Posts Tagged ‘review’

Service Included

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

A witty and informative story of a woman who works her way up to the wait staff of a four-star NY restaurant, Per Se. This very readable book goes through the establishment of a new restaurant, and it’s striving for a great review from the NY Times food critic. The story also mirrors the author’s involvement in the restaurant and her romantic involvements to the point where she is ready to move on form the restaurant but happy to stay with her current lover and companion. As you read the story you are also let in on the secrets of a successful restaurant, and the characteristics of great servers. This is highly recommended if you like food, like learning about restaurant life, and like a good read. Enjoy yourself,  go to a good restaurant but first read “Service Included.”

A Place to Bury Strangers review 2008-12-25

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Snow at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • This band has true potential to become a giant in the genre way after the peak of shoegaze-A Place to Bury Strangers echo that gravity that captured the era damn well, eschewing lots of noise, atmospheric, techno-laden drums, and an altogether manufactured sound. It’s nothing revolutionary, creative, and in fact it’s all been done before.
    (tags: aptbs review)

Review of A Place to Bury Strangers’ show in Cardiff, Wales

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Maple blossoms, backyard, home, Falmouth, VA, USA

A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-03

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Rooftop,Paris,France

  • Throughout this album, the notion of chaos recorded rears its head time and time again. When you learn Ackmann founded an effects pedal company used by bands such as U2 and Wilco, this begins to make more sense. Every single element, every sound made and contained within this album is done so by extraordinarily talented musicians. A Place to Bury Strangers are the sound of chaos that is only just kept in line by the bands ability with their instruments. The precision with which the songs are driven forward, of every minute change in key, of every additional drum loop or guitar line added means this is a record to savour. This is an album that needs to be repeatedly listened to.
    (tags: aptbs review uk)
  • Best Live Shows of 2008
    A Place To Bury Strangers + Sian Alice Group @ The Waiting Room
    Black Lips + Quintron & Miss Pussycat @ The Waiting Room
    (tags: aptbs)

A Place to Bury Strangers Review in the London Sunday Times

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Ice on the Rappahannock River

A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-26

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Playground horse, Falmouth, VA

  • One things you need to know about A Place To Bury Strangers: they’re incredibly loud. Even with industrial-strength earplugs in, this Brooklyn trio has blown every band out of the water with a new twist on shoegazy rock—delightfully as melodic as noisy. After opening for the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Jesus And Mary Chain, as well as releasing the critically acclaimed self-title album last year, this band is worthy of the spotlight for this show on the last night of their headlining spring tour. With All the Saints, Little Jakie, Marnie Stern, Vivian Girls, and Lord T & Elois
  • The loudest band in New York is coming back to Philly for a show at Johnny Brenda’s. Bring your earplugs as A Place to Bury Strangers takes the stage. Joining them is Philly’s own psychedelic garage rock artists The Cobbs. Take the pop sensibilties of The Kinks and throw in Brian Jonestown Massacre with some psyche guitar and viola, The Cobbs. And a new album is in the works, so expect some fresh material.
  • Oh, but there’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more, not much more: A Place To Bury Strangers, this generation’s living answer to the Jesus & Mary Chain AND drugs, are gonna make your ears bleed ecstacy at Johnny Brenda’s. It’s just going to happen.
  • Dubbed “New York’s loudest band”, their debut UK shows this May were some of the most thrilling showcases of paranoia-seething guitar abuse these shores have seen since the heyday of their obvious heroes the Reid brothers. While much of the American nu-gaze school is starting to sound tired, APTBS lift themselves above the herd of Spacemen 3 worshippers by virtue of the rancorous ferocity of their sound – less dream pop than nightmare rock.
    (tags: aptbs uk)

Windows Capture Software & Review of A Place to Bury Strangers in DC links for 2008-10-25

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Playground horse, Falmouth, VA

  • Ackermann took a pull off a beer and scanned the crowd with large, whoa-dude eyes. And then the freakout began: With the band strobe-lit from below, the song exploded into astonishingly invigorating and still palatable noise as Ackermann went nuts with his guitar, flinging it and himself around until the instrument finally ended up on the floor, still squealing.
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-02

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Audience at A Place to Bury Strangers show at Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, DC

U.S. Confirmed Deaths 
Reported Deaths: 4176 
Confirmed Deaths: 4175 
Pending Confirmation: 1 
DoD Confirmation List

Source: Iraq Coalition Caualty List

Dinner in Brooklyn - August 17, 2006

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Our son Karl took us to Ki Sushi for dinner tonight. The meal was wonderful. We started with a seared tuna salad, a grilled eggplant appetizer, and a green salad. This was followed by a plate of fresh sushi flown in from Japan daily and a grilled black cod entree. We ended the meal with a creme brulee flavored with lime juice and ginger, and red bean ice cream.

A wonderful place. Go there.

Ki Sushi
192 Smith St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.935.0575

A Shortcut Through Time

Monday, July 14th, 2003

I found the book “A Shortcut Through Time” By George Johnson, published by Alfred A Knopf, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41193-3 on the recent additions shelf of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.

It was the subtitle, “The Path to the Quantum Computer” , that really got me interested. I teach computer science at Mary Washington College and I didn’t know the first thing about quantum computing before reading this book. Now I feel like I know something! Johnson’s explanations are clear and to the point. They really made sense to me given my back ground in mathematics and the fact that I’ve been teaching computer science for lots of years. I’d recommend this book to anyone with an interest in science and with the ability to follow a technical discussion in general terms. He does an excellent job of exposition of a subtle and difficult subject. He states in the preface that “science writing involves spinning an illusion.” The illusion is that the material came to be understood in a straight forward manner, and so it is easy for the reader to grasp and comprehend. It’s not very easy to do that when discussing quantum mechanics and quantum computing, but George Johnson does a very good job at it. Read this book!

A Quantum Leap in Cryptography” appeared in on July 15, 2003 in Business Week Online.