What a wonderful weekend!

[grahams]

I had a ton of fun this weekend exploring Boston with James, as it is the first chance I have had to really explore what is available to me. Friday night we wandered around Government Center, went to some stores and just enjoyed some of the beautiful (and not-so beautiful) architecture around. We got back really late, as we kinda got a wee bit lost and had trouble locating a T stop. :)

Saturday, we met up with Jon Whitney, who runs Brainwashed, which hosts the Coil and Meat Beat Manifesto official pages. He was a really good guy, and he showed us around Harvard Square, which is a wonderful area. It turns out that one of my favorite NYC record shops, Other Music opened their second store in Harvard Square recently, which is awesome in my book.. :) I also browsed around some other record shops in the area, and discovered that CDs are simply way cheaper in this town for some reason. I picked up a few CDs used:

• All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 - A cool IDM comp
• Clicks & Cuts 2 - A 3 disc comp
• Cyclo. (Ryoji Ikeda & Carsten Nicolai) - Similar sound to Pan-sonic, but by far more musical (and listenable (and enjoyable))

Sunday, James and I headed back into Harvard Square and ran head first into a street festival... We had some good Barbecue on the street, and heard some street musicians and looked at the vendor's boothes (but I really couldn't spend much money, although I could use a pair of sunglasses sometime in the near future). We then headed back and watched Galaxy Quest and the Sopranos.. :)

Tonight is the Matmos/Autechre concert, which should be lots of fun. I will report on it tomorrow... :)