While a lot of you get your Xbox One's on Thursday night I will be in kinda a "blackout" mode, since I don't want to read about everyone's first impressions right before I get mine. I'm not even reading or watching any of the IGN stuff. I just hear stuff from you guys or maybe one other board I occasionally look at. I want to feel as pure as possible, although I didn't go as far as I did with the Xbox 360 (where I wouldn't even look at the console or controller in real life until I had the system for real. That day was exactly eight years ago today by the way, since I was sent mine from Pepsi on the Saturday before official launch.
The night before that I went and saw SAW II in theatres for the fourth time, making it the movie I have seen most in theatres. I ended up seeing it two more times (at the SAW III and SAW IV midnight showing marathons). I used to go to the theatre a lot and I had seen a couple movies three times (Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions for example) but I rarely go now so I doubt SAW II's massive record will ever be topped.
So...for several weeks now I have had it planned that Thursday night/early Friday morning one of the main things I will do on that last night is watch Oblivion (the 2013 movie with Tom Cruise). I had wanted to see it forever but missed it in theatres due to school and procrastination. I finally saw it in early August just before my cat was diagnosed with cancer. I would think about it a lot during those horrible days and would listen to the soundtrack a lot. Not to get too emo, but on the day Oreo had abdominal surgery (I didn't know it was cancer at this time and had had the surgery done to look for any tumors and to have a biopsy done of his intestines) I picked him up completely distraught and on the way home was listening to that soundtrack with him in the backseat and I was pretty much hyperventilating at times I was crying so hard. I figured he was going to be dead shortly at that point, with his stomach all bare and him still not really eating and stuff. He recovered so quickly though and has been amazing so far. The chemo makes him nauseas sometimes but otherwise I've never seen him happier.
Anyway, I have wanted to watch the movie so badly ever since, but kept putting it off. Then a few weeks ago I decided to put it off until Xbox One Eve, since I can't go to a midnight launch. I bought the Blu-ray (I had streamed it previously) this weekend from Amazon and they actually ended up boxing it with my Battlefield 4 game and they both arrive today, which is pretty cool to have that connection there. I haven't even listened to the soundtrack in a couple months now just to give it a break and make the movie more special. I already LOVED the movie, especially for the music (all of it was done by the electronic band M83) but it has forever been brought to a new level in my mind due to when I saw it, etc. M83 actually ended up producing a song from my favorite band, The Killers just a few weeks ago and it's incredible and so is the video for it.
I like doing stuff like that...like a self-imposed delayed gratification thing to add on to something I have waited so long for. I always get Domino's Pizza, my favorite pizza, for something like a Halo launch too and for like two months beforehand I will make sure not to get it (although I usually save it for special occasions anyway). Last time I had it was GTA V midnight launch night so it's been over two months now and I'll be getting it Friday evening to celebrate. Gonna make some Red Velvet frosting filled cupcakes too that weekend that I've been saving for months. It's just an avalanche of things all at once and it makes it all so magical. I literally have people I haven't talked to in YEARS getting in touch with me this week to basically comment on how excited I must be for the new Xbox, cause I've always been known as a huge Halo and Xbox guy to anyone who has known me over the past 10+ years. I feel like I'm getting married or something with all the excitement and all the people from the past messaging me and being like, "I bet you can't wait" and other things along those lines.
The marriage thing is never going to happen so this will have to do. This weekend is going to be a hell of a honeymoon and then it's three weeks of school and a nice long winter break. By the time school starts I'll probably be pretty content with everything I've gotten done and be able to focus mostly on my last semester of college...until March 11th that is.
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