what happened next was a series of unfortunate events

go listen: mtv2 the leak: the academy is - santi

my (initial) take: doesn't sound like almost here at all AND it's perfect. and yes, i will marry you, william beckett (joke, people. get with it). and ps. please play a headlining show in la soon. i mean, srsly.

i only think in the form of crunching numbers

major media post today, still trying to put off writing my paper. bad me.

fob video thnks fr th mmrs premiered today (you can d/l it for free over the weekend off their site, if yr browser doesn't keep dying like mine).

thnks smrscn for the youtube link.

tai big mess video.

three (sort of) new buzznet vids on the sounds' page. clicky here for live perf of tony the beat @ abbey road. I MISS THEM. JUST A LITTLE.

last but not least.. i should've posted about this earlier. plz go download the graduate's ep - horror show - for free off of their ap.net page here. i'm not sure what it is but the whole ep is just.. perfect and brills. i love how "the formula" goes back and references sit&sink etc. pretty excited about their full length anhedonia which comes out april 10th.

santi!!!

this distant life

first things first, will tell photos from the troub (and only 3 of the oohlas.. bad lighting. srry) posted here.

e and i decided to be crazy yesterday and catch the oohlas (playing on the mainstage @ knitting factory) and then get back loretta (playing in the alterknit @ knitting factory). set times worked out perfectly.

arrived a little before the oohlas started playing, e spotted irene.. and then trent. i'm totally blind. still. i blame it on the fact that i didn't have my glasses on. so much fun during their set.. we had the oohlas superfans in front of us (alas, no cowbell that night) and trent dancing aotp. photos aotp by all of us.

la la la scroll to the bottom.

gbl was great, obvi. idk how they crammed themselves onto that tiny stage without wiping each other out, but they did. kevin did his piano-dance and i lolzed. i actually danced and danced and danced and danced (hgb style) and apparently some dude from POD was there. interesting. they covered paranoid android and it was LOVELY. really gorg.

the oohlas photos posted here; below are a few of my faves: the lighting wasn't exactly conducive to movement.. so i decided to mess around with my color and aperture settings, since i never do it. kind of makes you dizzy if you stare too long, but rad.

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.

i'll be off to find another way

one of the first songs i heard off of the black parade was "i don't love you" (before the album was released). it was live. and it was gorg. so this video.. asdlkhlkhsdld. the album as a whole is amazing but this song. i don't even know what to say.



anyhow. not much going on. saw the outline @ spaceland last wed, a few photos here. kirsten dunst sighting (fab moretti was djing.. interesting).

last night i saw albert hammond jr. @ amoeba in-store which was FUNNNNN + irene saw drew barrymore when she walked by. apparently i'm blind. then we went to see bright eyes @ the el rey (bday pressie from irene! yay) which was really really really good. hadn't seen them in forev and i've only seen them once before. conor reminds me of a pirate with his longer hair but w/e. and apparently SIA was dancing all crazy next to me and kinda hit me by accident (i didn't know who she was at the time).

a show every other day is coming up next week.. must prepare. happy thurs!

i just LOLdied.

ps. guess who wins at life? monty are i.
their myspace default photo? mine. holla.
friend them and comment the other pix pls. and go see them live because they. will. slay. you.

but nobody said that you are so la

reasons why i love will tell:
1. overture
2. he tapes fake dead-looking birds to his shoulder for his pirate-themed birthday party.
3. his blogs are amusing. whimsical. like how he didn't wear socks to a grammy party and how he couldn't find the pants that went with his suit for his friend's wedding.
4. on rehearsals.com he looks like he just woke up.
5. bonus reason: attractive muchhhhh.

AND BONUS ROUND (lists ftw):
five things you may not have known about me (thx daniel)
1. i've seriously considered converting to judaism.. but only because i really want to have a bat mitzvah. or at least attend a real one. someone invite me plz.
2. sometimes, i can drink a can of sugar-free redbull, and then immediately fall asleep.
3. i don't kill spiders. bad karma.
4. i've been to over 20 states. (for friends and shows!)
5. i love the outline, but outlining for class is the bane of my existence.

tagging these 5 people: respond (in the comments)/post (in yr own blog) or die.
1. elisa
2. angie
3. up down on the ground
4. vanessa
5. mell

ps. FORTHESOUND IS BACK. RELAUNCHHHHH. CHECK IT OUT.

you've wrung me out too, too, too many times

cold war kids on kroq.
have they been playing them earlier? jeez. louise. i had to sit in my driveway and stay in there for the whole song. kinda felt the same way when i heard them playing shiny toy guns on there too.

just woke up from a nap with a huuuuge headache. wheee

i've got that lefty curse

so saturday was the tai video shoot for "we've got a big mess on our hands." i (barely) got there on time after work, and then of course they told us we weren't scene enough. we cried and cried and william beckett came out with boxes of puppies and gave us each one. i also won a flatiron so i could be more "pretty" from now on. personally, i think i win the award for "least scene out of the 70 people there." maybe it has to do with law school. anyhow.

aside from the puppies and the flatiron (joke btw), just a lot of waiting around. saw the dudes get made up. william made faces while he got prettified. met and friended two sweet girls who had driven out from arizona that morning (6 hrs, like socal to norcal). bad beckett tried to attack us from the stage but carden blocked him with his geetar so he saved us. it was pretty noble. acted excited in front of a green screen? i left at 4:30pm, but i guess pete wentz had showed up and later everyone got pix aotp.

then i ran a few errands with my sister, came home, and slept for (honestly) the next 14 hours. i thought i could pull off a nap from 8-9pm but i ended up waking up the next morning at 10am. sweetness.

i don't know how i feel about the new dude. wasn't on his side most of the time but he seems very european (ya i know he's australian). w/e. i bought a tomrad print off of his photo site (http://forevernever.net/) which makes me pretty happy. i just need more money now. oh, and if someone wouldn't mind doing my writing assignment for wednesday, i would be totes happy.

i'm an addict for dramatics, i confuse the two for love

adam lazzara (tbs) proposed to chauntelle dupree (eisley) on vday. cuteness to the max. more here.

andddd i'm going to go cry now. there goes my shot with adam. (okay srsly people, that was joke.) all kidding aside. ADAM. YOU ARE AN ATTRACTIVE MAN. AND I RLY LIKE YR BAND.

one more tidbit: patd in sports illustrated musicians&models issue here. wtf. bden, plz wax those eyebrows. i just don't understand them. and whose bright idea was it to put ryro next to the model? is it b/c he's tallish? he just looks INCREDIBLY awk standing there. OH AND I MIGHT AS WELL CONFESS MY LOVE FOR RYRO NOW TOO. RYRO. YOU'RE AN ADORABLE MAN/BOY. AND I RLY LIKE YR BAND.

out.

long live the car crash hearts

what is it with me and making every blog title a fall out boy song? idk but i can't stop listening to that album. i'm kinda overrrr this ain't a scene and carpal tunnel, but loveloveloving thriller, the take over the break's over, i'm like a lawyer (maybe some subconcious-connection-with-the-title much?), hum hallelujah and the (after) life of the party.

and apparently on perez hilton, it was a big deal that p33t says in blender that he's kissed boys? um. didn't we already know this. late much.

photos from sf (full album here):i've said it twice already, but i'll say it again. sometimes i catch myself staring at my photos and thinking jon looks pretty good. and then i remember it's jon. and then i kick myself. haha

okay, now i'm really going to study. forreals.

happy vday, yall. remember that candy is a glorious 50-75% off tomorrow, so stock up!!

we don't fight fair

so all of this non-sleeping has landed me in the sick-kids-club this week. not only have i been sick, i can't seem to get any decent/uninterrupted sleep. major exhaustion. however, i did get some pretty awes stuff in the mail this week, including: my rollingstone (patd cover), my spin (mcr cover), my falloutboy cd and atticus hoodie, the oxford companion to the supreme court of united states which i got a pretty sweet deal on using amazon marketplace (ya, that one, not so fun), anddd my cosmogirl. yay mail.

just a few photos from soma, posted the rest here on my flickr. sf warfield probably during the week/end of the week. contracts midterm friday, wheee..
probably one of my faves ever.. though i wish his face were a little more distinct. too lazy to edit.

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.

thnks fr th mmrs

happy birthday to me!

huge thank you to my friends and of course, my section-mates for singing me happy birthday... i'm pretty sure we're the only section that does stuff like that and it's quite touching.

i've come a long way since last year. i still have the message saved on my vmail about the photo i sold. :)

xx

the outline and favorites tomorrow. oh hey.. pick up the young love cd that came out today. you can still stream the whole thing on purevolume.

and we have crashed her party

clearly, i have issues with focusing on school work.
hi adam and steve aoki and unnamed girl.
idk who's teen bday party it was (clearly it was nicole richie's also.. or something) or some teen vogue misshapes something something. but this cobrasnake album was a veritable goldmine of celebs (and not-so-celebs aka mischa barton's sister). point out all the ones you see in my comments plz.

p33t and ryro.

ryro and idk, idc.aaaand i'm done.

coacHELLa

blogging before class = awesome.

jack's at coachella. thanks for going full-out hipster/indierock on us.

now i need to figure out if i can go with my stupid finals schedule and.. asdl;kfh;dsfh;lkdsfh;lkhdsf. idk.

i'm also into cats

today i:
1. worked,
2. gave blood (give life or musicsaveslives for more info), and
3. spent the money i made from work on this. wheeee

spamito only

if we're friends on myspace, check yr bulletins. or you should be able to view the event if you're logged in.

hosted by: mao / the outline (well not rly but they have no choice)
when: wednesday Jan 31, 2007 at 7:00 PM
where: knitting factory
7021 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
United States
description:
a penny short of a quarter. my birthday. duh.

click here to view event

this is a "some people are more important than others aka spamito" event.

OMGGZ LAWYER JOKE ALERT.

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!!