Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, September 06, 2004 The Pitch: It's like The Core meets Napoleon Dynamite! Dying over here. The heat according to the thermometer built into my old Navy clock-cube reads 85.0(F). We've got the curtains down, we've got the windows open, we're sitting around in our underwear, and my wonderful girlfriend is walking about with an ice pack on her head and a beer in her hand.Culdcept is this impressively annoying game--after losing twice on this one scenario, I've backtracked to replay some earlier boards to accumulate new cards and get a better idea of what I'm doing. And I've spent the last day and a half losing repeatedly to some bastard I beat single-handedly three matches ago. I believe this betrays a serious lack of understanding about the game--which is always a comforting feeling to have while playing...particularly during a heat wave. Edi and I caught Napoleon Dynamite yesterday with our friend Dan, and I liked the movie, despite some reservations: the film is basically Wes Anderson filming an extended Kids in the Hall sketch, and I think that illustrates exactly the charms and shortcomings right there. At its core is a dazzlingly assured performance by Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite--so much so you kind of can't imagine the movie even being written without him already bein cast beforehand. Although I thought there should be some sort of warning that the movie will feature music by Jamiroquai(!), I don't have any major complaints. It was a comedy that made me laugh in a way that makes you analyze why you're laughing, and there lots of things loose in the world worse than that. Like Culdcept, for example. Fucking, fucking Culdcept. Work will be fucking hideous tomorrow--the first day after a long weekend usually is--but I'm so glad not to be working today I don't mind, even with the sun deciding to burn San Francisco off the face of the Earth and everything. posted by Jeff Lester | 2:50 PM | |
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