21 April 2009
So it would be really cool if I could figure out what I'm interested in school-wise. This whole no-idea-what-I'm-studying-for thing is getting old. I need to declare a major soon. Really soon. Like within the next couple of weeks. I'll go with European Studies, but at this point it seems like that's just a way to buy myself more time. I have 100 units so I am technically a junior...should be ahead of the curve. But who knows if the classes I've taken are going to ultimately contribute to my degree. Hmph. I'm going to be in school forever. Guess it's better than trying to find a job though in this sucky economy.
13 April 2009
On Saturday morning I checked my twitter to find this [get ready for a lot of screencappage]:
Oh, cool, I'll check out a live vid. Sounds like fun.
OH MY FREAKIN GOD WE MADE THAT LIVE VID! WHAAT?!? Yeah, I guess my spontaneous decision to @reply Brendan with the url to that video was a good idea. Usually I won't @reply people I don't know. I just think it's weird. But I know he does all the editing and videoage for Valencia and thought he might be interested to see that video. We messaged both vids to the band's myspace back when we uploaded them, but I doubt George even watched them. Anyways, I'm rambling. Long story short that basically doubled the views we had on Holiday in a matter of hours. On Friday we had about 150 views, and as of right now we have 531. Whoah. Brendan also posted a blog about the video and a bulletin. Wow. Oh and I just took a gander at the comments on Brendan's website post and they made me smile a little =]. OH! He put the video on his blog too. Wheee!
Laura and I both got a text from Shane [The Scenic, haha not Valencia] telling us that we're famous now. Yeah... pretty much we are famous now. It's official. =P
I feel I should include both Valencia videos. Because I love them.
Oh, cool, I'll check out a live vid. Sounds like fun.
OH MY FREAKIN GOD WE MADE THAT LIVE VID! WHAAT?!? Yeah, I guess my spontaneous decision to @reply Brendan with the url to that video was a good idea. Usually I won't @reply people I don't know. I just think it's weird. But I know he does all the editing and videoage for Valencia and thought he might be interested to see that video. We messaged both vids to the band's myspace back when we uploaded them, but I doubt George even watched them. Anyways, I'm rambling. Long story short that basically doubled the views we had on Holiday in a matter of hours. On Friday we had about 150 views, and as of right now we have 531. Whoah. Brendan also posted a blog about the video and a bulletin. Wow. Oh and I just took a gander at the comments on Brendan's website post and they made me smile a little =]. OH! He put the video on his blog too. Wheee!
Laura and I both got a text from Shane [The Scenic, haha not Valencia] telling us that we're famous now. Yeah... pretty much we are famous now. It's official. =P
I feel I should include both Valencia videos. Because I love them.
11 April 2009
07 April 2009
So last week I saw some friends who I hadn't hung out with since last quarter. We were all updating each other on our lives and whatnot and I explained how CRAZY March was with all of the GNSR/Bidwell shows and everything. Then they called me a groupie. Ugh I hate that word. And I would just like to state for the record that I am not a groupie. I do not buy presents for bands [ok that happened once but it was more of a joke], make them baked goods [ok that has also happened, for the same band, but still a joke], go to concerts hoping to leave with a new bff for life, ask for phone numbers, or in any way hope to develop some kind of a romantic relationship [or any kind of relationship for that matter] with a band dude. Come on, dating a guy in a band who is gone half the year is wayyyy to practical for my taste. I've been going to concerts since July, and I can honestly say that when I'm seeing a band for the first time the I am not preoccupied with getting to meet them and hang out with them and vie for their attention. No. First and foremost it is about the music. I am truly interested to hear what a band sounds like live. If I end up meeting them after, that's cool. I have legitimately become friends with a few bands, so those shows are obviously more fun, but there are also bands that I just don't click with. Rather than obsessing over "fixing" that "problem," I move on. It's not a big deal. Whatever. Since October shows have also become an opportunity for new business of sorts, as Laura and I try to spread the word about Listen&Love and potentially meet bands who would be interested in having us film for them. [Hopefully we can start making money off of this soon]. So yeah. That's my rant. This has really been bugging me lately and I just needed to throw it out there. Take it or leave it.
06 April 2009
Okay I think I'm ready for this now...
Bamboozle Left 2009. Aka my very first Bamboozle. How precious. anyways...It was pretty awesome. We got there a couple hours early so we could get a good spot in the monstrous line. At 12 it was already freakin hot outside. Not a good sign. Saw Racing Kites, Valencia [definitely didn't remember us haha] and Uh Oh! Explosion. I think we finally got into the park around 1:30... sometime between 1:30 and 2 maybe. Turns out cameras weren't a problem as long as they were point-and-shoots AND you could bring as much food as you could fit in a gallon-sized ziploc bag. Things to keep in mind for next time. Whoa. If all goes as planned I won't go next year because I'll be studying abroad. That's weird. But that's beside the point. Back to Bamboozle. We saw SO MANY freakin people there. Right away Kelly from Teen Hearts recognized us [er, Laura at least because she planned the benefit they played], then someone [Greg?] from Anarbor recognized her from the acoustic set they played at Active back in January because she had asked him if he could make people sit down haha. Yeah, must have been Greg. We decided to devote the first hour or so to getting our bearings because we knew we'd be racing from one stage to another because ALL THE FREAKIN bands we wanted to see overlapped. Of course. So we sort of found out where all the stages were, got some free candy, sat in the grass, and made a list of the sets we wanted to catch. It all had to be master-planned or it wasn't going to work. OH! How could I forget! The first thing I bought when we walked through the entrance was a 2 year subscription to AP. Yay =]. Then before sitting in the grass I bought a Valencia t-shirt basically just so I could get a B-side. I wanted the shirt anyways though so it worked out. But now I have no money. Crap. Okay I think I have everything straight now. So we were stopped by the bass player, Nate [gahhh I know toooo many nates!], of Sing it Loud after making our list and he convinced Laura to buy their CD and also managed to convince us to deviate from our aforementioned list to see THEIR set first. Turns out they're really good and probably have the most fun on stage of almost any band I've seen so far.
Nate - Sing it Loud
Next... We were GOING to see We the Kings at 4:00, but when I bought my Valencia stuff we found out that they'd be doing an acoustic set at the VIP tent behind the MLB stage. Hm. We're definitely not VIPs [according to Bamboozle], so we weren't exactly sure how this would work. We kind of hung around the entrance to the tent for a while, assessing the situation, and realized that we definitely needed VIP passes for this. Dang it. So basically we ended up peeking over the short wall, trying to hear as much as we could while Artist vs Poet made entirely too much noise across the way at the State Farm Stage. When they finished we wanted to try to see some of Teen Hearts' set because we told Kelly we'd try to get there haha. But wow the Kazoozle stage was IMPOSSIBLE to find. So we missed it. And found ourselves with time to kill. So we bought some bomb chicken strips and french fries and made a dog.
Then... Uh Oh! Explosion? Yes. Oh wait, no. They were before Valencia's acoustic set. We filmed "Balls of Los Al" and I edited it yesterday in like half an hour or something crazy like that haha. Okay... so after linner we saw oh Racing Kites I believe. Then...VALENCIA! for real. We had to leave RK early to get to Valencia, and still missed the beginning of Holiday. Oh well. OHMYGOD they are amazing. I love them more every time I see them. SO GOOD. They have confetti and George might be one of my heroes now because he's just that cool.
After Valencia... OH we raced over to Kazoozle [because we knew where it was now haha] and saw half of Every Avenue's last song. Then we were right where we needed to be to see The Scene Aesthetic. Kind of a weird set. Many technological difficulties. They had to share a mic for a while =\ Still good though. Then we really wanted to see Racing Kites' acoustic set...but again, the non-VIP problem. Dave had mentioned to us earlier that he'd see if he could get us in. And pretty much he's awesome and totally did. He told just to just walk behind him and if the security lady said something he'd tell her we were with him. She stopped us. She actually touched me. Like, grabbed my arm. What was I going to do? Run INTO a confined space and somehow elude her? Uhh. So he flashed his "ARTIST" laminate [uh, he's not an artist, but okay] and she shrugged and released me from her grasp haha. Okay maybe she wasn't holding onto me the whole time but that's the story I'm going to tell. After RK played I sought out potential new GNSR fans and handed out like 7 business cards. Now Dan's going to ship us a whole box of them so we'll be ready at any time to recruit new fangirls. I feel so important. Hokay, after RK... Oh Laura stole more candy. Then... Oh then we went and saw some of Anarbor's set. They finished. We were exhausted. Trudged back to my car. My feet were KILLING ME. I was sun burnt. Ow it was a long hot day. We decided to find a Jack in the Box because we wanted free food. Those tacos are no delicacy, but they were fine and free and I wasn't going to complain.
A crazy day, but a pretty awesome day. Oh, here's the list of the people we saw:
dj rossstar
jan
sparks
peter h
dland chick with the yoda backpack
gnsr shirt
bidwell shirt
ea
oz
laura's old ASB president
hide & seek shirt
fearless girl
the alley girl
ppl laura thinks she went to hs with
ahhh time for disneyland!
Bamboozle Left 2009. Aka my very first Bamboozle. How precious. anyways...It was pretty awesome. We got there a couple hours early so we could get a good spot in the monstrous line. At 12 it was already freakin hot outside. Not a good sign. Saw Racing Kites, Valencia [definitely didn't remember us haha] and Uh Oh! Explosion. I think we finally got into the park around 1:30... sometime between 1:30 and 2 maybe. Turns out cameras weren't a problem as long as they were point-and-shoots AND you could bring as much food as you could fit in a gallon-sized ziploc bag. Things to keep in mind for next time. Whoa. If all goes as planned I won't go next year because I'll be studying abroad. That's weird. But that's beside the point. Back to Bamboozle. We saw SO MANY freakin people there. Right away Kelly from Teen Hearts recognized us [er, Laura at least because she planned the benefit they played], then someone [Greg?] from Anarbor recognized her from the acoustic set they played at Active back in January because she had asked him if he could make people sit down haha. Yeah, must have been Greg. We decided to devote the first hour or so to getting our bearings because we knew we'd be racing from one stage to another because ALL THE FREAKIN bands we wanted to see overlapped. Of course. So we sort of found out where all the stages were, got some free candy, sat in the grass, and made a list of the sets we wanted to catch. It all had to be master-planned or it wasn't going to work. OH! How could I forget! The first thing I bought when we walked through the entrance was a 2 year subscription to AP. Yay =]. Then before sitting in the grass I bought a Valencia t-shirt basically just so I could get a B-side. I wanted the shirt anyways though so it worked out. But now I have no money. Crap. Okay I think I have everything straight now. So we were stopped by the bass player, Nate [gahhh I know toooo many nates!], of Sing it Loud after making our list and he convinced Laura to buy their CD and also managed to convince us to deviate from our aforementioned list to see THEIR set first. Turns out they're really good and probably have the most fun on stage of almost any band I've seen so far.
Next... We were GOING to see We the Kings at 4:00, but when I bought my Valencia stuff we found out that they'd be doing an acoustic set at the VIP tent behind the MLB stage. Hm. We're definitely not VIPs [according to Bamboozle], so we weren't exactly sure how this would work. We kind of hung around the entrance to the tent for a while, assessing the situation, and realized that we definitely needed VIP passes for this. Dang it. So basically we ended up peeking over the short wall, trying to hear as much as we could while Artist vs Poet made entirely too much noise across the way at the State Farm Stage. When they finished we wanted to try to see some of Teen Hearts' set because we told Kelly we'd try to get there haha. But wow the Kazoozle stage was IMPOSSIBLE to find. So we missed it. And found ourselves with time to kill. So we bought some bomb chicken strips and french fries and made a dog.
Then... Uh Oh! Explosion? Yes. Oh wait, no. They were before Valencia's acoustic set. We filmed "Balls of Los Al" and I edited it yesterday in like half an hour or something crazy like that haha. Okay... so after linner we saw oh Racing Kites I believe. Then...VALENCIA! for real. We had to leave RK early to get to Valencia, and still missed the beginning of Holiday. Oh well. OHMYGOD they are amazing. I love them more every time I see them. SO GOOD. They have confetti and George might be one of my heroes now because he's just that cool.
After Valencia... OH we raced over to Kazoozle [because we knew where it was now haha] and saw half of Every Avenue's last song. Then we were right where we needed to be to see The Scene Aesthetic. Kind of a weird set. Many technological difficulties. They had to share a mic for a while =\ Still good though. Then we really wanted to see Racing Kites' acoustic set...but again, the non-VIP problem. Dave had mentioned to us earlier that he'd see if he could get us in. And pretty much he's awesome and totally did. He told just to just walk behind him and if the security lady said something he'd tell her we were with him. She stopped us. She actually touched me. Like, grabbed my arm. What was I going to do? Run INTO a confined space and somehow elude her? Uhh. So he flashed his "ARTIST" laminate [uh, he's not an artist, but okay] and she shrugged and released me from her grasp haha. Okay maybe she wasn't holding onto me the whole time but that's the story I'm going to tell. After RK played I sought out potential new GNSR fans and handed out like 7 business cards. Now Dan's going to ship us a whole box of them so we'll be ready at any time to recruit new fangirls. I feel so important. Hokay, after RK... Oh Laura stole more candy. Then... Oh then we went and saw some of Anarbor's set. They finished. We were exhausted. Trudged back to my car. My feet were KILLING ME. I was sun burnt. Ow it was a long hot day. We decided to find a Jack in the Box because we wanted free food. Those tacos are no delicacy, but they were fine and free and I wasn't going to complain.
A crazy day, but a pretty awesome day. Oh, here's the list of the people we saw:
dj rossstar
jan
sparks
peter h
dland chick with the yoda backpack
gnsr shirt
bidwell shirt
ea
oz
laura's old ASB president
hide & seek shirt
fearless girl
the alley girl
ppl laura thinks she went to hs with
ahhh time for disneyland!
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