maybe we're the lucky ones, cause we can choose to turn it off

ahh i love songs that still make your heart skip and stomach drop no matter how many times you listen to them. the loved ones' "the odds" is def in my top 5 forever. the first and last lines alone make that song perfection. why is that band not bigger?

(and for the record, their cover of coma girl is also a++... and i'm really picky about clash/joe strummer covers)

heart to heart

last weekend we held yet another epic party at 314. a very old friend showed up and we got to talking. another mutual friend just turned 25 and was having a total meltdown about not being "married with babies". what is that all about anyway?? that is the last thing on my mind. as my birthday approaches, my biggest desire is for another bunk on a tour bus. i think i was born without the girly romance and wedding and baby gene. no thanks. facebook has provided a constant reminder of high school "friends" (i use the term lightly because i basically hated everyone there but they've all decided to add me on facebook as of late, whatever) are having epic weddings and babies and whatnot. and i mean, good for them. whatever makes you happy. i just still feel light years away from all of that, if ever. but back to said party friend, apparently we were the only people at the party who had no desire for relationships and cohabitation and babies. so at least i know now that one day when i am old and gray i still have a partner in crime. good times.

"that's a dealbreaker, ladies!"

how old is too old? my friend, who is 25, was about to start seeing this guy but found out he was 40. i was on the fence with the situation, trying with that whole "age is just a number" reasoning but i can't think of what i'd do if i were in her situation. so what is the cut off point?

the search begins...

so i was flipping thru the pink clash book today again and came across something i hadn't seen before. apparently mick jones dated this chick ellen foley for a while in the early 80s. she was the girl who sang with meatloaf on 'paradise by the dashboard light' with meatloaf. anyway, mick produced her 1981 album spirit of st louis and i guess him and joe wrote most of it, and they and paul even played on a lot of it. the book even referred to it as "practically a proper clash album without joe singing.". just when i think i have everything, haha. so be on the lookout, vinyl ppl. i need this!!!

back

mini-tour went well. worked with some great people. hopefully will get to work with them again sometime. it was a nice change from van to bus. i'm spoiled now. speaking of spoiled, now that i actually have some money, i am trying hard not to spend it. gonna try to limit it to some new clothes, and i might have already pre-ordered punch-out for wii... maybe. but i couldn't help it. oh and i am in desperate need of an epic night out. i feel like it's been ages. philly you are being put on warning. this weekend... yeaaaa. ny, you are next.

but the touring bug is def back. gonna make some calls this week. fingers crossed.

so frustrated... no longer

hey so i AM goin on tour tomorrow. wooohooo. got the call tonight. off to connecticut in the am... rescheduling ny and south philly adventures... and i'll have some money next week. score!

bamboozle

so after partying way too hard thurs night at alk3 (bon came down and we decided to act like we were 16??), i woke up early fri to see no doubt on the today show. a few minutes later i got a call to work bamboozle. this wasn't confirmed til about 12 hrs later, so i found myself on a train to hoboken to stay with losie at 11pm. after maybe 3 hrs of sleep on the floor, we were off to the meadowlands. got to work with some cool people and make some decent money. i had decided to skip going this year because the lineup wasn't particularly great, but i was really bummed about missing the get up kids reunion, since i've heard mixed things on whether they plan on touring or just hitting up the festivals. so i took my saturday 'dinner break' (they didn't feed us and we had to shell out $ for shitty festival food) during tguk. amazing! the little neon-wearing kids went into hiding or wandered to a side stagte or something for a glorious 40 minutes and the set was amazing. i wasn't really dying to see anyone else that i hadn't just seen (new found, syg). once the side stages closed down we could really hear the headliners tho so i got to hear third eye blind (fuck yea), face to face, tbs (still terrible. i have never ever gotten the appeal of that band - sorry chrissy) and NO DOUBT. amazing.

highlights included:

- waking up at 5:30am saturday to losie blasting motley crue as i tried not to murder him
- seeing a bunch of people i love. i must have texted "merch booth by the ferris wheel" 20 times
- being called a fucking bitch only one time! sorry but you can't return a hoodie you've been wearing in the rain all day
- watching all the guys hit on girls and then wondering if they were 18 or not.
- as stated, THE GET UP KIDS. amazing.
- some kid getting all his bottom teeth knocked out during face to face. he was in such shock, he just wanders up, goes "how bad is it?" and opens his mouth as blood pours out. i hope he is ok.
- watching everyone wander up after gwar. gross.
- being right next to the dunk the clown. this was the clown that was on oz fest for 10 years. he was incredibly awful. every time a black person walked by, he would say "aren't you at the wrong show?" and play 50 cent. indians, jews, gays.. no one was safe. he kept playing the barney the dinosaur theme song and it took me til midway thru sunday to realize it was because everyone was wearing purple hoodies ala cobra starship. i was not sad to say goodbye to him.
- the girl from disney channel, demi lavato, HAS. A. VOICE. goddamn.
- number of girls that lost their flip flips and requested plastic bags as makeshift shoes: 4. if you are gonna wear flip flips to a 12 hr festival, in the RAIN, don't go anywhere near anything resembling a "pit". just a thought.
- whatever "hollywood undead"is, they need to go away and never, ever return.
- seeing exactly one hot dude (not in a band) who looked of legal drinking age. sigh.
- bringing a stereo on sunday and blasting gaslight to drown out the clown.
- being a little bit less broke now.

up soon: merch faq/dos and don'ts. it's a long time comin.