Long time, no blog. So I'm sitting hear listening to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, trying to recall what's gone on since my last blog. BTW, the new album is tops. I'm over my cold, although I've got a lingering cough that shows up when I don't feed it. We are in the middle of a three-day video shoot at work so it's long hours for your's truly. That's not necessarily a bad thing though. It's nice to feel like you've put in an honest day's work, come home and kick back with a medium of your choice and then eat a good dinner.
Over the weekend the misses and I watched a very strange, but very good flick: "Secretary". I thought it was funny that the misses picked out a movie about S&M at the workplace. To me, this is funny, because I'm sure if I picked it out I would have been labeled a pig for renting a movie where the plot centers around ass-spanking. Kudos to James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Okay, kids, time to hit the showers before I catch my bedtime tv show - Futurama! Yeah!

I'm under the weather today so I'm keeping this short. However, I wanted to recognize the passing of Nina Simone.

one more thing about the YLT show / album. Georgia sings a bulk of the new songs. And if you've ever heard a Georgia-sung YLT song you know that is very, very good thing. That is / was one of the few bright spots on the new lp / saturday night's concert.
and with that i bid you goodnight

Easter has come and gone. The sister came down for the weekend so I spent Friday night, Saturday evening, Sunday morning and Sunday evening over at the Mom's visiting. As an added bonus a good friend the college days was in town from NYC. So a bunch of us Virginia Tech Photo Staff kids got caught up over pizza in Cleveland Park, DC. Easter Sunday was nice. We did brunch with some relatives, and then that evening the family & my girlfriend did Easter dinner at my Mom's. Dinner consisted of steaks wrapped in bacon, twice-cooked potatoes, lobster tail, corn on the cob and pie. A mighty feast.
Saturday night's Yo La Tengo show blew. I was so disappointed. I don't really like the new album and they played nearly every song from it unfortunately. YLT seems to be forgoing thier earlier noise-pop and lounge sensibilities for making music that is so quiet and docile that it barley registers as sound. Plus, the lyrics for this new album are just terrible; crossing over the line of a song-as-personal-confession to sounding like it was culled from the poetry of a thousand 13-year-old pop-star crushes. Trying to recreate the 'hushed' sounds of the album in a live setting was such a waste of the bands extraordinary talents and the very notion of a 'performance'. In one of the few critical reviews I read, it was suggested that the new album is the sound of the band decomposing. And sadly, I have to agree.

I could go on & on, but I'm testing the idea of going to bed at decent hour so I'm rested for a full day of work. heh

woo-hoo! Friday! Lot's of things to be excited about. First, its the Easter weekend, which means my sister is in town from NJ. Big cheer for family gathering. Second, Sat. night is the Yo La Tengo concert. Third, it's the weekend, duh.
In other news, I finally finished a Flash project I started back in December. Maybe this weekend I'll see about posting it over the webspace Verzion gave me for signing up for DSL.
Let's see if I can figure out how to link to other blogs....

Oh, and before I turn in, Pleasant Passover to those celebrating

Finally. Finally. FINALLY I got my cell phone back from Radio Shack and it works. Good god, the things that you have to do to get decent customer service. GRRRR.....This situation made me appreciate the companies that do care that I'm giving them my hard-earned (and in this case, much needed) money. Thank you Sprint PCS and DirecTV. Everytime I call with a problem they get it right on the 1st try and with a great attitude. Now, I know a lot of people got thier grips with said companies, but for me, they are golden.

Capitals lost again tonight. BOO! Now the series is tied 2-2 with the game returning to Tampa Bay. Too tired to learn how to do things with my blog so i'm gonna hit the showers and read me some William Gibson. Mona Lisa Overdrive, to be precise.

Font issues are fixed. Horray! Soon I will get around to linking other blogs in a show of Virginia Tech soldiarity. Ya Betta Reprezent

Last night's "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" freaked me out. The eyes??? Why??!!! (shiver)

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Ack. What a day! I'm having a nightmare of a time getting Radio Shack to fix my cell phone. I gave them the phone on the 15th of march to repair and I've never seen it since. Everytime I call over there or show up at the store I get a different answer from someone. Today's saga included screaming at a Customer Service Representative just to get him to pick up a phone and find out where my cell phone is. The answer: in Texas, still being repaired. See, this is different from Friday when I was told the phone was repaired and en route to Falls Church, Va. Sigh.
In better news, last night's Dirty Three show was amazing. To say the band performed 'live' is an understatement. They owned that stage. Mick Turner is one amazing drummer! Some drummers are defined as good because they strap themselves to their drum kit as its lifted into the air and spun around, others define themselves by playing like each of their limbs belong to a separete person. I put Mick Turner in the latter category.

Here's a list of things given to me by my girlfriend's family this weekend:
A projection screen
8 mm film camera
(the rest are books. I'm looking the director you, Sam)
Oliver Twist
Anna Karenina
The Way of Lao Tzu
The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Bhagavad-Gita
'Salem's Lot

wow. my first blog. Sam has been pestering me for almost a month now to start one of these things. It's only fair since I've been reading Sam's since the start of the year; the least I can do is return the favor.

Instead of slugging it on the couch the whole weekend, I made a quick trip up to Philly. My girfriend's grandpa is / was in the hospital so we drove up there to wish well and etc. Let's all hope that he is healthy and at home very, very soon.
So aside from driving for a total of 8 hours in I-95 there really isn't much to tell. I'm off to the Black Cat for the Dirty Three show tonight. Get used to reading crap like that on this blog. I go to a lot of shows by bands that seem to be below the majority of people's radars. One could define this as being a "hipster-dofus". Goodnight, all.