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We went to Philly at the start of the month. Girlfriendhead wanted to check out Villanova Law, so we went down for the day. Very pretty city center. We got lunch at this great martini bar called the Continental that has 2-way mirrors in its bathroom. From outside of the bathroom, you can see people washing their hands and fussing up their hairdos.
On the way back, we rode the Bolt Bus for the first time. Bolt Bus is way cheap and way handy for getting around the eastern corridor. I haven't met anyone yet who doesn't say good things about it. Anyway, I hope to get back to Philly at some point this year.
Looks sick.
Whoa, it was hot this weekend. Special lady was in town and we really made an effort not to make an effort. Weather was so nice Saturday that we strolled up to the /pawk /with everyone else in the city, got some disappointment at the Museum of Natural History and some iPhone goodness at the main Apple tabernacle on 5th. We had Japanese/Peruvian fusion at Kion with Gleb and Yen (not pictured) and then ended up at some crazy Tribeca film festival after party via Joshua, before hitting the hay.
Sidenote: Fusion places usually don't live up to your expectations and this was no exception. I unfairly expected the whole to be tastier than the sum of the parts but I actually found the food at this place to be slightly worse than enjoying each cuisine separately.
Today, all we did was go to Chez Lola for brunch. It is definitely worth the trip out to Brooklyn. It was so good I am still thinking about it now. Did nothing after that and enjoyed it. Girlfriend left at 6pm at which point I quietly resigned myself to just studying CFA for the next 3 weeks straight. Pretty lame.
I went up to Whistler back in
December with the old Microsoft crew. Here are the pics. For someone
who flew out all the way from NY, I was kinda pathetic, I skied only
one day. But I had a lot of fun slothing it up and I got to see the
special lady which was really the whole point of the trip. We also rode the Whistler-Blackcomb gondola which opened that day and goes really high.
Anyway, its good to finally get these posted. I am way behind on
posting my pictures and someone has been asking very nicely for a while
for these shots in particular.
Brazil trip pics coming.... soon.
So I am listening to Thursday's "John in the Morning" KEXP show as I often do on slow weekends, and Modest Mouse's "A Life of Artic Sounds" came on. I realized how much Modest Mouse's music means to me and needed to share.
I first heard "All Night Diner" in a fraternity brother's room as a sophomore at Stanford. This was 2002 before Modest Mouse had achieved mainstream popularity. I started downloading their stuff and gradually got more and more into it. I think I was drawn to it because its so honest. I was mainly listening to Building Nothing Out of Something, This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About and The Moon and Antarctica back then. The songs on these albums could be crazy and excitable but equally sad and deeply felt. I think that by being honest in their songs about their fear and frustration and disappointment and loneliness, Modest Mouse allowed me to be honest about mine. After school, I moved to Seattle, near where Modest Mouse is from (Issaquah, WA). During the ~3 years I lived there, I began to see life painted in their colors. I ate and drank (a lot) in the informal, often wild establishments of the area. I took in the beauty and the isolation of the Cascade Mountains and the Puget Sound. I suffered the numbing depression eight months of cold and rain and overcast skies will bring on.I eventually left Seattle but I know I will return someday. Somehow in the same way Modest Mouse's honesty reaches right to the core of me, living in the Pacific Northwest shows me the joy and pain of life in their purest forms.
Alright, enough of that. Enjoy these songs from Building Nothing Out of Something. Maybe in some later post, I'll explain why I like Band of Horses so much.
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