I have two friends named JJ. The JJ in Phoenix has a band called A Save for the Cameras, and he sent over some of his songs tonight. My favorite is "Paper Plate Bean Shakers", which I've embedded above. I asked him where he got the band name A Save for the Cameras, and he said: "Me and the other guitar player used to always play FIFA together on PlayStation, and when a guy kicks a ridiculous shot and the keeper blocks it, the announcer says, 'That was…
Discovering the unique charm of Ramune, Japan's iconic carbonated drink I had marble soda for the first time last night and I loved it. So the gimmick is there is a marble inside the soda...get it...marble soda? The marble doesn't actually come out of the bottle, but as you're drinking it, you think you'll swallow it. You can see the blue marble about 3/4 of the way up the bottle in the photo above. What I initially thought was just a novelty drink turned out to be a…
A $57 short film that won TropFest NY 2008 What did you think of this innovative short film? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we went to see Wicked on Saturday night at the Orpheum Theatre. The Safeway Employees' Association (SEA) was one of the group sponsors that night, so there were a bunch of people from Safeway. Before the show, we went to Osha Thai for dinner, which was really nice. We sat in the balcony, which ended up being great. I never once thought we were sitting too far away, or it was too difficult to see what was going on. Even…
Beginning of the Show Grand Finale Gary and Charisse invited us to join them at the Brentwood Cornfest last night in Brentwood, CA. Charisse works for the High School so she was able to get us into where they shoot off the fireworks from the school football field. Being so close to the fireworks was great because they were really LOUD (the first few were really loud) and really BRIGHT. To give you an idea of how close we were, I kept having to shift the video because…
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