Lets compare scars, ill tell you whose are worse..

Is It Bad

2008-10-30T12:39:30Z

Is it bad that id rather watch football this weekend than go to the shitty Rock Band Live tour??

On sat i will miss my college football Texas Vs Texas Tech (Hook Em!)
and then on sunday i will arrive at the show late so i cant watch most of the Giants Vs Cowboys game

I suppose my love for Chris wins out over my Longhorns and Giants but i may be a sourpuss for having to stand through 2 openers and get shoved around by people 10 yrs younger than me.

I guess ill let u know hoe it goes on monday when i will be totally sleep deprived and very cranky :-P

Everybody Panic!

2008-07-23T12:26:50Z

Here are my thoughs on the D/C/ Panic! and Plain White Tees tour.

Well ive had a night to sleep on the idea and had some major venting sessions with Sara(via phone) and Eileen (via text) and i still kind of feel the same way. it is such a mismatched line-up. Mismatched fan base, mismatched genres of music. its kind of like when hurricanes come together and form a super storm. But instead of lightning and high winds we will have flaring egos, screaming tweens and 2 shitty bands to sit through. (if Chris even headlines..)

I worry about how Chris will hold up on this tour, Panic are a bunch of fucking brats who had an album deal and big club tours before ever playing a show. I will be honest i dont know much about Plain White Tees outside of Hey There Delilah which was pretty good the first 10 times i heard it. Ok the next 100 and unlistenable after that. All i know is they had to release the song 2 or 3 times before it was a hit. but thats not their fault i guess it has to do with timing and such.

I will be going to 1-2 local shows but more to see my friends. Im sure i will just end up getting a seat and having a few drinks becuase i cant keep up with 13 yr olds in the crowd, nor can i stand and be pushed around incessently for hours before Chris comes on. i am just much more weary than i was at 22.

Last night i also thought about when i first started going to concerts. My first show was Green Day with my dad, uncle and brother. i was 12 and my brother was 10. i can imagine the faces on the older fans seeing "their band" play to a bucnh of kids. at 12 thats all i was..a kid. i knew every song and had a few t-shirts and posters. but i didnt have the life experience to be a hardcore fan. at 12 you are desprete for attention and love and acceptance. So of course i wanted to fit in and be accepted by the other fans, but they were cold and not receptive to me, and now i understand why.

i guess i have come full circle. I have been on the outside looking in and the inside looking out. i have caught onto bands in their infancy, their middle popularity and in their full bloom of success and now that i am getting older i am seeing it doesent matter how old you are or when you start listening to a band but where your heart is. and at 12-15 i dont think you can have these altruistic feelings toward a band because you havent seen them struggle playing shitty bars make no $$ and bum cigarettes, places to stay, food etc from their fans who lovingly and willingly help them out.

I guess for me with dashboard i love the music as well as all the guys in the band. And since i have become friendly with them over the years i feel like its my duty to protect them somehow even though its much easier to protect someone at a small club than the garden.

I have strayed a lot from my original train of thought but i guess this is all i have for now.

Oh and go to see the dark knight. its really good. though i thought it could have used more graphic voilence.

To close with an appropriate lyric:
"Please don't put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band who'll throw it all away"

DC Trip

2008-06-20T13:52:13Z

For once the DC in the title line does not stand for Dashboard Confessional!

Its for Washington DC.

Kristi and I went to DC last weekend to visit our friend Steve from college.
We hadnt seen him in about 4 years so its always nice to see an old friend. The trip started friday night in Philly i headed down after work and we had dinner then a few drinks at a bar called Downeys on South St. In true Maureen fashion we were supposed to have 1-2 drinks and call it an early night but of course we stayed out til 3 am and we wanted to get up at 6 to drive. So we decided it was a good idea to leave at 4 am to get to Va by 7. Steve works nights so i guess it was good to all get there at the same time so we could all nap at the same time then hit the city. I honestly slept most of the way down (bad navigator :-P ) so when we got to Va i couldnt sleep at all. We got up around noon to ride the Metro into the city. I had this awful delayed hangover that i thought was going to plague me all day. but after a large ice cold diet coke from McDonalds i was fine! :-). walking in the blistering sun while feeling out of it would have been awful and staying home all day sleeping it off was not an option.

The Metro in DC is really nice. Much cleaner and better maintained than the subway. Less bums and beggars and they even have digital signs telling you when the next train would be coming. We saw the Holocaust Museum and the National Zoo. I finally got to see PANDAS in real life! YAY Pandas! they are even cuter up close. all the seem to do is eat Bamboo all day. they have little mountains of it in front of them. The Holocaust museum was really cool as well. i hadnt been to DC since i was 17 and i dont think it was even built then. My fave part of that page of history is the nazis wacky medical experiments. Look them up on google. Sick and scary stuff but really interesting. We had dinner in the city at magiano's some Italian place. it wasnt bad but not the best food ive ever had. Their calamari wasn Bangin'!

We planned to go out for a night in old town but we never made it. Instead we went for a walk through the monuments at night which was really nice. I hadnt seen the WWII memorial so it was nice. We also saw the washington monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the capitol and the white house. it is much more beautiful at night without the annoying tourists .Unfortunately i forgot my camera otherwise this could have been a nice picture post! :-( it was just like college where krsti steve and I would spend hours just walking and talking about anything that came into our heads. A lot of it is about relationships and stuff. but some about morbidly obese people, medical anomolies, people we dont like, work, purses etc. it was nice to have a weekend night without drinking and seeing a new city. We didnt get in til 3 so we slept late the next day and then went to Arlington National Cemetary. We saw JFKs grave and the tomb of the unknown soldier as well as the women is war museum. it was really sad but i guess they are trying to show these people died for something...what that is i dont know. the womens museum had a huge book just of women who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mothers, sisters, friends its all just too much sometimes...it made me realize i have to go out there and vote.

Steve didnt want us to leave on sunday but we had a 3 hr drive to Philly and i had another 2 hr drive to NJ after that :-P so we headed home. i stopped off in Fairmount before heading home to share scrapbook pics with the girls. I missed them so much. i need to make time for a weekend down there becuase i know it would be so much fun. Got home at 3 am :-P and worked all week. boo.

Life has been business as usual here. i finally found a 2nd roommate! :-D she is super cool and moves in this weekend. hopefully you wont ben hearing any horror stories. Lots of good shows coming up this summer. Old 97s, Everclear, Butch Walker, Matt Pryor, its gunna be a fun summer! (maybe Chris will grace us with some dates too)

take care loves! <3

Movies

2008-05-28T23:53:00Z

Since Tuesday is Optimum Rewards day at the movies an my aunt is an optimum rewards member my sister treated me to a movie yesterday. We saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Now for those of you who have not seen it i will not ruin the ending but i will say the ending was stupid! i mean they could have thought and come up with something logical and not wacky the the CGI was a bit much for me. Id honestly rather see a Kung-Fu movie where some of the scenes are in the realm of reality for a well conditioned body. Not swinging from vines with lemurs and not breaking a sweat. Anyway another thing that bothered me about the movie was my company.

Not my sis of course but this fucking woman and her 4 kids. it was her, 2 kids and her husband then her other kids were sitting somewhere else. now dont u think it would be polite to sit the kids between the parents so if they fidget or talk loud they dont disturb other people? No of course not this rude bitch sits her kid right next to me. and proceeds to hand him juice boxes and food over me while she stands in the isle waiting for her husband to get back. so all thru the movie the kid is scared/grossed out etc and i had to keep hearing about it. Kids are incapable of talking quietly.

I offered my sister $20 to say she was a registered sex offender so the people would move.but since she now has a job she didnt need the $$ that badly :-P During the movie the womans daughter came up to the row to inform her mother that her candy bar was mushy! are u serious! who fucking cares. if its not rotten eat it and shut up :-P

Eventually the offending tot moved to his mothers lap and left me alone. Im going to see the Dark Knight like a month after it comes out so i have the theater more to myself. f'n kids :-P

Awesome Weekend

2008-05-19T22:25:39Z

This weekend was a lot of fun. I want to HIGHLY recommend BARCADE in Brooklyn to anyone who likes 80s video games and beer.

I developed a love affair with Tapper. Pretty much the best game EVER it has a little tap pull as a controller and you use it to give beer to thirsty customers. If you grew up in the 80s im sure you have seen it before. It was popular in arcades when i was growing up. I also played Donkey Kong, Q*Bert, Arkanoid and other games. The beer selection was awesome. i had some hard cider and coney island lager as well as Magic Hats Hefeweisen (Circus Boy?).

It is on Union St in Willaimsburg check it out! :-)

We also checked out another bar in the same area called Lost and Found. There is just sipped some Hoegarden and water and played pool on the slanted table with 2 12 balls. Weird. The place looked like a house undergoing construction but there was skee ball. big buck hunter. golden tee. simpsons pin ball a photo booth and if thats not enough free hot dogs! so you cant knock a place like that! :-) Parking was easy though slightly sketchy.

Saturday we broke out the grill for the first time and had some burgers and hot dogs we invited my sister over for some rock band and Buzz. it looks like this will turn out to be a fun summer with a grill and some new video games. hopefully i will leave the house at some point.

Sunday was Ninja Warrior day. Its my fave TV show. Its a Japanese Game show with a super difficult obstacle course. My favorite guy only made it to stage 2 :-( but it was still fun to watch. I find the show inspirational in a weird way. i def reccomend it. Its on G4 (Ch 175 w/Cablevision) weeknights 830-930 then at 930 is Unbeatable Banzuke another amazing Japanses game show. Yeah i get obsessed with the dumbest shit. But watch it before you pass judgement. I got all my coworkers and my brother into watching Ninja Warrior because it is that awesome. For those of you that watch NW who do you think the next champ will be?? I think maybe Shunsuke Nagasaki or Makoto Nagano again. Though id love to see Tosihiro Takeda or Shingo Yamamoto go all the way

Weirdos

2008-04-24T02:43:35Z

What is it about laundromats that attracts the weirdest people.

I was washing some clothes today and sitting outside smoking a cigarette and enjoying my Chuck Klosterman essays when this old lady sits down next to me.

She started talking about washing dresses (wtf?) the weather and the line outside of Ritas water ice. Then she told me (im not exaggerating) about 6 times about how her 2 sons had died and how one was a doctor and one was a lawyer and CPA. She was going on about how their wives didnt take care of them or some shit and how did her and her husband live into their 80s and they died in their 50s i was like uuuh ok. The she said she didnt know how either of them died. Then she made fun of fat people getting off the bus. Then she told me at least 5 times about how she didnt like the lunch meat from shop rite. she asked my age 3 times and if i was married another three times. She also saw me smoke 2 cigarettes and asked if i smoked. I went in to check my dryer and she said she was leaving of course she didn't and followed me into the laundromat and told me about how some senator stole $12,000 from her something about real estate.

She seriously must have had Alzheimers. Because sometimes she would forget stuff and be like this makes me want to cry its making me so scared i cant think of anything. i didnt even know what to do. i hope she knew how to get home. I hope if i get to be that old i am in a home with a good alarm system so i don't go out annoying the citizens of my neighborhood.

Anyway i highly recommend Chuck Klosterman's essays they are very interesting and make you think. I also don't recommend sitting in front of your local laundromat unless u want to meet a bunch of weirdos

In other news my roommate has been keeping me up for the last 2 nights. It must be nice to be able to party and drink all night on a fucking Tuesday. Keep it in your room and keep quiet or fucking party in a dorm where that kind of shit is acceptable not when you have 2 roommates who have to be up at 630am!

Chicago Countdown

2008-04-21T18:55:30Z

4 Days!

Super Excited!
Cant wait to see my girls and get out of the Northeast for a weekend.

Life has been pretty good. Can't complain. Working too hard as always. and i despretely NEED a hair cut. My hair is the longest its been since freshman year of college!!

I also need a good pair of eye-brow tweezers. Any reccomendations?

Im still undecided about whats next for me in terms of school/work etc. But im just trying to enjoy myself right now but not let life pass me by in the process...

Rhett Miller

2008-04-04T12:27:50Z

Last night i had the pleasure of seeing Rhett Miller again at Maxwells in Hoboken. He was amazing as usual. One thing i reallly like about Rhett it that every time i see him its a new setlist. His banter between songs is friendly and warm and after the show he will hang around to meet everyone. What a nice guy. Though i suppose when you make your living off being in a band you have to be nice.

Setlist Included:
Rollerskate Skinny,This Is What I Do, Fireflies,Barrier Reef,Help Me Suzanne,4 New Old 97s songs, Book Of Poems, Question,Timebomb, a new song called Bonfire, A Cover of I Cant Help Falling in Love With You,The New Kid,Melt Show,Our Love,Big Brown Eyes, The Other Shoe,Desings On You, Doreen, Singular Girl

im sure there were more but it escapes me now. I was bummed he didnt play Oppenhiemer, but ive heard it before so whatever. I rocked out in the corwd with this guy who was def old enough to be my dad but it is nice to see there is life even after 40 and you can still have fun and enjoy cold beer and great music.

Opener was Ari Shine. I meet him outside before the show when i was having a smoke. He was super nice and even rememberd my name after the show. I picked up his EP and its really good. Check him out if youre into Butch Walker/Rhett Miller kind of stuff.

It is truly a small world becuase at the show i ended up meeting 2 guys who were from South Brunswick (Keiths town) and one of them even went to HS with Keith they graduated the same year. He said his name was familar but he would probably know him only by face. It is so weird the people u end up meeting sometimes. Thats why going to shows alone isnt bad at all! Rhett was super nice after the show i guess it was about midnight and he was all worried about me driving home in the rain. i was like wow not even my sister would worry about me driving 20 min in the rain. haha i told him he needs to play the blue note so Cris and I can bring on the double trouble.

In other news my company is going to have some major layoffs. Lame. I hope i have a job in the next few months.

Lake Placid!

2008-03-31T23:44:44Z

Well this past weekend i went for a weekend trip to Lake Placid for some snowboarding and relaxing with my girlfriends.

We left friday morning about 9 and go on the thru-way for about 3.5 hrs :-P
As we got further North the rain turned to snow and by the time we got to our chalet we had quite a few inches of fresh snow! i hadnt seen snow almost all winter so it was so nice. The chalet was comfortable and beautiful. There was a wood burning stove (which none of us figured out how to use) and 2 buck heads on the wall.

Then it was time to head to Whiteface! :-) the mountain featured 77 trails (most of which i didnt ride since i am a green circle/tops blue square rider) we spent friday at the kids kampus which featured to ride thru to the main lodge. I finally mastered the heel-side edge so i had much more fun than my previous snowboard excursions.

We had a fabulous dinner at the Lake Placid Brewery. And their craft brewed beers were awesome. I enjoyed an American Amber which had hints of coffee and a Honey Rye which had just enough spice. We also had Smores for dessert. They brought out a little cauldron with a flame to toast marshmallows and graham crackers and hersheys chocolate.

People in Lake Placid are super nice and friendly which was a welcome change from the city. At the bar i actually met some people from Clifton! it is such a small world and we talked about what a great mountain whiteface was and how nice everyone was. Saturday i rode solo while the girls took a lesson i felt like i started to really ride which was a great feeling. Of course i took some spills but none were too catastrophic. i definetly want to ride a lot more next year. Vermont anyone??

Sunday it was time to go home :-( so we stopped at a fabulous little place for breakfast. i had a delicious buttery pancake with bacon eggs and awesome home fries. Their maple syrup was some of the best i ever had! We had a long drive home with lots of Smashing Pumpkins and fun discussion. There is nothing better than a weekend away with good friends to charge your batteries and wash the taste of a bad week out of your mouth

emo_momo @ 2008-03-27T09:05:00

2008-03-27T13:11:49Z

Fame changes people and not for the better.

Im not asking for it to be 2004 again. But you could say Hi! trust me it goes way further than you can imagine.

The time it takes to smile or wave or give someone a hug is so small but it could really make their day.

Im not even going to say who this is about becuase its not important but i just wanted to say fame is fleeting. Remember who you step on on the way up becuase you will surely see them again on the way down

Why I Hate Festivals

2008-03-25T13:04:53Z

We are quickly approcahing rock festival season. Warped Tour, Ozzfest, Bamboozle etc.

I just wanted to express my hatred of these festivals. They are
a) Way Too Crowded
b) A Logistical Nightmare
c) Too Hot
d) In a Fucking Parking Lot

Parking lots are not meant for shows. I remember growing up in NY everything was held on Randalls Island which is a dirt field (im going back about 10 yrs here so bear with me) The concrete radiates heat and it way too hot to sit on. Grass doesent get that hot. Of course you had to wear a surgical mask or you would be coughing up dust for a week but whatevs.

Also why do promoters put the 2 bands you want to see on at the same time! Or at opposite ends of the fiargrounds so you are sure to miss 1/2 of someones set. Next point. Bathrooms. Dont worry its ok to drink beer at the festival despite the bathroom line becuase you will be so dehyrated you will drink at least 6 beers and feel neither buzzed nor have to pee since you will be sweating it all out. But when it does come time to use the bathroom be prepared to wait 20 min to use a totally gross port-a-potty that probably smells like puke. And you are liable to punch someone in the face that tries to cut you in line.

This is the first year i am not going to Bamboozle. I am however going to the warped tour. I am going to be the oldest fucking person there :-P

Uhm i am getting angry just writing this. I am imagining all the high school kids with their super cool stuff from hot topic. Im gunna need a lot of sunscreen and beer to get me thru this one....

Do the bands even have fun playing these tours?

Does anyone else have the same disdain for festivals that i do?

Firsts

2007-11-06T15:54:21Z

One time Chris said to me,

Maureen, before you started coming to see my band you never slept on the subway and you'd never wrecked a car.

i can now add another first to that list. I had never been called a fat cunt before last night. Apparently this girl thought i was hitting on her bf.

i hope it is the first and last time i am ever called that disgusting word.

i ended up getting so pissed i left during chris's set to go outside for a cigarette. i can back in and just sat on Johns merch table the rest of the night. rob and john made me laugh a little bit and feel a little better. but it was still pretty shitty. Set was ok i guess from what i saw. Johns set was good. i was thrilled to hear "whos Heart Are You Breaking Tonight"

Im super tired today and i lost my cell phone last night why must i suck at life

Life is hard but its worth living

2007-11-05T16:08:06Z

So i seriously feel like the world is caving in on me
Anyone wanna sell me a Xanex for $5? (hah)

Anyway. i am super stressed at work we have this huge study that i need to test by monday considering i will be out both monday and friday this is creating a little bit of a problem. plus i have dashboard tonight and thursday and class tomorrow. so the only day i can even work late is wednesday. this week is going to be hell. i will be lucky if i dont kill myself by the end of it. And after hearing Rach's report of the show on Saturday i dont know if these shows will just add to my stress and make me more miserable

Plus i am working on this impossible take home exam. ive gotten to the point of not caring. i have an answer for every question. are they all the right answeres? probably not but i could care less at thsi point. i cant wait to see my sister and the rest of the girl on friday and just have a few drinks and laugh till i cant breathe. ..

till then

GRRRRRR

2007-10-25T13:52:06Z

Dear Reandom Person Who Called Me At 4am from a private number,

FUCK YOU! seriously. i couldnt get back to sleep after being jolted awake by my phone. Somehow Keith was able to sleep through the whole thing. I was scared that something had happened to my brother or sister, but then i see private #, WTF.

Also you didnt leave a voice mail. grrrrrrrr. i guess i have learned not to give fake #s to guys in bars anymore. becuase this could happen to someone else that is the unfortunate owner of the random string of #s i decide to spit out that night.

Anyway.
Im getting excited for Say Anything next week. i know ive seen them a million times already and this is going to be the super lame myspace tour but im stoked to see the new stuff live. i wish they were playing this is fucking ecstacsy. maybe they will. who knows. and Guitar Hero 3 on sunday! YAY!
i think i need to get a new iPod. it freaking sucks but my headphones crapped out and rather than spending the $ to get new headphones for an old ass iPod thats on its last legs anyway i may as well get a new one. Im just going to get the "Classic" style. i look forward to not having to smash it into the dashboard ever 10 min when it freezes.

Update from Maureen

2007-10-12T12:51:58Z

Since i havent posted in nearly a year i may as well write something to brighten your friends page!

I've been doing pretty good lately.
cant complain

Ive been taking a graduate course over at Seton Hall. it is way harder than i would have imagined but ill get through it. ive also been spending far too much time on guitar hero/work/school and not enough time out on the road

but 3 big things that are keeping a smile on my face (an my stomach in knots while i wait!)
1. Say Anythings new record (and show on the 31st!)
2. Guitar Hero 3
3. Dashboard Solo Tour (nov 5-6,10,12 and 14)

ive been feeling kind of lonely/isolated lately so if you guys ever want to send me an e-mail, give me a call, an IM feel free!

Current Stuff i Love:
Ninja Warrior on G4
John Ralston's New Album
4 Cheese and Garlic Frozen Pizza from Red Baron
VH1 Trashy Reality Shows
Being a Student Again
Wikipedia
The NY Giants

Finally

2006-12-21T14:00:08Z

I know its been long overdue but i finally got a new car. it is a Silver 2007 Honda Civic EX. YAY! it is nice to finally feel secure driving down the road. knowing the transmission isnt going to give out at any second, or that the car isnt going to overheat or the engine isnt going to sieze from lack of oil. the saturn served me well but on the drive home from the dealer Keith told me the battery light and oil light were on in addition to the coolant light (which is always on even when i add coolant) so maybe it was really time for the Saturn to go.
Share your best memories of my old car here!!
Saturn
1998-2006 we'll miss you kid!

little things

2006-11-16T21:00:14Z

Its amazing how happy little things can amke you sometimes
last week i changed a tire all by myself. that made me happy. when i was cleaning out my car last night i found a $40 gift card to borders (from last christmas!!) and used it to order 3 new books :-) so now i have a clean car and 3 books on the way!

tonight is my sisters birthday so we will prob go to Applebees and get my fave appitizer yay! this has been a pretty good week. work has been a little monotonus but ill be busy come next week. dashboard this weekend. cant say im really looking forward to it. im more looking forward to seeing some friends and just hanging out.

next week is only a 3 day week at work i cant wait...sleeping in for 4 days will be wonderful. its sad that sleep is all i look forward to about vacations now...

oh yeah people at the office: stop having birthdays i must have gained 5 lbs this week from all the birthday cake/cookies/doughnuts/bagels...i think ill start my diet after thanksgiving

Last Night...

2006-11-02T16:20:21Z

I LOVE John Ralston and his band. That's about it :-)
I had such a good time last night, one of the most fun nights in recent memory.
I wish them all the best and hope they come back to the northeast ASAP. It helped ease the dissappointment of the weekends dashboard show. I told Jeff last night, its not 2002 anymore...and he was telling me to look at things more in perspective. About how The Beatles and Aerosmith and other bands with staying power have had to evolve to keep an audience and a record contract. and that not all fans of these bands now have always been fans through the whole course of the band. It really made me think a lot...that this isnt the first or the last band that will go through changes. and just becuase i leave now doesent mean i am burning a bridge and can never go back....

I had a fight with my sister last night. i told her she was spoiled by how many shows i take her to. She insisted she appreciates it but im not so sure sometimes. its always take me to this show...drive me here...and i take her to so many shows i dont think she has a right to complain. I already took her to see John Ralston this year!! and how many 17 yr olds have had dinner with one of their favorite bands!! Anyway work is the same...still not in school. ive been keeping up on my soccer and Giants football and doing far too much reading. Im on "And You Shall Know Our Veloicty" by Dave Eggers right now next is "The Lovely Bones" any suggestions as to what to read next..

<3MM

tagged

2006-10-13T17:01:57Z

Might as well do this since this journal is dead. i am still an acitve reader and commenter so keep wirting and i will try to do the same.

Six random facts:

Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.

1. I am incredibly judgemental of people's weight and physical appearence. I myself am average in both departments but the only thing i can see when i look at other people. women espeically is if they are prettier/skinnier than me. it really prevents me from making new friends sometimes and had been known to drive my boyfriend crazy

2. I want to be euro-trash. i dont know why. i just seem to like everything european lately, well more specifically British. the slang, the beer, the clothes, the soccer (football)i cant wait to go to London one day

3. My brother and sister are 2 of my closest friends. gowing up i spent a lot of time with my brother (i am 2 years older) but not with my sister (i am 8 years older) but when i got into dashboard i dragged her in with me and now we spend a lot of time together.

4. My favorite food is burritos. It used to be Spinach Pizza from this place the Galleria in Queens but they closed 

5. My latest addiction is reading. I cant go into Barnes and Noble and leave with nothing. I always end up spending around $40

6. I hate the beach in the northeast but I love it in Florida

I dont tag anyone. do it if u wish :-)

emo_momo @ 2006-07-24T09:19:00

2006-07-24T13:25:39Z

Im back from the Sunshine State. my left ear still has yet to pop :-P
both my flights were delayed. i think i may become a balcony girl. i like the feeling of being able to move around and grab drinks and go to the bathroom. though seeing chris's smiles and little subtleties would be greatly missed. who am i kidding. i can just be a balcony girl for every other band
ill probably post more about my trip when i am less sleep deprived

emo_momo @ 2006-06-18T23:30:00

2006-06-19T03:42:57Z

I listened to the places you have come to fear the most today and i cried. it was the first time i had cried at the album in a long time, and it wasnt for the same reasons i cried the first time i heard it

I didnt realzie how insincere and just weak in general dusk and summer is till i listened to the best deceptions, the brilliant dance and screaming infidelities. i got wrapped up in trying to make myself like it, but the only tracks that seem worth listening to are stolen and dusk and summer. it just seems like the record has no heart..no soul..no sincerity i dont know. i really feel like a part of me died today. it took a little longer to hit me than some people but i guess this is the end of the line ... :'(

im glad i still have my friends and all the old albums to lean back on
<3MM

Im broke...

2006-04-25T13:12:42Z

Dear Oil Multi-Millionaires,
We get it already. gas is expensive. give me a fucking break. $2.80 for one gallon. i think you can do without 1 ivory backscratcher. I dont think $1.50/gallon is too much to ask, you will still make billions, and maybe people wont have to pawn their posessions or forego eating to make it to work every day.

Dear New Jersey Govt.
Your cigarette taxes suck. I know you want to be as cool as our neighbor to the north NY, but $7 smokes is not the way to do it, and outlawing smoking in bars...not cool at all.

This weekend was the hardcore superbowl. it made me feel like a kid again. Rocking out to shutdown, indecision,murphy's law, crown of thornz,vision of disorder and madball felt like CIH and the Wetlands all over. Nothing better than screaming along to Hallowed Be Thy Name. grabbing for the mic in an old school pile up. :-) But this comming weekend...FLORIDA!..Craig! and 2 John Ralston shows!! EXCELLENT! all i have to do is survive this week...

Standard Life

2006-03-27T15:39:17Z

I want to be on the road again. This weekend was filled with good friends, good stories and good times all around. Except for the fight i got into with my roomate that somehow was completely resolved by Sunday. John's show was awesome. i got to talk to John,Dan,Susan, and Rob who are all so unbelievably nice they always make me smile, There was one person there who i could have lived without seeing but thats life.

When i come back from the road and back to work it makes me realize how miserable i am here. but at the same time i dont know what else i would do with myself. i mean i need a job to fund what i like to do. i wonder if this is what life is like for everyone. just being miserable at work forever, for those few glimmers of hope that sparkle and fade away pretty quickly. Maybe i am just so miserable today becuase i dont have anything to do, well i will be really busy the rest of the week. so i guess that will help the time move till next thursday and friday which will be another tease of happiness..Well i should get back to moping at my desk and pretending to be busy.

Just thought id let you all know i survived another trip (this makes me feel like this year may not be my swan song after all!)and thanks to all the people who made it so special.

<3MM

Why Not?

2006-03-14T13:13:08Z

Well this journal has been a total bitch-fest lately and cinsidering i talk to most of you on a regular basis you already know whats up.

Im gearing up for Reggie and the full effect on Thursday followed by a St Patricks day party at my apt on friday and then a round of Snowboarding on Saturday this will all be capped off with the most anticipated event the gorgeousness and gorgosity that will be John Ralston at Pianos on the 23rd!! (looking forward to seeing soooo many people)

Im reading a new Book "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk it is pretty interesting. very gory, but still good. and on sunday i heard Soft Pale and Pure on 89.5 (A College Radio Station) it was kind of surreal. i was getting ready to get out of the car and then i heard it so i tunred up the radio and sat there. I guess they are really "making it" or something. i dunno i just am not feeling the title right now. with the exception of "Wait" im kind of glad they are on a hiatus. I guess thats about it. i still have no motivation to work out. i still enjoy sleep far too much and i still have plenty of vacation days!
<3MM

emo_momo @ 2006-02-14T12:14:00

2006-02-14T17:14:39Z

I am wrapped up in my own self induced stress panic. I wish i could go back to 3 years ago where things were still fun. now i cant go out without worrying what is going to happen or who might wreck thnigs for me.

Everything i a, wprrying about is really dumb. but it is related to stuff that is really important to me. Maybe i need a reevaulate priorites and just get out of the vicious cycle that seems to drag me in again and again.

I guess this post is really cryptic unless you have talked to me and know what i am referring to.
<3MM
A real entry soon. i promise. there just hasnt been much to write about
i HATE snow
but i am going snowboarding next weekend yay! :-)
work is boring. everything else is normal