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Beck: Mom goes in a lot of Stores.
Me: She does?
Beck: Yeah, and you go in a lot of work.

Today marked a number of firsts in my life: (1) first time to New York, (2) first time to Maine, and (3) first time shaving using a non-electric razor. I have yet to see New York in the daylight (although I'm on Long Island as I write this) and I only saw about 2 miles of Maine (although I liked what I saw), so it turns out that shaving was by far the most exciting item on the list. I finished with only one major cut (after gaining too much confidence, briefly wondering if I really needed to re-apply shaving cream, finding out that I do indeed need the shaving cream, and learning what the term razor burn means).

Also, when we arrived at our Long Island hotel, the girl behind the desk asked us for an address because "the one in the computer just shows GPS coordinates." Apparently brother Brigham's city planning vision has not yet reached widespread acceptance.

Speaking of bands on late night television, every once in a while, I will come across a band on Conan (that I have never heard of) that puts on an awesome performance, but, upon listening to more of their music, I find out that they are not as good as their performance led me to believe. The two specific examples I am thinking of are Chromeo and Yeasayer. So much potential. I couldn't find the Yeasayer performance on YouTube (except for an audio-only clip), but here is the recent Chromeo performance.

Welcome to the blog. As promised, I will start with a commentary on late night television. I have been recording Conan's show for about 2 years now. My DVR starts about 5 minutes early each night meaning that usually, the band playing on Leno gets lumped into my recording. It has amazed me over the past years that Leno never has good bands. I don't know what his deal is, but he always gets top 40 bands or obscure country and bluegrass bands. I understand that these types of bands must be mixed in; however, it seemed like they were purposely avoiding the genre that I appreciate. It was to the point that I would rarely check the act before fast forwarding to Conan's monologue. The thing is this. Recently, Leno has had a few good bands on: Black Kids, Cold War Kids, Death Cab, and TV on the radio. I wonder what happened...perhaps a new employee (closer to my musical tastes) is now booking the acts. Then again, David Cook is on for Friday.