interpoly

Rocktober forged on with Interpol at the Ogden last night. Mondays are such a pain for shows, but this was pretty chill. Had leftover indian food for diner and headed to town. White Rabbits opened up and they were pretty lively - good use of percussion. I had no idea there were six members. Interpol took the stage as polar opposites - very dimly lit and not very animated, but they sounded spot on with their new keyboardist and Dave Pajo taking up bass duties. And we were home and in bed before midnight.



Set:
Success
Say Hello To The Angels
C'mere
Leif Erikson
Summer Well
Rest My Chemistry
PDA
Narc
Untitled
Hands Away
Lights
Evil
Take You On A Cruise
Try It On
Not Even Jail

Encore:
The Lighthouse
Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down
Slow Hands

game day

Friday, we bought all kinds of new brews to taste and then grabbed some Big City Burritos.

Saturday we had cheap tix for the CU / Texas Tech homecoming game. Had lunch at 1/2 Fast Subs along with most of the rest campus - there was a line out the door by the time we left for a mellower vibe. So we had a brew at Abo's to get out of the crowd that was lunch - Dogfish 90-minute on tap! The game started out great, but ended miserably. Tyler Hansen getting a ruptured spleen did not help. Oh well, it was still pretty fun to make it to a game and the weather was perfect.



Swung by Lindsay's pre-halloween party to say hi. The main parts of my costume still have not arrived in the mail, so I was half-ass dressed as a CU fan having just come from the game. LauRenn and crew had some sweet Scooby Doo gang costumes.



Sunday steph was cranking out on the original Zelda and I brewed an india brown ale (Charles Brown) in my new keggle which I am loving. Watched the first season of Delocated and had indian food for dinner.

rumpkin patchin

Started the fall festivities after work on friday with a trip to Avery to try their freshly corked Rumpkin imperial pumpkin ale aged in gosslings rum barrels. Delicious! We also sampled The Beast grand cru - 2009 vintage. That a hell of a beer at 16.9%. And as a bonus they had just tapped a rye whiskey cask-aged imperial oatmeal stout. For dinner, we made a pizza.

Saturday morning we hit up the pumpkin patch and came home with two biggies and some gourds.



Stopped by Greg's on the way to Costco. And later that night watched McGruber - awesome!

Sunday I had planned on brewing, but wasn't feeling super creative so instead I finally finished the sky castle on Zelda (I better hurry up and beat this in time for the new one), vegged out, watched the Broncos lose again. Steph crock-potted a bbq pork shoulder fro dinner while we watched the Rubicon & Mad Men finales.

boom case

I would very much like to have one of these:

phishy

..::Sunday::..
Sunday was cold and rainy, but Steph dropped us off at the Broomfield Event Center lot around 4pm anyway so we could have some pre-show brews. Quite the wooked out shakedown. It was getting pretty cold so we head in right at doors, and luckily met up with Dave, Simi, et al who had saved some decent seats for us. What a great show - they came out of the gate running and never looked back. Great energy raging through the classics and a brand new tune.



Set One:
Chalk Dust Torture
Ocelot
It's Ice
Bouncing Around The Room
Funky Bitch
AC/DC Bag
NICU
The Moma Dance
Horn
Stash
Golgi Apparatus

Set Two:
Mike's Song >
Simple >
Ghost >
Weekapaug Groove
Fee
Makisupa Policeman >
My Problem Right There >
Makisupa Policeman
Slave To the Traffic Light
Strange Design
Julius

Encore:
Loving Cup

..::Tuesday::..
We weren't able to get monday tickets, and it was kind of a welcome day of rest. Of course tuesday was another cold & rainy day. Me & Jacq headed down to the park & ride across the street since we did not need to deal with shakedown again. We had some dinner Jacq picked up earlier, then headed in to meet up with our friends from sunday who scored even better seats one row off the floor. I was pretty pumped from the first show still and 'Stealing Time' was a great opener, but then they really shit the bed with a horribly placed TTE. The energy got sucked out of the place and the rest of the night was a disjointed mess. They were pretty much winging the setlist and it did not flow at all, not to mention Trey was really dorkin out. Heavy on the Joy era and newer songs (8 total), which aren't bad per se, but it was overkill. Still there were a few solid moments and of course we had a blast, but sunday it was not.



Set One:
Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
Time Turns Elastic
Meat
The Divided Sky
Timber
On Your Way Down
Heavy Things
Sugar Shack
46 Days

Set Two:
Carini >
David Bowie
Light
Theme From The Bottom >
Free >
Joy
Halfway To The Moon
Bug
Summer Of '89
Split Open And Melt

Encore:
Meatstick

absinthey

Steph's b-day was on wednesday, but we celebrated on saturday starting with a tasty dinner at Mateo. After dinner, we walked over to the new Absinthe House over where the Foundry used to be. Neither of us had ever tried absinthe, and it was OK, but the serving ritual was pretty cool.



The whole gang met up with us there, and around 10pm the place turned into a dance club, so we danced til about midnight when they announced the raffle winner which was not us.



Whoever was left standing joined us at the depths of the scumdowner where the PBR and mind erasers were flowing. Eventually cabbed it back to 3959 and tried to play ping pong with the new playstation wands but failed miserably.

sonicy

I was pretty excited to see that Sonic Youth had scheduled a couple shows between their Matador 21 & Austin City Limits gigs since I missed them the last time they were in town. Grabbed a quick bite to eat at home before heading to the Ogden. The crowd was pretty calm being monday and all, and the band was spot on which made for a killer recording. Mark was back in the fold for his first show since his Pavement responsibilities ended the night before. So we got a nice mix of Eternal material and oldies.

My stellar recording is available over at COTapers or DIME.



Set:
Bull in the Heather
Sacred Trickster
No Way
Calming the Snake
Mote
Antenna
Schizophrenia
Catholic Block
Anti-Orgasm
Poison Arrow
What We Know
Massage the History

E1:
The Wonder
Hyperstation

E2:
Shadow of a Doubt
Expressway To Yr Skull

beer, biking & football

Bottled my batch of Scotchgard Bomb bright & early saturday morning (thanks again for the labels Bob).



As I was finishing up, Greg came over to watch the end of the Clemson game. Earlier in the week I got some fat new 2.5's tires for my bike. Man, putting those things on was a bitch. I really wanted to try them out so we took a ride down on the north side of Coal Creek Path. Then we rode bikes over Ralphie's for the CU / UGA game - a great see-saw of a game ending with a forced fumble for a CU win!

Sunday we went over to Greg's for beer & soda can chicken, then headed back to Milo for Rubicon & Mad Men. A pretty casual weekend.