iPoddity

Just now as I was sweating my ass off running from 46th and Park to 50th and 7th to 41st and Madison and back to my original place I was in a random mood to listen to either 'Make Your Move (Dare Me)' by Dave Armstrong or 'Make a Move On Me' by Joey Negro (not because the song titles are similar, I just wanted to hear something upbeat and dancy) but I couldn't be bothered to sort through my iPod find them. Instead I put on the My Top Rated playlist (all of my 4 and 5 star rated songs for those on planet Mars,) shuffled it, and low and behold MAMOM came on as the second song. That was out of a 1600+ playlist!! Perhaps the iPod Doctor popped some mind-reading gadget into it when he was fixing it?

Desperate for lunch + Lack of time =

Romy & Michelle's Heather & Meredith's High School Reunion

Saturday night was my 10 year high school reunion. God, I feel so old! There were probably about 50 people there (I think there were almost 1,000 people in my year though only about 750 actually graduated.) So that made the turnout only about 6.5% of the graduating class! I have to say that the people who came were all really nice (none of the snotty, bitchy people I didn't want to see showed.) I got to speak to almost everyone too since it was in a small place (hopefully I didn't look like an idiot by the end - there was top shelf open bar and I'd been drinking beforehand at a bbq that afternoon as well.) Anyways 50 was actually a pretty good turnout considering Julie, the girl who organized it, gathered the names for the invite from Friendster and sites like that. I stole borrowed some photos from her Facebook.

Some Peeps Scott Mann (going to be a daddy, whoa!) and Mike W. with me and HeatherHeather and me was like peas and carrots
Some more peeps
Us with Julie

The only annoying thing about the evening was my damn shirt. I bought this piece of shit at Express (and paid $30 for it, a splurge for me on a tube top - that was with it on sale.) Before I even left my house one of the sequins came off. I fixed it with fabric glue, then got to the city and another one came off. I crazy-glued that at Jared's apt., it looked fine throughout most of the evening, but by the time I got home, two had fallen completely off and four were left dangling. I'm taking it back and I don't want to hear any crap from them.

The Radisson, The Radisson, The Radisson's On Fire

How come everywhere I temp there's a fire? There was one in my building last week, and today there was one across the street in the hotel. We didn't have to evacuate, they just turned off the AC and fans, but still what's the deal?

I set up my notes on Facebook to automatically upload my blog posts. From what I've seen thus far, this messes up all the time I spend neatening out my entries and it doesn't include YouTube postings - it just looks like I'm making random ramblings when I write a header for videos, like in my Muse entry in the middle it just said -

Time Was Running Out :(

- without any video. That looks dumb. I may change the settings back.

I'm temping at Major League Baseball for the next week cuz I'm cool like that (no I can't get you free stuff.)

I Could Never Really Love You Simply Because

No temping for me today and tomorrow, sucks…don’t people usually need temps this time of year? Everyone goes on vacation in August!

Last week I went to see Rooney at Irving Plaza. It was eh. Even though the crowd wasn’t so young, I still felt like I was way too old for the music despite liking their singles. In exciting news, we had a celebrity spotting (well, not me but Sunil did.) We met Andy, a Blue Peter presenter. Even though I’d never seen the show before I talked to him, he was super nice!!

Andy Blue Peter and Sunil

This was before Marcus actually heard the band and ran straight out of Irving Plaza Popstars Sh Sh Shakin'

After the show, Heather, Sunil and I went to Maoz for falafel and salad bar. I had never been to the NY one so I was super excited!! This shows why - A bunch of us went to Crocodile Lounge for trivia on Wednesday. The categories were pretty random - Madison Square Garden, Summer of Love, Wildcats, and Current Events Revolving Around People Who Died Last Week. We came in something like 24th out of 35 teams I think.

Kat and I shooting deer

I went for drinks at Public House on Thursday with the Binghamton girls. The clientele of the bar was definitely averaging in the late 20's-30's, I felt really old in there.


I was pretty lame this weekend. I went to the mall with Erica and Heather to do some gift shopping on Friday night (there were no teenagers there. Isn't that where they usually go on weekend evenings?) On Saturday night my mom and I went to see Superbad. It was alright but the entire storyline with the cops was not even funny and completely unnecessary. I was definitely laughing at some parts, but in no way was it as good as American Pie. I felt like I had the flu yesterday so I stayed under the covers and watched Elizabethtown. I was slightly disappointed with this Cameron Crowe effort but the soundtrack was ace like always.

I'm feeling blah right now.

Current Music: Incubus - Dig

I'm Independent But I'm Tied To You

My god, I've been having an orgasm in my ears for the past couple of weeks since getting the Air Traffic album. I must have played it about 500 times already ('Charlotte' and 'Shooting Star' are the songs on constant repeat but the whole album is super sexy.) I cannot wait until they come to the US.

"I'm in love, I'm in love I'm in love!!!"

Going To the Castle and We're Gonna Get Married

Holy mama, my last two weeks have been very busy indeed. When I returned from London, I chilled out for a few days at home, then started off my weekend by going with Julie and Lauren to Julie's parents' pool for some swimming and baking. That night I headed out for a belated birthday celebration for Kat. We started at Crocodile Lounge for some drinks, shots, free pizza, and games.

Lemon Drops Are Yummy Go Megra Go (I Scored Really Well But No One Was Watching) We went to Tribe afterwards and got our groove on (on the seats.) I also danced without shoes on the floor (it was not sticky!!) We had a dance party in the cab back to Meghan's - music blasting, driver dancing - it was no Cash Cab but it was a fun ride.

The next day me, Heather, Erica, and Meghan departed the city early and drove to Tobay Beach (short for Town of Oyster Bay for those not in the know) with Jessica and her friend as well. I felt so posh on a private beach without all the scummy Jones Beach Field 4 people around (yes, that group usually includes myself.) That night we went to Jessica's friend Charlie's party in Huntington. His house had a pool, hot tub, and comfy hammock, also there were bats flying above his backyard (in Long Island, seriously who knew?) The four of us from the previous night's sleepover trekked back to Heather's for another one, met up with Jess again in the morning and headed out to Pennsylvania to meet everyone for whitewater rafting. After a few communication problems in our boat, we ended up doing really well. We only got caught on a few rocks, slammed straight into the guide's kayak just once, and I was the sole person to fall out of our boat the entire day - We were stuck on a huge rock, shifted our bodies to one end of the boat to get off of it, that didn't work so Jessica reached out to grab onto another boat to yank us off, our boat went on it's side and I flew right out of it. I floated on my back with my feet up and head first and waved goodbye to my friends as I went downstream. Another boat managed to rescue me and my paddle which I had let go of and pulled me in. I rowed with them for a bit until my boat caught up with me so I made some new friends. The trip back was the only crappy part of the day. There was a big Pocono 500 Nascar race nearby which meant tons of traffic. We left at about 7:30 pm, stopped for dinner at Friendly's and didn't get back to Queens till almost 1:30 am!!

On Monday I was exhausted but went to MSG to see Muse. Two things I couldn't believe about the Garden this time - 1) The seats were comfortable and pretty close 2) The sound was actually good for once. Cold War Kids opened. I had seen them accidentally once before and I only really knew 'Hang Me Up To Dry' but they sounded great, shocking again mainly because it was MSG. Although I haven't followed CWK much, I recommend seeing them live.

Cold War Kids

Muse are so amazing live. I cannot say this enough!! The first time I ever heard them, Laura had bought me the Japanese import of Origin of Symmetry. I remember ordering pizza at Ray's on my lunch break, sitting down and putting it into my discman, listening to 'Newborn' and 'Bliss' and thinking WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! (Mainly thinking heavy metal and classical music combined.) Four years later and thank you Laura, I've just had another outer body experience (although it couldn't top their performance closing Glastonbury.)

dghdth

Matt Bellamy/God's son came out in a red suit (matching the lights) and started the show with 'Knights of Cydonia' (I was not expecting this as they've been closing shows with it in the UK.) The tracklisting was as follows:

(JFK Speech), Knights of Cydonia, Map of the Problematique (love this song so much), Hysteria, Supermassive Black Hole, City of Delusion, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Hoodoo, Apocalypse Please, Feeling Good, Sunburn, Invincible, Starlight, Time is Running Out, New Born, Plug in Baby; Encore: Soldier's Poem, Unintended, Stockholm Syndrome, Take a Bow

I'd never seen them with the giant bouncy balls filled with confettiWhen they left prior to the encore, the place was dark and everyone had their cell phones lit up, then the stage backdrop turned to stars also, I felt like I was in the planetarium, the atmosphere was amazing. I had to control myself from dying when they played 'Starlight,' but 'Sunburn' was my favorite tune of the evening

I'm Feeling Good

Time Was Running Out :(

The next few days I was sick with terrible sinus pain and a cold. I watched Big Brother (stop making Eric do crappy things, it's not his fault he's America's player!!) On Thursday I felt more alive and went with Heather to the city to meet up with Sunil, Lewis, Shane, and Sanj who were in town for a wedding. Kat came to Fat Black Pussycat too and I drank cough medicine their signature drink and almost a whole pitcher of beer (I love 1/2 price drinks) before Heather and I ran to Mercury Lounge to catch Los Campesinos! (I'm not that excited about this statement, the band just has a ! at the end of their name.)

Kat & Sunil on the throne at Fat Black's

H & K

When Heather and I were showing our IDs at the door, she noted that on the sign outside, they had omitted the ! from Los Campesinos! The three girls in front of us turned around and told us they'd heard their band's name, it was funny at the time. I only knew three songs by LC but most of their stuff have a similar happy xylophone-violin-ey vibe which I like. The only unfortunate thing about the show was that the lyrics sounded very muffled (we were in front of a speaker) and I think that's the best thing about their songs. I knew some anyway though so it was all good. The band is REALLY young by the way.

Team Campesinos trick or treating on your driveway in the middle of August

One of us dressed as a zombie, one of us dressed as a pirate, one of us dressed as a ninja Four of us dressed as school girls?
We went back to meet everyone at the Village Underground for dancing with a live band
Sunil drunk Lewis & Shane

On Friday I stayed at home and finally finished season 2 of Grey's Anatomy. To be honest, I was expecting this HUGE thing to happen in the finale because everyone couldn't stop talking about this Grey's phenomenon and 'Chasing Cars' and all that (leading me to think there'd be some huge car accident.) I think the Meredith/McDreamy thing was obviously coming as well as the Denny stuff but although predictable it was still sad and great. Don't tell me what happens during season 3 because I'm waiting for it to come out on video!!

On Saturday morning, Gail treated the bridal party to a spa day. I got a mani/pedi and a facial which stung like hell but it's looking pretty good today and I still feel very refreshed. We stayed over her apt. and went to Oheka Castle together on Sunday AM. This place was amazing!!! I felt like I was at a European castle, tre romantic.

Here is a photo of it (I didn't take this one): My dad snuck in some photos behind the photographers

This was my first bridesmaid walk and I was sooo nervous. My dress was too long and I was holding onto this dude for dear life so as not to trip

Mom + Michael + Dad

Mom + Gail + Al Gore Dad

Sweat was dripping down my back, it was scorching
I now pronounce youChuck & Larry Husband and Wife, yay!
Mr. & Mrs. Kazin entering the reception
The band was terrific. Gail and Mike's wedding song was 'Kingdom Come' by Coldplay. They played all kinds of stuff I like (Oasis, Blur, and similar) Tara and Amy
My moms and pops
The dessert at this reception was ABSOLUTELY INSANE!!! They had a whole room dedicated to it. There was the wedding cake, two more tables with about 20 different cakes on them (I opted for tiramisu), a table for mousse (melt in your mouth, seriously) and ice cream, a bananas foster area, and a table with strudels, chocolate covered strawberries, cookies, a profiterole tower and more.
Gail and her dad

I danced so much at this wedding, and despite knowing Gail's friends just a little I had a really great time. Tonight I'm going with a really random group of people to see Rooney at Irving Plaza (the one show I thought no one would go to.) It's me, Heather, Sunil, Marcus, Kim, Gareth, his girlfriend and another friend. That's it, I'm out!