But for everybody else out there, Monday was a big day because the new Call of Duty game came out. The reason I am bringing it up is because the other three guys I work with are HUGE Call of Duty fans. They play all day everyday. They have their cute little headsets, so they can talk to each other at home while they play together. They go on and on about their stupid "kill to death ratios" or the various levels they conquer. My boss, Chris, has even brought his Xbox (and 2 tvs... because there is no sharing) in to work on slow days. Yeah. They are a bunch of dorks.
So, like I said, the game came out last Monday. At midnight. And, you guessed it, all three of them met up for a little date at midnight to wait in line and purchase the game, and then go home and play with themselves, uh, I mean the game. So guess how many people showed up at work Tuesday morning? Out of the four of us? Yeah, it was only me. I will give Jay some credit, he lives the furthest away from the office, and he made it in only an hour late. The other two? More like noon. I guess they had breakfast in bed together or something.
I know it's not just them. I went by my buddy Billy's house after work Tuesday, and he was playing it as well. (Keep in mind, folks, that I am 34 years old. My friends are also in their 30's.) Oh well. The best part of my week has been making fun of them at work. Chris was explaining how to play to our designer at work, and I kept asking him questions like, "How do you cast spells?" or, "Which level is Mordor?" He got PISSED. Funny stuff.
As it turns out, I am a huge dork as well. I took Jared to see a Star Wars concert at the Garden yesterday. I am a dork because I really had a great time... better than I expected. It was the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing all of the music from the Star Wars movies, while they showed two hours of clips from the six films on a giant screen.
There was lasers and smoke and pyrotechnic stuff... it was a lot of fun. And it was hosted by Anthony "I was available" Daniels, who played C3PO in all the movies. I guess Chewbacca couldn't make it. It was a little eerie to hear him narrate the clips, because he sounds exactly like C3PO. Now, obviously, I expected to recognize the voice, but I always figured he was doing like a character voice or something. Nope, that is exactly how he talks. And the crowd went nuts when he said an actual line from the movie... it was strange. "OMG! HE SAID A LINE FROM THE MOVIE!!! THIS IS THE BEST NIGHT EVER!"
I guess I never thought about how connected the music is to the story of Star Wars. It would have been easy (and trite) to use electronic music or spacey sounding synth pop to score the movies, especially in the late 70's and early 80's. But give George Lucas a lot of credit, because he wanted something more timeless and universal (no pun intended.) And John Williams did an awesome job, creating one of the most memorable and cool soundtracks of all time. And he used to conduct the Boston Pops, so there's that.
Here are some pictures from the event. These are the actual costumes/ props from the movies, which were on display at the Garden.
This one is from the seldom seen sequel, called Star Wars 7... Return of the Beanpot. You should definately check it out.
I realize this post is getting too long, so I will just give you some football picks and be done with it. I won't even mention how Manny Pacquiao whooped up on Cotto last night, earning his 7th title in 7 different weight classes. Anybody who reads my blog regularly will know that Pacquiao is my favorite fighter in the whole world, maybe of all time. I predicted his last several wins, right here on this very blog. And I can hardly wait for the inevitable fight with Floyd Mayweather next year. I think I would pay $500 to watch that on PPV. But that is another post for another day.
This week's Stone Cold Lead Pipe Lock of the Week is Philly (+2.5) over SD.
And for all you high rollers out there, my Lock-NICE Monster is Ten (-6) over Buff.
Let's see how this week shakes out. Have a great Sunday!





