Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Today:Today was overall an excellent day. ...

Today:
Today was overall an excellent day.




  • My advisor meeting went pretty well. He seems to actually be excited by what I am doing, and that's always good if you're trying to not get kicked out.



  • I went to the dentist. I don't enjoy the dentist per say, but I enjoy the after dentist time when your teeth are looking their finest and you're all doped up on novacane so you can touch your lip and it feels like someone else's skin... It give me an immense joy...



  • Right now I'm just working on homework, which isn't too bad, and I don't have too much of it.




Sure, that's not too much, but I am easily amused I guess.

Grand Buffet:
One of my favorite bands and the moment and for the past 3 years has been Grand Buffet. I saw them in L.A. once opening for Weslie Willis (post-irony gone wrong) and the a couple more times afterwards. But it turns out that they are actually from Pittsburgh. So now I've seen them here twice already, once this past Friday at the Pitt student Union. And if I may say, they rocked the lights out. Grand Buffet is basically a hip-hop group. A lot of what they do happens to be funny, especially at the live shows, but I really believe that musically they are like one of the best rap groups around right now. Grape-A-Don, the red headed guy who does most of the raps, has serious flow, like I'm not even kidding. And they come up with some strange, driving, groovy kinds of beats. At this last show they did this song that sampled "Dirty Laundry" by either Don Henley solo or the Eagles, and it was very nice. They dedicated it to 'the other guy who sings and plays the drums' and then went on to proclaim that Don Henley wasn't fit to wash Phil Collins' underwear.
I went with K-Dog, and it was hard to get a read on whether or not he liked it, but at least he was a good sport. I invited a bunch of other people, none of whom came, and then decided afterwards that it was probably a good thing.
Anyway, here's the poster, I ripped it off a telephone pole.

Belle and Sebastian:
I just read in the Burgh city paper that Belle and Sebastian have a new full lengh album, The Life Pursuit. It goes on to say that, unfortunately for B&S's hardcore fans, the band will be continuing where Dear Catastophe Waitress left off, higher production values, bigger sound, etc. Can I say that this is awesome news? I love almost every CD of theirs that I own, but Dear Catastrophe Waitress was just incredible, song-wise and sound-wise, and I'm glad to hear that their pushing on and not giving in to the criticisms.

1 comment:

  1. My advisor meeting went pretty well. He seems to actually be excited by what I am doing, and that's always good if you're trying to not get kicked out.

    Exactly how I felt today! We got the nicest advisor methinks.

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