Sunday, June 03, 2007

The Guitars Are Sobbing Ungently

I am rocking the fuck out of Chicago tonight. The Pretentious Bastard is currently hacking his way through Woman on Medium. We are working our way through medium to get as many songs as possible unlocked. I was asked to do an encore of Sweet Child of Mine. I got three stars. Rather like my college career, I can not seem to avoid fucking up for long enough to secure a score above 88%. We are playing Guitar Hero 2 on an XBox 360 with a HD TV that is approximately .32 Wangs, just slightly smaller than Clif's.

We are stuck on Trgodor as originally performed by Strong Bad.

Please pardon any typos as I am using both a Mac and cramped hands from all the rocking. Earlier, we attempted to engage in some light hearted kareoke. The DJ stiffed us and we left after loudly disparaging the DJ with our compatriots.

Hope remains for further rocking.

20 comments:

teh l4m3 said...

Heh heh.

Cramped hands.

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't you be playing Blues Hero in Chicago?

Anonymous said...

The more interesting question, MDhatter, WTF is he doing in Chicago? Taking his wang on tour?

Anonymous said...

I left a piece of pie for you over at O'Hare, Chuckles. Did you find it?

Anonymous said...

Whatever. The dj possessed a degree of douchitude high enough to spoil any of the Johnny Cash we had in store for that evening.

Although, for the record, you are soooo approved right now for agreeing to karaoke to a Boy Named Sue with me. Kid tested - mother approved.

Anonymous said...

Where's AG's pie?!!

Kathleen said...

Rather like my college career, I can not seem to avoid fucking up for long enough to secure a score above 88%.

Idk, from that one story at RoD, it seemed like your college career issues were because you couldn't avoid fucking.

not that there's anything wrong with that.

Brando said...

Awesome, Chuckles. I managed to get 5-stars on Medium for all the main playlist songs except for Freebird (the solo kills me), Hangar 18 (I am close, I just lose it at the end), Psychobilly Freakout (fuck me with an Explorer controller), Institutionalized (I can't even get the freakout chord changes right when I slow it down), and Carry Me Home, which makes me want to cut off my own hands.

I bumped up to the Hard level to see if it would help, and I am stuck on Woman because the solo has so many goddamned hammerons and pulloffs. I have taken a GH break (plus I bought Forza 2 because I love drunk videogame driving), but I am feeling the urge to shred again.

Anonymous said...

I hate you jackasses with the 360 and its exclusive tracks.

Oh well, I shall mock you with my GH 80's when it comes out. I've been playing it again this weekend myself. I didn't transfer any of my saved songs over to my PS3 so now I'm beating it all over again.

The thing that does suck about hooking it up to my HDTV is that the audio sync makes getting the hammer ons and pull offs a little harder.

I hope that this problem goes away when the GH3 comes out cause it's annoying.

Chuckles said...

Sorry, Jennifer, I flew in to Midway and I did not get a chance to scrounge O'Hare for pie.

Natasha, I will sing A Boy Named Sue, One Piece at a Time, Walk the Line or even Jackson with you.

I still don't know what a Hammer On or Pull Off is. I do know that I consistently screw up long strings of the same note. When you have to hit like 37 yellows in a row, I miss most of them. Especially double notes. However, I can hit complicated single note strings like they're going out of style.

Chuckles said...

kathleen, can we ever really avoid it?

Brando said...

I haven't had any sync issues with the 360 version. And we may have some extra tracks, but at least it wasn't $8 for 3 whole songs with GH1 for the PS2.

I am trying to learn the hammer ons and pull offs now, because the harder levels are really tough without them. What's killing me are the slides to reach the orange button. I get mixed up where my fingers are and that's where the trouble begins (speaking of my college career...)

Chuckles said...

I have been thinking about giving up on pinky finger use because of its tendency to ignore the proper signals from my brain. Maybe just slide around all the time using only the first three fingers. I also noticed that I have a tendency to mash green, red and yellow down when I only mean to hit green and red. Or whatever the hell the colors are, they could be flourescent green for all it matters for my skill.

The XBOX 360 controller blows ass compared to the OG PS2 one. The flying V-style shit really fucks with my strumming hand. Cramps up your whole forearm.

Lindsey said...

Just popping in to say hey!!

teh l4m3 said...

I am a teenage goo-goo muck

Pretentious Bastard said...

More Karaoke next week.

Jenny said...

I saw PB's picture stream - that's one hell of a burrito you got goin' on there! I'm impressed you could get your mouth around it. :P

So, when will London and the surrounding area be worthy of a visit from the Chucklemeister?

Chuckles said...

When London costs less than your first born to visit.

Anonymous said...

What photo stream? Jenny: adorable girlfiend at yahoo dot com. Please include any college photos from Olive Garden.

Dawg, post a new god damn thread with Chi-town photos, please.

I am really confused. First you put money in my Paypal account. Then you send me text messages of your wang. Instead, maybe you could answer AG's yahoo e-mail, beeotch.

Chuckles said...

As usual, AG is ranting incoherently about nothing at all.