What is the top story, on your LOCAL news right now??!
Question: p.s. not world news. I mean what is the top story in your town right now?
Answers: p.s. not world news. I mean what is the top story in your town right now?
Teen dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound...
PF changs caught on fire...Charlotte
Also the guy who shot a cop & defend himself claiming it was self def. He didnt know it was the cops kicking in his door?
Lost he's going to yrs in prison
parachute jump opening up at coney island
Another rich family has their name attached to a historical monument they had nothing to do with establishing.
Claremont teen wins Guitar Hero contest
Article Created: 02/28/2008 07:14:58 AM PST
By Will Bigham
Staff Writer
Never mind that Thomas Prag can't actually play guitar.
The Claremont High School senior has become something of a minor celebrity for his ability to shred on a simulated version of the instrument on PlayStation 2.
Prag is a top-ranked player of "Guitar Hero," a game that requires players to pound out rhythms in real songs using a plastic guitar that has several buttons instead of strings.
The 17-year-old Prag has won a major Guitar Hero competition and placed very high in two others.
He is ranked 16th out of more than 5,000 players in a category on www.scorehero.com, a Web site that tracks top "Guitar Hero" performers.
"I've always been really big on video games, and music as well," Prag said. "And then I also really like the music in Guitar Hero too, mostly rock `n' roll and metal and the like.
"And then I just think the game itself plays very nicely. It's just really easy to pick up."
Prag got his first copy of Guitar Hero nearly two years ago. He said the game came easy to him because he already plays piano and saxophone, and he had played similar video games like "Dance Dance Revolution."
In May 2007, he entered his first "Guitar Hero" competition, held at a theater in Hollywood called Sacred Fools.
To his own surprise, he finished first, winning a $125 gift card from Best Buy.
His father, Jay Prag, who accompanied him to the event, says he is very proud of him.
"He shows a lot of dedication," Jay Prag said. "This game looks hard to me. I played Nintendo when it first came out, and now I can't figure out where all the buttons are."
Thomas Prag said he plays "Guitar Hero" as much as 12 hours a week, depending on how much other work he has. He said he sometimes plays so furiously that his hand cramps.
"Some songs have a lot of finger movement, especially for the left hand, which I fret with," he said. "And for songs that are just really relentless and long, my left hand starts cramping and gets really sore."
Prag said he has become known among his peers at Claremont High for his "Guitar Hero" prowess.
Some friends even started a Facebook group in his honor called "Thomas Prag is MY `Guitar Hero'." A recent check showed the group had 62 members.
"(Students) don't just randomly come up to me and talk to me about "Guitar Hero," but that has happened," Prag said. "There's this one guy in band who tells me pretty much every day how far he's gotten in "Guitar Hero 3."
"And then there's these other guys who come up to me in English class and flash me the `you rock' sign, and start singing "Carry on My Wayward Son" by Kansas. That song is in "Guitar Hero," and they really like it."
Prag, a straight-A student, said that after graduation he hopes to attend an out-of-state university, where he wants to study math, physical science or engineering.
He said he's considering attending Princeton University, Oberlin College, Carnegie Mellon University or the University of Chicago.
"I'm proud and delighted. He really enjoys ("Guitar Hero")," said his mother, Eleanor Brown. "He's always had a really good sense of rhythm, and he has a great appreciation of music. It's nice to see it come together in something that's so fun."
will.bigham@dailybulletin.com
I hear there's going to be a new bus shelter put up soon enough
It was in the newspaper
Oh wait actually some poor guy got stabbed in the head with a screwdriver
Right now that's prob the top story in the news here!
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breakin...
Miami high school protest brings police
MIAMI - Police responded Friday in force at a high school where a student protest turned unruly, with more than a dozen students being hauled away in handcuffs.