Shopping is a feeling

does anybody have any questions?

2004-11-28T08:18:21Z

Okay, so lizak is making me do this:

</span> A: First, recommend to me:

1. three movies:
2. three books:
3. three songs:
4. three (artist, contemporary, manga, us comic, historical, whatever)s:

B: I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. Do not count to two question unless thou shall be proceeding immediately to three. Three is the number of the questions, and the number of the questions shall be three. Do not count to four, five is RIGHT OUT!

C: Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything. Bwahaha, because you're as much of a meme addict as me...

wally crying

2004-08-06T21:02:11Z

Ok, so I'm bored, and it's here: fridayfiver

1. What was the first concert you ever attended? How old were you? Where was it?

Let's see here. Discounting, of course, classical music and junky "let's go to the winery because the parents like jazz" events, I think the prize goes to A Perfect Circle's 2000 tour (I was 17). They played at the Paramount, a gorgeous old theatre and definitely my favorite Seattle venue. I've seen a lot of great stuff there.

2. What was the most recent concert you attended? Where and when?

The Walkmen, at Neumo's on July 13th. Had never been to the old Moe's, so it was pretty cool to see a show at the recently-resurrected venue. Plus The Walkmen are just plain cool.

3. Have you ever seen your favorite artist/band in concert? Did the show live up to your expectations or were you disappointed?

Yes, and it completely exceeded my expectations. Just attending the concert would've been enough, but the events surrounding it made it better still. I was VERY lucky to be turning 21 in London on the same day as David Byrne's first show at the Royal Festival Hall this year - April 8 - and even luckier that I found out about it and bought tickets (note the plural. A certain actor who shall not be named will forever regret 'rehearsal' or whatever those people do for a living.).

I was far too young to have seen Talking Heads in concert, and had never seen David Byrne live, and with it being my 21st birthday and all I was pretty stoked. The man puts on a show, that's for certain; the audience were dancing in the aisles. And I must say that the acoustics of the RFH were rather welcome. After the show I headed down to the stage door, because hell, it was my 21st birthday, and I was going to meet my favorite musician if it took hours. Which it did (well, an hour and a half). After waiting in the cold forever, out he came, and even wished me happy birthday and posed for a photo! And thanks to the kindness of the other guy who survived the wait, I also have an autographed Stop Making Sense CD booklet - was so nervous that I was meeting David Byrne, I forgot to ask for an autograph! Whoops. But it all turned out, and I had a fantastic time!

4. Ever been to a concert where you were pleasantly surprised at the performance? Ever been to a concert where you were totally disappointed? Name 'em!

Seeing Tool for a second time at the HORRIBLE Key Arena was very disappointing. I didn't really think twice about going to an arena show when I bought the tickets, but I am never doing that again. We got stuck in the rafters thanks to a Satan Ticketmaster error and it really was the most dreadful thing. It sounded like crap, we couldn't see a thing, and we seemed to have checked the "stoner section" box because it was getting really really hard to breathe by the end. Not really the band's fault, but hey. It still sucked.

5. Name five bands that would headline your own personal festival. (Along the lines of Oz Fest or Lollapalooza)

If it could be any bands, regardless of whether they've broken up or died or whatever, I think the list would have to include: - Talking Heads - Clarence Carter - Rita Coolidge (but she's only allowed to perform All Time High) - Tom Ze - Tweaker It could be a combination awesome music and comedy festival! I actually kind of hate huge festivals; I would rather see the bands in smaller venues with better acoustics over the period of a summer than see them outside in the mud with a bunch of people who showed up at the Gorge for a Dave Matthews Band concert and became so convinced that they were born-again hippies that they just set up house under the stage or whatever those weekend-hippies do.

Work work work work

2004-07-29T23:20:02Z

So this seems to be job/interview offer week, for some strange reason. I've gotten one solid job offer which I can't take, and expect a conversation of a job-related nature in the near future. Both totally out of the blue, as well!

How odd.

Who disco?

2004-07-22T05:26:06Z

Work is fun. Yup.

artists only

2004-07-19T07:47:41Z

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IMDB's Top 100 Best Movies of All Time
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Rank	Movie	Didn't See It/ Started It/ Finished It/ Hated It!
1	Godfather, The (1972)	Finished It
2	Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)	Finished It
3	Godfather: Part II, The (1974)	Finished It
4	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)	Finished It
5	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)	Finished It
6	Casablanca (1942)
7	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)	Finished It
8	Schindler's List (1993)
9	Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10	Star Wars (1977)	Finished It
11	Citizen Kane (1941)	Finished It
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	Started It
14	Rear Window (1954)
15	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	Finished It
16	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	Finished It
17	Memento (2000)	Finished It
18	Usual Suspects, The (1995)	Finished It
19	Pulp Fiction (1994)	Finished It
20	North by Northwest (1959)	Finished It
21	12 Angry Men (1957)	Finished It
22	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)	Finished It
23	Psycho (1960)
24	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
26	Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
28	Goodfellas (1990)
29	American Beauty (1999)
30	Vertigo (1958)
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	Finished It
32	Matrix, The (1999)	Finished It
33	Apocalypse Now (1979)
34	Pianist, The (2002)
35	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	Finished It
36	C'era una volta il West (1968)
37	Some Like It Hot (1959)	Finished It
38	Third Man, The (1949)
39	Taxi Driver (1976)	Finished It
40	Paths of Glory (1957)
41	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
42	Fight Club (1999)	Started It
43	Boot, Das (1981)
44	Double Indemnity (1944)	Finished It
45	L.A. Confidential (1997)
46	Chinatown (1974)
47	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
48	Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49	M (1931)	Finished It
50	Requiem for a Dream (2000)
51	Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
52	All About Eve (1950)
53	Se7en (1995)	Finished It
54	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	Finished It
55	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
56	Cidade de Deus (2002)
57	Raging Bull (1980)	Finished It
58	Rashômon (1950)
59	Wizard of Oz, The (1939)	Finished It
60	Sting, The (1973)
61	Alien (1979)
62	American History X (1998)
63	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)	Hated It!
64	Léon (1994)
65	Vita è bella, La (1997)
66	Touch of Evil (1958)
67	Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
68	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
69	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70	Great Escape, The (1963)
71	Wo hu cang long (2000)	Finished It
72	Reservoir Dogs (1992)
73	Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
74	Amadeus (1984)
75	Modern Times (1936)	Started It
76	Ran (1985)
77	Annie Hall (1977)
78	Jaws (1975)
79	On the Waterfront (1954)
80	Braveheart (1995)
81	High Noon (1952)	Finished It
82	Apartment, The (1960)	Finished It
83	Fargo (1996)
84	Sixth Sense, The (1999)	Finished It
85	Aliens (1986)
86	Shining, The (1980)
87	Strangers on a Train (1951)	Finished It
88	Blade Runner (1982)	Finished It
89	Metropolis (1927)	Finished It
90	Duck Soup (1933)	Finished It
91	Finding Nemo (2003)	Finished It
92	Donnie Darko (2001)	Hated It!
93	General, The (1927)
94	City Lights (1931)
95	Princess Bride, The (1987)	Finished It
96	Toy Story 2 (1999)	Finished It
97	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	Finished It
98	Great Dictator, The (1940)
99	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
100	Lola rennt (1998)	Finished It

45 movies out of 100

Which movies have you seen?

night must fall now

2004-07-19T07:17:56Z

Evening!

For whatever bizarre reason I've decided to get me one of these thingies, if only to wreak havoc on the comments pages of friends.

More later.