Indulgence

family day

Marquis de Saint-Lambert
Often I am still listening when the song is over.

Since my Dad is here in Manila because of work, we decided to spend Sundays together doing something we've been doing since I was 4 years old. We chose to spend our Sundays having dinner together and watching movies. But since there were no movies out in the theatre that we wanted to watch and Dad forgot to bring the DVDs of the movies he wanted to see, we decided to just have this long conversation after dinner. That was kind of cool.

Then my Dad left early and Datu (my brother) and I ended up smoking in my room and talked for almost 4 hours straight. We haven't done that in a while as well. We ended up talking about movies based on comic books and RPG. By the way, our role playing games are not computer games, mind you, but table top role playing games where you determine success through die rolls and everything is talked over and imagined. It requires much creativity, a very high level of imagination and some level of rapport.

We have been playing RPG since I was 10 years old and so, in a sense, my brother had been playing for much longer. We found ourselves playing RPG games even two years ago. We had to stop because our work demanded more of our time and, to be honest, I've quite out-grown it. But there are magickal moments when a great story is conceived out of these games and you get this rush of creativity. It's amazing.

And now that we are older, we are searching for less adventure and action and more character depth. We are more interested in the character's day-to-day and the inner troubles of his personality. It would still be nice to test our character's mettle in battle, of course, but it's not the point of the games anymore. It's making a character and seeing what really makes him a hero. It's a wonderful process when both player and story-teller are in the same page.

Also, comic book movies are really affecting us in a big way because a lot of these comic books we read when they first began and they developed over time. There is a nostalgic quality to them. A familiarity that we can't simply write off. It was a little funny that the target market of these movies are for people who are younger than we are but we are the ones who are truly affected because we read these things when we were much younger and dreaming of the day for these comic books to come to the silver screen. And it's happening now.

It was a nice way to spend my Sunday. I woke up pretty late and very tired from working until very late into Sunday early morning. It didn't require much thinking. It was just floating through the day and it was fun. It was pretty cool.

Yeah, family rocks!

posted by wanggo @ 11:38 PM