Deer Tick covering Beautiful Girls
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.
Deer Tick at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
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.
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band at Middle East Underground
Check out these photos of one of my current favorites, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.
Photos from Bishop Allen show
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.
The Brothers Bloom at IFFBoston
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.
Spring Cleaning, New Theme, and probably some broken links
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.
Good Buritto at Full-screen Anna’s Taqueria
Since moving to Boston one of the things I crave most is good Mexican food. There is a typical ‘Family Mexican’ place right by the office, which is alright, but not great. So I did some hunting on the interwebs for best Mexican food in Boston and Anna’s Taqueria was listed by a number of places for having the best burrito’s in Boston. Just happened to be in Sommerville with one of the many Anna’s Taqueria locations and decided to try it out. I got a steak burrito with rice, cheese, salsa, hot sauce, refried beans, and lettuce. One thing that surprised me is how small it was. Not the massive burritos I am accustom to back home in Seattle or some I got in L.A., got some chips and a coke as well. The burrito itself was great. The steak was well seasoned, the mixture of the salsa, cheese, and refried beans made for great filler. Overall it really hit the spot and made me think that Boston does have some good Mexican places to eat. The chips were tasty too!
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Hitting Cambridge and having Indian
I went out to the Middle East Underground for the Bishop Allen and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band show on Friday night. The bands were going to take the stage fairly late, so my friend and I wondered around to find a place to eat. We decided to grab some Indian food at Shalimar of India right on Mass Ave. I haven’t seen very many Indian places in Boston yet, so it was nice to grab some tasty Chicken Tikka Masala. Pretty good chicken, the sauce was a little thick, but still pretty good. I got medium for spice, and it wasn’t too bad at all. The portions were a little on the small side, but enough to hold me over until I got home after the show. I need to find more Indian places in Boston.
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Eatin’ at Good Life
My first week in Boston it happened to be one of my co-worker’s birthday, and being new I decided to go and hang. I took the T into downtown and met up with everyone at a bar, and then we moved on to Good Life. Good Life is a trendy little place with a live DJ spinning and booze and food. Fairly good combo. There are countless places like Good Life in every city, so nothing really new here. Mood lighting, pretty wait staff, hipsters in and out. The menu was pretty varied with hummus dish to start, awesome looking burgers, salads, and a bloodly amazing looking steak. I went a little out of the norm and ordered Mac & Cheese. It sounded good, and it didn’t disappoint. The cheese was so rich and creamy. Large pork meat balls, strong bacon flavor, and good hearty pasta. I was kinda shocked how good it was, I could hardly finish it because it was so rich. Good Life isn’t the place I typically go, but I am happy I went out and was pleasantly surprised how good the food was.
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Spike’s Junkyard Dog
When I arrived in Boston I had a day or two to wonder around town before I started work, so I took the Red Line up into town and just started wondering. Via the wonders of Facebook and Twitter updates, I got the message to go to Spike’s Junkyard Dog and get a Junkyard Dog. Since I was on my way to Fenway, there happen to be a Spike’s on the walk there. Spike’s is a Burger and Hot Dog place with a junkyard theme, so car parts and crash signs are on the walls. The menu is pretty standard with various options of burgers, hot dogs, and chicken. I prefer my dogs plain, so I got a hot dog and a fried buffalo chicken sandwich. Hot dogs are one of those basic foods that when done right can be amazingly good, and Spike’s didn’t disappoint. The chicken sandwich was pretty good as well, but I am not a fan of chicken stripes used as sandwich inners, but it was alright. There are multiple Spike’s in the Boston area, and well worth grabbing a bite there if you have the sudden urge for a good hot dog.
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