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Did You Know Last Tuesday was a Holiday?
71063 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
Well, it was. That was the day No Line on the Horizon, the new U2 album came out. I didn’t say anything about it last week because I wanted to let the thing marinate in my mind for a bit.
U2 is one of those bands that I think, having grown up on Bad Religion and Dead Kennedy’s, I should not enjoy. But you know what, I love that damn band. Yeah Bono’s full of himself, and yeah they are, in many ways, the stereotypical arena-rock band. But, god damnit, they write such good songs and absolutely blow away live shows. So there you are. Go buy the new album because it is, as they say, the shit.
Don’t believe me? Alright doubty mcdoubter, check this.
The Streets — Everything is Borrowed
I kinda hate myself right now.
81080 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
I think there is a chance of a comic being done sometime today or this weekend. Maybe I’m being blindly optimistic…probably. Anyway, I have a few minutes right now so I thought I’d share a few things…
The Best Way to Start Off The Week? Bacon and Stalking!
61279 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
I’ll just say that while today is probably not the start of YOUR week, I spent most the yesterday hiding under pillows thanks to an awesome migraine that woke me up at 4 am, so today is the start of my week…
As dedicated Normalinaut Jezmon says, we here at NR have a decidely “Pro-Bacon Agenda.” Or at least I have a decidedly pro-bacon agenda, and since I’m the defacto voice of Normality Restored, by default all of NR is pro-bacon. I’ve made inquiries into starting the “Bacon-Freedom Party.” It seems rather natural, I think, to have an official snack food and, behold we now have one!
Brief Musical Stuffs
31343 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
I started this yesterday on my lunch because, as gilgrim mentioned last Friday, I’ve been put on lock-down from the interwebz. Well, everyone at work here has, whatever. I really just need this job as a filler until I finish graduate school and can start teaching full time, but man would I jump ship today if I could. Until I can quit the blog posts might come with a bit less frequency…
Sunday night the wife and I saw The Cure at the Shrine. Generally, at these types of shows, there’s just one opening act that, for the most part, you try and miss. For some odd reason, the traffic was actually very good in LA that night so after parking, walking around a bit, and buying a shirt for the wife, we were in our seats by the time miscellaneous opening band was into their 2nd song. The “band,” as it turned out, is called 65daysofstatic. Now, I don’t want to say that they upstaged the headliners because when The Cure throwdown a 3-hour set with almost no breaks, they can’t be upstaged. But you expect a band like The Cure to be great. You do not, however, expect the unbilled opening act to be great.
So as I type this I’m wearing a 65daysofstatic t-shirt.
Because I have nothing of substance to say.
31396 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
That could be the tagline for this site, actually, since all I really do is babble semi-coherently on topics no one really cares about. And as I don’t have much anything to babble about today, here’s another heaping helping of videos, because I know all you Normalinauts love them so much…
April March
Scarlett Bliss
The Happy Bullets
Drinking on the Job
The Eames Era
When You Were a Millionaire
The Real McKenzies
Mainland
The Coral
In the Morning
The Ting Tings
Great DJ and Fruit Machine
I’m hesitant to spread this around.
51399 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
Because even though tickets aren’t yet on sale (or, maybe they are and I just can’t locate them on the interwebz) I imagine that since they are only playing one f’ing show in So. Cal., it is going to sell out quickly.
In any even, pollstar posted a short spring tour schedule for Flight of the Conchords:
Mon 05/05/08 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre
Tue 05/06/08 New York, NY Town Hall
Wed 05/07/08 New York, NY Town Hall
Fri 05/09/08 Washington, DC Lisner Auditorium
Sat 05/10/08 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater
Sun 05/11/08 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre
Tue 05/13/08 Minneapolis, MN The Orpheum Theatre
Wed 05/14/08 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
Thu 05/15/08 Denver, CO Ellie Caulkins Opera Houseappearing at “Sasquatch! Music Festival”
Mon 05/26/08 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
Flight Of The Conchords
Tue 05/27/08 San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center
Fri 05/30/08 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
And in case you didn’t already know (but you did, didn’t you?), you can get your greedy little mitts on the Conchords first full length album on April 22nd.
On this day, randomness abounds.
41410 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
I drove all 55 miles to work before realizing that I had left my wallet (and therefore, my driver’s license) at home. That, in and of itself, wasn’t such a big deal…I mean, as long as I don’t get pulled over on the way home. Sure, not having my ATM card with me is a bit of a bummer, but since I filled the gas tank last night and brought my lunch to work, I didn’t need money today.
Actually, I should point out that I do not need any money beyond the $3.55 in assorted change I was able to scavenge from my laptop bag in order to purchase coffee. Though the prospect of a second coffee is intriguing…
So here’s an interesting little interwebz thingamabob, the Sci-Fi Convention finder. Just type in your zip code and see any convention goodness in your general geographically related area. I guess that I should mention that I saw it on Io9 which, as far as blogs go, certainly isn’t the worst, but for some reason I find myself continuing to think that the whole Io9 site isn’t as good as it could (or should) be. Maybe it’s their insistence on pushing the new Flash Gordon, maybe it’s that (at least to me) the whole look of the page is too mainstream for a blog that’s supposed to be sci-fi based, maybe I am secretly jealous and want to blog for them. I don’t honestly know, but something about it seems forced. But maybe I’m wrong…
I am currently listening to the new Raconteurs album and I would say that right now (during my first listen) it is superior to the first. I’ve never been a huge White Stripes fan, but I really liked the last Brenden Benson album, though I can’t really explain why, and the first Raconteurs offering, while decent, always seemed a bit of an anomaly to me, like the guys in the band couldn’t figure out if they were treating it as a serious musical endeavor or as something to do for a couple of weeks. The songs on this one, however, are a lot more complex and the actual recording seems to have been given more thought. Is it the second coming of the Beatles? No. But after the first album, I could have lived the rest of my life happily without another Raconteurs offering, this one makes me want to hear a third.
My wife asked me to tell her something small I wanted for my birthday, so that my sister in law could buy me something. I responded with, “beer.” To which she responded, “you already have beer” to which I responded, “yes, but I could always have more beer…” I was finally forced to say something other then beer, which I did, but I think that small exchange, in some fundamental way, epitomizes the relationship I have with my wife in a manner that seriously warms my heart.
More to come later…