A Preface

            If I had no life (and I’ve had times when that was true), then I could shoot for reading at a rate of a book a day. However, right now I am finishing my last undergrad semester, performing in our school’s production of Little Women, planning a wedding with my uncannily compatible fiancé, working part-time as a floor technician in a nursing home, and hopelessly addicted to videogames (at the moment Skyrim). Plus the next Bioshock game releases soon. Oh man! I’m pumped. By the way, there was totally a missed opportunity in the first two games. They used period music like The Andrews Sisters and Billie Holiday, and it created an amazing atmosphere in the underwater city of Rapture.

Welcome to Rapture!

But where was the song “My Prayer” by the Ink Spots?

            My prayer is to linger with you

            At the end of the day

            In a dream that’s divine.

            My prayer is a rapture in blue

            With the world far away

            And your lips close to mine. (The Ink Spots.)

Now the game will take place in the sky, not Rapture. It would’ve been so perfect! Still, Bioshock remains in my top 10 of all-time favorite videogames ever, and I will play the hell out of Bioshock Infinite.

            And there are lots of television shows that I’m watching through with lots more slated as runners up. I’ve never seen the TV Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Seven seasons of hour-long episodes…that is a project in itself. With each post, I am going to mention all the movies, TV shows, and videogames that I am currently watching/playing because they will be competing with my time to read.

            Oh yeah, what I was saying is that right now, I don’t give myself much time to read, but I will try for 3 books a month. My plan is to start with my unread scripts because they read faster than novels, and I am a terribly slow reader.

 

Works Cited

The Ink Spots. “My Prayer.” Decca, 1939. YouTube video.