guilty pleasures
Do you remember that scene in that Jeopardy! episode of Friends (I have absolutely no shame in still making references to Friends four years after the show ended) where Ross asks “What does Rachel claim as her favorite movie?” and Joey says “Dangerous Liasons”? And then Ross asks what is Rachel’s actual favorite movie and Joey says “Weekend at Bernie’s”?
That’s kind of like this post (without all of the confusing punctuation). If someone were to ask me what my favorite song was lately, I would want to claim:
Shucks, I can’t put the video in here because they’ve disabled embedding for this music video. If you’re curious you’ll have to click through the link.
It sounds like bad Eminem at first but the lyrics are smart and I think the music video is powerful. I also think the trumpet solos are creative. In full disclosure, I first heard this song in Forever 21 at Willowbrook Mall on the northwest side of town.
But then I would be compelled to admit that my actual favorite song lately is:
Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
I don’t like the lyrics, don’t like the video (although Jesse is cute in the video, in a Jonathan Rhys Meyers kind of way), but it’s catchy! Such is the way of pop music, I suppose. I had no idea who Jesse McCartney was so I looked him up on wikipedia. Apparently he co-wrote “Bleeding Love” for Leona Lewis. Which is cool.
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I should have wrote about this in the raves post but the husband came home with Virtua Tennis 3 on Tuesday night (for only $20 at Radio Shack!). We’ve been anticipating this since our days of playing Virtua Tennis on Sega Dreamcast! The graphics are gorgeously rich, the gameplay is fantastic, and the details are impressive. On clay courts, the dust stirs up when you run, you slide on the court depending on your momentum, the ball leaves marks on the court wherever it bounces and the players move very fluidly. My only complaint is that they don’t have enough players to select from (they’re missing Justine Henin and Novak Djokovic) but they make up for it by allowing you to create custom players.
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Comments
u have a ps3?
psun / June 12th, 2008, 1:31 pm
how’s the AI? is Fed beatable on grass/hard court? is Rafa impossible to beat on clay??
PT / June 12th, 2008, 2:03 pm
yep, we got a ps3 for the husband’s birthday this year.
the AI is pretty challenging. federer is hard to beat regardless of the court. i’m still in training but i did beat tony in a 6 game set with a tie-break! they also have a pretty fun world tour mode where you train up, play in tournaments and rise in the rankings. the training sessions are like japanese game shows — which is pretty fun. and occasionally you get challenged to matches from other pros. makes me think how fun the professional tennis player’s life is.
becky / June 12th, 2008, 5:47 pm
What do you think?