My boys love video games. Now quit your judging, it's not what you think. My boys love to watch other people play video games. Namely, they like to watch ol' dad play video games. It started with Scooby-Doo, then Mario, Sonic, Cars, and now....Guitar Hero.
It started innocent enough, I wanted to secretly practice Guitar Hero so I could challenge my daughter. The boys were going to "help." I did not know what a monster I was creating. I now have metal-loving, head banging, air guitar playing sons that are obsessed with Guitar Hero.
The Evidence:
A) The boys get out their own guitars and play along with me while I play the game -- not overly concerning...in fact it's pretty cute.
B) The boys now sing along with the songs and grunt along with the guitar riffs -- a little disconcerting when you hear your three year old belt out some Guns n Roses.
C) Now when you speak of something being difficult to do the boys refer to that activity as "Having orange in it." That is a reference to the hardest level of Guitar hero having orange notes that you have to play -- Really sad, makes me think of when UK has to play UT this year, hard.
D) I made the mistake of cluing the boys in to the fact that I had the Stone Temple Pilots' song "Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart" on my Ipod. Every song of every truck ride is now completely filled with this song...along with the boys bang'n heads and strumm'n the air guitar in addition to singing each word at the top of their lungs.
E) So, I took the boys to see "Alvin and the Chipmunks" the other day. Every time the Chipmunks would start singing my boys would hop into the aisle and hold their hands over their heads, not acting like they were playing air guitar, but acting like they were playing Guitar Hero -- in the absence of a Guitar Hero guitar this looks very strange (picture moving your fingers like you were playing the keyboard but an invisible one that is above your head).
F) Sunday night the boys and I were sitting in church. I am standing and singing a praise song when I notice the boys moving. I look down to see my boys, again not strumming an air guitar but, alas, waving their fingers over their head(I don't know why they play the guitar over their head, they just do), pretending to have a Guitar Hero guitar in their hands. I was amused...the folks around me were worried. It looked like my sons had flat lost their minds...or gotten the Holy Ghost.
Frankly, I blame their mother. I gotta go, I want to play Free Bird before the boys have to go to bed.
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You could always say it's not guitar hero they're playing, but that it's the super cool 80's keytar that they're rockin' in the air.
i'm not sure which is worse...their mother's hiphop influence...seen when 2 yr old Banks did the whole rap to Usher's yeah for the huddle house much to his father's dismay & when 3 year old hayes looked up from the dinner table at papaw'a to recite " i found you miss new booty" much to his mother's dismay or their dad's metalhead upbringing. i vote that the rock is the worst one they look mentally unhinged playing their air guitar during church.
banks' teacher called and wanted to know why he missed so much this week and i finally had to tell her the truth about the guitar hero convention u took him to
this might be one of the funniest posts i've ever read. you have some pretty cool kids, i must say.
guitar hero is quite the game. we borrowed a ps2 from someone and that's all we did was play that stupid game. it's very addicting, you must let go. it will ruin your life like facebook will.
my only quesiton is what is jordan's excuse??
ha, very nice.
I like Evidence part C the best.
keep raisin' 'em strong!
i can bring Kentucky's econonmy out of the 'orange' when we get casinos!
your paper heart will not get holes once i bring casinos to kentucky!
UPDATE!
you and wiley suck!
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