hacklog

Funny.

Bored of all my current music today so I succumbed to the lure of iTunes.

San Fransisco’s Two Gallants…

Nordic melancholy (best kind, obviously) from Swedish composer Eric Enocksson…

A little dusty Americana from Londoner Michael J Sheehy formerly of Dream City Film Club…

Caribou’s latest album Andorra, which Mojo describe as “vertiginous psych-pop from Canuck genre crushers”. Can’t top that…

Melody Day:

Haven’t really given any of it a good listen yet. Probably all crap. Oh well, at least I offloaded some of that annoying cash.
I’m going to pick Jessi’s brain next week and figure out how she puts the music right on her site so cleverly. Probably a plug-in or some such doohickey.

Holy Crap! We were playing darts tonight and T got a one hundred and frikkin’ eighty! Unheard of. Erm…hats off to T. (Did she just stick the darts in the board? Shame on you for thinking such a thing. I was outside when she did it though. No, she wouldn’t do that…or would she? No, she really wouldn’t.) Anyway, mine’s a Stella please…

If, like me, you believe time-wasting activities should be largely pointless, you’ll probably like Feed The Head. Makes the hugely pointless Grow games series look like Halo 3!

It’s from VECTORPARK (yeah!), the good folk who brought us Levers and Park. Classics of the whatthehellamImeanttobedoing milieu.

Oh heck, while we’re on the subject, if there’s anyone out there who hasn’t been exposed to the Hapland virus here you go…

Number 1:

…number 2:

…and number 3:

Just being thorough. Have fun. Sorry.

BTW, Rob Allen, the creator of the Hapland Games, has also created a ‘banner’ game currently gracing the header of jayisgames. Just click away.

Ee-by-gum they’ve gone and done it again. The chaps at Stick Sports immediately jump to the front of the pack with their own baseball offering. The game play isn’t quite as sophisticated as this but it’s a much more complete game. Sign up for a (free) account and you can even create your own team with all your lil’ friends. Fab.

Don’t eat the purple Dippin’ Dots.

Still untouchable. The original, the best, Stick Cricket is a way of life!

A close second. Flash cricket.

A distant third. Pretty crap.

…and the less said about Ashes Bash the better.

This one is pretty much the best I’ve come across as far as game play and graphics go. The hitting is pretty good but the base running and opponent’s fielding is annoyingly unrealistic. And your little base running guys are morons. Also, there’s no pitching. Wish they’d make a full game of it.

This one is only full game, arcade style baseball game I’ve found with both batting and pitching. On the downside it’s very hard to score runs and very easy to stop your opponent scoring. The only score when I played came from weird little bonus games in between innings. The Japanese adverts are fun though.

Pinch Hitter 2. Fun. Hitting only, cartoon style graphics. Still, pretty addictive. Can’t finish it. Tricky.

Bullpen Blast. Great pitching action. Normally I don’t like games where you control the action with mouse movement but this one is pretty good. Again, I wish they’d make a full game of it.

Strategy only. Fun for a while but gets boring and tends to freeze up.

1. T with giant flower exhibit at SF MOMA 2006

2. T’s birthday card 2007.

What could it be?