game girl advance: The Friday Five

The Friday Five

I'm feeling lazy. And i'm busy getting ready for my trip - doing laundry, cleaning the house, throwing out the spoilage-imminent vegetables in the fridge. Justin's been stuck at JFK since yesterday morning on his way to Finland; but let's party!

Maybe, since the weekend is upon us, we can talk about how we're going to play - whether it's watching movies or reading books or playing games or whatever.And we can pray to whatever deities we believe in to please let the Northeast get their power back so that they may have email and electronic gaming and cartoons before Saturday morning.

So here are my Friday Five that I'm looking forward to:
1. Reading: Philip Roth, The Human Stain.
2. Listening: The Postal Service, Give Up
3. Playing: Neverwinter Nights, Shadows of Undrentide (yes, still!!)
4. Watching: Reruns of Xena on Oxygen while i fold the laundry. (i guess i *am* a girl - i'm watching the 'network for women').
5. Doing: painting in acrylic, pixelated emperiments, and writing a silly novel/cookbook with my sister.

And you?

Posted by jane at August 15, 2003 11:45 AM

Reading: old Comic Books I found after the move to the new house.
Listening: old Mortal Kombat Immortals CD I just bought. Again.
Playing: Not sure. DSL isn't hooked up yet (so no SWG), and I'm burned out on Outlaw Volleyball. Maybe buy a new game this weekend?
Watching: Bigah Oh! Shotaimu! (Big O)
Doing: more art for my new game concept. If I can get my PC hooked up (need a new desk) I'll be doing some digital ink and paint on it. Otherwise, more unpacking! Whee!

Posted by: Bowler on August 15, 2003 02:34 PM

1. Reading: Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire (in preparation for the new one), and Killing Monsters, Gerard Jones.
2. Listening: A mix of Rooney and Dealership:)
3. Playing: Star Wars Galaxies and Advance Wars 2
4. Watching: My wife perform in a play (4.48 Psychosis, by Sarah Kane), and Revolution OS (Oxygen is rerunning Xena? Sweet!)
5. Doing: Working on redesigning my website (I'd link, but it's not ready).

Posted by: Thad on August 15, 2003 02:41 PM

1. Reading: Sacrament (formerly known as You Will Know Our Velocity) by David Eggers
2. Listening RadioK.org
3. WarioWare: Mega Microgame$
4. Watching: Strongbad answer his email
5. Doing: Final changes on the last day of my internship at Maxis.

Posted by: ClockworkGrue on August 15, 2003 04:22 PM

1. Reading: Carry On Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
2. Listening: Chara - Madrigal
3. WarioWare: Advance Wars (4 way battles with my coworkers)
4. Watching: My Girlfriend play KOTOR
5. Doing: Working on a deadline for Activision

Posted by: zaius on August 15, 2003 08:01 PM

1. Reading: Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic
2. Listening: This American Life (My favorite NPR show)
3. Playing: ATITD and an indie project I'm working on
4. Watching: "American Splender"
5. Doing: 10th Annual Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival - Jousting, mud fights, and insane amounts of barely cooked meat? Sign me up! Taking the whole family!

Posted by: Jia on August 16, 2003 12:17 AM

I do love the list format.

1. Reading: No Logo, Naomu Klein
2. Listening: Single Frame, "Wetheads Come Running"
3. Playing: Silent Hill 3...
4. Watching: My dog barking in his sleep
5. Doing: the hustle!

I'm sorry, let me do that again.

5.) Recording music with my peculiarly hairy friend

Posted by: tonytula on August 16, 2003 08:29 AM

It's saturday night and we are working :( The good thing is that we are working on a shockwave game, which is always fun (and it involves ballet and bumping cars). I just wish we could be watching Xena :)

Posted by: Frasca on August 16, 2003 05:31 PM

Well..

Reading: Hustler
Watching: BayWatch
Playing: Tomb Raider
Listening: Britney Spears

Love your work,

Jimbo

Posted by: jimbo on August 17, 2003 10:04 PM

1. Reading: Downsize This! by Michael Moore
2. Watching: um... tonight is Law & Order night, so probably a lot of that.
3. Playing: Stepmania, Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, Live for Speed, F-Zero X, Pokémon Puzzle League, DDR Max, and the list goes on and on and on... I think I may have a problem.
4. Listening: Not for Your Ears - Evanescence, and Comfort Eagle - Cake
5. Doing: Working on a college's website (yay for at-work web access)

Posted by: Matt on August 18, 2003 10:30 AM

1.reading: metamagical themas:questing for the essence of mind and pattern
2. watching: motogp-brno
3. playing: heroclix and some d&d
4. listening: nofx-punk in drublic....and dealership!
5. doing: trying to put together a small display table using just 2x4's and glue.

Posted by: charley on August 18, 2003 11:50 AM

1. reading: positively fifth st, by mcmanus.
2. watching: next episode of redvsblue
3. playing: i dunno. maybe some starcraft.
4. listening: tv highway to the stars! :) and some old sleeper albums.
5. doing: looking forward to a week of work :(

Posted by: rich on August 18, 2003 04:24 PM

1. read: Poe complete tales & poems, Mein Kampf
2. watched: Takashi's bizarre Dead or Alive
3. played: Star Wars mod online for Battlefield 1942
4. listened: The Postal Service, dealership, figurine, famicompo
5. did: furniture design, album artwork

Posted by: jon on August 18, 2003 06:04 PM

1. Reading: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
2. Listening: Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Radiohead - Hail to Thief, At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
3. Playing: Advance Wars 2, Super Mario Advance 4(it's a shame I can't use the Japanese e-reader cards!), Star Wars Galaxies
4. Watching: I just bought As Good as it Gets on DVD, so I'll watch that.
5. Doing: practicing the piano 1-2 hours a day(about three fourth of which is spent doing Hanon's perpetual movement etude, heh), watering my mother's plants while she's on vacation, trying to keep myself from eating too many chocolate muffins.

Posted by: Jean-Philippe on August 20, 2003 12:06 PM

1. Reading: Summerland by Michael Chabon
2. Listening: Flaming Lips, The - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. Playing: Star Wars Galaxies, if my server ever comes back up =)
4. Watching: Bug
5. Doing: typing this in at 4am 'cause I can't sleep =D

Posted by: fiend on August 24, 2003 01:55 AM

Reading: Neotech II: Psychuous Sex
Listening: DJ Ceph
Playing: Knights of the Old Republic
Watching: Futurama, Season 2
Doing: och, the working, it is hurting my brain

Posted by: benthemad on September 6, 2003 04:00 AM