So I went to see Solid Gold at First Ave on Friday night. Well first while I was waiting for the rest of my party, I grabbed a beer at Seven Sushi next door. Oh how I love swanky over-priced bars. I took a seat at the bar between the foreigners who don't understand tipping practices (that's racist) and the ragtag group of hot women and sexually confused men (metrosexual? just a silly code word for a closeted wanna be). All of them drinking cosmos that they think should be a deeper color or red despite the fact that it is a martini and should be filled with liquor. I'm sure they payed like $12 for it, why they wouldn't want all that liquor for whats the price of a 750ml of vodka in most liquor stores, I don't know. I fact why even go to Seven Sushi in the first place? I have enjoyed their happy hour, sure, but if I realized that it was going to cost me $6.50 for a Heineken I probably would have just brown bagged a forty and hung out with some bums outside the Timberwolves game until my peps got downtown (there were more homeless people outside the game then there were fans inside the Target Center). I guess most of the women inside Seven were pretty hot, what men won't pay to be near them I guess.
Oh well, Seven aside, Solid Gold show was awesome. If you haven't heard of them, check out their album Bodies of Water. The show was sold out, though you couldn't tell until the second band came out, The Hood Internet. Pretty good DJing group, though it ran probably twenty minutes too long. Some highlights of their set included playing Modest Mouse's Float on vocals over Kanye's Paranoid beat and Tag Team's Whoop There it is over LCD Soundsystem's Someone Great. Great stuff indeed. I definatly give them props for their wide range of tastes, including songs from Ratatat, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads (fa fa fa fa fa), and even Cyndi Lauper. Can't wait to see Brother Ali next week.
Just finishing up Season one of Mad Men. Great show. The only think I hate more then Donald Draper is Pete. Glad to see Cooper tell Pete off about trying to blackmail Draper though. The penultimate episode Nixon vs. Kennedy was probably the best of the season. With the great blackmail storyline, Draper's morally conflicted past, the election night debauchery at the office and the nerdy married guy who looks like Seth Rogan actually getting some action. Funny, smart, smooth and tense. Great show. Too bad Peggy is getting fat as she starts getting more Copy work to do. She probably is carrying Pete's asshole baby.
Not sure way, but Frank Sinatra has been my white noise sleepy time music this past week. Nothing like hearing that a lady is a tramp or him tell you that he like making love to random women he simply glances at (Strangers in the Night). Though I don't know if it gets better than Fly me to the Moon or My Way. So soothing. I think I may just take a nap right now. Be nice an rested for the Vikings as they trounce the Lions (now only the second worst team in the league!). With their one win, the Lions should be singing the It Was a Very Good Year.