I just got back from TT's for the benefit show for the bartender Jeanne.

TSD just played a short set as did all the bands so it was a great warm-up for this weekend at The Paradise. I know for sure tomorrow night's show is sold out. RJ was supoosed to go w/ me tonight but couldn't make it so now he might try to get a ticket for tomorrow's show. I've tried to get one for him but been unsuccessful so far but I've had my ticket forever so I'm good.

Tonight Aaron, TSD lead singer, was standing next to me during Taxpayer's set so I couldn't help myself from talking to him. I told him Good Job Tonight and he said Thanks and sprayed saliva all over my face, yeah!, and then I told him I was the one who found the video of some random guy doing tai chi or something to a Dear Leader song (his current band), since he did say that was the best birthday present ever, I just wanted credit for it :0)

I just subscribed, yay!

but it's a video podcast.

So in my dream I remember myself first thinking, I can't think of anyone 'famous' that I look like so that has to be out. Then I was thinking about the emulate thing and I thought of Winona Ryder and then I thought that would have been fine if I was in grade school but now she's got the klepto thing and that probably wasn't a good answer, but I'd have to say I got that part down to a t in high school, again not something I should be saying so my answer ended up being:

Keira Knightley

and then I had to explain why so I went into this whole monologue thing which I can barely remember at this point (it is 4:09 am in real life) that I'm feeling is SNL-esque which maybe it is but I don't think it was Keira Knightley because I don't think she's been on SNL but I was saying because she's an actress and gets to do hot guys on screen, and do hots guys off screen (not that I even know who she does on and off screen) and I just kept going and going and going but I can't remember any of that anymore.

And I think the whole reason I was stuck in this dream is because my dog was moving around at the time, and maybe because I've been watching Crowned on Wed. nights.

Monday morning/afternoon spent hours on Gary’s computer trying to fix it. Apparently he lost all of his music. Good thing he doesn’t have that much. I don’t know what the hell happened to it but he said when he would click on a song it would ask him to find it. First I just thought that his path was screwed up but then I realized he had none of these songs anywhere on his computer. Somehow they got deleted. First I wanted to download the latest software for iTunes and his iPods. He hadn’t been doing it because he didn’t remember his Admin password so then I had to get his OS CD and put that in to reset his password and then download a ton of software and then find an application to get his songs from his iPods back onto his computer. iPodRip ended up working perfectly so that was good and Gary got all his songs back. Next time I hope he’ll be able to troubleshoot a little. All he has to do is try a Google search and go from there but he doesn’t seem that capable. I guess I’m glad I could help but I feel like he’s helpless to try and explain anything to or show how to figure things out on his own for next time.

That put us into late afternoon and now we all had to get ready to go to Aunt Winnie’s for the Xmas Eve party as usual every year. We had to make some stops first plus pick up Aunt Margaret from her rehab place. She’s a mess in diapers w/ a wheelchair ever since being diagnosed w/ ovarian cancer at the beginning of 2007, plus she’s 84 years old. It was a big project to get her to Aunt Winnie’s but she was very happy to get the hell out of that place. She hates it and thinks everyone is trying to kill her. What’s taking them so long?

So I spent the night mainly w/ my 34-35 year old cousin Brian serenading me w/ Rascal Flatts karaoke which was very strange until I could recruit more relatives for him to sing to. My 33 year old cousin Tammy w/ the 5 year old triplet boys from in vitro that isn’t supposed to be able to have children is 5 months pregnant and getting her tubes tied once they get the kid out. I listened to my mom and aunts tell my ~20 year old cousin that she could always go back to school later in life, like my mom did, since she didn’t like college and I guess working at the department store cosmetics counter is okay for her now. My 29 year old cousin Mark’s 9 year old daughter said to me ‘If there was a pole there I could slide down it…like a stripper,’ and in that pause I thought she was going to say fireman. She also simulated pole dancing w/ the banister and said she learned it from watching Tila Tequila w/ her mother. And I thought I was a bad influence on my niece. Tammy’s husband asked me if I was a member of PETA and wondered why I was wearing so much leather (leather coat and boats), I guess because I’m a vet, they have no idea what I do at work and it’s impossible to explain so I’m just glad I’m there for a night and can get back to Boston real soon where the people I’m around are more like me. It’s a good dose of birth control though!

Drove back to Mom’s w/ Alzheimer’s Grandma, she’s staying w/ us the next couple nights, good times. Sang xmas tunes in the car while she asked me the same thing over and over. Once home Mom and Gary got into a big fight, I rarely see them fight and this one was kinda bad, over him tracking in water and mud from outside onto the floor she just cleaned and he was denying that it was mud so she had to wipe it up and show him and I was adding my own commentary joking around not to worry about it because no one was coming over, when actually Gary’s whole family is coming tomorrow, and she said Good, I don’t want anyone to come over, and Gary thought that was dissing his family and he wanted an apology and she didn’t want to give one and Grandma and I were just sitting there silent until Mom took Grandma to bed and then she went to bed and Gary asked me another computer question.

I think I’ve gotten it all down on paper now. It was a struggle so I hope you appreciate it. Off to bed. Santa might come. Please! I know that’s a stretch.

Check out this article for some latest genetic findings.

When I was in Paris I made a trip to the zoo with Jen mainly to see the pygmy hippo baby but I was amazed with their giraffes. Check them out!

Just can't get enough :0)

That time has passed
Some things that never really last
We've come undone
To me you'll always be the one

Calm down people
It's just a little lie
You know it doesn't mean nothing
And I realize you could be right

Calm down people
It's just a little lie
You know it doesn't mean nothing
And I realize you could be right

I walk alone
And you know I never felt at home
I'm so hard to please
And I have everything I need

Oh, calm down people
It's just a little lie
You know it doesn't mean nothing
And I realize you could be right

Oh, calm down people
It's just a little lie
You know it doesn't mean nothing
And I realize you could be right

So I guess iTunes Affiliate sucks for making links. I never really used it but maybe it's me. You can make little text links to anything like I did here but it gives you no information about what it's linking to until you click on it. You can make graphic links but it seems there are only certain ones available and you can't search through them easily. I can't believe it'd be so crappy but who knows. I guess I need to play around with it more. You can do affiliate things for iMixes too which I tried to do but again didn't work.

Anyway, I've linked to a Live! performance of Dave Gahan's new CD Hourglass at the Apple Store in Soho.

The Sandbox, the WFNX morning show. I would get more specific but I don't know which one of you douches made the comment, except I know it wasn't Henry.

I called in this morning to vote for the 'my song is better than your song' thing because I like Thunder Kiss '65 and yes I used to spend plenty of time at Axis back in the day dancing to it. Mike Gioscia was going against Henry this morning and that was the song Mike picked. He used to DJ at Axis back then.

I got on the radio back in the summer too but I didn't get to hear it so don't know if they made any asshole comments then, this time I heard the whole thing.

I call in, they ask your name and your age. Then they say you're going live w/ the DJs and not to swear. So they ask me what song I'm voting for and I say 'Thunder Kiss' then they ask if I spent time at Axis back then and I say 'Yes, I remember it fondly' and then they ask if I made out w/ Mike in the DJ booth and I say 'No, I wasn't that lucky,' which is supposed to be a joke, I don't really know who the hell he is or care. Then they talk to another girl who votes same as me and then after they're done w/ her someone makes some crack about how we're 33 and 34 respectively to Mike, like Dude, do you really want these old chicks? You guys suck! Regardless of how old I am I look much better than your mugshots on the site and I have no interest in Mike or any of you so who cares.

You guys are just lucky that all the other stations suck because the only reason anyone listens to your morning show is for the music.

Where's Mike Swasey or Storm Zbel? I'd rather listen to them.

Most recently: Beth Orton at the MFA for a pretty intimate show. There was one at 7 and one at 9. I went to the 9 w/ Nathan. Had a dead center seat maybe 10 rows back. Highlights for me: Paris Train and Sugar Boy.

I saw Natasha Bedingfield at Hampton Beach Casino, NH on Sunday night June 22, 2008. The Veronicas opened, I didn't get there in time for them. Went w/ RJ.

I saw Duran Duran at Agannis Arena Boston, MA on Wed. May 28, 2008. Your Vegas opened, caught the end of their set, they were an okay UK band. Went w/ Michelle.

I saw Natalie Merchant at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA perform w/ the Boston Pops! Went w/ Jason.

I saw Scamper at the Middle East downstairs on February 2, 2008. It was their final show. Forget who played w/ them. Went w/ Steve and other co-workers.

I saw The Sheila Divine 3 nights in a row. First at TT's on December 27th, 2007. It was a benefit show for a bartender there so there were 5 bands including Orbit and Taxpayer that played short sets. A good warmup for the rest of the weekend.
Friday December 28, 2007 was at The Paradise w/ Orbit again and The Control Group. I went w/ RJ.
Saturday December 29, 2007 again at The Paradise w/ Orbit again and Hiss and Chambers. I went w/ Jason.

I saw Morrissey at The Orpheum on October 30, 2007. I have some okay pictures and vid/audio. I got there a little late and missed 1.5 songs, boo! not w/ Kristeen Young instead Girl in a Coma joined the tour. I got there too late to see them.

I went to the Chocolate Church in Maine w/ Becca Lu and Dan on November 17, 2007 to see Kate Schrock, and Travis James Humphrey. There was someone else too that went on first but I can’t remember.

I don’t really count these as shows but I’ll put them anyway because they were fun. Both were at The Estate. Felix da Housecat on Halloween 2007 and Kaskade on November 30, 2007.

Dear Leader My last DL show was October 26, 2007 at The Paradise. I got to drag Tara along.

Morrissey July 7, 2007 at BofA Pavilion. The rescheduled show. I was supposed to go home this weekend to run The Boilermaker 15K w/ my mom but I didn’t want to miss the show, especially after all the drama w/ walking out on us the first show. w/ Kristeen Young. I went w/ Nathan.

Morrissey June 26, 2007 at BofA Pavilion. Drama show! w/ Kristeen Young :0( I don’t like her. I went w/ Nathan.

Cowboy Junkies w/ the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall June 24, 2007. I went w/ Jason and Nathan. This turned out to be the night of the infamous Jury’s sleepover.

Dear Leader June 16, 2007 at The Paradise. I was in the front against the stage. I think I can see myself in the video. Though I’m on Aaron’s left so you have to wait until Shilo moves to the other side of the stage.

The Sheila Divine played at TT’s on St. Pat’s Day 2007. It was some silly promotional thing for Bushmill’s and you had to be on the guest list. Luckily Nathan and I made it.

Dear Leader November 10, 2006 at The Paradise.

Gun ‘N Roses November 8, 2007 at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA w/ Sebastian Bach and Papa Roach.

Dear Leader September 15, 2006 at TT’s w/ Nathan.

Celtic Woman July 14, 2006 BofA Pavilion. This was on a date, I’m up for anything though this is definitely not my scene. This guy, Gopi, was totally into them. It was fun though I have to say.

Madonna July 10, 2006 at the Fleet Center.

Sweet & Tender Hooligans May 19, 2006 at The Middle East. Here’s the scoop.

Depeche Mode May 10, 2006 somewhere in Kansas City w/ She Wants Revenge. Got there too late to see them open. Made it just in time for DM, though didn’t make it to my seat. That’s okay, I wouldn’t be standing long.

Depeche Mode December 3, 2005 at The Bogata in Atlantic City w/ The Bravery opening. I went w/ Diana and Anton. I was still in vet school at the time so had to fly from Kansas to NY and meet Diana to then drive to Atlantic City. It was an awesome night! Great show!!!

Madonna July 1, 2004 at The Centrum in Worcester.

Concert for John Kerry at The Middle East June 24, 2004 w/ Commodore Vic, Count Zero, Dear Leader, The Fly Seville, Freezepop, U.V. Protection

WMFO's British Accents Presents The Good North & The Information, My Favorite, Saintface May 27, 2004 at The Middle East. I think I went to this because I know I’ve seen Saintface but I thought it was w/ a Smiths cover band and I don’t know if any of these other bands are. I think I was there because I just checked when I imported the Saintface EP and it was June 1, 2004.

The Sheila Divine funeral October 11, 2003 at The Paradise. I went w/ Randy, Nathan and Jason.

Whitney Houston This was my first concert ever. I wasn't a big fan but my Aunt Winnie and cousin Tammy had an extra ticket. It was at the State Fair in Syracuse. I think I was around 11 years old.

Aerosmith w/ Guns N' Roses. My Dad won me tickets to this concert. It was the summer before 9th grade. I think I was 12. At the time I was completely obsessed with Axl Rose. I've never been so obsessed with anyone else. It was awful! The concert was my first exposure to drugs and crazy stuff. Tammy and I rode w/ my Dad's friends from work. They were supposed to look out for us though I do remember taking off and going up front and Tammy getting punched in the mouth. She just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I bought my GNR shirt w/ the raped girl on the back and then felt stupid wearing it to school that way so I covered her in with black marker. I still have the shirt but now it's ruined.

Whitesnake w/ Faster Pussycat My Dad won me tickets to this show too, same summer.

Bon Jovi w/ Skid Row I saw this show in 9th grade, so 1988. My Uncle was working at the Dome then so he got us our own box to sit in. It was great! I had a really sore neck the next day from headbanging. Ha Ha!

INXS w/ The Soup Dragons. This was also at the Carrier Dome. I was now in 11th grade, 1991. I went with Carrie Maslona.

Tori Amos RobReed and I saw Tori in Boston at The Wang Center, around 1997.

Culture Club w/ Howard Jones, Human League

Bush (2 times)

The Cure (2 times)

Morrissey

Morrissey w/ The Smoking Popes

Morrissey w/ The Sheila Divine at Avalon

The Sheila Divine (a million times) w/ Longwave w/ Helicopter Helicopter w/ Tugboat Annie w/ Nada Surf

The Jesus & Mary Chain

REM w/ Radiohead

REM

U2

Depeche Mode w/ The The

Depeche Mode w/ Stabbing Westward

Depeche Mode 2 other times

The Sundays

The Cult

Tom Jones

Sting w/ The Cowboy Junkies

Matchbox 20 w/ Semisonic

River Rave (2 times)

Hatch Shell: Econoline Crush, Joan Osbourne, Blues Traveler, The Sheila Divine September 6, 2001 w/ Dave Navarro I guess

Duran Duran

Barenaked Ladies

Loolapoolooza: Hole, Sonic Youth

10,000 Maniacs

Natalie Merchant

O-Town

Beth Orton July 31, 2002 at Avalon w/ Bacon Boy (and Nathan?)

Iggy Pop

The Black Crowes w/ Oasis

BR549

God Lives Underwater

Stabbing Westward w/ Placebo

The Cranberries

The Beastie Boys

July 4th w/ the Pops: John Melloncamp, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry, Cyndi Lauper, Trisha Yearwood, Don McLean

Aaron Perrino solo January 9, 2003 at TT’s

The Dixie Chicks w/ Patty Griffin I saw them in Albany w/ Randy on July 21, 2000. I think I was home in Syracuse to run the Utica Boilermaker and Randy drove from Boston to meet me in Albany.

Goo Goo Dolls w/ Sugar Ray

Live

Madonna

Nine Inch Nails w/ Jim Rose Circus

Matt Sweet

The Radicts

Ultimate Fakebook

Godsmack

Joe Whiting I saw him over Christmas Break w/ my Dad (2003?). It was my 2nd time. My Dad embarrassed me by introducing me to Joe which would be fine except that the last show my Dad went to he told Joe that I was really into him and that was just a couple shows before the one I was at.

This season my new fav show is Journeyman. Normally it's on Monday nights but I just happened to see tonight that it was on again and it was new. I thought that was very strange to do so I was looking up the show and came across articles saying the show is canceled. I hope it doesn't end up happening. I like this show.

Last season it was The Nine. I liked this show a ton and it got pulled so soon. At least they showed us all the episodes they had made. I thought it was a great cast though and I miss them.

Good thing I can watch Private Practice for Tim Daly, I love him, and John Billingsley (update your site!) keeps showing up in all my shows it seems.

And let's not forget Models, Inc. and Relativity.

Sorry, but I warned you. So if you wanna click here

The Sheila Divine funeral on YouTube.

TSD Archive

Anderson Cooper. I want to go to the Congo!

And honorable mention to Will Smith. I didn't like your stupid movie!

The next thing I'd talk about is my long run on Sat. w/ Tara but I already made a post about it so I'll skip that. So after I warmed up from the long run I tried to take a nap before the party but never fell asleep. Got ready to go and took the T out to Davis Sq. Tara was already there when I got there so I found her of course. Besides her and Joslynn I don't really talk to anyone else, plus w/ all the drama from my stupid blog stuff and the cliquy-ness there are some who'd rather not associate w/ me I think. There were lots of people there and lots of awesome food!! This potluck rocked! Somehow I ended up upstairs in the karaoke room listening to karaoke king and queen Axel and Jane. How I ended up doing a sober duet w/ Axel to 'Endless Love' I'm not sure but it was awful!!!! I was very nervous! That's when I started drinking more. Plenty of wine, up to the third floor for Flip Cup, back downstairs had some of Ethan's alcoholic milkshake concoction. Blah, too much mixing. Ended up back in karaoke at some point singing lots and lots of songs. The next day my voice hurt.

We finally left around 3am and we were trying to drive Joslynn home but she was giving us directions to Brian's b-day party, my guy from my b-day weekend. Sober Tara just wanted to get Joslynn home, no more parties, it was starting to snow. Joslynn was acting like she was texting him and she said he had tried to call me or something after our hook up I guess. Who knows how true any of that was in her state though it was kinda amusing. We saw her go inside her house so I don't know if she went back out to that party of not.

Sunday was very boring. I didn't feel that good and it had snowed overnight and rained Sunday so the streets were awful. I went to CVS to get some stuff and was walking in water halfway up my leg so didn't go outside much after that. Just one of those wasteful days.

About 1am this morning I was looking for something on the telly to fall asleep to. Paranormal State was on so I thought I'd tune in; there was nothing else on. It's a new show on A&E. I saw the commercial for it when I was in MI w/ my brother. My brother is a big baby! and when we were younger I'd purposely try to scare him. I loved the movie 'The Exorcist' and my brother could not watch it because he was too scared. So I'd sneak in his room late at night when he was sleeping and in my best Linda Blair exorcist voice say things about 'your cunting daughter'.

If I bring it up now he gets mad. So I told him I would teach his 2 year old to tell him that she sees dead people. She repeats everything I say so I'd be very easy to do. He didn't appreciate that!

So anyway I'm watching this show very early this morning and this little kid says he sees dead people, specifically this guy Timmy who turns out was found dead near this little kids house but the little kid knows nothing about it. This is a reality-type show by the way, real people, real stories. Anyway I get bored w/ it so turn over to fall asleep. I sleep in a very tiny bed w/ my hound and we basically sleep right next to each other, head to head, last night she even had her legs stretched out over me, paws in my face basically, not the most comfortable.

At one point I guess she flinched or something, kinda like her panniculus reflex fired, and her arms moved and it felt like someone came up behind me and started choking me. I was totally freaked out and scared!!! I woke right up and quickly figured out what happened though I still turned around to make sure no one was behind me.

Thanks Beaky for scaring Mommy! It was awesome!

Randy's old guitar teacher, Derrick, was just on the news for a segment talking about the popularity of Rock Band and Guitar Hero. When we lived in Brighton and were dating Randy was taking lessons from him and Randy had a little recital one time and I went to listen and met Derrick. Randy played 'Hey Bulldog.' I think I also went to some open mic thing Derrick did or maybe it was to see him in a band, can't quite remember, it's a very vague memory from several years ago.

Brett Favre. I feel bad giving it to you but I went w/ my knee-jerk reaction after hearing the news.

It's so hard to give out just one though so lets give out some more Fuck Yous to all those athletes out there doping and ruining your sports.

p.s. Miami won so they won't be winless this season, Pats won too, blah!

I'm hungry!

for an awesome run this afternoon. Our scheduled long run for this weekend was 9 miles. We didn't go to Joslynn's long run this morning because I was out late and we didn't want to have to get up so early. I didn't go to bed until 4am got up at 10am and by 11am was planning to meet Tara to go run on our own. We weren't sure of the sidewalk conditions but decided we'd go for it anyway. We ran along the Charles on the Boston side, over the Mass Ave. bridge, down Mass Ave. to Harvard Sq. and then some more before we turned around at 4.7 miles. We got a little off track on the way back but got to give Tara a little tour of MIT and point out where my office was. We got to 9 miles about a mile away from my place so we started walking but it was so cold we kinda started running again to get back quicker. Walking to Tara's car we passed Starbucks and I saw RR in there so on the way back from Tara's car to my house I stopped in Starbucks and had RR buy me a green tea latte. I had a hat on but the end of my ponytail was exposed and it was frozen together like an icicle. Yuck! Once I got home and into the shower I had the hot water on full blast but it still wasn't hot enough. I'm still cold! Gotta get ready for the CRC Holiday Party tonight, starts at 6:30p.

The Bill Rodgers Jingle Bell 5K that was to be tomorrow night has been postponed to the 23rd because of the snow we're supposed to get tonight. That sucks because I doubt I'll be in Boston on the 23rd so I can't run it.

For dinner we had Jimmy John's subs which I was happy to get. I used to get them all the time in Manhattan, KS during vet school but they aren't around in Boston. Got my usual Turkey Tom, cucumbers instead of tomato. It was yummy! Had leftover birthday cake for dessert.

Today was similar. Just playing around all day w/ the kids. Went to the mall so they could ride the merry-go-round and ate at Rainforest Cafe. Mom made meatloaf for dinner. That was yummy too! Now trying to get JJ to go to sleep. He went down really well but for some reason Ella went in his room and woke him up and now he won't go back to sleep. He's just screaming his head off!!!

I'll leave here early tomorrow morning and stop in Niagra Falls again to run. Get back home to my mom's around 5-6p. Leave Wed morning from my mom's, drive back to Albany, and take a bus from there back to Boston. What a trip! At least I got to see my babies for a little bit. And I got some Christmas presents.

Anyway, Facebook is in the news and it's not a good thing.