birthday carmageddon tidbits?

So the whole birthday thing was low-key, but fun - got some obvious TV show DVDs (Firefly, Futurama), some not-so-obvious books (Lovecraft's library, cataloged), and have a GP32 handheld coming from Hong Kong - should be fun to mess with. Unfortunately, Holly's dachshund Petie (who lives at her parents) got ill with heart-related problems later that day, but he's out of the vet hospital now and looking to be recovering, yay!

This week saw a few odd bits of media attention, which you might have seen me pimp on the linklog - G4TechTV ran a 'Trippiest Games' Filter show which has a couple of on-camera appearances from me (filmed at GDC), including adoring comments on Parappa The Rapper, and my own tripped-out game nomination, the genius Carmageddon. [Unfortunately, G4 cut the specific reason I found it trippy, which was the drugs mode, but it's still fairly trippy even without that.] Oh, and there's an audio interview with me about Archive.org, netlabels, and Monotonik, as played on Interjamp Radio in Germany recently - I talk in English, though the announcer/questioner is all Teutonic n stuff.

Otherwise, it's just been movies (finally got to see Hellboy on DVD - Del Toro gets it right), music (the new Badly Drawn Boy vid for 'Year Of The Rat' is precious), TV (more South Bank Show on Ovation - excellent Paul Merton doc), and games (mainly ranting about 'fake' reviews.) That be all.