Deb and Tom! These are Rachael's awesome parents that I grew up down the street from. Tom was trying the game for the very first time and Jodee's explaining how it works to Deb.
...and to get drunker. Once you surpass a certain number of drinks, Guitar Hero will no longer satisfy your urge to drunkenly sing along with songs you love and you invariably end up deciding that you should go sing KARAOKE!
They loved it! And, they were also hands-down, the two best Guitar Hero players I've ever seen. It was RIDICULOUS. They totally slayed every single person they faced off against.
After wishing the Fatty a sketchy-noodie birthday at PUMPS, I came back into Manhattan at 2:30am (!!!) to meet up with Nichole and Lauren, our subletters! The girls had just arrived from LA and after hearing that they were huge Guitar Hero fans, I suggested we meet up at Pianos so that they could play it on the big projector screen with the music blasting over the PA!
Jasper was totally annoyed that they both kept beating him. Hahaha. I love how in this photo you can totally see that Nichole's shrugging and being apologetic for winning yet again and Jasper's totally grumpy and pissed off. Hahahaha.
After dinner, we fired up Guitar Hero! Yes! Here's an action shot of Scott tuning up as he prepares to take on little miss Leigh Lezark (bonus points to Max and Meredith who are on opposite extremes of the "excitement spectrum" in this photo). Hahaha.
I closed out karaoke and on my late night walk home I ran into my neighbor Kathleen who I'd met for the first time just a few weeks earlier. She and her friend weren't ready for bed yet either, so I invited them in to play Guitar Hero (at 4:15am). Hahaha. I like living in New York because there are so many other crazy people here that it makes me feel less-crazy.
Then after the show, I went upstairs to sing karaoke and found that Guitar Hero had REPLACED karaoke for the night. WHOA! I also found that Shandi had dressed up (complete with face paint!!!) as Lars Ümlaüt, her favorite Guitar Hero character. Amazing.
A little past 1am all the bands finished playing downstairs. So Jasper busted out his Playstation and set up Guitar Hero on the big screen (with the audio patched through the club's PA system! Rock!) Here's Shandi.
GUITAR HERO IS THE NEW KARAOKE! Er, or at least it was for a few short weeks at Pianos! Late at night, after all the bands had finished playing, Jasper (the guy that books all the bands at Pianos) would bust out his Playstation and run the video to the bigscreen projector and the audio through the club's PA system! It was amazing.
Or at least he tried to play Guitar Hero. Antony joins Brandon in the "I'm a real guitar player who can't, for the life of me, figure out how to play a fake guitar that only has five buttons" Hall of Shame.
After karaoke, Amanda came over to play Guitar Hero (probably so she'd no longer have to listen to me say "DUDE! You HAVE to try it, it's so much fun!!!"). Here's Meerkat and Squinty, browsing and rocking respectively.
