4/26/10

Wassup Friends!

Short and sweet today. Here's the weekly hot picks. Enjoy!

Music
DJ Miss Lisa --- Crawler

Recently, I began listening to Pandora again at work. For those of you who have been lost in a closet for the past couple years, Pandora is an online website where you can type in your desired artist/band/etc. and it will play songs by that artist as well as other artists similar to it. DJ Miss Lisa is someone I had never heard of until Pandora played this song by her. And immediately, it was my jam. She takes Crawlin, by Linkin Park, and converts it to an upbeat electronic club buster. After hearing this, I listened to other Miss Lisa tracks, and they're all great as well. A quick google search revealed to me that Miss Lisa is a veteran of the HIN (Hot Import Nights) car show. In any case, this song and this DJ is the bees' knees. 4/5 Stars.

Movies:
Kickass

If you guys haven't seen the trailer yet, let me recap. The movie is about an average joe schmo who wonders why no one's ever tried to be a superhero before. So he decides he'll try...even though he's got no super powers, and does not even have average athletic ability. Without giving away anything, all I can say is that this movie is awesome. If I had to describe it in one word...it's literally "KICKASS!" I've already watched it twice. It's a must see if you're thinking about seeing a movie this week. 5/5 Stars.

Restaurants:
Thai Tada

It's always been my goal, to let all of you know about the good unknown music, movies, and restaurants in the area. And so every week, my picks have been things I could see myself indulging in again, and so I'd recommend it to my friends. But today, I have a NEGATIVE review. Located in Herndon, Thai Tada is a new Thai restaurant that has taken over the former location of Tarin Thai. Tarin Thai was one of my favorite Thai restaurants and was listed on this blog previously as a recommendation of the week. In any case, Tarin Thai had amazing food, an amazing lunch buffet, and pretty much was great in every way. By comparison Thai Tada is horrible. The food there was pricy, almost double the cost of traditional Thai dishes for many of its plates. And the quality was sub par. I ordered Drunken Noodles which could only be described as boiled instant noodles drunk in a soup of sauce and horrible minced chicken mixed in. I was supremely disappointed. The steamed dumpling appetizers were horrible too. It was like getting premade microwaveable dumplings and heating them up and serving them to customers. Ordinarily, I'd give a Thai restaurant like this a second shot, but compared to the amazing restaurant that was there before, I don't think I will try this place again. There are many other Thai restaurants in the area that I prefer to eat. 1/5 Stars.