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not that this has anything to do with anything (*shifty eyes*), but what bandom people besides pete and gabe dropped out of college? the ones who never went at all are, unfortunately, a whole other issue. (actually, we can name some of those too if there aren't enough dropouts in the crowd.)

i may have spent my evening helping my two favorite bands (panic! and at the disco) find some new members to fill out their line-up. ch-ch-check it out!

(yes, this icon IS the most amazing icon in the history of iconing. THANKS FOR ASKING!)

my belly hurts. movie night was filled with too much junk food! and too many cats! and now my eye is not really functioning! joy!

anyway, i am leaving here ass-early in the morning (read: 8:15am) and getting to orlando around 3pm and i am very excited. i love my family like i love breathing, but i miss my bed and my guitar and my SPACE. i also miss being able to go out without worrying about running into people i don't want to see & playing loud music and singing along.

here are some very important links to hold you over until i get around to setting up internet which i swear i am going to do soonest if only because spn is coming back on the 15th:

-i love bess rogers a lot, for realz. i actually bought her cd before i bought jenny's, and i had a small seizure when she walked onstage at the last jenny show i went to. her voice is just fucking gorgeous, okay? so anyway, she posted a new song on her blog and it was by far the best christmas gift i got this year.

(you guys, my jenniversary is almost here!!! how should i celebrate this year? i think there might be a merch run involved. and possibly baked goods. maybe i should throw a SPREAD THE JOY party? hm.)

-so i have this cousin. she is a blonde polish cheerleader. well, she's not a cheerleader anymore because she is not in hs anymore, but still. she looks and talks and acts like paris hilton. (she is very smart and yet totally dumb. it baffles me sometimes.) anyway, she and her friends had to pump gas this one time, and they filmed the experience and put it on youtube. i just. you guys! she makes more than twice as much money as me, AND YET!!! sometimes i despair for this world.

-no lie, this is my favorite lolcat ever. ever ever ever ever ever. EVER!

-i have been sitting here jamming out to my bandish playlist, and i was like "who the eff is this? i don't recognize this sound at all!" and then i remembered that i was checking out this kid's myspace. i am really digging his sound- very mellow, low-key, and well-put-together.

-i thought i had more links. urgh.

uh, anyway, i have so much fic bookmarked to read! i hardly got through any yuletide stuff, which is lame, but this week has been stupidly busy. and some people on the flist have been reccing bandom stuff like crazy so i have all THAT saved too! oh on that note, pretty. odd. has been consumed, but i have decided that i cannot accurately judge it because ryan ross's voice seriously does things to me. it's kind of a sickness! except for the "kind of" part!

i was going to read all the way back on lj, but uh. i changed my mind. did i miss anything important? (if you start getting random comments on old entries in the next week though, don't be surprised.)

today i: won money playing cards \o/; almost finished my christmas shopping; hung out with the family & kim; threw the first snowball of the season; continued to teach my parents about music. (on that note, for serious, after listening to mcr they said "oh so BELLEVILLE is where you got your filthy mouth from! that totally makes sense." and then they had a debate over whether that is true or not cos i was technically born in the next town over. and then we read belleville's wikipedia page for a while. now they are trying to get me to update the page on traffic circles in nj cos they think it's mistaken. MY LIFE- SO EXCITING!)

yesterday i: drank too much tea; had a moment of perfect happiness on the plane; bought the fob album on amazon for cheap; watched made of honor; whined about the cold.

( and now: a survey. )

yesterday i dragged my parents all over nj so we could shop for couches. i apparently have a way higher budget than i thought i had, but the places we looked weren't corporate so they wouldn't sell us anything for florida. so next week: furniture shopping. then we went to a b&n and somehow that ended with my parents saying "why are we spending $20 on a comic book?" and me saying "i do not know, but thanks!" which is how i read the umbrella academy today, haha. (trufax though: reading graphic novels is really hard. i thought it was just the abvh ones cos they suck, but i had a lot of trouble following this too. UGH MY BRAIN.) (i did like it though. i would just like it a fuckton more if it was a non-graphic novel.) (is there fic? i want fic.)

"Commentary! The Musical" is the most painstaking and exhausting piece of whimsey I have ever mistaken for a good idea.

♥ joss whedon!

OH the real reason i am updating: all of my 2008 goals are more than complete (the movie one is the funniest- it took me nine months to watch my first twenty movies, but i have watched almost that many in the past month or so. GO ME.) and so i am trying to figure out what i want to do for next year. i want to bump up the books goal (to maybe 75/50 instead of 50/30), and i like the shows goal but might move it to 15 (i like having an excuse to waste my money on all these awesome december shows), but i don't know what to do about the movies goal. i only enjoy watching new movies when i am really in the mood, and feeling obligated to do it definitely took the enjoyment out of it for me. but i don't want to say "fuck it, never watch a new movie again" either. urgh. i also want a guitar goal, but i don't know what yet.

(also, i hate you all. i can't stop singing patd songs under my breath and it is ALL YOUR FAULT.)

for dinner tonight i am having tomato soup with a side of FREE INTERNETS! <3 panera

SO MUCH TO TELL YOU. the new apartment is pretty sweet, although i have to go through a daily ritual now where one of my electricians tell me i am going to wake up one and day and be 75 and all alone with an apartment full of books. i don't really see how this is a bad thing though? ::shrugs::

anyway, in more important news, the doughty show was SO GOOD. i love how he does not have a set list and just plays whatever we yell at him <3! for his second song, he and scrap played an absolutely gorgeous version of "the only answer" (aka my favorite doughty song) which you can see here, although the quality is not stellar. (and despite the fact that i am definitely sitting in a visible spot and had the biggest stupidest happiest grin on my face, you cannot see me.) (and wow, i am just watching this cos the internet here is so slow, and the volume on his guitar is all but nonexistent! i didn't notice at the show cos i was sitting less than ten feet from him.) he played a really good mix of old stuff and new stuff (thank you, crowd!), but my second favorite was probably "down on the river by the sugar plant" cos seriously, i didn't even know cellos could MAKE those sounds! (it took them a minute to figure the song out cos he hasn't played it in so long <3) all in all it was a really excellent set and he and scrap are so adorable i can't even. oh scrap, arguing with the audience about black holes <3)

(SO MANY HEARTS TODAY!)

the conor show was ALSO good, and was made infinitely better by the company <3 i do not think i am a big fan of his- his music is just not really my thing- but i have a lot of respect for him as a musician? and some of his songs were really fun. i just don't have a lot of patience for his more emo stuff. ::shrugs::

uhhhh WHAT ELSE. i have been watching a lot of movies! i am falling stupidly in love with hugh dancy <3 and i watched the dark knight again and you know? it is still goddamn amazing, ugh. and tomorrow there will be twilight! i nearly died today reading articles about it cos holding in giggles cannot be healthy.

and i've been reading more bandom fic. and weirdly enough, i want NON-CRACK. i want non-crack, serious angst, and i want it bad, and i am having trouble finding it. (i say "weirdly" but i read the most hardcore angst i could find in lotrips too. i only do this in fandoms where the people are real, which makes me feel like a total asshole.) i found some promising links today at work (wot? delicious is totally work-related!) so maybe they will please me. and i am reading one right now that i am enjoying the hell out of (the quickest way to ruin a friendship, if that means anything to you. i can't link you because i have it downloaded, obvs.) so i guess it's not too tragic.

i am going to go watch spn download and take care of some other stuff before my battery dies. <3!!

Poll #1294942 in the name of science.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

if a unicorn and a giraffe mated, who would carry the baby (assuming they are both boys)?

and just because i'm sure you have some other opinions but i don't want to ruin the scientificity of my poll:

i woke up sick on friday. it's been going around the office and i was the last man standing, but i swear i felt fine until i got home thursday night (when my throat started to hurt). UGH.

so here is a comprehensive list of what i did this weekend:

-moved my laptop next to my bed.

-watched a ton of movies: lilo & stitch, a knight's tale, becoming jane (the one damn time i want a happy ending...), real genius (i love this movie so much), idiocracy (it was funny), unnacompanied minors (good stuff), most of across the universe (hated it, didn't mind at all when my download cut off halfway through), and burn after reading (entertaining).

-watched that patd halloween song video thing at least 100 times. (no seriously. i am watching it RIGHT NOW.)

-had the following conversation re: my descent into madness bandom:

aren (1:06:59 AM): You are now the wounded gazelle.
lisa (1:07:10 AM): and bandom is the lion?
aren (1:07:23 AM): Yes. The retarded lion of Jon falling over.

-read a patd fic involving mermaids. or a merman, i should say.

-went to the hotel cafe show. (eh. the singers were all good but the crowd sucked.)

-opened a bunch of entries to reply to but never replied because typing in bed is hard.

-finished an abundance of katherines. i liked it more this time.

-went to publix for more drugs. this has, not surprisingly, made the patd video EVEN BETTER.

-slept.

01. portland is now on the list! (i am such an easy sell, you guys.)

02. i will never not find this hilarious, for realz.

03. depending on where you live, you could start voting TOMORROW! you should do this if your place of residence allows it, because a LOT of new people registered this year and 11/04 is going to be absolutely ridiculous. go here to find out more about when and where you can vote. (and don't forget- as soon as you vote, the campaign calls will stop!)

04. i read another bandom primer and now i want excessively angsty panic! fic. like, angst that can rival old school lotr rps, which was the angstiest fandom to ever exist, ever. why do you guys do this to me? (also read a jonas brothers primer. i have been avoiding the jonas brothers because i really fear that i will love them like burning, so clicking that was maybe not my best idea ever.) trufax: i love primers. a lot. like, a lot a lot. pls link me to more primers.

05. allison weiss!! so awesome! jenny recced her, and we all know jenny can't be wrong! but she really is super awesome, and ALSO a southern girl, so maybe i will actually get to see her play music! unlike the girl singers i love who are living in ny, with the notable exception of ingrid!

06. speaking of ingrid, her new cd is SO GOOD. and she has a twitter! and i am even more in love with dan romer than i was before! yay!

07. the blow - parentheses (.mp3)

08. i don't know what to reeeeeead. i requested three books from the library, so i don't want anything insane, but i need something to bring with me to work tomorrow :/ i'll probably just grab the cheese monkeys.

09. uh, GIP! (this is what happens when i basically don't leave my room for 48 hours. weeeeeeeeeee!) (and i saved it without the text, in case it is necessary to anyone's existence. just sayin!)

Poll #1231303 next question: is it creepy to make polls about my creepy behavior re: rachel caine?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

there is a popular author who is actually a member of fandom. at the end of her books, she lists a "soundtrack" of sorts. i have a cd that is totally my soundtrack for these books. is it creepy to give her a copy of this cd at a convention?

(discarded poll titles include i'll leave the construction paper timeline at home though, i have no perspective on my own behavior, and factor in the homemade t-shirt about her books that i will be wearing.)

in unrelated news, i started reading a bandom diner au today. LET THE MOCKING BEGIN.

i will clearly read anything if it takes place in new jersey. got any recs? :D