my sister got me on this ipad game so i could water her farm but now i can't stop playing it. the funny thing is, i've come to the point of satisfaction with my farm. i don't want a gaudy house or topiaries or anything like that; just my little bbq area, outhouse and chickens. i was so obsessed with getting people to water my farm that i became a level 4 community activist in 2 days of playing. that's a lot of watering!
pretty, right?
the thing that i find most interesting about this game is that you can really learn alot about people by checking out their farms. people make elaborate designs with their crops or make hello kitty faces with their hay bales or have their farm animals all lined up nazi style. you see the assholes who have obviously paid real money to buy things like gnomes and water pumps (there's no other way to get them), the folks who take manifest destiny to frontier time extremes by making their farms as huge as possible, and then there are the folks who have sad withered patches of crops and it's clear they don't care. the game exposes people's real inner workings; i imagine there's a psych major's thesis somewhere in here. i even got me a cyber farm stalker from Riyadh who sends me gifts and wants to know more about me. a little creepy! ma'a ysalama dude!
Rescue Me
my summers are generally filled with week after week of raw anticipation for true blood (it still is mind you, if only for the supreme hotness that is eric northman and the pure joy that is lafayette) but i started watching Rescue Me, and caught up on all 5 seasons in less than 2 weeks. that's a lot of firemen!
it's well written, funny as hell, and has some of the most fucked up family dynamics ever.
Pizza Toast
i love my toaster oven. Tokyo is currently hot as balls. i can't bear to turn on the stove. the days i can, i usually opt for shabu shabu salad, which is also pretty divine. But my organic basil plant (raised from seeds), is AWESOME this year so i have been making my own pesto. i've also been making my own tomato sauce from scratch for a few years now (when i can bear to turn on the stove, of course) so my current summer time food obsession is pizza toast: one pesto and one margherita. Deelish!
Bruno Mars
My favorite song of the moment is british band Elbow's Grounds for Divorce but my favorite artist at the moment is Bruno Mars. his music is catchy like Lupe Fiasco at a more relax pace and it doesn't hurt that he is all creamy caramel puerto rican hotness. you probably already know his collaborative works, Billionaire and Nothing on You, check out his mini album (just 4 songs) It's Better if You Don't Understand. very good for dancing in the kitchen.
Inception
Love it, love it, love it, love it! best movie so far this year! As Hiroshi would say, check it!
