Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Prodigy @ House of Blues

Havi, Lindsay and myself saw The Prodigy in concert last night. First um..techno/dance/rock show I've been to. At the "new" House of Blues in Boston. Which used to be The Avalon, I couldn't figure out how it was different than the Avalon but it was. It's been a while since I've been to the Avalon though, I know the artwork is different.

As we're driving up to Newton to catch the green line into town we're behind a Rav 4 with a douchebag wearing white shades, but Havi says "at least he has Red Sox gear on, so he's only half douchebag". As we pass said douchebag I realize it's my old boss Ricky!


Then we're on the train which is a lot longer than I ever remember but I always know by the end I have to look for a bathroom like whoa cause of my giant road soda! If you don't get a seat at the first stop you're screwed because people jsut keep coming on, unless you're cool with the person standing next to you or don't mind the awkward stares from strangers..I'd rather get a seat an catch a random elbow or boob to the face! People watching is always the best though, everyone does that awkward blantant stare that they try to hide..why bother, we're all doin it!

I don't know what it is about being right outside Fenway too but the girls become that more attractive, something about Red Sox gear on women (pink or not I don't really care) makes them hotter in my book. I even saw someone that Havi may or may not have dated before! (totally did hah) Mike then got his sausege that he wanted probably since noon. We go inside an there are two DJs doin their thing as the place packs up. These two guys I'd have to look up who they are but they dressed as if you'd pass them by at the mall and just wonder where they got their shoes.
They played a lot of tracks you'd hear on a "Paul Oakenfold" Pandora station and I only recognized one Chimical Brother's song that they mixed. We had a waitress in our section which was pretty sweet, I didn't even have to stand up to get my $6 Miller Lite can! (cheaper then Fenway) By the time The Prodigy comes on I'm a little silly and got tired of sittin on the third floor balcony. The audience form up there though resembles that awkward dance scene from the Matrix movie though, music happens an the crowd moves as one organism. Got to hand it to the crowd for that, everyone was into it, not just one or two sections but the entire building was moving. Strobe lights, glow sticks, kids on acid (or somethin) falling over or standing still. I hope they enjoyed it though..I don't understand what they were doing actually but that's their deal.



This seriously looks like my point of view for this song, the lights were that nuts, the crowd was that blurry, the band was that intense. If you could only smell the body odor and feel sweaty bodies against you it would be exact. They played all your faves like "firestarter" or "smack my bitch up" and a ton off their new album Invaders Must Die.

The train ride home was even worse cause now we had awkward drunk people watching, crowded drunk people, drunk conversations etc. Luckily we get off at the second to last stop, hah. I didn't lose my cell phone though, I still have my shitty 6 year old cell phone that I turned on last week. So the show was awesome, Boston is always a good time and I'd love to see them again (maybe on a weekend, I feel as if the show was shorter than usual because of that)

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Yardwork volume Oneski

So for whatever reason my old man went to Tijuana Mexico for two weeks and came back with no teeth. In the meantime I grabbed a few beers and did some yardwork..here is some of what I did.



Those are the before photos of the front of my house. Pops decided he needed to cut back the hedges last fall..an well he just cut em up.





a few beers later, a little darker..and I feel as if I made a difference!! Give me my own HGTV show already! shiiiit. really though...I wanted to plant.....something? Yea I have no idea after that. I tried to convince Lisa Coupe into swinging by my house with her friend who's a landscaper that way it's asking a dude what kind of roses to plant without calling no homo. Didn't happen. So I moved on!





Side porch I noticed some greenery that was already there (no planting involved) but it looked a lil drab, actually there was a 4x4 on the ground infront of it from when I got the idea to do some edging. and Voila..i edged that shit. raked a bit, drank a few beers etc.





aww cute, I put some rocks behind that greenery and put that 4x4 in the ground..I actually bought another one too and finished it up nice nice. When my dad saw it he asked.. "why didn't you use 6x6 instead? Thanks Dad..what was I thinkin? Doin' yardwork while you're off chasin' the swine flu.




I also decided my fire pit needed a firewood rack..so I built that shit in an hour...maybe more, i forget how many beers I had. I also did some typical..folks are out of town let's get silly things too such as ...







1.shaved a sweet stache
2.busted some patio furniture (blake/stomberg combo actually)
3.drank a few adult beverages
4.got a sweet tattoo

All of which was done without a cell phone..if I had one of those...i don't know actually.