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ummm, so I open the "Sidekick" portion of the Boston Globe today, and what do I see but a lovely picture of Damian and Tim catching lobster at some weird food court at a market thing in Allston!
no really, Im not kidding
The globe, idiots that they are, don't have the article on their website (yet...
)
If anyone else who gets the globe can scan iot in, it would be much appreciated.
here's the text, though-
Hanging With...
OK Go
"Pho or Indian?" That is the question as the pop band explore's Allston's Super 88 food court
By Devra First, Globe Staff
Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind are dressed for dinner. Dinner on London's groovy Carnaby Street, that is. Kulash, lead singer and guitarist for band OK Go, is "rocking the earth tones" he says, in a striped brown suit, striped shirt, tie, and sparkling brooch. Nordwind, the bass player, wears a maroon corduroy blazer, wool pants, pointy shoes, and a jaunty cap.
But instead of mod England, they're roaming the stalls of the Super 88 food court in Allston. Indecision reigns.
"Pho or Indian? Pho or Indian?" Kulash asks.
"Thai?" suggests Brian Perkins, a writer, director, and friend of the band. He and Erin Bradley, a nurse, live nearby and are joining Kulash and Nordwind for dinner.
"Dim sum is Korean, right?" asks Nordwind. He notices chicken claws in the glass case. "That's nasty," he says.
"I have to buy two dinners, anyway," says Kulash: one for before the badn plays and one for after. Ok Go has a show at the Paradise Rock Club later tonight.
Nordwind gets pho. Kulash gets biryani and banh mi. "Maybe I'll eat one now and one later. But probably I'll eat a little bit of both now and a little bit of both later," he says.
That seems about right. Ok Go isn't afraid of mixing and matching (or mismatching). Kulash, Nordwind, guitarist and keybard player Rusty Ross (who skipped out on dinner to be with his parents, who live in Worcester), and drummer Dan Konopka (back at the club) wear such things as floral shirts with checked ties and paisley waistcoats; their music, like their clothing, is both smart and loud. (Sample lyric from their self-titled first album: "Sweetheart, you'll find mediocre people do exceptional things all the time.") When the public radio show "This American Life" went on tour, Ok Go was the house band for one leg. Before the last election, Kulash wrote a pamphlet for other musicians called "How Your Band Can Fire Bush."
As soon as everyone's seated, Kulash leaps back up again. "This food needs beer!" he exclaims. He heads into the Super 88 market in the hopes of finding some, holding the door for those accompanying him.
No beer. Instead, Kulash finds a Japanese drink called Pocari Sweat that he thinks sounds tempting. "We're definitely coming back here later," he says.
After tracking down a six-pack at a store across the streer (he holds the door again), he rejoins his friends at the table. "I've gained ten pounds since I moved here," Perkins says.
Kulash senses where Perkins is going with this: "You're whipping up an 'I'm growing up' kind of thing," he says.
"I hear jumping rope is good for you," Perkins says.
"It is very good for you!" Nordwind offers enthusiastically. "Do you belong to a gym?"
If their website, okgo.net, is any indication, the band members themselves keep fit via table tennis (they've posted a tongue-in-cheek instructional film) and dancing. The video for their song "A Million Ways," in which they perform an intricately choreographed, straight-faced routine, has become an Internet sensation.
"Let's go get candy," Kulash says. They bus their trays and head for the market.
Inside, Nordwind shows off the scarf a fan knit for him, It's black, with a pink Ok GFo logo at hte bottom. It compliments his glasses, giant black Cazals with gold accents, what you might get if aviator and nerdy frames spawned. "They're the same ones Run from Run-DMC has," he informs us.
Kulash picks up a bag of litchi-flavored gumi candies. Nordwind admires a scroll decorated with a cavorting baby. "I like his haircut," he says. "The only other place you'll see that is in the band Prodigy."
Meanwhile, Kulash has moved on to a tank of open lobsters nearby.
He chases one with a net. "He's mine! He's so mine! You're huuge!" At ong last he catches it, holding it aloft with obvious effort.
Soon he'll take the stage to the screams of many collegiate hotties. But for now, it's just one man and his crustacean. Kulash grins, "I did best him in the end, did I not?"
have fun.
no really, Im not kidding
The globe, idiots that they are, don't have the article on their website (yet...
) If anyone else who gets the globe can scan iot in, it would be much appreciated.
here's the text, though-
Hanging With...
OK Go
"Pho or Indian?" That is the question as the pop band explore's Allston's Super 88 food court
By Devra First, Globe Staff
Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind are dressed for dinner. Dinner on London's groovy Carnaby Street, that is. Kulash, lead singer and guitarist for band OK Go, is "rocking the earth tones" he says, in a striped brown suit, striped shirt, tie, and sparkling brooch. Nordwind, the bass player, wears a maroon corduroy blazer, wool pants, pointy shoes, and a jaunty cap.
But instead of mod England, they're roaming the stalls of the Super 88 food court in Allston. Indecision reigns.
"Pho or Indian? Pho or Indian?" Kulash asks.
"Thai?" suggests Brian Perkins, a writer, director, and friend of the band. He and Erin Bradley, a nurse, live nearby and are joining Kulash and Nordwind for dinner.
"Dim sum is Korean, right?" asks Nordwind. He notices chicken claws in the glass case. "That's nasty," he says.
"I have to buy two dinners, anyway," says Kulash: one for before the badn plays and one for after. Ok Go has a show at the Paradise Rock Club later tonight.
Nordwind gets pho. Kulash gets biryani and banh mi. "Maybe I'll eat one now and one later. But probably I'll eat a little bit of both now and a little bit of both later," he says.
That seems about right. Ok Go isn't afraid of mixing and matching (or mismatching). Kulash, Nordwind, guitarist and keybard player Rusty Ross (who skipped out on dinner to be with his parents, who live in Worcester), and drummer Dan Konopka (back at the club) wear such things as floral shirts with checked ties and paisley waistcoats; their music, like their clothing, is both smart and loud. (Sample lyric from their self-titled first album: "Sweetheart, you'll find mediocre people do exceptional things all the time.") When the public radio show "This American Life" went on tour, Ok Go was the house band for one leg. Before the last election, Kulash wrote a pamphlet for other musicians called "How Your Band Can Fire Bush."
As soon as everyone's seated, Kulash leaps back up again. "This food needs beer!" he exclaims. He heads into the Super 88 market in the hopes of finding some, holding the door for those accompanying him.
No beer. Instead, Kulash finds a Japanese drink called Pocari Sweat that he thinks sounds tempting. "We're definitely coming back here later," he says.
After tracking down a six-pack at a store across the streer (he holds the door again), he rejoins his friends at the table. "I've gained ten pounds since I moved here," Perkins says.
Kulash senses where Perkins is going with this: "You're whipping up an 'I'm growing up' kind of thing," he says.
"I hear jumping rope is good for you," Perkins says.
"It is very good for you!" Nordwind offers enthusiastically. "Do you belong to a gym?"
If their website, okgo.net, is any indication, the band members themselves keep fit via table tennis (they've posted a tongue-in-cheek instructional film) and dancing. The video for their song "A Million Ways," in which they perform an intricately choreographed, straight-faced routine, has become an Internet sensation.
"Let's go get candy," Kulash says. They bus their trays and head for the market.
Inside, Nordwind shows off the scarf a fan knit for him, It's black, with a pink Ok GFo logo at hte bottom. It compliments his glasses, giant black Cazals with gold accents, what you might get if aviator and nerdy frames spawned. "They're the same ones Run from Run-DMC has," he informs us.
Kulash picks up a bag of litchi-flavored gumi candies. Nordwind admires a scroll decorated with a cavorting baby. "I like his haircut," he says. "The only other place you'll see that is in the band Prodigy."
Meanwhile, Kulash has moved on to a tank of open lobsters nearby.
He chases one with a net. "He's mine! He's so mine! You're huuge!" At ong last he catches it, holding it aloft with obvious effort.
Soon he'll take the stage to the screams of many collegiate hotties. But for now, it's just one man and his crustacean. Kulash grins, "I did best him in the end, did I not?"
have fun.
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(Borat reference..., which failed)
Thanks for the article! Whose scarf was it? One of the boardies, maybe?
It was a girl from NJ, I don't know her name, but she's one of my friends on LJ. I'm going to tell her about the article right now, 'cause that's so fucking awesome. I wish my shirt got mentioned somewhere...
Also, am going straight down to the Campus Center and buying this so I can scan it for y'all.
Edit: Umm, what page is the article on? 'Cause I totally can't find it...
Edit edit: Did you mean Thursday's BG, not Fridays? 'Cause I totally bought Friday's...
thurs. is when i typed all that up for youses...
sorry
thurs. is when i typed all that up for youses...
sorry
Eh, don't worry about it. I'm a little bummed that I can't find an original of Thursday's paper, but I'll just go to the library and make a copy.