Happy New Year
posted in funny |… Last night was terrific fun. A friend we play evercrack 2 with has flown into town (and leaves tomorrow, sadly ), and we got together at E and A’s house. You can see E here in this video playing the Guitar (in the middle). Our friend P is on the drums ( left side ), K is playing the bass ( on the right, in the chair ), and A is in the back singing. 
The song is a cute little song called “Maps.” No, I don’t know why; I don’t even recognize the song!
I took another video of one of my favorite Bon Jovi songs; in this song, S is playing the Bass and J is singing in the back. Unfortunately, the battery on my phone gave out during this one and I have only about half of the song. You can see the video over at youtube.
What have I learned?
First, my rhythm hasn’t gotten any better. I did ok singing ( doesn’t really grade on pitch, just voice moving up and down and trying to hit the words ) but my drums sucked. My rhythm is so bad that one girlfriend in my youth was moved to exclaim “Damn, you’re white!” The drums were awful. But awfully fun, too.
If you’ve played guitar hero, the layout is similar; you have a … moving road of what colors you’re supposed to hit and when, so you can estimate the times for smacking the keys. With the drums, you have a cute little drum set, and you smack, smack, smack, pause, smack, smack, … you get the idea.
It really is a fun game, and it was a great way to have fun last night. I still liked the apples to apples game more than trivial pursuit, but it was fun to play a trivial pursuit with questions from the nineties!
Oh, what else have I learned? Use the damn video recorder instead of the phone!
