when did plus size clothing include size 10? i guess i was plus size in college and didn’t even know it.
wave goodbye
08.22.09 – new york, ny – bowery ballroom (capacity 550)
08.23.09 – new york, ny – webster hall (capacity 1400-2500)
08.25.09 – new york, ny – terminal 5 (capacity 3000)
08.26.09 – new york, ny – terminal 5
08.28.09 – chicago, il – aragon ballroom
08.29.09 – chicago, il – aragon ballroom
09.02.09 – los angeles, ca – hollywood palladium
09.03.09 – los angeles, ca – henry fonda theater
09.05.09 – los angeles, ca – wiltern theatre
09.06.09 – los angeles, ca – echoplex
RIP MJ
MJ’s memorial…sad as hell. very well done, nothing at all flashy and gaudy about it (which i was half afraid of). it was a fitting tribute.
my highlights, if a memorial can have highlights. rather cry-lights…
brook shields
jennifer hudson “will you be there”
al sharpton – “i want his 3 children to know, wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy, it was strange what your daddy had to deal with.”
paris’s comment. so freaking sad.
RIP michael.
trent’s gonna break the bank
new nin dates, small venues, long setlists..ny, chicago, la. aug/sept. i’m gonna be lucky to get any tickets, but gah. must go and say farewell. cuz he really is retiring, i swear.
MJ & trent whaaaat?
michael jackson was a huge fan of The Downward Spiral…
i don’t think you can understand how happy that makes me.
Julien-K Buffalo 6-27-09
saturday was the day of 29797 things to do. work didn’t give me friday off so i could be in toronto in the morning for Carolyn’s wedding so I had to miss that. and they wouldn’t give me saturday off for the terminal’s 80th and for julien k, so i had to call in.
so started the afternoon at the terminal, the party started at 5. hung out manning the new gift shop til i had to leave at 6:30 to adr2’s so we could go to town ballroom for julien-k and combichrist. 4 bands played…first was…displaced? i don’t know, something with a D and they were memorably not good. 2nd was aestetic perfection, who weren’t too bad. julien-k was 3rd, and that’s who i was there to see. last time they were in buffalo, they were supposed to play with black light burns 2 years ago but ryan got sick and they cancelled. so this was a long time coming, and given that i really really love the cd (death to analog) i was excited. i hadn’t seen my orgy boys in a long time, and they make me happy haha. i’d say they were decently entertaining. it is weird to see ryan shuck as a front man, and it seems he’s not quite used to it either. he’s got a surprisingly good voice, i was surprised (on the cd too). he channels jay gordon at times, and other times i was reminded of trevor hurst haha. amir was amir, still cool and calm and perfect on stage. i was satisfied with their set. in no particular order i think they played: death to analog, someday soon, kick the bass, technical difficulties, systeme de sexe, nvr say nvr, look at u, futura. i don’t have anything to say about combichrist because i don’t know their material at all. we saw them open for kmfdm, and they were good, so…yep.
before combichrist went on, they played thriller and surprisingly everyone started cheering, and were dancing around. then during their set, they were asking for cheers for the other 3 bands, and then named “michael jackson” and the whole crowd erupted, loudest they were all night. seriously surprising, an industrial show with people appreciating mj…
before julien-k came on, we were sitting on the floor on the 2nd level and i looked over at the boots this girl was wearing next to me, and there was a random julien-k guitar pick on the floor. yoink! and later some girl came up to me and said her friend wanted to come give me a hug..um ok. so yeah this random guy came over and gave me a hug. later during JK’s set, he walked by on the lower level and grabbed my hand LOL. then i made another friend in line for the bathroom, this girl who would not stop talking to me, and i was like pleaaaase someone get out of a stall so i can get away from this girl! thankfully i didn’t see her the rest of the night. but i did run into danielle, which was weird, considering she’s you know…living in boston lol. she came home specially to see JK and amir recognized her (she’s the rough cutt girl dontyaknow) and gave her his guitar slide.
after, went back to adr2’s and they had made me a birthday cake and we watched Repo the Genetic Opera. i had really wanted to see it tho it looked bad. it was supposedly a rock opera, and it has an interesting concept story line. but…it was not good. it was pretty, but the music, which is sorta key to a rock opera/musical, was unexpectedly bad. and not even bad in a good way. it was just bad. 🙁
RIP Michael Jackson. omg.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009.
I should say something shouldn’t I? I am not sure I have the right words. There are very few people in my life right now who were around back in the 90s when I became a Michael Jackson fan. There are only a few in my life right now who even know I ever was…so I don’t expect most people reading this to understand what I am feeling upon hearing about his death.
It is hard to express what MJ meant to me, because people have their own thoughts and opinions about him. But he “came into my life” at a time where his music spoke to me, and he had a huge hand in what I have become. People see his controversies and his plastic surgery, but there was much much more to him than that. He made a lot of mistakes with his life and his own PR but I truly believe he was a genius. It is tragic what he had become. But everyone needs to remember what he was, what he did for music and dance, the doors he opened for black performers, his impact on pop culture. He was an immense talent, and his influence can be seen in every dance move by today’s stars like Usher and Britney Spears, and dance troupes like the Jabbawokies and those other dancing tv shows. Any artist who denies that he was an influence is a liar.
I am more upset than I expected to be when this happened, considering I haven’t paid much attention to him in years. It is a shock, for sure. I joked that I didn’t think his London concerts would ever happen, but I didn’t think it would be because he died. I still thought about flying out there for a show every day, but now I have to be content with having had the chance to see him perform twice in 1997.
Despite whatever MJ had become, he was a great artist, a great man, he was a father, and a brother, and a human being. He didn’t seem to have much peace in life, I hope he does in death.
Anyone who has rude cracks to make about him or his death, please don’t talk to me.
i bought Dr Pepper flavoured freezey pops at the dollar store. they were probably made in china and thus are poisonous but oh well, they were a dollar. and they don’t taste like Dr Pepper, they taste the way Dr Pepper chapstick tastes. reminiscent, but not quite right. which makes me wonder just how hard is it to put the same ingredients into a freezey pop so that it would taste the same?! just pour some Dr Pepper into plastic sleeves, easy.
dreams
had multiple dreams about robin finck ha. first one he was working at hot topic during the down time when nin and gnr weren’t doing anything (most of the time ha) and we were talking and he was a tattoo artist (because hot topic was offering tattoos and piercings). we realized he was the one who tattooed me years ago in a detroit hot topic haha. we were going to go out for drink when he was done at work and i left to walk around the mall. when i got back to the store we were sleeping on one of the tester temperpedic beds out in the mall concourse (cuz apparently there were 2 of me). 2nd dream, robin was my date to the worlds largest disco which he was enjoying way too much, dancing to YMCA etc. during a break in music we were walking around and saw all these preppy people from high school, and i wanted to go walk by and talk to them to show them how awesome robin and i were. he was all excited about showing off hah
NKOTB!!!
tonight was new kids on the block with jenn. 19 years later i finally get to see them and it was still super fun, and nice good old pop show. they performed for 2 hours, lots of new stuff that i didn’t know, and pretty much every old song that was at all popular. jordan did a reworked version of his solo hit “give it to you” (super hot) and joe did one of his solo songs as well. and joe doesn’t have tourettes when he is onstage 🙂 they still sound great (better than i remember them sounding live back in the day actually), and they dance and everything. openers were the dance crew jabawokees (sp), who were really good (makes me want to see MJ again), and jessie mccartney (young pop singer, i recognized one of the songs) who reminded me of Cory Heart (sunglasses at night) for some reason, maybe the 80s jacket. ran into mary and her sister, and some girls from work.
yay!