Wheee!

Has anybody else gotten hooked on Guitar Hero?
Actually I keep saying that, parading around my addiction like a badge of honor to anyone else who has felt it and chimes in that they "know just what you mean", and truth be told, I’m not that hooked. I just like it. I don't really play it that often, and I still struggle at the medium level, but when the notes magically flow from my hands OH how it feels, my entire body keeping beat, time slows down and I'm wrapped in the song. Faux guitar. But is it really? If I've strapped the instrument over my shoulder against my body at a slightly raised angle, using my left hand stretched around the neck, fingers working sometimes together, most often independently and in time with the insistant beat, the other hand strumming a different action but in company, isn't that playing? Or is it really just glorified video gaming as I'm so afraid it to be? Have I truly just traded in a joy stick shaped controller for a guitar shaped one and shooting bullets at appropriately timed intervals. Faux guitar indeed. You should hear me sing.