My ears! They ring!
So true to my word I went out to 1982 tonight with Eva to listen to my coworker James play. James also let me know it was a videogame-themed night, with a bunch of classic remixes going on. Cool! So we drove up around 9:30, and the first thing that hit me: Price! The price was $8 for over 21 and $10 for under... MUCH different from Wednesday when it was $2. Ugh. Second thing? I did not like the bands AT ALL. The first group was some DJ duo from Illinois. They had a bunch of music made from 8 bit sounds... but it sucked. Oddly, they did manage to have the best song of the night: they had a remix of "Still Alive" from the game Portal, which coincidentally Eva and I had been singing earlier in the day! And the entire bar joined in, which was awesome. The games tonight were almost all Megaman, and I completely failed at the NES versions, lol. It was pretty crowded with a mix of total nerds, D&Ders, and punk rockers... such an odd atmosphere. James's band Nannerpus didn't come on until 11:00... ouch... and it was so loud our ears still hurt!
Still, I'm glad we went out :-) Tomorrow is cleaning day; I plan to take apart my bookcase and we'll spend a good portion of the day cleaning/packing up the kitchen. Whew, that's gonna be tough! Plan is still to go kayaking this Sunday, we'll see how it goes :-P
Last night Austin and I went to the midnight showing of "Inception." It was one of the best movies I have seen!! Amazing graphics, really unique and neat story line, wonderful acting. Leonardo DiCaprio might be one of my favorite actors, between seeing this and Shutter Island this year. I HIGHLY recommend seeing it! The only downsides in my mind were the run time (2 1/2 hours) and the predictable ambiguous ending.
Wednesday night was 1982 also, but John Tony was performing. I'm pretty much a JT groupie now. It was a smaller crowd than usual, but still really good; Austin came with, and I met up with Jessica the Awesome there (I mislabeled her as Jennifer the Amazing previously in this LJ). We arrived a bit early, but Austin and I had a freaking fantastic time playing Pokemon Stadium, hahaha. So dorky!
That's about it for now! Eva's here for the weekend (of course!), and it's great to see her :) Since I'm running on about 3 1/2 hours of sleep and she's already out like a light, I'm going to wrap this up and get some shut eye myself. Ciao!
~Paul
By the way, Old Spice commercials rule:
Still, I'm glad we went out :-) Tomorrow is cleaning day; I plan to take apart my bookcase and we'll spend a good portion of the day cleaning/packing up the kitchen. Whew, that's gonna be tough! Plan is still to go kayaking this Sunday, we'll see how it goes :-P
Last night Austin and I went to the midnight showing of "Inception." It was one of the best movies I have seen!! Amazing graphics, really unique and neat story line, wonderful acting. Leonardo DiCaprio might be one of my favorite actors, between seeing this and Shutter Island this year. I HIGHLY recommend seeing it! The only downsides in my mind were the run time (2 1/2 hours) and the predictable ambiguous ending.
Wednesday night was 1982 also, but John Tony was performing. I'm pretty much a JT groupie now. It was a smaller crowd than usual, but still really good; Austin came with, and I met up with Jessica the Awesome there (I mislabeled her as Jennifer the Amazing previously in this LJ). We arrived a bit early, but Austin and I had a freaking fantastic time playing Pokemon Stadium, hahaha. So dorky!
That's about it for now! Eva's here for the weekend (of course!), and it's great to see her :) Since I'm running on about 3 1/2 hours of sleep and she's already out like a light, I'm going to wrap this up and get some shut eye myself. Ciao!
~Paul
By the way, Old Spice commercials rule: