Walking To The Window With Weez
March #3: Cal Ave from PA Weekly office
Originally uploaded by Ghostly Penguin Display. March has been added to the 2011 Almanac. Not much going on yet. Judging by the previous 4 almanacs, April is when the biggest changes occur.
So what's been happening lately? Well, we've been playing the new Back To The Future game at Charlie's, which is fun because it kind of picks up a few months after the end of the trilogy. All of the characters are back and some even have their real voices. The first time travel sequence takes you to 1931 where you meet a teen-aged Emmett Brown, Marty's grandfather Artie McFly and "Kid" Tannen, a bootlegging gangster. And....that's as far as we've gotten. It's similar to the great 1993 Lucas Arts game "Day Of The Tentacle" in that you go around looking for clues and solving puzzles in the past that will affect things in the future. Inspired by the BTTF game, I found a bootleg download of DotT for Mac a couple days ago and I've been re-playing it to see if it was as awesome as I thought it was in 1993. Obviously the graphics and sound are dated, but the fun quotient is still there and from what I've seen so far I'd have to say it's much better than the Back To The Future game, as far as time travel games go. If you do decide to download a free copy of DotT (which I strongly suggest you do right away), just remember - when in doubt: F5 (or FnF5). Is there anything that F5 *can't* do? It's truly the wonder key.
Excitement about the UK trip has gone up a few notches as I've just been informed (by goldenmoonbear) that we're invited to play at The Great Escape in Brighton, which bills itself as "Europe's Leading Festival For New Music". I don't know how true that is, but I do know that it is full of bands I've never heard of which could just mean that I'm too old for my own britches. Brighton has a Santa Cruz vibe to it that fits right into my comfort zone & last year's Brighton gig didn't go so well (it didn't go at all) so here's hoping we can make up for that this year.