Let me take you to the heart of the city, let me misunderstand you

[raybear]

So, uh, I finished Bully. I conquered all of the cliques and then I caught Gary and saved the school and finished the main storyline and the credits rolled at the end after I kissed the girl. I only completed 82.47% of the game, techinically speaking, so now I'm in Chapter 6: Endless Summer so I can run around and collect all those rubberbands and win the go kart races and finish taking all the yearbook pictures. But will I? Maybe a little, but really, I think its just as well to put the controller down. DYA said, "what are you going to do now?" And I said, 'have my life back.' Last night in bed I kept thinking about the music and sounds and was already feeling nostalgic for little Jimmy and his life, so who knows, maybe I will go back and visit and get him the gold lame Elvis suit.

That was a lot of my weekend. Though I also went to a going-away bowling party on Friday night for a co-worker which was pleasant but slightly removed -- it reminded me of social outings in college. But I still managed to stay out until 1 am. Saturday evening was date night that included non-video games and last night we watched For Your Consideration which was kinda bad. I think maybe I don't really like Ricky Gervais. Wait, no, that's not true. I think Ricky Gervais is great when he's doing his thing, his one thing, but it's not very versatile and I didn't think it added anything to Christopher Guest & Co. folks. That movie just had too many people and too many insider jokes.

I've slept so much more in the past few days. Its strange, I'm usually a 7 hours a night person, but lately I've been doing 8, 9, 10 hours. Maybe because I'm not napping during the day. This morning I woke up after a really good intense dream with my anima, which was a little odd because she was married but divorced and they had two kids and I met the whole family, including the ex-husband, but I was there to see her and we hadn't been seeing each other long, only 6 months, but she was like look, I'm ready to do this. I am with you. I want you. I'm ready to have your baby. So get it together, cause I'm right here and you're wasting time that we could be doing something bigger and better. Except, this wasn't all said like a threat, or a fight -- she's always supremely grounded and loving and real, if firm and sometimes dabbling in tough-love speak -- it was more like a 'get it together' speech. So I woke up all like, okay, let's inseminate and do this thing! Which, is kind of hilarious. But the feelings, the subconscious meanings, I get that part, I know what it's all about. That's why I said -- it was a good dream. Plus, any dream with her presence is a pleasure, it's very soothing. And kinda hot. I mean, what's not hot about a person you're super attracted to ordering you to come inside them?

Comments

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

WHAT?!

Overacheiver!

Wake me up when Bully 2 is released.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

You're on "Finding Johnny vincent", right? You're actually not that far from the end either.

Re: Wake me up when Bully 2 is released.

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

No, I finally passed. I'm on Galloway Away.

Re: Wake me up when Bully 2 is released.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

for me the hardest mission in the last parts of the game were finding johnny vincent, conquering the nerds at the observatory, and the beating up the mascot. all the ones against the townies seemed easier.

i also did a bike race using my moped. and came in first. except, it said "you lose" and gave no reason, so i'm assuming its because i didn't have to pedal.

[moander.livejournal.com]

2 things:

1) So, I heard back in the day that Mike Patton was supposed to be doing the music to Bully. Can you corroborate this? It might have fallen through.

2) We also watched For Your Consideration this weekend. I didn't think it was horrible, but definitely not as great as certain other Christopher Guest movies. Ricky Gervais, yeah I agree. But I am all excited at the prospect of Sandra Oh becoming a regular in Guest & Co.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

1) The music in the game was good, but none of it had words so nothing immediately indentifiable. I will check the book when I get home and report back.

2) I didn't think it was horrible either, just sort of 'eh', which is disappointing since I expect more of that crew. I was super psyched to see Sandra Oh, but she had one-line and never came back! Like I said, they just had too many characters so there wasn't much depth. Except for PArker Posey and Catherine O'Hara, and with the latter, she was super scary to watch at the end with those collagen lips and botox face.

[moander.livejournal.com]

I was cracking up when she came out on the talk show, because I initially thought they had re-cast the character mid-stream as Charo.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! that would have been brilliant.

Also, no Mike Patton music in Bully. Don't let that deter you from the greatness of the game.

[fuzzilla.livejournal.com]

>I mean, what's not hot about a person you're super attracted to ordering you to come inside them?<

Can't argue with that.

Yeah, "For Your Consideration" sucked. It was like they weren't even tryin' or something. It totally had all these in-jokes like they were making a movie for each other and not an audience. I only saw it 'cuz we missed "Borat" and were at the theater like "well, I *guess* this doesn't sound *too* bad..." I haven't seen Ricky Gervais in much besides the British "Office," which I love, and this, and it weren't hardly his fault the movie sucked.

One thing I did like about the movie was the way Catherine O'Hara's character was like "do you think I have a chance? I mean...I don't wanna PUT YOU OUT, or be WEIRD, I just...OK, forget I said anything. How's your sandwich? But...I mean, DO YOU THINK I HAVE A CHANCE?" That reminded me of myself, feeling all weird about sharing my writing with others.

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

I had very similar emotions when I beat Fable the first time. Then about a year later, I played it all the way through again. Fable is starting to be the thing I do in the fall, but only for a week or two. I barely think about it the rest of the year,

I've also been sleeping weird. Well, not weird, but for 10-12 hours instead of my usual 8 and sleeping hard, with vivid dreams I remember most of the next day and with very clearly defined plots and characters. Except mine aren't particularly hot. They're much more along the lines of I either kiss someone I shouldn't or beat someone up for no good reason, and almost all of them come back around to my calculus grade. Somebody's feeling guilty.

[iamthesphinx.livejournal.com]

OK, after the bizareness of the above-mentioned co-worker being one of my best friends from high school, I have officially come to two conclusions: or maybe a logical proof.... Let's see:

Given the axiom that you and Amber are in fact situated at the center of some obscure but pervasive social web that I am also entagled in... p(Liz and Ray not having ever met) = approximately zero.

What would have been really funny is if I had gotten a job there through you and then just run into him in the office one day.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Nate is a super good guy and I'm very sad that he's left the office, though happy for where he's going. And yeah, it was pretty fcking strange to get introduced to Derek and we both simultaneously said while shaking hands, "um, I know you."

[iamthesphinx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love Nate. And I think it's amazing that he and his wife and kid are actually just going to pick up and move to Brazil. I feel cooler just for knowing someone who is actually doing something like that rather than just talking about it...

I really wish I had been at Lucky Strike. :) Maybe Nate would have introduced me to you as well.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

they've been planning it awhile! they named their daughter specifically with portuguese names in mind! that impressed me.

[iamthesphinx.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about Ella's name, though it does not surprise me...I know that Shelley studied abroad in Latin America for a year and Nate studied Latin American history, I think that the desire to do this is actually one of the main things they had in common when they got together. I'm looking forward to lots of great pictures.... I helped them set up their travel blog the other night.