Sounders FC Inaugural Game

Words can't describe it. It was just plain nuts. I will go as far as saying it was better then going to 95' M's Playoff Games in the Kingdome or Sonics Playoff Games in 96'. This is an entire new era of incredible Seattle sports, and I'm proud as hell to be a part of it. Click here for a little taste of our night (not all the photos are uploaded yet) Can't wait till next Saturday.

Song of the Day- KISS- Love Gun

The movie "Role Models" has sparked me on a gnarly KISS bender, and that is not a bad thing by any means. If anyone wants to get me a KISS Pinball machine for my birthday, I'd be much obliged.

"You see, the gun is his dick"

"I didn't know Jewish guys could sing like that."
"They can't, it's only when they put the make up on"

Song of the Day: Judas Priest- Hell Patrol

I feel like a fool for ignoring Judas Priest all these years after hearing 1990's "Painkiller" for the first time. I've really just never been a fan of Priest, and have always fallen heavily on the Maiden side of Maiden vs. Priest debacle. But in all honesty, Maiden never did anything this badass. "Painkiller" is an album that just straight up shreds, it's pretty much a thrash record, which kind of blew my mind. Nearly every track on the album is pure gold, but I chose "Hell Patrol" as just a small sample of this glorious piece of art, enjoy.

Record Purchases for the Week

You can't leave me alone on a Monday in this town. The restaurant is closed, so I always find myself wandering around town, maybe going to the gym, drinking beer, and more than likely coming home with a few new records under my arm.

I'm a huge fan of the music of old, don't get me wrong I'm all up on today's tunes, but most days you will find me listening to the shit your parents listened to. That said my purchases for this week are two classics of 1966.

Buffalo Springfield - s/t (1966)
Nearly every track on this album is a pure gold. Kicking off with the 'Nam era classic "For What It's Worth," it's hard to think this is an album that the band wasn't too pleased with. Along with The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield is pretty much solely responsible for bringing country music and rock n roll together. The psychedelic trends of the era where just starting to take off at this time, and while Buffalo Springfield doesn't completely ignore them, they blend them with classic blues and country music and created their own stamp on the era, one of which many other great bands would follow suit.

Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off (1966)
While Buffalo Springfield strayed away from the psychedelic sound, Jefferson Airplane went on to define it. Although this album is pre-Grace Slick era Jefferson Airplane it still serves as portrait of where the band would be headed, and how they would end up challenging even the Beatles and Stones on the pop charts in 1967 with the release of "Surrealistic Pillow."

Other recent purchases: The Clash - London Calling, Minus the Bear - Acoustic, Sleep - Dopesmoker

Eloise's Wee Heavy Scottish Ale

Since Cleanthous deleted his blog (lame ass), I guess it's up to me to inform the world about our brewing endeavors. Currently we've been enjoying what I think is our first really good beer, the "We Want Blood I.P.A." It's crisp, hoppy, not too sweet and delicious. Recently our Daisy Red Ale was enjoyed, and endorsed by Mr. David Bazan, we're working on some sort of deal there...

Our current bun in the oven, "Eloise's Wee Heavy Scottish Ale," is a few days from bottling. For you non Lost lovers, Eloise is the name of the rat Daniel Faraday used in his time travel experiments in the season 4 episode "The Constant." We're nerdy as shit...deal with it. I acquired Adobe CS3 today, and made my first sad attempt at making a label for the new beer. I promise the quality of these will improve as time goes on.



EDIT: Here's Take 2, Featuring: A less creepy picture, a mediocre Photoshop Filter and a Nu-Metal Font. Getting better, but I think it needs a few more drafts.

Vals Im Bashir (2008)

For you non-Hebrew speakers out there, that is "Waltz With Bashir," a 2008 Israeli documentary, which recently held the honor of being the first animated feature to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

I really enjoy when I catch a movie at The Pickford that I don't know much about, and end up absolutely loving it. All I knew about "Waltz With Bashir" before heading in was that the animation looked spectacular. At first glance the film looks like it may be solely utilizing rotoscoping techniques, but upon further viewing you can see it really is a hodgepodge of different types of animation, that all lend incredibly well to the films absurdly surrealistic feel.

What really makes "Waltz With Bashir" so unique is that it is essentially an animated documentary. The filmmaker, Ari Folman, is a veteren of the 1982 Lebanon War. Haunted by the wars events he has actually completely blocked all memories of it out of his mind, as if it never happened. After hearing about an old buddy's reoccurring war-related dream, Folman remembers something about the war for the first time in 20 years; himself along with two fellow men, emerging from the ocean and entering Beruit after the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Puzzled by the events surrounding this memory, Folman searches out fellow vets of the war, unraveling the events of the was after 20 years.

What transpires is truly a unique and revolutionary look into the psyche of a war vet, the fact that this film is animated really lends to the surreal, and terrifying mind set of individuals during times of massacre, and ungodly violence, that a live action documentary would of never been able to portray.

Here is a great article about the filmmaker Folman, his life, and a little more about the film. "Waltz With Bashir" is only at the Pickford until Thursday so go check it out if you have the time.

This worries me

I present to you a 14-year-old kid who is surely the spawn of Satan.



He just learned the word "ferver" and liked it so much he had to say it twice.

More from this "whunder-kid" who is more than likely spouting off the ideologies ingrained in his mind by his conservative parents during home school sessions. I enjoy that the party is now finding solace in the kid who is has clearly not even hit puberty.