leftovers

Wow!!! When formulating this title, so many "v" words came to mind, but I had no idea I'd end up using 6 of them! I should have used 7 since there is a "v" in "seven" but that would just be overdoing it. To break it down, I'll go word-by-word: VALENTINES: I'm a holiday person, what can I say. Whenever a holiday approaches, my mind automatically reverts back to elementary school days, when our teacher would lovingly create some bulleting board featuring cardboard cut-out decorations symbolizing whatever special day was drawing near. Thinking of this makes me feel good, because I know my mom continues to make scholastic bulletin boards to this day. Valentine's Day is usually one of my favorite days, even back when I was single, if only because of the flowers and chocolate. It's a pretty holiday, and has nothing to do with religion, and is meant to celebrate Love - so what's not to like? However, that part about LA Valentine's that...

Let's see, what been going on? Since I last wrote, I've been getting over that horrible cold that I developed while going out every night like a teenager. In the meantime I've been rehearsing for our upcoming battle of the bands show at Girl Bar, recording on our album (more listening really, I haven't recorded anything myself for awhile) and working on the video for "Delay" - I guess I'll say a little about that. We filmed the footage for "Delay" in May of last year in my hometown, Paradise, Kansas. I had been really excited about the video because since I was a kid, I always wanted to film a video there. I used to daydream about being in a band, about a band being in Paradise, about filming a video in Paradise; I squandered many a middle school afternoon by not paying attention in class and instead looking out the window. There is this brown house across the street from the school and I always had this fantasy that The Thompson Twins would move...

Sunday morning came and went and I finally got up a little after noon, feeling a little worse for the weather. It seemed my recklessness had finally got caught up with me and I had acquired something of a cold, with a little bit of a sore throat and a hangover headache to boot. I had some breakfast (Boo Berries Cereal, yum!) and made coffee, then just read and watched Logo's Top 10 funniest videos, which included Electric Six at #10 with "Danger! Danger! High Voltage!" which was fun to see on TV rather than the internet. I think I had seen it on FUSE once before maybe, or MTV2, but it was awhile ago. We had rehearsal at 4pm so I drove Dylan and I out to Silverlake to the studio. Alexa came around 4:30 and we practiced our set for the Battle of the Bands on the 15th. After she left, Brandon and I jammed on some music for some of the new songs we've been recording at Hoagies. Afterwards, I stopped by Tiger's house to help him get his website, www.tigrefino.com, ...

I woke up around 7:30 am on the couch in the living room wondering why I was there. I got up and went into the bedroom, where I crashed on the bed until sometime shortly after noon. I forgot to mention in yesterday's blog, that I actually somehow dragged myself to the gym after work and did yoga. It killed me! I found it much more difficult than usual, which I'm SURE had to do more with the extensive partying I've been doing, but the roller-skating definitely added to the pain. Anyway, Saturday I got up, had breakfast, and decided I needed to go into the office to get some paperwork I needed in order to figure out Dylan and I's personal finances so we could pay rent. Since it was a beautiful day, I invited Dylan to go with me, and we thought we'd walk since my office is only about 2 miles away. First we went to his eye doctor to pick up his new glasses, which are really cute. It ended up being slightly chilly outside so we stopped back by the apartment so I could ge...

The title of this blog is also the headline I used for the various myspace bulletins promoting my bands show this night which took place at The Anarchy Library in Downey where we opened for Gene Loves Jezebal. From wikipedia: "Gene Loves Jezebel is a gothic rock band from the early 1980s founded by twin brothers, Michael and Jay Aston . Michael Aston (vocals) was the poetic, goth -leaning side of the twin brothers while Jay Aston’s distinctive banshee-like, wailing vocals supplied Gene Loves Jezebel with one of their many trademark quirks." Also on the bill was Moscow, an all-girl band that showed influences of goth and new wave bands such as The Cure and Siouxsie & The Banshees. They were good and I enjoyed their show. We were up next and we were lucky to have both of our dancers on stage with us as the crowd was getting bigger in anticipation for GLJ and some of them were being a little rowdy and heckling our Drag Dancer, Dusty Bibles (Dylan's new alias; he ...

Thursday came and I was feeling the physical effects from not only going out three nights in a row already, but also from my night of roller skating, which had manifested in several blisters on my feet and what felt like a sprained left wrist (the aftermath of one of my pratfalls). Work was pretty easy and I had to break the monotony by taking my lunch break at Amoeba records where I picked up a used Deborah Harry CD (the limited edition with a lenticular cover) for $10 and a PAL (UK) VHS copy of the Twin Peaks pilot which set me back one whole dollar. After work I came home and tried to do some chores but only really managed to do one load of laundry, which I later forgot about in the dryer and didn't end up fetching it for over a day. I waited for Dylan to get home from work and he picked me up and we went to Jason and Ishmael's apartment, which is in the same complex as Marc's. We had a little pre-party before heading to FUBAR, which is a block away from my apartment. ...

Rising tired again on Wednesday morning, I nevertheless made it to work determined to continue my week of partying like a teenager. At 11:15am I ventured down to Wilshire Blvd. to the old Bullocks Wilshire Department Store, now home to Southwestern University of Law for the monthly Los Angeles BID Consortium Meeting. It was the second time the Wilshire Center had hosted the meeting there; the last was a couple of years ago. It's a beautiful building, and as I walked up to the entrance I couldn't help but imagine I was a wealthy Angeleno back in the day excitedly going on a shopping spree. The meeting was interesting because Wilshire Center BID made a presentation about their "Cool District" program which will aim to reduce their district's global warming carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2% each year for the next 40 years. I am excited to see if our BID can implement a similar program. After work, I hurried home and got ready to hit the roller rink! My friend Jason had...