Caught a David Sedaris reading yesterday with Mixygirl, Presser, and Michelle.  Sedaris is a pretty funny author who has written some short comedic autobiographical novels.  He also writes columns frequently for the New Yorker and is  an occasional NPR commentator.  The dude is totally hilarious, and I've been into him since Presser loaned me his book Naked, during residency.  Unforunately we had a really big Thai dinner right before the reading and everyone except Mixygirl suffered from food coma.  Still very funny nonetheless. 

Caught Dinosaur Jr. again live last night at the Troubadour with Mixy and Bagel.  This was by far the loudest one yet, louder than the Stones show recently.  I didn't use ear plugs though, cause it made the sound really muffled.  Dinosaur was famous for being the loudest punk show back in the day.  Now that their reunion tour has been going on for so long, they're definitely sounding better and better.  Now J does a lot of long extended guitar solos.  That can be lame in some situations, but J is one of the great alternative guitar players of all time (the best being Frusciante in my opinion).  At the end of the set the bass tech took over the bass from Lou Barlow and pushed him into the audience while he sang "Don't"  which consists of repeatedly screaming "Why Don't you Like Me".  A fun ending considering it coming from the guy who ended up doing mellow stuff like fronting the Folk Implosion, later in his career.  Here's the setlist.

GARGOYLE
BULBS OF PASSION
BUDGE
WAGON
NO BONES
LUNG
KRACKED
FORGET THE SWAN
IN A JAR
LOSE
FREAKSCENE
RAISANS

encore:
SLUDGEFEAST
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
LITTLE FURY THINGS
DON'T

Sorry, no updates for a couple of months now.  Just seems like an insurmountable task to load all those pictures.  Here's the highlights of my last few months.

1) Hawaii trip with Mixygirl, Mark, and Ploy was great.  Standout restuarants were Mavro's, Alan Wong's Pineapple Room, Alan Wong's (regular restaurant), Orchid's Sunday Brunch at the Halekulani Hotel, and 3660 on the rise (AHI KATSU IS SUPER DHS).  Sidewalk Cafe was decent too.  We got to see Jonathan Antin at the mall in Oahu.  I think he was there selling his new shower filter head.  It's going to be on TV next week. 

On the left is a picture of Jonathan from Blowout in front of a picture of himself.  His manager and one of his product line marketing executives are in the shot as well.  On the right is a pic of the dish of the trip, Ahi Katsu @ 3660 on the Rise. 

2) Towards the end of February, Mixy, Juddy and I caught a Mamet play called Boston Marriage at the Geffen.  Play wasn't so hot,  really difficult to understand Edwardian-English spoken too fast (a Mamet trademark).  We all agreed that the best part was at the end, when Alicia Silverstone and Mary Steenbergen stayed later and gave a Q and A with the audience. 

3) For Mixygirl's birthday at the beginning of March, we stayed at the St. Regis where the wedding was, for a weekend of relaxation.  We also visited the Montage hotel in the OC which was quite beautiful, and had a great dinner with Toro at the Stonehill Tavern.  Later that week with my family and Jober, we had another Mixygirl birthday dinner at the famous Brazilian Churrasceria branch on La Cienega, Fogo de Chao

4)  In early March, I also got a chance to catch the Rolling Stones live, at the forum opened by Queens of the Stone Age!!!  It was incredible, and incredibly loud.  There was one point during Satisfaction where I just couldn't believe I was actually finally seeing the Stones live.

5) No, I can't slide on a rail on a snowboard.  But, Mixygirl and I did decide to try to learn how to snowboard this season.  We made two trips to Mammoth, and one trip to Mountain high.  We got pretty good at the falling leaves thing, but were worried that we wouldn't progress.  Fortunately during our last trip to Mammoth, everything finally clicked, and we were finally linking turns.  I can't wait for the next year's season.  We might check out other cool locations like Park City. 

6) Really weird story near the end of March.  Mixygirl, Bagel and I were at a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at the El Rey.  I got recognized by a patient, who heard me perform an intense bowel disimpaction on a bipolar lady in the ER the night before!!!  Out of all the things to get recognized in public for....

7)  A couple days after that I went with Ed and Julia to a cool show at Universal sponsored by KCRW Sounds Eclectic.  Caught Sia, Feist, Ben Harper (with Ziggy Marley singing duet on a Bob Marley tune), Gomez, the lead singer of Spoon, Surprise guest FRANZ FERDINAND!!!  (awesome surprise), and Death Cab for Cutie. 

8) Earlier this month Mixy and I caught Donovan Leitch and Bijou Phillips in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Roxy.  They weren't as good as the original cast, but still it was a really good show nonetheless.  Bonus, it was really cool catching in a small rock club.  Very appropriate for the subject matter.