murder in the city

i bought our first tickets for red rocks this summer. we're seeing the avett brothers!!!

what we've got here is a failure to communicate

i finally did it. i don't know what took me so long. i finally watched cool hand luke last night. now, i know. what the hell right? my dad loves that movie and has watched it probably 100 times. if not more. i just never sat down to watch it. but i did last night. and so many jokes from the simpsons and his jokes and jokes in general finally make sense. plus the intro to guns and roses "civil war" makes total sense now. any man who doesn't post to his blog, spends a night in the box.

no work and all play

i need to amend an earlier post. the stanley hotel is not where they filmed the shining. it's where stephen king stayed and was inspired to write the shining. the exterior shots were shot in oregon, while the interior was on a soundstage in london. so the hotel looked a little different then we expected. but it was cool nonetheless. they play the shining all day and all night on one of the channels in your room. we watched most of it. however, our room was not haunted. we stayed on the most "active" floor, but no ghosts or ghouls for us that night. the next day we took off from estes park and headed to the rocky mountain national forest. we hiked around sprague lake, where it was still pretty snowy. we tried to go up further in the mountains, but the weather turned on us and we headed back down. estes park was great. i bought that red hat for $10! and it's immediately the best hat i own. we found a local brewery there and talked to the owner for a while. they have a big party in june we're going to be going to. we had a fantastic time. and we're really happy enjoying our new state. by the way, we tried to go to a rockies game on sunday. it was snowed out! can you believe it?!

redrum

there is a real possibility i'm going to be staying in the hotel where they shot the shining this weekend. it's called the stanley hotel and it's up in estes park. if i see those crazy twin girls or that suggestive bartender, i'm punching them in the kneecap.

let's play ball

friday is opening day. the best day of the year. after my birthday. and elvis's birthday. i think last year with the giants beating the rangers in the world series, anything is possible. everyone's got the phillies. but i just don't see it. they have no offense behind great pitching. some things are obvious. i think the red sox were the most improved team in the offseason and i think they're going to the world series. on the national league side, i have to go with the colorado rockies. that's right. my new home town will be in the world series this year. for divisions, check it out: nl central: brewers nl east: braves nl west: rockies nl wild card: phillies al central: twins al east: red sox al west: rangers al wild card: yankees and all that will end with the rockies losing the red sox in the world series, just like 2007. except this time not a sweep. and this time i will care.

we were wealth

two albums on my mind these days:

kurt vile- smoke ring for my halo

wye oak- civilian

where is my mind?

i watched the pixies documentary loudQUIETloud late last night. i've never been a huge pixies fan. i've always liked them, but never really loved them. that hasn't changed after watching the documentary. but it was still a really good documentary. it was based on their reunion that occurred a few years ago.

check out where is my mind?

i had a burger for dinner. i've studied for eight hours today. four hours last night. another nine hours tomorrow.

where is my mind?

codex

"the water's clear and innocent."

i can't go for that (no can do)

if i were to wake up tomorrow and my cat could suddenly talk, i really would be anxious as to pick a topic for conversation. but it would probably become quickly apparent that even though she could talk, she probably wouldn't be that smart. so we'd have to talk about stupid stuff. probably cat stuff. and i'd quickly wish for the day when it couldn't talk.

fail

i didn't pass FAR. i missed it by one point. one point. now, i've lost the month of may. instead of being outside in the funny, sunny denver fun sun, i'll be inside studying. every weekend.

i take REG a week from friday. let's hope i pass that one. if i don't, there's potentially big trouble.

guy who got a headache and accidentally saves the world

yesterday was a productive day. finally worked out for the first time in like two weeks. it's hard to find time to do that when you're working 14 hour days.

i also finally watched the flaming lips documentary fearless freaks. i highly suggest watching it if you dig the flaming lips or even if you don't. it's a great story and it made me like wayne cohen ever more. and it really made me admire steven drodz. i had an idea of how important he was to the band, but after watching the documentary, it made it abundantly clear the flaming lips are greatly driven by steven's ideas of melody and his musicianship. check it out!

also we finally found a restaurant in town that had some taste. it's a small greek place in a shopping center and it was great. lots of places here in town taste bland to us, i'm not sure if it's because we're from the south and everything there tastes great, especially the international cuisine. but here, most of the food tastes pretty bland. but this place was awesome. if you're in town, we'll take you there. but you'll pay.

is this it?

apparently it's been about ten years since i heard what i still think is one, if not the best, rock and roll record i've ever heard. the strokes is this it was it. it was awesome. i've written about it before, so i'll spare you to hear it again.

well, like i said, it's been ten years. and we're now four albums in. the first one: historic. the second one: great. the third: mostly meh. the fourth: we'll see. it's out next week.

there's a great story on the history of the strokes. check it out here.

go here for the video of under the cover darkness.

go here to stream the album before it's released.

the king of carrot flowers

last night we saw the elephant six orchestra at the larimer lounge. the elephant six orchestra is a hodge-podge of people from the elephant six recording company. neutral milk hotel, apples in stereo and olivia tremor control are the main bands i listen to that are part of the elephant six recording company. i guess i listen to beulah sometimes too. anyway, a lot of those bands don't exist anymore and so some of the characters from those groups are touring as the orchestra. it was a great show. the guy i'm standing with up there is not tim robbins, although he does look like tim robbins. his name is pete and he was a member of olivia tremor control. cool dude. also, i didn't realize it at the time until i saw the picture, but that jacket makes me look huge. i haven't moved to colorado and gained fifty pounds. that is not the case. so we had a good time. seeing shows in denver is pretty sweet. i'm really digging the music scene here. i'm hoping to see phosphorescent at the larimer lounge in april. we'll see how that goes.

"i haven't eaten since later this afternoon"

last night we watched a movie called primer. it very well could be the most brilliant movie i've ever seen. i absolutely beg anyone who reads this to watch it. it was shot on $7K and made in dallas, texas. it is brilliant.

the illustration above is supposed to help the watcher understand how the box works. here is a discussion of people who have seen the film and they comment on what they think happened. i realize i'm a little late to the party, since the movie first appeared in 2004, but better late than never.

it's a jungle out there

rain king

i love change. i almost seek it out. i don't want things to stay the same. if they stay the same, i feel like i'm not advancing. or learning. or improving. every few years, i will probably throw everything back up into the air and see what i catch and what i miss. and what i miss, i obviously don't need anymore because i didn't try to catch it.

one thing i'll always catch is certain people. special people. and to those special people, one in particular who never ceases to surprise me and bring me back to thinking of great times in my life when i was the rain king, i say: thank you.

you are tops. thanks again for the package.

apothecary love

got the new low anthem in the mail today. listening to it right now. i saw them live in houston. one of the best shows i ever saw. they played with blind pilot in a small room with half the people listening. it was great. hopefully they'll roll through denver this year.

phospherescent is coming. so is john vanderslice. i might go see both.

i think tonight we're going to watch the harry nilsson documentary. tonight has potential.

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

give up the ghost

yeppers