Music is My Boyfriend

Broadway

2006-06-10T16:36:00.000-04:00

I've been on a Broadway musical kick lately. Maybe it's because of the Tony's coming up on Sunday, but I just downloaded Parade (Jason Michael Brown... my fav) and am currently listening to Wicked. I really need to go to a show. I don't think I've gone in about a year! I used to go at least once every other month. That's AT LEAST!

I'm not even up on what's out there right now. I used to really know all of the great shows. I've seen some great original casts:

Wicked
Into the Woods (revival w/ Vanessa Williams)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Boy from Oz
Gypsy (revival w/ Bernadette Peters)

I need to add to that list!!!

Cool Article on Us Bohemians

2006-05-25T14:34:00.000-04:00

Gen X memoir brings bohemia in from the fringe
BY DAVID DALEY
Hartford Courant

BROOKLYN, N.Y.

WHO WANTS to be a bohemian?
Just as Gen X has become Gen Ex -- and those
first squeezed by the baby boomers have been marginalized
again by the boomers' babies -- along comes Ann Powers' memoir,
``Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America'' (Simon & Schuster, $23).

Powers, a pop-music critic for the New York Times,
argues that the wary, media-savvy Gen X-ers, who
would never identify themselves as bohemians, have
actually helped bring the fringes into the mainstream.

Powers points to writers such as David Foster Wallace;
comedians Chris Rock and Janeane Garofalo; filmmakers
Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz and Kevin Smith; and musicians
Tori Amos, Beck, the Beastie Boys and Yo La Tengo as
examples of artists who have not only made a living by
doing what they love, but also pushed stylistic boundaries
in the process.

``This was the great renaissance year for films, the
best since the 1970s,'' Powers said, referring to 1999
breakthroughs such as ``Being John Malkovich,'' ``Magnolia,''
``Boys Don't Cry,'' ``Three Kings'' and ``South Park: Bigger,
Longer and Uncut.''

``Almost everyone who made one of those great films --
Spike Jonze, David Russell, Kevin Smith, the South Park
guys, Paul (Thomas) Anderson -- is someone of the
generation I'm writing about, and that sensibility is there.
That post-punk, '80s and '90s bohemia is totally running the
film industry, as far as art films go.''

Powers, 36, finds bohemia everywhere, even as the alternative
media continue their path toward irrelevance; the Village Voice
gets purchased by an investment company; America Online and
Time Warner merge with hopes of dominating the Internet; and
Starbucks, the Gap and Barnes & Noble continue their inexorable
malling of America.

Writers like Tom Frank, who edits The Baffler, see no room for
alternative in a culture that immediately makes all that is cool into
something that can be sold. Powers instead chooses to see the
latte cup as half full.

Even in private life, Powers suggests, the Gen-X sensibility has
begun to transform traditional definitions: of family, work, love
and consumerism.

She extols the idea of ``chosen families'' and group houses, of
friends who create their own families after their own parents'
divorces taught them that the suburban ideal was a dangerous
illusion. She applauds the cultured slacker proletariat who work
as record- and video-store clerks and sometimes cough forth a
Quentin Tarantino. She lauds the collector-geek chic and thrifters
who have turned their styles into obsessions and even into
entrepreneurial careers as trend-setting designers or shop
owners.

``My bohemia, and I say `my' bohemia because I think there's more
than one, has a real fascination with sifting through pop-culture
history,'' Powers said. ``The style tends to be thrift-store vintage,
remaking history. . . . Finding gems in the junk pile is a big theme
of bohemian life, whether it's through collecting weird objects,
wearing certain clothes, or enjoying different activities.

``I've always felt frustrated that there wasn't more of an effort
from the cultural left to respond to people like William Bennett
or the Christian Coalition, and conceive of how we live as a
thoughtful, thought-out way of life that has parallels in terms of
the idea of family values, work and all those things,'' she said.
``Family, community and religion set forth paths most people
just follow. Even conscious drug use and sexual adventurism
I'd like people to see these as choices, not problems.

``The culture has changed step by step, from individual people
deciding to do things a different way. That's how things like our
values about sex change,'' she said.

``How has it come to pass where we're now living in an age
where women feel they can have sexual pleasure? It's come
to pass because of various social movements that started in
this locus of bohemia. It takes the notion of bohemia to allow
for people to feel they can make those changes. It takes the
courage to be weird to change convention.''

http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/svlife/docs/weirdlike28.htm

Published Tuesday, March 28, 2000, in the San Jose Mercury News.

Sophia Jean Kellogg

2006-05-21T22:07:00.000-04:00

sophia_05.jpg
Originally uploaded by manonfire.

My buddy Nik sent me pictures of a friend's lil girl. Ridiculously adorable thing... and this one is especially great because she matches her daddy's pants!

I had a great birthday weekend with the crew.

Heaven Scent

2006-05-14T15:18:00.000-04:00

Heaven Scent
Originally uploaded by suesue2.

Spring is finally here, even though I don't see it in the sunshine. It's been raining for a few weeks and will continue to rain for the rest of this week. I just want a beautiful and sunny and amazing day for my birthday on Thursday and for the fun on Friday night.

BLEHK!

Weird...

2006-04-29T16:26:00.000-04:00

So I figured that I'm destined to be a billionare... this is what I just found out:

Stavros Niarchos's (dated Mary Kate Olsen and Paris Hilton) mother is a Guiness... aka his mother is the heir to the Guinness company throne. My dad's second cousin Mary Duffy is married to another Guinness, Stavros' uncle (I'm pretty sure of this)... which makes Stavros related to me. WEIRD

Amanda Hearst, the heir to the Hearst publishing billionare empire is Lydia Hearst's sister.
Lydia's best friend is one of my old RAs and Lydia went to SHU. They live in Weston or Wilton or New Canaan or something.

SOOOOOO weird though. The Stavros one is the strangest. Maybe I can get some o' that dough!

Top 5s

2006-04-25T22:15:00.000-04:00

I recently read "High Fidelity" for the first time. It was one of those books and movies that I always meant to read and see, but where I just never did. Of course I just adored it. There were so many parallels to people I knew and things I did as a music fanatic.
My favorite thing is the "top five" lists that they make all the time. I think that way a lot but mine are usually in no particular order. I was thinking just the other day of a good top five list.

Top Five People I Want to Punch in the Face:
1. Tom Cruise - just because he's a douchebag and should be in a mental hospital
2. Ryan Seacrest - there's something about his abnormally large mouth that needs a good fist
3. Kelly Pickler - all she has to do is open her mouth and I want to punch her. She proves the inadequacy of the US public school system.
4. Tyra Banks - I think that the fact that she uses the word "girl" as common as valley girls use "like" makes me want to throw darts at her.
5. Tucker Carlson - his name is Tucker, he wears a bowtie, and he's an overly right winged Republican... need I say more

My list isn't because I'm an angry person, believe me, I'm far from being angry. I just get annoyed with some people in the media. There are way more people that didn't make the list, but I know that they have the power to move up into the top five and kick out a competitor, only time and stupid people will tell.

back in Union Square

2006-04-20T11:01:00.000-04:00

Last night I went to Irving Plaza for the first time even though I worked half a block away all summer in Union Square. Margaret and I took the train in and saw Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers. A fun time was had by all. It was a free Bass promotional night so I was able to get 4 beers for free. It was a co-headlining show with Pat McGee Band. I think that Pat McGee looks an aweful lot like John Ritter's son. It's kinda creepy.

I also saw Tyler Hilton. He opened but we missed his set.
He stood right by us near the hallway during Pat McGee's set. He looks like a tool. He had a "faux hawk" and was wearing these Buddy Holly-esque black rimmed glasses. He really has a gigantic head, physically and probably figuratively as well. He just looked like the kind of guy that tries really hard to be cool and hip and stylin', but you know that he doesn't know how to do it on his own so he pays someone to dress him. I have no idea how young he is. He seriously looked 16 up close.

Kyle Riabko also played with Kellogg on a few songs. MAN, does that kid have enthusiasm when he plays.
It kinda freaked me out.

Still, wish I could have said hi to Stephen and Kit. They didn't seem to do a fan thing. I could have waited till the end, but we needed to catch a train.

oh how I miss the city

excellent

I'm BACK

2006-04-18T17:02:00.000-04:00

I haven't been around in awhile due to being away and not really having internet access etc.

I've gotten the new google homepage and personalized it. So now I get exciting new and random news stories so that's kinda exciting. My favorite one as of late has been "Tom to eat Katie's placenta". That just cracked me up. I saw the other interview he just did for Primetime and he had this creepy glazed over look on his face where he seems like he's going to guide a group of people with Ray Ban sunglasses to kill themselves while drinking water that was blessed by Tom himself as the high holy priest of Scientology.

CREEPY!

I will leave you with the highlight of my day.

Look what I found at the liquor store today!!

somebody needs a hairbrush

2006-02-01T02:00:00.000-05:00

I'm just not sure what I think about Imogen Heap just yet. Everytime I hear she is going to be on some late night talk show, I want to watch. Maybe it's because I really love Frou Frou so much and the awesome electronic yet provocative lyrics mixed in music.

Some of my favorite lyrics are from Frou Frou.

ie: "Music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger break down and cry"

But I just always feel like I need to hand her a hairbrush. She's got this amazingly unique voice that just sounds disjunct in the new stuff and I mean... yeah it's her image, but she kinda looks like a hippie homeless woman at times.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll keep trying to like her. Who knows, maybe I'll succeed.

some peeps that i know

2006-01-28T15:34:00.000-05:00

Listen to Holographic Angels. These are part of the remnents of The Phoenix Rising which was also a really kick ass band. Really good people and really good musicians.

I am really liking the whole folk/bluegrassy thing going on in music right now. It's kinda country but the good kind of country, the grassroots kind. I think I like the interesting layers to the music. I've been a fan of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Iron and Wine for awhile, but I'm happy to see them finally getting the recognition that they deserve.

Hm... the next evolution of mainstream??

thanks for more

2006-01-19T01:50:00.000-05:00

Stars - "Nightsongs"

Broken Social Scene - "You Forgot it In People"

Union Pool PG-13

2006-01-17T13:08:00.000-05:00

must must must

2006-01-15T14:13:00.000-05:00

LISTEN TO

The Plus Minus

Stars

Explosions in the Sky

the new me... more

2006-01-09T18:10:00.000-05:00

So I ended up winning the sweater and the black boots from ebay and now I'm on to really cool secretary shirts....

what is wrong with me?!

look what i did

2006-01-03T23:42:00.000-05:00

I APPLIED FOR A DREAM JOB!!! (well the start of one)

January 3, 2006

Radio City Entertainment

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing in regards to the Administrative Assistant to the Executive Vice President of Bookings position that is available at Radio City Entertainment. I am very interested in the area of event planning, booking and promotions. My biggest passion is working in venues with special events. I have an extensive background in music and am passionate about sharing my love of music with others. Your company would allow me to be a part of my biggest passion, which is exposing others to how wonderful music and events can be.
I am a graduate of Providence College in Providence, RI with a music education degree and I will be graduating with my MAT from Sacred Heart University in 2006. I was a chorus teacher and have been involved with performance for many years including music as outreach and planning performances and performed personally in events.
My original background is music education and I was a chorus teacher at Wooster Middle School in Stratford, CT for one year. During this time I managed close to 300 students with concerts and outreach programs. Our chamber chorus would sing at events in the community for holidays.
My job as a Resident Hall Director allowed me to incorporate music into event coordinating and planning. As an RHD I was part of the Human Resources Team with planned fun and educational events for the student body of Sacred Heart. In addition to planning educational events, I also planned shows and concerts as the Holy Grounds Coffeehouse Music Manager. I worked with artists such as The Alternate Routes, Throwback, Todd Martin, Akiva, Bess Rogers, Larissa Delorenzo, Christina Abbott, and Bowling For Soup. I enjoyed creating publicity and promotional material and was also solely responsible for payment negotiations.
Most recently, I interned at StarPolish in the Artist Management Department. I worked with musicians to promote their concerts and CDs through Internet marketing and grassroots promotions. I organized promotional materials for street team members and venues. I enjoyed working in the small family environment of StarPolish and have learned the most assisting in all tasks in the office.
I feel I am qualified for this position at Radio City. I have been a member of promotional street teams and have worked in venues such as The Acoustic Café in Bridgeport, CT. I have always been the happiest when working with musicians, being a musician myself. I have worked in the management aspect of the entertainment industry and in venues. I have the organizational, managerial and people skills to work with others to enhance my passion for music. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Respectfully,

New Me

2006-01-03T15:56:00.000-05:00

I've been on this kick lately where I need to clean out my life. Basically it's my possessions and such. I want to change my image more to my way of life and make myself feel cooler and just happier with my apparence (which hasn't been the case as of late)

Therefore I have been ebay crazy and am in the process of getting rid of aoubt 50-75% of my clothes.

I've bid on these sweet things!

and I really like this chick's hair... hmm... maybe I can show it to Heather to cut for me!

Personal Favs 2005

2005-12-29T18:28:00.000-05:00

I figured since most people and magazines etc post their top 10 or top 5 things I shall try one of my own lists. You can disagree with me, but these are just personal favorites of mine from this past year where I turned a quarter of a century, I found a wonderful man, I started my path on my dream career and I came to gripps with the fact that I am a redhead.

(all of these are in no particular order)

Favorite Movies:
* 40 Year Old Virgin
* Batman Begins
* Me and You and Everyone We Know
* Crash
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Favorite TV Shows:
* Lost
* Medium
* Globe Trekker

Favorite Pop Songs/Guilty Pleasures:
* Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson
* Dance, Dance! by Fall Out Boy
* Gold Digger by Kanye West

Favorite Albums:
* Most Adventurous - by Rilo Kiley
* Illinoise - by Sufjan Stevens
* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - by CYHSY
* Over Your Shoulder - by The Alternate Routes
* Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers - by SK6RS
* X & Y - by Coldplay
* Guero - by Beck

I will add more to this when I get back from my weekend away (well sort haha)

Happy New Year!

YEAH

2005-12-29T13:05:00.000-05:00

I just got this CD:

excellent... you must all try this. It's definitely fun indie ear candy!

GUESS WHAT?!

2005-12-27T14:15:00.000-05:00

I cried because of my boyfriend's gift to me...

I couldn't speak

now, my music collection shall never ever be the same again!!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND he engraved my name on the back.

I am still speechless!

EEK

2005-12-21T21:37:00.000-05:00

I just realized when I was packing to go housesitting down in Greenwich for almost a week that I need my music, but most of my music is on my computer!! OH NO! I need one of these badly and I'm poor and I can't afford one. Santa Duffy also cannot afford it either.

Oh man...

Who wants to buy me one???

The Valley Arena

2005-12-20T15:38:00.000-05:00

Thank you John for the nice new music!

Anyone have more for me?!

More Concerts

2005-12-19T14:56:00.000-05:00

TONIGHT, MONDAY 12/19!!!

Kevin Devine @ The Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, New York, NY 10001,US - $8)

ALL AGES.

Birthday show.

Appearing with the Goddamn Band.

Performing with PABLO, BRIAN BONZ, NIXON AGNEW, HEROES & VILLIANS. KD @ 11pm. For tickets & information please visit
http://www.knittingfactory.com

The Alternate Routes

2005-12-18T13:52:00.000-05:00

The Alternate Routes

I went to their show this past Friday (even though I was sick) and it was awesome like always. I get more and more excited every time I help them out because they deserve all the fame. I hope that they just keep doing better and better and hopefully they will catch a big break soon.

I unforuntately missed the Stephen Kellogg shows at the Acoustic Cafe due to work and my oldest friend coming up from Orlando to NYC to visit. I also have to miss the Larissa Delorenzo show at the Acoustic Cafe on December 23rd. She's a friend of mine and my other very good friend Brendan is in her band. They are doing this whole Christmas themed show. Brendan is going to play lots of the Peanut's music (he's an amazing pianist) and they are going to just jam out.

Oh well... never get to shows, but I'm still here promoting them! haha

update

2005-12-17T03:01:00.000-05:00

quick update

I found the jeans... THE jeans in my exact size on ebay!!!

never been happier!!!!!!

It's a sad day

2005-12-15T02:32:00.000-05:00

My jeans... THE jeans ripped in the knee today.

I've worn them for almost everything over the past two years. I only really wear two pairs of jeans. My other ones ripped about a month ago and I have had those for 4 years. They also have blue crayon all over them melted in.

I almost cried but I held it back.

anyone know where I can find another pair of Diesel Katu jeans?? (they are out of print I think)

{insert tear here}

2005-12-14T23:51:00.000-05:00

I want these

i wish

2005-12-12T12:18:00.000-05:00

i wish i looked like Jenny Lewis...

what i do when i'm bored

2005-12-12T11:55:00.000-05:00

The iTunes Challenge!!!

How many songs?
3226

Sort by song title:
First: "$$$$" -Desperacidos
Last: "Zither" - REM

Sort by time:
First: One Last "Whoo-hoo!" for the Pullman - Sufjan Stevens
Last: "Cassandra Gemini" - Mars Volta

Sort by artist:
First: "Tides" - Adios
Last: "Lights and Sounds" - Yellowcard

Sort by album:
First: 4-Track Demos - PJ Harvey
Last: Your Favorite Weapon - Brand New

First song that comes up on Shuffle:
"Down into a Rabbit Hole" - Bright Eyes

Find “sex.” How many songs come up?
1. "Sexx Laws" - Beck
2. "Sexton Under Glass" - Christians and Lions
3. "Maybe this Christmas" - Ron Sexsmith

Find “death.” How many songs come up?
48 (too many to list)

Find “love.” How many songs come up?
102 (again WAY too many)

Last song in "Purchased Music":
"Last Christmas" - Jimmy Eat World

groupies

2005-12-12T11:49:00.000-05:00

I couldn't tell if this was a joke or not. I found it on this blog when I was randomly searching for stuff.

enjoy

"The Night We Went And Got Some....
Well that didn't take long, just after we say that we woudn't be jealous for long, what comes and lands in our lap than a great big after-show party? And as it is 'after'-show yes, we did go to the gig as well and the band, even the suport, were brilliant!
I went on the forums yesterday morning and oh it makes me laugh; girls posting with topics like, 'I just had to say it... i'm in love with X!!' And yes, just as I was then, i am now bursting to sing there names to the high heavens and rather what happened with them to the high heavens but y'know, you just can't, can you? If word got out then that would be more fun like that down the drain! It just shows what happens when you become bestest buds with the roadies, and have a bit of Jack D down your neck!
I guess I could give some clues to who they were, but then again I do that anyway don't I? Well, four piece band (lol, unique!) all quite young but not teeny-boppers, all very gorgeous, and very good live! Sorry, anymore and it'd be too obvious! It was surprising though, they were all so down to earth and hilarious as well as gorgeous as sin! The lead singer actually bobbed into the toilets whie i was there to use the mirror! I was like, 'you are so vain!' but heck, I ended up doing his hair!
Oh and a few tips for anyone at or wanting to go to backstage/after-show etc.
1) Dont scream and faint like a twirp, ok, this is the golden rule, be cool, talk to them like normal people, but obviously dont be boring. Me and Aboo sent the night with the drummer and bassist from the band in a corner, drinking, laughing, dancing stupidly and so on, while other groups of good-looking girls who had been invited by randy roadies, stood in other corners star-struck as hell doing nothing until the en dof the night when one would be shoved forward to say, 'um, thanks, it was really nice to meet you...' before wandering off. Every now and again you'd get one loud one, but they'd just do the whole, 'oh i love you! do you remember me form the signing!!!' and the guys, to her face are like, 'yeah, sure!' but once they're gone they'd be like, 'yeeeeah, suuuuuure! WTF?!'
2) Befriend everyone, you dont know where they're going to get you! we got to this party because of being friendly with the roadies, the support band, the guys groupies.... everyone! (Yes, the lead singer pretty much had a groupie that followed hom around - yes he did have a girlfriend...
3) Be fun, be memorable, and work with whoever you are with. Me and Aboo have to use our instincts a lot, and pretty much read each others minds when we are asked some questions. Use your brain, and blag! Dont get too drunk either, you'll do daft things, half of which you wont remember, and possibly end up waking up in a pile of eeeeeww or waking up somewhere you shouldn't. Or both.
Ha ha well that's our best advice anyway, if anyone wants to try, or can leave it all up to us! But wait, yes I did say the golden rule was to be normal, but the main GOLDEN RULE is to have a plan, ok plans can, and WILL go tits up, but the important basic things in a plan won't, like, where you stay, if you don't end up on a tour bus, you're gonna need somewhere!
So anyway, it was a splendid night, with lots of S,D and RnR....(ofcourse that could stand for snogging, drinking and rock n roll, but we'll leave it up to your imaginations!) and lucky for us, they will be returning soon... pass the JD...
Woo x"

gravity is working against me

2005-12-12T11:36:00.000-05:00

I've been into John Mayer Trio lately. I didn't think I'd really like it. I have always really liked John Mayer and have an allegiance because of where he's from (yay for me) but I was just kinda not in any mood for him lately. I was all annoyed with the big blow-up of him in that annoying singer/songwriter genre and I always knew that he was MUCH better than that. I'm really impressed with the Trio stuff. Thank goodness for an earlier cheesy musician to become what he's always wanted with his music. I just hate the teeny bopper girls at the shows. I'm sure when we are like 40 it won't be like that anymore.

my feet are cold

2005-12-04T13:49:00.000-05:00

Snow today.
yuck

winter sucks!

This Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the three Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers shows at The Acoustic Cafe

I {heart} them SO friggin much! I wish I could go to all three shows, but I unfortunately have to work on friday and sunday. I would TOTALLY be there otherwise. This is the first time in a LONG time that I will not be working the Kellogg shows at all. I'm usually the fun happy Acoustic Cafe waitress! That makes me sad.

I need to go to more shows!

Chicago

2005-11-30T15:32:00.000-05:00

I {heart} Sufjan Stevens ridiculously!

tales of a no grade nothing

2005-11-30T01:59:00.000-05:00

I miss the beach and the summer.

yay for random jewish rock

2005-11-22T23:07:00.000-05:00

The Leevees

This is Adam Gardner's (from Guster) sideproject with one of the dudes from The Zambonis.

ABSOLUTELY hilarious! Go to the website: The Leevees.

They are playing their first headlining show this Sunday, November 27th at The Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport.

I just might have to get off of work early to go!

The Bedrooms of Our Friends

2005-11-19T13:24:00.000-05:00

I've been a workaholic therefore have not been able to go to any of the shows that I wanted to.

Last night was Larissa Delorenzo and the Buttondown Mafia at the Acoustic Cafe. I was working unfortunately.

I'm hoping to get to a few others this week.

I just want New York, music, good beer and friends. I'd be happy for the rest of my life with just that. (oh and my man of COURSE)

Also this week shall by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! and hopefully Rent the movie!

yesssssssss I love movies around Thanksgiving.

It's my party

2005-11-14T21:49:00.000-05:00

I found this at TickerFactory.

This is so much fun!

I've also started a diet as of last week. I want to lose enough weight to be at my normal range. I'm supposed to be between 110-125lbs so I went with 120 as a goal. I'd be cool with 125 too, but let's see how this goes! I'll keep updating it as I go along. I'm adding it to the top of this page as well. I'm keeping the text black so that you have to highlight it to see my progress. That means, unless you've been reading this for awhile, you won't quite get what it means. Wish me luck!!

it's enough to make me warm

2005-11-13T19:45:00.000-05:00

I bought leg warmers!

...a chocolate brown pair and a black pair. They are so 80s it's great. They are cable knit and really big and cozy. Now I have arm warmers AND leg warmers. This kicks ass!

The show was kinda a letdown in a way. Guster just seems to have gotten so old. They still have the same exact age bracket of fans that they have always had though. It's a really weird thing. They have evolved but their fanbase has not. There were a big group of people our age there, but it just was all these emo-esqu kids who listen to Dashboard, Fall Out Boy, Matt Nathanson, Howie Day and Guster. It's a strange new pop world out there sometimes.

I did have a great time with Hoye though. Some friends you just pick up exactly where you left off.

Really good to go to a concert again. Next up... Finch? on Friday with Laura. Maybe The Detachment Kit tomorrow night with the boy.

Also, I just heard from my buddy John that Stephen Lynch is going to play the Adam Sandler character in the new upcoming Broadway version of "The Wedding Singer." He heard him perform Grow Old With Me last night at a show.
vewwwy intewesting!

Barrel of a Gun

2005-11-12T00:02:00.000-05:00

I'm heading up to Providence tomorrow to go see Guster with Hoye. I'm really psyched and kinda weirded out. I saw Guster for the first time back in '98. They were fun and cool and different. I became an avid follower. I've even made a few friends b/c of Guster that I have kept in contact with over the past 5 or so years. Still, I know I will feel old, I know I will feel totally different. Lupo's is a great venue, so I'm sure it'll be a blast. Plus, it'll be a weekend away from the boy which will be a change... dunno if it's a good one.

I am excited to go back to the city that I fell in love with 7 years ago.

Let's see what happens with the music and the feeling and the city of my college years.

South Park... sweeeeeet

2005-11-04T14:03:00.000-05:00

Sweet, me and the boy are in South Park!

oh and listen to this podcast The Transmission. I can't get enough of it. I'm already ridiculously addicted to Lost in general!

Death Cab for Cutie

2005-11-02T12:35:00.000-05:00

I just can't seem to get enough of them in the Fall. I remember discovering them when Transatlanticism came out. I think I listened to that album every day for about a month and then for a year afterwards at least once a week. I still consider it one of my all time favorite albums.

They just released Plans and at first I didn't really enjoy it. I mean, their last album is one of my all time favorites. How can you top that? I just popped it in again recently and adore it. I think I like it now for different reasons. The lyrics that Gibbord writes are just so simple and perfectly beautiful. His melodies are captivating and the music incorporates everything that you feel in the pulse of life. Plans seems to have this growing old and death theme. I feel as if Transatlanticism had more of a nostalgic theme, one that made you think of when you had your first love and every year was a new chance.

Maybe that's why I love this band so much. When a band or artist can make an album complete. When a band or artist can create a story instead of just a few songs that sound cool... then that is a true artist.

Beautiful

Laguna Beach can suck my...

2005-11-01T01:23:00.000-05:00

For those of you who know my boyfriend...

I realized today that he looks like a mixture of this guy:

and this guy:

hmm... an asshole rich snobby british rockstar? haha uh no!

2005-10-31T15:50:00.000-05:00

This is the bag that Abi got for me from the Coach sample sale!! It was only $35!!!

Tonight is Halloween, my favorite holiday of all. I'm so excited to give out candy for the kids. I was able to go out and have fun on Saturday with the crew. (The boy was a little girl with blonde curley wig and pink sweatshirt and all haha, including a beard!)

I'm going to see Finch with Laura in November. They are playing Hammerstein Ballroom!! CRAZY that lil ole Marc gets to play one of the biggest place in NYC.

I hate not being able to go to a show a few times a week. I need my music!

Helicopter

2005-10-27T16:00:00.000-04:00

I realized that I can watch mtvU streaming live online. That seriously is the one main thing that I miss from living at SHU.

www.mtvu.com and go to the Uber section!

It's SOOO kickass!!

I think Abi and I have decided out plan for Saturday as well. We are just going to dress up and barhop in Stamford. There are numerous Halloween parties and Abi wants to wear her hotdog costume!

There is also a sample sale at Coach today and I told Abi to find me something cool. I'm excited!!! Let's see what happens.

Haunting in a Cornfield

2005-10-24T14:55:00.000-04:00

I want to go here:

Larson's Haunted Maze

Now who wants to go on Saturday night? I have the night off!!!!

COME ON! COME ON!

Get Down Girrrrl

2005-10-21T14:44:00.000-04:00

I can't get enough of Kanye West lately. I find his music just so damn addicting. I think he's an absolutely ridiculous person, especially when he talks. He's a total tool. It's kinda like Tom Cruise. I think he's the biggest piece of garbage, yet I can't get enough of him on Best Week Ever or Entertainment Tonight. I think I just want to see what else he can do to make him a bigger idiot. Just like Kanya. What else can he do to make him a bigger tool?

OOOH I KNOW!!!

Dress up like an angel!

I will still listen to his music.
It's only I will download it. He doesn't deserve my money. He does not care about white people from Connecticut. (I know, it's overdone haha)

Pumpkin Beer

2005-10-19T13:10:00.000-04:00

This is the new beer at the place I work. I think that anything that tastes like pumpkin is absolutely awesome. Yet, the new batch of this just wasn't so good.

So I went to one of the cook's new apartment last night with a few people from work and his girlfriend had a pumpkin beer from Blue Moon. WAY better pumpkin beer.

I also learned last night that I am still the Crazy 8 Champion of the greater Fairfield County area. I kicked major ass!

Ryan Cabrera is a tool

2005-10-15T00:29:00.000-04:00

still raining

day 8 and onto day 9

still have this cold

starting an exercise regime first thing monday morning
already bought healthier food

I went to Bloodroot with Meghan and Abi today. YUMMMMMMIE!!! I just wish it wasn't pouring buckets because on a nice fall day, it's so pretty to sit and look out onto Black Rock Harbor and Captain's Cove.

What it SHOULD have looked like today.

Hopefully I'll get to a concert soon. I'm sad to admit that I listened to the Fall Out Boy album multiple times today. But it's SO friggin' catchy pop emo. Also, have you seen that new show on MTV called Score? These two people have like 8 hours to write a song using 4 words that the prospective "date" wants in their song. The song hast to win over this "date" in order to go on a date-vacation to places like Cabo San Lucas and other exotic locales. I don't know if it's the annoying premise, or the annoying people that compete on the show... or maybe it's just that Ryan Cabrera is an annoying tool... but I seem to always want to watch it. I really seriously think that there is something wrong with me.

cut your hair and closed your friggin' mouth
GOSH

The Girls Next Door

2005-10-12T01:11:00.000-04:00

Last night my boy and I went to Jekyll and Hyde's Restaurant in the city for a nice little night out date thingie. It was really slow and while we were there, who walks in?

yep... that's Hugh Hefner and his three blonde women. They were going out for dinner and also taping for the TV show "The Girls Next Door." Needless to say, we are in the background for a lot of the shots. I do have to say they really are kinda pretty in person. The prettiest and the most genuinely just cute and adorable and actually seems honestly sweet is the girl on the left (the one in the green). I was walking down to the bathroom and she was walking up and just is so completely adorable in person.

I swear the young one (the one on the left) was checking my man out several times. She kept staring over at us... and my man looked HOT in his new H&M brown button down last night too.

it was good times

deedley doo

2005-10-03T02:13:00.000-04:00

This video just reminds me of Halloween....

"The Recluse" By Cursive

Music Video Codes By VideoCodeZone.com

i want to run

2005-10-02T11:48:00.000-04:00

I realized after seeing pictures of myself last night that I need to lose weight. I eat very healthy during the day and then at night I eat and drink crap. I really think I need to join some cheap gym or the YMCA or even just start running. I really hate running though. I just see people doing it and they always look like they are in pain. I don't want to be in pain in order to run nowhere and with no destination purpose!

maybe yoga... hmm

shed what was left of our summer skin

2005-10-01T13:03:00.000-04:00

I've been listening to a lot of "Shins" lately. I think it just reminds me of last year around this time and what I was going through and how happy I was etc. I think I have a soundtrack to each season since I was in college. Just that album that makes you either happy or sad or reminds you of a very important time of your life. I have songs like that too, and I'm sure many people have songs. I think that albums sometimes have more meaning. There's more substance and girth. It's an album that you can listen to start to finish without skipping a song and one that you know all the words too because you listened to it almost every day for a month.

I wonder what this year's soundtrack will be.

beautiful day in the neighborhood

2005-09-27T18:21:00.000-04:00

I finally got some sleep last night thanks to my new sheet set. Now I have to decide what to do tomorrow night.

option #1

Our Lady Peace

one of my all time favorite bands at Toad's Place

option #2

Joining the St. Lawrence Church choir where I could possibly be used as a cantor and a professional to sing at weddings and funerals. This could pay me $175 per hour.

Now what do I need the most? Money or one of my all time favorite bands that I haven't seen in years and also that I have only been able to really see a few times in the 10 years I've been a fan because they are from Canada.

HELP!

any suggestions for an insomniac

2005-09-27T01:48:00.000-04:00

I slept a total of about 3 hours total last night and today. It's now 2am and I think I want to punch myself in the head so that I can sleep.

Anyone have any suggestions for insomnia? I don't really want to take sleeping pills.

I missed the Rainer Maria show tonight. It was a free show at Arlene's Grocery in the city. I was just so exhausted. Tyger and I ended up at Ash Creek Saloon like normal and bought a bucket of Pabst for $10 (that's 6 cans of PBR for only $10.) Yeah... the sweetness!!

I have nothing funny or cool to say, so I'm just going to go to bed.
bleh

not so boring

2005-09-24T14:49:00.000-04:00

Last night, FINALLY I got to go out. Met up with the Stamford crew and had a blast. I definitely miss being able to go out.

One year ago yesterday I met people that changed my entire life. I got to celebrate with those people and finally start to pursue my dreams of being in the music business.

Now, on with the purpose of this post. For those of you in the southwestern Connecticut area looking for good music tonight. I'm here to help!

The States www.thestatesonline.com

Indie-pop from Brooklyn

Arch Street Teen Center, Greenwich, CT

2. Albert Cummings www.albertcummings.com

Blues/Rock

Acoustic Cafe, Bridgeport, CT

3. Mighty Purple, Via Audio, The Elizabeth Ziman Band, Mark Schwaber

Hurricane Benefit Show

The Space, Hamden, CT

That's about it for tonight. Not that much going on. More stuff this week. I'll post more tomorrow.

newbie

2005-09-23T13:40:00.000-04:00

I'm new to this site. I've been using myspace and livejournal for years now, but I decided that blogger is probably the best thing for me right now. Still not sure what the focus of this will be, but as time goes on I guess that will make itself clear.

I like this:

I look like this:

The boy I have a crush on plays in this:

My town looks like this:

That's about it for me.