Factory Girl

I saw "Factory Girl" on Tuesday night. It's the movie about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. It was very cool. It was the classic story of a girl caught in the world of a tortured genius.
Today I rode my bike with my friend Mike. We did about 30 miles. Going down the south shore of Staten Island and back.
That's it for now.
-Andy

Sunday, Monday & Today.

Sunday my friend Damian and I went to the city to see 'the host'. It's a Korean movie, "on par with Jaws" one review said, and it was. It was really cool. Not as good as Jaws but good. Then we went to Chinatown. We were looking at some Kung-Fu gear. After that we went to Ten Ren Tea Company. I love this place. I bought way too much tea.

Monday I had a meeting in the city at 179th street and Fort Washington. I rode my bike up there. It was great. I first had to ride down to the ferry. That took about 20 minutes. Then a quick ferry ride and I was off, all the way uptown. It was great. The west side highway bike path goes all the way up there. That took me about an hour. After my meeting I rode down Fort Washington down to Broadway, to 108th st into Central Park. Through the Park down 57th st to the West Side Highway bike path, and down to the ferry.According to my bike computer, I rode 35 miles. It was good practice for the 42 mile 5 Boro Bike Tour I will be doing in May.

Today I made some fresh green tea iced-tea, and hummus. Then I went outside to clean up my garden and turn the soil. This year I'm gonna do vegetables in the garden box and do herbs on the terrace. mmm fresh tomatoes!!!!

-Andy

New Music & 5.1

If anyone reads this and if anyone cares and if anyone checks out my myspace page I've been listening to some cool new bands.

1st. The Sounds. They're from Sweden. pop, retro 80's, new wave, indie stuff.
2nd. The Fratellis. They're from the U.K. pop, indie, iPod commercials.
3rd. Mika. He's from the U.K. pop, freddy wannabe.

Why, is all the music I like, coming from Europe??? I don't understand.Whatever.

I just picked up some cool music in 5.1 That's right. SSUUUURRRRRROOUUNDD SSOOOUUNND!.!.!!..!

The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds. This in one of my favorite albums! And now I can listen to it in 5.1
I was not too impressed with the surround mix. It just makes the album huge, which is great, but I think they could have done more, surround things.

The Beatles
Love
This is basically the soundtrack for the Cirque De Sole/Beatles thing.
This is AMAZING. They took the great Beatle tracks chopped them up, mix them around, overlapped, underlapped, and crosslapped into a truly amazing masterpiece. A big reason it works is because George Martin did it. Starting off with an a capella version of Because into a mix of Get Back over the classic drum solo in Abey Road is just brilliant. They had fun with the 5.1 stuff. I felt like the strings were crawling over my shoulders in I am the Walrus. Throughout the 78 minutes, the surprises just kept coming. I even got teary-eyed a couple of times.

5.1 surround sound is truly the future of music. The problem is that is not gonna happen. I can't remember the last time I sat still for an hour to listen to music. This iPod generation has no time to sit and listen. But if you do have the time, do it.

-Andy

What did you do yesterday????

Yesterday I washed my mom's car, washed my car, bar-b-q'd a turkey, made hummus, did an 8 mile bike ride, watched Babel and went to a bar to see a Rush tribute band.

-Andy

VBS.TV & 300

Hey,
I came across an awesome website yesterday http://www.vbs.tv/ . I think it's done by the people from Vice magazine. I can best describe the site as underground journalism. Videos of people going to some really cool places. There's a lot of crazy things going on in the world and it's even more crazy when you don't have CNN credentials. I really only got to watch the news videos and the travel stuff. When I'm done typing this, I'll go and check the music section.

300. Midnight show.
I'm not gonna do a whole review but I will say, it was really great. The fight scenes were incredible. Story was great. The pace was spot on. 2 hour actions movie sometime lack the build up of tension and have a lack of emotion but this movie delivered both. This is the best movie I've seen since The Departed. Now, I wanna check it out in IMAX;)

-Andy

A Real Blog;)

Yeah so that whole myspace blog thing is a joke.... so here's a real one.

Today seemed like it was going in slow motion. So, as I was staring at the green tea, teabag hanging from my finger I thought, I should finally set up a real blog so I can share this incredibly dull moment with the world!!! So here I am.
I read an article from New York Magazine about this whole blog thing, and it inspired me. I have had my website for about 3 years now and I have tried to keep it very formal. The whole blog thing always seemed a little to personal, but this article changed my view of it. Blogging will document my life on this planet. Just the fact that our generation now has it's history documented so articulately, is pretty cool. The older generations memories fade away. And sometime the photo itself can't bring the mind to recall the whole story.

....So here it is. A open, public view, into my world.

WELCOME TO ANDYLAND!!!

-Andy