Mmmm

I would just like to make a note of today.

It was a good’un.

can you guess what movie I watched?

My life is so blessed.

If you ever see me not smiling, please deliver a swift kick to the shin…

as I am clearly not in my right mind.

This post won’t mention PT…I promise.

When I’m here in Flintvilleshire, myself and the 5 gents I live with buy groceries together and try to eat large meals together whenever possible to save $. I offered to handle the task of being the accountant, so I divide up the $ from each receipt and keep track of who owes who what by the end of the term. I actually don’t mind it, for some odd reason I really enjoy using spreadsheets. It may be the process of taking a blank page and turning it into something with a productive and efficient output…either way, I’m a geek.

After running the numbers for the past 3 months today I came up with a rough approximation of how much, per person, we spend on food each day. This number is a little rough seeing as how it doesn’t account for eating out (we pay seperately then) or the non-food items we purchase. Regardless, I was pleasently suprised with how low the number was: $2.38 a day.

I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t eat the healthiest, but we do a decent job (besides, isn’t that what multi-vitamins are for?). The best part of all of this:

We didn’t have ramen once this term!

fanboydom

Yesterday was wonderful.

Andrew and I drove down to Chicago to see our favorite band, Porcupine Tree. On this tour they have been selling out all of their venue’s so far, and this one was no different, so it was a far different show from 2+ years ago when I saw them in a half empty(or full) small theater in Detroit. It’s odd to go to a concert where half of the people in the audience are around my Dad’s age, and there also seemed to be an unusually high number of very tall people…this bothered Andrew more than me.

Porcupine Tree opened by playing the 55-minute song cycle off the first disc of their new album in one straight shot. It was unbelievably well performed and beautiful. In a word: epic.

The second half of their show consisted of older hits (Trains), obscure tracks (Russia On Ice), and a phenomenal shortened version of their 17-minute track from their last album (Anesthetize), and plenty of other goodies. The second half was a lot more fun simply because all of the songs were fully beautiful and great by themselves, unlike the the first set which was essentially one song (albeit a mind-blowingly good one).

We also got to see them perform possibly my favorite track off disc 2 of their new album, ‘Remember Me Lover’, for the very first time. It was incredible!

…goodness, I am such a fanboy…

Despite all of this, possibly the coolest part of the show was Steven Wilson’s new guitar (look at it!) that he played on Russia On Ice. It had this cool brushed aluminum tele body with a 3+3 headstock (so I have no clue who made it) and a huge screen in the middle of the body. It was this super bright screen with constantly changing patterns and colors. If the bassists beret caught on fire during that song not a soul would have noticed because every single eye was on that guitar during the entire song.

OK, I think I’ve made my point by now. That concert was amazing.

Sadly I have yet to find any good photos of the show (using a camera is a no-no at their shows), but I’m hoping a few good ones will turn up on Flickr sometime soon!