Results tagged “phoenix”

• I noticed a lot of people on their bikes this morning. People who bike to work in Phoenix in the summer are either extremely dedicated or completely mad. For the sake of their co-workers, I really hope their offices have showers.

• Amazon's iPhone app is extremely well designed and easy to use. It even made me grin when I viewed my empty cart.

Did you catch that? My cart lives to serve me. I tried to get it to make me a cup of coffee but there appears to be a bug.

• I finally finished Dan Brown's, er, masterpiece last night. The story was entertaining. I'm going to leave it at that. Now I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Compared with Mr Brown's tome, this is a little more brain taxing. And tiny font alert! They really need to try and fit more words on a page. Good lord I'm going to need a magnifying glass.

• I used craigslist for the first time last night. My immediate thought was "ahh, my eyes" as the page partied like it was 1997. Not exactly pleasant to look at and not immediately intuitive to use. Or maybe I'm too stupid to figure it out?

• Netflix streaming was down last night. The horror of it. The site itself was slow, then it worked, then it was slow, then it was down. A quick check of twitter showed hundreds of "is netflix down?" and "no netflix wtf ttfn bbq?" type posts so I knew it wasn't just me. Got to love twitter for the real time info.

Movie Of The Year

We went to see Inception at the weekend. So very very good. I don't remember the last time I had that sitting on the edge of my seat feeling when watching a movie. As it finished everyone around us let out a little sigh, and there was clapping. Been a while since I've been in a cinema when people clapped at the end. I know some people say it wasn't that good. But what do they know? Go watch it forthwith. 10/10

Living In A Flyover State

As tour schedules for bands come out I often get excited especially if it's a band I haven't seen before. Unfortunately because of where I live, just because a band is on tour, doesn't mean I'll get to see them. For Arizona is one of those pesky flyover states that bands like to avoid. If you live in LA or New York you're golden. Arizona is all a bit hit & miss. Take Interpol for example. Their tour schedule came out today. Notice anything missing? Phoenix maybe? Grrr.

Being Brown

Unless otherwise shutdown by federal judge, SB1070 goes into effect at midnight tonight. If it does, it will be a very very sad day for Arizona indeed. Not our finest hour.

Update: parts of SB1070 have indeed been blocked.

I won't say it's necessarily the most effective means of promoting a gig, but it sure is the best one I've ever seen. I can't imagine the amount of time and effort involved. A true fan that's for sure.

Stumbled upon completely by accident when taking a wrong turn in downtown Phoenix earlier today.

And because I suck, I completely forgot Sonic Youth were even playing at the Marquee.

You wake up to a view like this.

Every once in a while you take a photo that really doesn't do the scene justice. This is one of those times.

[Moozik: Rammstein - Mein Teil]

There are two things that I learned rather quickly when I moved to Phoenix. Firstly, it's bloody hot in the summer, and secondly along with that heat, come some impressive storms. Every year in the summer, we experience what's known as the Monsoon Season. Typically this means high humidity, high winds, dust storms, rain, and all kinds of thunder & lightning goodness. It's really a sight to see.

Usually the Monsoon Season starts towards the end of June and lasts until about September ish. This week though we got a little sneak peek of what's ahead.

High winds downed quite a few trees and there was a decent amount of thunder which pleased me no end. (er, the thunder I mean, not the downed trees obviously) Low clouds meant that we couldn't see the lightning forking its way through the sky but it lit the clouds up quite nicely. Picture us glued to the window watching from the comfort of the sofa.