Well, that kinda sucked...

A lot has passed since last week. E3 came and went unexceptionally. I worked at the office on day 1 and RSVPed too late for the parties I had gotten invited too. This was all OK with me. I was happy to relax Wednesday evening. Thursday I went to the show to have a look around, and it was really pretty pathetic. Talk about the sound and the fury signifying nothing. It was so loud, so crowded, so full of girls in hot-shorts paid to smile, and so utterly empty of innovation, genuine excitement, or camaraderie. Friday I worked the company station. Upstairs and "off the floor" we still had plenty of traffic and the game got a great reaction from people. I actually had a better time playing and showing off JO than looking at GTA6, Grand Turismo 4, Silent Hill 4, FF 13, or any of the other tired games getting all the attention. I'll post some crappy snaps I got off before my camera died. In order to get to the show on time friday morning. I slept at Sasha's. That area of town is really superior to the west side. Even so, Saturday I cut down to Santa Monica looking for trouble and I found it in the name of Chris Gonzales-- not really. We drank a not-too-small cup of some wonderful tea, then we hit the town. One beck CD later we were at Slash's Snake Pit in Melrose. Bushmills on the rocks and some girls (the record) were the highlights there. We had planned to catch up with Anise and her friend Lilly at a club called Bliss, but we were both haggard and sporting a hobo style, so we caught up instead at an after hours pizza parlor called Berri's. The place fronts like a club complete with a dude working a faux velvet rope. Inside one finds a euro DJ spinning terrificly loud middle eastern tinged club music, 20 inch pizzas, and drunk people with nowhere else to go. It was really nice to hang out with some friends.