early

i'm off to work early today. i'm not complaining, really. i just REALLY need some coffee to get me going. plus my hair is being difficult. oh well.

a joke to start your day with.

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?"
St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."
"Oh," said the man, "Whose clock is that?"
"That's Nelson Mandela's. The hands have never moved, indicating that he never told a lie." "Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"
St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that he told only two lies in his entire life."
"Where's Bush's clock?" asked the man.
"Bush's clock is in Jesus' office. ..He's using it as a ceiling fan."

maybe someone should tell that one to coner. :)

car = ipod

so i was driving along today when a fun song started playing on the radio.
so what's the first thing i do without thinking about it?
i reach over to give the song a few stars so that it will play more often during shuffle.

except wait a minute...i'm not even listening to my ipod...instead i just turned the radio off.

so apparently my car = my iPod.
there is no other way to listen to music anymore people... everyone should own one.

a visual aid!

see video iPod has a button in the middle and a wheel surrounding it.

same thing with my car radio....a button in the middle with a wheel surounding it.

it was an honest mistake.....
i'm not an idiot, really!

ok go!

pearl street. march 26th.

just an fyi.

watch me!!

two things

one.

in case you can't read it, his sign says "NINJA'S KILLED MY FAMILY - NEED MONEY FOR KUNG-FU LESSONS"

i'm sorry, but that is impressive. :)

two.

a quiz. what kind of alcoholic drink are you?

yes its just a silly quizilla quiz, but i enjoyed it.

i am a shot of whiskey apparently! what are you?

ps i totally stole both of these things from a super cool girl...yeah for katie!

what's wrong with a little destruction.....

nothing! according to the crowd at the agganis arena last wednesday night. we were all *very* willing to let franz ferdinand tear it up.

ha! i just typed "tear it up"

so we missed "special guests" the cribs due to horrific boston/red sox related traffic. it literally took me 55 minutes to travel 4.5 miles at one point. i was tearing my hair out. sad, but i got over it quickly.

death cab came on soon after we arrived. they played a lot of transatlanticism which i prefer to the newer stuff. they had a cute set with houses and trees. lots of warm and cool colored lights mixed together which was fun.

unlike some others i know, i did not find the set to be reminiscent of spinal tap......at all.......

then we watched them tear down the houses and erect the drum and keyboard pedestals for franz.

bam. they were electric all evening. simply awesome to behold. alex kapranos really is a god among front-men. i predict i will never tire of seeing franz live.

some highlights.

alex was quite chatty all evening, he had something to offer between almost every song. when he spoke of the song "michael" he said the song hadn't meant to be political, but who cares if two men dance with each other or marry each other (i'm paraphrasing). he spoke of the first time franz played in boston quite fondly. nick and alex played off each other all evening. at one point alex actually picked up his mike stand and moved it closer to the keyboard, saying that he wanted to be nearer to nick. and they debuted "L. Wells" for the first time in the united states.

what a night. i can't imagine the concert being done the other way around (as it was the following evening). death cab was a nice show...we sat for the majority of it...but certainly enjoyable. and then franz exploded onto the stage and stole the show.

2 shows down....2 more to go this month. stay tuned folks.

finally....

FINALLY i'm posting about this amazing concert.

and FINALLY i got to see the infamous karen o and dazzling nick zinner live in action.

what a show.

first of all i adore the orpheum theater in boston. such a charming place for a show. so that always helps.

karen o was on fire from the first moment she stepped onto the stage. very little direct audience interaction until the end, but she still had all of us in the palm of her hand. her outfit was AMAZING. this picture does not do it justice. and i was so happy to see her sensible choice of footwear, especially considering all of the jumping around she does.

nick was impecably dressed, all black a la johnny cash, with his ever impressive hair. he was REALLY into the set. at one point something went wrong with his guitar, karen looked over at him and you could tell he was SUPER pissed. he just shrugged and nearly threw the guitar at the tech. they recovered quickly, no worries.

the encore was SO great.

"For the four-song encore, guitarist Nick Zinner — Edward Scissorhands of the Lower East Side — came out and mumbled into the microphone guiltily, “This is my hometown.” (He’s from Sharon.) His Jersey Girl partner, who hadn’t yet addressed the crowd, prefaced their star-making song “Maps” by individually dedicating it to the band members’ romantic loves. (No word of Spike Jonze’s successor — Karen O’s love was us .) Then the audience-applause-selected “Date with a Night” segued into “Warrior,” followed by the sobering abyss of “Modern Romance.” Then the lights went up. Everyone seemed a little less cool. " from here.

this description however does NOT capture the insanity that was the audience by this point in the night. in terms of choosing "date with a night"....karen and nick were intensely talking to each other...a lot....she'd walk away, then go back....they'd talk some more...finally she tells us that she and nick can't pick the next song and did we have any suggestions. the screaming was very loud. she and nick both laughed...there was no way they could hear anything. so she had us cheer to choose which song would come next. they both seemed very amused by this.

nick did speak a few more words into the mic throughout the encore, but his voice was so small and timid that i could only catch the intonation and not the message. he did tell us his parents were there....karen was super excited by this.

the 4th member was a nice addition. for the most part he sat on the floor while he played the keyboard. it was super cute.

as expected, a super night.

also, on a more personal note, i have to say it was great to have people all around us shouting compliments to me...."karen you rock" "karen you are SO hot" "karen i want to marry you" etc. etc. so a super big "thanks" and "right back at ya" to the crowd at the orpheum that night ;) cheers.