An article on CNN.com this morning is reporting that a man was attacked by a rattle snake in his luggage! Apparently the snake stowed away in the man’s luggage in South Carolina a hitched a comfortable ride in some luggage up to the Washington D.C. area.
I guess the rattlesnakes are a little bit smarter than the pythons, sneaking into luggage for their cross-country trip. Maybe if we can get these freeloading snakes to pay their way across country, airfare will go down for humans!
Giving in to peer pressure, I downloaded the Audiosurf demo off of Steam about a month ago now. A perfectly simple premise – drive to YOUR music, collect blocks of colored blocks and “win”!
Here is an example of me playing Deceptacon by Le Tigre:
It is always nice to be reminded that your friends still have good taste in fun.
Audiosurf is a fun game, made all the more fun as you use your own music to create the maps that you ride. Slower more mellow music tends to be more blue and cool toned. Faster tempo, intense music tends to be more warm toned like orange and red. Faster music moves downhill, slower, uphill. I’ve also discovered that there is a theme across the music I seem to really like – its very “bouncy” in Audiosurf.
I think the best feature of it is the scoreboard. I don’t know if it is the indie music grrl in me or what, but I love when I surf something obscure, like Servotron or local, like The Soviettes, and find that others have have surfed the same song.
On February 27, 2008, I received a flurry of emails from the AudioSurf ScoreKeeper along the lines of:
Audiosurf scoreboard alert – Dethroned!
You used to have the worldwide best score for: raging in the plague age by les savy fav
Now the Audiosurf player ‘Kraid’ has beaten you. Get back in the game and reclaim the top spot!
What is this? A fellow Les Savy Fav Fan? For a couple weeks, me, “ann anomaly” was the only name on that scoreboard. And yeah my score is sucky….
So if AudioSurf decides to be smart about this data they are collecting, it could be HUGE for musicians. The social media aspect of the game makes it fun and competitive and I hope they expand it in the coming months.
