Things I've been listening to lately

Happy Monday!

For a little while, you might have noticed, if you actually stopped thinking about YOURSELF and CARED about me for just one tiny moment, that I fell into a bit of a music rut. I haven't gone to any shows in a while, and I was playing the same old songs on my ipod. My ipod was flipping me off in protest...practically refusing to turn on because it was bored with me.

But recently, I've been listening to some new things and I have to say, it's kind of exciting!!!

WOO!!!

Oh, wait. I mean it's kind of exciting for me, not for you. You probably don't like the same kind of music that I do, and you probably don't want to hear me talk about it. You don't give a @#$# if my ipod refuses to turn on (yours could turn on you too, you know...).

You might not even know me...in which case...how did you get here?! We don't want your kind reading this blog *motions with pitch fork*

Things I've been listening to lately:

1) Cobra Starship. I have liked them for a while, but I hadn't seen them in concert until last weekend. I have a slight infatuation with Gabe Saporta, the lead singer. Not that I'm one of those teeny boppers who only listens to a band because they're attractive. It's just that if Gabe wasn't attractive or slightly douchey (this could probably be considered 'attractive' because, let's face it, a little d.b. goes a long way) or Jewish...or good looking or hot then I wouldn't like this band. Wait...I don't mean that...eh hem...

songs to check out:
The Church of Hot Addiction
The City It At War
The World Has Its Shine (But I would Drop it On a Dime)

2) Young Love. YES! So, I started listening to them because pandora (you sly fox) shuffled them into a station I had created. And I liked the songs pandora (stop it! no YOU stop it! *giggle*) it was offering me. And then, somehow, they were playing last weekend and I saw them and...what a set! Catchy, dancy songs with a bit of an edge. Some might say it's exactly my cup-o-tea...and they'd...um...be right about that?

songs to check out:
Find a new way
Unafraid

3) New Found Glory. I have this habit of finding a song I like and listening to it on repeat...for...maybe a week (orinrealitythreeweeksbutshhhdontjudgeme). I try to listen to other songs during these phases but I always cycle back to the original song I'm 'crushing on' (for lack of a better term). That song for my right now is New Found Glory 'Right Where We Left Off'. ch-ch-check it out!

4) All Time Low. I can't decide if I should be embarassed about this or not. It's like when I did Israeli folk dancing with my mom in high school...I knew there was a fine line between being indy and being a big dork. Was israeli folk dancing cool or lame? Was I the next big thing or someone that was about to get shoved into a locker? Well, that's exactly how I feel about All Time Low. Are they too pop-punky and ridiculous, or are they legitimately a good band?

You tell me.

songs to check out:
Weightless
Dear Maria, Count Me In

5) Hey Monday. I mostly like bands with all guys (not because I'm sexist or don't like women, ok? save it) , but this band has a cool female singer and I dig. Do you?



songs to check out:
Homecoming
Candles

6) No Doubt. Again, Bamboozle bla bla bla. You've heard it all before. But you might not have heard this: I legitimately have a girl crush on Gwen Stefani. Those eyes, that smile, that voice, that spunk! I spend sleepless nights pondering: How does she get her hair to poof like that in the front without falling out of style? And how does she always look so cute all the time after giving birth? I wonder what she likes to do for fun?

I might be lying, but seriously...the crush remains.

songs to check out:
I'm Just a Girl
It's my life
Hella Good

*An aside-all of you have heard of 'No Doubt', right? Because I might have had a meeting with someone last week who didn't know who No Doubt was OR Gwen Stefani. He wasn't even foreign or anything...*

7) Ace Enders

I explained about the deep relationship Ace and I have in an earlier entry. HMM...does anyone know anything about tagging entries? I think that helps people find earlier entries that relate to certain subjects but like...uh...I don't know how to do that. Anyway, Ace and I were on the DL for a while but like most great loves all it took was a little awkard conversation to get us back on track. Now we are in love again and I am listening to him.

guess that it's for now kiddiez. TTFN (that means ta ta for now. why do I even bother...? :D)

8) The sound of construction on my street. You might not know this but a car driving over metal plates on the street actually sounds like pirates (too soon?) that are on a rampage/about to break in and steal your stuff.

9) The phone ringing.

10) Your voice

Things I saw over the weekend-Bamboozle edition

Hi Everyone! Well, what a weekend huh?!?!

Here I am, sitting at my work desk, sunburned (ow, it actually hurts...), tired...

But at least I'm sitting, right?

My 'dogs' were killing me yesterday. I can't even begin to tell you. I thought I might have to amputate...and can you imagine how awkward that would be in the spring and summer? How would I wear skirts? flip flops?

So anyway, the Bamboozle fest came and went. There were highs (No Doubt performing, for example) and lows (Being out in the rain all day yesterday...you know I hate getting wet!...for example).

Things I saw over the weekend-Bamboozle edition

1) Concerts! No Doubt! The Used! Taking Back Sunday! sum 41! New Found Glory! Fall Out Boy! Young Love! Oh, well, those are musical artists...who perform, you know, music? And when they perform their music it's called a concert. I know, this seems obvious but maybe some of you are really stupid ok? And like, you know...maybe we're all only as fast as my slowest reader...so I need to just be really obvious here.

2) Girls with hair straighteners. Yes, apparently it is now 'cool' or even 'common' to bring a hair straightener with you to a concert. WTF! This little teeny bopper was straightening her hair in the bathroom, as it poured outside because her hair just looked 'so f*ing ugly curly. no seriously you guys, it does'.

3) Barefoot people. So, people don't come to concerts barefoot do they? I mean, I wouldn't because that is really, really stupid. Like, REALLY stupid. Like, marrying a guy that you don't really know for a day and then marrying a guy that's already involved with someone else who's pregnant and then having two kids and showing your VA-JAY to everyone and shaving your head...eh hem.

That being said, there were a lot of people at Bamboozle who were walking around barefoot. EW. I can't even tell you how offensive that is to me on so many levels. Coupled with these hygiene-lacking-kids were...

4) People walking around with only one shoe. UM, this could possibly be even weirder and dumber than not having shoes at all. How do you LOSE a shoe?! Were you standing and did someone lift your leg up and slide it off without you knowing? Or, were you in a rush going out the door in the morning so you forgot the put the other one on? Or, as Jason pointed out, did you really hate a band and decide that instead of throwing a tomato at them you would chuck a shoe in their direction? It's a recession people! You have to hold on to your goods!

5) Ace Enders. I used to, and still do, but they're not currently together, like this band called The Early November. And, they came to play in DC when I was freshman at AU and I met Ace the lead singer of the band...and he's cute and all...so I had a big crush. Flash forward a few years later, and Jason is telling me about this CD by some 'band' named Ace Enders. 'No' I haven't heard of it. 'Oh well I just got it on sale...etc. etc.' 'Oh that's cool'...wait a second...ACE. ENDERS. It's his last name! AH! AH! HE HAS A SOLO CD?! OMG OMG OMG! HE'S DOING A SIGNING?!


So we went to the signing. Dialogue like this ensued:

Ace: Wow, that's a really cool shirt.
Becky: (looking down at pirate shirt) Oh thanks, that's just how I roll.
Ace: (to Jason) Your shirt's really cool too.
Becky: Yeah, we're kind of a big deal.

I shouldn't talk to people.


6) Ferris wheel. Yeah, they have some carnival rides and a ferris wheel at Bamboozle. I don't exactly get it but it probably has something to do with money.

7) RYAN GOSLING! I am 99% sure that I've actually told everyone this story already but suffice it to say if you ever want to get 'in' with a celebrity this should be your line:

Has anyone ever told you that you look like _________?

If they say yes, but don't go any further, be sure to follow up with:

Well are you _________?

It worked for me


8) Teenagers. GOD. TEENAGERS. I mean, does New Jersey have more teenagers than other states because I swear there were just teenagers everywhere!

9) Muffin tops. And no, I don't mean the edible kind.


10) Port-o-potties. SO. MANY. TOILETS.