Sonique
1 03 2006Those Yeah yeah yeah tickets actually arrived the other day, to my utter astonishment, thus underscoring how much better stargreen is than seetickets.
Nikki and I have been eyeing the V Festival lineup with cautious optimism. It’s not exactly the coolest festival around but then it does have a few decent bands usually, of the kind that are often unlikely to play Reading (though in the case of the Charlatans, that’s a good thing). We’re going to go to the Chelmsford site this year since we now live much closer to it over Stafford, but we’re still deciding how to play things with regard to tickets. The Morissey day just has a bunch of dadrock on the bill, where the Radiohead day also has Beck and the Editors, both of whom I really like. However, you can never be sure whether the other announced bands will be any good. At the moment we’ll probably buy two day tickets each and then sell the Morissey day on if it turns out shite. Personally, I’m still interested in seeing how Reading turns out.
Today we had a meeting at work that lasted 3 hours, and then I was 2 hours late leaving because of fixing stuff which had to be done. I find once I’ve accepted that I’m not going to be leaving any time soon I am overcome with a sense of calm acceptance that at least makes things pleasant to work at. Still, I’m left wondering again how come we’re quite welcome to stay late, but expected never to leave early… I do get a guaranteed seat on the tube, though. I’m currently reading Pamela Des Barnes’ autobiography, “I’m with the band” which Nikki passed onto me (there’s normally very little overlap in what we read, but this is an exception) and I’m finding it very enjoyable, especially in how it helps me realise where all the references from Almost Famous come from. That said, it’s main value is in discovering the utterly astonishing number of 70s rock stars she had sex with. I’ll never look at Jimmy Page the same way again.
In the past few days I completed Sonic Rush on the DS. As a child, I remember when the playground would speak in hushed tones of some guy who had a friend whose cousin’s dad worked for Nintendo (or Sega) and had a version of sonic that worked on the SNES, and yes he does because I’ve seen it but he won’t let anyone borrow it else I’d show you, and you’re just saying it’s not true because your jealous. But now, here I am, playing Sonic on a Nintendo console. I’ll never fully be able to accept it. Does that make me a bigot?
Is sonic rush any good?
I didn’t think I’d live to see the day that sonic would be sold out to nintendo.
I remember seeing the original sonic on the mega drive and being blown away by the graphics and feeling bitter for, at the time, only having a master system.
Sonic seems to be going the way of an aging gock group, great in their day, but living on their past reputation. Maybe it should be time Sonic and his merry critters were put down.
I think Sonic 3 was about the peak of Sonic games. After that it’s all be confusion and disappointment, and new characters that don’t make much sense. Sonic Rush is quite close to the earlier sonic games, so it’s actually a lot more enjoyable than, say, anything on the gamecube, but it still has some of the more recent crap in, like how Robotnik is called “Eggman” to keep it the same as the Japanese continuity.
As the kind of guy who owned a SNES, I can’t help feeling partially vindicated, but there’s very little joy in defeating a weakened foe. Having seen the quality of sonic games over the last few years I do agree that maybe someone needs to hurry him along to the “special zone,” if you get my meaning.