a little weekend recap and some monday coolness…

friday night’s maximo park show at the el rey was pretty great. we timed it perfectly so we didn’t have to endure a single note of sub-par openers after our short walk from some warm-up drinks at gino’s new place just around the corner. i realized i’ve absorbed a lot more of the songs off the new album than i’d thought, and hearing them live did seem to make them come a live a little more. still prefer the previous album overall, but i wouldn’t sell the new one too short. it held up pretty well.

saturday was all about apartment shopping, and after that and a few online orders today, we’ll officially have all the furniture we’ve been looking for. then we went out to a nice anniversary dinner at cube (which i just reviewed for yelp as well, if you click down on that map there), which blew our tastebuds away. delicious fancy cheeses, surprisingly yummy rabbit-sausage ragu — that’s right, we ate bunny sauce! — and some choice ravioli with a fine bottle of wine from our trip to wine country in the spring. oh my, it was heaven, and we went home happy.

this morning i came across the new dark knight teaser trailer, which is excellent in buildup and dangling how the joker will sound in the next movie (answer: pretty much PERFECT for this incarnation of batman).

it was originally posted at whysoserious.com, which has been replaced with more of their continued viral marketing trickery based on a stunt they pulled at comicon. it sounds really cool, and i wish i could have been there for it. i’d link to a place where you can read more about it, but i haven’t found a complete report anywhere.

this is the best one so far, but basically defaced dollar bills (george washington in face paint) led people to the previous version of that website, which you got the code to by calling a number from a sky-writing message over the con ending in “HA HA”. then you went through some puzzles as a try-out to be in joker’s gang, leading to a location where you got face-painted like the new joker (the participants of which are shown on the current version of the whysoserious site). finally, one of them was even hauled into a truck and ‘killed’ and pictures of his dead body were posted on that same site. of course, all this is gone now and replaced with that rent-a-clown thing, so it’s a shame you can’t go back and follow it yourself anymore. oh well, the crazy interweb can be fleeting and not all total coolness lasts forever.