Blast from the Past

Anyone remember this game?

My good friend Josh back in high school (not to be confused with my good friend Josh back in high school that I still hang out with) and I used to play this one and man was it fun. It was the perfect combination of frenetic action, shiny bits, faux-guns and hand-eye coordination. I'll have to start watching the thrift stores for old copies of it, although I don't doubt that most sets around these days are missing most or all of the little, shiny, swallow-able pieces.

Random flashback

I just realized that I must have seen Rich Mullins in concert once apon a time. (And I don't care what my spell checker says, I like 'apon' better than 'upon'.)

While listening to my 'Bouncy Upbeat' playlist, Rich's "Awesome God" came on. It was probably the first time I've listened to the song in...many many years. Then I remembered sitting in a little amphitheater in Elitch Gardens in Colorado, listening to some unimpressive looking person sing Awesome God, and I remembered that it was a concert with Michael W. Smith (of whom I was a fan) and some other guy I hadn't really heard of.

If course, I could be misremembering, and it could have been someone else.

Random Acts of Friday: Sentimientos

Okay, I'm not a particularly sentimental guy. Ask my wife, my brother (who I never call), my mom or my dad, and they would probably all agree

Last night, after watching Survivor over at Mom's, and while I was waiting for...something, I was perusing Mom's cd collection and came across one called The Roches. When we lived in Indonesia, we had a tape that my uncle (who was our go-to guy for random musical selections, and is directly responsible for getting me hooked on Enya) had recorded for us.

Now, this music is not particularly high-brow. In fact I think the group (known as "The Roches" - apparently it was a self-titled album) might have produced a grand total of 3 albums or less. So I can't recommend that you pick up any of their cds and listen to them, because I doubt that you'll fall in love with their quirky, folksy sound and their unlikely lyrics about random, everyday-ish stuff. But I borrowed the cd nonetheless, because I just had a hankering to listen to it again.

So this morning I listened through all the songs on the cd that I recognized and didn't dislike. And now that I've had my 'fix', I think I can gladly go another 5 years before I ever listen to the Roche sisters again.

Well, with the possible exception of "Quitting Time", which is perhaps the best song in their repertoire (but again, this is not saying much).

P.S. - I just was looking at the cover art, which features three rather non-descript women in such things as tights and soccer shoes, and I noticed that it looks like two of them are twins. That just struck me as funny. Go figure.