Last night + TV recap

So last night had a few big things planned...

My buddy Improv had a show for his recently released album at the Marquis Theater in Denver. He has been a good friend of mine for many years now and has always been awesome at pretty much everything that he touches because of his awesome work ethic. After spending at least the last year of his life dedicated to this album, Omotion, it is finally out! (You can check it out here!) Also as I mentioned in my last post, last night featured the season premiers of LOST and Lie to Me.

So I get home with enough time to check out the first hour of LOST before we head out to Improv's show. The roommates and I meet our buddy Bobcat down there and go to check out the show, as we roll up around 9:15 (he told me that they would probably be playing around 10ish) we hear that he has already played, and since we weren't interested in any of the acts other than him we ended up not getting tickets and headed to a bar across the street.

That bar, The Retro Room, is pretty cool but for some reason never seems to be busy ever when I've been there... On Wednesdays they used to have free beer from 9pm-10pm, but I guess they changed it to a variation on flip night where you play a hand of blackjack with the bartender and if you win you get your drinks for free. Kinda cool, I bought the first round after patting a 19 vs. the bartender's 2/5 after a running A/3... I played for Cokes because he doesn't really know what to do and we won after catching a 7 on our 13 vs the dealer's Q who actually had Q/2 and peeled a 6. and I busted my last beer of the night.

The bar is actually half of a salon (that half is closed off at night) and although small is pretty chill and has a good atmosphere... usually... For some reason on some of the TV's including the main one, they were showing the movie Caligula on mute, which falls somewhere between hardcore porn and rated R. Weird. Anyways Prov ended up meeting us there and explained how he got fucked by the promoter and ended up having to play first right as the doors opened before anyone even got there... but he played his set and seemed really pleased with his performance so props to him!

Headed home and finished up LOST. Wow. This shit is bananas! Going to be a fucking awesome season and I can't wait til next Wednesday... So much craziness!

Lie to Me... ehhh kinda a let down. I don't really know what I expected going in, but I felt like they really overplay the body language thing. Granted that is the basis of the show, but having television actors try to mimic the would-be-natural reactions of their characters while the camera zooms in to accentuate the "reaction" just seems forced and sometimes outright fake. My other main gripe is that it doesn't seem as well written as most of the shows that I like. Ugh... I will give it another ep or two (and maybe watch it before I watch LOST) to get a better opinion.

-J