This weekend is fleet week. Those really fast top-gun-looking-planes that make an ANNOYINGLY loud sound as they flight like maniacs over the city. Oy.
I’ve been invited to 3 different roof parties! It’d be cool to go to one or all of them, but I think I’ll be staying home working. I have so much to do I wish I could hock a few hours to sleep. Bargain w/ time anyone? NOPE. It’s a fixed force that only mentally speeds up as we inch closer and closer to death.
Tonite Eric & I went to see Dave Attell – LIVE! It was so cool.
I met Eric in 2000, when I worked at Spunky. Eric was the background artist. We haven’t seen eachother since then! He is an amazing painter and has been showing quite a bit lately in galleries and winning awards. What a superstar! He deserves it – he’s truly so talented.
We met up at First Crush for a quick glass of wine, hello & some appetizers. We hadn’t made a reservation, but we found a table anyway. It’s very nice, I’d like to go there again for a full meal – I’m really craving some yummy dinners out. I think I’ve cut down on that a lot – but I have had some delicious meals in this city – we have the best restaurants! Tomorrow night my crave will be satiated.
We headed to the Warfield just in time and worked our way to the seats. There were 2 openers + Dave Attell & Lewis Black / total of 4 comedians – but I was only there to see Dave!!
He was funny… the funniest for sure. I love how much he talks about sex and drinkin’. So foul and yet so funny.
When I got home tonite I thought of all the funny people in my life. I have so many great and hilarious times. SO I figure, if I attract funny people in my life, that MUST mean I’m funny, too right? But I’m not so sure… I mean, sure I have a great sense of humor, but does that mean that I am funny? Do people say, “Oh, you gotta meet my friend Willo – she’s so funny! She cracks me up!”
Ya, if they were making fun of me maybe! *flashback ripple*
I think this spawns from having these roomates one time when I was little – and the little boy was a year or so younger than me – and he’d always be really silly and funny and made our mom’s laugh… but I could of sworn when I did something funny they were laughing ‘at’ me instead.
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And actually come to think of it, I once did get the fine compliment that I was a “kick in the pants” from my friend Krissy. SHE’s the kick in the pants! But I am thinking all this funny around me is wearing off! And I believe I am funny! Not only that but I have a great sense of humor, I’m surrounded by funny people, and I laugh all the time!! I’m a party in a bottle, baby! (there’s gotta be a song called that, right?) Don’t worry – I’m not going on the road anytimes soon though… I think I’m more of a great sidekick to someone really funny.
Ok, now I’m just babbling, but if you haven’t been laughing enough – go getcho’self some comedy!
I’ve got to make sure I go to this on Oct. 25: Red Bull Flügtag!
I’m gonna be updating the calendars on the left soon – I’ll be sure to put this there too! :)
This site is hilarious.. I only watched one of the videos under ‘Interviews’ but it’s pretty funny
All I have to say is I can’t stand it when people act “too cool for school” (and no, I’m not talking about edjumacation). I mean like when people are at a show & they’re all too cool to be dancing or just in general when people act all better than other people. I like to think I give everyone the benefit of the doubt – and often the weirder the better with me. Be who you are and don’t be so damn worried what other people think – who cares!! I’m gonna make t-shirts.
Hai, Matt, Rick & I hit the Hizz (Rick & I’s new nickname for the Bottom of the Hill*) for the Rogue Wave show – and it RAWKED!!!! They are atleast 2x as great live as on the CD (which is really excellent in itself). Seeing them live was so great – and we loved that all the musicians rotated around, drummer hopped on guitar and the keyboardist jumped on the drums – all over the place! It was fantastic!
The Thermals came on after them and totally jammed!! I am psyched to get their CD. After hitting so many indie-rock/emo shows lately, it was nice to get some good ol’ fashioned punk rawk in the mixx.
Unfortunately by the time Mates of State came on, all my drinkies had given me a dose of A.D.D. and I felt like chatting it up at the bar more than standing there staring at the stage. Luckily my peeps were down w/ that too and so that’s just what we did! By the end of the night we’d rapped w/ the Rogue Wave peeps, complete with Pat (another Ohio boy!) hearing of my total lambchops & afro envy (ranking up there with my penis envy I so forthrightly admitted. TMI for Pat I’m sure! Come to think of it that conversation even led to discussing how great boobs are too, though. ha!) and my telling Sonya the bass player how cute I think she is. Zach, the lead, and his wife Lisa were cool too. (boy I sure hope that’s her name, as I promised I wouldn’t forget her name.. me and my buzz explicitely expressing (after asking her a second time) that I wanted to remember it as “why would I ask her if I was just going to forget!?” oh boy. this goes under the same category of logic for thanking taxi drivers effusively for their safe and sober driving)
I also chatted it up with the cutie bass player chic from The Thermals. They’re from Portland and somehow they spawned thoughts of The Red Bennies I had seen with Birdsaw there about a year ago. So we talked about that – and how we both dig Ted Leo (reminding me how lame I am for not going out to see him play this last Sunday). At the end of our conversation, Rick bought their CD which I’m psyched to hear – but I’m sure part of it was him thanking them for listening to my chattiness. hahaaa I’m such a nerd.
After closin down the Hizz we started walking for a Taxi and popped in the Parkside to see what was goin on there.. Well since everything was closing down it was hard to tell what had gone down – but we grabbed our water (!) at the bar and sat down to ride out our buzz for a few more minutes, not wanting our fun night to end.
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*Runners up for the new name for BOTH were:
– The Bizzy of the Hizzy
– Bizatch Onna Tonna Hizapizatch
– The Bomb On The Hong
– The BO Thrill
and – The Bedonk On The Hisonk
Hilariously when Rick arrived lastnight he was all “Check out the sign outside! It says Bottom of the Hizz!” I laughed as it was actually just the fonts making the L’s look like Z’s. Thus “The Hizz” was born!
Oy, I worked hard all day and hardly scratched the surface. Positive problem, I suppose.
Tonite I had BAM and then headed to the grocery store for some long overdue re-stocking of my fridge & cupboards. Oh ya, and you can bet your ass I got me some pop-tarts. mm-hmm!! I even got myself a donut!! They just looked so damn good.
Tonite coming home I had to deal w/ the horrible mess of construction out front our house. UG! Not only are they waking me up at the crack of dawn with their hard core drilling into the ground with their gazillion ton CAT machines – but the metal slabs they lay down to cover the hole at night make a big rumbling noise every time someone drives over it. Most of which shake the whole house. It’s making me tired just thinking of waking up to it again tomorrow morning. This morning I actually had to get up & move my car – but tonite I’m gonna go move it now so I can just throw a pillow over my head & sleep the extra hour in peace.
Speaking of moving my car, we’ve had this construction going on for 2 weeks an in that time I’ve gotten 2 parking tickets!! GRR!!! We’re totally displaced on our parking – AND the damn street cleaning machines aren’t even sweeping our street because of the construction and we’re STILL getting tickets! CURSID DTP!!! Tickets are such a waste of money – and on our 2 block stretch of street we don’t have street cleaning, however since we’re kicked off that & left to park on these streets a couple blocks away it’s totally thrown me off. I saw a good 10 cars with tickets on them today in the same situation as me. So frustrating.
Welp, off to move my car to a ticket-free parking spot… and then to put the rest of these groceries away – and clean! Just so I can think straight tomorrow & continue tackling my long list of to-do’s! :)
oh & p.s. I want one of these. Maybe with “BERNAL GIRL” on it or “WILLOTOONS” … hmm… I’m trying to think of something else that has to do with music – maybe “LIVE MUSIC JUNKIE” or “SHAKE IT”
p.s.s. I wish my cat would figure out that jumping up on the desk, and sticking his ass in my face and leaving his enormous-fuzzy tail right in front of my screen, swishing back and forth tickling my nose, ISN’T making me want to pet him!!
UPDATE/11:40pm – crap, there was no place to park – so I’ll have to get up really early again to move it. HMPH!
I was surprised I just saw this and it’s been two months! Odd that it took this long for the word to get out – maybe I just don’t read/watch the news enough. Anyway, in case you didn’t know – a girl named Heather is missing. Keep your eye out. It’s horribly sad :(
The good news is I got a lot done today, felt great & had a good time tonite.
The bad – very, very bad – news is *sigh*… well I don’t even have to tell you now do I? If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you know the bad news. It’s official: Our nation is FULL of IDIOTS! God damn idiotic Bush in the White House – and now a fucking Austrian body-builder/actor as a Governor? THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING!
Well God bless him if he really thinks he can do well for our fair (in-dept-and-obviously-full-of-imbiciles) state.
Alright, since that’s really so depressing… let’s talk about my good news some more. Well it’s not really anything spectacular – it’s just sorta a list of news from today – and it’s all good, compared to the very baaad news.
So – I went to the SFMMUF meeting and saw some fellow Flash Goddesses and even ran into some old contacts and familiar faces from previous Flash events…
Then I went over to meet Rick & Hai for a show at Bottom of the Hill (Mat and a friend showed up, and Jem & Tania met us there too). Mellowdrone was playing when we walked in – not bad. The Decemberists were great – the lead singer has one of those mouths and ways that he sings that makes you (uh, and me and jem & tania) just want to watch him. Very cool. I liked his jeans (Jem liked the way he looked in em) and his nice geeetars. And he actually reminded me a ton of my friend Liam, for some reason.
Alright – so the even COOLER news is that today Rick gave me the new CD from The Gossip!! WAHOO!! He bought it & it totally surprised since I’ve been wanting it so bad. He was funny about giving it to me – like never admitting he didn’t know that it was going to totally stoke me. He’s shy I think :)
So I listened to it on my way home, and in addition to it’s hard core rockin’ punk chics vibe, it’s actually got such a great gospel/jammin-south feel to it too; Excellent!! Oh – and he burned me some of his favorite “Turkish Ska”. Now my collection is complete!! :p
Oh ya homies… ya, thas’ right, I was plaayin all dis’ in my new bling-bling stereo, yo! (you know you want one) Next, I’m gettin a gold tooth – right up front.
I’m doing better today than yesterday… I’m over being a big baby about my new stereo. It’s fine… (but I still wish it was black) and I am just glad to finally have another stereo in there. And YES I’m very fortunate to even have a car, yadda yadda… :) I know how good I got it – so I’ll stop complaining now.
Anyway – yesterday was an off day all around – and apparently other people were feelin it too… as I talked to a few friends that were saying yesterday was one of those Mondays you just can’t wait to be done with.
Today is better and I’m excited to get some things wrapped up before heading out to the SFMMUF event tonite to see Josh Ulm. I think a few of us SF Flash Goddesses will be there… and then after that it’s off to the show at Bottom of the Hill!