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A Regular August Weekend….

Posted By:
Matt
Posted On:
August 30th, 2009
Posted In:
Blog, Music, Nonsense
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I wanted to tell you about my weekend. I could have Tweeted but I wanted to add pictures and videos and write more than a series of 140 characters. I could have written a note and added a photo gallery to Facebook but I wanted the note and the photos to be together and I didn’t want you to have to have an account to see them. So here they are, on my blog, like we used to do back in 2007.

This weekend I went to a concert, saw three movies, bought a Nikon D60 digital SLR camera and visited my parents. Here’s a bit about each event:

The Movies

On Friday night Alison and I watched I Heart Huckabees. Alison owns it and has seen it many times before but this was my first time seeing it and I loved it. Jason Schwartzman has reportedly been in Toronto for months hanging out and I keep hoping I’ll run into him on my way to lunch one day.

On Saturday night we went over to Scott’s condo and watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall which I thought might suck but turned out to be one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time.

On Sunday afternoon Alison and I went to see District 9 with my Dad. It wasn’t anything special but going to the movies on Sunday morning is always the best, there’s hardly anyone there and you pay the matinee price!

The Concert

On Friday night Alison and I went to an art gallery opening on Bloor near Lansdowne because my friend Matt’s band/solo project was performing. Matt used to play drums in a punk rock band in high school and bass when I played drums with Ryan Masters. He has been doing his solo stuff under the name of MANT for a few years and I was really pleased with his live performance. Check out his music.

The Camera

Alison and I have been thinking about getting a DSLR camera for a while now. We both kinda like taking pictures and we thought photography might be a fun hobby that would give us a reason to go places we’ve never been. After much encouragement from my Dad who just bought his first DSLR we bought a Nikon D60, the same camera my Dad just bought. Here are some pictures I took while trying the camera out. It’s a little overwhelming to try to figure out everything the camera can do so these are just point and shoot and even then I think they look amazing. I will be reading the manual and lots of tutorials in the near future.

Alison

Alison

Hummingbird

Hummingbird

Dad

Dad

Mom

Mom

View From My Apartment Window

StreetLight

Oh Yeah….

I’ve also been practicing bass like crazy for a show I’m playing with The Good Soldiers this Thursday, my finger tips are raw and blistered. Thanks for reading… just like 2007 right?

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Comments

  1. Jonathan Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    If you like that hummingbird, you might like “The Hummingbird” performance on SYTYCD season 2. It was amazing.

  2. kat Says:
    September 10th, 2009 at 5:41 am

    GREAT post! I really enjoyed it…fuck Twitter & FB, seriously. I didn’t know about the Good Soldiers show…sadness. Is Jason back in town?

    Beautiful photo of Alison – nice capture. And you are a 50/50 amalgam of your mom & dad, looking at these photos. Thanks for sharing!

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