Selling a single seat to Blink-182/Fall Out Boy/Panic at the Disco at Marcus Amphitheater (Milwaukee) on August 4. Section 3, Row K, Seat 16. Face Value was $69 ($85 with fees); I'm selling for face value

Hamlet
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:30 PM
2 Tickets, Center Orchestra Row L, Seats 105-106


WOO HOO! Weekend in the big city, complete with one Mr. Jude Law

I like Butch, but I love the hot guitarist...

February 5 - "Laundry" at Angels & Kings
February 10 - Michael Pennington "Sweet William"
February 15 - The Pretenders at The Riv
February 19 - Thriving Ivory at Double Door
February 21 - SOI at Allstate Arena
February 26 - William Beckett at A&K
February 27 - Par Avion at ??
March 1 - WTK & The Cab at Chubby Rain House of Tunes (near Rockford)
March 6 - TAI Acoustic in Madison, WI
March 6 - Butch Walker in Detroit, MI
March 7 - Butch Walker in Grand Rapids, MI
March 10 - Butch Walker at Chicago HOB, afterparty at A&K with Jonny Radke
March 11 - Pistol Youth in Los Angeles
March 11 - Par Avion at Reggie's
March 14 - Gaylords at Red No. 5
March 20 - TAI acoustic in Portland, OR (flight back on the 21st)
March 27 - Audition Listening Party
March 28 - Par Avion at Subterranean
April 5 - TAI in Columbus
April 7 - TAI Acoustic in Grand Rapids, MI
April 8 - Audition at Chicago HOB
April 10 - TAI acoustic in Urbana
April 11 - TAI acoustic in Chicago
April 22 - WTK & The Cab at Chicago HOB (bamboozle road show)
April 24 - TAI at Lewis University
April 25 - Par Avion at Beat Kitchen
May 1-2-3 Hoodwink/Bamboozle in Meadowlands, NJ
May 4 - Free day in NYC
May 9 - FOB & Cobra at Rosemont
May 13 - TAI in Elmhurst -THEN-
May 13 - Great Northern at Lakeshore Theatre
May 16 - FOB & Cobra in Milwaukee
May 17 - FOB & Cobra in Minneapolis (overnight bus back)
May 20 - Envy in Milwaukee
May 21-25 - MediaWestCon in South Lansing, MI
May 29 - Kill Hannah at Double Door
June 19 - X at Double Door
June 26 - Summerfest - Certain Stars, Carolina Liar
June 28 - Jack's Mannequin & The Fray, Tinley Park
July 2 - The Cab at Subterranean -OR- The Audition at Reggie's
July 3 - Summerfest - Empires, Green River Ordinance
July 4 - Summerfest - Jack's Mannequin & The Fray
July 5 - Par Avion at Beat Kitchen
July 6 - The Audition at Reggie's
July 11 - Kill Hannah at The Rave
July 13 - Green Day at United Center
July 24 - TAI & The Cab at DuPage County Fair
July 26 - Empires at Wicker Park Fest
July 30 - Milwaukee Warped
July 31 - TAI at Six Flags Great America
August 4 - Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy & Blink-182 at The Rave, Milwaukee
August 7-9 Lollapalooza
August 7 - Lolla afterparty at Metro, Arctic Monkeys
August 18 - Pretenders at the Aragon
August 26 - Empires at Schuba's
September 12 - U2 at Soldier Field Regina Spektor at Chicago Theatre
September 14 - Pet Shop Boys at Chicago Theatre
September 18 - Kevin Smith at Chicago Theatre
September 26 - Pink & Ting Tings at Allstate Arena
October 10 - Rob Thomas & Carolina Liar in Milwaukee (no tix yet)

I can has meerkats?

I was in the middle of posting this earlier, when my company implemented a new list of blocked sites, and I lost access to LJ

For my [echelon] friends - who remembers Collin??

X were fabulous last night. I wish I was up to going again tonight, but I think once was enough. I was first in line so I got the spot I wanted - not against the stage (although I started there), not upstairs in a seat (although I thought about it), but a few yards from the stage, on the right, on a little riser with a wall at my back and next to the bar. Good spot for me since I can't actually get surrounded by people, and have a good chance of seeing. I hung in there until the 2nd set of encores, at which point I took advantage of other folks leaving to follow in their path and watch the last few songs from the back of the room (where there was air). Damn, Double Door was hot. Can't imagine what it's like in July or August.

Anyway, X don't like to have video taken, and I was a little too far for decent photos. I hadn't taken my SLR because I wanted video (and didn't realize I shoudln't take it), so once I found out about the video, I pretty much just gave it up and danced.

So here's someone else's video from a month ago, in NYC. Tried to find a perfect vid of them, but that doesn't seem to exist. I think this one captures them, though.




This was pretty much what our show looked like, too. Lots of folks dancing. They had a great crowd last time I saw them, and another one last night. Good times.

http://kateharding.net/2009/06/20/i-would-need-a-lot-more-than-a-bacardi-breezer-to-be-able-to-stomach-this/

This pisses me off more than I can even say, not the least because I used to like and respect Bacardi

Coming on top of the whole "The Millionaires" signing fiasco, I have to wonder - are people REALLY stupid enough to think that misogyny presented in a humourous way is acceptable?

Guess what, BOYS. It isn't.

Pete, Ashlee and baby Bronx at the LA zoo, Sea Cliff Exhibit

Oh, and GIP

Taken at my favorite tattoo parlour, in Wellington, NZ

for the 2nd, and quite possibly the last, time.

Here is the blurb from Double Door

X is a noted punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977. While they achieved only limited mainstream success, they were widely considered one of the most accessible and tuneful of Los Angeles’s many punk bands. Their landmark 1980 record Los Angeles resonated so loudly with the artisans of the city it is named after, that the band received an Official Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles in acknowledgment of their important contributions to Los Angeles music and culture. They were hugely influential on various genres of music, including punk, hardcore, and folk. Original members were Exene Cervenka (born Christine Cervenka, vocals), John Doe (born John Duchac, bass and vocals), Billy Zoom (born Tyson Kindell, guitar) and DJ Bonebrake (born Donald J. Bonebrake, drums). After Zoom retired from the band, Tony Gilkyson replaced him on guitar. Zoom reunited with X in 1998. The original line-up is on tour now and is helping Double Door celebrate our 15 year anniversary with an entire weekend of shows.

Exene was recently diagnosed with MS, but says it will not affect this tour. Given that last year when I saw them, I didn't know they'd still be around THIS year, I'm definitely not counting on getting another chance. So, although there are literally *5* shows on Friday that I'd like to go to, this is where I'll be.

We'll have to take their word that Kai is under that blanket.







From Hello magazine:
On break from filming 'Salt' with Angelina Jolie in New York this week, Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts take their two little boys on a family vacation to Israel.

It was the first trip for their two sons Sacha and Kai to the country. The hands-on family helped plant a pistachio sapling at the Jewish National Fund Park in the Galilee on Saturday.

The Jewish National Fund is an environmental organization that was established in 1901 to bring life to the Negev Desert and helped educate students around the word about Israel and the environment.

"This particular area is called Galilee," the dad-of-two explained. "And in this area, approximately 750,000 trees were destroyed in missile attacks. So what we are doing here today is called Project Renewal"

I see that I forgot to update my password on the twitter feed to LJ after my hacked e-mail & LJ problem. Fixed now, so tweets should appear nightly again. I mostly live in twitter, so there will be a lot more in that post than any other, most likely.

Will be updating my calendar this weekend, I hope. We'll see how it goes. I'm not up to much - not that I normally am - because I had an altercation with a sidewalk yesterday, and it was Sidewalk 1, Emma's head 0. I was able to work anyway, and the optometrist was able to fix my glasses, and I got changed in time to (I think) get the blood out of my clothes before it set, but today I feel like I got run over by a truck. No concussion, though, I think - the headache yesterday was most likely normal allergies compounded by one large smack to the head.

Honestly, the combination of clumsiness and neuropathy was never a good thing, but as I get older, I could sure give Matt-astrophe a run for his money. (Oh, dear, I hope Sailor Mae didn't inherit any of that.)

Here are some of my videos from last weekend, when Neil Gaiman accepted the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Book Prize.



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Meme time - which fantasy writer am I?

Apparently I'm Robert Jordan, who I don't even know.

http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/which-fantasy-writer-are-you/?fromCGI=1&var_High%252dBrow=-1&var_Violent=-13&var_Experimental=-1&var_Cynical=33

Their chart predictions - take note of the last one!

>> UK Top 40 <<
We predict this week's new entries/high climbers

++ Number One
BLACK EYED PEAS Boom Boom Pow

++ Top Ten
KASABIAN Fire

++ Top Twenty
PET SHOP BOYS Did You See Me Coming

++ Top Forty
ENTER SHIKARI Juggernauts
BILL WITHERS Ain't No Sunshine
CAROLINA LIAR Show Me What You Are Looking For