The next Wes Anderson flick is coming...and The Life Aquatic looks like classic Anderson/Murray/Wilson.

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Lots of concerts forthcoming--The Killers w/Ambulance, Wilco, Interpol, The Bravery, and The Bravery again. A band worth mentioning who will be opening for the Bravery are Aberdeen City, a Boston-area band which I saw open for Elefant last fall. They have an edgey-looking guitarist who teeters and spasms a lot when he plays. Go to their music page on their website and listen to some of their new stuff.

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So I'm in the new apartment and suddenly find myself with copious wall space that needs filling. I have my token Monaco GP and Peugeot art prints, but that's hardly gonna cut it. And my Strokes and Rapture concert posters are inexplicably 19" x 25" (thanks to those wonderfully artistic yet entirely impractical types over at Aesthetic Apparatus), so I haven't even framed those.


I just bought the one at left, and looking to get the other two.

I found a few posters I like, but generally I look around first before buying. Allposters.com has become the be-all/end-all of online poster shopping--if you search for a specific poster, all the other poster sites inevitably seem to be "affiliates" of AllPosters.com. It's a good site, and they send me 25% off coupons every week basically (currently they have a $10 off promotion), but a little competition isn't bad, you know? So I was pleased to find Classicpix.com, which prints posters to order on either semi-matted paper ($20 unframed) or canvas ($90). More importantly, they'll frame a poster for you at a reasonable cost. While Allposters.com quoted me well north of $100 for a framed 18" x 24" version of the TT poster above, I got a framed 20" x 30" version from ClassicPix for $76, including shipping. Nice. Btw, the TT (Tourist Trophy) motorcycle races, which began in 1904, are the inspiration behind the name of the Audi TT.

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Saw Garden State on Sunday with Torto. Mike really wanted to see it that day, and I wanted to see it in general (ever since those damn trailers came out way back when). However, Mike had free tickets to Showcase theaters so we had to go to Revere to see it. Only it turns out Mike forgot the fucking tickets in NYC, so he got some discounted AAA passes from his sister. For which he charged me $6. Why not just sell the passes he has to his parents/sister since he doesn't live in Boston? I don't know. You'd have to ask him.

But the movie was good, the soundtrack was excellent--though the Shins plug was kind of annoying, because I never really thought much of them--and it's very much worth seeing. My favorite song in the movie is actually an old favorite--"Don't Panic" by Coldplay. I really gained a renewed appreciation for the song, even though I've always counted it as my favorite from Parachutes.

I'm not a huge Zach Braff fan or anything--you'd think I would like "Scrubs," but I've always thought it was corny and somewhat overrated, though I don't mind watching it--but he does a nice job of almost annoying you with the pretentiousness of the whole film without actually doing so. But he comes close. Natalie Portman is fine. Not great...I'm sure a lot of actresses could have pulled off the part just as well, but I suppose the main thing is that she projects this aura of youthful innocence without actually being too young.

Regardless, the fact that Braff wrote, directed AND starred in the film is rather impressive.

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If you live in the Northeast, then you probably have come to hate the guy who sings the Foxwoods Casino theme song. I knew I'd seen him on TV--he's one of those lameass modern jazz trio guys--but I figured I would look up who he is so that we can all direct our hatred a little more specifically. Anyway, his name is John Pizzarelli.