Sarah and I saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra tonight. Best fucking concert I have ever been to. Their music is amazing, but combined with lasers, hundreds of lights, smoke, 30 foot flames and FIREWORKS makes it insane. If you ever get the chance to see them in concert, go, they are amazing. The entire band is basically just a metal hair band from the 80's playing some Christmas songs with an orchestra.
I think I figure out their plan, they play about an hour of Christmas songs, then they rock out for the last hour and a half to whatever they feel like. They did an awesome version of Layla with some crazy guitar solos, even managed to make 'Linus and Lucy' hardcore and played the best version of Carmina Burana I've ever heard/seen.
Again, I don't think words can describe it accurately, here's the best video I could find of their show: (Yes, at the end of the video their drummer is raised up about 20 feet. At tonight's concert they had a lift in the middle of the auditorium that shot flames and lifted their violinist and guitarist about 30 feet up.)
Last weekend Sarah and I saw Blue Man Group in San Jose. Minus Tracy Bonham's emo girl opener, the concert was kick ass. I don't think I could describe it words, so I'll just show a clip:
Today was Yahoo!'s first open hack day and it was awesome. First off, tons of really cool sessions with the inventors of PHP and JSON and many other incredibly smart people here at Yahoo!. I wish I didn't have to work otherwise I would have gone to all of them.
Second, Beck performed at night and was a blast. He uses live puppets that mimick what his band is doing on stage. Makes the performance really interesting and kinda freaky. Check out the video. (warning, 44mb)
For those of you that are interested in what it's like to work at Yahoo!, check out this post on their blog, it has a pretty good video of the main campus.
So I've finally arrived in California after about a week of driving across the country. Utah and Nevada are really pretty, Reno is a dump. Pictures coming soon once my stuff arrives.
Things to love about California:
Mountain view from my balcony
Hard liquor sold in grocery stores
The weather. (Cloudless 80 degree days, cool nights)
The food. Tons of healthy fast food and huge variety
Lots of stores and malls nearby.
Things to hate about California:
Traffic. Have you ever seen a 3-lane, 2-lane and 1 lane highway all try to merge with bumper-to-bumper traffic? At the same time?
The highways. Take 390, 490, 590 and the inner loop, make them all 8 lanes and put them in a blender and that's the highways out here. North and south highways run east to west and vice versa.
More info in a later post once I have some semblance of a living room and bedroom.
It is now day 3 of Sarah and I's road trip to California. So far we've driven through NY, Canada, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and a small part of Wyoming.
NY, Canada and Michigan are all almost the same. Lots of highways and traffic.
Once we got to Iowa and Nebraska, things got FLAT. And boring. Nothing but fields and dirt roads. By the time we got to Wyoming, we had some hills.
So far the coolest things we've seen have been the largest truck stop in the world, big farm equipment and an RV crash. Hopefully things will get more exciting tomorrow when we hit the Rockies and when we get to Reno on the 4th.
1) Opening scene with JD falling out of frame ending with a quick one liner. 2) Dr. Cox calling JD a little girl or something similar. 3) Introduction of main theme, most likely to be something sappy about change, life problems, facing our fears, etc. 4) Dr. Kelso being Dr. Kelso. 5) JD or other main character doing the opposite thing they should do related to the main theme of the episode. 6) Commercial break. 7) Another comical scene with JD falling out of frame. 8) Montage of scenes with musical accompaniment finalizing with someone doing the right thing in relation to the episode's theme. 9) Conclusion. 10) Final scene with voiceover by JD about life's triumphs and tragedies, etc.
Anyone else feel like Scrubs is becoming repetitive?
Apr. 12th, 2006 @ 09:14 am
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