Startin' Him Off Early

It was never our intent for him to be acquainted with video games until he was I don't know, 10 or so but certainly not at 2.5 years old.

Unfortunately, you hang around a gamer, you pick up gaming, I guess?

I made sure to not play Grand Theft Auto IV: Chinatown Wars around him.

I can assure all that I made sure I was not poppin' caps in people's asses during turf wars or stealing cars in his presence.

His father on the other hand may have stolen a car or two and went driving with him in GTA:IV.

BH enjoyed watching the "ghost" game: Persona 3, while I played though I didn't play that around him either or do anything other than go to school or occasionally visit the Velvet Room.

The song that plays in that space is kind of creepy with operatic vocals and I don't know where he gets this stuff from but he always wanted me to go see "Ghooosstttss". He associated the eerie sound with ghosts and thus his obsession continues.

One of his current favourites is Crash Bandicoot.

Like most people, he is fascinated by the Tiki Mask, and more so the sound the Mask makes when one collects it.

He doesn't like it when I hit the turtles but he's okay with the spinning attack on some 'kunks (skunks).

So far, his favourite game is Patapon 2. He may love those little one-eyed beasts almost as much as I do and is very upset with them right now that they're building a bridge and cannot be bothered (ie I am finished with the game and won't play it anymore). He keeps asking for them though and will once in a while ask if they are finished building their bridge. I told him that it'd probably take them about 2 years or so to complete.

He likes digging up the garden and wacking pinatas in Viva Pinata. I...don't know anything about that or why H1 would allow such a blatant display of violence.

But it might explain why he will tell his daddy to go "get" certain types of cars in GTA:IV.

Of course, the game that started it all was his love of The Ramones and Rock Band.

He has graduated from singing and is starting to play an instrument...kind of.



::sniff::

I'm so proud!

Not a Hemo Either

For the past few days, I've been telling him that my headphones are broken. Yesterday when I got in the car after work, we were talking about the new headphones that came to the house.

He saw that I had my Ipod and wanted to hear 2 things by way of special request.

"Rock Band", he said.

So, I played his favourite "Blitzkreig Bop" for him.

After that was over, he requested "monkeys".

He wanted to listen to his Uncle Alex and Arctic Monkeys.

I was so proud and impressed.

Beetchie, he's not a hipster or an emo, much like I'm no Hemo either. Ass.

Currently listening to: "Kizuna" by Orange Range.

Boooooobeeeeyyy

Yesterday, I went over to H1's house to retrieve the PS3 chord to transfer our Rock Band songs to Rock Band 2 for use by The Oxtails in the future.

When I got there, Boo Head was strapped into his seat at the table, having dinner with his mommy and daddy. However, he saw me and immediately wanted to be let down.

"Boobey," he whispered when he saw me followed by a loud, "DADDA! OUT PLEASE! OUT!"

By the time he was let out, I was already upstairs looking for the chord when all I could hear coming from downstairs was the sound of Boo Head eagerly looking for me.

"BOOOOBBEEEEEEY!"

He darted from the kitchen, to the living room, to the bedrooms before he realised I was upstairs. When he got to the bottom of the stairs, he looked up and saw me staring at him.

"Here I am!" I called.

"Boobey. Come downstairs!" was the reply I was met with.

Following demands and upon reaching the bottom of the stairs, I was taken away to play cars.

I told him a secret that he has kept well-guarded from his mommy just as I asked him to.

What's the secret?

We'll be playing Rock Band this weekend with new songs to sing.

He seemed unimpressed at first but then smiled quietly and said, "Hey Ho. Let's go!"

Currently listening to: "Ganondorf on Forsaken Fortress" by Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and Koji Kondo, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Original Soundtrack; and "The Fly" by U2.

Rock Band

Did I ever mention that Boo-Head loves Rock Band?
He loves music and when Rock Band came out last November, he was all over one song.

He loves to sing his favourite song from that and it goes something like, "Hey ho, let's go!"

That's right, he loves The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop".

That was a year ago and he still sings the same song to me but today he actually sang in time and got an 'awesome' on the 'hey ho' part.