Soooo… so much to say. First, why can’t I find decent greek food on staten island. There are a couple of places here but they all stink. A new place opened and it looked like it would rescue me from all the mediocre greek places here. This place was even worst than the other ones. Well I’m not totally sure yet. I just had take-out. But the restaurant looked nice. Basically the take-out stuff tasted like left-overs. But they did have a great taramasalata.
Movies.
I’ve seen the pretty much all the summer blockbusters. Knocked Up was good. Spiderman 3 was bad. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was bad. Die Hard was good. Transformers was good. Harry Potter was good.
Flight of the Conchords.
Where do I start. First I am a fan of musical comedy. All the way from Victor Borge to the Smothers Brothers, Allen Sherman to Spinal Tap, Tenacious D to Flight of the Conchords. Although, I am not a fan of comedians that just write joke songs. Let me explain. I don’t like the comedians that write songs that every line is a joke. With the people I mentioned, the song isn’t always the joke, they are the joke and punch line. The two exceptions to that for me, is Allen Sherman and Weird Al. They were the great parody writers. Come on, you don’t like “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”? So then, Flight of the Conchords continue to bring forth musical comedy with their show on HBO. Wait a second, that how Tenacious D started. The show is about 2 guys from New Zealand,(the joke starts there) that are living in New York, and have a folk band, with the original line-up of Bret, Jemaine, the 2 of them. The best part about the band is that they never really play a gig, well except at the worlds fair thing but that was just Jemaine with the tape. So usually they just break into song in the middle of the plot. They went for a more R&B, Soul, Electronic thing, than the Tenacious D acoustic metal. It works on all levels. The characters are great with their funny New Zealand accents, and the songs are great, talking about girls, monkeys, robots, cutlery, underpants, synthesizers, food, tape, kabobs, tea-parties, etcs… Check it out, but you should watch it with friends.
Hitting the Trails.
As you can see from my myspace pictures that I’ve been hitting the trails. Mountain biking is great. It’s great to get away from paved roads and cars and just be surrounded by trees and dirt. Check out the pics if you didn’t already. And if anyone knows of any cool trails around here, tell me.
-Andy
