i watched the trailer for “step up 2 the streets” the other day, a movie (i presume) about dancers battling for street supremacy using highly choreographed hip-hop dance routines. this sort of idea has been around since the wildly superior (i presume) “west side story” – stylized dance moves replacing actual drama and fight scenes. i, for one, would like to be a part of these street dance-offs one day. also it is the only sort of gang i could roll in, which is probably pretty sad.

check this out!

sweet art by nathan of our very own booker ‘n gappy, which he threw together ON A WHIM (only thing i throw together on whims are peanut butter ‘n jam sandwiches). but yeah! i think this is super great. i also think that this would make great art for a potential graphic novel starring potential comedic duos (although it seems i am leading you on to something here, nothing of the sort is in the works)

i don’t know what you did on sunday, but i spent 1PM – 12:03AM writing a huge paper about chimpanzees and their capacity to understand human language. i honestly do not know what i wrote at this point, but there are 4504 words of something i just saved. whether or not it consists of mostly me saying “monkeys are cool” remains to be seen.

but, as i have no attention span, i mostly spent today playing old computer games. i downloaded a bunch and spent approximately 4 hours playing them. most of them were never meant to be revisited. however, one that remains cool is “commander keen”.

this game was one of my favorites when i was a kid. you’re a kid with a helmet who shoots aliens, or something. one thing i don’t remember? this thing is SUPER HARD. i couldn’t get past the first level. you have like just enough ammo in your laser gun for five shots, so you have to conserve them. i found this out the hard way at first, encountering a huge green monster and blasting at him repeatedly, much like you do in every game ever these days. not only do you only get 5 shots, these shots only STUN the monsters. and you gotta jump over them and run! after you are out of shots, you simply have to dodge and time your jumps properly to advance. too hard! and because modern day games have spoiled culture with unlimited rocket launcher shots in comparison to 5 measly stun laser shots, i quit the game after about 10 minutes in frustration. maybe thats why modern day kids are such spoiled jerks – they get their ammo handed to them, in comparison to the old days where you were thankful for what you got.

jkd