spring dump

Woke up thursday to close to a foot of snow, and it was still coming down hard. I made it into work eventually. Campus closed down early so steph was able to pick up my things from milo so I could camp out in Boulder. We had a late snow day at her place which culminated in On Demand Rolling Stones karaoke. All told friday morning we got about 2 feet, but I was able to make it into work ok. The mountains were getting pounded all week so we packed up the car and headed to Beaver Creek with greg & lisatron saturday morning for some fresh dump spring skiing - wicked! Stayed most of the day and unfortunately hit some gnarly traffic on the way home. Went over to jacq's to watch the DU hockey game only to find out that they had been eliminated in round 1 - boo! Did homework sunday, then we went to see I Love You Man, which was hilarious - slappin the bass.

the hurra

I am pretty stoked about this late 60's Vox Hurricane 12-string guitron I just received from the e-bay. Bring on the jangle!

keep music evil

Finished another class on monday - that leaves just one more! We celebrated with a show at the ogden on tuesday - The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Even though their most recent album sounds like it was recorded in a muddy paper bag, the live show was tight. It was also a bit shorter than last time they played the Boulder Theater due to an early curfew at the Ogden, which was odd. I had heard Joel the tambourine man was back in fold, but was really surprised to see Matt Hollywood returning to the band. Flavor Crystals opened and they were pretty cool too.



Setlist:
whoever you are
vacuum boots
got my eye on you
when jokers attack
sailor
WWII
nevertheless
b.s.a.
'new song'
who?
nailing honey to the bee
yeah yeah
oh lord
hide and seek
telegram
sailor
wasted
serious matters
that girl suicide
satellite
not if you were the last dandy on earth
swallowtail

spring fever

Spring fever was in the air, so I picked up some foods and prepped steph's patio while she was swimming for some grill action. I got a tad overzealous with the 1/2 lb. burgs, but they were sure tasty. We watched Synecdoche, NY which was pretty bizarre.

Saturday's weather was even more spring-like. I finally got around to furniture shopping. I picked up these pieces for the living room:




Later on, we all met up at Lui's in Erie for my dad's b-day dinner. It's a tad off the beaten path, but they have delicious chinese food prepared fresh at reasonable prices. Yum. Headed back to hillside for cupcakes and gifts.

Sunday morning we had planned on going up to the slopes, but kind of slacked on skiing. It's been hard to motivate with lackluster snow recently. Not to mention it was another warm & sunny day, so we just hung around milo. I put together the bookshelf, we walked around waneka, and steph made a killer pizza from scratch.

st. patty's day

Boulder was hopping on St. Patty's day. Met up with just about everybody at the scottish bar - we figured it would be less crowded than Boulder's one irish pub. Not so, and they surely were not prepared for it - service was super s l o w. But we had a hoot anyway, and called it a night after some slices on pearl.

mid-march

Friday after work I went over to steph's and we had lasagna & watched Milk. Steph started triathlon training the next morning so I headed home to do some research on my paper. Later on we decided try dinner at the Blue Parrot. Their homemade pasta was great but the ambiance was beat - it was like an old folks home on grandkid visiting day. We strolled over to Waterloo for a night cap, headed back to my place and passed out wathcing SNL.



Sunday we had breakfast and steph ran errands. I started work on my paper again with the goal to finish and go see Watchmen, but then Lauren came over to kill time while Renn helped friends move in around the corner from me. Missed the movies, but had Happy Go Lucky from netflix, so we just watched that. Steph made a killer shepperd's pie for dinner and we watched our sunday night stories.

kidda

My current obsession is with this Hervé mix of the Kidda track 'Under the Sun':

AYWKUBTTOD

In lieu of class monday, steph & I had dinner at Mezcal then walked across the street to the ...And you Will Know us by the Trail of Dead show at the Bluebird. Midnight Masses opened the show and they were pretty cool. The next act up, Funeral Party, started with promise, but soon sounded very same-y. AYWKUBTTOD rose to the occasion and powered through their set. It was pretty crazy for a monday night - there was a pit, Midnight Masses joined onstage a couple of time for backing vox, and the lead singer shotgunned a beer before the encore. And then things got really crazy - a kid jumped onstage and just started dancing around before security got overzealous and 'removed' him. The band stopped playing and started everyone chanting, "Let him go!" Soon they invited everyone to join them onstage and even helped pull them up - a rousing 'Richter Scale Madness' ensued. Tuesday was a challenge.



Set list:
Giants Causeway
Far Pavilions
Isis Unveiled
Homage
Bells of Creation
Will you Smile Again?
Fields of Coal
Relative Ways
Clair de Lune
Totally Natural
Another Morning Stoner
Caterwaul
Richter Scale Madness

bronze & karoke

Friday after work I grabbed a pizza and headed over to steph's and we pre-partied a bit with greg & lisa as I watched the setlist unfold from phish's first night back on the road (incidentally, they pulled off the three nights better than I had expected). Then we all headed to Bender's Tavern to catch the Bronze cd release gig. We got there just in time and they played a solid set, until joaquin broke all of his drumsticks.



It was a pretty late evening, so we slept in saturday morning. We eventually headed over to hillside to do our taxes and check out paul's new gretsch hollow body, which was pretty sick. Then it we headed to stpeh's, scarfed some leftover za and went to the IFS to see a crazy spanish thriller - Timecrimes (trailer below):



After the movie we met up everyone at the outback in nobo for jeff's b-day celebration. Karoke was on the agenda and I rose to the occasion with a rambunctious punk/doom metal rendition of 99 Red Balloons. Sunday was chill - worked on a paper and caugh the new eps of Breaking Bad and Flight of the Conchords.

capenectar

Friday night we got a hotey room in denver for the Bassnectar gig at the Ogden. Funny thing was, for whatever reason, I decided we should leave about 15 minutes into his set and go back to the hotey room and party some more. On the way out I made frenemies with some security person manning the smoking area gates - I guess that is not the proper way to exit the venue. As soon as steph & I got back to the room, I passed out - so much for partying down in the hotey room. Oh well, I must have needed my rest.



The next morning we strolled down colfax, buying bunches of tickets for upcoming shows at various box offices to avoid ticketslasher fees. The tickets we bought at the Fillmore were JUMBO size, like 4 times the normal size of a ticket - practically a brochure! Then we had brunch at Pete's Kitchen and browsed vinyl next door at Twist & Shout - I picked up The Cult - Dreamtime and Leftfield - Afro Left EP. Once we got back to town, we went to the CU women's b-ball game with my parents. CU trailed the entire game and lost, but it was entertaining nonetheless with all the dancing, cheerleading, and band playing going on in between timeouts and such. After the game we had dinner at Southern Sun, then went back to steph's and watched The Dutchess, which deservedly had great costumes. Sunday was paper writing day back at my place.