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:( The sample elevator in the Cs source is still non-functional. The repair company had not even scheduled their visit when I called Radiation Safety this afternoon, so two of my three experiments are trashed. I re-worked the third one, so I can do something else with those samples. Yay, I guess. The Chief will not be amused to hear this quand il revient.

:( Why aren't Something Corporate coming to Houston? There's an empty day between Dallas and their last Florida date! (Yes, I realize they need to travel. *sigh*)

:) The bartender at happy hour needed to check some bottles of Amarone - someone stored them in the 'fridge, rather than the wine cooler or the room-temp shelf, and he was worried that they were corked - so instead of the normal house red, tonight's wine was AMAZING.

:) Also, risotto.

:) ( I am still ridiculously amused by this photo )

:( A friend is having a party and Say Anything/Angels & Airwaves are at HOB tomorrow, but I think I have to bail on both, b/c I need to pack a bag and take care of some other errands.

:DDDD vic_ramsey and I leave Wednesday night for NYC. We are going to see Butch Walker and American Idiot and harriet_vane and other fanppl (wordsalone? danacias?). I am going to see Magna Carta. MAGNA CARTA. *flails incoherently for a few minutes* And there are a couple of Picasso exhibits happening, plus some other stuff.

I am excited. Just a little bit. OK, that's a massive understatement. I AM GLEEFUL, OK? Didn't I tell you that I'd cry travel to see Butch Walker if he didn't come to TX on this tour? Plus, AI. Gimme that Tony Vincent and John Gallagher Jr and SSands!

1. I am really enjoying The Wire. It's from the same guy who started Homicide: Life On The Streets, and it takes place in Balmer, too. It had me at the first episode, when one of the characters said you couldn't get on US currency unless you were a president.

2. I am typing up my bandomvalentine fic. Bb Discos. Just porn, really. With always-a-girl Spencer and Brendon having sex for the first time. You can imagine how it goes. Having said that, anyone willing to beta it, once it's finished, or should I just send it in gmail to the usual group?

3. My generally negative opinion of the Hallmark-created Valentine's Day crap aside, this amuses me.

4. I really want to see Foxy Shazam's Eric and Ryan Ross on stage together. I just. How did they get paired up on a tour? As arielchan pointed out, it would be even better in front of the huge rabbit that's painted on the wall at the White Rabbit.

5. I'm sorta sad that passes for Under Great White Northern Lights are so fucking expensive, so I'll have to hope that I can get a regular ticket at one of the bigger venues after all the badges and passes have gotten in.

6. We The Kings & Mayday Parade at HOB Monday. fun and Jack's Mannequin in San Antonio on Tuesday. Who's with me? :D

~ It is snowing! That's two years in a ROW that it's snowed in Houston! THE ICE AGE IS UPON US!

~ In the recent past, I read a quote from Jared Leto that struck me as being sort of cult-verse-ish: "There's something magical that happens when a group of people come together, a group of strangers, and they share a public experience," Leto said in an interview with Kerrang magazine. "We then harness that energy, that collective consciousness, and apply it in a musical way."

Last night? I was really tempted by one of 30STM's tshirts: YES, THIS IS A CULT.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions, gentlemen. (But I promised myself no more black band tshirts.)

~ Something Corporate are reuniting to perform at Bamboozle Left this spring? I'd go to CA for that.

*wanders back to lab, humming I kissed a drunk girl...*

Comment and I'll give you a letter. You have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. Afterwards, post this in your journal.


Tabby gave me "S".

∞ Science! As much as I complain about the people and the ridiculous constraints set by the institution, I love doing science every day.

∞ Supernatural. You knew that was coming, right? Last night's episode really reminded me why I fell in love with this TV series.

∞ Spencer Smith. Again, no surprise there, right? His snark in interviews, his shiny hair, his drumming. (Can I add shutyourface to this entry? She'd appreciate being lumped in with Spencer Smith, I'm sure.)

∞ Saporta, Gabe. What? That totally counts! Srsly, this can't surprise anyone. He has his own tag, okay? I love his life philosophy, I love that he sang the Jersey scene a love song as a goodbye on Cobra Starship's first album, I love that he fanboys his label and friends so hard. Also? He looks pretty in a suit, and when he sings in Spanish I don't even care that I only get half of what he's saying, it makes me swoon.

∞ Socks! I have two drawers in my dresser just for socks. I love little bitty footies and ankle socks and knee highs, plain colors, stripes, crazy patterns. I have Tigger socks and candy corn socks (I have a lot of Halloween socks, tbh) and socks with little red crabs on them. Socks with high heels shoes, socks with sparkly snowflakes.

∞ Swim, by Jack's Mannequin. I'm at work, or I'd share this song. The piano and the lyrics slay me.

∞ Sense and Sensibility. I love the book and all of the movie/tv versions, although I am not really fond of Hugh Grant as Ferrars. Then again, the Grant/Thompson version has Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon, which goes a long way in ameloriating any negatives associated with Grant.

∞ Sushi. Every time I think about returning to vegetarianism, I remember I'd have to give up sushi. Never gonna happen. I like my wasabi-soaked massago and fresh tuna too much.

∞ Stoker, Bram. He wrote the best. Vampire book. Ever.

∞ Suzanne Vega. Her lyrics. Esp. The Queen and The Soldier and Undertow and Gypsy. I also have a soft spot for Calypso.


Wanna play?

+ Someone has to have bootlegged BUrie's acoustic performance at ComicCon last night, right? Where is it, Internets? Are you failing me?

+ This morning I heard an ad for NoPerformanceTax, which is not something I disagree with, in theory, but I was amused that the website talks about "local" radios being harmed by this tax, and the radio station on which I heard the endorsement? Owned and operated by ClearChannel, not a small, local company.

+ Hey Monday and fangirl funtimes tonight.

+ I am weak; I succumbed to the lure of Andrew McMahon and Dr. J, even though they will be at a venue that I hate.

+ The Houston Press's Music Showcase is Sunday night. For $10 you get a wristband that lets you in to any of the host venues. Music starts at 5pm and goes until after midnight. Support local bands, Houstonians!

+ Crack fanboy/rockstar dreams: simultaneously the best & worst thing ever. I blame you, playfullips.

+ ETA: vic_ramsey is my hero.

OK, I need to drink coffee and think about work for a minute or two. Or three.

We saw HP & the HBP the other night! I thought it was going to be a regular date night, but it turned out that vic_ramsey and eckerlilas and shutyourface came to the show, too! ( Cut for HP rambling )

Ugh. I am so stiff and sore, it's ridiculous. My ribs hurt, and I've bruises on my hips and arms and knees where the crowd surge (and the dude next to me, who thought I was going to give up my spot front and center at the barrier to him just 'cause he overshadowed me by 8 inches and 100 lbs) pushed me against the grated part of the barrier. Screw that. My elbows are pointy and I don't mind using them. Rancid and Rise Against were worth it.


I recorded the AAR performance on Friday's Today show and watched yesterday. Dear Tyson, thanks for giving me all kinds of happy thoughts about you and Nick holed up in a cabin in the woods, maxed out on coffee and wine, to write When the World Comes Down, and for being so ridiculous as to say you have a band logo tattoo in the "chesticle area".

As Tabby has said, I do not understand why there aren't volumes more slash fic on those two.


Who's excited about the new video for Swim? Seriously, I think that song could be the song that describes my life. Also, I'm trying to decide if I want to go to the Pavilion next week to see Jack's Mannequin, even though they're not the headliners and I don't even like The Fray, the headliners.



On that note. Tell me: if you could describe yourself with one song, what would it be?

+ ( cut, just in case: Star Trek babble )

+ At the bookstore the other day, MrIris picked up a copy of Cassandra Clare's novel from the table with the "if you liked Twilight" sign on it. He mentioned wanting to read it, and I had to stop him and explain why no, I could not allow money to be spent on that. There was a mom and her teenaged daughter standing right there, and they totally looked at me like I was a freak when I told him about the Draco trilogy and the plagiarism and the fan wank.

+ ( The Farther From Earth Tour, Stubb's, 10May09 )

+ I think I promised to upload some Midtown a while back, so here: Living Well Is The Best Revenge and Forget What You Know.

+ I am currently reading Pygmy. I... feel like I am reading a completely different language.

OK. I'm going to go beta some fic. (\o/, it's been ages since I seriously beta'd something, and I'm sort of excited)

+ It is a sign of how out-of-touch I am with the HP fandom that it occurs to me only now why I haven't seen much squee about Dan Radcliffe's being BFF with a drag queen.

+ Star Trek tonight at the Alamo. :D

+ Matt Nathanson and Jack's Mannequin at Stubb's on Sunday. One bonus to not living close enough to family that I have obligatory Mother's Day plans: I can go to this show without feeling guilty.

+ I have a couple of Dreamwidth invite codes, if anyone still needs one. Lemme know.

+ BUTCH WALKER vs. INDIGO GIRLS. *sigh*

I have two tickets to see the Indigo Girls at Stubb's on the 21st. Originally we'd planned to go to Austin for the weekend, but for a few reasons (related to work and the ppl we were going to stay with) we're not, now.

Butch Walker is at Stubb's on the 20th. I could go, but I can't take the 21st off, so I'd have to come back to Houston for work. And then drive BACK to Austin for the Indigo Girls' show the next night.

So, I'm thinking of giving up our tickets to the Indigo Girls' show at Stubb's, so I can see Butch Walker there the night before, and then we'll see Amy & Emily in Houston. Less driving, lower stress.

Anyone interested in the tickets?

Fuck it. I'm going to Austin for both shows. I've got months of sick leave, and I work enough extra hours that I don't get paid for.

+ I spent the day perfecting figures for a manuscript. I haaaate it when I make figures, The Chief says, "These need to be the size of a column in JBC" so I resize them, and then when he looks at them, he comments, "These need to be larger."

Nasty words were growled.

+ I suppose it was to be expected. What good can happen on a day that starts with donning one's underpants inside-out?


BUT.


♥ CHRIS CORNELL AT THE WAREHOUSE, Y/Y/MFY?


I'm going to go write porn until Criminal Minds comes on. Ping me on Y!M if you need me. :)


ETA: Also? Jack's Mannequin? Anyone else going to the shows in Houston and/or Austin?

ETA2: My interpretation of the Fuckcity twitters:

Andy: I wish I were home, not missing your set! *sad sigh*
Mixon: No, I wish I were in Asia with you! *longing sigh* We'll be together soon, but it's so far awaaaay.
Andy: *kissy face*
Mixon: *kissy face*

[Poll #1280152]


Sisky's interview with LiveDaily entertains me. He's so earnest. And there's so much Pete-love going on in interviews, lately. I feel sort of bad that I'm not a bigger fan. Not that I hate on him or anything, I just don't love him as much as a lot of bandom seems to.

I'm entertained by the idea of Sisky and the Butcher doing all their tracking together. *adjusts tin-hat to sit more comfortably*

Also, am I the last person to see the Jack's Mannequin video session at LD?