Snow Patrol recently released their new album, “Eyes Open” to the world and I picked it up because I liked their last album quite a bit. I think it’s pretty good, but a lot of the songs sound the same. Snow Patrol is really good at playing straight eighth-note down stroke chords on the guitar (i.e. dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-da-daaaa!), and I think they do it a little too much. A little variety in the guitar playing wouldn’t hurt them at all. But they’re great at their style, and overall the record is a joy to hear except a strange song called “Set the Fire to the Third Bar” which includes a guest singer named Martha Mainwright. My favorite track on the album is called “It’s Beginning to Get to Me”, a rockin’ tune with some soaring guitar lixx. Can’t go wrong with that!

I’m a burger fan. A huge burger fan. Last night I met some friends for dinner at The Ram before going to the Guster show at the University of Puget Sound. I found one of the most yummy burgers ever! It’s called ‘The UW Dunker’, and it’s basically a cheeseburger on a grilled roll that comes with au jus for dipping! Seems like a simple idea, but I’d never had it before and so i decided to try it. It was very tasty, one for the record books.

The Guster show was really great! Their encore song was a cover of that ‘Going Hungry’ song from the late 90s. It was hilarious! I can’t remember who did that song originally – Pearl Jam? Temple of the Dog? (shrugs)

On the way home from my pal Kurt’s house last night, Sarah and I tuned into The Chill Side of The Mountain. This crazy sounding song came on that I thought was really creative. When we got home I googled the song, and found out that it is by Imogen Heap and the song is called “Hide and Seek”. You’ve gotta check it out if you haven’t heard it before. I can’t quite place the genre – electronica, folk, pop?

*Update* – Turns out Imogen Heap and Frou Frou are the same singer. Small world!

The world wide web can do some magical things. Amazing things. Things of such beauty it would make a grown man cry. Things like the Captain Planet Eco-Rap Theme Song being ready to listen to at anytime! Lucky us.

Man, this guy has achieved ultimate geekness. I thought I was a geek until I read this page. This guy figured out how to connect to the SNES music processor. That’s so nerdy cool to me. Maybe just the fact that I think that is cool makes me a geek enough.

In other news: tonight I am going to the AMD tech tour to see all that the Athlon 64 has to offer. Should be fun, could be dumb.

For those that don’t know, Andrew Platter has been my best friend since the fourth grade. He’s a worship leader at Alderwood Manor Community Church. I made a fun little flash player that lets you preview three of Andrew’s new songs. Hopefully the full album will be released soon but we thought it’d be cool to get some of them out there for people to hear. My favorite is ‘What I See’. Click here to listen! (you’re gonna want a broadband connection)

I’ve been really diggin’ Death Cab For Cutie’s album ‘Transatlanticism’. They’re kinda emo, but more happy. So I guess that’s called ‘hapmo’. They’re from the northwest so I’m excited to catch a show of theirs sometime soon. Here’s a link to a free mp3 of ‘A Movie Script Ending’, one of my favorite songs that they do. Rock, rock on!