F E B R U A R Y 0 4
Ferenczy rates his life according to giraffes. Dave begins working at Imagine Design. Reactions to Janet Jackson's Superbowl stunt. Why Baltimore City Public Schools are crappy. Stories about Snakebusters and escaping parking garages.
Bowling, Video Games, And Music, I'm An All-Around Reviewer...
This here post is live from Baltimore, the city that can't take care of its children. Although we devoted teachers must struggle through the stress of these difficult times, we do manage to have some fun. Yesterday for example, I went to lunch at about 2:00 PM and started drinking some beers, maintining my low-level buzz until 2:00 AM. I forget the name of the restaurant, but it's right next to Timothy's down in Fell's Point, and it was excellent. It's got a ship captains theme, and if you're looking for a moderately inexpensive meal with large excellent-tasting portions, that's the place for you. After lunch, I played a little NHL 2K4 on Gamecube. Great game. You get to manage the team as the General Manager, set the finances, draft players, sign free agents, trade players and even play the ultra-realistic hockey games. If I had a rating system developed for video games, I would give this game seven giraffes and a hippo out of a possible eight giraffes. Later on last night, I went Duck pin bowling with Tammer and Andrew Newman and others at the Patterson Bowling Center. I give this place 6 giraffes. Friendly service, plus duck pin bowling is fun. The best part is that it's BYOB. After that, I got a call from a friend from college, Eric. He was at Fletcher's to watch his friend play in his hard rock/new metal band. Fletcher's is a bar a lot like the Brass Monkey, except the bands are better, the bar is bigger, cleaner and nicer, and the attendees seem to be younger. There were definietly some youngins there. From what I hear, it was over/under night or something. Anyway, the point is that Eric's friend was the lead singer for a band called Anamide (insideanamide.com). This band is a hard rock/new metal type band. They are not death metal, and luckily they're nothing like let it die. I'd compare them more to Nine Inch Nails, perhaps a less upset Alice in Chains or sort of like a less hard Limp Bizkit with a better lead vocalist and no super wierd bass player. Actually, the real truth is somewhere in between those bands. I'm not real familiar with the genre, and personally not that big of a fan of the genre, but I was impressed with Anamide. The guitarist, bassist and drummer were all technically very good instrumentalists, the lead singer had a lot of energy and a pretty good voice, although his mic was turned down too low (Fletcher's fault, not the band's). The songs were pretty good. I was bopping around a little, even though it's not my kind of music. My favorite song was "halo," the requisite song about how an ex-girlfriend screwed over the lead singer and now he's bitter. What makes or breaks this type of song is the music, and the music was good. I give Anamide 5 monkeys and a duck-billed platypus. Anyway, that's enough rambling for me. I'm out like the Killa Bees on bail...
Sunday, February 29 at 8:16 AM
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