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[09 Jul 2004|03:40pm] |
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7/15 - Josh Rouse @ Knitting Factory
7/16 - Owsley @ Club Lingerie (IPO)
7/17 - The Wrens @ Knitting Factory
7/19 - Modest Mouse @ Wiltern
7/20 - Joe Purdy & Rachael Yamagata @ Hotel Cafe
7/22 - Gomez @ Avalon
7/23 - Gomez @ Belly Up Tavern
7/25 - Bingo @ Hotel Cafe
7/27 - Joe Purdy & Rachael Yamagata @ Hotel Cafe
7/27 - Old 97's @ Viper Room
7/27 - Scissor Sisters @ Troubadour
7/27 - Jem @ Roxy
7/28 - Jem @ Roxy
I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of other stuff, but I plan on or wish I could hit up most of the shows listed above.
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[10 Jun 2004|03:14pm] |
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Okay, so last summer my goofy musical love-obsession was with Junior Senior. A song that I really dug was on the radio the other night and after a little investigation to find out who it was, I believe I have found my Summer 2004 Object of Affection. Ladies and Gentlemen...
The Scissor Sisters
Musically, think 70's Elton John mixed with David Bowie and a smidge of disco and Queen. Their name is a slang term for lesbians. And the girl? Yeah. Not a girl. Their videos are hilarious, too. Oh, just check out their website already - http://www.scissorsisters.com
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North Carolina's state motto is Esse Quam Videri, which means "to be rather than to seem."
I propose a new motto for my home state:
We Rule American Idol.
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[11 Mar 2004|10:30am] |
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Taken from alcoholandirony:
1. Enter your username [or a variation thereof] into Google
2. Click the "Images" tab
3. Pick your favorite from the first page only and post it in your journal.
Nothing came up for ginnysnap, so I tried gingersnap and got this:
I think she's rather foxy for a longhorn, don't you?
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I spent half of Thursday, Friday and the rest of the weekend in bed because of my cold. I haven't slept that much in a while! The cold is now more or less gone, though, so yay for sleeping too much.
I wasn't raised celebrating Lent, and Nick is such a bad Catholic that he was never even confirmed, but we got to talking about it at dinner on Monday and each decided to give something up for the 40 days. Neither of us thinks the other will make it, which became our primary reason for even trying it. So, from tomorrow until Easter, I won't eat any chocolate (this is going to be really hard) and he won't eat any bacon or smoke at all. As it is, he can make one pack last over a month, but I don't like any smoking at all, so I'll take any opportunity I can to stop it. Heh. Anyway, although no chocolate will not be fun, it's certainly easier than giving up caffeine. At least I won't turn into a megabitch from the withdrawals!
Not much else going on lately. I might go see The Wrens on Wednesday, but that's probably my only show until the Morning 40's play here the first weekend in March. The highlights of my past few weeks have been America's Next Top Model and The OC. Yep - I have no life right now. Surprisingly, I'm okay with that. Better weather will bring out the social butterfly in me...it always does!
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Hello and Happy New Year, everyone!
I had a really good time at home over the holidays. Mom and I did quite a few "movie afternoons" (and even ran into Jenn and her mom at one!), Jay took me to a Panthers game, I did the usual all-day visit with some of my dad's side of the family at Mamaw's house on Christmas Eve (and stuffed my face...mmmdeviledeggs!), then got in time with my mom's side of the family on Christmas Day. On Dec. 17th, my stepaunt Tracy gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Adam, so we had a very new addition to the family present for the festivities. I already like him - he's one of the few babies who doesn't scream the entire time I hold him! I also got to see and catch up with Sari and Andrew, and Sandi came down and visited for a couple days. My parents treated us to an amazing dinner at a newish restaurant called Blue, and then dropped us off at The Penguin with cab fare home. They rock!
The only sucky things were that I wasn't with Nick, and seeing how my grandfather's Alzheimer's has progressed in the 5 months since I last saw him. But overall, everyone was mostly in good health and happy, and we were all together - and that's what really counts.
When I got home, I got my other Christmas present from Nick: he made me a beautiful painting to go over my faux mantel in my apartment. It looks great! I'll have to take a picture and post it sometime. We'd considered going out on New Year's Eve, but seeing as we were kinda broke and neither of us wanted to be the DD and we didn't want to pay for cabfare to Echo Park from my place, we instead decided to go get takeout food, a bottle of champagne and some beer and stay in. Playing drinking games to my Simpsons S3 DVD wasn't such a bad way to ring in 2004!
Now I'm back at work and I'm BORED. For the first time since I started working here, I only have one campaign and it is so hard to make it through the day. I've got to do a big mailing tomorrow, and then I'm going to get a head start on some stuff that needs to get done before Jamaica, and Jeff wants me to help him on a project....other than that, I'm spending lots of time reading news sites and looking for entertainment. A few months from now when my workload is back to normal and I'm bitching about it? Someone please remind me to go back and read this post. Ha.
Going to see Jude tonight, dinner with Andrea tomorrow (first time I've seen here since the Sondre Lerche show debacle), watching the Panthers and hopefully the UNC game on Saturday...and other than that, I have no plans to do much of anything besides look forward to leaving for Jamaica on the 17th!
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Another reason to hate Ticketbastard:
From the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/01/technology/01TICK.html
Ticketmaster Auction Will Let Highest Bidder Set Concert Prices
By CHRIS NELSON
hree years after Ticketmaster introduced ticketFast, its online print-at-home ticketing service, consumers have so embraced it that the company now sells a half-million home-printed tickets for sporting and entertainment events each month in North America. Where ticketFast is available, 30 percent of tickets sold are now printed at home, said the company, which is by far the nation's largest ticket agency.
But consumers ? many of whom have complained for years about climbing ticket prices and Ticketmaster service charges ? may be less eager for the next phase of Ticketmaster's Internet evolution.
Late this year the company plans to begin auctioning the best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com.
With no official price ceiling on such tickets, Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.
"The tickets are worth what they're worth," said John Pleasants, Ticketmaster's president and chief executive. "If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it's actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket's worth $1,000. I think more and more, our clients ? the promoters, the clients in the buildings and the bands themselves ? are saying to themselves, `Maybe that money should be coming to me instead of Bob the Broker.' "
EBay has long been a busy marketplace for tickets auctioned by brokers and others. Late last week, for example, it had more than 22,000 listings for ticket sales.
Venue operators, promoters and performers will decide whether to participate in the Ticketmaster auctions, Mr. Pleasants said. In June, the company tested the system for the Lennox Lewis-Vitali Klitschko boxing match at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The minimum bid for the package ? two ringside seats, a boxing glove autographed by Mr. Lewis and access to workouts, among other features ? was $3,000, and the top payer spent about $7,000, a Staples Center spokesman, Michael Roth, said.
Once the auction service goes live, Ticketmaster will receive flat fees or a percentage of the winning bids, to be decided with the operators of each event, said Sean Moriarty, Ticketmaster's executive vice president for products, technology and operations.
Along with home printing, auctions are central to "a new age of the ticket," Mr. Pleasants said. In the second quarter of this year, tickets sold online, with or without home printing, represented 51 percent of Ticketmaster's ticket sales. The rest were sold by phone or at walk-up locations.
Ticket Forwarding allows season ticket holders for several sports teams (including the New York Knicks, Rangers and Giants) to e-mail extra tickets to other users, with Ticketmaster charging the sender $1.95 per transaction.
TicketExchange provides a forum for season ticket holders to auction tickets online. The seller and buyer pay Ticketmaster 5 percent to 10 percent of the resale price, a fee the company splits with the team.
In the case of the ticketFast home-printing service, buyers pay an additional $1.75 to $2.50 per order, with the fee set by the event operator. Home printing has won converts among people who want tickets immediately, instead of receiving them by mail or a delivery service or having to stand in line at a will-call window.
One satisfied customer is Brian Resnik, 29, of Tampa, Fla., who says the home-printing fee is a bargain compared with the $19.50 that Ticketmaster charges for two-day shipping through United Parcel Service.
But some other users, who praised the convenience of home printing, objected to being charged an extra fee.
"It's kind of mind-boggling to me," said Joe Guckin, 41, of Philadelphia, who used ticketFast to buy tickets for a Baltimore Orioles home game last season. "You're printing up the ticket, on your printer at home, your paper, your ink, etc. ? and you have to pay for that?"
The company replies that home-printing consumers are helping to pay for the technology that makes the service possible.
Ticketmaster has spent $15 million to $20 million to outfit almost 700 stadiums, arenas, theaters and concert halls in this country and Canada with bar-code scanners that read and authenticate the tickets and computers that capture information such as which seats are filled and which doors have the most traffic, Mr. Moriarty said. In 2003, the company has sold 400,000 to 600,000 ticketFast tickets each month.
Some ticketFast customers, like Diane DeRooy, 52, of Seattle, complain that Ticketmaster assesses a lot of fees even before levying the print-at-home charge. A ticket to see Crosby, Stills & Nash on Friday at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., for example, carries $13.80 in venue, processing and convenience fees, plus a $2.50 charge for the home-printing option. Without the fees, a ticket costs $30.25 to $70.25.
Many of those customers are skeptical about Ticketmaster's plans to auction the best seats to concerts.
"The band's biggest fans ought to have the best seats, not the band's richest fans," said Tim Todd, 47, of Kansas City, Mo., who used ticketFast recently to buy tickets for a concert by the rock group Phish. Ticketmaster would be, in essence, official scalpers, Mr. Guckin said, voicing a sentiment expressed by some other customers.
Industry watchers agree that auctions will affect all concertgoers. Prime seats are undervalued in the marketplace, said Alan B. Krueger, a professor at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, who has studied ticket prices. He predicts that once auctions begin revealing a ticket's market value, prices as a whole will climb faster.
Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the concert industry trade magazine, Pollstar, predicted that all ticket prices would become more fluid. After a promoter assesses initial sales from an auction, remaining ticket prices could be raised or lowered to meet goals.
The notion of ticket auctions is annoying, Mr. Resnik said, but he is resigned to them.
"I guess the capitalist inside me would say, `Hey, if that's what they can get for tickets, I guess that's just something I can't afford, like a yacht and a Learjet.' "
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Apparently there are people out there who care whether or not I actually update this thing. Who knew? So here you are, gentle readers - a list of what I've been up to since August 7th:
1. Spent time showing the BBC boys a good time and catching another of their shows.
2. Flew to Rhode Island to meet Nick's friends and family. Ate lots of good seafood, had some yummy Espresso martinis, went to Newport, and got to know the folks a little. And they liked me, they really did!
3. Finally finished unpacking at the new apartment. Now I just need a few more things (kitchen table being the most important one) and my little abode will be all nice and cozy and done.
4. Went to some shows...Supergrass, The Gift, I already mentioned the BBC, Jude. I'm going to see Josh Rouse tonight, and Junior Senior is next week. That's all I can think of right now.
5. The Alias S1 DVD comes out on Tuesday. That has nothing to do with what I've been up to, but I can't wait to buy it and I wanted to make sure you all knew about it so you could go buy it, too!
6. Saw my 11 month anniversary with Nick pass. Holy crap...it's almost been a year now. I never thought I could stay interested in someone that long, much less sustain a relationship. This whole love thing is kinda crazy, but I'm not complaining. :)
7. OH! This is probably one of the most important things that's happened: I GOT TICKETS TO SEE RADIOHEAD BOTH NIGHTS AT THE BOWL. Box seats, here I come. And I made Nick happy by giving him the tickets for his birthday present. I'm going to see Radiohead! I'm really going to see Radiohead! *happy dance*
8. Worked. Yep. That's about all I have to say about that.
The end.
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Confession time: I am so hooked on this Beyonce song. It's so fun. Gah! I went to her website just so I could hear it. I need help!
Last night I went to see Jada Pinkett Smith's band, Wicked Wisdom. Who knew that Jada apparently grew up listening to Black Sabbath and Living Colour? She just wants to rock, and she's got a pretty kickass band behind her. Can't wait to see the reaction once more people hear them.
Leigh and the BBC boys are in town. Caught them at The Scene on Sunday, and tonight I think I'm taking them to El Coyote and Jumbo's. Gotta make sure they do the LA rock star thing properly! I'll probably go see them again at the Knitting Factory on Sunday, even though I'm already going to Supergrass on Saturday and I have the Nappy Roots Album Release party on Tuesday and possibly their Roxy show on Monday.
Somewhere in all of this, I'm supposed to be unpacking at the new apartment. Oh, and I'm leaving for Rhode Island at the asscrack of dawn next Friday. Eh, I haven't had this much to do in a while. I'll worry about unpacking later!
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Long time no update, I know. But I had to post two very important things:
First, if you want to buy me the Alias Season 2 DVD for my birthday (because it comes out on Dec. 2, such perfect timing!), click here.
Second, if you don't mind pimping and would like to win a free copy of the Simpsons Season 3 DVD, click here.
More later!
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My trip home was very fun, even if it wasn't terribly relaxing. I got to spend time with my parents, grandparents, and friends, and I got to visit Asheville and Chapel Hill as well. Going home always leaves me with mixed feelings. Part of me thinks that I could move back to NC tomorrow, and probably be okay with it...and then part of me remembers how caged I felt while I was living there. If someone could figure out how to combine LA, Chapel Hill, and my other favorite cities, and make one supercity that was close to everyone, I would be set. Until then, I'll just have to deal with my geography issues, I guess.
I have officially registered for the GRE. Whether I use those scores immediately, or wait for a while, who knows. I feel ready for grad school...now I just have to see how other things go and that will determine how soon I actually go back.
Monday night I went to see The Gotan Project at the Henry Fonda. I actually really enjoyed it! I wasn't sure what to expect, since I'd heard them described as "world music-dance music," but they had a really cool sound. Think sexy traditional Latin music given an injection of energy by some well-used beats and samples. If you've never heard them, they're definitely worth checking out.
Back at work now. Back to the apartment hunt now. Both are difficult--I hate how vacations spoil me. Someone once asked me, if I could be anything (meaning career-wise), what I would be. My answer? "Independently wealthy." Ha. But since that will never happen, I know I'll get used to being back at work soon enough. I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea of paying $800 a month for a studio apartment. :P
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Last night I saw Grand Drive play, and they were fantastic. You need to listen to their music now--I promise you won't regret it!
Go here: http://www.grand-drive.com
Click on Discography, click on the last album listed (Grand Drive s/t) and listen to Firefly. And then listen to the rest of them. :)
Thank you in advance!
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The past five days have been quite a ride. You all know about the plane crash from my previous entries (quick update: street is open, building is boarded up, memorial on sidewalk out front). On Monday, we decided to launch our new portal here at work. Little did we know that it would turn into such a nightmare! We quickly discovered lots of bugs and other fun system issues. The past couple of days of dealing with it has sucked. Everything still isn't 100%, but it's slowly getting better. I've had one heck of a headache, though. Ugh.
Brigette will be out of town this weekend for her brother's graduation, so I get the apartment to myself for a few days. Woohoo! Time to run around naked! I won't really do that, but knowing I could if I wanted to is the important thing here.
Speaking of apartments, the search for a new place is on. I can't believe how expensive it is for a freakin' studio around here. I am going to be broke as a joke...oh wait, I already am! I wish we could go back to the barter system sometimes. Not that I have that much to barter with, but it just seems so much easier.
Anyway, it's about time to head on out of here. My boyfriend has a bottle of wine waiting for me, and it would just be rude to be late for that! Ta!
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My neighborhood is an absolute mess right now. I didn't even try to get home last night. I just went straight to Nick's and stayed over there. Ate dinner, went out, got a bit drunk. Because the building that was hit is literally 4 down from me, there's no way we'll be driving on our street for a while. I had to park a couple blocks over, and show a policeman my ID to prove I lived here. There's news cameras all over the place--when I stopped at home earlier to see what the situation was, my neighbor (who was home yesterday) was being interviewed by a reporter. It's very strange and surreal. If that pilot had just turned his wheel to the right, my apartment could have been the one destroyed. Talk about a head check. Right now I am very very VERY grateful to be alive and well.
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