i just wanted to sell him a pizza for cheaper. that's all i wanted to do.

i loved the tom green show when i was in high school. the show was often gross, usually stupid, and always had me in stitches. if you're not familiar, tom green is a canadian comedian, and the show featured all different sketches that involved him just messing with people: usually random people, although he often featured his parents as well. the show started on cable access, and even though it was picked up by mtv for a couple seasons, it always had a pretty "cable access" feel to it. it was never a slickly produced show--and would not have worked as such. it still felt like him and two of his idiot friends acting like idiots on television--and that was the genius of it.

i was thinking about the show for no reason this morning. lo and behold: my favourite skit from the tom green show is on youtube! this one involves tom green playing the part of a pizza delivery man who is just trying to sell a customer a pizza for cheaper. hilarity ensued:

that had to have been ten years ago...and it still makes me laugh so much.

you thought i was done heroblogging, didn't you?

right around thanksgiving, my playstation decided it would be a great time not to read my memory card. this made me sad, as it made it impossible to play more than the first level or two of any of my guitar hero games. i couldn't play the higher levels or the unlockable songs. this made me sad, as i had spent a long time unlocking them--not to mention the fact that a lot of the best songs were further along in the games.

i had no idea if my playstation was messed up or if the memory card had become corrupted. my pocketbook was hoping that it was the memory card that had broken, because it would be a lot cheaper to replace. my heart was hoping that it was the memory card slot on my playstation that was busted, because then i could buy a new playstation and keep the fruits of three months' hard work.¹

finals got in the way, and then my trip out of town, but i finally brought my memory card over to my friend's place and tested it out. it was as bad as i had feared--the memory card was corrupted and unreadable. i don't know how that happened, but that was frustrating--all my data from playing guitar hero 1, 2, and 3 all semester had been wiped clean.

sigh.

i bought a new memory card yesterday afternoon, and i have started again. it's easier this time because i'm better at the game than i was a few months ago. i've beaten the first four levels of guitar hero 3 on medium, and then gone back and played a few of the unlockable tracks. luckily, my fingers remember how to play the game...i have five-starred everything the first time through except for "nothing here for me" [which i have still never managed to get more than four stars on, even on the old memory card]. hopefully by the end of winter break i'll be able to beat all the games on medium again so i can have everything unlocked. i'll restart my careers on hard once i have all the songs unlocked again.

i promise this blog isn't turning into a video blog...but i do have to share two of the shiniest songs that you probably have never heard unless you have played the unlockable tracks on guitar hero 3:

( click here for great music...and footnotes. [and great music in one of the footnotes--because music and footnotes are two great tastes that taste great together.] )

*shakes head*

saturday evening pop quiz

you've been drinking. you wrap your car around a light pole. the police ask you what caused the accident. what do you tell them?

a) "i was tired."
b) "i was drunk."
c) "some idiot cut me off."
d) "pterodactyl."

here's your sign.