Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head were in town tonight playing T.T. the Bear’s Place over in Cambridge. I decided to go check them out from all my Seattle peeps telling me their live show was pretty darn fun, and they were right. A youthful explosion of moog dance rock. Nice crew too. Great seeing bands from Seattle getting some national attention.

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band returned to Boston and played the Middle East Upstairs this time. They played some new songs coming from their second album, which they anticipate coming out next next year sometime.

Bee Gees Metal Tribute Band? What in the world? Who would do such a thing? Well someone did and it is awesome. I heard about Tragedy about six months ago when I lived in Seattle. I thought they were a too funny, great tunes, to some classic songs. I never thought I’d get a chance to see them live though because they are the #1 Bee Gees Metal Tribute Band in the Northeast Corridor. To my luck moving to Boston and some surfing on Boston.com, I find them playing last Saturday night at Harper’s Ferry. Well I can’t pass this opportunity up! Well I was totally decimated from their show. Absolute blast! One of the more entertaining shows I have gone too in ages. Well worth checking out if they come to your town.

Rock Band has been out for a while now with expansions and the sequel and a nice constant stream of downloadable content, yet the albums aren’t being released very frequently.  There are some albums out there that would make for some awesome drunken Rock Band enjoyment, and here are a couple albums I think should at some point be released on Rock Band.

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At the Deer Tick show they did a couple covers including this one of Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girls. Good stuff. Sorry for the audio quality.

I drove down to Providence to check out Deer Tick at their homecoming show before heading on a major tour with Jenny Lewis. Awesome show. Video shortly.

Check out these photos of one of my current favorites, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.

I saw Bishop Allen a couple weeks ago and haven’t taken the time to update the site with the photos. I am experimenting with Flickr, so tell me what you think.

My pal Joe asked if I wanted to check out The Brothers Bloom at the Independent Film Festival here in Boston a couple weeks ago. Me being a movie nut and a fan of the movie Brick, of course I said yes. We made the drive up to the Somerville Theatre, found some parking, got our tickets, grabbed a beer (beer at a movie, awesome), and found some seats. It wasn’t until we sat down that we found out it was opening night and The Brothers Bloom was the headlining movie. What luck!
If you haven’t heard The Brothers Bloom stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as con artist brothers who scheme a plan to con recluse hobby collector Rachel Weisz out of millions. The twist is that Mark Ruffalo character writes these cons to the level of plays that Adrien plays a part, and typically becomes emotionally involved. After years of coning people Adrien’s character doesn’t want to do it anymore, but his brother crafts one last con and humor ensues. The overall theme is a fairly light hearted comedy wrapped with Rian Johnson’s very sharp writing. Acting is top notice, and some of the characters are easy to like, including Bang Bang, a tiny Japanese girl with an unhealthy fascination with explosives, who hardly speaks through the entire movie. The movie got a little slow at the end, but overall I enjoyed it a great deal. I love crime movies, and the addition of the humor makes this a very enjoyable film. Check it out when it comes out in May.

I have been fooling around with various themes, wanting to change up the page a bit.  I am still modifying on a local version of the site here at home, but I decided to change the theme on the live site.  I have been reading Smashing Magazine a lot, which is an amazing site that everyone should check out.  I have gotten some good ideas from there, and hope to use some of that great information here on the site.  One of the bad thing about all these changes is links might start breaking, as well as other items.  I hope to clean everything up and keep the site updated.  Keep posted for updates.