Everyone knows the old saying here in Michigan, wait a day and the weather will change.
Sunday night:
Today:
It’s snowing today. Not quite sticking like the photo, BUT DAMMIT ITS STILL SNOWING!
WTF happened to fall?
Author: Matt (Page 24 of 41)
It had to happen sometime, but our favorite quasi-legal after hours venue the Fi-nite Gallery was closed indefinitely this past Friday night after a series of raids by the DPD. Coincidentally, I was booked to DJ at the gallery Saturday night. Pissed much? Yes.
RIP Fi-nite – we had many great drunken nights at Brooklyn & Plum.
Fi-nite’s sudden closure did however leave me with an evening free to explore another old friend, Oslo.
Oslo suffered a similar fate last winter when the owner abruptly closed up shop after some shady check writing and a lot of debt. It’s reopened now with new owners, and even though it’s been closed for almost a year it’s much the same as it ever was. On a side note, apparently the neu-hipster movement is in full swing in Detroit. If I have to see one more person with a v-neck t-shirt and an emo haircut, I’ll puke. No joke.
Besides that, it was still a toe-tapping, head bobbing, drink-too-much-gin kind of night.
So with the demise of one techno-haunt in town, comes the reopening of another.
Life and death, the circle of (night)life.
Someone get me a case of these…
I always wondered what it was like to blow a transmission in a car. I found out last week.
Keeping the story short I blew a gear getting on the freeway bad enough that it blew clean through the transmission case. (Un)Lucky for me the Hyundai transmission is connected directly to the differential. Translation into english: it cost me $1500 to get a used transmission assembly and have it installed.
Looks like I won’t be doing much of anything for, oh, the next 6 months or so until I can pay that bad boy off.
On the bright side, I met my neighbors over at O’Brian Services, and they are good people. I’ll be taking my vehicle there for any future repairs.
You know the old saying, nothing good happens after 2am? Don’t believe it… We went out Saturday night to THE Detroit afterhours spot, the Fi-nite Gallery in Corktown (a block from old Tiger Stadium) to see Kevin Saunderson play, and he did not disappoint. You know it’s going to be a good show when doors don’t open until midnight, and he goes on at 3:00am. Saunderson is one of the Belleville 3 – one of the originators of Detroit techno – and to see him in an intimate location for just a few bucks made my weekend.
Kevin Saunderson @ the Fi-nite Detroit
Outside the Fi-nite looking downtown
Outside the Fi-nite looking at old Tiger Stadium
If you’re curious, bed time was 6am…
I’ve worked with Vista enough to agree completely with this video.
You won’t find it on any of _MY_ machines…
You are a waste of perfectly good air. I am ashamed and disgusted you exist, and frankly wish you would do us all a favour and fix that for us all.
Christa came home from work today wondering why there was a dog at the house across the street. That’s funny, because the house is empty. Why would there be a dog locked up in the fenced in back yard of an empty house??
There was a big neighborhood pow-wow trying to figure out what exactly was going on. We figured sometime during the morning after we had all left for work, someone had dropped off this dog, closed it behind the gate, and took off. That is, unless the dog figured out how to get back there with a bowl full of water in his mouth on his own.
So apparently someone had brains the size of a peanut and basically ditched the dog. Nice. That’s probably the most low class, shitty thing I’ve seen someone do in a long time. You are a fucking class act, whoever you are.
When Phil first told us Daft Punk‘s limited release movie Electroma was playing in Royal Oak, my first reaction was something like: “OMFG!!!!!!!!11one”. I wanted to badly to like the movie, but in the end we spent $6.50 each and an hour and a half in the theatre, and I was left feeling cheated.
The basic plot premise is 2 robots who desire to be human, but in the end realize they can never be. Yes, it’s been done before, but that didn’t matter.
Without giving too much away, the movie was 75 minutes long but could have run 15-20 minutes and still delivered it’s punch. The 10 minute opening sequence of nothing but the robots driving a car through the desert started the whole movie off in a way that made the audience wonder what they had gotten themselves into. I know this because everyone was speaking out loud and bored of it already. Then add in the gratuitous 10 minute shot of the robot equivalent of plastic surgery, the 10 minute trip of a bathroom florescent that won’t stay on while the robots stare longingly, and a few more way-too-long shots of the robots walking alone thought the desert 2 or 3 different times, and you’ve got 3/4 of the movie that really did not have to be there. I understand using monotony as a plot and emotional device, but come on!
Final verdict:
Visually, the movie was stunning. The bathroom & the climactic scene were pretty amazing & trippy at the same time. However, the way it just dragged on with the same shot for minutes at a time was annoying. 75 minutes could have been condensed to 20-30 minutes and kept the attention span of the audience.
Add Bjork to your list of performers you need to see live before you die.
No joke.
Christa, myself, Jane, Jacqui, & Paul went to the Virgin Music Festival on Toronto Island last week, and Bjork made the 2-day concert completely worth the trouble, and it was close to the top of the best live concert/music experiences I’ve had EVER.
Video from Christa’s phone posted on youtube:
We also saw Smashing Pumpkins:
We’ve both been busy traveling pretty non-stop over the past month, so it hurt updates. We went to Canada 2 different weekends for family and concerts, went to Atlanta to visit Steamy (Steve & Amy) for 4 days over the holiday, and I went to Oregon for work & to visit Jamie in Portland last week for 5 days.
No more traveling for a while, SERIOUSLY THIS TIME…