I don’t know if any of you here play Guitar Hero or Rock Band, but I do! That’s right! I’m a full-on geek/nerd when it comes to those games! I first got into Guitar Hero when I went over to one of my former friend’s houses one evening after school looking to hook up with her and ended up hooking up with Guitar Hero 2. Well, the relationship between me and the girl didn’t pan out. She agreed to go out with me and said she liked me and then ended up going out with one of her weed smokin’ buddies. Oh well. At least me and Guitar Hero are still together! Right? But either way, I got kinda hooked on the game and put it on my Christmas list for last year (along with an Xbox 360). I really wanted Guitar Hero 3, but Guitar Hero 2 was still good. It’s not like it was incredibly outdated! I liked a lot of the tracks off there as well. At Christmas time, I ended up getting my Xbox (which is half my father’s) and I also got my Guitar Hero 2. I was so happy! I beat the easy mode tour in like a week. Wasn’t hard. But for me, at the time, it was difficult. If you don’t know how Guitar Hero or Rock Band works, there are 5 buttons on the neck of the guitar you have to hold in for the note, but to play the note, while holding in the buttons on the neck, you have to strum this bar on the body of the guitar. It’s as close as a video game can be to actually playing a real instrument. Either way, on easy mode, you only use to top 3 keys. For a beginner, that’s great. On medium, you use the top 4 keys. Now you’re using your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers instead of just your index, middle, and ring. On hard, they add the dreaded final fifth key to the mix. I think “How the hell am I going to play five keys with only four fingers?” Well you have to be quick with your hands. But we’ll get to that later. On expert mode, it is much like hard, only they throw a lot more notes at you fairly quicker than they do on hard mode. But getting back to the game and how I played it, I started a medium tour shortly after I beat the game on easy only because you don’t get money on the easy tour and you unlock more songs on medium. The money you get for doing a “gig” is usable in the Guitar Hero “store” at the main tour menu. You can buy new characters, new guitars, new outfits, new looks for certain guitars, new songs, videos on how the game was made and how the songs were recorded, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something. If you want to download new songs or updates for the game, you have to PAY, though. Well, as far as I know. After a while of charging for certain downloads, Halo 3 put some of their downloadable content out for free. But either way, back to the game. When I beat the game in easy mode, I unlocked a guitar called “The Fish”. Why? Because it looks like a giant fish. That’s why! I still have to BUY it (Guitar Hero money; not real money) to use it, but I unlocked it. Then I could get ANOTHER guitar unlocked if I get 5 stars on every song. I’m working on that. Then I unlocked all the bonus songs (not the songs that I have to buy, though) and I unlocked “The Coffin” guitar when I beat the game on medium. Again, these names are pretty obvious as to what the guitar looks like. So either way, I also have to get 5 stars on every song if I want to unlock ANOTHER guitar. Whoopy! More work! At least the game has good replay value. But I got bored with the easy and medium tours, so I’m currently working on hard. God it sucks! How can anybody do that? The first song that gave me difficulty was “Surrender” by Cheap Trick. I eventually beat it. The second song that gave me issues was “Woman” by Wolfmother. I have played that song AT LEAST 20 times and STILL have not beat it! The furthest I’ve got in the song before losing is 76%! I swear that the guitarist for Wolfmother had to be on crack to do that! There is no way! Another song that gave me a bit of difficulty was “You Really Got Me” by Van Halen. I eventually beat that song, but it took about 5 tries. Eddie Van Halen is the man I most look up to as far as guitar talent. He is the undisputed champion of guitarists in my eyes! You can say Jimi Hendrix all you want, but I say Eddie VH, damn it! Getting off subject a bit. Either way, I’m working on that. “Woman” is the last song in that set I have to do before I get to do the encore song and then move on to the next set! So it’s really startin’ to tick me off that I can’t beat it! Ugh! As far as Rock Band goes, my homie, Mark has it for PS2, so he brought it over to my bro, Steve’s and we played. I had only played it for 360 with simply a guitar (‘cause that’s all I got). But since Mark bought it (as apposed to I, who rented it), he got the guitar, microphone, and drum set. Man, is that fun! He brought it over to my house last weekend and we rocked out some more! We were challenging ourselves to get 5 stars on every song. Well, we got pretty far. We’d switch up instruments every now and then. I’m decent at drums on easy, pretty good on guitar at medium, and above average on mic on easy and/or medium. Mark does phenomenal on guitar on expert mode, phenomenal on drums on medium, and does a phenomenal job on the mic on medium! Steve does a good job on the guitar on easy and/or medium, does a good job on the drums on easy, and does a fairly decent job on the mic on easy. Steve’s dream is that we will get a fourth member (to play lead or bass guitar, so I can sing, Steve can play drums, and Mark can play lead or bass guitar) and we all get so good that we can travel around like a real rock band and go to competitions and earn money. I thought that’d be a wicked idea, but we don’t really know a fourth person, Mark is being shipped off for the Navy on July 7th, and well, I don’t know how we’d even go about doing that. I just want us to learn REAL instruments and become a REAL rock band! But it’ll never happen, so I’ll stick to my original plans of going to Full Sail, becoming a director, marrying Britney, and buying a two-story home. Maybe not all in that order, but you never know. The real reason I’m writing this Blog was to say that one, Guitar Hero 3 looks awesome! They have “Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels Band on there, and I’m trying to figure out how one would play that on a guitar. If you have any idea, let me know. But the set list looks great for GH3, and I notice that I haven’t even played GH3 and GH4 is gonna be coming out in fall! Hopefully I get that job at Wal-Mart soon, so I can afford to buy GH3 before the summer’s up. As far as Guitar Hero 4 goes, it looks awesome! They kind of ripped off Rock Band with the drum set and the microphone, but at the same time, they WAY improved the drum set! It’s like an actual drum set! It has the big round “drum” up front with “Guitar Hero 4” on it, the 3 regular drums, the pedal, and then the two cymbals. It looks so wicked! I can’t wait to get my hands on it! And with people like Travis Barker (of Blink-182) and Chad Smith (of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers) helping out with the drum set, it looks to be a can’t-miss gaming opportunity! If you like rock ‘n’ roll and you like video games, by God, you’d better get this game! But either way, I’ve gotta go to bed. Hope y’all read this without falling asleep. lol! See y’all later! PIMP…OUT!
Well my weekend is full of excitement. And it’s still not over! The real fun don’t start until tomorrow. Friday night, I had my first movie date with my girl, Britney. We’ve obviously dated for a while, but we’ve never been out to the movies until Friday night. It was also my first official double-date. We went with her friend, Sam, and her boyfriend (whose name escapes me). Well Sam was nice (and cute, but don’t let Britney know) and her boyfriend was pretty nice. I don’t like him because he’s a heartthrob and I’m not. It’s a jealousy issue. But he’s a good guy, I guess. Even my damn girlfriend fell over him! Nice, huh? Oh well. Not that bigga deal. Either way, Sam and Britney wanted to see, of all things, “Baby Mama”. If you haven’t seen this movie…don’t waste your time. I told her it was gonna be stupid! But what do I know? I’m just a male and a grade ahead of her in high school! Whatever. Either way, the only reason I agreed to go is because Sam’s BF knew the day manager at Showcase Cinema and the guy gets him free tix. So he got the tickets for free and the only thing I bought was two $4 Icees and a $4 bag of popcorn. So it was…ok, I guess. The movie was pretty gay and I complained all before and after that we should have seen “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. She was getting annoyed with me saying that, so I just started whistling the Indiana Jones theme in the car on the way. Either way, she wouldn’t budge. Plus, we’d already gotten the tickets. So if I had to sit through that damn movie, the least she could do was sit through my Beatles! I played old school Beatles all the way there, and it was a 15 minute drive! So she can get used to it! Not only was I complaining about the horrible movie, but then SHE was complaining about my music. On the way back, she made me play the stupid hip-hop and RNB station! God, I hate this new black rap! It drives me crazy! But she likes it, so I decided to concentrate on the road and not on the music. LoL!
But that was Friday. Today, I sat around doing zip. I woke up at one, watched some TV, ate, got a shower and got dressed, brushed my teeth, shaved, lounged around, saw my GF for a few minutes (long enough to have a decent conversation with her), went to Wal-Mart, bought me a Matt Hardy figure (YES, I STILL COLLECT WRESTLING FIGURES!!!), went to Meijer, bought my sister a Hawthorne Heights CD at her request (which my mom is now going to take back and get the money back for because she says there are too many suicide references in it, which is true, and my sister’s only 12). Then I came home, roleplayed for this wrestling site (http://www.geocities.com/tripleh_dx_78, in case you’re interested), made my playlist that’s in the message before this one, and now I’m typing this Blog. I’m also about to go to bed. I wanna watch a movie, but my dad’s tired and says it’s too late, so yeah. That screws that idea. OH, I also went to Hollywood Video today and rented “Alien vs. Predator 2: Requiem” and “First Sunday”! I wanna see them both really bad! Katt Williams is hilarious, so that’s why I got “First Sunday”! But yeah, tomorrow I have my family cook-out with my friend Steve and my girlfriend coming, then my buddy Steve’s dragging me to his friend CC’s graduation party for about a half an hour, then we’re going to his family cook out back at his house and I’m staying the night and playing Rock Band! WOOT, WOOT! Holla if ya hear me! Sorry. Got a little carried away.
Yet another Thursday night has come and passed. Well, not quite passed. But you get the gist. It’s soon to pass for me because I’m gonna go to bed soon. Yay me! Either way, as I said, I was at my grandparents’ house this week for Monday evening, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning. Tuesday night, I got to see the 1st part of the “American Idol” season finale! I’m sad to see it end but also relieved on another hand. But on the show, the final two, David Archuleta and David Cook (it was D & D night) battled it out for three rounds of songs. They made boxing analogies all night long. It was rather odd. But in the first round, David Cook performed the song “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” one of my personal favorites by U2. David smashed it, but only got about 85-90% approval from the judges. Next up was David Archuleta. He sang another one of my personal favorite by Sir Elton John, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”. I thought he did it alright. But no one can do it better than Elton! And Archie tried to change it up too much, in my opinion. But he got reviews of “Molten lava hot,” “Beautiful,” and “Round 1 goes to Archuleta” from the judges. I swear that they were on their knees for this little 17-year-old runt! He’s my age, but he makes me look like Rambo! Plus, the fact that this little weasel can get all the chicks that would never pay me a second glance rather gets me hot considering he’s proven he’s almost as dumb as Jason Castro quite a few times! He’s a doofus, a dingus, and a moron! But whatever. I know the kid can sing, so let him. But he didn’t deserve to win. Thank God he didn’t! Any who, round two, David Cook did “Dream Big” by Ryan Shupe. He did it great, but again, got mixed reviews. Archuleta did some random song I never heard before (obviously a ballad) and blew the judges away! GET OFF YOUR KNEES, GUYS! UGH! But moving past that, the third round, David Cook chose to do one of my mom and sister’s favorites and one of the only songs I know by Collective Soul, “The World I Know”. Randy and Paula loved it but Simon thought it was bogus. He’s so full of it! Then Archuleta gets up there and does the best song he did all season, “Imagine” by John Lennon, for the second week! He did it for ‘70s week, I believe, and he chose to do it again so he could get an easy vote. Obviously, all three judges went ape s**t over it! Whoopty frickin’ do! He can impersonate himself from an earlier week! I wanna see some new stuff! Either way, Simon said it was a “knock-out” by Archuleta, “to use a boxing analogy”. Bull honky! You honestly can sit there with a straight face and say that David Archuleta deserved that more than Cook when, the night before, you were on “The Tonight Show” talking about how you wanted David Cook to win? Make up your mind, you tea-drinking idiot! But then the results show was the next night. YAY! I was excited! I couldn’t wait! The show was pretty good. They had the final 12 on there again doing some numbers, they had Nash from Crosby, Stills, & Nash, they had SEAL, they had ZZ Top, they had George Michael, they had Donna Summers, they had the Jonas Brothers (ick!), former winners Jordan Sparks and Carrie Underwood, and I know they had one or two others. Not only the big-time music celebs, but they also had Jimmy Kimmel and Mike Myers there, and the best failure of the opening season auditions! I don’t remember his name, but he was Asian and he wrote his own song to audition to, “Brother”. He sang it to Simon. The guy pretty much worships the poo Simon Cowell lays! It’s disturbing, unless you’re into the whole homosexual thing. Which I’m not. Not that there’s…anything wrong with that. *cough* Back to business. It was a great show! But at the end…I waited with hands folded in prayer and literally on the edge of my seat for the results. Then Ryan Seacrest said “The winner…and the new 2008 American Idol winner is…David…COOK!” I jumped up, hooped, hollered, and clapped! Then I gave my mom a high-five and went to bed with a smile upon my face because I got to rub it into my Archuleta-loving girlfriend. HA! BOOYA! I shouldn’t take so much pleasure in other people’s short-comings…but I do! Oh well. Better luck next time, Archie. Good try, man! Hopefully he gets his own contract. Well that’s it for this Blog. See y’all next time! HOLLA!
It’s just another day in the life of me. I’m currently sitting at my grandmother’s computer listening to the Eagles (“Bells Will Be Ringing”) and doing my physical science assignment. 8 pages due by tomorrow! And it’s 10:20 at night! Yay me! Oh well. They’re not too difficult. Thank you, Wikipedia! ;) Anyway, things have been good and bad all at the same time here.
My grandmother has FrostWire (from the makers of LimeWire). Good, right? And she has an awesome computer with a ton of memory, so songs download like lightning! And good versions of them, too! But she has a crappy version of Windows Media Player (I hate their latest updates), so I have to use this CD/DVD Burner/Recorder. Ok, simple enough. Not too hard to use. But she’s out of blank CDs and my dad didn’t let me take any with me because he said “Your grandmother will have some! She always does!” Sure, she has a bunch of blank DVDs, but no blank CDs! So we have to run out to Wally World to buy a 5-pack for $6. Not bad. Then I burn the two Beatles CDs without a hitch (I’ve had a big music craving for the Beatles lately for some reason). I play them in my computer, and they work. My dad says “Let me borrow your one when I go take your cousin home.” My cousin was over at my grandmother’s house for a while, and my dad had to take him home. Either way, he took the CD with him, came back, and said “Your CD won’t work in my car. I don’t know why. It just won’t.” His other burnt CDs will work in his car! This program must suck! So there’s that.
Then today was my one month anniversary with my girlfriend, Britney. Last night, she texted me and said she was crying from missing me so much, and I’d only been gone a day! But we had just got into a big fight the day before and then made up later that afternoon. So there’s that, but whatever. Today, she goes over to a friend’s house and calls me to tell me that she’s missing me terribly and can’t wait to see me Thursday (the day I’ll be officially home and able to do anything). I talked to her for a few minutes about two or three times today. I don’t want to drain my minutes because I have went over WAAAAY too many times on my phone bill for WAAAAY too long! God, I hate Verizon! Ugh! Either way, I was feeling rather down about not being around my girlfriend today for our one month. I know some may find that stupid and gushy, but it’s a milestone for me. Yeah, I’ve been in longer relationships than that, but not one where I was close enough to my girl to where I could see her every day if I wanted. So this is a new thing for me.
Then I get on my school e-mail today to check up and see what’s on there. I knew I had a review of one of my essays in there, so I had to check that. But I see “Rock Hall Information”. Just so all of you know (because I neglected to mention this earlier), I’m up visiting the family and staying with my grandparents because I’m going to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio tomorrow for a “school field trip”. I put it in parenthesis because I’m home schooled. You provide transportation for yourself, you pay part of the price for the ticket, you HAVE to be accompanied by a parent/guardian, yadda yadda. You just go with others from your grade. So it’s rather odd. Either way, back to the e-mail. I click on the e-mail expecting to see something like “Be on your best behavior, no touching things, no playing around, no spitting, no farting, no burping, no urinating on rock legends’ busts,” etc. But not only do I find nothing quite as entertaining, they say NO CAMERAS ARE ALLOWED IN THE HALL OF FAME! WHAT THE HELL!? We’re paying a bunch of money to look at these dead and/or old rockers and their set-ups and we don’t even get to take pictures!? What kind of rip-off is that!? Well, that’s America for ya. But my dad’s taking his camera PHONE with him, as am I. So it’s all good. It just doesn’t take as good a quality of picture as our Kodiak camera with 50 million settings and super zoom and many other features that some of our military’s aircraft have on them! But I guess we’ll have to make due with what we can get. What other choice to we have? Smuggle in a camera and risk getting kicked out of the most prestigious rock ‘n’ roll center in the world? NEVER!
Here’s something I was wondering about the RNR HOF, though. I heard that back in 2002 or 2003 (somewhere around there), Papa Roach was inducted into the HOF. Yet KISS has never been inducted. Don’t get me wrong! I love Papa Roach! But they’re not legendary, as KISS is! I think this is complete BS if we have Papa Roach in the RNR HOF before we have KISS! Even if you’re not a KISS fan, you HAVE to agree that they were very influential to rock and were very innovative and were/are very popular! I don’t understand the world anymore. Another disgrace happened to a member of the Hall (more of a disgrace than Papa Roach being inducted before KISS, which really isn’t a disgrace, just a minor injustice). If Elvis’s daughter not only marrying Michael Jackson but also having a child with him wasn’t enough to have the King of Rock rolling in his grave like an autistic child who didn’t get to see Wapner on time, then Mariah Carey beating his “Most #1 Hit Songs by a Solo Artist” record had to have him shakin’ like his name was Emily Rose and he was possessed by the devil! Yes, there are a few Mariah Carey songs I like. I’ll admit it. But let’s face it: She’s no Elvis. She’ll never be as influential, as popular, or as loved. All I can say is “Poor Elvis. Poor, poor Elvis. I’m sorry, King.” *shrugs shoulders*
Finally, if all this isn’t enough, I made a deal with my buddy, Tad, about a month and a half ago or so. He makes these iron-on T-shirts, and I didn’t feel like blowing $50 on a DC (Rob Dyrdek’s brand) T-shirt and a Double B (Big Black’s brand) T-shirt. So I asked Tad to make me one custom DC T and one custom Double B T. He did it on one condition: I ship him a box of Faygo that he couldn’t get out there. I went into Meijer and bought 8 different 2-liters of Faygo soda. There was Ohana Punch, Bicentennial Soda, Blue Raspberry, St. Nick Soda, Peach, Faygo Twist, Faygo 60/40, and some other odd flavor that isn’t very common. He lives in Boise, Idaho where he can only find rootbeer, Red Pop, orange, and cream soda around him. So since he likes Faygo, he gets me to ship him a box of 2-liters. First, we got pushed back on the shipping date because we were incredibly busy with various things. Then, I was fixing to ship it from UPS and they tell me it would be $40 just for the one box. So my mom takes it to the Post Office the next day and it costs around $25 to ship it. She does this WITHOUT ME, which is not good. Tad agrees that since it was so much, he’d send us a $15 check. We never cashed it, thank God. But either way, the Post Office tells my mom it will take 7-10 days to arrive in Boise. Today is day 11. Every day it doesn’t come, I get a text from Tad complaining to me. First, he just complained about the crappy service of the Post Office. Then he turns the blame to ME! “You should have gotten a tracking number! Then we wouldn’t be in this mess!” “I followed through with my end of the deal! Where’s my soda!?” So here I am feeling like an ass. But I told him today, three different times, that I wasn’t the one who shipped it, so I didn’t have the option of getting a tracking number. It was all my mother’s doing! So if he wants to complain, then complain to her! Then I said that it was too much of a hassle to mess with shipping soda and I said it was just plain stupid to begin with, and we’d just send him money. Then he gets even madder. “What the hell!? I want my soda! We had a deal!” I told him “As far as ‘we had a deal’ goes, I followed through with my end! I bought the stupid pop, I put the pop in the mail, I shipped the pop! I did my part! Not my fault that the Post Office sucks!” So then he calls me an inconsiderate prick, yadda yadda, and blames the whole ordeal on me. It also doesn’t help that, for some reason or another, he’s been depressed and complaining about EVERYTHING for the past week or so! I swear, that dude has more emotional issues than a loony bin! No offense to him. He’s a great guy. He’s just very emotionally unstable. And quite frankly, I don’t mind helping him with his problems, but this is ridiculous! This is concerning me and getting to me, and I don’t need it! Selfish as it may sound, I have my own problems to worry about! I would suggest Valium or Prozac or something of that sort to him, but he has no medical insurance. So that wouldn’t do him any good. And Prozac by itself is $200 without a co-pay. And there’s no way he could afford that.
Either way, I’ve got a lot on my plate. What with my girlfriend, my friend, the RNR HOF, my music, etc. Hopefully everything calms down for me real soon and I can relax with my boo, Britney. I’m trying to look at the bright side of life and keep a positive outlook. That’s why I wrote this, to get it all out so I don’t have to blow up on anyone or go into a fit of depression. It’s nothing too terrible. Just stupid little things that bug me or get me down is all. Thanks for reading. Pimp out!
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Friday night, I had my first movie date with my girl, Britney. We’ve obviously dated for a while, but we’ve never been out to the movies until Friday night. It was also my first official double-date. We went with her friend, Sam, and her boyfriend (whose name escapes me). Well Sam was nice (and cute, but don’t let Britney know) and her boyfriend was pretty nice. I don’t like him because he’s a heartthrob and I’m not. It’s a jealousy issue. But he’s a good guy, I guess. Even my damn girlfriend fell over him! 
Nice, huh? Oh well. Not that bigga deal. Either way, Sam and Britney wanted to see, of all things, “Baby Mama”. If you haven’t seen this movie…don’t waste your time. I told her it was gonna be stupid! But what do I know? I’m just a male and a grade ahead of her in high school! Whatever. Either way, the only reason I agreed to go is because Sam’s BF knew the day manager at Showcase Cinema and the guy gets him free tix. So he got the tickets for free and the only thing I bought was two $4 Icees and a $4 bag of popcorn. So it was…ok, I guess. The movie was pretty gay and I complained all before and after that we should have seen “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. She was getting annoyed with me saying that, so I just started whistling the Indiana Jones theme in the car on the way. 
Either way, she wouldn’t budge. Plus, we’d already gotten the tickets. So if I had to sit through that damn movie, the least she could do was sit through my Beatles! I played old school Beatles all the way there, and it was a 15 minute drive! So she can get used to it! Not only was I complaining about the horrible movie, but then SHE was complaining about my music. On the way back, she made me play the stupid hip-hop and RNB station! God, I hate this new black rap! It drives me crazy! But she likes it, so I decided to concentrate on the road and not on the music. LoL!
UGH! But moving past that, the third round, David Cook chose to do one of my mom and sister’s favorites and one of the only songs I know by Collective Soul, “The World I Know”. Randy and Paula loved it but Simon thought it was bogus. He’s so full of it! Then Archuleta gets up there and does the best song he did all season, “Imagine” by John Lennon, for the second week! He did it for ‘70s week, I believe, and he chose to do it again so he could get an easy vote. Obviously, all three judges went ape s**t over it! Whoopty frickin’ do! He can impersonate himself from an earlier week! I wanna see some new stuff! Either way, Simon said it was a “knock-out” by Archuleta, “to use a boxing analogy”. Bull honky! You honestly can sit there with a straight face and say that David Archuleta deserved that more than Cook when, the night before, you were on “The Tonight Show” talking about how you wanted David Cook to win? Make up your mind, you tea-drinking idiot! 
But then the results show was the next night. YAY! I was excited! I couldn’t wait! The show was pretty good. They had the final 12 on there again doing some numbers, they had Nash from Crosby, Stills, & Nash, they had SEAL, they had ZZ Top, they had George Michael, they had Donna Summers, they had the Jonas Brothers (ick!), former winners Jordan Sparks and Carrie Underwood, and I know they had one or two others. Not only the big-time music celebs, but they also had Jimmy Kimmel and Mike Myers there, and the best failure of the opening season auditions! I don’t remember his name, but he was Asian and he wrote his own song to audition to, “Brother”. He sang it to Simon. The guy pretty much worships the poo Simon Cowell lays! It’s disturbing, unless you’re into the whole homosexual thing. Which I’m not. Not that there’s…anything wrong with that. 
*cough* Back to business. It was a great show! But at the end…I waited with hands folded in prayer and literally on the edge of my seat for the results. Then Ryan Seacrest said “The winner…and the new 2008 American Idol winner is…David…COOK!” I jumped up, hooped, hollered, and clapped! Then I gave my mom a high-five and went to bed with a smile upon my face because I got to rub it into my Archuleta-loving girlfriend. HA! BOOYA! I shouldn’t take so much pleasure in other people’s short-comings…but I do! 
It just doesn’t take as good a quality of picture as our Kodiak camera with 50 million settings and super zoom and many other features that some of our military’s aircraft have on them! But I guess we’ll have to make due with what we can get. What other choice to we have? Smuggle in a camera and risk getting kicked out of the most prestigious rock ‘n’ roll center in the world? NEVER!
