jamuary night #3: the outline

so, basically I HAVEN'T SEEN THE OUTLINE IN A YEAR. or something.
if i get a hold of set times, i'll eta (edit to add). xoxo

lazy tuesday

yea, i really need to snap out of S.B. mode (i.e. wake up before 11 am) because i have tons of work to get done over break. oh well... baby steps.

last thurs, i kicked off my break w/ a show @ the el rey.. the outline's triumphant return (with a drummer!) since august 2007. made fun of shady weirdo trying to sell his ticket to the kid behind me; attempted to assess the crowd (a lot of japan-o-philes i think); made fun of jesus; made a few eggo-preggo jokes. inside, met up with the sd crew whom we hadn't seen in a month. we left mid-set of the first of two japanese bands (who sounded pretty awesome, i just wish i remembered whether they were the pillows or noodles), went to swingers on beverly, people watched.. i had a breakfast burrito YUM. the outline is playing @ the echo on 4/2 so i'll be there.

won 3 dollars in vegas playing wheel of fortune. hellyes.

going out tonight!!

you know it will always just be... ME!

i just made the title of this post a panic lyric because i know how much gramurai loves brendon urie.

[the outline - random song clip from new album!]

alone in a crowded room

happy two years.

school started this week.. that's where i've been! will have some more awesome emo posts soon. tomorrow, i'm photoing @ sd warped, and get to see a bunch of friends!! am still appallingly behind on photos.

today wasn't the best of days. worn out from the week... thank you to the girl in the red vw bug for cutting me off on fairfax today. you rule. NOT. i feel a bit overwhelmed (like my head might explode) but i'm just going to take e's advice and make my checklists. i will get things done.

some photos of the outline. will post full sets sometime.. in the future. i make no promises.
[the outline - the roxy - august 16, 2007]

be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls

okay, tons to update from lollapalooza weekend '07. however, i'm still backlogged from warped tour photos from june/july so i really should get started on those.

recap including two vidblogs.. and some photos from pearl jam (!) later. for now, i'm just going to say that seeing regina spektor was comparable to a religious experience. i literally almost cried during several songs because she was so amazing. hearing samson live basically made my life complete. i have no other words to describe how amazing it was to see just her and a piano up on the stage... apres moi was not one of my fave songs but since hearing it live.. it is now. sa;fhklshflkh fangirl aotp.

tonight i'm off to the troub to see 1990s, mezzanine owls, and robbers on high street! if that's not your thing, you can see fionn regan @ hotel cafe tonight. am listening to his cd right now and it's lovely.

also please check out the flyer for revenge of the sunset strip august 16th edition - the outline. (also note, office has been added to the august 30th show. yayayaya) hollaback.

revenge pt. 1

TOMORROW NIGHT @ THE ROXY:

fullsize.

guess who just got added to aug. 16th? THE OUTLINE. HELLO. YESI'MEXCITED. again.

i just watched that special on vicky beckham and i lolzed. she's so vapid that it's actually kind of amusing.

the choice is chalk, the path is known

zombies! aliens! vampires! dinosaurs! the outline!

it takes a real band to be that comfortable wearing spandex. no seriously, i love them. troub show july 5th, with cavil at rest.. opening for facing new york. set times are all up.

[the outline - "death to our enemies" vid]


also, i had dindin with vanessa last week, and jesus. christ. honey's kettle chicken in culver city. better than roscoe's. srsly. i got the two piece meal and it was heavenly. definitely my new fave place.

why do dreams dissipate upon waking

...before we're able enough to intake them?

[the outline - usc springfest - april 21, 2007]i got tired of taking pictures of graham. new cam bb. austen.

come one, come all, to this tragic affair

i've made it through the whole week.

too many shows. by friday i was over it and not really chatty @ firescape.

last sat 3/10 - my chem. i hadn't seen them in forever and i was SO SO SO EXCITED. live > cd. love them so hard. i wish the stage weren't so big though, cos they looked way too spread out.

3/11 - the outline @ knitting factory, then decapulet @ alterknit lounge. this one killed me, i think. the last time i did two shows back-to-back (1pm then 6pm or something) was for the truckstops and statelines tour last year w/ tai, acceptance (rip), hgb, and patd. the outline killed as usual; i don't think i've ever seen them play a bad show. blegh on the lighting @ knitting factory. i traded my soul (aka i had to promise to be nice for the next x amount of shows) in exchange for a free poster. we'll see how long that lasts, considering my purpose in life is to be rude to band members. decapulet about an hr later, but not before i got my metallll on with roses for ophelia (fyi i am not a fan of metal), thoroughly amusing e in the process. decapulet was pretty endearing, they had a couple of fans who had flown out from texas and they had the audience sit down on the floor. i felt like i was back at molly malone's with firescape, except with 10 people and not 5. oh and there was THE MOST CRACKED OUT OLD LADY mc-ing. i swear. i died of the lolz and e took pix.

3/12 - day off.

3/13 - william tell album release party at the troub. we found sweet parking (aka free. who parks for free in la? you know how we do.) the oohlas went on early, am sad i missed them playing rupert and a quarter of their set. tried out my new rebel xti but i suck. irene probs has good photos that she'll be posting soon. will came on, his set was massively short. andrew mcmahon came out and played on fairfax (surprise). lighting was decent so i tried shooting with both cams. had my sorority girl/omg-i'm-so-la moment with andrew ("omg i haven't seen you in foreverrr! how are ya") and laura got her long-awaited photo with andrew. hugs and lolz. afterrrrrparty. long story. never been to a pop-industry thing so that was weird for me. open bar. denny's. made some new friends. home at 3am. love.

3/14 - day off. just kidding. school was excruciatingly painful but lots of lolz in writing class. club moscow @ boardner's for the outline. i cannot handle teenage hipsters. they scare me and i much rather prefer emo kids. love you guys.

3/15 - day off. forreals.

3/16 - firescape @ the alley. traffic was bad but not terrible. first time i've seen them NOT acoustic so that was definitely different. i kept making weird eye contact with josh, and i wasn't happy about that. i don't even know.

now i get to catch up on homework. remind me WHY i went to all of these shows this week. insanity.

ps. will tell photos soon i guess.

she's so lucky, she's a star

gigantic photo update to follow, later this week. i'm done with my memo and i am horribly sleep deprived. but as elisa would say.. "GET SOME SLEEP AND GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK."

i've had an amazing week with all of my besties, favorites (particularly those in spirit, i'll explain later), my baby cam b-o-b, and my favorite bands in the entire world.

la to sd to sj/sf.
in light of recent news: birthday shoutouts so that even brireland turns around? awesome. birthday hats that are absolutely amazing ;) and friends that are even more amazing. my sharona changed my life. love the outline and srry graham, but i will always give you crap about not liking your band. savannah's birthday video!

west coast winter tour pt 1: sd soma. getting lucky with the photo pass. the nice security guys who let me shoot get back loretta even though i was 5 songs late. the audition lead singer flinging his sweat on me (repeatedly, i might add) + me being grossed out + me telling rhonda, ashley and alee later about the sweat-flinging and they wanted the sweat? what? head automatica beating hearts baby dance party. andrew winking at me when i was all up in his grill. thx. bob went insane (jenny, you're going to love ittt esp. toward the very beginning of the set) and jon did a metalll bass solo. jay mac messing with andrew by talking to him through his hi-hat mics. dark blue drama club was single-handedly resurrected by andrew. i died. superstalkerrr.

west coast winter tour pt 2: sf warfield theatre.
flew into san jose, had lunch, car trip + totes took the BART for the first time into sf! sameeee minus shooting the first three bands. loved the layout of the venue. drinks. SUPER nachos. mmm the show was much more sedate. i think it's a norcal thing? no ridic dancing, but it was still pretty bad. i almost punched a meathead in the face b/c he wouldn't let me through b/c he thought i was trying to like, shove my way up to see the show. NO YOU MORON. IT'S CALLED A PHOTO PASS. a very nice girl with her friend in a wheelchair helped me get out on the way out from the barricade. people never cease to amaze me with their kindness. i miss being on planes!

THE LIGHTING WAS GLORIOUS. s2 owners are going to have a blasty.

WARNING: TOTALLY EMO.
so, san diego. i managed to get myself stuck up front/over in front of the right side of the stage, cos i kept having to go up to shoot. basically, a majority of the time, i was alone. but i really didn't feel alone. it was, honestly, the strangest thing ever. the second he started playing last straw (which i hadn't ever seen played live), i almost teared up, and then i realized that's not allowed under the lawyer's code section 102(2)(b). it clearly states that lawyers do not cry. lawyers make people cry. so i stopped myself.

but honestly. the energy was incredible (obviously, as evidenced by andrew's ridiculous dancing). i have this weird habit now of looking out into the crowd while a band is playing just to see what's going on with everyone. and really, seeing everyone smiling and singing the same words.. for that 1 hr or so, we were one. it didn't matter that people were from far away, or locals, or that they were kids, or parents, or crazy emo kids or funky hipster kids. even the kids i don't like at all. we all sang the same songs back to andrew and it was truly touching. i can see why he likes to perform for audiences like that. so i danced around like a loser, sang my off-tuned heart out, and i thought of every single person who i've been fortunate enough to become friends with through this little band and i kept them in my heart so that i wasn't really watching the show alone.. but watching it with everyone and feeling it with everyone.

and at that moment. i was complete. i was alive.
"i feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it."
that room was my universe. those people held the love in their bodies like vessels... until they opened their mouths and sang and the love. spilled. out.

in memory of tragedy, we'd kill to stay

first things first, we celebrated bich ngoc's birthday @ hotel cafe on the 9th.

we don't take shots, we take (delish) cupcakes baked by irene! bridesmaid/moh dress shopping on saturday the 13th :)

um yay the outline?

[the outline - safari sam's - january 15, 2007]
holler at my supersweet 16+8 party on the 31st.minnie mouse.ryra.

hi i'm just going to take a picture of the case.

yay. homework time.

she ain't no oohla

semi-gigantic update, chock-full of random emo/ scene/ indie/ hipster/ non-label-able surprises.

1. the oohlas youtube vids of one of my fave songs, tv dinner.
[the oohlas - tv dinner - casa de ultragrrrl]


[the oohlas - tv dinner - the echo]


2. fall out boy pre-order bundles.. i may need to get this one. i hope pete wentz never tries to punch me.. i would be sad. and it'd probably hurt.

3. i got home and guess what i received in the mail. yep. my 31 corn lane stuff- the holly tote (which is on sale, btw, and they don't show you on the website but it's supersturdy and lined with the fabric from the fancy treat wallet) and the hot diggity clutch bag. they were even cuter than how i expected them to be, and that's awesome. and this relates to fall out boy how? 31 corn lane and clandestine collabo here. so my purchase is officially "scene" kthx.

4. school started. translation: it's killing me.. but i still like it (sometimes)? also, i'm rad cos i check my email in class and yesterday the tripwire chose my picks in their email. winatlife. fyi, my picks were as follows:
> Malcolm Gladwell Blink [Book]
> My Chemical Romance The Black Parade [Album]
> The Outline You Smash It, We'll Build Around It [Album]
> The Format Dog Problems [Album]
> The Hush Sound Like Vines [Album]

5. the outline is playing on the 15th at safari sam's. get your hipster on. i get to see the bratpack!!

for every inch we get, we need a mile more

back from hellogoodbye at the glasshouse in pomona.
forrest was having vocal probs. literally. 3rd or so song in, he was like "I LOST MY VOICE. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT. I WAS UP HERE THE WHOLE TIME BUT I LOST IT." poor dude :( they finished up as best they could (i think they still played a nearly full set), it was still a dance party (with the dancing banana, beer, burger, etc. on stage at the end), as per usual. wish i had my cam- the stage was all lit up with at least 3 big xmas trees, a few little ones, a herd of light-up reindeer, and some "snow" covering stuff. good times minus the voice-losing.

last thurs, the 21st, the outline/ william tell @ hob anaheim. basically, william tell was gorgeous, although he had really odd pants on.. whatever. the dude is attractive. and i was rude to the outline. i guess i might've been asking for the threatening beer-pouring on head.. or the face punching.. or the screaming-in-face-and-running away. i embarassed e, and aromee and alee made some new friends. awesome as usual.

ya show recaps aren't all that fun when there are no pix. i did finally finish my cobra ones both from the sd ipayone show and the snakes on a plane show. holler at productivity. i'm going to get cracking on patd (sd) and falloutboy (from soap).

[cobra starship @ snakes on a plane soundtrack party - key club - august 16, 2006]
here are some faves:
i thought this one was kinda rad.
and little did i know that when i blogged about my elijah wood sighting, someone would find it and post it in an ljcomm! dude, i finally feel like i've made it in life. i was wondering why someone had ended up on this blog when they googled "elijah wood" and now i know. props to whoever found this blog, haha. fyi, it was him. for sures.

i totes stole this from someone: happy holla-days!

but boys in swooping haircuts are bringing me down, taking pictures of themselves

bust out the xmas music (i highly recommend xtina's christmas album btw. i don't care that it's not scene. she rules.). the second thanksgiving is over, you probably won't be able to escape "feliz navidad" being played over
and over
and over
and over at your local ralph's.

okay things that have amused me the past week:
[the format - dog problems - video]

if you're having dog problems, i feel bad for you, son.
um but seriously. that video is the most brilliant thing ever. i hope someone fixes that synching issue soon but seriously!!! brills.

also i guess i went to some show on wednesday with some favorites and i guess the outline played? yea. i lolzed a lot. and i guess i took some pictures. posted the rest here.

[the outline - chain reaction - november 22, 2006]

they're playing @ the echo 12/5 for graham's bday so go. 18+

love is such an awful thing to lose

another post because i'm awesome like that.

[the outline - bamboozle left - cal poly pomona - october 15, 2006]

more on fts here.

maybe if i punch you in the face, you'll know this is real

umm mini-update, went to see the outline on friday at the alley in fullerton. funnn except rhonda and i were falling asleep until they played (flying across the country and/or going to school will do that to ya). shotgun was dedicated to the group.
shotgun - the outline

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did i ever mention that i love them? except when i complained about school and graham said something to the effect of "well, i don't think most people go to law school thinking it'll be a party." thanks, captain obvious. jklolz.

sometimes i think this cycle never ends
we slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again
pretty sure ben gibbard was singing about my homework right there.

this is how we live, this is what we breathe

i posted the outline photos here. i still rly don't like flash, but what can you do.
recap of the dance party: CRAZY. the kids were all sweating. the band was sweating. the light fixtures and room was sweating. i'm pretty sure i lost about 5 lbs of water weight on saturday. it was SO much fun and the crowd had crazy energy. this is basically why i love all-ages shows.. the kids seriously heart the music. ima robot was ridic kinetic. i didn't want to be molested by lead singer but he pulled a girl onstage from the front and danced with her during one of the songs which was cute. anddd yea. lots of scene photog kids. loved it.

the next day:
monty are i was amazing. a) the photo pass wristband also happened to be the same as the all-access wristband (though i didn't abuse that privilege.. not really) + b) we were allowed to stay up there for more than 3 songs, so i just shot a bunch and watched the show from in front of the barricade. so nice. here's a prev.

[monty are i - henry fonda theatre - july 30, 2006]

we loves you.