Army of Two: the 40th Day and some other uninteresting stuff

So Lovefilm actually got around to delivering another game after several weeks, unfotunately this game was that mentioned in the title. It's not a bad game, but I would have much preferred any of the other 9 games on my list that were actualy high priority, other than one of the ones that I just casually threw in on low priority to make up the numbers. Anyway, it's kinda fun, sort of like Gears of War (except on Earth and less racist) with a weapon customization aspect. It's always good blowing away random henchmen with a Zebra-stripe adorned AK-47, and being designed for co-op play it's pretty fun with a friend, although the AI exhibited in my brief 10 minute solo foray resulted in a lot of angry muttering on my part. The aggro system is pretty novel as well, meaning that if you have a jewel encrusted rocket launcher, the baddies will try to take you down while your buddy flanks the enemy and shoots them in the back. It's a decent addition, but a little gimmicky.

In other news, I entered the bizarre netherworld of being sober around drunk people last night. It wasn't particularly enjoyable. My flatmates returned home after a trip to the casino, Smirnoff in hand, and proceeded to get drunk(er) whilst I attempted to be a boring sod and watch the tennis. It didn't work, and I ended up being talked at for several hours until I could safely slink away to bed, wincing at every spilt drop of vodka on my lovingly cleaned table, every trip over the phone cable. For some reason we watched Superbad. I find these Judd Apatow comedies very hit and miss - mostly miss. This is one of the better ones, it is funny but not really in the bits that everyone else thinks it is. I can only hear the phrase 'pube salad' once or twice before it loses its charm and just becomes insanely creepy. Still, it is a decent film and watched every 12 months will make me chuckle. Michael Cera is funny in it, although I think in the last couple of years he has exhibited the extent of his acting talents, being vaguely funny in Superbad, irritating in Juno, just plain ? in his misjudged internet comedy with Clark Duke, and just shit in Year One. It's all gone a bit downhill after Arrested Development. Jonah Hill on the other hand seems to be genuinely funny although sometimes it just seems he's put in films because he's friends with the people who made it. The Invention of Lying was terrible and so was he in it, but he did provide a couple of giggles in the rancid dingleberry of a film that was Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he was okay in the okay Funny People, despite the infintely punchable Adam Sandler occupying the lead role.

Music has been a little boring recently, with no particularly interesting discoveries for well over a month now. Hopefully the new Four Tet album (which comes out tomorrow) will help to alleviate this.

I've been awake for 3 hours, and I'm tired already.