Take the Sonic Highway

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

Bring on Spring with Music

It is officially February 8th and I still have not had McDonald's this year! A pretty big accomplishment from the McChicken spokesman, however, I have a feeling this may change very soon with lax season right around the corner.

January is officially over and so is my no alcohol streak. Although it unofficially ended in the middle of January, only ever had a couple glasses of wine on that one night for 30 days. 1 day of drinking out of 30 ain't bad! On to the next challenge for February, no candy... This may be a tougher beast to handle. Bring it!

Song of the Week: Every Planet We Reach is Dead by the Gorillaz off their amazing 2005 Album Demon Days. If you haven't lately, go ahead and listen to that album cover to cover. Pretty amazing. Also I discovered that the Gorillaz is only 2 guys. One guy who does all the music and one guy who does all the animation. Snap!

I have recently started an account on both soundcloud (yaboysjcubed) and bandcamp (yaboysjcubed) and have been enjoying both music streaming sites. I have also found myself buying more music for smaller bands that I enjoy that I cannot attain at the library (hence the bandcamp account). Gotta love supporting the artists you enjoy.

Hey! It's black history month AND the ground hog didn't see his shadow the other day. That means spring is here and so is this adorable? photo of me as a young Punxsutawney Phil with a young Squidl! Speaking of Squid, check out her latest blog post about the joys of being an Aunt!

On Thursday Feb 4th, Rachel and I hit up Dukes for buy one get one free Apps and 3 dollar Great Lakes Beers. Some delicious burger bites, wings, and waffle fries. Told you the non-drinking streak was over!

Continued my dining experiences at Hooters the next day for lunch. I feel like I have been to one before, but this may have been my first time ever at Hooters? I failed to get the wings though, so I guess I will have to return...

Saturday February 6th 2016 was met with a morning lax practice for FV and then followed up with some Yoga Sculpt with our fav class/instructor. It kicked my booty again, but I had a great time. Still feeling sore today from it. Rachel and I enjoyed the evening with friends at Headquarters, the beercade, where we set some records and posted up playing Q*Bert all night long. While Rachel went to use the bathroom, I had just finished a game up and someone behind me asked to jump on. I said sure no worries. 30 minutes later, the dude had absolutely obliterated my scores and set a record on the machine for the night. When I told him it was pretty impressive, he responded with, "I didn't date very much in high school." Q*Bert Legend.

Check the scoreboard above! Rachel accidentally put her name in as ARM, I am JWM, the legend is DAV..

Super Bowl Sunday was enjoyable, the big SuperBowl 50, first time using numbers instead of roman numerals. Rachel and I walked over to Brian's to hang and watch the game with him and Megan in Wrigley. Rachel made a couple of tasty apps, bacon wrapped potatoes and what I am going to call a loaf of bread that was sliced into little bites, while Brian provided the left of beverages from New Years still. I partook in too many drinks and was feeling it this morning. The Super Bowl was pretty fabulous. Peyton Manning can now exit on top (let's hope he retires) and Cam Newton can try again next year. A super defensive game that some may say was a bit boring, but I thought both defenses were exciting to watch and it is always better in good company! The commercials this year were meh, alright. Highlighting the top ones, golden retriever dad driving a golden retriever pup around, obviously the bizarre puppymonkeybaby one, Heinz and the weiner dogs running, and then the dogs who sneak into the grocery store to get their doritos. Go Titans!

Video of the Week: Meant to post this crazy music video last week, but forget. A pretty solid song, but a really really really strange video. Check it.

Bonus video for this week! Video shot with an iphone and some fishing string. Maybe I should upgrade to the 6 and I can make videos like this!

TV show of the Week: Rachel and I started Game of Thrones! So far we are 4 episodes in and are loving it! Winter is coming!

Gas is still on the decline, as I picked some up for $1.399 a gallon. Let's see where it is next week. Until then.

Yaboy Josh