arcade fire, dog sweaters, vodka
ok, so no update yesterday because i was actually busy at work printing out these abominations:
hundreds of them. it took forever and now i hate dog sweaters more than you can possibly imagine.
wait, i guess it's pretty easy to hate dog sweaters anyways...nevermind.
THIS JUST IN: i am dying from hang-overness. please help me. it hurts....
last night some pals and i went to this place called The Russian Samovar for drinks. and it's, well, very russian. and inside there are lots and lots of russians and lots and lots of different kinds of infused vodkas.
you basically order carafes (carafes!) of whatever flavor vodka that you want and then drink it out of these tiny lil' shot glasses. there are these huge jars of all of the different flavors at the bar and it's a bit strange to see things like ginger or dill or horseradish soaking in gallons of booze. it's pretty great though.
we had (i think): pineapple, cranberry, dill, peach, and plum. pineapple was so good. dill was nasty as shit.
so today i am tired and headachey.
in other news, here's my review of the arcade fire show:
it was pretty good. they went on super late because they were on conan o'brien right before. ugh.
there were two good openers though and that almost never happens. first was man man and i thought they were fun. mostly i liked them though because the lead singer/keyboard player looks like my dad when he was in his twenties. same moppy hair and big mustache and everything. i kept laughing at how awesomely my pops was rocking out. i think this video of theirs is pretty awesome.
the next band, or guy was called final fantasy. it was just one guy with a violin and a delay pedal. he built up some nice melodies, but i thought his singing was kind of weak. overall good though.
after waiting for a damned eternity for the arcade fire to set up all of their instruments and do sound check, they finally started. the first two or three songs sounded totally badass. then they played two or three songs that nobody knew and you could feel the life being sucked out of the audience. it kind of never came back fully either. bad set list organizing, i thought.
anyhoo, they really sounded amazing live and there's really nothing better than a stage full of like 10 people singing songs at the tops of their voices. i'll leave it to the million other folks (brooklyn vegan, daily refill, etc..)to speak more about it. plus they have better pictures and video if you are so inclined.
and now it looks like i missed the better of the two shows they played here. last night david byrne sand with them.
o well...i did get to see david bowie at mine. he was watching from the balcony.
ok, now i am going to go and lay down for a bit.
have mercy.
ok, so no update yesterday because i was actually busy at work printing out these abominations:
hundreds of them. it took forever and now i hate dog sweaters more than you can possibly imagine.
wait, i guess it's pretty easy to hate dog sweaters anyways...nevermind.
THIS JUST IN: i am dying from hang-overness. please help me. it hurts....
last night some pals and i went to this place called The Russian Samovar for drinks. and it's, well, very russian. and inside there are lots and lots of russians and lots and lots of different kinds of infused vodkas.
you basically order carafes (carafes!) of whatever flavor vodka that you want and then drink it out of these tiny lil' shot glasses. there are these huge jars of all of the different flavors at the bar and it's a bit strange to see things like ginger or dill or horseradish soaking in gallons of booze. it's pretty great though.
we had (i think): pineapple, cranberry, dill, peach, and plum. pineapple was so good. dill was nasty as shit.
so today i am tired and headachey.
in other news, here's my review of the arcade fire show:
it was pretty good. they went on super late because they were on conan o'brien right before. ugh.
there were two good openers though and that almost never happens. first was man man and i thought they were fun. mostly i liked them though because the lead singer/keyboard player looks like my dad when he was in his twenties. same moppy hair and big mustache and everything. i kept laughing at how awesomely my pops was rocking out. i think this video of theirs is pretty awesome.
the next band, or guy was called final fantasy. it was just one guy with a violin and a delay pedal. he built up some nice melodies, but i thought his singing was kind of weak. overall good though.
after waiting for a damned eternity for the arcade fire to set up all of their instruments and do sound check, they finally started. the first two or three songs sounded totally badass. then they played two or three songs that nobody knew and you could feel the life being sucked out of the audience. it kind of never came back fully either. bad set list organizing, i thought.
anyhoo, they really sounded amazing live and there's really nothing better than a stage full of like 10 people singing songs at the tops of their voices. i'll leave it to the million other folks (brooklyn vegan, daily refill, etc..)to speak more about it. plus they have better pictures and video if you are so inclined.
and now it looks like i missed the better of the two shows they played here. last night david byrne sand with them.
o well...i did get to see david bowie at mine. he was watching from the balcony.
ok, now i am going to go and lay down for a bit.
have mercy.
posted by anthony at 9:52 AM
1 Comments:
hey! remember that story about the night i lost my then-boyfriend because i was to drunk to follow him into the deli?
that was the russian samovar.
that place deserves respect.
-kc
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