I don't think I'm inside my own mind today...
I've cashed U.S. checks at my local bank many times. One of my aunts lives in the United States and even though I'm ever-so-close of the very adult age of twenty-one, she still likes to spoil me a bit as she always has throughout my life. She usually sends money as a gift as I usually ask for things that are exuberant and difficult to ship over the border now a days. Sending money is typically the much more convenient option. Today however the option was rather inconvenient. The teller of my bank must've been a newer employee and I undserstand if things happen. I wasn't worried one way or the other but to suddenly have to jump through so many hoops where there were otherwise none before just strikes me as odd. A twenty day hold for forty dollars?
Hardly seems worth the effort doesn't it?
I'm really, really looking forward to Madden NFL 09. As a gamer, I'm in the minority when I say that Sports games are my genre preference. I was never very athletic as a child and got into watching sports as a way to still feel like I'm a part of the action. Sports fandom is a unique paradox to me, people can become so rabid for something bigger than themselves...
It's like organized religion except you don't get shit on for trying to push it on to other people...
As gaming consoles entered the next generation, and hockey games became increasingly monotonous and well, bad. I turned my attention to a sport which its video games were experiencing a sudden leap in quality with this sudden leap in technology: Football games.
Madden NFL 2000 for the N64 was my first exposure to what is now a collosal gaming franchise. Over the years as the games got better and the technology expanded my love for Football games grew. Growing up in Canada with the eight team CFL. Football is kind of like a cheap novelty compared to Hockey which might as well be organized religion up here. The team I chose to back: The Cleveland Browns. Expanded in 2000 the year I bought the game, I have rode them to most certain failiure but that's an entire other days rant I'm sure.
Madden has always had an excellent atmosphere in its games and they're incredibly addicting if thats your thing. I love the bone crunching hits and the utter elation you feel when your offence bends that defence over for a huge gain or a huge touchdown. Madden NFL 09 will be my first foray into "next-gen" sports gaming, as I have reverted back to Hockey in recent years. This years Madden is easily shaping up to be their best offering. You know what they say about the third time being the charm. I think it's taken 3 years for EA to get Madden going on the 360, which is kind of rediculous considering where the game was at on Xbox. Pretty much at the top of its form with a few nit picks here and there.
One more month and it will be mine, and I will savor it!
I eagerly await The Dark Knight! Five more days until I get to watch it. There is an incredible ammount of buzz around Heath Ledgers portrayal of The Joker. I've read critics compare his portrayal of the Clown Prince of Crime to that of Anthony Hopkin's Hannible Lector. That's pretty much good enough for me. The Rolling Stone's review of the movie was titled "Prepare to be Wowed" and I have yet to hear anything especially scathing about the movie, aside from some peoples deviance towards the movies running time which is just excess of two and a half hours. The movie is only fifteen minutes longer than Batman Begins and I'm sure it will be a superior film experience. I cant wait!
Hopefully next time I'll have a little more venomous a topic to persue but in the mean time I hope everyone has a good week and is enjoying their July thus far.
Thug life!
