The month of football and dirty streets

There's no avoiding it now, we're in football season. We threw a perfect spiral of a Patriots birthday party for our friend Josh last week to celebrate. One of the attendees chipped in with an amazing pigskin-shaped cake. (Our fine triathlon filly Sunessa enjoys one end of it in today's picture.) Unfortunately, the Patriots forgot to join the party festivities, losing at home to the Dolphins. @#($@#*@$(!

We've attended a fair amount of live music lately. Perhaps it's the spirit of Rock Band growing within us! Leading up to November's election, politicos focus on talking points. We use ROCKING POINTS.

Point 1: The Cult - "She Sells Sanctuary." We caught these guys at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, RI. The lead singer tossed four different tambourines into the audience during the show. (Less dangerous that it sounds, as he gave them some height and people caught them easily.)

Point 2: Lifestyle - "Everyone's in Love with You." They're connected to the Boston synthpop band Freezepop via the lead singer and drummer. Lifestyle headlined a night of 80s-style pop-rock music at the restaurant & club called Church. Their next show will be an all-New Order cover gig at local club TT the Bear's on November 1.

Point 3: Dear Leader - "Everyone Looks Better in the Dark." Another (sort of) derivative band, as the former lead singer of The Sheila Divine (Aaron Perrino) moved on to this new project a few years back. Their "shiny guitars and swooping vocals" sound is remarkably consistent--for lack of a better word. If you like it, no question that you'd really like it. We think of them as biggest in Boston, but they're also very popular in Belgium. No kidding.

Point 4: Freezepop - "Brainpower." The video gaming show Mega64 made this video for Freezepop's first Rock Band song. It's incredibly silly, as everyone raised on video games should be. We caught them most recently playing a huge (5000+ people) stage show at PAX in Seattle.

Oh, and don't forget about October's dirty streets. Tree leaves are everywhere right now, sidewalks get slick with a damp brown carpet, and we await the chance to see colors change away from town. (The ones in our neighborhood go right from green to blech.) We'll drive up to Ogunquit, Maine, in a few weeks--expect some nice photos from the drive!