Dragon: A Parable

In other news, Rock Band 3 is just as awesome as I'd hoped, and apparently playing the keyboard is somewhat akin to riding a bicycle, even though it's been 15 years or so since I last did it. I can only do Medium on Pro Keys, but that's not bad for having never played Pro Keys before tonight. But it's distressing easy to play regular guitar on the keyboard, except for Crazy Train because *nothing* can make that easy. (It's not my copy of the game, a friend was kind enough to invite me over to play with her)

So I'm going to need the game, a keytar, a pro-guitar, a Rock Band 2 drum kit, and the cymbals. That's not going to be cheap. Budgeting will have to be done most carefully. . .

I finally broke 1k for a drumming streak - I had a 1027 note streak in _Moving in Stereo_ on Expert (I missed one note in the whole song :).

Tonight I went to the A Hard Day's Night/Beatles Rockband Competition event at the Somerville theater (and I apologize to everyone for not making more people aware it was occurring). It was entirely made of awesome - Hard Day's Night was great on the big screen and the competition was a huge barrel of fun - people in costume and everyone singing along and cheering and it was just great. I entirely sucked on the bass when it was our turn to play Here Comes the Sun (and by "our" I mean maru_mari and fennel), but that was OK, I got to belt out Helter Skelter during the free play afterward. fennel won MVP by virtue of his awesome drumming (both on stage and in his seat) and his awesome shoes. But the best part was after it was all done and I went up to ask the Harmonix folks about the availability of the drum kit outside of the collector's edition (unfortunately not so much). When I said sadly "yea, I really wanted the Beatles sign on my drum kit" they gave me one! Because they're people-shaped packages of awesome! I swear, my eyes were the size of dinner plates when the dude handed it to me. Also us non-XBox360 people are going to be able to get All You Need is Love in December, which pleases me greatly. Oh, and they had all of Sgt. Peppers available for play, because that is coming out on November 17th (mark your calendars, Rocking Wednesday folks, because you bet your booty I will have it when it comes out :).

So yes, today was made of awesome. Now here's hoping the coffee and ibuprofen I just took stave off the migraine that I noticed was incoming as I was walking home (after everyone else had already gone their separate ways).