Lower Back Fail? The Prince will fix it.

So, yes, I was helping my friend Trish move and I bent over to pick up a not-really-heavy chair and essentially killed my lower back. I've done nothing but lie around in various positions all day and wince/yelp in pain when it hurts, but it turns out I found a rather charming fix to take my mind off my epic back fail.

I have this horrifying habit of becoming utterly obsessed with things that have already had their heyday years before. I suppose some of it comes from my mom's repeated playing of oldies music when I was young, as well as my continued mission to see all the good old movies that were before my time, but it also extends to TV shows (see: Six Feet Under, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and, now, video games.

I have a summer mission, rather than a reading list, to become a gamer. I've always kinda loved video games, but had given up hope that I'd find a modern platformer game as fun as some of the old-school Mario stuff that used to be around. I even bought an N64, as well as Mario 64, in an effort to beat that game, but quickly lost interest. I follow both LRR (www.loadingreadyrun.com) and Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation, which talk about games a lot, and I've become convinced that I'm missing something really big, since I really only use my friend's Wii to rock out on Guitar Hero.

So. I've borrowed my brother's PS2 for the summer and finally found Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in a pawn shop on Johnson street. And it's motherfucking AWESOME. Holy crap. If you ever fuck up your back, spend a few hours playing a guy who can run on walls and turn back time, and things will seem a lot better. Yeah.

*turns around too quick* OUCH.