Monday, March 30, 2009

For lack of using the copy pasta function and not wanting to bore you with all the daily boredom I deal with I haven't posted anything from my daily bloggings....that I also slack off with. Here are some highlights. 02/21/09 Saturday Did some printing at the university just now trying out some filters...and really starting my adventure into the darkroom.....so scary! Then hit up a semi-new bar with Saffron and Joel, it's called "Fire on Water" Saffron kept calling it "Smoke on the Water" LOL....anyways we hit is up since it was $2 anything night...all I can say to that is WOOT! Seriously anything we got quite toasted played some pinball out there listened to a good mix of music. Anyways after that we headed out to the beach since there was a bonfire happening *we just got the call to late to buy a bottle of booze so we got smashed at the bar....except Joel so he could drive and since he could still buy beer well into the night* after a long way out made it to the bonfire. I did some fire twirling and then as the night progressed I started to make it fire tossing since I couldn't twirl the stick anymore =( /fail. 02/22/09 Sunday Crawled into a freezing bed after the beach trip...and sleeping a bit in my car.....which I think my car was seriously warmer. Watched the Oscar's on a small tv in my parents' room since my mom wanted to drink with my aunt and so my uncle could watch whatever he wanted to in Spanish. I was all like "but, but....it's the Oscars!" Anyway....most of my predictions were correct although I hadn't seen a few of the big winners yet...like "Slumdog Millionaire" I was predicting a few wins for them but not the eight they won although I gotta say the music was killer for the movie score and songs. [rest of Oscar rambleings omitted] 02/23/09 Monday Went to the movies with Saffron saw "Mall Cop" very predictable but cute and funny all the same. Lochness monster as a tramp stamp gotta say awesome and frightening. Also ended up at the little carnival that they had going next to the theater. Played the coin pusher until we were out of money...almost had two very cheap but wrong lighters LOL. 02/24/09 Tuesday Finally figured out where I went wrong in the Gintama DS Game 02/26/09 Thursday Happy Birthday Johnny Cash. Celebrated what would be his 77th birthday at Brewster St. Ice House with Neal Edwards, Paul Sutherland and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. Originally Matt Hole and the Hot Rod Gang were supposed to play this night as well but for some reason they weren't in the line up =( Anyways first time being at this venue which is a smaller version of the Gruene Hall and I have to say if it wasn't for the good music I wouldn't have chosen this location. Each band pulled out a cover of one of Cash's hit songs. Neal did "I Still Miss Someone"...ok maybe not a huge hit but certainly a heartful rendition of this song. Paul pulled out "Folsom Prison Blues" and because I was feeling quite happy and being silly when the line "I'm stuck in Folsom Prison" came up I looked over at Saffron and sang "I'm stuck in Corpus Christi" we busted out laughing so hard. Bastard Sons also did Folsom Prison Blues but it was much closer to the original than Paul's version. They also pulled out "I Walk the Line" and a few others did a cover of Elvis' "That's Alrgiht" and did some original songs that were cool. After the show we all *Saffron, Joel, Bunny and myself* talked with a few of the members mainly the singer/lead guitarist. I drunkenly told him that it was a damn good show and talked a bit about Cash then before he went back to the merch booth he pointed at my pick necklace that was quite nicely placed right above my cleavage....and was all like "That's nice what is it" *blonde for a sec* "Oh it's a pick from the Toadies" Seriously since I got the necklace holder I've been wearing it every day....nearly everyday. 02/27/09 Friday Made anime club draw pr0n for prizes....lol 02/28/09 Saturday Printed a few pieces *last minute* for the upcoming critique. Afterwards we took Pheonix out to celebrate his 21st birhtday. Poor boy shouldn't have tried conning to alcoholics. He kept claiming to be sober....we planned to get him smashed....so with every lie he had to down another glass. Thank the drunks for $2 you call it. I will say though he surprised me in that he knocked back a double shot of Tequila *I hate the stuff* and Wild Turkey on his first outing. A few drinks later he was crying, apologizing and throwing up quite profusely....Mission Accomplished. Saffron played driver for me since I kept going well after Victoria took the birthday boy home. 03/03/09 Tuesday Did the critique while still feeling crappy. It went pretty well....better than I had expected. Greg *teacher* didn't make too many comments about it just that I should try doing more afternoon/night shots since I seem to always go out on overcast mornings but that I still had some really good pieces from it. 03/06/09 Friday Made plans for my birthday...that'll be listed later. No anime club tonight for me. Headed up to Austin with Joel and Saffron met up with Monkey and went to a place literally named "Hole in the Wall" and finally after six months of trying to catch one of their shows saw "THe BAcksliders" after the show I got all of them to sign their 7" single and talked a while with singer about trying to see them originally at Dia de los Toadies and a bit on music in general...she's really cool I hope they come closer more often. No offense to those up in like Dallas but unless it's something big I can't really afford to drive up there. Austin I can manage. 03/09/09 Monday Started up a Twitter....I know because I really need more social networking/stalkerish things. My username there is ookumae. 03/11/09 Wednesday Went to House of Rock for the Sweet Daddy/Riverboat Gamblers concert. It was actually a better turn out than I expected tickets were a bit steep but I really wanted to hear Sweet Daddy again....they only play like once a year...and I figured I'd get some good shots of the Riverboat Gamblers. They're vocalist is still crazy as all Hell. Seriously at one point he's climbing the double stacked speakers into a crawl space that is barely there speakers shaking the entire time....which I happen to be right by considering if it's worth the shot I could get if the speaker fell on me...thankfully it didn't fall. Jumps down into the crowd then back to the table where my buddies are sitting sings a ballad to one of the guys LOL and then slides into the chair I originally was sitting in and breaks the handle WOOT. There was more stuff but that was the more lively stuff. I ended up using like four rolls of film and when I was set to put my film camera away I notice he's behind me I toss one of my buddies my film camera and pull out my digital in time for more fun Xd. 03/13/09 Friday Headed out to SA for the Lions concert only to find out the venue had a fire the night before and was shut down until further notice...tried messaging the band through Twitter and failed since Austin has an underscore in his username...and my phone doesn't =[ Ended up in Universal City at a cowboy bar called Billy D's listening to a cover band with the most random awesome setlist ever. 03/17/09 Tuesday St. Paddy's Day~! Original plans were to hit up the pre-SXSW show at Trophy's in Austin but then it became the pub crawl in town but what ended up happening was we all went and donated plasma and crashed out at Joel's.....exciting I know......WAIT I almost forgot Joel and I went to see Watchmen. Not quite what I was expecting on the sole basis of previews but still a very good long flick. 03/18/09 Wednesday Again planned to head up to Austin this time for two seperate SXSW shows one for Black Gasoline the other for Lions...but right after I picked up Joel my car decided to die on me. I was thinking it was the battery and the alternator but thankfully it was just the battery....which still to my disappointment meant we could have at least seen Lions but we decided to stay in town and blow the traveling money on good food and minigolfing...which that was pretty enjoyable. Also Nerf'd it up with Joe. 03/21/09 Saturday Went to House of Rock with Bunny and Saffron we went not sure of what to expect since a few of the bands were members of the Avenue Rockers Bunny thought Punk show....awesome. I was expecting a mix of rockabilly. Saffron just wanted a show. We ended up at this Country/Rockabilly show very enjoyable none the less. Hung out a bit with one of the guys from Whitney Morgan. 03/22/09 Sunday Saffron and I made a last minute decision to go up to San Antonio on Sunday....OK we debated heavily over going up since I had spent more in this week than planned...since I didn't hear about this show until Friday night. Then we decided I had wanted to see Peelander-Z for longer than it would take to get the funding for the other stuffs that money would go to so we hopped in the truck and took off to Sam's Burger Joint. The only band I had heard previously was Peelander-Z and I gotta say I'm still very happy with most of my decisions that day....I only wished that I would have recharged the batteries that were in the camera from when we went minigolfing so I could have gotten more pictures. After getting only somewhat lost...thanks to my great sense of misdirection. We pulled up to Sam's Burger Joint a bit after doors opened not a bad start. Grabbed up one table in front of the "pit" but then stole what was the perfect table for watching the stage and the crowd. I wanted pictures I kept moving between the table and stage. First band was The Birthday Suits....pretty cool...at first I was into the shredding but in retrospect its just another "new" band...in the sense I mean their music is all about how many crazy riffs they could do.....to quote a tweet I read a few days back "[It was] like eating Adderall with a really talented four year old." Got a few nice pics out of it and two vids. Ran into Rebeca at the bar was not expecting to see her of all people but it was nice to catch up a bit. Next up Quaff....first off I totally misheard the minor who told me their name ROFLMAO! They turned out to be really awesome. Hailing from TenjouKai "Heaven's Paradise" their masked MC kept the beats flowing while their Earth singer and band laid out a groovin' melody that kept the crowd entranced. Quaff really made me forget and not care about all the cool shows I had missed out on over Spring Break. Also they mentioned how Zone-00 is coming out this month WICKED cool manga that sadly only had one chapter scanlated but even off that you can see how it really is collectible worthy. Quaff ended their set with a cover of Micheal Jackon's "Beat It," I have to say they really won me over during their set...Saffron too! That hardly ever happens!! We ended up buying their two latest CDs a bit off-chance really since I pointed at two CDs semi-randomly but one was titled a song we heard so I was sure it'd be fine....turned out for the best. Also snagged a pic with one of the guitarists.....off the last little juice left in the camera (after the whole show). Next up was The Emeralds. They reminded me a bit of The Pillows only less Funk in their style. The crowd was all over them I enjoyed it but for the progression of energy I was brought down I would have put them before Quaff possibly even before The Birthday Suits. Finally was Peelander-Z which there was a great show but not really too much on the music side but still very entertaining. When they first started playing Peelander Red came out with a giant squid costume at one point memebers of the crowd were hitting strings for him....I only missed because when the bass was swung my way I was hit by it....no worries it's hard to see out of a squid LOL. They started off the "official" set with "Mad Tiger." For "Karaoke Party" one of the guiarists for Quaff and the bassist for The Emeralds came up and sang. There was mass Limbo and a bit of Peelander bowling. One song member of the audience were given what seemed to be metal dog bowls and drumsticks to play what can only be described as "more cowbell." Lots of randomness in general. For the last "official" set song "Bassist Needed" members of every band came up and started either playing a random instrument or prop. Mass sing-a-long to "We are the Champions" and Para Para-ish dancing to Happee P. Ended up not getting P/Z stuff since I knew I could get their merch online and I was more interested in Quaff at that point...which was good since they seem to only sell at live shows. 03/28/09 Saturday Got to the university around 3...managed to get four really good fiber prints in...and if I would have shown up earlier and possibly have gotten any enlarger other than the color head *which threw me for a good hour or two* I might have been able to get the full five prints...oh well I at least know what I need for the next lab date. 03/29/09 Sunday Slept in and worked on almost all the pictures from the last Lions concert I was at...in January....^^; I'm done with the set it's just almost all the pictures since there were a few I was more happy with as B&W photos....I didn't care for most of the color shots since the bar they played at insisted on having only red lights up the entire show =( Sorry that was probably the longest post I've done in a LONG time....here's a cookie...fresh from the store...HA List of events I'm looking forward to: ___________________________ Toadies Concert in San Antonio April 3rd Toadies Concert in College Station April 8th Gambling Trip in Louisiana April 10th - 12th Electric Six Concert in Austin April 15th (considering....) Pineapple Protein Concert in Corpus April 17th Voltaire Concert in San Antonio April 18th Cake Concert in Austin April 28th Paul Sutherland Concert in Corpus April 30th Toadies Concert in Austin May 8th *WOOT right after my birthday* Toadies Concert in Corpus May 9th *FUCK YEAH Toadies for my birthday weekend what more could I ask for* A-Kon 20 in Dallas May 29th - 31st See you on the otherside

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