I Feel Fine

Today was an awesome day at work. This is because we ANNOUNCED OUR BEATLES GAME!!! yayayayayayayayayayayayayayay
Back when I was a wee 14 year old, my dad received the double discs of The Beatles 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 as a gift. I became totally mesmerized by the music and would literally spend every night sitting on my living room floor next to the stereo listening to the songs through giant padded headphones. To this day I have friends from Jr. High on Facebook who ask me if I'm still obsessed with the Beatles. Who could have imagined I'd ever end up working on a Beatles project?? Funny how you can really end up at the right place at the right time.

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I'll give you 12 cents if you can guess my favorite Beatles record and a whole dollar if you can guess my favorite Beatles song (you won't get it.)

The only thing that killed my buzz today was seeing a man playing with his penis in the subway station. As you can imagine, it was very disturbing!

So much to do before the Halloween festivities begin. I need to paint my nails red, acquire red lippy, and track down some candy canes. Agh!

Long Time Coming

On Thursday, I woke up at 5:30 am, flew back from San Francisco and had a CMJ gig. When I got to Bowery, I bumped into Engelmon who told me that Chuck Bass was there! CHUCK FREAKIN' BASS!!! He also told me that Serena Van Der Woodsen and Vanessa had been spotted as well but I didn't see any of them. Thanks for the tip on nothing Matt!!

Scouting for Girls were the penultimate band. I knew the song 'Heartbeat' which they play on XFM which is decent. They were very into audience participation, a bit too much, but I thought they were alright.

Delays didn't go on until 12:30 am (I surprisingly wasn't that pooped) and they were awesome!! They are super melodic and the singer has still got his unique freakishly cartoony voice that I love. No encore (I'm assuming that was a CMJ thing) but I already can't wait till they come back (hopefully they won't wait another four years.) To tide me over, I've been listening to them non-stop since the show. Here are some photos -

They sang about this (not the stairway part)... This... and this!

On Friday night I went with Erica and Kat to her local and we met a dude who majored in History at Binghamton and graduated this past May. I was like WOW I'm old. Then his brother was like "If it makes you feel better, I graduated in '06." And I was all yeah goodbye!

On Saturday night a few of us went to a birthday at Nikki Beach or Nikki Midtown or whatever it's called. I used to go there when it was 151 back in the day because there was free happy hour. The last time I was there I actually fell asleep on the couch, no joke! That's the only time I've ever done that in a bar (well, actually it was a club so that's probably worse.)

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Yeah so anyways, I didn't know that whore was back in style! (How come you guys never tell me these things??) I don't know if it's bridge and tunnel, pure desperation, or a combination of both but the girls were disgusting. Oh also, a dude came up to me and this was the conversation -

Dude: Excuse me, are you black?

Me: Um - do I look black?!

Dude: Your body is CRAZY!

Me: Um, thanks? Definitely not black.

Dude: But your body is CRAZY!

Me: I'M NOT BLACK!

Thanks to work, yesterday I went to AC/DC's final dress rehearsal before their Black Ice tour. We got bussed to PA (and watched about 15 episodes of Rob & Big on the way there and back), had very close seats (it was a private invite-only show), and overall it was pretty freakin cool.

For some old farts they really know how to rock!

They had fire explosions, I thought we were going to die.

Angus is awesome, I had no idea.They had a load of canons go off during the final song. Luckily, I've still got my hearing. They sang about this...This...

and this!

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They Ain't Leavin til Six in the Mornin'

I forgot to mention that on the cruise for Lauren's bachelorette party, they were showing Titanic on one of the tv stations. That was so wrong.

I went home on Friday night because I was getting my hair cut on Saturday (my hairdresser is retiring so this was my last cut by her) and I wanted to go to the mall. I figured I'd wake up early and run errands since I had my parents' car, and typical my luck the car stalled (at least I was in front of my house when it happened.) I still made most of my rounds in my parents' new car which was much smoother than the other one.

Heather and I ate at 5 Burros last night and I got a praying mantis in my frozen strawberry margarita (no photos like our teeth from last time.) Then a bunch of us went to Faith and Kristine's to drink, went out for Jennie's leaving party, spent part of the night at one of those sketchy karaoke places in Korea town, and ended up at Yaffa Cafe where I got a banana and nutella crepe which was delish (I want a banana with peanut butter right now but I'm fruitless.) I somehow stayed out until almost 6:00 am. I haven't done that in forever!

Heather stayed over and we slept till a quarter to two, ordered in bagels w/Meghan and Kat came over for a bit. No hangover for me so I went to step aerobics (I've been to step twice and kickboxing twice so far this week since I joined the gym.) Sadly, the hardest part of my workout at the 86th St. NYSC is actually climbing up the six floors of steps to get to the classrooms. I feel like a jerk taking the elevator.

Tomorrow I'm going to San Francisco (for the first time ever even though I've been to California like 6 times) for work. Hopefully I'll be able to meet up with Todd too who I haven't seen in 3 years or so. I get back on Thursday and am going to see the Delays that night, though I just realized they go on at midnight, poo!

Think I'll have peanut butter on bread now.

Eye of the Tiger

Tonight's kickboxing class at the gym was bananas. Not regular bananas, like BANANAS!!!

I knew I was in trouble when I saw the jacked male instructor walk in (definitely not like the feminine male instructor I had for step aerobics last night.) We started out by jogging around the room, doing 20 push ups, squats against the mirror, 75 jumping jacks and on and on like it was never ending. It was absolutely excruciating, one of those moments where I think I can't believe I paid money to do this (and that was just the warm-up.) The class got much better when we did the actual boxing (this time with gloves, I don't ever usually take kickboxing that require them) though my hands wreaked afterwards (my poor engagement ring.) I also got called out for ducking a punch as doing a dance move which was pretty funny. Michael Jackson Street Jam obviously taught me something.

Did anyone watch Grey's Anatomy tonight? I was watching it in pieces because I was cooking. I didn't really know what was going on with the storyline - though what I did know is that as I was taking a bite out of my dinner, I looked up to see a patient's face peeled off with just the eyeballs exposed on muscle during a surgery. NOT appetizing.

Please Don't Stop the Muse-ic

Did anyone hear the string quartet (or whatever they were) play 'Time Is Running Out' by Muse in the Dean's house on Gossip Girl tonight? More importantly, did anyone see Chuck Bass' awesome green socks under his orange trousers?

I joined New York Sports Club today. I still think paying $72/month for a gym (and that's with a company discount) is a massive ripoff. Well, that was until I realized Equinox is like $110+ or something stupid like that. Are you kidding me?! I'd like to think they give special services in the sauna for that kind of money.

I'm sitting here with my stupid sudoku book in my lap. I can master difficult puzzles by doing everything in my head now (I used to write loads of numbers down in the beginning.) I haven't tried the "fiendish" level yet. I'll probably be dreaming games when I get to that point.

Anybody want to see the Delays playing Bowery for CMJ next Thursday?

Hmmm...does anyone read this blog anymore?

Current Music: The Strokes - What Ever Happened?

Just Lose It

Now for today's OOPS! moment:

I was on the 6, it was packed and I was standing up against the train doors. There was a girl standing next to me playing with her Blackberry. At the 33rd street stop I felt something hit my leg - I turned around to see that she dropped it perfectly between the train and the platform with it landing face up on the track. OOPS!

Back in August when Dave was visiting, I picked him up at JFK via the Air Train. When I swiped my Metrocard to go through, the barriers didn't open, yet it still deducted $5 from my card. When I told the attendant, instead of doing something to take care of it, he swiped my card again to let me through, deducting another $5 from my card. His only answer was for me to apply for a refund, like I was ever going to get one. Well, I did apply for one because it pissed me off, and to my surprise the MTA actually sent me a new Metrocard. Shocking!

Is this anyone else's favorite commercial because I still laugh every time I see it:

Ocean Breathes Subway

This has been the first week in, err, weeks where I've come home at a decent hour and not done anything but change into comfortable pants the minute I walk in. I feel like I should be doing things, even though I'm just hanging around the apartment. Things I could be doing right now include:

- Clean that pile of stuff on my pink chair

- Read my book

- Paint my nails

- Write thank you cards

- Play sudoku

- Watch DVR'd shows

- Call/email my friends

- Do laundry

- Repent

Yeah, I don't foresee any of the above happening except possibly watching tonight's America's Next Top Model. Oh! I did get Tasti D-Lite before if that counts as doing something.

One great thing about living in this neighborhood is that Corner Bakery place on the southeast side of 93rd and 3rd. The smell that resonates from that place when they bake at night, my God! I even smelt it from all the way across 3rd avenue tonight.

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Who was I talking to recently about NYC throwing old subway cars into the ocean? Back story - Dave and I did the Circle Line around Manhattan this summer and there were loads of old subway cars (the gross kind like the E train) piled up along the East River all the way north past Harlem. In fact, here are the photos:

Apparently they take them out into the ocean and just dump them. I had never heard of this and was pretty shocked as it's definitely a controversial thing (I still don't get why they can't recycle the materials?) Anyway, I saw this little article in AM NY this morning:

Current Music: Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

Blogging Because I Can!

I'm half-assed watching the debate but I just can't focus. This is because it's FUCKING BORING! I've also been wanting to say this for a while but didn't post it as my Facebook status for fear of backlash by the masses:

Obama supporters are like Yankee fans - They get off on listening to themselves root for their cause and are COMPLETELY ANNOYING!

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I bought the new Oasis cd and I must tell you, it's fucking fantastic. I'm not just saying that because I have to stand behind my boys (I definitely admit they've had a few crappers i.e. All Around the World) but it's seriously awesome. I got tickets for their MSG show (Ryan Adams opening - NICE!) though that doesn't fully make up for their prior cancellation at Terminal 5. That devastating blow made me think about how Oasis has fucked me over a couple of times in the past -

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Spring 2000 - I dragged Julie all the way down to the FNAC to get tickets to see them in Paris (no, I didn't drag her from NY, we were there already) giddy as a kid in a candy store, only to find out they canceled.

Spring 2000 - I dragged my ass to Milan by myself to see the first stop on the make-up tour at which Noel declined to show.

Fall 2008 - Oasis book a show at Terminal 5, make it near-to-impossible to get tickets, Alex manages to get me tickets about a week after I thought I was permanently shut out, and they canceled. On my birthday. That was due to a fan attack-related injury, but so not the point.

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Alas, I still love them.

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I was also thinking how this has been an amazing calendar year for concerts for me. It was basically a slew of legends (well legends in my head.)

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Stevie Wonder at MSG

The Verve at Wamu theater (never thought I'd see that again in this lifetime)

The Who at The Orpheum (in the third row)

George Michael at MSG (yes, legend)

New Kids on the Block at Nassau Coliseum (not kidding it was great - vid to follow)

Oasis at MSG (pending they don't cancel)

Plus a few others that will get honorable mentions in my end of year recap.

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Pork barrel blah blah blah.
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I totally became addicted to Sudoku. I avoided it for years because I knew that would happen. One long plane ride and an In Touch Weekly and these puzzles became crack. Like, I won't go to sleep without doing a couple of pages of these mathematical nightmares now. Not healthy.
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I also tried Pinkberry for the first time. The taste is like nothing I'd ever experienced, shocking to the tongue but easy to get used to and enjoy. Plus I don't feel like a fatass eating it with fruit and you get a natural taste unlike Tasti D Lite which is nice.
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I went to Lauren's bachelorette party this weekend. It was actually an overnight cruise on a real cruiseship which had a destination of "Nowhere." I think they should have sold shot glasses and souvenirs that said "Nowhere" rather than "Norweigian Cruise Lines" but what do I know about marketing. Have some group photos (courtesy of everyone but me):

Now, have some New Kids:

If anything, listen to this for the screams.

Dirty Dancing - A boy band at its finest!