Yowza

Soooo, I am awful at this Blogging thing.

Ok, first things first. Bush. Ouch. What the hell are you guys thinking? Seriously America, what are you thinking?! I can't even properly articulate my shock at this outcome. Actually, maybe the worst part is, I 'm not shocked.

Anyways, I got my Shake the Sheets, and let me tell you, best album ALL YEAR. Hands down, bloody amazing. Counting Down the Hours is my favourite, I must somehow get it played at the show that is exactly in one month.


Also, I go for surgery tomorrow, eek. I don't want to talk about it though, sorry.

Ok, this was a quick post, I 'll be back another time, hopefully soon, fill you in then.

OK, so iit's been a long time since I "blogged".. I must get back to it, especially since I have had requests from some nerds who still read this...


Well, what' been new? I saw a few good concerts lately, including my ever loved French Kicks, they have gotten even better live, and Nick, the lead singer, just gorgeous. I would marry him.


Hmmm, my life seems boring and uneventful now that I look back. Oh wait, as of this Friday I will be unemployed, how's that?! Yeah, my boss called me in and wanted me to work full time, after we had just sorted everything out so that I could continue to work part-time and still do my volunteer work, and now he tells me they changed their mind. I don't know, my volunteering is very important to me, so I really didn't appreciate being asked to give it up for more work and a pay raise. Money is not that important to me, as long as I am making enough to pay my bills and save some, I am happy, so the fact that they tried to pressure me into working more with offers of more benifits and more money, I balked at the idea. So this is my last week of work, which was ok anyways. I go for knee surgery near the beginning of November and would be off for 3 weeks, then off for another 2 weeks at the beginning of December for a training coarse.. so I am just going to take the time off. I deserve it. So unemployed until I start looking again in December!


Wow if you read that, give yourself a pat on the back.


Shake the Sheets comes out in a week, I am excited. I really need to pre-order it, I hate that people don't want to ship to Canada.


Anywas, I need to work. Actually, I no longer care what I do here, so I am actually going to play around on the Internet because that's much more fun than work.

November 18th!!!!

i'm a ghost - so it dont matter what i know,and you wont mind if i dont speak "comme il faut,"but you've been caught "in flagrante delicto,"and the ghosts are lining up outside your door.because you cant make a sound from six feet under ground.now you'll say you disagree,but come on - look what we've found:if i can talk 'til im dead and still not get in your head,well then it's probably true, so let's put this idea to bed.


Frig, yes!!! *600 fist pumps* Dates announced! November 18th in Chicago, 19th in Detroit and Toronto soon to follow after that!


Wherever did I get that ingenious idea to check www.ticketmaster.com for Ted Leo dates because he had not updated his site with any? I don't know, but it was the BEST idea I ever had. So we have the dates now. We can plan. We can strategize. But mainly, we can freak out.


Ahhhh, and freak out I do! I get so excited thinking about it! And really, two and a half months away is not long at all. Plus, I have so much to do in the wait time.

September 12th - Old 97's concert

September 17th - Snow Patrol

October 1st - Q and not U

October 2nd - Aunt and Uncle's 10th anniversary party, kareoke party (ugh)

October 9th - Wilco (I am still hoping to go)

October 10th - TV on the Radio OR The Reputation

October 19th - Shake the Sheets release, Elliott Smith's Hill, and David Bowie DVD AND Les Savy Fav Concert!

THat is my next two months, not to mention my weekend away, my training days for work, my mom going to Vancouver, so I have to drop her off and pick her up and recieve my presents. Ohh and I am going to the Exhibition on Monday! Yes!!! Super fun.

It's Friday, nice and relaxed day at work... I think I will go do trip research.

List of stuff to be done:

Find bus ticket. Done. Leave Wednesday night at 6:30, arrive in Chicago at 5 Thursday morning.

Buy bus ticket.

Find where bus station is in Chicago

Find where the Metro is in comparison. Find DETAILED maps for Sam and Haley to get me, I don't want to be stuck forever.

Find cool shops near the Metro

Email Ted

Find Train station near Haley and Sam

Find train station in Detroit

Find Magik Stick club in comparison to train station.

Find hotel near club

Find Bus schedule back to Toronto, not a big deal, any time late Saturday

Get the girls phone numbers to exchange plans, information and get used to each other's voices!

Buy video tapes and film. A lot of both

Start shopping. Yes, I am excited about that. need presents for the girls

OK, I need to get back to "work" . Oh, and the new site is up and the show is AWESOME, the boards rock, and the whole thing is jsut a work of art. Hope everyone that worked on it is proud.

Heh Heh Heh

Over and over and over againI say that were just friends
Forget the implications
Infatuations end
If loves so easy, why is it hardI can't imagine ever being apart
I'll come back to you
Itd be brand new
But I promise We're just friends



Ok, so I have been very lax at getting back to this... oh well.

Let's see, what's new in Ted news? He did his Listening party for Shake the Sheets.. hwo did it go? I wouldn't know, as Ted has not updated his site in over two months... ergh. Also, a new date was announced for in October, a Lookout Part, that would be awesome to go to, I would love to see the Reputation again, they rocked. But of coarse, it is also in New York... stupid no-Canada dates...


So the new BLS site is supposed to go up today.. www.campjinx.com . I am pretty excited, I have been using it as another marker on the way to the Chicago trip... GBV last album, new site, Snow Patrol concert (probably my least fave on the list), Q and Not U concert, Shake the Sheets release and Les Savy Favs concert on the same day, and by then, it'll only be a month til the concert, in which we will be busy planning and such. SO it should all go by pretty quickly.

I really wanted to go see Wilco and Morrissey, but it would have cost me like, 120 bucks to see them, and right now, I have like 4 or 5 other concerts I can go to for less than that, plus the Chicago/Detroit trip... I really need to save.


Oh and Summerteeth is pretty decent, interesting for sure. And I picked up a Billy Bragg/Wilco cd, covering Woody Guthrie lyrics... it's pretty darn cool.. I think I really like it.


Funeral was on Saturday.. really sad. Dinner out on Saturday night was fun too, a lot of people I don't hang out with much, so it was cool.

Who loves TL/Rx?! I do!

and when you meet me on the ledge,we'll all be singing out again.and if you must, then jump away.i'm not afraid - we'll meet another day.



Listening party this Wednesday in New York for Ted's new album... how jealous am I?! But, as of right now, any date posted is a good sign.

I can't believe it is still like 3 months to this concert. I don't think Sam,HAley, Lauren and I are normal. I dunno... do 4 girls who have never met (except Sam and Haely) who live 13 hour drives from each other and just started to happen to tlak to one another about their favourite band normally plan to meet and go to a concert of a tiny, barely-heard of band four months in advance?! I don't think so. We are offically the coolest Ted Leo fans ever.


I am tired today. And I realized, I talk about the same things in my blog all the time. Ted,Ted, and more Ted. What can I say, the man occupies my thoughts!

Actually, speaking of hot men, I saw The Village last night. Joaquin Phoenix, woudln't mind getting in on that action! Actually, he was amazing in the movie. his character was a more subdued, subtle character, and he played him perfectly. The movie was brilliant. M.Night Shyamalan will always make movies that frighten the life out of me... I screamed several times and kicked the back of the chair of the guy in front of me at least twice. But it was so good, I must go see it again.


Well, not much else is new. My romance that sort of died off in the past while just may start up again, I dunno. Brandon.. so.. I dunno. He is amazingly sweet and kind and has a great sense of humor, and extremely good looking... also my sister-in-laws cousin, really good friends with my brother, plays baseball with him every week... and I still haven't figured out if that is a pro or a con. I figure I will just let it become whatever it becomes. I am a huge fan of letting things work themselves out, some would call it laziness, I preferred laid-back. Well, and lazy, definetly lazy.

I guess since I write in this only like twice a week now, I write more at one time. But I really have nothing to say, which sucks.

Charley went through Florida, but for the most part, missed South Carolina, which was what I was watching, sice talking to Cass so much. Isn't it weird how a few months ago, I had no idea who these people were, adn now I worry for their safety. craziness.

Ohhh no work tomorrow. Part time freaking rocks. I don't know how people can work the same job every day. Even if I loved my job ( which I don't) I wouldnt' be able to take going there every single day, I would tear my hair out from the sheer boredom and monotony of it all...

Well, I suppose I should get back to work, but first, must find some fitting Ted lyrics to go across the top.

One full week

The first time I saw you I knew it would never last
I'm not half what I wish I was
I'm so angry
I don't think it'll ever pass
and I was bad news for you just because
I never meant to hurt you



OK SO I have started to..not lose interest, but just not remember.


Yikes, last Friday was an intense day... I must have been drunk. Not really, so don't be all "ooohh she's drunk" just... wow. I dunno.


Double work today, funzo.

I can't decide how to write this thing... I don't know if people still read it. I mean, I write things differently if I am just writing to myself, or if I know people read it. I guess I should just go with the idea that others will read it for some weird reason and censor myself.


Strokes have a live album coming out, probably November. And are working on their next full length... so many people jsut released or are releasing albums. I counted, I currently have 63 albums I want in my collection...that's like 13o0 bucks... Yeah I don't have that just sitting around for cds... damn, maybe I will take up a life of crime.


Family reunion tomorrow, oh goodness kill me now. Good thing is, half the family is in a huff about someone yelling at their dumbass kid for being a brat so now the family is divided and choosing sides, makes me happy because the half I don't like won't be there... so it should be ok.

Friday again already?

Chasing sea-foam dreams, around another dirty old town; parallel run streams toward the grey ocean from the green ground; 'Oed und leer, das meer,' but look beneath the galssy surface -- all the songs you hear; down there they serve a purpose.



Then the song goes into that killer guitar part and Ted is jumping all over the stage, I can see it all cleary... I do admit, I had to look at the lyrics to be able to spell the whole "Oed und leer" part... It comes from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" poem, means Desolate and empty the sea, an interesting fact I did not know before. Ted makes me want to learn more. He is such an amazing, intellectual lyricist, how does he do it. Although really, he can't compare to "I wanna heal/ I wanna feel" ahahaha you know what I am talking about.


It is already Friday again, how weird. It seems that all the weeks are just kind of melting into one, now only marked apart by each crazy busy Satuday and the mellow relaxed Sunday. I think it is a sign I am getting old. I am joining the "real world", the 9-5 job, with the summer vacations and the office Christmas parties. Am I soon expected to "settle down" find Mr. Right, date for two years, get married and have 2.3 children? It depresses me to think about.

So instead I dwell on this thought: Every Friday that comes and goes is one Friday closer to Ted, Jamie, and my three girls that I look forward to meeting so much.

I want this to be a year tradition. I am not sure how long it can stay for, I mean, Lauren is 23, I am turning 21, how much longer before she (or I, yeah right) do actually meet someone or find something that ties us down, and these trips will be nothing more then memories? I vow to never let that happen to me. I think I have too much of a wanderer's spirit in me then is good for me...

When I was younger, and people would ask what we wanted to be when we grew up, and all the kids were saying "firefighter" or "lawyer" I was thinking "I would like walk around the world and work spare jobs for a living, no home for me" so yeah, things didn't work out the way I planned, I am curretly employed, have my own apartment, and the furthest I have travelled alone is four hours away. I miss being a kid. I have a Peter Pan complex.