symphony and bad atmosphere

yo,

back again.

going to be a short post, because i have no time. who knew blogging was so time consuming?

anywho, on saturday, i went to check out the symphony and heard some good music. the dude pictured at the top right was the composer of the night. he was funny and british, and his name is Peter Oundjian.

the second half was better than the first. the musical arrangement by some eastern euro dude named Mussorgsky from the early 19th century centered his whole piece around the beginning to 'tical' by the infamous M.E.T.H.O.D. MAN. i laughed to myself each time it revealed itself in the songs, and it was kind of hilarious because i knew no one in that room had a clue what i was laughing at.

another notable part of the symphony that night was the 5 minute tune 'nimrod' by Elgar. it was really good because it was short, and awesome. this was the 2nd song played after the orchestra played o canada (yawn). then after that, before the half-time or whatever its called, this 18 YEAR OLD played us some chopin from his first piano concerto, or piano concerto no. 1 if you want me to be exact. it was a big yawn again on my end because i almost fell asleep like eighty times. it was too melodic for my liking, if that's possible. plus i guess i was envious of the 18 year old after reading her bio. the girl is in med school and has won every piano and charity award available to her. being one of the best pianist in the country, girl doesn't know if she wants to be a doctor or piano player yet. so she's going to spend the 8+ years or so in school to find out. good luck with all that.

then we went to dhaba on king, a block away from roy thompson hall. the food was amazing, and i had a white wine and butter poached lobster to start, finishing off with some butter chicken and saag paneer. the naan bread was incredible. the table decided to get the garlic naan, and it complemented the dishes well. the only problem i had with this place was the service. i'm going to personally blame it on 'restaurant makeover' because they were featured on the show that week, and i expect that they were dealing with way more customers than ever before. plus, they didn't seem to have a maitre d' or head of the house or front houser or whatever. i'm guessing they ironed out all the food and decor issues in the show and then forgot about everything else. one example of the poor service was the timing on the food; they brought out my lobster appetizer first, and nothing else for almost 10 minutes (there were four of us there in total). so, bad manners aside, i had to start eating before everyone, because lobster gets cold real quick. but it was really good. then the butter chicken came out and it was amazing. i paired it with some saag paneer and garlic naan and went to heaven. amazing.