Take the Sonic Highway

February 15, 2016

This blog will mostly be about the Foo Fighters and how bad-a$$ Dave Grohl & the Foo Fighters are. But first, Valentine's Day - It is snowing! Spent the day at the Joffrey Ballet with Rachel seeing Bold Moves. An amazing show that was topped with the final act being a japanese themed dance with music that kept you on the edge of your seat. A lovely treat thanks to my lady! We made and ate a delicious beef roast dinner with roasted potatoes for dinner, it was a delicious meal.

Song of the Week: Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing - born from the City of Chicago. The documentary on this latest album is absolutely amazing and every needs to watch it.

I have been getting into music way too much lately. Here are some of the albums you need to listen to right now!
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Roger Waters - The Wall
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Factory
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Massive Attack - Heligoland

Video of the Week: A Trip to the Moon - best to watch with a candy bag full of gummies in hand

Video of the Week #2: Tufts goes back to back and makes another top notch lacrosse documentary. Top DIII team besides the bulldogs!

Movie of the Week: Back and Forth - A Foo Fighters Documentary - A deeper look into the formation and development of the Foo Fighters to where they are now. Check this out to see how the FF got to where they are now!

TV Show of the Week: Sonic Highways. An 8 part documentary about the Foo Fighters newest album. Music is incredible and so is this documentary which hits up 8 different cities with 8 different sounds. Chicago, Washington DC, Nashville, Austin, LA, New Orleans, Seattle, and New York. Music is inspiring and it is very interesting to see how it grows, changes, and forms in different areas of the world. This makes me want to learn to play music and get into it more, if only time was infinite! Also Dave Grohl is the man. From Nirvana drummer to creating his own band vision to creating these documentaries. This documentary first aired on HBO so if you have one of those accounts you may be able find it there, otherwise check out your local library, or go all out and buy it! Such an amazing film that Rachel even sat down and enjoyed a few episodes with me. Do it!

Game of Thrones Season 1 is over. Moving quickly, love this show! Shocking turn of events to end season 1! Wahooo season 2 coming up!

Still haven't had McDonalds this year! Suck it! Also have not had any candy this month yet. Going strong!

Holla back ya'll

Josh

Sculpting into Shape

January 21, 2016

So, in order to get in shape for the Wedding, Rachel started having me go to Core Power Yoga Sculpt class a couple weeks back with her. And let me tell you, it might be the hardest workout I've done. A combination of the non-stop movements, as well with it being around 100 degrees in there, and the big one, I am probably the most out of shape I have been in awhile, it is very very tough. So tough in fact that in one of the classes, I just couldn't take it any more and had to do a "walk of shame" past the rest of the class (mostly women) into the hallway to catch my breath...But I love it! And I am so glad Rachel brought me to it and we go every weekend because it is a great workout and I have not sweat like this in years! Gotta keep it up and get my cardio and heavy-ish lifting back into gear on my own! Thanks Rach!

Song of the Week: About a week or two late, but the blog has had a slow start.

RIP David Bowie. A little tribute to him Beth and I made at work, enjoy.

Serial Podcast Season 1 - Did Adnan Syed commit murder? Or was he set up? This was a very interesting and fact filled podcast about the murder of Hae Lee that took place in Baltimore in early 1999. I highly suggest all those to listen, just listen on your daily commute and you'll be done in no time!

Rachel and I went to see Blue Man Group on Sunday January 17th, 2016. I expected a pretty good show, but ended up loving it! I was blown away by the entertainment piece of it and had a fantastic time! From the blue men catching an absurd amount of gumballs/marshmallows in their mouth, to a dance party as giant balls were released from the ceiling, to crowd interactment, and of course the blue men playing the drums with some paint. Great stuff at the Briar Street Theatre!

On Martin Luther King Day, we had our tasting at Meson Sabika with the families! Get ready for some delicious food and tapas in just under 5 months friends!

Video of the Week: Rachel and I were featured in a commercial for an up and coming Chicago company, ChopBox! Check it out.

Movie of the Week: A tie between two war documentaries - Restrepo / Korengal - Both on Netflix, Restrepo is the first in the two part series.

TV Show of the Week: Making a Murderer. I am about halfway through and don't understand the hype, but maybe the second half of the show gets less repetitive and boring...