I went back to Milwaukee for the weekend. It snowed, though, in the past couple years it has done so into April. My family grilled on Saturday, I grilled with my housemates on Sunday. We’re not going to let winter stick around. I get to go to Greenville, SC this week. It’s a beautiful, small southern town. The main street is packed with incredible southern bistros.
When I’m not traveling for work. I enjoy tuesday nights. We go out for some food and watch Arrested Development/Flight of the Concords/ 30 Rock.
Filed under: music
It’s taken awhile for Phoenix to grow on me. Initially, I pushed them aside as a pop/rock band, but their song “Too Young” got stuck in my head.
I really like their new song “1901.” Simple riffs, crisp vocals, and a nice crunching synth line here and there.
Filed under: Running, life, madison, myself | Tags: cycling, grilling, madison, Wisconsin
I managed to do only a couple things, but I was very content with this past weekend.
I did get some grilling in now that the weather is getting nicer. I made chicken/veggie skewers with a honey marinade and ate it with a spinach, walnut, onion, and blue cheese salad. It went pretty well with a Pinot Grigio. The coals were still hot, so I grilled the rest of the chicken and vegetables that I had stocked away in the freezer. It makes a good quick dinner after work and my long runs.
On that note, I’m slowly trying to increase my distance even more. I’m doing multiple days of 12+ miles, interspersed with days of water polo, and shorter, faster runs. Sunday, it was too nice and my housemate had just purchased a bike, which inspired me to clean, oil, and prep my bike. I took it out for a two hour ride which was really lovely, it’s refreshing to A. have bike trails that take you through places you’ve never been before and B. see people out and about. It was a bit chilly when I rode by Lake Mendota -it still has a thin layer of ice, but at least no one still trying to ice fish.
Filed under: art
I found this article to be very interesting. An artist turned doctor turned artist. An expensive route to being an artist I guess, but it very much is able to “illuminate the mundane” in a completely different way: CT scans.
Visually very cool as well, check out the barbie (image from NYTimes.com).
Usually, I don’t find the songs by Andy Samberg, etc that funny (see “Lazy Sunday”).
This one’s different, the first minute alone is worth watching.
It’s finally starting to get warm outside; I can go running without a zillion layers and maybe next week I’ll bike to work. At the same time…. it is Wisconsin, so we’ll get some snow in April.
Anyway, here are some cool songs that I’ve put together from this spring (or not), that I think fit the weather.
1. Dan Deacon – Snookered from Bromst
2. Phoenix – 1901 from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. José Gonzalez – Heartbeats from Veneer
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock from It’s Blitz!
5. Animal Collective – My Girls from Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart from Fever Ray
7. M83 – kim & jessie from Saturdays = Youth
8. A.R. Rahman / MIA – O…Saya from The Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack
9. The Hold Steady – Slapped Actress from Stay Positive
10. Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot from Daydream Nation
11. Bon Iver – Blood Bank from The Blood Bank EP
12. Okkervil River – Plus Ones from The Stage Hands
13. Santogold – I’m a Lady from Santogold
I’m excited.
3/13 Buena Vista Social Club in Madison The piano lead-in to Amor Verdadero was pretty spectacular.
4/1 Ladytron with the Faint in Milwaukee
4/4 Wavves in Madison
4/11 Diplo in Madison
4/16 The Bad Plus in Madison
4/28 The Thermals in Madison
5/9 Mogwai in Milwaukee
5/29 Nine Inch Nails in Chicago with my brother
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: flashing lights, kanye west, vh1 storytellers
Not as ridiculous as I originally hoped for….
…but Mr. Kanye is deep.
Check out 3:45 on:
