balding angrily

As usual I’m jumping on a bandwagon three years after it’s been tooling around the country. I’m a new Guitar Hero addict. I bought it two nights ago, and I’ve played it for three hours each night. Even Jerry’s played! And he doesn’t play video games.

As I said before, the whole joining gene skipped me. I’ve been thinking about this because I’m trying to get into my own kid head in order to write a character. It’s really tempting to write a character based on archetypes one sees on tv. Kids are precocious and verbal. They crave the attention of grown-ups. They crave attention from anyone.

That was never true for me. I was always quiet, always to myself, always a non-joiner. The trope is that a kid doesn’t want to be picked last to be on a team. I didn’t want to be picked at all. I didn’t want to be on the team. Over time, this was read by my classmates as an attitude of superiority. And in time, I thought, “Why not? Why not act superior? Why not be superior?” I’m not saying I am, as that attitude doesn’t really carry in your adult life. Unfortunately, we - humans - are a social bunch, so the guy that acts above it all doesn’t get very far.

So, yeah. Guitar Hero. Rock on!