just a quickie today

things may be sporadic around here for the next couple of days...or more...those of you that know me and where i work are almost certainly aware that it is NO PICNIC right now. *sigh*

anyway...

oh, i can SO draw garfield!! odie and nermal, too. i should send mine in.

knitted Thing.

now here's something we ALL can use every day.

oh, leave poor, anxious meg white alone!!

drunkonia. some of us live here.

"every day's been darkness since you been gone."

oh, how i love you, bob.

first of all, he played "meet me in the morning." AND HE PLAYED IT WITH JACK WHITE.

if i was there i would've broke down and wept. i'd have to check, but he, like, NEVER plays that song. i've seen him nearly 20 times and never heard that song. "you're a big girl now" is not often played live, either. damn. his fall tour has ZERO dates in my area. what is up with that? i suppose i could drive to baltimore or pittsburgh or new york...i've done it before. i've even gone to nashville to see him. but he's gotta come my way. he always, always does; usually at least 2 shows in my neck of the woods. i associate the month of november with bob dylan. i have seen him at least once every november since 1997 (last november he played with the raconteurs---which was like my dream show...but they didn't play together). come on, bob!!! i need you. and bring jack white!!!

my eyes are just a little sweaty today

has anyone else been watching "tell me you love me" on the hbo? HOLY CRAP, it's like porn with hotter guys and a decent plot!

if i was one of the golden girls, i would so be dorothy. with maybe a little bit of rose.

"i'm making a lasagna...for one..." and now you can, too! (and don't forget to bake it in your talking stove!)

bloggers invent their own cuss phrases.

the white stripes canceled their tour for the rest of the year because meg is suffering from "acute anxiety." i hear ya, sister. still, wonder what she's so stressed out about? meg, make yourself some of your grandma's corn souffle and take it easy:

INGREDIENTS:

1 16 oz. can of creamed corn

1 16 oz. can of corn niblets

1 box of Ritz crackers, chopped

1 egg

Mix creamed corn and niblets together. Chop crackers into little bits. Mix some of the crackers into the corn with an egg. Take the rest of the crackers and spread on top. Bake like a casserole for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. Meg: "It's awesome; the egg makes it solid and the crackers make it crunchy. Really good comfort food."

i actually made the above recipe once. it wasn't bad.

one night with you

elvis died 30 years ago today, and i remember it. my mom was quite distraught, to put it mildly. so here's the hottest pic of the real elvis that i could find, and jack white as elvis. yum.

hey, my dad's name is henry!

i wonder when the next baby will be born. because you KNOW jack white's gonna have 3 kids. :)

ever wonder what to buy the pill-popper in your life who has everything? wonder no more!

how to lucid dream. wheeeeeee!

this is so funny to me.

so, i am going to vegas in september for a week. on business, mind you. BUT, this is going on while i am there! no one is going to be able to stop me from trying to get to that red carpet. just to WOO at the people i like (i'm sure there will be very few) and yell horrible things at the people i don't (which will be, like, everybody). this business trip just got WAY MORE INTERESTING!

i'm gonna lay right into you

lobster girl

here's a picture of jack white wearing a "jack" belt buckle. just because. man, that show the other night...whew! i can't stop talking about it. so, so, SO good. it's amazing that i saw both the absolute worst and the absolute best shows in the span of one week. the show with the champagne incident was previously the best show ever, but it has officially been replaced.

today was my company picnic. it was at a reading phillies game. free buffet, but not free beer. BOO! it was about 6 million degrees outside, and i am sunburned. ow. it was raining all night last night and all morning, and then the rain just let up before the game. i thought it would not be sunny, so i didn't put any sunblock on. but i was very, very wrong. ugh. it got crazy bright and sunny and there was no shade so The Palest Girl on Earth (i.e. me) is already red red RED. ugh. i did have 3 beers at the game, and 2 more since i've been home, and "mean streets" is on the HBO, so all is right with the world. man, the "mean streets" soundtrack is so killer...


ooh, don't forget:














i will be shoving this down the throats of whomever reads this blog for the next month. and hopefully i will not make every post about the white stripes. i'll try to control myself, i promise.

woo!

i forgot to mention, he played a tiny riff of "i feel fine" by the beatles, and the entire place almost had a heart attack.

mississippi asked michigan, "what did delaware?" "idaho, alaska!"

crazy half-drunk white stripes post-show report

i am just going to type all of this as it comes to me, and not bother editing it or correcting spelling errors. i just really need to get this down while it is still fresh in my mind, for posterity's sake.

that was hands down, BAR NONE the best show i have ever been to in my life, by ANYONE. it was insane. we could not BELIEVE how awesome our seats were. i'm so glad we waited in line for hours and hours for those tickets. it was worth it.

so, we get to wilmington around 5:30 or so, maybe 6...we went into this restaurant 821 right across the street from the grand opera house. they had a white stripes themed dinner menu and 2 different white stripes martinis. i had the Denial Twist. anyway, we're sitting at the bar drinking, and one of the white stripes' people came in. (she was wearing a badge that she was with the band...actually it was more like a sticker. but ANYWAY...) she asked the bartender if she could have one of the menus, because the white stripes heard about it and wanted a copy. they told her that she couldn't have a real one until later, but shhe could make a copy of it. she says ok, and leaves. so what do i do? i snatched a menu and shoved it up my skirt. we left after a few drinks and i was like, "if i see that chick, i'm gonna give her the menu and then maybe i'll get to meet jack white somehow because i was cool like that..." yes, that is probably exactly what went through my mind just then. i am crazy. anyway, i never saw her, i i have this menu now. AND my martini was free! so far, best pre-dinner drinks ever.

we go inside and we immediately bought 2 posters, because they are unique to each show, and numbered (ours is 69 of 270 or something like that). they're all done by rob jones, whom i have mentioned in the past, and did the QT fest poster kenny got me for Christmas last year. i emailed rob jones and asked him some raconteurs poster question, and he was really nice and cool. anyway, i also bought a white stripes sewing kit. :)

so, we go to our seats, freak out about how good they are, and go back to get drinks. let me say that the grand opera house is an AWESOME place to see a show. it's beautiful and comfortable and the people who work there are so nice. chris ordered a jack and coke (and we joked about the irony of jack and coke, like jack white and coca-cola) and the bartender filled up 2/3 of the cup with jack and put like 5 drops of coke in. chris was like, "woo-hoo!" i got a heineken. we sat back down, watched dan sartrain, who was really good. chris got more drinks--another lethal jack and coke and a heiney for me) and soon the show starts. oh, the drinks were CHEAP! $3 for bber and $4 for a mixed drink. that is not bad AT ALL. also, i didn't have to wait in line for the bathroom AT ALL, and when i went during dan sartain 2 ushers lit their flashlights and led me out. it was so cool, like something people did in the 50's, back when america had class. so far, best concert ever!

so eventually jack and meg walked out, and the place just went wild and stayed wild the entire night, singing to every song, even new ones ("i'm slowly turning into you" was totally, totally great with the "WOO's" and the whole crowd singing it and clapping...jack white went "YEAH!" when we did that; also smiled a lot during "we're going to be friends." the set list was insane!!!

Dead leaves

You don't know what love is

cannon>

john the revelator

joke "what did mississippi ask michigan?"

Catch Hell

Hotel Yorba

Finding it harder to be a gentleman>

Truth doesn't make a noise(!!!)>

I Think i smell a rat>

Screwdriver (slow-ish)>

Rat riff

I fought piranhas

Icky Thump

Cold Cold Night

Same Boy You've always known

Story about soldiers becoming sailors and the water beneath??

Hardest Button

Slowing turning into you

______break

Black math

Wasting my Time

We're going to be friends

Bound to pack it up riff for about a split second!!!!

300MPH torrential outpour blues

7 nation army

apple blossom

ugly as i seem

I just don't know what to do with myself

Boll Weevil--really fantastic version!

i just got that set list off a white stripes message board. i will post all photos and audio of the show as i find it. there was a LOT of recording and picture-taking happening, so this is gonna be cool. every single person there was SO INTO IT. including jack and meg. it was amazing.

jack was RIGHT IN FRONT OF US the entire time, and we were on the side and completely eye-level with him and there was no one in front of us at all. it was perfect. it was SO LOUD, it was great. there were a lot of really incredible moments. and he looked right at me during the intro for "i fought piranhas." yay! all my primping paid off! ha. i looked a haggard mess at the end of that show. i was dancing around the whole time, and my mascara ran and my hair was all messy. it was funny.

there was a big disco ball and it was fun when they turned the lights down. the also has some good crazy lighting action during some of the songs, like "catch hell blues." meg was wearing a white toop and black pants, and jack was all red from head to toe. i was wearing a black t-shirt withh tiny red stripes on it and a black skirt. i went as a candy cane child tonight.

delaware REALLY showed the white stripes the love tonight. everyone was singing along to everything and clapping and dancing and rockin' out...it was just awesome.

he also told a delaware joke early on, and recounted a dream he'd had the other night. so crazy! i also saw him give meg a little kiss on the side of her head after whispering something in her ear, and it was really cute.

i just can't stress how awesome they sounded. jack was totally out of control. "i just don't know what to do with myself" was really great, he just let us sing that line. everything was crazy good.

at the end (after the like 45 minute encore!!!!) jack goes, "thank you, we really appreciate it so much...we really do. thank you..." because everyone was just cheering for them SO MUCH, thanking them for this awesome show. they both looked happy. oh, during "7 nation army" he sang, "far from this opera house forever more," and that was cute.

there were tons of people taping the show and taking pictures, so tomorrow all that stuff should turn up. i can't wait! best show ever. ever ever ever. i'm sure i will remember more tomorrow...time for bed now...

here's some reviews and other stuff.

i am insane when it comes to getting ready for a rock show.

i can't believe white stripes day is finally here! i am beyond excited. i got my hair did last night (not specifically for the show or anything), and it looks bitchin'. it's dark at the bangs (which have been cut into teeny baby bangs) with big blonde chunks in it, and lighter brown and darker blonde all over...it's total retro-meets-rock-chick hair. i love it. i did buy a vintage dress from the 40's at love saves the day to wear tonight, but i think i might wear something else. it's going to be hot today, and i want to be comfortable. we shall see. i also bought a dress for the show a few months ago, and i am totally not going to wear that tonight. i also have a few options if i want to go the black, red, and white route. again, we shall see.

i have always put much effort into my concert attire. why? who knows. i remember my first ramones show in high school, i BEGGED my mom to give me money to go to zipperhead on south street and buy something cool to wear. and she did. :) it was this cool vintage purple dress and i wore ripped-up black tights with it, and and army jacket and combat boots. i also remember the outfit i bought for my first bob dylan show. i looked so fly. it was a tight-fitting green and black jersey t-shirt thing and little black pants. i was going for the "bob dylan '65" look. usually for white stripes shows i dress like a candy cane child, but i don't think so for tonight. we are going to an opera house, so i think i may need to kick things up a notch.

i can remember what i was wearing for every important (and sometimes unimportant) thing that has ever happened to me. so odd. anyway, i will write an insanely long post about the show tomorrow, i'm sure.

vacation, all i ever wanted...vacation had to get away...

this is the first day of my mini-vacation, and i wake up at 4:30 am. typical.

image courtesy of bighappyfunhouse. which i constantly mention as my favorite site ever.

tonight i am going to see the police. sometime within the next 4 days chris and i are going to the beach one day, and amusement park another day, and hopefully new hope another day. also probably planting flowers and/or mulching. woo! then i go back to work for about 1 hour on wednesday, and i get to leave to oversee a photoshoot. WOOO! i have to work all day thursday (BOOO!), BUT i only have 1/2 day friday, because that is white stripes day!!! WOOO! i actually took the 1/2 day in case they do some of that crazy surprise show action in the states like they just did in canada. if i missed seeing them on a bus or in a bowling alley or at the old folks home down the street or something because i was AT WORK, well...that would NOT be good. or maybe we'll just go down there early and drink white stripes-themed martinis all afternoon! actually, i'd like to see the simpsons movie , since it comes out that day.

anyway...

yes! YES YES YES YES YES!

i'm hoping this is the real jenny holzer. probably not, though.

not sure who jenny holzer is?

jenny holzer kind of rules.

100 greatest cover songs of all time.

i didn't have a real one either...i had a knockoff when i was in 5th grade. it was red and i put a michael jackson button in it.

speaking of 80's fads that no one understands...

elvis' favorite pound cake.

darjeeling limited poster.

some of you might wonder what i did with my life before 2005, when i started this blog. well, wonder no more!! most of the pictures are gone, but the rest of the silliness is still there.

i kind of liked re-reading august '02, for a number of reasons. a lot of crazy stuff happened, and would you just LOOK at those hideous web pages!! what was i thinking?!? hahaha. man, i wish all the images were still there...

"rock n' roll is an insatiable bitch goddess"

this is going to be a dumb post. there is nothing going on on the internet today, and i'm just feeling kind of blah in general. yesterday was very nice, though...we woke up early and went to kenny & john's yard sale, where we bought a ginormous candle from them. then we went and got sushi with mark and margy, where we developed the concept of a "happy days" spin-off called "i sat on it." fonzie married that boring, normal woman with the child at the end of the "happy days" series, right? so this would continue from there, with fonzie's whole life going to shit. he becomes totally uncool, potsie ends up being his boss, he tries to turn something on by punching it, like a jukebox or the lights or something, and it falls apart...he gives himself the thumbs-down in the mirror, and says "uggggggh" instead of "AYYYYYYY..." and instead of hanging up his "cool" leather jacket, he hangs up his pathetic smock from the acme supermarket that says "arthur" on the front, or whatever. so funny.

then we all went to a giant book bonanza. i got 7 books for $3.25...a betty crocker meat cookbook from the 70's, a casserole cookbook from who knows when (they both have gloriously hideous photographs of the food, though), some crazy book called "what rock is all about," (i guess it was to help teenagers in the 70's be not as clueless and lame? the book itself if spretty clueless and lame, however), and some crafty books from the 70's. oh, and "when rabbit howls." i love crazy people books! and a charlie brown book, too.

after the book bonanza, we got ice cream. YAAAAAAAY! what a good day that was. in contrast, today was pointless. except i went out this afternoon and picked up a cute pair of pants.

web zen.

awwww...

again, awwww!

jack white in a kilt.

season 2 of "dexter" is coming soon! woo!

i can't believe she's still alive, to be honest.

if you liked "lost skeleton of cadavra," you'll be sure to love this!

rocklahoma, y'all!

i am so going to watch this tonight, i'll totally admit it.

pauldinello.net. just because.

flour power

ewwww. scroll down to "cheaters share cautionary tales."

dude...

"femme fatal."

zombie food pyramid. (via growabrain)

the white stripes play a flour mill.

death of the album? never, i say!!

true office confessions.

it's fun to play at the YMCA

man, i hope they do this stuff when they come to my neck of the woods!

how to give an indian head massage. whatever that is.

high art.

awww, poor kitty.

interview with the mighty dennis hopper.

the white stripes will play anywhere

and i love it!





they even played on a bus! those lucky canadians. they don't have to lock their doors at night, they have great healthcare, and now this.

rrrrrrruffles have rrrrridges

1982. (photo at right also from my favorite site ever)

this came out about a week ago, but here's the afi top 100 films list. "citizen kane" #1 again, "the godfather" #2. again. for the record, i am more of a "godfather" person than a "citizen kane" person. i've seen "the godfather" probably 50 times. i even turned down a night out on the town on friday night because it came on tv, and i immediately got sucked into it. my parents and i tend to quote it all the time, either because we're discussing the movie, or just in regular life. there's the standard quotes that everyone does ("leave the gun, take the cannolis," "i am enzo! THE BAKER!" etc). my dad often says, "i want inquiries made," which makes me laugh. my mom likes to say, "that's a true story." (and then she'll add, "that's my family, kay, that's not me.") i think it's fun to say, "bada beep, bada bap, bada boop." and i know my friend rachel likes, "monday, tuesday, thursday, wednesday, sunday, saturday..." ahhhhh. it's just so good. i also feel proud of the fact that i can pretty much figure out what they're saying to each other in italian. especially in the infamous "louis in the bronx" restaurant scene. okay, i'm a dork, moving on...

and these chicks came out with their own top 100. i shouldn't call them "these chicks;" they are in fact the alliance of women's film journalists.

i never could do this...now maybe i'll try to learn.

oh, please be true, please please please please be true!!!

mine is Godfrey the Indecisive Gnome of Dewsbury.

can't wait for the new wes movie!

another day, another white stripes interview...

speaking of the white stripes, i seem to be all about "conquest" now. i certainly am digging this album...and that song is crazy! i think it belongs in a quentin tarantino flick.

are you all rocking out to "icky thump" today?

well, are you? i sure am. i'm really digging "little cream soda." a LOT. i also dig actual cream soda a lot...anyway, the whole thing is great. being 1/2 scottish ("the good half," as my scottish mom says), i like that "st. andrews" song. i think my mom would even like that song. i like "rag and bone," too. and "catch hell blues!!!!" oh yes. and "effect and cause." that is one catchy diddy, kind of reminds me of their version of "rated x." damn, i love it all. but i just listened to "effect and cause" 3 times in a row, so...there you go. oh, how i love the white stripes!!

but i don't know if i like this.

i really like this, though!

that is all. except for i want to say that "i'm slowly turning into you" is awesome, too.