I wanna be a Guitar Hero!

I’ve always had a habit of getting drawn into fads such as Pokêmon, yo-yos, marbles, Yugio and DDR just to name a few. The latest “fad” (although I pray it isn’t a fad) I’ve fallen for is Guitar Hero. For those of you who have been living under a rock ignorant of the complete awesomeness that is this phenomenon, Guitar Hero is a game on the PS2 (now Xbox 360 and coming soon to Wii, PS3 and even the DS) that has you rocking out on a plastic guitar to a huge variety of rock music.

Rach and I got so hooked into the game shortly after playing it a friend’s house one night we went out and bought a PS2 just so we could play the game. From that point on there was no turning back, we spent countless hours together honing our skills working our way through the set list together.

Now 5 months since we first purchased the game I’m still hooked, it’s the only game since I completed Final Fantasy 7 many years ago that’s held my attention for this long. I’m so hooked into this game I’ve even rigged up a fake guitar neck made from cardboard so I can practice moving my fingers for doing “hammer-ons” and “pull-offs” in the game.



Before the taunting and teasing begins let me tell you I already know this is quite lame and instead spending so much time on Guitar Hero I should be practicing actual instruments or my singing. In my defence however I tend to only mess around with my cardboard guitar neck when I’m having lunch at work or reading through documents, you could almost say I’m multi-tasking… almost.

Guitar Hero is increasing in popularity as time goes on. People have gone to great lengths to customize their guitars, from different paint styles to rigging up foot pedals to activate the “starpower” in the game, there has even been a working Guitar Hero controller made entirely from Lego designed for the game.

There is now a web site called Scorehero (http://www.scorehero.com)dedicated to users registering their scores to rank the greatest players in the world. I have registered an account my username is "bpruha" if anyone wishes to search for me which I’ve only filled in one song. I have also registered a co-operative team for “Guitar Hero: Rocks The 80s Encore” consisting of Rachel and I to see how we rank as a team in the world of co-op Guitar Hero.

I now have 7 songs left to pass the game on expert, but even after that I still have a lot to do on the game. There are still bonus songs to complete as well as trying the daunting task of trying to “5 star” all the songs on expert for my Log Guitar.

Anyway enough nerdy rambling for me today.
Peace out!

Sweet home Alabama... uh i mean Ringwood

Well it’s been quite some time since I’ve written to my fellow readers (if I had any readers to begin with) but I really haven’t felt too inspired to write blogs not to mention the fact I’ve been quite busy at work these days. Most of my energy is spent writing procedures and other work related projects so the last thing I generally want to do is write mindless nonsense as my brain is pretty fried when it gets to the end of the day.

Since my last blog there have been many changes. I have moved out with my beautiful girlfriend Rachel to a place in Ringwood, not too far from my old home. Things are going quite well between us so far, the change from living at home to moving in together wasn’t really a big difference as we were essentially living together at my place anyway. But it nice to have somewhere we can call our own.

When I say on our own I also mean our other house mate David, actually it’s his house and we are both very thankful that he has let us invade his territory. In my opinion it’s worked out pretty well for him too. On the nights Rach and I eat at home (which is most of the time) he gets meals cooked for him rather than living of Hungry Jacks or frozen pies. I’m not sure about he feels about us being there but the place also has a more homely feel to it since moving our belongings in. It’s quite a large three bedroom house and for one person to be living there it did seem quite empty.

Anyway that’s about it for now, we are having a house warming/Halloween party soon, those who need to know already know, those who don’t know probably aren’t invited.

This is generally the section of my blog where I say that I’m going to try harder to blog more often, but that’s probably unlikely. I’d like to blog more often so I’ll just leave it at that.

Anyway peeps keep rocking!