But just don't sit down cause I've moved your chair
Don't Sit Down Cause I've Moved Your Chair- Arctic Monkeys
I
had quite the adventure this week. I feel like have been all over the
place in the span of about eight days. Last Friday I went snowboarding
for the first time. I was better at it than I thought I would be but I
also go wakeboarding in the summer. I think if you can balance your
weight standing on a train you can snowboard. I have a deeper
appreciation of the the snowboarders at the Winter Olympics this year.
I'll get more into that later.
I
then went and saw Panic! at the Disco with Danielle (it was her first
time seeing them)! Had a nice time and even got myself a pick from one
of my favorite bassists Dallon Weekes
Then
on Saturday I took Julian to the Neue Galerie during the day. Julian
kind of asked me to explain things about art which made me come to the
conclusion that talking about art is much harder than it seems. At least
for me it is. For me it seems so natural or common I feel like saying
"well you just paint it" or "just draw it" and I find it hard to point
of key details that may help others with making art. Maybe this is why
all those how to books about art go from two circles to the Mona Lisa in
one step. Hopefully I spoke well enough about the art at Neue that
Julian has a better understanding. That day felt like a "treat yo' self"
kind of day and I bought myself a book on Schiele and some more Schiele
post cards (I have two at home I put on my walls).
After
Neue Julian and I then walked through Central Park because I have only
been on the corners of it and never really infiltrated it. Clearly
nobody thought to put any ice on the paths and I kept falling on my ass
every two minutes. Julian never slipped and I don't know why.
Later
that night after I departed with Julian I met up with Caitlin and went
to see the Arctic Monkeys. It was my first time in Madison Square Garden
which seems kind of weird since I have been to so many shows. To be
honest I found that MSG was smaller than I thought it would be. The only
arena I have been to was the Barclays Center which is huge! I also got
seated tickets which I don't normally do but I was very close to the
side of the stage. Who opened for Arctic Monkeys but none other than
Deerhunter! Poor Bradford Cox had the flu but they still performed well
(heard a few songs we did in Metamorphoses). HOLY COW the Arctic Monkeys
are really something. After years of listening to all their songs I
finally got the chance to see them live and boy they are worth seeing
live. Their most recent album AM in my opinion was probably the
best album released last year. While some of the bands I listen too put
out records I enjoyed I none of them I can really say were their best or
just as amazing as the rest but AM is a really solid album and I
recommend you all listen to it. They have both great music and lyrics
that are clever and pretty snarky. Listen to a few of their songs and
you'll know exactly what I mean. They even covered a Beatles song to
honor 50 years since coming to America. I kind of think Alex Turner's
speaking voice sounds like a Beatle, not just because they're English.
Alex Turner always sings with a noticeable English accent so maybe I can
consider singing along as practicing for the play (however I don't
think I'll use an accent from Sheffield, England). Overall they put on a
great show with excellent imagery. The whole imagery for this album is
very cool from the album cover to this video (watch this, it gave me
some cool ideas maybe it will give you some too. Gets interesting around a minute and a half):
One of my favorites off of AM:
Here is their cover of "All My Loving" by The Beatles
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