Friday stuff

[yendi]

We ate at Melting Pot last night with felisdemens and mightysemprini, and had quite a wonderful time. And I'm still full. Elayna ate twelve shrimp, as well as some bread, apples, and some dessert (she raved about the graham-cracker covered marshmallow dipped in the dark chocolate). Me, I just gorged myself on the cheese, salmon, steak, mushroom salad, and dessert. They don't starve you there.

The evening was quite fun. Elayna invented Ham Jenga, and later created a Ham Jenga house (basically Ham Jenga with a piece of radicchio stuck in the middle as a chimney). Our waiter was one of those waiters who is probably awful under most circumstances, but had the perfect personality for our table. Much fun was had.

Since we got back after her bedtime, needless to say, no gaming with Miss Kid last night. Surprisingly, she was more awake this morning than she's been the last few days. Not that I want her getting to bed late often, but she's handling it well.

In other news, I won a prize pack yesterday from Volition.com. Movie prize packs are normally a good thing. I've got my swag drawer that includes shirts and hats from movies like The Interpreter, Gothika, etc., and pretty much have no qualms about wearing them.

But, to be frank, I'm not sure I really want to wear a cap or shirt that says The 40-Year Old Virgin.

Finally, for those folks who have heard me rave about The Woods, the latest Sleater-Kinney album, you can download the song Entertain from their website, and also nab the video (20 MB quicktime). "Entertain" (and the entire album, actually) won't be everyone's cup of tea, as it's cacophonous and angry, even by S-K standards, but I'm obsessed with it, much in the way I was with Green Day's American Idiot last year, playing it multiple times a day. Their website has other free MP3s from older albums, including Words and Guitar and You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun, which are two of my other favorite S-K songs ("Little Babies" is the only one of my top four not available for free from their site).

ETA: There's also the cameo by S-K singer Corin Tucker in Diesel Sweeties.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

The Woods has really grown on me. It doesn't necessarily sound "darker" than their past stuff. It does sound more mature, if that makes any sense.

[yendi]

Definitely. S-K has matured a lot, both in terms of raw talent, and songwriting. It's not like they've never been "dark," before, but I don't think they were capable, musically, of expressing the stuff in the way they do in "Entertain" and "The Fox," for example.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

It doesn't necessarily sound "darker" than their past stuff.

Please add "to me" at the end of that sentence. I am having severe communication deficits lately. :(

[yendi]

No communcation issues here -- I pretty much take it as a given that any opinion has the implicit "to me" attached to it.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness. :)

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

I miss Melting Pot. They changed the one in our neck of the woods to "The Fondue Haus" and it is not NEARLY as good. *sniff*

We still go every once in awhile, but I miss The Melting Pot and will make a point of going to eat there next time I'm in Orlando or some other place that has one.

[yendi]

Man. That stinks. :-(

Here's hoping they open another one there soon!

[ninjakitten]

::snirk:: Okay, the idea of that movie gear made me laugh aloud.

[jmfunnyface.livejournal.com]

It's so weird to see the Melting Pot mentioned in shadesong's and your posts. I just found out last night that they're opening one right down the block from my apartment. The only we normally go to is way too close to the ghetto. I'm thrilled there's one we can go to and not worry about getting shot on the way home.

[yendi]

Our isn't in a ghetto, but it's way OTP, which is almost as bad. They don't seem to end up in convenient locations nearly enough!

[ckd]

The Melting Pot's a One True Pairing?

(Oh, and they list one "coming soon" to Boston. No details.)

[yendi]

Heh. It's a restaurant, not a fandom!

OTP=Outside the Perimeter. It's Atlanta-speak for Butt-Fuck Elsewhere, usually in references to places that want to consider themselves Atlanta, but are too far away.

[nishar.livejournal.com]

Did you get to see S-K on tour this year? They were really good this time around.

[yendi]

Alas, I missed their Atlanta show. :-(