Rock Band

This is not me playing Rock Band. I would totally take a picture of myself playing Rock Band, except I don’t look nearly as good or cool or like I’m having as much fun as these people. I sit cross-legged on the couch, holding the guitar controller vertically so it looks a little like a sitar, with my mouth open a little so that I get really concerned that I look like a total mouthbreather.

BUT IT IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!! I just bought a friend of mine’s XBox, with like 5 or 6 games, including one about ROBOTS (I haven’t written about ROBOTS yet, but I should because ROBOTS were my favorite thing ever until I played Rock Band), but all I do is play Rock Band. I’m obsessed. It is the coolest thing in the world. I got it home at about 8pm Thursday night. It’s now 9:42 Saturday morning, and I’ve spent eleven of the intervening 37(ish) hours playing. I had to work yesterday, so that took out about 10 hours, and oh yeah. I had a fever of 102 Thursday night. It’s totally gone now. That’s right. I had a fever, and the only cure was more Rock Band. I love it so much. The only way it could  possibly be better is if there were Black Kids or Decemberists songs on there.

I’m now so obsessed with it, that when I listen to my iPod – NO JOKE – I imagine what buttons I would push. It’s RIDICULOUS. I have to seriously force myself to not play. It’s like “hey you  could play another 20 songs on Rock Band or you could go to sleep since you’ve apparently been sick all week without realizing it, and maybe sleep would help you get better.” And then I play another 20 songs on Rock Band and realize that I stayed up until 4:15 in the morning trying to play “Don’t Fear The Reaper” on medium.

And why do I play so much, exactly? Besides it being totally awesome? To buy my character (Sarah Kathleen, who looks a little like me but much much more tattooed, because she’s a video game character and I’m not so it hurts a lot more for me to get tattoos) more clothes. This is exactly the same reason I obsessively “played” (built houses) in Sims for 5 years. Decorating video games is so much fun. But, really,  it’s not nearly as much fun as getting a perfect score on a song. Which I haven’t done yet, but I did get a 99% on “Blitzkrieg Bop.” Mostly because it’s damn easy.

Oh and also everything here refers pretty much only to playing guitar on Rock Band. I’m NOGOODATALL at drums. But Ashley is awesome and between us we already have a tour bus with roadies!