though dark you can still see robert and if you look close you can make out jason and simon. man i miss seeing them :(

GOING NOWHERE - THE CURE

I'm going nowhere
Don't look so scared
I'm going nowhere

So tell me that you love me again
Tell me that you care
So tell me that you love me again

Yeah I'm going nowhere
Don't look so scared
I'm going nowhere
Could be
Could be
Could be
I'm already there

okay, i feel i must break the monotony of new wave's cure blogs. hehe.
well, the olympics are over. that went by fairly quickly. did anyone watch the race where the crazy guy pushed the brazilian runner? that bloke was a good sport about it but i wonder if he could have won the gold?! hm.
my weekend was spent doing literally nothing. now i know what being bedridden is like. must be kind of nice. hehe.

sad to say but cure week is actually over :( it was fun and i'll always have my memories.

my third cure show was in carson at the home depot center on the cal state domiguez hills campus. that place blows for two reasons 1. parking was $20 bucks ... evil 2. they made us clear out the pit and i lost my PERFECT PERFECT standing spot :( sooo sad. but i didn't let that ruin my night. i rocked out to the cure and they played closedown for me ... YAY!! overall the show was pretty strong.

then it was off to sf and the sbc park. T.W.I.F.O.S.L.Y and i got to the park around 6-ish and got our tickets. we were on the club level deck so not too bad ... but still really far. at the point i didn't care because i was just so tired from standing in the pit the other two shows ... i just wanted to sit down. the show was alright ... towards the end it was a pop nightmare. i didn't like how no one was getting into it. it's all good though.

second cure posting ... went to the jimmy kimmel show yesterday. about 2 to 300 people, could be more or less. so my friend charles and i stood around ... got in and waited. luckily we didn't have to to wait too long because next thing we hear on the speakers is jimmy doing his show live. the show is under an hour so time went by pretty quick and the cure took stage. they played 2 songs for the show and then went into 4 more after. soooo good. fun fun and it was free so it was actually really fun. ha ha.

onwards to carson for the LA show then off to SF to rock out. ha ha my mom thinks i'm insane. i'm slightly agree with her :)

ituning: plainsong - the cure

hmmm hedwig that is pretty disturbing. do i really want to know which oslen twin i am. ha ha. oh and i forgot to mention i really liked your pictures from europe. looks like you and your cuz had a blast :)

alright here is my first cure posting for cure week - me and rancid girl left costa mesa around 4 and got to sd at 6:30-ish. stupid traffic on the 805 and then we got a bit lost because the exit we were looking for did not exist. ha ha. we seriously went to the END of calif. how crazy is that. we were like a mile from the international border. so we get into the show and grub on some bad food ... eh and then get some merch. i got a shirt, pins and keychain. i wanted the hoodie but they had already sold out :( oh well. so we make our way to the pit and watched as the stage got set up for interpol. they came on and played ... eh they were not very impressive in my opinion but then again i was waiting for the cure so anyone who went on i could care less about. ha ha.

so the cure gets on stage about 10 mins late :( and ROCK OUT hard. it was a strong show. i still prefer their inland invasion setlist but i know most fans just want the pop fav. so fine. during disintergration robert was losing it, he was so emotional. that had to be the BEST version of the song i have ever seen. oh man. i won't go into more detail but it was a good show. i'm curious to see what they will play for the LA and SF show.

which one are you?? haha

r.e.m. is back on tour. and i just found out that tix are $75. frankly, that's ridiculous. i guess i'm only going one night, because with the additional ticket fees, that's $100 each! i can't believe they would do that to their fans. plus, concert sales are hard enough. how will they fill out the venue?
anyway, today i had problems with my car acceleration and of course, los angeles drivers are the most understanding folk if you don't immediately speed when the light turns green right? actually, no. if you don't step on your gas in the first five seconds, you get a loud HONK! so it doesn't help that my car stalls a bit. additionally, if you find street parking and wait for the fellow to move his car but end up blocking traffic, HONK! so either end up deaf but get parking or forgo the space for your sanity. ah, los angeles driving.

CURE WEEK STARTS NOW !!!!

wait a minute ... britney sprears' had hits, enough to fit a whole cd ??? wtf. proving once again the american public are idiots. and you use to like her skimmy ... what were you thinking.

okay so for sheer entertainment and to show you how insane i am value i will tell you all my CURE WEEK next week. oh the joy -

on tues. i drive to coasta mesa to meet rancid girl and then we drive down to sd to rock out to the cure and then i drive home that night and crawl into work on wed. on thurs right after work i rush to hollywood and highland where the cure will be performing on the outdoor stage for the jimmy kimmel show :) and then i go home to sleep and then i took friday off because i figured i would be killing myself and i go to see the cure perform at carson and then i sleep and get up to catch my flight on sat. to sf where i go see them at the sbc park and then go pass out at T.W.I.F.O.S.L.Y aka FTC's place and then go home. (SIGH) and then cure week will be over :( ... sniff ........

ituning: new rose - dammned

I heard Britney Spears is releasing a Greatest Hits in November and is covering Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative." Whaaa???

Yeah, no thanks.

Hey all. I finally finished posting my pictures. Enjoy!
Pictures from Europe

hmm purplemonkeydishwasher is nice but have you found the jade monkey yet? hmm? thats what i thought. so i'm sitting here at work and I decided that its time to do my 2 week blog update. if you notice my blogs they are usually 2 weeks apart and happen to fall on the friday that i work. conincidence? probably..haha..vegas was fun, played some poker with mac at binions, didn't do that bad there and did decent at the blackjack tables, the killer for me on this trip, the stupid wheel of fortune $1 slot machine. All I ever want to do is spin the wheel, but did i? no!!! so annoying, just one spin would have made me happy, even if i won the measly 25 bucks. Anyway our softball team finally won as was pointed out before. It felt really good to finally win just one game, to make ourselves look competitive. Work is going good right now although its quite slow, as all of you who are emailed my weekly newsletter can see, there isn't a lot happening. for those who don't yet get it, let me know so i can sign you up for life. haha. I still need to see Garden State, it seems everyone I know has already seen it, sucks to be me. Although I'm sure there is no cool seen where the main character marries a giant bag of weed and then imagines his life with the bag of weed...haha. Dodgers in first place by 7 games as we speak...sniff...i get to attempt to buy playoff tix..sniff.....I think we need to have another game night soon, i'm itching for some cranium!!!

i've got an even better idea. why don't you get a lightning bolt tatoo on your forehead? and cut your hair short and wear black round glasses? that would be AWEsome haha.

seriously tho, my vote is for the butterflies on your lower back cuz i kno how you love wearing those low cut, hip hugger jeans!

hey new wave, maybe you should just settle on getting a gryffindor tattoo once and for all. and darth will get a slytherin one and i will get a ravenclaw one and hedwig can get a hufflepuff one. hogwarts unite. sorry, a bit of an inside joke.

or even better, why don't you get a lower back tattoo of butterflies so that when you bend forward, we can all get a peek of your g string and tat???

to answer your question dorkus - wero8opbjlatyfajklewiguvjlaek. i hope that helps. ha ha.

hedwig i want to see all your europe pictures ... rad.

vegas was fun mac ... for the few hours i saw you and hector. too bad you guys couldn't have stayed longer and kicked it with us. some people from the house went to lost wages aka las vegas as my cuz likes to call it. didn't gamble much or drink ... boooooooo but i did get to go shopping. wow my favorite activity next to getting a paper cut. the only plus of the trip was seeing the blue man group, the drum and bass for that show is awesome.

rambling: my uncle and two cuz came down from toronto to hang with the family this week, i'm getting OT at work which means money, jude law is suppose to play ian curtis the lead singer of joy division who committed suicide in 1980 (can't say i'm a huge fan of this idea),watched freaks (1932) movie and found it to be very odd and cool at the same time, summer is almost over ... then fall and winter and christmas ... dang, thinking of places to travel to .. so far i have thailand, singapore, greece and hawaii on my list .. any takers, my cuz just came back from brazil and loved it .. i want to go, six feet under season four is getting a bit better but not much, when will good fall tv be back on, trading spouses a whacked show, want to get a new tat but that cost money and i'm not sure what design to use, applebee's food is nasty, and lastly ....

cure news: so i'm not sure if the whole house knows but i'm going to three cure shows - SD, LA and SF. the SD one is with rancid girl and LA is with pigern and the SF i'm doing the solo bit. the best part is how everyone keeps telling me they are going to play the same songs. WRONG. so far the cure has played a different setlist every night. how freaking awesome is that. OH YAY. granted about 70% of the songs will be the same but there is that 30% that will be different. ROCK. LOVE THEM !!!

ituning: so what - the cure

Hurrah for Vegas, Vegas has stuck it to me again. Taking my money and all. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Wish I could of hung out with you guys more, well the ones who were out there. Anyways, I guess I have been on hiatus for a while from here. We finally won our first softball game. It only took us 7 tries. My pitching was downright unimpressive too, so it was nice to eek one by. My chemistry class is pretty easy considering I did not pay any attention in high school and it has been like 8 years since I have taken it. My lab partner is 17. I feel old now. Oh yeah, La Toya Jackson looks like Michael now. That is creepy to me. My rambling ends here.

54 years is a long time. i guess i will blog. school started so nothing really interesting. i'm working on my pictures from europe. i'll paste a link when i'm done. just a warning there are like 200 pictures and another warning, i forgot the name of some places and can't spell really well, so forgive me.

anyone else really excited that ralph feinnes got cast for the part of lord voldemort in harry potter 4? i hope it's better than the 3rd one.

hey, no one's blogged in like 54 years. so i can say whatever i want. as;difaghatjerlkj shamalamadingdong. purplemonkeydishwasher. you don't win friends with salad!

i can't believe how fast this summer has past. good thing we still have summer until october.

Tonight I saw the Hives at Henry Fonda. It was sponsored by Kroq. Ew ... My face fell when I saw their van at the venue. Anyway, I was grossed out because while I was standing in line, the older men nearby were checking out every girl who passed by. "Nice curves." "Ooh, I'd like that." Blah. And the first opening band Reigning Sound...well, my friend pretended to slit her wrists. He he. But Sahara Hotnights were awesome. Style! Sexy! Rawk! And the Hives also put on a good show. Sooo good. And they know it too, which makes it even better. He he. Luckily, I wasn't on the floor but upstairs with all the parents. That should give you an idea of the audience.

watched garden state this past weekend. thumbs up.

i love you zach braff.

I bought the latest Dashboard Confessional album today (A Mark, A Mission...). Wait! Before the ridicule...it came with a bonus DVD of the Album Covers show with Michael Stipe. I basically paid $12 for the DVD and got the CD as a "bonus." Anyway, it's pretty uninteresting for me to hear DC sing the REM tunes...but it's really great when Michael Stipe sings "Drive"--and bores the young kids who probably don't know who the heck he is to tears. Stipe also sings "Hands Down," which is a mediocre song but ah, Stipe does a great job. I never realized just how high and squeaky Chris Carrabba's voice is until it's paired with Stipe's. Anyway, all in all the DVD is primarily for DC fans. I like how in the bonus features there is an interview with Stipe that lasts all of three questions and one of them is "Where does 'Automatic From the People' come from?" Durrr! And then DC's interview lasts...well...I don't really know. I got bored and stopped watching it. But if Stipe at leasts respects them, then I guess they're okay. He he.