Saw some very cool and noisy planes at a military airshow in Mashpee, Cape Cod. Got to chat to the guy who flies this expensive piece of steel.

View the photos from my trip to New Hampshire here.

Arriving home last night after a particularly stressful day, made only better by a detour to Urban Outfitters, I walked into my dining room and my attention was drawn to a fast moving object on the floor. It wasn’t an object though. Oh no. I had no freakin’ idea what spawn of satan bug this was… after swatting it with my havaiana (this bastard took two hits… it actually laughed at me) it was no more. Reduced to a sticky blob of goo on my hardwood floor.

So I looked on google for a bug finder tool. Being from the UK I am a pansy with bugs, the most threatening type we have are wasps. I don’t care for those much, but at least I know what they are. I found this site. After narrowing down my search using the process of elimination, I discovered this critter was classed as a Chilopoda, a house centipede. A centipede??? Are you KIDDING me? This thing was nasty! Apparantly they are not that dangerous, their bite is comparable to a bee sting. Right.

Stevie Wonder announced his first US tour for 12 years on Friday, and needless to say we had booked the tickets minutes later. We’re going to see him in Boston on 20 September. Very very excited. The venue is the same place I saw Steely Dan, it is pretty small so we are sure to get a good view of the man himself.

Last night I went to the Lizard Lounge, just a couple of blocks away from my apartment. As you step off the street, down some tiny winding stairs you enter an underground music lair which reminded me a lot of social clubs from back home. Red velvety drapes and old furniture give the place a sense of no-nonsense simplicity and the warm atmosphere almost countered the freezing a/c.

I saw the Vinyl Skyway, and it is always a pleasure to sit down to a band you have never heard of and find yourself really getting into the music. They are veterans of the Boston scene, and bloody nice blokes. (I spoke to Dave the pianist afterwards.) You can read about them on their myspace page.