I miss Nobuo Uematsu

This man is a genius! He's not dead, as the title might make one believe, but rather he hasn't been working as much as he used to. For those of you who don't know, he is the composer of the music from Final Fantasies I-IX. After IX, he left Squaresoft, though he will often work with them as a freelance composer. He worked on Final Fantasies X-XII, but I wonder how much he actually did on those, as the music for both of those sucked hard.

He recently made the music for Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, but I don't have the money to get them. I bet they're awesome.

I was listening to the ending theme from FF VIII this morning on the way to work. I sang along to the best of my ability. After a couple of minutes, I realized that I has tears in my eyes. I'm not sure if it was the music or if it was the fact that I could visualize every second of that gorgeous ending, but something got to me. Quite a bit, too.

I have more music by Mr. Uematsu on my computer than any other composer or band, and I have every Beatles song and all of Beethoven's sonatas and symphonies! 1/20th of my hard drive is dedicated to this man, and I do so happily and without shame of being this nerdy.

Because it is nerdy, but I don't care. This music is flipping gorgeous!

I have to work in the morning.

So, I've been playing a lot of video games lately. I think about them a lot. There really should be more video games based off of the bible. They wouldn't need a religious message or anything. It's just that there are a lot of opportunities for a good time in there. Goliath would be a good boss. so would King Herod. For a while, I thought that the Devil would be the final boss, but in retrospect, it would be the Four Horsemen. They're the ones who are trying to destroy the planet. Of course maybe you could spread those fights throughout the entire game, like in Mega Man.

Then fight them all at once before the last boss, like in Mega Man. You know, Dr. Light does look a bit like God in a lab coat:

And then at the end, you'd fight what the bible calls the Prince of Darkness, Dr. Wily:


Anyway, a couple of things:
1. I really like Mega Man, but not as much as I like Lost, Star Wars, or Dr. Pepper.
2. Everyone else got a blog, so I wanted one, too.