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We saw Goldfrapp thursday night at the showbox. it was Fabulous but far too short!

they opened with Utopia and the vocal operatics where absolutely chilling!

she had these fans blowing on her the whole show and her hair was flying up.
the crowd was great, LOUD and very appreciative...except during "Deer Stop" where no one seemed to quiet down.

during "ooh la la" i went to the restroom and the restroom door is just opposite the stage stairs. they were all coming off stage and i had to wait for them to pass. She is Teeny Tiny. I said "I love you, Allison"" and she smiled and said "thank you, dahling"

It was probably the most amazing show I have ever attended.

the setlist:
Utopia
Lovely Head
Tiptoe
Train
Koko
Slide In
You Never KNow
Deer Stop
Fly Me Away
Satin Chic
Beautiful
Ride a White Horse
Ooh La La
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Black Cherry
Number One
Strict Machine


photos by Ruwenda

One of my favorite bands ever, TOAD THE WET SPROCKET, have reformed and are playing here in August. They broke up like 10 years ago and I have never seen them live.

Of course, no one wants to go with me. I might have to wrangle Consuelo, since she still owes me for weasling out of SIOUXSIE. see, I forgive but I don't forget.

i'm eating a lot of oatmeal because I am starting to look like jabba the hutt.
also, I've gained like 8 pounds in the last few weeks. and I'm really happy about that. ok, not really.

don't you sometimes wish your friends actually would tell you when you look terrible?
"hey, you're looking a little bloated. Are you retaining water?"
"Well, yes, thanks for asking, HARRIETTE!"

Sad times

goldfrapp tomorrow night.
also, my dear friends amy & travis fly in tomorrow night for the weekend.

we had a pot luck at work. a taco bar - fittingly, for cinco de mayo.

SO - now my digestive sytem is all in turmoil. enough said?

Watched "war of the worlds" tonight. I couldn't wait for that annoying screaming little girl to DIE! Of course, she didn't - so I Hated it.

a close so-worker was fired this week. It caused quite the little soap oper all around the office. this was someone i consider a dear friend and i have worked with her for the last 6 years as well as sharing an office with her for the last year.

SO, for the last few days I felt like my arm was cut off....something missing, oddly quiet, etc etc. Obviously, she's not dead....but it seemed to come out of nowhere and was a bit of a shock.

zero plans for the weekend. cuz I'm old.

this is me - South park style.

and if I had more hair. Sums it up quite nicely, though I think.

make your own HERE

My favorite song by ladytron and probably the highlight of last night's show. Enjoy!

Wednesday
Went to Z-tejas for Britney's going away party and did beers and appetizers. FUn stuff.

Met Tommy at Purr for a few drinks before Ladytron. Brian and Ben met us there.
The show was excellent, we were way in back but it was a small place. the pics are small but that is about what our view was like.

I'm still sad that Harriette was not able to go.

Not so into working today. Blah!

Monday night had Azteca with steve and doug and sat outside in the lovely spring air.

Jeni LOVES Azteca so I had to take this picture for her.

I bought a ticket to Ladytron for Harriette online a few weeks ago. Got the confermation email and everything. but then yesterday went to open and print out the confirmation email only to discover that I had input my card # wrong and didn't get the ticket.

So, ran down to the ticket place and found out it was sold out - then went to the venue and they said "nope, sorry". SO, I feel like a big asshole. He wasn't all that upset about it but I still feel terrible.

SO anyway, ladytron is tonight. yee haw. I hope they play all three of the songs I know and love. I just haven't gotten around to getting into them!

Yes, I'm cranky today.
Weekend was unexciting. very much same old.

Cleaned my room sunday and was looking through some old pictures. There were ones of me from Iowa city college days ( '93 ) and I recall at the time thinking I was fat. I was Hot then compared to now. Sadness.

Seeing Ladytron tomorrow nigth with my concert buddy Tommy. and Mizz Pottress!
should be fun.

Thanks to Consuelo for the lovely Blog Face-lift!

another million years ago I did a cartoon called "Traumaville"
I think i lost interest around the time I moved to Seattle.
Or maybe it was that lack of FREE TIME?

See the rest HERE

malled on saturday. Dined with Harry.

had a lovely power outtage from about 10:30pm til about midnight. lame.

Sunday, did Easter dinner at casa swenty with steve, pat, brian, doug-e and jenny.

It was nice - great food but I wasn't feeling well.

I'm thinking about just having my stomach removed. it's just one problem after another.

I didn't know Scooby Doo lives in Seattle.

These are pictures of my bedroom way back in 200o when I lived in my pal Steve's house in south Seattle. With Tanq is Oscar, our wonderful bratty cat who was killed by dogs. Very Sad.

But what i get from looking at these pictures is:
HOW THE HELL DID I HAVE TIME TO KEEP MY ROOM SO CLEAN?

Watch the new pet shop boys video featuring the guys from Little Britain HERE

Check this post Chemo pic of Kylie Minogue.

Looks like She's doing well and still alive, even though her sister is plotting to murder her off and asume her identity( See "the Minogue Conspiracy" )

WHOOO HOOOOOOOO!

I got's Goldfrapp tickets! May 11th @ showbox

also seeing:

Ladytron april 26

Erasure May 13th

when it rains, it seems to pour!

what's going on in your life?
it's funny how life can get in the way.
life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

being "away" from my real life is both liberating and frustrating.
and extremely eye opening.

it also helps to examine my life from a distance. ( cue Bette )

i'm not spilling any beans here.


enjoy ya'lls weekends.

my friend John says this guy looks like me. I say he's NUTS.
maybe if i was crazy skinny AND 25 years younger.

which would be nice.

This is Jasmine, or Jazzy-B, as i have renamed her. She's nutty cookoo crazy and she's my new best friend this week while i play soccer mom at my sister's.

Thus far, i didn't sleep 3 nights in a row AND had some minor food poisoning on sunday.

WHOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

My desk is clean and that can only mean one thing : VACATION

i'm in minneapolis from friday night til the 9th.
will probably be on here as i won't be up to much except playing replacement soccer mom while my sister is in italy.

enjoy it.

the rock band next door was at it again until almost midnight.

I have left them notes, talked to them in person and all that asking them to keep it down after 11pm - but they don't listen. their basement is kind of soundproofed, so all you hear is this LOUD throbbing bass.

I was so annoyed about it last night that i grew a big old migraine and was up all night.

I don't want to be an asshole and call the cops because i remember what it's like to be young and dumb.

The 8 dollar and 8 inch high plastic Office Fish tank. it goes well with my "Exotica" Lounge cd.

Sure, it's retarded - but there's something oddly soothing about it.

In mpls from the 31st to the 9th. I hope the weather is decent - actually, I hope it's cold - I intend to watch movies the entire time.

that is all.

V also stands for VERY GOOD MOVIE.

I was jamming to the Xanadu soundtrack on the way to work and was a little sad to think what the peeps in the cars around me might think. this album was also huge for me in 1980.

I don't think enough people give it up for Olivia Newton John anymore. She was my first gay icon.

or maybe I'm just full of shit?

In 1979 - When i was 8 yrs old, I hijacked my eldest brother Thom' s copy of Blondie's "eat to the beat" album. "Atomic" and "dreaming" - so cool and grown up! It made my Goofy gold and Loony tunes lps OBSOLETE.
My sister bought me "Autoamerican" a year later. "the tide is high", "rapture" and "call me". I think i had the '45's, too. I was all sorts of into them. I would watch American bandstand and video jukebox hoping that they would be on there. I don't recall any of my friends caring about such at the time. Being the youngest of 4 kids, I was constantly hearing the stuff my 2 brothers and sister were into. Years later they would start taking cues from me ( because I rule ).

How hip I was at such a young age. I recently got the reissues of both these albums and relived the days of jamming out in my parent's living room, rocking out in my HUGE earphones. My mom would come and tell me to keep it down as I was singing along so loudly.

On the otherhand, I have even earlier memories of rocking out in the huge headphones to ABBA, Bobby Vinton, Johnny Mathis and...GASP..Barbra Striesand's "superman" album. I'm sure that one was because of a song called "Superman" and not some under 8 yr old's pre-homo obsession with Babs.

OK, not really, But "Actor" Channing Tatum sure is Purty. I'll marry him as soon as I divorce Paul Walker.

What is up with my cat?
She now needs me to watch her as she eats.
if I am home, she needs me to monitor her, pet her and talk to her. or she screams at me like I'm a mean negligent parent.
Maybe she thinks something or someone is going to attack her as her back is turned?

Weirdo.

This morning I was listening to Sarah Brightman and remembering how I used to torment my roommate at the time, MARK, with a certain ear shattering song called "a question of honour".

I can't stand that song myself, but it was hilarious.

weekend was low key, lots of lounging. watched an "I love toys" marathon on vh1. did a little shopping. Still have the nose cancer. Spent quality time with my 2 closest friends. It was a good weekend for hot guys in resturants, too. Especially one waiter name "skyler".

View from my 18th floor office on friday late afternoon.
Creepy black clouds, thunder & lightening and Hail that flies UP.

NICE!

Monday night I was feeling all whiney and needy so I treated myself to my favorite Chinese food - Mongolian beef at Wok-n-grill ( very North broadway, BTW ). Sad how empty the place is now that seattle has a smoking ban. i was alone in the place, drinking my bud light, waiting for my to go order...at 9 pm. Sad times.

at the same time - I could have been there drinking my sorrows away - alone on a monday night at 9pm. So, sad times is all perspective, I guess.

we used to go there all the time. the owner is from my home town in Iowa. He used to get some good gay cds for the jukebox for us - kylie, madonna, cher, eartha kitt.
I have to walk by the Elite to get there...I always scowl at the troll folk inside since that little incident.


Mall tuesday and wednesday night. Work is really stupid right now.

Nose cancer is clearing up. Still crazy hurts, though.

GOLDFRAPP : SUPERNATURE

the very best album of 2005 finally released in the US today. Neverheard of them? - well, this is the album Madonna tried her darndest to make, but "Confessions on a Dancefloor" wasn't even close.

I would suggest buying it. it's really quite tremendous.

mostly spent the weekend at home.
A week of colds, sore throasts and what-nots has left me with a nose FILLED TO THE FREAKIN' BRIM with ColdSores. Mostly inside, some on top. OUCH.

I look and feel like a burn victim. or the Elephant man. I had to go to target to get cat supplies and I swear everyione was staring at me and I wanted to scream in my best slurred voice "I Am NOT AN ANIMAL - I AM A HUMAN BEING!"

Ok, it's not that obvious, but gross enough for me to not want to be seen. My best pal Steve said "what the hell is up with your nose?" NICE.

Am I upset the brokeback mountain didn't win best picture? Sort of, but it was more for gay rights advancement issues than actual love of the film.. the sad thing is "crash" is not a film I would ever subject myself to. Several friends have told me it's a far better film than BBM but also that it's already been done to death.

SO, Whooppeee.
I did manage to get my room clean and laundry done, so I did accomplish something this weekend.

Also, in continuing to explore the Carpenters boxset I purcheased for an amazing $9.99 a few weeks ago, I watched the dvd of videos. Sad to watch poor Karen waste away - especially towards the end where she was so skeletal she couldn't keep her arms down.

the Angry Alien Bunnies do Broke Back Mountain HERE

hi-larious

I Clearly Don't! I would clearly rather listen to the Carpenters at 3:30 am. and Now it's 4:43 am, I'm wide awake and debating going in to work.

If I crash now- I will never get out of bed again.

the cat is pissssssed.

Edit: 5:44 now I'm at work. Traffic was beautiful!

i have been fighting a crazy flu since sunday.

I discovered that if you mix 48 hours worth of:
theraflu
Nyquil
Excedrin - migraine
Tussin cough
benadryl
mithamazole (thyroid)

You will lay in your bed, miserable, with a pounding headache that won't let you sit still and you will be sweating your guts out even though a fan is blowing full blast...

and as if that wasn't too much fun already....

you will Hallucinate about ghostly Mexicans surrounding your bed, directing you (in spanish, even though you do not speak spanish) on how to give Birth with each part of your body numbered in glow in the dark white ( left forearm #16, Belly #26 ) and later you will worry about pillow and sheet placement in relation in bill paying systems.

thus was last night from roughly midnight to 4am.

Beat that!