so, after getting together with gino and brendan friday night to try out that rock band game all the kids are talking about, i realized that guitar hero was but the tasty morsel of an appetizer to the grand multi-course feast of possibility. we played for several hours, rotating instruments and generally kicking ass.

the weak-willed person that i am, the next morning’s christmas shopping excursion to best buy rapidly became an excuse to indulge my desire to have this marvel for myself, and bring its sweet joys into my own home. many hours were lost over the course of the next few days to its pleasures.

the funniest part was when stacy dropped by to play and we decided to tackle the ‘tour mode’, where you start a band and play various venues and cities to gain more and more fans. her suggestion of ‘no douchebags allowed’ as a band name (shortened to the first two words for brevity’s sake), was met with this hilarious message:

and so the world will never know the antics of the rock superpower that is no douchebags. alas.

oh, and we also went to one of the best parties of the year at amanda’s on saturday night: the kind where everyone brings a bottle of wine apiece, we gorge ourselves on her decadent cheese plates, and i wake up feeling, as i told jessica, ‘like my brain is full of pudding’.

overall, a lovely weekend.