It took a lot to get me around to listening to the new Why? album. Mainly because it made me very sad and I didn't want to deal with that. Now that I have though, it's just as genius as the first. So go get it and take it all in if you haven't.
The main points of this blog are what I have done today. This has consisted of making an Italo mix, online risk, a trip to Lentils As Anything, and going to see the new Batman movie.
The Italo mix was for Danae, who I think might be the most musically knowledgeable person we have met, maybe Emily. Who knows. Anyway, she likes talking music, which led to us chatting about some stuff and we got onto Italo disco. Italo is this genre of dance music, made in Italy (right?!) that was only made due to the economic inflation (ie no imports) of Italy, the availability of new instruments, and the separation from the death of disco in the states. Anyways, it turns out, from 2 different sources, that Australia may not have heard of, or experienced, the resurgence of Italo like the rest of the world. So I spent a lot of time making a little Italo mix for Danae including actually whipping it up in Ableton. It is pretty good, but not perfect, and since I didn't give it to her, I might do a new one tomorrow. Maybe it will help me get a DJ gig too, since she works at the Espy. We will see.
Online Risk is much more enjoyable. It doesn't take ages, maybe 30 mins/game. There are a lot of childish people on it though, so it's not always enjoyable.
So we heard about this place, Lentils As Anything that you can go get food, and then give whatever you want for the payment. They expect that you will give them more than the food cost and if you don't, someone else will. It's a REALLY cool idea, and since it's all just vegetarian lentils, rice, curries, and such...and the chefs and staff are volunteers, it seemed like a very...Boulder...institution. Joan and I went for dinner, and it was really hip, really cool, really small, pretty crowded, and very very good. The only problem though, which is sort of a big problem, right before we left, some man went to pay, dropped his $5 in the box, and the chef asked him how much he put in, which by itself is pretty rude when you're going to have a business that isn't supposed to care what you pay, right? So when the guy said $5, the chef then says "Oh that's not even enough to cover the ingredients" and was totally mean to this guy, who didn't have more money, so he left, as the chef continued to give him shit on the way out, and then talk about him, loudly, in front of all the other people, and how horrible that was. Anyways, obviously, Joan and I pulled out more cash than we had intended to pay, but we didn't want to get publicly humiliated. It just left a very very sour taste in our mouths, and went against everything the business was about it seemed. We thought about it, and we payed $14 for probably less than $5 worth of food, plus volunteer cooks. It just sucks, the ingredients are like rice and lentils, two of the cheapest foods in the world, which is why you probably make a profit at the 'pay what you want' pricing, so don't berate people for doing what you asked them to do. If you want a certain amount, put it on the menu, you'll still get customers. Blech. Okay, tirade over.
Batman was good but the little virtual reality like sequence near the end, in the building, made me want to have a seizure and puke all over everyone. Just to teach them a lesson that they need to not put crazy stupid shit like that in movies. As well, what was up with his voice? It was like "Okay, here, we want you to talk like normal, but you have to have this cough drop in your mouth at all times, and every now and then we'll give you a dose of chloroseptic so your tongue is numb as hell." "Like thiffss?" "Perfect. You sound absolutely retarded. Go fight crime."
Whateva, it was good. Way better than expected.
There are very few plans this week/weekend. We have a track suit party on Sat. for the olympic opening ceremonies or something. On Thurs. I'm being taken to a place called Von Haus, that is supposedly super hip and underground. Unmarked door, inexpensive food, expensive wine, 10 tables, 1 big bar, etc... I'm excited, just so I can act like I knew about it all along to people I show from here on out. Biggggg shotttttt.
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