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Friday's Junior Boys show was pretty much what you saw in the preview post video from the West Hollywood show. Three guys on stage (although the drummer was barely visible way in the back), playing beautiful songs that melded rock and electronic elements ("electro-rock" as some will call it, but more Cure than Ladytron). If you actually watched the video rather than minimizing the window to listen, you will have noticed that there wasn't really much to see, as the band members were a bit...lacking in stage presence. Not a lack of confidence or musical skill, but Friday's show on-stage amounted to a lot of "nothing to see here," leaving you to find other places to land your gaze.

The best show bills can tell a story through their various acts. The narrative might not be entirely fleshed out, but it's there to be noticed by those lucky enough in attendance. It's a rare show where the different acts come together in a musical Voltron, stronger in aggregate than separate. For Seattlest, Saturday's triple-bill at Neumos told the story of the eruption Mt. St. Helens. It's an admittedly clumsy metaphor, but one that we haven't been able to shake since it sprang forth fully-formed from our head.

That giant flaming ball of hot gases is back, and aside from telling ourselves to stop staring at it, Seattlest's mind is on the fence. (It's a small fence.) We haven't had enough ski season yet, but a nice dry bike ride sure would be dreamy. If the extra vitamin D from the past few days has skewed your thoughts to similar memes, or you just want to pick up a bunch of free swag and some dirt-cheap lycra, by all means please head over to Magnuson Park for the 2006 Bike Expo from Feb 18-19.

The third album by mighty morphin' power-poppers the New Pornographers, Twin Cinema, goes on sale tomorrow. For Seattlest, this is like Beatlemania meets Pottermania, except that Pornomania likely won't be nuts enough to inspire a Robert Zemeckis film.

Everyone needs comfort food once in a while. Of course "comfort" can mean different things to different people, but for Seattlest it generally means good, simple food that we don't have to cook ourselves. This is why we have our favorite comfort restaurants. In order to qualify, the restaurant not only has to provide the aforementioned good and simple food (at a fair price), but they also have to provide a comfortable and easy atmosphere. For Seattlest, this means: a place within walking distance of where we live, a place where we never have to wait to get a table, a place where ratty t-shirts and flip-flops are acceptable attire, and a place where we can lounge and not feel rushed through our meal for table turnover.

For Seattlest's inaugural look at how our city is portrayed in the movies, we decided to start with the 2002 TV miniseries Steven King's Rose Red. We'd watched this a few months ago on a whim during a Steven King binge, and been highly amused at some of the shots of Seattle, so it seemed a natural start for this series.