As you may know, one of the greatest games ever made, was released almost two weeks ago. This game will without a doubt be considered, and remembered as, the single greatest game ever, along with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. This is not just my opinion, gamers all over are debating which game is superior. Some say SMG, some say OoT. If I'm going to make a decision, I'll need to buy OoT on Wii Shop Channel, and play it. I currently say SMG is better, the most fun, creative, and downright entertaining I've ever played. The levels have unbeliebable detail, down to the last little pixel. The game has been thought out so well, with crazy twists, and huge appeal to both a huge gamer or a novice (put me about in between those two, maybe leaning a little more towards hardcore). Games like Legend of Zelda and Metroid Prime are amazing, just as entertaining to me, but simply not as widely appealing. In Zelda and Metroid, the challenges are both hard to figure out, and hard to execute. This makes for a great game, with the appeal of finally pulling it off. However, Super Mario Galaxy has puzzles that are varied, sometimes so simple you can figure it out while fighting off goombas, or some challenging enough that you have to stop, think, and then try, over and over until you figure it out. It's usually pretty intermediate to execute the necessary actiosns as well. Whether you've played games your whole life, or are just starting, this is a perfect game. Along with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime 3, I say these rank right up as the greatest. I may seem a little hasty in saying this, but I'm not exagerrating. Greatest...game...ever. That's final.

In other news, I went to Death Valley, lowest point in the western hemisphere, the past two days. It rocked. Out in this one place, I actually for the first time ever, heard complete silence with no wind, water, birds, talking, music, anything. I saw naturally polished marble, 120 foot tall sand dunes, and stood out the sun roof of a car and took pictures. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving, I'm going to San Francisco (God help me) with my dad to see friends.

I'm seeing Social Distortion live on December 23rd. That's right, while the rest of you are sleeping or drunk of your a$$es, I'll be rocking to "Story of My Life" and "Reach For the Sky." By the way,, I watched a full concert video of Smashiing Pumpkins live from Philadelphia, and it rocked. I'll post it when I want to. They played "Cherub Rock" and "Stand Inside Your Love"", two rocking as f*** songs. "SIYL" is about the only exceptional song from "MACHINA", which I've discovered is SP's absolute worse. The only other decent song besides the aforementioned is "Heavy Metal Machine", which f*****g rocks live, but is only okay on the album. In other Pumpkins news, "Siamese Dream" still rocks socks, as does "Gish", "Mellon Collie", "Adore", and to a lesser extent, "Zeitgeist". Did you know "Ten" by Pearl Jam also rocks? I learned how to play that with my own solo, where I play the same solo beginning (the really fast part), and then do my own rocking improvising, cause I rock.

For Christmas, I'm getting a home recording thing, to record covers and original songs, hopefully a Line 6 Spider III 120 watt amp, which rocks as I've been told, or if not that, a Jimi Hendrix Experience pedal, which also rocks, sh*t load of CDs (namely "Adore", "Vs.", "RHCP: Live Hyde Park", "Contraband", etc.), few shirts, video games, the Social Distortion tix I mentioned, a Nirvana live DVD, and a bunch of surprises probably. That's it. Did you know I rock? In fact, I had a weird a$$fifteen minute period of pure improvising, with my chorus pedal on almost non stop, but no wah-wah cause the batteries almost dead, making it suck. It was better than anything f****** Green Day's done since 1995, or anything anybody who's emo has dreamed of doing. They don't know how to play the blues so well the guitar starts to cry, or probably how to work a pedal. For that matter, they probably don't know a singgle scale, or know what a pentatonic is (Hint: five notes). In unrelated matter, that's the end of this blog, or is it? If you wanna keep reading, read the blank white spot, until you realize you're doing absolutely nothing.

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