Month: September 2009

I’m about to leave to see Fever Ray at the Webster Hall in NYC with my brother-in-law and Stephanie. I’m very excited, The Knife is one of my most favorite bands, i’d say Top 5, yes, I consider Fever Ray and The Knife the same, even though Karin’s work in each are very different. Here’s a video of what Fever Ray is like live:

Over the weekend Stephanie and I went to my cousin Julia and Brian’s wedding. It was at this place in South Jersey called Auletto Caterers and it was a lot of fun. Steph drank white wine and champagne and I had red wine and scotch. Unfortunately it rained so we couldn’t stroll the grounds and pet the peacocks (yes, they had peacocks). I didn’t take many pictures but I posted them to my Facebook which you can see HERE. It was a beautiful wedding, congratulations Julia and Brian.

Here is the music video for “Hole To Feed”, the third video from the album “Sounds Of The Universe” by Depeche Mode. It’s gross.

Depeche Mode – Hole To Feed

During dinner tonight my father told me about his trips to the shoe store as a child. Specifically a store in Trenton that his mother would take him to, the name of the store he can’t remember, but he does remember an x-ray machine. Why on Earth would there be an x-ray machine in a shoe store? He remembered putting his feet (while in shoes) in a slot on the bottom of this machine and then looking through a viewer on the top and seeing the outline of the shoes as well as the bones in his feet. At first I thought he was crazy and that he just remembered looking at a picture of a skeleton foot through the viewer but he assured me that you were able to wiggle your toes and see it in real time as a skeleton. He believed these machines were always on or he had to press a button to see the x-ray.

I had never heard of such a thing so as soon as I go home from dinner I did some quick research to find out more about this machine. He thought that the shoe store in Trenton must have had it made for them and that it was one of a kind, my research shows that they were quite common in shoe stores throughout the country in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. The machine was called a fluoroscope and they were used to somehow measure shoe sizes to get a “scientifically accurate” fit. I don’t know how accurate they actually were though. The machines were slowly phazed out of service in the 60’s after they were banned in many states due to the levels of radiation exposure to the user as well as anyone around the machines. That’s a picture of one of the machines to the right. Nice find Dad! I found most of this information HERE and HERE.

This is a big week for me. Most of my favorite shows are starting this week. Which means that this weekend I will start up again with my posting of my favorite tv shows of the week. Every season I post my favorite shows of the week. With the exception of Entourage, nothing has been on all summer. The last time I posted my favorite TV shows was on May 16th, that week my favorite show was My Name Is Earl. Most of my favorite shows start this week and the rest will be having their season premieres in the following weeks.

Even without the TV shows premiering, it’s still a big week, today alone is the opening day of the NFL (GO RAVENS). US Open has the women’s singles finals and 2 men’s singles semifinals. The Yankees play today as the baseball season winds down. Tomorrow there is Monday night football and the men’s singles final. This weekend is the first race of the NASCAR Chase for the Cup. Ryan Newman had a strong finish this past Saturday at Richmond which enabled him to qualify for the Chase.

In other words, there is going to be a lot on TV in the coming weeks and keep a look out for my Top TV Shows lists. I don’t plan on leaving my house so if you’ll have to come and visit me to see me!

Today, my 18 month old nephew, Giovanni, referred to his penis as the “pink snake”. True story.