I’ve been busy. I had my week of music, followed by a week of crazed apartment searching.
First the week of music:
Sunday evening I went to see Streetlight Manifesto. If you have never heard of them and enjoy a good third way ska tune you should check them out. I got there just as the first band was finishing up. Overall it was a good show. My only complaint is that a lot of the Streetlight fans tended not to bathe and insist on dancing next to me. Dude! I’m in the back for a reason seriously stop sweating on me–you smell like a yeast infection.
Monday night I went to see the filming of Elvis Costello’s Spectacle at the Apollo Theater. This was my first time at the Apollo and it was pretty awesome. The Apollo is much smaller than I thought it would be–television definitely makes it look bigger. Since this was a filming you had to get there fairly early to get your seat assignments. Being a loner I got a great seat–4th row! I seriously doubt you’ll see me in crowd shots as I’m over in the corner, but still. The episode featured Sheryl Crow, Neko Case, and a couple of others. It was really quite fantastic to listen to all the music.
Tuesday night was Snow Patrol at the Beacon Theater; another first for me–a show at the Beacon. The Beacon was really nice and much bigger than the Apollo. Snow Patrol, well, I don’t know if it was technical difficulties or what but that show just wasn’t up to snuff for me. They were on for the normal 90 minutes but 45 of it was banter and it just wasn’t that witty. They were the band that keeps saying the name of the town they are in to get the crowd to yell. Oh it was a long evening.
Wednesday night I went to check out an apartment and learned that there is an Australian restaurant which serves eggs cooked in whiskey.
Thursday night was U2 at Giants stadium. This story is a two parter. The first part involves the parking situation and the second is the actual show. So I believe that the staff at the Meadowlands can actually handle 80,000 people showing up. They do it every weekend for football season. Why did they freak out on this particular evening? It took us an hour to park. Now, that is not an hour of looking for a place to park, but rather an hour of sitting in traffic inside the complex headed to the gates to park. There weren’t enough people with orange glow sticks directing traffic. It was a bit ridiculous. While sitting in traffic I went ahead and had a beer because it wasn’t like we were moving.
After we did park we headed to the stadium a good 20 minute walk from the car. Good times. The concert was impressive. At least the stage design was. I personally think it is a two day breakdown for something that size. Oh yeah U2 was pretty good too (just not the new songs about deleting porn from your hard drive or the one about how vampires are cool if your 12).
Friday was more apartment hunting. Note to self: people in Williamsburg are strange.
Saturday Jesse wanted to have people over for a bit of a BBQ and a going away party for one of our co-workers. So there was beer:
And cheesy poofs:
I don’t remember a whole lot of the afternoon due to the beer and partly the cheesy poofs. And yes those are Halloween Oreos-they are so much better when super fresh.
The next week was a blur of going to different apartments and late night craigslisting but I did find a place. More on that later. Because Saturday I completed the Mud Run.
Saturday’s race was the RunAMuck 5K mud run. Um…yeah. So the course map that I did look at is below. Notice it doesn’t appear to be a hardcore hike now does it?
Yeah. So it was a lot of fun and hurty at the same time. I’m actually quite proud of myself for the finish time: 52:05 and the fact that I didn’t get lost. A lot of people did–mainly the hardcore let’s go run 6 miles before we start people. The water portion of that was billed as no higher than your calf. Ha! That was crotch deep water. I threw away the shoes I wore.
Went to see Hamlet this week. Yes, I’m that person. I’m the person who spent the $125 on a ticket to be in the orchestra. It was worth it. I got to see every little bit of spittle that flung from Jude Law’s lips. When he acts he spits! Overall the performance was great. The only real issues I had were with the casting and performance of Ophelia. She was terrible.
