Most exciting game award

I just played the most exciting, spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat game of Yahtzee ever. The suspense could have been cut with a knife. I felt like every roll was the last 10 seconds in some career-defining championship match. I kept thinking "this is what bobsledders and gambling addicts feel" as I rolled dice like some crazed voodoo doctor. Dice seem ancient and timeless and should not be fucked with, so when my large straight doesn't come I don't get angry. I don't want the Dice Gods on my ass.

Anyway, I am listening to a lot of Daft Punk's Homework. I think that is their best, most consistent work, but the recent multi-media orgy of bliss that was the 2007 tour is in a close second. Homework still sounds new to me. It's fun and innovative and even the things that are not really "pleasant" (like "Rollin' & Scratchin'") are still interesting. But then the pleasant stuff ("Revolution 909," "Around the World," "Da Funk," "Fresh") just knocks you out. I think Daft Punk achieves this by playing only to the emotional side of things (as opposed to cerebral) through the use of disco samples that remind people of things and make them want to dance. Everyone has heard Chic's "Good Times" and it's about... duh.. good times and dancing. That's the bassline to "Around the World" and it's just all about good times and dancing. I think that when they do try to get all cerebral and proggy and weird (a lot of Human After All) it doesn't work. Their live show infused all those songs with the good times, but on record... I just wanna dance, man.

Hmm.. I missed "KAIJU: A Night of Live Monster Wrestling" at Webster Hall. Someone gave me a flier the other day and "live monster wrestling" sounded very intriguing.

I want some Malaysian beef jerky.