SYMPHONY X

Riordo and I scored some VIP tickets for Symphony X, and Powerglove at the Best Buy Theater. An awesome show, made all the better thanks to the vip tix. I Haven't wrote on the blog in a while, and since the show was back on April 22nd, some details might be cloudy. Any-who

We got to get in early and had a meet and greet with the band, I brought a symphony X mask which I made many many years ago (2002) and got all the members to sign it. They all thought it was pretty bad ass. After some photographs and a quick chat we were allowed to hit up the merch table early and get our loot.

Powerglove was great, really hilarious but extremely talented video game power metal. They threw fun plastic swords and hammers into the crowd for people to play with.

Symphony X put on a hell of a show. The Odyssey was a highlight for me.
1. Of Sins and Shadows
2. Domination
3. Serpents Kiss
4. End of Innocence
5. Paradise Lost
6. Smoke and Mirrors
7. Eve of Seduction
8. Dehumanized
9. Set the World on Fire
Encore
10. The Odyssey

5k

Ran the annual 5k run for the wild life at the Bronx Zoo with Nick and my sister. Felt great to run, and to do it for a good cause.

Besito

Me and Natalie ate at Besito this weekend, a pretty schmancy Spanish joint in Roslyn. Nat had a pretty banging margarita for starters while I ordered a cosmojito. Turned out to be not so good, I always get stuck with the bitch drinks. Anyways the food here was delicious and fresh. When I say fresh I mean make the guacamole at your table. Which was pretty neat to watch. The guy comes up grinds up some spices and onions cuts open the avocados and goes to town. For my meal I got the Salmon Manchamanteles. Salmon roasted with pineapple pico de gallo, a crispy and a soft banana, and the mole which had a very sweet taste to it. Churros came free on the house! Let me tell you these churros were the best Ive ever had.
Not that great of quality on the pictures but you get the point.

5 years,

It was me and Natalie's 5 year anniversary this weekend. We had reservations in the city for 6 so we decided to head in early and sight see a little. I figured if we had time to kill we would head up to the natural museum of history, which we did. Kinda neat but you can only see it so many times, so we ended up only staying for about an hour. At this point we've about 4 hours to kill before out dinner plans so we went to Mcsorleys ale house. First time there and glad I finally made it. This bar is a real piece of history. Built in 1854 it was the first bar in NYC and everything is original. The only types of beer are light and dark, sawdust covers the floor, and women werent allowed inside till 1970! amen! We were one block over from St. Marks St so we took a quick stroll. I noticed this place called TKettle with a sign for bubble tea in the window. Ive read about bubble tea on the internet before but have never partook. Bubble tea is tea with these little balls of chewy tapioca kind of balls all in the bottom of the cup. You drink the tea with an over sized straw and they shoot up into you're mouth, a real weird but interesting experience. Natalie and I decided to go to Les Halles, which was Anthony Bourdains home restaurant before the traveling gig. We started with a bottle of the house red and a appetizer of cold meats (ham, pork confit, salami, and a few others). For our meals Nat got the steak frites salade deal, which she enjoyed very much so. The frites are known to be awesome and they were. I got a pork dish, it was bacon, ham, sausage, and frankfuter all slow cooked together in sauerkraut and beer. For desert we got Bananes Flambee. The waitress rolled the cart up to the table and started to caramelize sugar in front of us. She then threw in a few bananas and poured in some rum, which led to her lighting it all up briefly. Overall we had a very good time and not overpriced at all. I would definitely go back.

Busy

Ive been pretty busy lately with work going crazy and me heading back to school. I haven't updated in a while so here's a quickie. French toast bagel with butter and syrup and wings and things in one day, hell yes.