crazy busy..
Wow, I haven't posted since last Wednesday.. yes (Dan, who needs to work on his site! :p), that is unusual for me! Thanks for the reminder... here's a little somethin for you all.So last week, on top of lots of work I did manage to go to a show! Surprising, huh? No.. that's no surprise. That's all I do! sleep, eat, work, show, sleep, eat, work, show. :) Not such a bad life I lead! Oh, and lately add a few more "eats" (which desperately needs to be balanced out by some "workouts") and a few movies here & there, too! I've decided it's important for me to up my movie watching quota, and I think I'm doing a great job! yay for me!
Ok.. so the show: Thursday night Jem & I had tickets to Xiu Xiu w/ The Dead Science. Wow, I haven't even updated you on this yet!! Crap! I need to just start taping what I tell people, because 2 strange guys chatting it up with Lucia & I on Friday night heard the whole story. Quite entertaining, really... here's the reader's digest version:
Dead Science: So fucking weird, I loved them. Weird in a "the lead singer is probably a serial killer, but I wonder what kind of serial killing he does? poison? plotting for years, carefully cutting up into little pieces?" way. However, he had this endearing effeminate thing going on that made him a sweet, sweet, serial killer. I wanted to hug him and be his close friend. Maybe smoke a cigarette with him after his first kill? I was inspired! Not to mention the adorable long bang'd bass (even stand up bass, too) player on the right with the big fat polka dotted tie. The tie was big, the dots were small. And colorful. I loved his profile, and his big lips. mmmm. Lately I am obsessed with the lips on the stage. I stand in the audience fantasizing what they're like to kiss. (why can't we just kiss everyone?) And with the Dead Science.. I was entranced and giddy with how wonderfully weird they came off.. and that maybe just maybe 85% of the audience didn't get them at all, but I did.. and I just wanted to hug them!!! Ok, so this is getting long, and probably sounds NUTTY, but you so know I don't care.. so here's the end of this grand story:
So after they're done, I hit the bathroom and on the way out, lo & behold there is the lead singer! Instantly I gave him a little side hug squeeze and told him how much I loved him and though they were great. :) yay! I hardly ever get geeked out on a band like this... and this was a whole different feeling than say, for Communiqué, who I just want to ask the lead singer to come home with me. (oops, did I just write that?) I just really felt like these guys were up there doing what they liked and I liked it and that made me want to hug them and I did!! woohoo! So THEN! I keep walking and boom! "bass player, cute profile, nice lips, fat-colorful-polka-dotted tie" dude is walking towards me and - yup you guessed it! I told him how great he was, too! I didn't hug him, I gave him more of the "soft loving squeeze on the shoulder", just so ya know. But the whole thing was synergistic! I felt like I would have never been so geeky that I would have sought them out to say hello and give them my praise.. so it was wonderfully weird all on it's own that "the universe" put them right in front of me so that I could shine my praise upon theee!!! hahaa
totally NOT readers digest, right there. jeeeshk! I knew it, I missed blogging! :p
Oh & before I forget - Xiu Xiu was really good, too!
UPDATE: Photos uploaded!! I thought I had lost these, but I found em!
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Ok.... so then Friday night was Hamell on Trial (opening for Rube Waddell) at (the very cool) 12 Galaxies. My friend Lucia came over for pre-drinkies... how fun is that?! I love pre-drinkies! I gotta start doing that more. It's fun to get that pre-party action goin, and host friends here in my little home that I'm so often alone in... plus, the drinks are free!! weeeeee!!!
I had a tasty gin & ginger w/ lime - awww yaaa. 2 of em, actually. How's THAT for savin money!? :) And Lucia had the house special: Bailey's on Ice. mmmmmmmmmmm!
Hammell on Trial was INCREDIBLE!!! I had heard he has an awesome stage presence and that he does! He's amazing on the guitar.. seriously mind blowing - and his lyrics are poignant and fast and completely entertaining! Lucia & I loved it & stood up front enjoying every minute of it!! I have some pics and vids - but of course - they're not up yet. My Walkmen photos aren't even up yet from a week ago! I'm so behind!!!
Ok, so that was fun - and Rube Waddell was fun. Totally diff than what I expected, even though I could have sworn I had some of their stuff.. but searching my iTunes proved me wrong. I love that I can check so fast! Anyway, the coolest part was that all of a sudden the crowd TOTALLY changed when they went on & we were instantly surrounded by these artsy, creative, bicycle rodeo, burning man types, except some of them looked like they were out of the 30's or something (which rube waddell's music lends itself too - prohibition, squeezebox, washboards, trombones and crazy drum set ups.. suspenders, hats, etc) really fun! But we only stayed for a few of their songs & then came back here to finish up the night right with a small after party. Who rocks the party?!
UPDATE: Photos Posted!
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Saturday I went down to Brisbane and saw an old friend and got to see their "treehouse". Literally there house is *in the trees* cuz it's the top floor and set up on a really high hill (and you have to walk about 65 steps up to their door!) Absolutely amazing views! And what did I do? I forgot my camera!!!!! oh well. :) It was still a VERY nice visit, and Sally made us all a very nice little brunch and we ate out on their amazing little deck where you can watch the black squirrels run their little courses from tree to tree.
Oh, bonus is that her boyfriend's a huge geek like me (actually more, he takes apart iPods & stuff) and even works at the magazine, MacAddict! So we showed eachother our work & shared tips and stuff, and that was fun, too!!
Saturday afternoon I worked and worked until like 7:30 when my friend Jeff came over and brought me a shiny, new SD500!! woohoooo! I'm SO FRICKIN STOKED ON THIS THING!!!! We were supposed to go to dinner, but I wasn't hungry (and a little out of it and stressed out from a day of work, i think, sorry jeff!). Then around 8:30 Lucia came over (yes, again :) I chose to hang around sweet Lucia all weekend, and I'm glad I did.. she's so easy to be around and we had a good time!) and we geeked out a little on the computer (err, she watched a little while I finished up work) and then we watched a movie: I, Robot - which was good! Makes you scared about our future though :) Thank goodness we have Will Smith! ha!
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Sunday - work + work and more work, with a small break for a matinee: The Animation Show at the Lumiere. Where I was met by 4 of my incredibly talented artist/illustrator/animator/painter friends:
I hadn't switched the setting before handing it over to an innocent bystander to take this... so it's in "color accent" mode, that I had just set to blue (pulling it from the sky!) :) Pretty fun... awww yaaa new SD500!! :)I got a great email from Brian today, who said Eric was joking it was like a version of Elimidate. And Brian added, "except ours was better because nobody threw insults, everyone had fun, and nobody got eliminated." hahhaa!! They're all very cool guys that I'm so glad to know. I used to not have any friends that were in the animation/illustration/graph/painting/filmmaking world... and now I do! yay! We all went for (yummy) Victor's Pizza afterwards, and then I came home & worked some more. :)
UPDATE: Photos posted from some of the new color features on the SD500 & of the "Animation Crew" hittin the Animation show matinee.
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This week is SUPER busy... one deadline after another, so I won't be able to post too much... but I do have some fun stuff at the end of the week! Thursday night's show: The Futureheads! Who I LOVE!!! I'm trying to talk my friend Stig into going, cuz I think he'll like them.. but as it stands now there's 4 of us going (Ted & Misty, you're still going right?!)
And then Friday, guess where I get to go to?!?!?! THE PROM!!! And not just any Prom... we're talkin 80's baby! Sing it with me: "If you leave... don't leave now... please don't take my heart away"... it's gonna be great! Ted & Misty throw a "Procrastinator's NYE" Party ever year and it's here. :) Should be a hooot!! I'm hoping I can fit into Hez's fall back dress (her & Misty went nuts buying dresses on eBay - which is great for me because I haven't had time to shop!).
UPDATE - PROM PHOTOS: View Album
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Oh, and Sarah's coming into town this weekend, too! AND I'm going to try to fit a drum lesson in this weekend since I have to cancel tomorrow's due to deadlines. But all good stuff.. busy is good.
OK.. back to work! :)
