music weekend starts in t-5 hours. tonight we are catching grizzly bear at the moore theater. we bought our tickets what feels like months ago for what seemed like a lot of money. i know it will be money well spent. brian and i saw them once at sasquatch a few years ago however we were really messed up and i barely remember their show. tonight we will try to make up for that. although i didn't think yellow house was all that great of a record anyways and veckatimest is just so damn beautiful that this show will easily be memorable.

tomorrow morning we head off to portland with dave, michelle, lisa and maggie for a family vacation. we rsvp'd for a garage rock fest that is put on by Scion. yes, the car company. apparently they think will buy a car or think of their cars while we get our mind's blown by some serious garage bands old and new. garage has been my favorite style of music for a while now. it makes me think of blow-up by michelangelo antonioni. i know i have mentioed him here before but i just love the yardbirds scene towards the end of the movie and the crowd's cute, stoic, mod expressions.


at the garage fest i am looking forward to one band in particular, the intelligence. i saw them at SXSW this past year and although they are from seattle i have never seen them play here. damn! oh well, i will travel to see them if i can.

oh and on sunday night at SIFF cinema we are going to see a spanish film called Ramirez!

a movie about a serial killer that is looks modern and awesome. apparently the movie's budget was just about 50,000 euros but looks spectucular. i can't wait!

i'm amazed! i just got to work and was handed an envelope by the office manager. he said "happy new year" and in it a dual membership to the Seattle Art Museum. wow. that is really exciting!

tonight is my volunteer night at siff. they are showing amarcord. i have never heard of this movie. apparently it won best foreign film at the oscar's in 1974. brian and i just watched 8 1/2 last night so i might just be fellini'd out.

lawrimore project is playing blow up on thursday night. the movie that introduced me to the yardbirds

and showing again at western bridge, anthony mccalls's installation "doubling back". what an exciting new year.

saturday looks good to me

b and i woke up early on saturday. we headed to the university district farmers market. there were not too many veggies in season, at least ones that i liked. although, i did have a remarkably tasty quesadilla that was stuffed with a handful of different sauteed greens. wow. maybe it was the cheese but ive never quite enjoyed sauteed veggies so much.

after the market, we headed to ballard for bop street records. b and i spent nearly 3 hours in the store. , we really didnt expect to be in there for any less time after finding out they the owner (dave) has an inventory of appoximately 750,000 vinyls. my time at bop street was overwhelming and exciting. i did come out with one yardbirds lp. if anyone has suggestions on other mod-rock/60's brit bands, hit me up.

after all that, we met up with regina, michael, and chris price for beers at linda's tavern and round of rummy. later, they came over for many fun and foolish games of catch phrase. does that game ever get old? i dont think so.