiq crew got down to work, checking emails and conversing. A second group of the crew walked in fresh from going to Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, declaring that food to be heavenly and the chicken to be "actually be unicorn meat". Their confused faces upon seeing me again after the party there were quickly answered by Ludwig, as they laughed at the story so far, and apologized profusely.

Justin McElroy (one of the regulars on the Joystiq podcast) walked in with a regal step and presented a porno he had bought from a "vampire hunter" outside of Roscoe's. Everyone on the crew freaked out as he made the move to turn on the TV to present the film (he didn't thankfully enough, but he did disappear for a bit to return with a new t-shirt on). The film was of... the colored variety and had a name involving time, but the full name escapes me, probably for the better.

Watching the Joystiq crew in action was incredibly interesting. These people all have a love of video games that's simply indescribable as they spoke about their favorite games at the conference, or the horrible Konami press conference Ludwig had to sit through. At one point, a video circulating the many gaming blogs was shown (involving... um... garlic) and an impromptu mass showing of the video was done on 12 laptops all at the same time. The bloggers laughed like it was the first time they had seen the video, even acting out certain parts and crying out lines from it, which later received complaints from the hotel.

I left the Joystiq hotel about 12:45 am, with a pretty rancid smelling car and a very weary body, still trying to comprehend the night that had happened so far.

Thanks to all of this, I was mentioned in the Joystiq Podcast, referred to as "the Ethan Hawke character from Training Day" (listen starting around 62:00 for the mention). I also made an appearance on Mahalo's Mahalo Daily show, talking about Tetris (you'll find me in there, it's not that hard).

My swag from the party was this:

a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4, a game I had planned on buying with my next paycheck, as well as a guitar that would work with Rock Band and Guitar Hero- a perfect addition to my current Rock Band pack.

Only yesterday, I had recieved this game as a thank you gift:





On the packing slip for Battlefield: Bad Company was a special comment, reading "BLEURGH!! Thank you for saving us twice! Love, Joystiq"

Thank you for a memorable time, Joystiq. I loved every second of it.