it's days like these that keep me on my winning streak

Act II of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is up!!
Quick! Watch it before the entire internet crashes!!

ETA: OMGOMGOMGOMG!! I think I've found a new text message alert! How many icons of 'The hammer is my penis' will there be by the time I wake up in the morning? ;)

Mini Concert Review:
Valencia - They were okay. Nothing amazingly special but not offensively bad either.
The Audition - These guys are secretly a hair band from 1989. Awesome! I liked their set alot!
All Time Low - Hmmmm. I liked the music. But their stage banter was questionable for the age of the audience members.
Boys Like Girls - These guys have come SO far from when we saw them open for Butch Walker last summer. They had that whole auditorium whipped into a squealing frenzy! It was a blast! And I got a guitar pick to add to my collection.

But seriously? Whoever scheduled the show in a place with seats needs to be fired. Ridiculous!


Dear internet pirates,

I fucking LOVE you right now!

With much adoration, me

Oh my gosh, you guys! I totally forgot to watch Desperate Housewives last night! =/ What kind of fan girl am I? Thank goodness for those ever-reliable internet tubes and their pirated TV shows.

How did this week get so damn busy?
Monday - going out with Big Daddy just canceled! boo - looks like I'll be working for a sick coworker
Tuesday - Hallmark joy
Wednesday - Josh Ritter show at the Cedar!
Thursday - I have a free evening!
Friday - 612 party
Saturday - 9 hour Hallmark shift
Sunday - 6 hour Hallmark shift

My whole "I'm going to read 2 books a week" plan has been severly derailed since I don't seem to have any free time anymore. When I am at home, I'm working on like ten things.

Also, my plan to see L.A. Guns in Fargo on Nov 3rd might have to be changed since that's the Ornament Open House. I'm not sure I'll be able to get time off. I suppose if I got an early shift on Sat, I could make it up there after that. I'll have to see what I can do.

Tonight, I'll be learning how to create torrents. I need to bump my OiNK ratio up and the easiest way to do it is to create & seed new torrents. It's a new adventure!

Note to self: write up the Orgy post!

Nathan Fillion on Ellen 10.04.07 (mpg/65MB)

In case you didn't get to see it. Or need to obsessively watch it over and over again.

Uhhhhh...not that I would do anything like that. =/

Tonight is the season premiere of Desperate Housewives. I'm still not happy about having to watch it, but the pull of Nathan Fillion is strong. I even joined a DH website in order to find photos. I feel so dirty.

lafemmezilla asked for the photos, so I uploaded a folder of them here - including some super high-res ones.

( teaser pics behind the cut )

My brain is playing that God awful Fergie song on repeat. "and I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket..." MAKE IT STOP!!! I'm now regretting that I made that my ringtone as a joke.

*switches ringtone back to Doctor Who theme*

I used a different hair color than I usually use because it was cheap and I'm broke. And my hair still smells. This is after I washed it last night, used a deep conditioner overnight, washed my hair again this morning and used my pretty smelling conditioner from Bath & Body Works. Ugh. I'm sitting here with a cloud of smelly hair dye surrounding my head. =/ But my hair looks nice and the one section of hair that has ultra-dry ends seems to be much better. So I guess I'll deal with my hair reeking.

Last night I realized that there is soon to be a horrible tragedy in my life. The Rock of Love final episode and the Desperate Housewives premiere are going to be on the SAME NIGHT at the SAME TIME. o_O And when VH1 has a big final episode like that, they don't show it in the morning like they normally show the other episodes. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?? Poor Nathan Fillion. He's obviously going to be recorded for later viewing, because OHMYGOD I HAVE TO SEE the Rock of Love ending as soon as it's on. But I feel kind of wrong in picking Bret over Nathan.

Listening to Matt Wertz right after Lewis Black is kind of jarring.

Don't forget that tonight is the Team Boobylicious Silent Auction! You can also bid online until 4pm today, if you can't make it. But you really want to make it down to Hubert's to see soyouthink shave her head, don't you??

Other things upcoming that I plan to be at:
Aug 27 - "Weird Al" Yankovic at the State Fair (my birthday outing!)
Sep 01 - Houston Calls at The Triple Rock
Sep 07 - Cowboy Mouth at the Fine Line
Sep 11 - Jon McLaughlin/Sara Bareilles at the Varsity Theater
Oct 05 - Matt Nathanson at the Fine Line
Oct 06 - Shooter Jennings at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake IA
Oct 11 - Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers at the Varsity Theater
Oct 17 - Josh Ritter at the Cedar Cultural Center
Oct 26 - Shooter Jennings at The Cabooze
Nov 24 - Motion City Soundtrack at Myth

Anything else coming up that I should be at? This summer kinda sucked for concert action, so it's good that late summer/fall has a lot going on.

Also, I know I've told some people about this, but I should probably make an actual announcement. Since not everyone can make it to the Weird Al show, I'm having an actual birthday party too. Not on my bday since some people will be out of town. It'll be on Sun Sept 9th at my parents house, so we can utilize their spiffy new backyard patio area. I'll be making tons of Lebanese food! All the locals are invited! (well, the out of towners are invited too, but I don't think anyone would come up here) Just let me know if you're coming so I can plan the food accordingly. Don't worry, I'll post another reminder closer to the actual day. I know it's still a few weeks away and how can you be expected to remember this far in advance??

Tomorrow is Nathan Fillion's return to One Life to Live! I'm way more excited about this than I should be. Also, he just signed on for some indie movie. And, of course, the Collector's Edition DVD of Serenity comes out on Tues! These things almost make up for his upcoming stint on Desperate Housewives. Almost.

Dear Gus, this Lifehouse CD sucks! I do believe I'll be bahleeting it when I get home.

Nathan Fillion in talks to join Desperate Housewives. Really? Really?!? That...is a horrible idea. Stick to movies, Nathan. Please. Or at least go back to Lost. I can almost watch that show. DH, not so much.

But he is supposed to be for sure returning to One Life to Live on August 17th. Now, that I'll watch.

Oh, and if you didn't hear, FOX moved the last two episodes of Drive to July 13th, instead of tomorrow night. Which is the bigger kiss of death: the 4th of July or a Friday night in the summer? Hard to tell.


Ha ha. Can you tell Riley woke me up super early and now I'm bored?

Yesterday, I didn't have any plans for this weekend. Now I'm busy every night! I love how my life works. =)

Anyhow, movie plans are as follows:
Sat night: Waitress at Showplace in IGH. Movie is at 8pm, so meet at the theater around 7:45.
Sun night: Ocean's Thirteen also at Showplace. Movie is at 7pm, so meet at the theater around 6:45.
Everyone is invited to join us, of course!

And no, I'm not just picking Showplace since it's 5 mins from my house. It's centrally located for everyone who would be attending the movies. Really. I swear.


Also, when I've been bored lately and it's not Caturday, I'm usually found reading Firefly fic/slash.

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This weekend was rather quiet, which was fine. Of course, I was still busy.

I went to see Waitress on both Saturday and Monday. I couldn't possibly be more infatuated with Nathan Fillion at this moment. If only I could figure out a way to trigger an "accidental" meeting while I'm out in Cali! I also watched another NF movie, White Noise 2: The Light. It wasn't as bad as it would seem to be. It was at least watchable. And they stuck in a Captain Tightpants line for no reason. =) But he had a serious lack of scenes without his shirt. Only one!

Actually, the big thing from that movie is that I figured out how to go from an .avi file to an actual playable DVD all by myself. I was pretty proud of me!

I worked on Fri, Sat & Sun and the less said about that the better. I'm worried that I'm reaching the Hallmark breaking point, because I'm finding it harder and harder to deal with crap from whiny customers. I even had to kick someone out of the store on Sat! Case in point: One of the little old ladies came up and asked if we had any Son & Daughter-in-Law 25th Anniversary cards. Honestly, what? Could you be a little more specific? Really, how many of those would we sell? So, no, we don't have them. How hard is it to write "To my Son and Daughter-in-Law" on a 25th anniv card? Or vice-versa? But you would have thought I kicked this old lady's puppy with how sad and dejected she looked when I said we didn't have that exact card. Some people just expect way too much. I'm glad we're going into our slow period because I think I need a break from this crap.

After my crappy day at work on Sunday, taylorea had asked if I'd drive with her to Andy's gig. Sure, no problem. I always enjoy some live music. She left out a few things. Like the fact that the bar was at the corner of No and Where. Somewhere between Hastings and Red Wing. In fact, we missed the turn off for the county road and ended up in Red Wing for a little while. She also failed to mention that this was a country gig. Or something. I still don't completely understand what was going on.

So, we finally get there. (There is the Cannon River Inn in Welch, if'n you need to know) And I am immediately amused by the fact that there is a change of clothing sitting on the ice machine in the front of the bar. In case you soil yourself? Or maybe somebody sleeps there and that's their closet? Not sure. Andy met us outside to say that he'd already played a set and now his friend Ramblin' Rod would be playing. Ramblin' Rod just got a karaoke machine and would be playing guitar and singing along to his karaoke tapes. Wait, what?? Oh, this sounds like a bad idea.

And it was.

Andy finally convined Rod to sing one of his own songs and blessedly the karaoke tapes were turned off for a song. But they came back. Bren was rather horrified by the whole thing. I was more annoyed. Rod took a break and Andy wanted to go up to do another set, but Rod wouldn't let him until after he played another set. *grrrrr* We finally went outside, since the music sounded much better through the wall. And it was nice out. At some point, one of the drunken folks came over and took the shirt from the pile of clothes on the ice machine. But left the pants. Odd. And someone drunkenly walked into the wall. Good times! Also, there was a crabby lady with a fanny pack. I'm always amused by fanny packs! Bren couldn't handle it anymore and we ended up leaving before Andy played again. He didn't seem too upset about it or anything.

ETA: taylorea helpfully pointed out that I forgot the best part. She & Andy were going to treat me to a drink since I had driven to No and Where. I requested a Jack & Coke, thinking that was an easy order for a little shanty bar like that. But they didn't have any Jack. Let me repeat that: NO JACK DANIELS. =/ They just had beer, wine coolers or soda. But, the bartender had a buddy who was going to be bringing up some whiskey for them later on. And sure enough, one of the local hicks did indeed bring in a half-empty bottle of some knock-off whiskey shortly thereafter. Ewwwww. I wisely decided to stick with my can of soda.

Monday was my fuck off day. My first day off in almost four weeks that did not also involve dog watching! I spent most of the day doing nothing more than watching TV. (Oh, Law & Order: CI marathon, how I adore you!) I also colored my hair black and burgundy. Hopefully the burgunday will take this time. Last time I tried it, my hair was still dealing with the bleach & Manic Panic and all the burgundy washed right out. I'm more hopeful about it now.

And that leads me right up to today. It doesn't suck, but I'd rather not be here. I'm just holding on to the fact that I only have 11 hours left of work until Wed the 6th. (well, 15 if you include my Hallmark shift tomorrow) And 48 hours from now I'll be in Denver on my layover to Burbank. SO EXCITED!!!!