It took only two months after finally finishing IOLTDM before the posts started slacking. Yep… that sounds about right.
Well, I’m back (for the moment) with news of what I’ve been up to these past few months. As I reported earlier, I’ve been working on another blog, which I’m proud to say has been up and running a full month now. That one was a little easier to get going since I had a basic template to work from. Still a lot of effort involved, and once again, I would like to pat myself on the back for figuring out some of the coding issues and plug-ins (and crap like that) that are still new to me. Overall, I’m very happy with how Reviews/Resist turned out. Now it’s just a matter of keeping up to date with the content and figuring out a way to attract readers (which seems to be the real challenge).
I also just turned live another 5+ year project… my design portfolio. I never really had motivation to work on this up until about 5 months ago, and as of 2 days ago, finally turned it live. I have a few more samples I could probably post, but meh… it’s up and at the moment, I’m pretty happy with that.
Not much else to report in my world, but exciting things are afoot for Kelly and Kiersten. Kelly and her mom are leaving tomorrow and heading to Japan to visit Stacy (her sister) for a week. She’s pretty stoked, and has been learning some basic Japanese over the course of the last few weeks in preparation. The question is… can one ever have enough raw fish in a week? (The answer is most certainly yes). Kiersten is currently back home here visiting (with a hidden agenda of scoping out neighborhoods in the city to potentially move to). Glad to have her here and very much looking forward to whenever it is that her and Wes can move back in the area. The big news in her world is the astounding popularity of her Seinfeld piece as of late. Over the course of the last two weeks, she’s gotten close to 50k views on her blog (at one point crashing her site completely), sold the piece, and landed a run of limited edition prints through Gallery 1988. Pretty exciting stuff.
Well… that’s about it for now. I’ll make an attempt to keep up on this blog a bit more often… (translation: See you in a few months!)
Heading out in a little bit to pick up Chris and meet Mark down at our favorite metallic burger joint. The goal amidst waiting the two hours to be seated, is to discuss our newest online venture… a blog reviewing metal in pop culture. I have a feeling it might take awhile to get off the ground, but I’m very much looking forward to throwing our opinions out there and getting a few other friends involved as well.
If you’ve got any bright ideas as far as topics, reviews, concepts or other metal related goodness, let me know. I’ll keep you posted as we progress.
If all goes well, i will be devouring one of these in the next 5 hours…
Well… I spent New Years Day in style… bummed around watching a crapload of 30 Rock episodes (Kelly and I are a little late to the party with this show, but after seeing most of season 1, I’m quite enjoying it), and then off to Double Door for the 2nd of a two-night stand with Dianogah, The Life and Times and Hum. As you may or may not know, Hum hasn’t played much the past eight years, so this was a pretty big treat for me and a few friends.
I know ahead of time the show was sold out, and I’d swear I’ve been to a few sold out shows at DD before, but this show was SOLD the fuck OUT. Jam-packed, butts to nuts, sold out (rightfully so, I suppose, but still…). Anyways, I’d never seen Dianogah before, though apparently they’ve been around for almost 14 years. Good stuff (as I’m a sucker for bands with two bass players) though I definitely leaned towards the more aggressive 90s-sounding material.
TLAT were great as usual, though the sound was a little over-driven for my tastes. If you haven’t seen/heard them before, I’d highly recommend. Their new album Tragic Boogie comes out in April, and is already guaranteed to be in my top 3 of the year.
Hum hit the stage after and obnoxiously long set change, and simply destroyed the place. I haven’t seen them since the ELVi played a show with them back in March of 98, an they sounded as good or better than before. Extremely tight and crushingly heavy. Simply an amazing set. Isle of the Cheetah, The Pod & Iron Clad Lou were the first three songs, and they all were spot on. Despite the bulging crowds and my sore feet, an amazing show through and through.
