...I'll get back to unpacking later

...s.a.t.u.r.d.a.y night + pics of my place

Last night I went to a film is the Boston Independent Film Festival. It's called american teen. It is a very good documentary that follows a bunch of teens in a normal sized town in middle america. The director took questions afterward and said it was picked up for release in august so go see it when you get a chance.

Just got back from a really delicious dinner at a nice upscale place called Oleana. I'll definately be going back for special occasions...

So here's some pic of my place taken from what looks like a serial killer at night:











Oh finally check it out...I have a nice TV finally:

...day 1 and 2 in boston

It's been a long first 2 days here.

Day 1:
I get in at 6 am and very tired. Took a cab to the hotel (bed and breakfast actually) and some dude was in my room...great...so I slept on the couch while the nearby spanish-speaking female teachers were arguing for hours. After a couple hours nap, I went surfing for houses and set up some appoinments to see a bunch. In short, the next 9 hours were spent looking at 6 places, deciding on one, and signing lots of paperwork...yay success. More details about my place (and pics!) in a future post but in a nutshell its a 2 br about 7 mins from Davis and Porter squares.

During the day I had a good BBQ meal:

Tasty if you like saucy BBQ. Perhaps I have been too worried about missing SF food. The weather was perfect...check out the flowers in bloom:


Davis square is really cool at night with tons of people and life going on it reminds me of a small square in Paris or Amsterdam. Can't wait for a 3g iphone (hopefully with flash) so I can take better camera phone pics:

Day 2:

I'm ready for the day:

Damn my time schedule is all messed up. But at least this may have been my first long nights sleep in weeks. Got up and ate a tasty boston scrod lunch. Later sara from alcove realty took me to look at washer and dryers (thanks btw!) as I need to buy some for my new place. Afterwards I walked from Davis square to Porter square to Harvard square to Central square (where my work will be)...it is during this walk where I've started to feel some love for the city. The squares are awesome each with it's own character and tons of people. And it's probably only 35-40 mins to walk between all of them. There were tons of shops, guitar shops, bookstores, restaurants, parks and I even got a boba tea. Here's my one pic of people protesting china about tibet in Harvard square:

More later...

...best of 2007

Here's my favorites for 2007: I reserve all rights to change this as I remember more :)

Music (includes releases from late 2005)
Top 5
Against Me! - New Wave
Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Future of the Left - Curses
Melvins - A Senile Animal

Honorable Mentions
Grinderman- Grinderman
Gallows - Orchestra of Wolves
Battles - Mirrored
The National - Boxer
Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops (well not music but a cd)


Movies
Top 5
The King of Kong
The Host
Grindhouse
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille

Honorable Mentions
There Will Be Blood
Control
Sicko
Black Book
Superbad


Games
Top 5
Rock Band
Orange Box
Call of Duty 4
Bioshock
Super Mario Galaxy

Honorable Mentions
Halo 3
Puzzle Quest
Skate
The Darkness
Mass Effect

...my schedule until I leave for Boston

Thursday April 17 - movers come and take my stuff
Friday April 18 - get my apartment cleaned
Sunday April 20 - Bye bye SF...I get on a plane late at night for a one-way ride to Boston.

If anyone wants to hang out or anything before that lemme know!

...new job, new city + pics!

So here's the big news. I'm leaving San Francisco to move to Boston to work at Harmonix! Harmonix are the creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band (among others) and I am really excited to start work there. Now I just have to pack, sell my car, find a place to live, find a moving company...

Here's some pics of my last lunch at F5 and playing rock band last night at Seppo's house.