After 3 days of constant rocking, we've finally dropped back down to Earth. Mike and I went the distance this weekened, as we took on Asbury Park New Jersey's annual Skate And Surf Festival. They say only the strong survive in New Jersey, and here we are, back to tell the tale.
Skate And Surf By The Numbers

Band Performances Seen (Both Partial & Complete) - 22:
Friday
Days Away (Part)
Andrew WK
Coheed And Cambria
The Starting Line
Brand New

Saturday
Luca Brasi
The Fight
HIM (Part)
Hazen Street
Senses Fail
My Chemical Romance
Midtown
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Story Of The Year (Part)
Taking Back Sunday

Sunday
Homegrown
None The Less
Boys Night Out (Part)
The Early November
Slightly Stoopid (Part)
MxPx
Straylight Run

Cost Of Slice Of Pizza or Hot Dog:3.00
Cost of Hamburger:3.00
Cost of CHEESEburger:4.00
Cost of ticket for Day 2 from scalper for Irene:50.00
Cost of ticket for Day 2 from kid in line right after we bought the scalpers ticket:40.00
Number of fire alarms pulled, causing us to miss Fall Out Boy's performance Sunday:1
Number of Secret acoustic sets we missed:2 (Taking Back Sunday & Coheed And Cambria)
Approximate amount of people to show up each day:5000
Amount of Acts That Performed:163 on 5 stages over 3 days

All in all a great time was had by all. Many new friends were made, like Winnie The Pooh, the concession lady who wore a wig and had her makeup applied with a bazooka, a beautiful girl who brazenly claimed to have seen TBS 10 times, the asshole who was saving 4 seats in the row behind him whose seats I stole while he was arguing with some girls about said seats, a drive-thru records camera guy, some fans who came all the way from England for the show, and finally Andrew from Something Corporate along with Adam and John from Homegrown who were nice enough to talk to me, autograph my ticket, and pose for a picture with Mike and I after Homegrowns kick ass set that saw Andrew join them on piano with a set ending cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." Our time in New Jersey however wasn't just limited to the S&S Fest, as we checked out Jay And Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank and chased after hubcaps knocked loose by some of New Jersey's more illustrious potholes. I'm rich beyatch! BEEP BEEP!

Back in the day...lets say about 11 years ago now. There was only one way to prove you were the man to all your school chums if you were a nice suburban boy. No not by fighting it out in the school yard, but by testing your mettle on the pixelated battlefields of video games. Thats right, you were nothing in middle school or even high school if you couldn't game. So heres another patented WhatWeSayGoes list of the top ten games to challenge your buddies too back in the day. (Keeping it mainly in the 90's).

10.General Chaos (Sega Genesis) - Not everyone will remember this action filled blood bath classic where teams of 5 soldiers barbecued, bombed and shot each other over pieces of land. To the victor go the spoils.
9.Cruisin' USA (Arcade) - I wasn't that great at controlling the wheel in this cool car game. Then again I'm told I'm not the best driver in real life either.
8.X-Men:Children Of The Atom (Arcade, PSX, Dreamcast) - It may not have been the best, but it was the first of the big Capcom comic fighter game craze of the late 90's that kept many a fanboy up at night to prove who was better...Iceman or Wolverine.
7.Madden Football (PSX) - I was never a big fan of the Football series, but I hear sports fans could get into it pretty hardcore.
6.Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (PSX, N64, PSX2, X-Box, Gamecube) - At the turn of the century a revolution of video game battling was pumped out to the hungry masses:Extreme sports. And this was the kinf of them all. Skateboarding through suburbia, factories, and even through Area 51, many unskilled punkers finally got to say they kicked ass on the board.
5.Super Mario Kart (SNES, N64, Gamecube) - The invention of an interesting new genre (the wacky characters in go-karts genre) led to practically millions of hours of kids firing turtle shells and banana peels at each other in battlemode, or racing each other to the end of Rainbow Road and beyond.
4.NBA Jam (Arcade, SNES, Sega Genesis) - Perhaps no other sports video game has set the world ON FIRE! as much as this one. Teams of the top 2 stars from every team in the league dribbled it out in an attempt to not only win, but to come out with the hottest dunks and shots. To earn a BOOMSHAKALAKA! From the announcer, was to achieve greatness.
3.Mortal Kombat (Arcade, SNES, Sega Genesis and beyond) - No series electrified bloodthirsty arcade jockeys more than this blood spattered battle for control of Earthrealm. I still remember vividly standing with a crowd of people watching as someone defeated Goro early in the games arcade run, and everyone going nuts when the final punch felled the great beast. Classic.
2.Street Fighter 2 (Arcade, SNES, Sega Genesis an beyond) - It may not have had the staying power of MK (or the good movie like MK) but this one kicked off the Arcade fighter sensation. People would fight each other. One would lose, a new competitor would step up with his quarter, and on it would go for hours. Sometimes you would even have to stand in line to wait to fight. Now thats some good stuff.
1.Goldeneye 007 (N64) - The 1st person shooter took on a new life in the battle mode of this game. Who could rack up the most kills in ten minutes? If you could, then you would be revered by your peers as both a legend and a target. And if you didn't get to that rocket launcher first and defend your crown, then heaven help you my friend. Heaven help you.

Consider this. Seeing 100 movies in a year equates to roughly:

100 x 1.75 hrs = 175 hours of entertainment
or approximately 7.3 straight days of entertainment
which is about 11 days of entertainment factoring in 8 hours of sleep a day.

100 x $6.50 = $650

$650 / 175 = $3.71 per hour of entertainment. Seems like a fair price to me.