What what?!

Back again. I'm doing laundry at Mother's house, rawk on. My hands smell like onions due to McDicks. I've been in a melancholic state lately, but I recently found a banjo at my dad's house so that's bound to lift my spirits.

What else? Oh, yes, Halloween. I slept through it. Originally my good friend Monica and I were going to go to our good friend Glynis' party but I opted to take a nap instead. I felt bad so now we're going to dress up for Thanksgiving. I'm pretty baked for the meeting about it. I decided I'm going to be Homestar Runner. It is now Jenna and my quest to find really tight white pants. TO SAVERS!

But not right now, for I'm doing laundry. Lots and lots of laundry.

Also new: a really bad haircut.

And: a mandolin!

One more: John Reyna's jersey magically found it's way to my bedroom. I know...

Oh, and Jenna and I decided to break up with Drew... Sniff... all the memories! My heart is in such pain...

Concert and such!

It's been a while...

Tuesday was a great night! Because of some street teaming mishap, a friend of a friend wound up with two extra tickets to the Rock Band Live Tour and didn't have a ride, so said friend and I took the extra tickets and drove. The Cab, Plain White T's, Dashboard Confessional and Panic at the Disco all performed, along with some people who played Rock Band 2 on stage for winning a competition in the lobby(our band, "The Adjectives" didn't win, mostly due to my inability to use the flipping drum pedal...). My thoughts on the bands:

The Cab was pretty really good. I'm sad to say that my first reaction to hearing they were playing was "You mean Death Cab for Cutie?". The answer was a unanimous "No" joined with death stares from all the FBR scene kids around me. Their music was jovial and dancey with some nice guitar riffs thrown in to make sure they didn't get too poppy. It's the kind of music that's great to groove to in the car, but after a couple of listens on their myspace page(hard core research, right?) I can't say that I would get much more than the occasional clever lyric and addictive hook out of them.

Next was the Plain White T's. We actually missed their first song, their latest single "Natural Disaster", becaus Lindsey and I were busy trying to win the formerly mentioned Rock Band competition. Can't say I missed too much. They're pretty sappy, almost naseua enducingly so during one song... like "Three Words" or something... I don't remember the title(hard core research, right?). But even if "Hey There Delilah" fits into that category, it's still a fun song and we blew our vocal chords out when they did "Hate is a Strong Word(But I Really Really Really Don't Like You)".

Third was Dashboard Confessional. They were amazing. "Vindicated" is probably on my top ten favourite songs. I was all about them in high school, and that's all I really have to say about that.

Before Panic went on, there was a lovely surprise. Dashboard called The Cab and Plain White T's to the stage and they all performed Pink's "So What". Lindsey and I collectively shit a brick and lost our voices all over again. It made me extremely happy :)

Finally, Panic at the Disco performed. They're one of my favourite bands, despite their total change in direction on their last album. I didn't enjoy "Pretty. Odd." too much because it seemed that it was way over produced. Though the songs and lyrics were great, it seemed that there was almost too much noise. I kind of go along the lines of less is more when it comes to musical depth(Forget Cassettes have three instruments and somehow I can listen to the same song on repeat for an hour and still appreciate it for something different), and all the orchestral scores made songs that should have been great just seem meh(I'm looking at you, "Jolly Green Gentleman"!). But watching them live with just guitar, bass, drums and an occasional piano made me realize just how great they are and how much I want them to release an accoustic album. They played their new songs, their old songs and a cover of "Shout"(You know you make me want to...). They were deffinatly the highlite of the concert and the reason my voice has been gravely all week.

A bunch of other stuff happened. Got a speeding ticket, met a fun chica, played the new Clue, got Panic's autographs, watched a homeless person attack said chica and learned how to kill a man with my car keys from Panic's body guard, Zach.

Ack, I was listening to Northern Downpour with my headphones on(Hey moon, please forget to fall down...) and I didn't realize it was going to be stereo and all of a sudden Brendon Urie is serenading my left ear. *shudder*.

I'm going to an Amanda Palmer concert at Chicago in the beginning of December. It will be awfully exciting. I'm also driving some friends to the cities for a Weezer concert, but I'm not going(there are slightly more unaltruistic motives that I find more enthralling....)

Now I'm listening to the Hercules soundtrack. Everyone needs a good Disney movie now and then.

Polyphonic Spree, Amanda Palmer, and I'm sure a couple other things...

Ok, lots to talk about.

Firstlylu, my Birthday was on Sunday. I had a birthday party with my dear friends on Saturday(well, mostly dear friends... 3 people showed up whom I've never met before). It was pretty much amazing. The first hour consisted of Piper, Jenna and I throwing balloons at eachother with the strobe light on(Finally, the strobe light is back in my possession... it's been two years and at least four different locations but it's back!). Then more people showed up and we pretty much chilled in the living room, occasionally digressing into childish antics involving water pistols and the futon. It was my kind of party!

On Sunday was my birthday with my family which was also fun. We went to Olive Garden and I met my dad's new girlfriend and I guess they're moving to Mexico for at least a month starting in November. I can't wait for Dad to tell Grandma... she's not keen on (1) Mexico, (2) missing Thanksgiving and (3) girlfriends with hippy stripper names. I personally like all three, but I suppose that's why Grandma and my conversations usually stick to how we feel about squirrels.

Music! I downloaded Polyphonic Spree's album Fragile Army and it is epic and amazing. I like music you can lose yourself in and a lot of the songs feel more like full on scores than pop ditties. I listened to it a bunch and think it's great, but it's been quickly over shadowed by my latest download, Amanda Palmer's first solo album: "Who Killed Amanda Palmer?". Amanda is the piano pounding lead bitch of punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. I wasn't quite sure how good this album would be, being that Amanda really defines The Dresden Dolls, so wouldn't her solo attempt just be more of the same? I was really wrong. The production values are much bigger than her past DD records but it still retains that raw emotional quality that we've come to expect from her.

I'm not going to reread that last paragraph... I'm sure it's riddled with repetition and fragments, but if I keep editing it it will never be posted...

Gah, I cut myself shaving pretty badly and my face now hurts. emu.

So, lets go back a couple days. Polyphonic Spree's Fragile Army. It's a jovial album and I love the Spree's sound. Think IMA Robot in the 70s or the sound that Panic(!) At the Disco tried to get on their last album and you'll get the idea.

My birthday party is tonight so I'm panic cleaning. Well not really... I'm just blogging...

I need a job. I keep getting this feeling that everything is going to fall through and go hellishly awry..

Downloaded Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway album for background music for tonight... Where is your heart, cuz I don't really feel you?

Just finished my first play through of Polyphonic Spree's album Fragile Army and it's pretty much amazing. It's great drawing music... I'll post much more elaborate review tomorrow... maybe even some of my drawings if you're lucky :)