It's been a Hard Day's Night

Not really, since I'm not working this week, it has been a blast, haha, plus, yesterday was a holiday so there were no classes, so yeah.

I've been playing a whole lot of The Beatles Rock Band, a shitload of it, I get up, I play, I eat, then I play, go to school, come back, play some more, haha, I know probably by this time next week I'm not even going to bother hooking it up (the guitars and the drums), but so far it has been a blast. There are 45 songs, and since it's The Beatles, all are great, there are a lot of songs missing, but it could be worse. The first day with the game was a nightmare...not because of the game, but the anticipation and stuff happening before getting to play it. We knew my aunt Martha was coming to Juarez and Ricky had checked on the net that our packages had arrived so we just needed to wait for my aunt and that was it, but since we were going to be connecting 2 guitars, the drums and a microphone to the PS3, we needed a USB hub, so we went to Walmart (in Juarez) to buy one, and when we got back home my aunt had already stopped by the house and brought everything...or so we thought, the drums and a guitar were missing, sure we could play, but only two at a time, and the 3 of us wanted to play...so we decided to go to EP to pick up the stuff, it was 4pm and Diego gets off work at 5, so we thought by 6 we would be back and play. We get in the car, and it's raining like hell, and Juarez is not a pretty sight when it's raining, entire lakes form in the streets, no kidding, but we didn't care, we were on our way, no point in going back. The line at the bridge was loooooong, but we didn't mind, we were listening to some Beatles songs to get in "Beatles mode", hahaha. All was going well...right before the middle of the bridge...my stupid car didn't want to go on, I had no idea what was happening, it was trembling all weird and the stereo kept on turning off...and there I realized the...um, alternador (don't know what it's called in english), wasn't working, so we had to turn off the stereo, the headlights, and since we were almost not moving, had to keep stepping on the gas to have current going to the battery...anyway, after like half an hour of fear of my car dying we made it, when we entered the freeway, it didn't matter anymore. We got home at like 7pm, and didn't care about anything else, we just put the game, hooked everything up, and started playing. "Twist and Shout" was the first song we played...and it wasn't pretty, the audio and video were all out of synch and couldn't play the notes at all, plus, one of the drum thingies didn't work, WHY?????? We were mad as hell!!! I could see it in my head: Returning the drum, getting the credit, buying a new one, wait for it to arrive, at least 2 weeks...so we decided to give it a little "inspection" and opened it a little, haha (we knew that would void the warranty), and when we didn't see what was wrong, we just closed it and started working hahaha, and after some minor tweaking in the options got it all synced and at 8:30pm played "Boys"...no more shit, just good times ahead. And sure enough, by 11:30pm we had finished the whole game, all 45 songs, haha, we had a great time.

The great thing about this game is that anybody knows at least a song and can play it, like this video of me playing and my mom singing:



And I've been obsessing about playing and singing songs at the same time, both on expert, I'm not great but I'm getting there, this is of my first time playing and singing that song both on expert, so it's not so bad: