Diary of the Dead

Went out to see the new George Romero zombie flick Sunday. I was pleasantly surprised in that it was much better than his last effort: Land of the Dead. This movie is kind of a reset of the Foo of the Dead cycle in that the zombie apocalypse starts in modern times instead of the 60s. This movie concerns a bunch of college students who are working on a student film when the apocalypse starts and one of them decides that it's really important to make a film to document the zombie attacks. Besides the obvious zombie versus the living fun, the movie's also a commentary on how people feel compelled to document things and blog all the time about everything from the most mundane activities (mmm, the irony) to the most horrible events . The social message is not as subtle as his earlier movies, i.e. they come right out and say it. Repeatedly. Still, I thought it worked pretty well.

The Hives

Noelle and I went to see The Hives show in SF last night. It was not as good as the show I saw them previously, unfortunately. Mostly because the sound was a bit muddy and the vocals were frequently buried under the other instruments. There was also an unusual amount of spitting. Short show, too, perhaps 80 minutes? Oh well, they can't all be winners.

Feeling A Little Better

Like Spring is coming. Like there's hope in the world. Oh yeah, we'll have a new president in 11 months. Just got to sweat it out.

Velvet Relvolver

David, Nancy, and I went to see VR last night at the Warfield last night. It was a pretty good show, although kind of short. They had no opening act and were about 45 minutes late getting onstage, which worked out fine for us. We were sitting on the front row of the balcony, so we had a great view of the band. They played mostly their VR songs, with a few STP ("Interstate Love Song", "Vasoline") songs and at least one GnR ("Mr Brownstone") song. Maybe it's because I've never seen him up close before, but Scott Weiland did not look good (i.e. healthy) last night. I was surprised how energetic he was on stage given his physical appearance. Perhaps that's why the show was so short (about 75 minutes). Anyway, the music was generally pretty good (I was disappointed by Vasoline) and I'd probably go again.

Where's Chris Been?

The answer to that for the most part is: working. Noelle, Esther, and I went to Vegas for a long weekend in January, but the for the past few weeks I've been working like a farm animal for The Company. I even had to ditch a planned ski weekend so I could work all weekend a couple weeks ago. When I'd get home I'd not have the energy to do much of anything, so I didn't really go out anywhere or do anything when not working. Fortunately, the current crisis appears to be mostly over and I can go back to things besides working and sleeping.