August 02, 2005
Everyone Daisukis Music!
I am finishing up the second or so re-installing of Win2k to this box in the last week. The first re-install was a result of a failing hard drive. It worked fabulously up until one of the system files got corrupted. No big deal though, I just went into command prompt and replaced that file with a backup. I backed up all the files in that folder in the process to make sure things would be alright. So I start the computer back up again and it turns out I tossed the wrong file in there, so I shut down, and go back to the command prompt to replace the file with the correct one. As it turns out, Windows had decided to erase all files I had put into that folder.., so it wiped out the original files and the backup files. Needless to say, I was slightly annoyed. In any case, this should be the last time I have to do this, so after this I should be golden. If it is not the case that the situation has turned gold after this installation, then I might just get off my lazy ass and get Debian on this thing.
Which reminds me, I still need to be buying a motherboard to replace my brother's old one. We were cautious when it started smelling funny. After opening up the computer and putting a new power supply, we booted it up and figured it was dead when it started pouring oily, black smoke from one of the capacitors. That smell didn't go away for a week they say.
It is indeed finals week of the first Summer session. As it turns out, the day of both my finals is also my 21st birthday, yay for me. I think there's also a free sake promotion at a local sushi joint that day as well, so the post-finals night might be fun. We will see.
So, Sean has bought "Everyone Loves Katamari Damashii" ("Minna Daisuki Katamari Damashii"). This game is the sequel to the game called "Katamari Damashii", maybe you have heard of this. For those uninformed ones, I will give a brief explanation of the original game : you are the Prince of the Universe and your father, the King of the Universe, got hugely drunk one night and destroyed all the stars so it is your job to roll around balls of varying sizes and immense stickiness of some sort (one at a time) and gather up things on the world to turn these balls into big balls that can replace the stars.
This game was fun. The sequel is based around the same idea, but instead of rolling up humanity and their junk to turn them into stars at the bequest of your father, you are instead rolling up them and their crap at their request and sometimes turning that crap into stars.
Now, the gameplay itself is about half my love of the game called "Katamari Damashii". This is not to say the game is bad (it is in fact quite good), but instead is a tribute to my love of the soundtrack of the game. There are three songs that immediately stand out in my mind as great songs on the soundtrack of KD, and there are definitely others I enjoyed a lot.
I was lucky enough to receive the Minna Daisuki soundtrack from Sean as my birthday present. Whereas on the original KD soundtrack there were three or so songs that immediately came to mind as favorites, on the Minna Daisuki soundtrack, there are three to five songs that come to mind as songs I don't like particularly much. There isn't much to say about the other songs except that THEY HAVE INVADED MY MIND.
The MD soundtrack has a more diverse range of musical styles, including a blues-y track or two, a classical track, and the styles of music one would generally associate with the original game. The short of it is that I've been listening to the soundtrack for God knows how long and only just now have I begun to think, "maybe I should listen to something else now".
Once while I was wandering Ikebukuro (I think) with Tim towards the end of my trip in Japan, we dropped by a record store to browse. I looked to see if they had any Mr.Children or L'Arc~ec~Ciel stuff I might want, and Tim wandered around pointing out a few of the bands that he'd listened to. He pointed out a CD by the group "Sambo Master" and recommended it to me. He'd mentioned them before, that the lead guy in the group was a middle-aged violinist/violaist who one day decided to start a rock group. He picked up a guitar, put it to his shoulder and plucked it up the charts.
"So how do they sound?" I asked Tim.
"If you like Mr.Children, you will definitely dig Sambo Master" was his reply.
I picked up the CD and considered buying it, but I hadn't the cash at the time, so I told myself that I would buy it at a later date. Sadly enough my time ran out and I forgot to grab the CD and I returned to the states without my bounty. Now, nearly a year later I am reminded of this lost CD by the sudden onset of my birthday. Maybe this means something.
Anyhow, I have finals to prepare for. I'm probably just going to post this and then sit around and daydream some more more likely than not. As the time of graduation comes closer and closer, I seem less and less inclined to do work towards it. Maybe this also means something.
