20050511


[bloc] Party crashers
(sorry no pics today)


Last night I took a bunch of party photos at the Bon Lair, but failed to upload them for your viewing pleasure.

Niki and I went to meet Katy at BL, but wound up arriving first. We unexpectantly ran into a couple friends there anyhow and crashed their table. Eventually Katy showed up with Chris, and it wound up being one of those nights where everyone buys each other drinks, yet you wind up spending the same amount (if not more) than if you just bought all your own drinks. They have Hoogaarden back on tap, so that was my fluid of choice. I swear it's 100 times better on tap than from the bottle (and it's great from the bottle!). All I've been drinking the past week is homebrew, and it's great stuff, but the new flavors last night were a nice change of pace.

I made a pact with myself to go dry for two months as soon as the homebrew is gone. I'll take up fruit smoothie drinking or something instead.

I somehow acquired the nickname "Utah" Levy last night, which conjured up a picture of me with a mustache, dressed like a cowboy with spurs on my boots in the shape of the star of David.

On another note: Is it just me, or is that band Bloc Party overrated crap? I tried listening to the self proclaimed best album of 2005 "So Here We Are" a few times (listening right now actually), and it just comes across as plain annoying, poser dance punk crap. Every time someone argues with me about it, I put it on and give it another spin, but I think today I will officially be deleting their album from my iPod.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'm not all about bloc party, but listen to tulips. it makes me tremble a little.

Alice said...

can i see those pictures? you can send them to me at work!
abaker@calhealth.org
only if it's not too much trouble.

Anonymous said...

bloc party are total overrated and i really wanted to buy into the hype. like really wanted to. his voice sounds a bit like murray from the dears and so i wanted it to be a rockin (in a different way) dears.

but i couldn't buy into it.

the last track is pretty good (the one that doesn't sound like the rest of the album) and i think the first one (or one near the beginning) is pretty good. but the rest is plain filler.