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Recent Entertainment I've Found, well, Entertaining
Monday, June 27, 2011
Over the past week I have experienced two great forms of entertainment, live and from the comfort of my own home. The choice of entertainment? The Simple Plan CD release concert at Gramercy Theater in New York City on the 21st of June and the season premiere of True Blood on HBO last night.
There are a lot of positives and negatives to each "show" I witnessed recently. Going chronologically I will start with the Simple Plan CD Release Concert.
What a night! Being a long time fan of Simple Plan I was excited to see them on stage again and even more excited to hear their new songs. After a hilarious escapade of traveling into the city from New Jersey and a few quick subway trips I found myself outside the Gramercy Theater. There were fans lined up around the block and due to the fact that myself and my friends had the fortune of knowing when Simple Plan would be on we grabbed a bite to eat before joining the line and going inside.
Once inside and after the obligatory, yes I'm over 21 years old ID check, I purchased the new CD (Get Your Heart On!) and received a pass to meet the band after the show. Feeling as though I was thirteen again I restrained myself from acting as such and stored my CD away in a friend's bag for safe keeping before heading into the crowd.
Ten minutes later found us "politely" making our way towards the front as far as we could without knocking over younger fans and disgruntling their parents. When the band came on stage half an hour later I turned to a fan in the audience that I'd met during the wait and said "at least the floor is slanted, us shorties can see!" She'd barely heard me before the music kicked in and the crowd surged forward.
The band did not disappoint. The performed a variety of songs, new and old, and even did a triple encore! The most heart warming part was when the lead singer of the band stopped mid-song to ask security if a girl (who passed out in front me and was being lifted over the barricade) was okay. Once the nod from the bouncer was given to the band they started playing again, each band member casting a concerned eye to the fallen fan.
New songs such as "Can't Keep My Hands Off of You," "You Suck at Love," and "Summer Paradise" offer a nice pick-me-up that are funny and sweet enough to fit in with the classic Simple Plan songs (i.e. Addicted, Grow Up and Meet You There) while their more serious and emotional songs "This Song Saved My Life," "Astronaut," and "Gone Too Soon," were touching the hearts of fans much like earlier songs "Perfect" and "Welcome to My Life" did.
All in all the show was amazing and the opportunity to meet the band fulfilled the wishes of fans(new and old. Despite the time limit at the table with the band they made sure to shake hands, smile, hug, and sign things for every fan before their time was up.
Simple Plan remains a favorite band (as if that would ever change!)
Now, on to the Season Premiere of True Blood.
Warning, Spoilers ahead!
This show has, and please excuse the horrible pun, sucked me in from day one and this premiere did not disappoint! A reunion with Sookie's missing grandfather, faeries trying to hold humans captive, magical fruit and general insanity that we've come to love from the show took place, all within the first ten minutes!
As if the time warp plot twist wasn't enough we also saw how the lives of everyone in Bon Temps have changed while Sookie's loss of time took place. Tara has run away, becoming a cage fighter and apparent lesbian, Jason has become a cop, Bill a vampire King, and Eric continued to express an interest in Sookie as well as cutting a family-friendly commercial for the club Fangtasia.
Other surprises include Lafayette cutting his hair into a Mohawk and, at the bequest of his partner Jesus, attempting to embrace his own supernatural side; Arlene and Terry raising Arlene's son (fathered by now-dead bad guy Rene Lenier); and Andy Bellefleur being addicted to V (vampire blood.)
This season is bound to take off and only increase the shows popularity. If you're behind or have never watched the show, now is the time to get catch up and get sucked in too!
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South Bound?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
So after a month home from school I've already had enough of everyone around here. Some people are awesome, don't get me wrong, but the majority are ass holes and I honestly cannot put up with it much longer.
So what's a girl to do? Why, move South of course!
Yeah, I may move to Maryland, two potential jobs down there and a friend to get an apartment with. We'll see what happens.
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I'm a self-admitted slacker
Thursday, June 9, 2011
So it's been a long time since I wrote in this blog and I blame it on a crazy senior year of college. However, as I look for a job, an apartment and train my puppy (a.k.a. the best graduation gift ever!) I realize that I miss writing even if it is about my day and posted on blogspot or LJ.
I'm going to try and write more, in all respects.
<3Labels: livejournal, writing
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Revenge is Sweet
Monday, August 2, 2010
So despite the fact that I've always been a bit more mature and even tempered than other people I know I couldn't resist the pleasure recent events have brought me.
Songs such as "Undo It" by Carrie Underwood have been blasting out of my car stereo as of late and, ironically, the one person I associate that song with asked me recently if that's what I think of him.
I laughed and decided not to respond but today was the prime moment to top off my recent "moving on" escapades.
After scouring the Montgomery Mall nearby I was able to find a snazzy new dress to wear to my friend's wedding. To add to that I have the perfect shoes and NOW I even have a date for said wedding.
It may not be "in-your-face" type revenge BUT it is sweet enough to know that I'm succeeding at everything I've attempted lately. Life is good.Labels: writing
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Spring has Sprung, Summer is here....Now What?
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Another school year is over and, yet again, more professors are gone. It's quite sad, actually. I suppose I'm just too much of a geek because I actually miss my teachers when summer comes. Luckily I'll be living on campus so I can still bother a few teachers about the impending fall classes.
Spring 2010
Here’s to the professor that leaves his door open
way past office hours.
To the professor that might secretly be a CIA agent,
to the professor with a fear of public speaking
that can’t seem to stop talking
and to the professor that begins class
with stories of her unruly children.
The teachers of my craft have taught me more-
much more than Shakespeare, signs & symbols,
Horror novels and the Law hidden in Literature.
These are the people who gave me a goal,
gave me a place to go,
and a new way to think.
Cheers to another year gone and now it's time to prepare for my (holy shit is it really here ) senior year of college.
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Random writing
Friday, April 30, 2010
E.R. 8-28-09
My head spins as an invisible force
slams through my torso.
I double over, hand clutched over my stomach
teeth closed around my chapped and cracked lips.
Emergency call, a quick rush, white walls and new sheets.
I hate hospitals.
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Rough waves crash against the walls of my stomach
the onslaught causing sharp pains throughout my torso.
I clench my jaw tightly
and double over.
A barely audible curse
escapes my chapped lips.
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Beautiful Nightmare
My monster
does not want to kill me.
He haunts me;
the memories of him follow me.
Blonde hair,
lean muscle,
green eyes.
He tortures me
simply by repeating those lies.
He lies about love,
about diamonds,
I dos,
and two smaller versions of ourselves.
He lies to me
every night.
I wake up,
a silent screamon my lips.
I am broken.
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Muscles tighten and fists clench.
This playful battle is changed—different.
Our rough housing is no longer innocent.
It has changed—we’ve changed.
No longer are we undefined, lacking form,
no longer are we simply us, simply kids.
No there is something changed,
our blood boils for a new reason.
Bodies tangle, we fight, our motives changed.
The innocence in our fight is lost.
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I still remember how my stomach flipped
when you would hold my hand
and intertwine our fingers.
You were never a lover,
always a friend,
but you should’ve been the other.
If you had been
we would still be us but better,
stronger,
happier.
I wish things were changed
but now it truly is too late.
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