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Oy, this week has been really quite crazy. Here's a few snippets into the fun stuff:Monday night: Dinner w/ Mario & then Deathcab for Cutie at the Warfield. SO STOKED Mario scored us tickets at the last minute!!! We only saw the last couple songs of Stars' set, but honestly I felt like the sound was horrible! Seriously, I'm not even that huge of a snob about that (hmm, maybe I am more than the average joe), but this was really quite horrible IMO. Regardless I was glad we didn't totally miss them. Ali & Darius showed up & we all enjoyed the Deathcab set BIG TIME! I'd seen them probably about 2 years ago and wasn't as huge of a fan as I am now, so needless to say this one absolutely blew me away. Very, very cool. Thanks again, Mario - and Happy Birthday!!! xo
Tuesday night: A date! (different boy) It actually went quite well! :) I'm excited to see him again... ooh I wish I could tell you more, but not yet. Anyway, let's hear it for great dates! And for feeling like dating again, finally! I'm loving it!
Wednesday night: BAMboozled, where we're interviewing new Editor/Co-Facilitators, and then I raced to a show at GAMH: The Shout Out Louds w/ The Rosebuds (The Sun also opened, but unfortunately I missed their set - bummer!). The Rosebuds were great, though, and I quickly realized I'd already seen them once, at SXSW 2004. I really like em!! The Shout Out Louds, who I've also seen before when they opened for The Futureheads, were fantastic! They are so good!! Ali made a great point that the lead singers voice actually sounds a lot like Robert Smith's. It does! The show was extra fun because my friend Matt was there... he's actually the one that rounded us up for this one, as originally it wasn't one we'd planned on going to. So Ali & I were like, "wow, thanks so much for inviting us out to this show! we hardly ever go see live music these days!" hahaa. Matt's funny and super sweet, and I was glad to finally introduce him to Ali & vis versa because they're both such huge parts of my life!
Which leads us to tonite: Dandy Warhols @ The Fillmore!! Can you believe I'd never seen them live? Ali couldn't. Rick actually turned me onto them, so I've only been listening to them for about 2 years now, but almost instantly had fallen in love with them. That said their new one doesn't do it for me AT ALL. Thankfully though, as I predicted, they played a ton of old stuff, which was awesome! The couple new songs & some of their spacier stuff I couldn't get into, but overall it was really fun to finally see them live.
The openers were a band called the Out Croud, whose lead vox is Matt Hollywood from Brian Jonestown Massacre. They were a tad too psychedelic for me, but the BJM song they played was good, and they did a cover of Maggie's Farm, too - and shit - I knew it Ali! I just looked it up & it is Bob Dylan - I almost said that!
It was fun to see both Matt Hollywood & The Dandy's after seeing DIG (both Ali & I have seen that documentary a couple times!) - it's like they're huge celebrities compared to other bands. Funny how just being on TV can do that. :p Matt hung around in the audience a ton, and it made me think he was tired of his boring band mates and he wanted to meet new people to smoke pot with. haha.
Oh & we saw someone pass out. Scary! She went down hard, I hope she's OK. I'm sure it was just dehydration... you'd be surprised how often that happens at these hot, packed shows! Drink water! Don't lock your knees! This has been an important health message from Show Ho Central.
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Ok, so music aside and the wee bit of nightlife that somehow I manage to fit into mi vida loca, I am SO BUSY. I have just taken on 2 new clients, which I totally didn't need to do and am *almost* kicking myself for doing so (time and sanity wise), but they're really fun & I just couldn't pass up. It actually turned out that I got one, and then another I had put an estimate out for came through and I just really want to do both! So I'm doing it. But there goes the next several weekends, and probably a lot of nights out, too. I think the kicker of it all is that it's the holidays, which is already an insane time of year. arg. Anyway, it's not all that bad, it's just a lot to juggle and I have realized lately it's nice to just have 1-3 clients instead of 5-10 (yes, I've had 10 clients at one time, it's usually not pretty).
Speaking of not pretty, I might actually "take care of things" this weekend. hahaa. All these dates and shit, not to mention my getting ridiculously busy... it's been easy to let things slide... but if I've learned anything from the last 2+ years of working for myself, it's that I need to take extra good care of myself when I'm this busy with work. I HAVE to make sure to get to the gym a couple times a week. I need to not eat every meal really super fast at my desk (so not good), and I need to make sure that I'm not so crazed that I'm no longer being "present" with those in my life. It happens, and I don't like it. I realize I'm not taking time to stop & smell the roses, ya know? Look into people's eyes... enjoy the little things. Shit, even this week it's been a little hard to enjoy the shows I've been going to with so much on my mind.
But it will get done, and like I said - I'm excited about it all! I just wish I could find more hours in the day!
So no craft day this weekend, or for the next few weeks probably... but I'm looking forward to my day off (probably the only one I'll have for the next month) next Thursday: Thanksgiving! woohooo!!
