How was yours?

I planned to go downtown to see fireworks with my family but it was also sorts of fail.

First we wanted to walk or take the bus for traffic reasons. Before we left, I tried the keys on my mom's keychain and I thought it unlocked the doors, because you know, I have experience with these things. But looking back I think I just wiggled it and didn't actually turn the latch...So before we got on the bus I thought, let me go back and grab my wallet in case I need money...And we find out we are locked out. Ok, fine my roomie will be back, I have a back up plan this time.

Then we get downtown (I should take that bus down more often, it's free and the seats are pretty new). It's pretty crowded and we find a spot and try to entertain ourselves for an hour. All the while there's some far off fireworks and also some lightning. Around 9.45, 15 mins after fireworks are supposed to start the loudspeaker goes on and says they have to cancel the fireworks! Boo!

So we decide to walk back and make it to Baxters when it starts to really rain, and by the time we got the brambleton it was pouring. I called my roomie to come rescue us and we waited at the Greyhound for a little while. I felt bad for no fireworks, getting locked out, no wallet, and getting my roomie drenched too. Oh wells. I think I was owed a favor and now I have a story to tell.

I was actually really excited for fireworks because I read this article on how to photograph fireworks.

Hey Everyone, I'm promoting Coldplay's Viva La Vida album. click the pick to help me out. =D

I know has been played on various radio stations already, but now I get a chance to listen. I'm sure its stuff we all know, but anyway....


The Radiohead Story (Parts 1- 4)

The story of Radiohead in just under four hours. This 4-part series curated by the BBC will air each Sunday on XMU for four weeks.

Broadcast Schedule:
Part 1 - Sunday, June 22 at 6PM ET
Part 2 - Sunday, June 29 at 6PM ET
Part 3 - Sunday, July 6 at 6PM ET
Part 4 - Sunday, July 13 at 6PM ET

XMU is channel 43 on XM

i totally have no clue how to navigate livejournal anymore.

I saw Wall-E and I thought it was a dark tale of toxic waste and the effects of gravity (what would anyone want to go into space after seeing this movie?) while my bro found the story to be about "the terribly fickle nature of women." Whatever, then men shouldn't blindly go after the first woman with sleek curves, or the first woman in 700 years period. ;)
I give it a $7. It was very well executed, had its laughs and a good story. It made the audience actually root for the vilest of creatures (the cockroach).

Yesterday I studied at the library for a lil bit and it was too noisy! And today at Panera it was too noisy too. :(. I'm on track. However, lately I've been having bouts of anxiety (and some horrible dreams, I hate my murder dreams) where I don't think I'll match anywhere. :-/

I'm glad my bro is trying out The Wire. I hope he likes it, although right now I don't think he thinks it's the best television show (of all time?).
Yeah, I guess hype can make things hard.


Just because. The best bands by state.

And just because I'm in love with this routine from SYTYCD season 3 and the song by Junior Boys.

Rewatching S3 from youtube, I prefer Lacey over the real winner Sabra, but I tend to like the ballroom and hip hop more than lyrical types.
Another good Lacey routine:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d2RGG4qH0dU&feature=related

A good hiphop routine with Sabra and Dominic:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4TjrxEPFBmM&feature=related

WALL•E

1) Look at the list and bold those we have read.
2) Italicize those we intend to read.
3) Underline the books we LOVE
4) Reprint this list in our own blogs

Average adult has read 6...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (Danny is obsessed with Dune. I should probably read it soon.)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

i have not disappeared, i have moved...did so a long time ago, oops!
emgolian

hope to see you there!

I went to see Radiohead during both their London dates.

( Pictures and a video )

So today S and I were talking about downfalls and she said my downfall is food. :( I didn't really believe her but maybe she is right. I ate some Hardees and I shouldn't have. With Sweet Tea. Woe is me. ::pats stomach::

But I was so sicked by meat yesterday that I had a bagel for breakfast, and then bread and corn on the cob for lunch. Missed meat too much I guess. Sometimes people go on these cleansing diets. I wonder if I could do that?

I've been meaning to mention that some of my former classmates in college are now going to be Interns!!! Oh man, that really freaked me out when I first really realized it. That means soon I will be a bonifide M.D. That is scary! I talked to Ellen and she's starting on the ICU in 2 days! She said she's scared and I would be too, on any rotation. Dang, do I have to make decisions?? Hopefully and presumably there will be a resident to look over my shoulder and approve every single decision.

I feel like I did a good deed. I emailed one of the surgeons to ask if my roomie could watch some surgeries and the doc said yes and the roomie is excited. :) I'm giving her one of my scrubs that I didn't return to the hospital yet. She has one, from the Katherine Heigl collection but was embarrassed to wear it! Haha, I would be too...I think she took off the tag that says, "Grey's Anatomy" on it. But a fitted white coat...one day. ;)

I have a ticket for a concert at Amsterdam (the 1 july, 7:00 PM)
70 euros
We can meet before the concert or earlier somewhere in the city.
Maybe somebody is interested?

I saw Priceless a French movie with Audrey Tautou and she was looking very pretty in this movie. She plays this girl who is always with a sugar daddy and mistakes a bartender for a richie rich and French comedy ensues. The barman is kind of your typical dopey French man, but he really grows on you after a while. Cute movie. I give it a $6.5. Makes me want to go to France again, especially when I eventually have money that I can spend guilt free. I wonder if that will ever come because I'm kinda frugal by nature.

I also ate at Espeto na Brasa, the newish Brazilian bbq restaurant downtown. I was a little disappointed at the beginning when the waitress said that there would be four meats, but really it was fourteen! I was going meat crazy, until about meat number nine when I got sick of meat to the point of swearing it off for the week (not true!).

We had flank steak (I think this is the one I liked the most), brazilian sausage (reminds me of chinese sausage), pork ribs (not bad, more tender than expected for a dry rub), sirloin, garlic steak, chicken leg, chicken wrapped in bacon (their bacon was very good), lamb (too lamb-y), and filet mignon wrapped in bacon. I almost unretired myself from meat to try the shish kabob, but didn't...They also had this cheesy bread appetitzer which was tasty. I give the place a B+ (random rating scale). The food was good, but not great. The concept is cool, the waiters and whatnot are friendly and for the most part seem authentic. And the place is clean. I enjoyed helping them out in serving me.

I saw Bollywood/Hollywood yesterday and it was pretty bad. I give it a $5. As cheesy and B-rated as it was, it entertained me. Does Lisa Ray speak really good English? She sounded like she was being dubbed, but it didn't look like it. I guess she was just speaking Canadian. ;) Seeing that Deepa Mehta did the movie, I was hoping for something more. Oh well.

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[013] Jack White
[004] The Raconteurs
[011] Panic At The Disco
[009] Otep
[013] Mindless Self Indulgence
[009] Kat Von D
[015] Hayley Williams
[005] Gerard Way
[008] Gabe Saporta
[007] Billy Talents
[009] Bill Hader

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Gimme MOAR!

Anyone else going to the L.A. Oct. 2 show?


I got my tickets (not ones I'd prefer but I digress).

You know that Seven Nation Army became hymn EURO-2008? 
Seven Nation Army sang all fans! 
On all matches!

 

I have two extra tickets for the Boston, MA show if anyone's interested. I'm not looking to make a profit or anything, I'm just a poor college student who got screwed over. :-/

Anyhoo, here's the info:
Sigur Rós
Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA
Fri, Sep 19, 2008 07:30 PM
Seat location: section SEC 5, row B, seats 4-5
Total: US $ 108.15

I have paypal, and the tickets were sent to me via email so as soon as I get the payment I can email them to you. Feel free to comment here.

Anyone know if this picture is promo shot for a forthcoming release from Jack and Karen or if it's just a personal picture? I have no source for the picture. Jack certainly has a thing for bones at the moment doesn't he?

OMG this one rocked. Totally felt it (well except for one part near the beginning when they are dancing close to each other with his arms around her...seemed a bit awkard.) Loved the manipulation part and her going crazy part. Good stuff!

Would have been easily the best dance of the night, except for Katee and Joshua:

Damn. Boy was meant to shake those hips. Really really meant to. I wasn't sure how Katee would fair after the little stunt they pulled on her right before the top 20, but she's really proved herself. They started the competition out really great with No Air.
long version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhxBm-9BTA


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I hope they kick off Chris the tree and Will's partner. They are both bringing down their better halves.

Hope you enjoyed it.

After seeing the photos from the London gig, I want to post those I took at Southside Festival on Friday...





And if you're interested, here's what I've got to say about the gig...

( It's gonna be a glorious day! )

A few of my favourite photos :)

Teaser:

(this one larger plus a few more big-ish photo's under the cut)


Also, if you had the chance to name The Volta's next album, what would you call it?