Allan's interests to the MAX

I heard Sabrosa Purr Friday night at the Roxy and I have to tell you now to avoid this band as much as possible. Their front man, Will Love, is probably the most pretentious stage presence I have ever seen. There were points in their set where it seemed like his pretentiousness was offensive even to his own band. Maybe if he learned how to play the electric guitar at least as well as his bandmate, Jeff Mendel, then possibly he’d be tolerable. The most obnoxious thing of the night was his amazingly forced “nu metal” shrieking. When Love wasn’t shrieking into the microphone, the band was at least tolerable, but unfortunately, Sabrosa Purr’s ‘formulaic’ songs all involve Love shrieking into the mic about halfway through the song. Too bad. I hope they figure out that the stuff they play was ‘edgy’ back in the 1970s, and even then, it was done better.

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I’ve been working diligently toward a February 1st work deadline. That’s what I’ve been doing and therefore this blog has fallen by the wayside. In any case, there is a book everyone should check out and read The Design of Everyday Things. It’s an enlightening book on design. I mean, have you ever tried to work an automatic sink (you know, the ones with the motion sensors) and totally not figure it out. How about mistaking a manual sink with one that you thought was a motion sensing sink? Another one that happens to me frequently are glass doors that I can’t figure out whether I should push or pull to open. Those are examples of horrible design. Alright, thanks for stopping in.

Well, it’s the 3rd now, so not really. It’s a slightly used year. I still haven’t worked on this site at all. Gosh, makes me feel like I haven’t gotten anything done last year. Here’s to a productive 2010.