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Rock Band

For those of you who do not have Rock Band, you all cannot appreciate all it's addicting qualities. The first time you play it, you are blown away with how little musical abilities you have and how bad you are. The first time I played it, the first words after my first song were "I don't want to play this stupid game anymore." Well, that changed and now, it's ton of fun. I was first introduced to Guitar Hero, the first of its kind. Guitar Hero is much more challenging than it's Rock Band equivalent, and if you really love the guitar, is probably more fun. However, Rock Band involves playing with other people and depending on them to not completely fail so that the band continues to play. Your characters have fun names like "Slash" and "Bubba" and they all look like losers, but they jam out once the song gets started. My parents got Rock Band next, which was tons of fun, because in Rock Band you can play the drums, the guitar, the bass, or sing. So last year on Christmas, that's all we did. All. Day. Long. The drums ran out of batteries on the first day. At first, I would just play the guitar and sing because the drums scared me and I wasn't good at them at all. Over the last few months, though, I started to find that my secret calling in life was to be an awesome Rock Band drummer, and surprisingly, I have gotten really good at it. It frustrates people that play with me because it is very hard for alot of people to get the whole hand/foot thing down. Jason first started to play Rock Band when we started dating, and since then, has become border-line addicted. Then, my parents being the people that they are, got the Beatles (since they LOVE the Beatles) and Jason and I play it each and every time we go over there. Of course, at my parents, they have a huge screen TV and surround sound, so it's great to play there. One Saturday a couple of weeks ago, Jason and I took a trip to Walmart. He wanted to look at the games and saw that Rock Band's price had been reduced to $100. Pretty affordable, but still a little pricey. We walked by the phone counter and I asked if I had an upgrade available for my phone. I desperately needed a new phone, I had a Sidekick and T-Mobile has been having awful technical problems and there are times when I can't use it at all, so a new phone would be great. I did qualify for a full upgrade, and we saw that the Blackberry's were on special for $48. Pretty reasonable, but then we saw a sign that all Blackberry purchases were accompanied by a $100 Walmart gift card...hmm....could we get a new phone AND Rock Band for $48? Well, we did! And Jason has been loving it ever since! We have a small TV and no surround sound, and I am sure his downstairs neighbors are none too pleased with our game selection, but we don't care. It's fun and something new to do. This week, we have figure out how to download new music, and now I am excited about it again! Jason is getting really good at the guitar and is so much better at the drums than he thinks he is, I love listening to him play because he is getting so great at it! Here is my fiancee rockin' out.


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