Eily Sky

We were pumped when we heard our friends from Cincinnati, Eric and Britt Hauck, were going to be on tour this summer, traveling all the way out here to Seattle! Brooke was bummed he couldn't join them for their tour, but was excited to play with them during one of their shows out here.

Eily Sky in concert. Check them out. They're awesome.
Dude on the hammered dulcimer, Britt, Dustin on bass, Eric on acoustic, Brooke on electric.


It was great to get a little taste of home. We miss these guys. We miss Ohio.


Afterwards we went to Elliott Bay Brewery for some food and brews. It was great to visit and catch up before they took off on the roads.

Seattle Symphony 2008

every christmas time andrea and i try to get all dolled up and do something nice.


this year we ate at wild ginger. a nice little asian restaurant above our favorite concert venue, 'the triple door.'


after dinner we wondering across the street to benaroya hall to see the seattle symphony. they were performing their holiday concert 'winter dreams.' the music was amazing! it's always great to hear good classical music. to be honest though, we felt the program was rather short.



what better to end the evening then stopping by the pyramid brewery on the way home for a winter warm up...and spinach, artichoke, chorizo dip!

tye's visit [seabird]

i was excited to hear that seabird was making a trip out west this summer to play a string of shows. i was even more excited to hear that my good friend tye would be playing drums with seabird for their western dates!

we got to see seabird on sunday night and they rocked! we highly recommend you check them out! buy some of the music, shirts... whatever you can to keep their bus running!

monday after their show, since their bus had broken down in walla walla, andrea and i got to go eat dinner with the band and hang out for a while. quality guys! after dinner we did our best to show tye seattle in an evening. we hit up cafe ladro's and a ferry to bainbridge and back.

proof we made the trip. [photo thanks to tye]

although his visit was short, it was great getting to see him! we look forward to the next time tye and seabird are in the area!

music: once...

we saw the movie 'once' last month and i couldn't get the songs out of my head... so i had to go buy the soundtrack.

it has been loaded into itunes for one month exactly and here's how it measures up to some of our favorite albums with the date loaded and number of times the entire album has been played:

albums:
ellery - what i've said out
date loaded:04.27.07 album played: 60

over the rhine - snow angels
date loaded:12.01.06 album played: 35

over the rhine - trumpet child
date loaded:08.15.07 album played: 28

once soundtrack
date loaded:03.08.08 album played: 23

ryan adams - demolition
date loaded:12.25.06 album played: 20

what are some of your most played albums?