decided to watch the popmart vid tonight. started it then ppl started talking to me so i stopped. yeah..wow. that was one incredible stage. it’s absolutely massive. it’s in guiness world records for biggest TV screen ever…and yeah. it’s huge. since i didn’t finish it, i’m only on song 6, i don’t really know what my opinion on it is yet. except that i’d hate to have been there i think. the stage is SO huge, and the tv screen dwarfs them SO much…unless you were really close, you were just blinded by the tvs, and couldn’t see them or the rest of the stage – i’m sure. the video does alot of wide shots so they can get the whole stage, and stuff, and it’s like…is the band even there? cuz you totally cannot see them. and the place it’s at in mexico city, is HUGE…it’s not a normal stadium…and to be in the back, i mean it’s pointless. so i’m really glad i saw the elevation tour, much more “intimate” as everyone kept calling it…but i’d still like to have seen ZooTV…that stage was massive and complicated as well, but not as much as popmart. maybe all this will change when i finish the vid.

1 week til the nin dvd! yay

hmm…whatever happened to the tapeworm project?…it kinda just disappeared again…eric, u know?

wow getting my passport renewed is a whole lot of crap…i can’t do it an easy way because i got the passport when i was 15. so i can’t apply by mail, i have to do it in person. and i think i have to pay the regular “new passport” fee of 60$ instead of the “renewal” fee of 40$….but i don’t know, because the site MAKES NO SENSE AND DOESN’T ANSWER ANY OF MY QUESTIONS. but apparently i can do it at the NT DMV now and i don’t have to go to that postoffice in amherst like we did when we got them in 96. so i’m gonna go there after my dr appt and see if they can answer any of my questions. i’ll have to get an application to apply if i can’t do this easy renewal bit where i just need to send them my pic, my old passport and the money. how irritating. I WAS ALMOST 16 DOES THAT COUNT?! it’s so unfair. arg. maybe if they dont have any answers for me, which i’m sure they won’t the DMV is always stupid when dealing with me, i’ll go to a travel agent and ask them…there’s one on payne so…yeah. maybe i’ll have them look up flights to ireland for me too hehe.

my new passport photos…quite possibly THE worst picture i’ve ever taken. my last passport photo… i may have looked like a criminal in a mug shot, but at least it was decent…this one…is….HORRIBLE. it’s SOO bad. and my hair is sticking up… like why didn’t the lady taking the picture say something? it’s windy outside you know?!….BLAH but it was 14$ so i’m not about to go get it done again, wtf lol. But anyway….yeah went to the DMV…no passport thing there, like i figured. then went to the travel agency who really didn’t know anything, but she gave me 1 of each of the forms… mailin renewal and passport application. so then i drove to the postoffice on ridge lea cuz i know they deal with passport stuff, and went and asked them. they told me i have to apply all over again, and pay the more expensive fee as if i’m getting a passport for the first time. THAT’S SO RETARDED BECAUSE IN THE PAST 6 YEARS NOTHING ABOUT ME HAS CHANGED EXCEPT MY APPEARNANCE!!!!!!!….my parents were still born in Germany and Michigan, and I was still born in Kenmore, and all that crap. arg. so i gotta fill out this form now, and go take it tomorrow or wednesday. oh and i don’t have my check book, great….

i forgot to mention yesterday, that when me and heather are together, we attract strange people. when she came over and stayed overnight in summer 98 we went down to the river and we’re walking around. these 4 boys started talking to us and invited us to their party. so i was like talking to them, and told them we had another party to go to but maybe we’d stop by (cuz if that wasn’t a huge lie i dunno what was)…so we kept walking and heather was like, do you know them? and of course i didn’t LOL. and then yesterday at the outlet mall there was this guy working at the Polish Water Ice place and he asked us if we wanted free samples. so we took them, and we had pina colata, and he was like oooh trying to impress me with the grownup flavor…and we were like um yeah. we went back later to actually buy some cuz it was reeeealllly good. so we’re sitting at the table in front of the place, and he comes up to us and is like, oh the grownup girls are back. and we’re like uh yeah. he had like, big hair…it wasn’t in dreds, but it was long and curly, and sticking up, and he had his labret pierced but he wasn’t hot. so he’s like, do you girls like metal at all. and i’m like yeah sorta, and i told him i liked his shirt cuz it was a NIN fixed shirt. and he’s like there you go…well my band is playing next saturday at the elks (?) lodge for 5 bucks. and i’m like oh…and asked who they were playing with, cuz i know Stemm always plays there, and he said that they were playing with Stemm so i mentioned i knew them, and that yeah maybe we’d come to see his band play LOL.