César (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ashrising) wrote,@ 2008-03-27 18:37:00 |
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| Current location: | Aguascalientes, Mexico |
| Current mood: |  crazy |
| Current music: | Jet - Are you gonna be my girl |
Rock Band!
Tournament.
There was a Rock Band Tournament today at work. The prize being an X-Box 360 and a Rock Band set.Since we all were notified just two measly days ago, we knew from the start what the outcome would be (close friends of the organizer are experts on that game), so we decided to participate just for the fun of it.
Mike Estrada told invited me, and told me we needed two more people. First, we told Óscar Valdez and Jonatan Ruiz-Esparza, but Jona said yesterday he could not be here at this time. So we asked Victor Martínez.
None of us had ever even touched the instruments or seen the game in action. Mike had played Guitar Hero, but that's it.
I was vocalist. Of all the available songs I only knew three, though. The Killers' When you were young, Radiohead's Creep and Jet's Are you gonna be my girl.
I love Creep, but it is also a very choteada song (meaning, everyone would likely choose that one). The problem with Jet's song is that it was harder compared to Creep. In the end (at least, yesterday), we went for Creep.
We wanted to rehearse, and found a place that rented the equipment. Mike had to take a friend of his home, and when we returned, it was already rented for all the evening.
With not even 1 minute of rehearsal (or one second, at that), the time arrived.
We heard one band singing Creep in a pre-tournament rehearse, and they were good. Then I told Mike that we were not gonna win, so we might as well go for a song no one else would choose. We went with Jet's, after all. We could be crazier that way.
Óscar was busy with work, so he could not go. Mike had to invite someone else at the last minute, and it was none other than Eduardo Campos!!! Now, this doesn't mean anything to you, but he is the manager of the whole local operation in Aguascalientes.
It was so cool (we must have been second-to-last), and it was so much fun. The audience had those little drums with two strings attached with a little ball at each's end, that you roll with your hands to make rhythm sounds.
Of course, the winners, for like 200,000 points' difference, were the organizer's friends (like there was any doubt about it).
Now I have to get busy and finish some work, because I've got a free day tomorrow, and I'm going to my parents' back in Torreón.
César.
