The Fun Fun Times for Me!!

So after the fiasco that was the Foals concert, this past weekend actually turned out to be pretty fun.

Thursday night, as evidenced by my last few posts, was the SSLYBY show, which was a lot of fun.

Friday was mostly spent hanging out around the house. I got Jonathan's car washed, and then we all piled in the van to go pick him up from BWI. After getting slightly lost, we went out to Il Porto, which is one of my favorite restaurants that we hadn't been to in a while.

Saturday we celebrated my Mom's birthday by going to the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. It was actually pretty fun. They had an exhibit about Indigo and how it is used as a dye, and they had lots of cool textiles hanging up. They also had a trunk show going on with lots of cool quilts w/modern designs on them.

After that we got some bubble tea and some fried ice cream (delicious!) and then walked along Embassy Row/Mass. Ave until about 5pm. All of the embassies and residences were beautiful/interesting and it was beautiful outside: good weather, lots of trees, etc.

After that we went out to dinner at India Palace, where we bumped into Ms. Amberg, of all people! She was me & Jonathan's compsci teacher in High School, and she's rediculously nice. We both hadn't seen or talked to her in years, so it was nice to catch up.

Then Jonathan went into DC to hang out with some of his friends, so my parents and I watched some Doctor Who (Season 3, Ep 1) . . . they're a little behind, but I couldn't resist watching it with them.

Sunday I just hung out around the house and then went to the Seder at my church at around 6:30. We're not Jewish (we're Episcopalian), but since my dad grew up Jewish, we've been known to do a passover seder at our church. We hadn't had one in several years, though, so it was really fun, especially since Jonathan was there. The only problem was that I'm trying not to eat very much meat anymore, and the only other thing they had there was salad (which I hate) and bread (which I ate). The plethora of desserts more than made up for the lack of diversity in the main course, however.

After that, Jonathan went to Baltimore to meet up with some friends and my parents and I watched another episode of Doctor Who (Season 4, Episode 2 -- The Shakespeare Code). That episode is quite fun for me b/c not only do I love Shakespeare, I also love Harry Potter, which they mention 3x. Its making me want to reread the 7th book b/c I've only read it once, the day it came out. I've just been so bummed about HP being over that I haven't been able to make myself read it again, even though deep down I want to...*sigh*. I brought it with me to work today, just in case.

So today I'm doing day shift, which hasn't been too busy, and then I'm going to have dinner with my family b/c today is my Mom's birthday. Then I'm driving Jonathan to Arlington to meet up w/some of his coworkers before a conference that they're going to starting tomorrow. After that I'm probably going to watch this past Saturday's episdoe of Doctor Who, which I am rather looking forward to!

Tomorrow night I'm seeing Teitur @ Jammin' Java and Thursday is HANSON!!!!

More to come when I think of something interesting to say :O)

SSLYBY Pics

Some Pics from the SSLYBY gig last night . . . most of them turned out blurry b/c I wasn't allowed to use the flash.

Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin

So the SSLYBY gig @ the Black Cat in DC last night, was AMAZING!! And so much fun. They played all of my favorite songs from the new CD, Pershing, as well as some old ones. As always, Phil was my favorite, b/c hes just adorable...I got some pictures/videos that I'll put up soon, but in the meantime, I suggest buying their music.

The opener was a band called Via Audio, and they were pretty good as well. I bought their cd, but haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

Stay tuned for fun pics & vids!! But to tide you over, here's a video on the making of "Pershing" from their myspace page:

Reasons This Year Has Been/Will Be The Most Awesome Year Ever!!

So I've been thinking a lot recently about how awesome this year has been so far/will be and I thought I'd do a bloggedy-blog about it! I couldn't decide how I should measure the year (birthday to birthday or calendar year, so I decided to count it from my last birthday (October 8, 2007) to the end of this calendar year.

Reasons Why It's Been Awesome So Far

-->John Oliver Standup Show 10/7/07
-->Going to Daily Show taping 10/8/08
-->Torchwood Season 2
-->Mighty Boosh Season 3/Mighty Boosh Night
-->Never Mind the Buzzcocks Season 3
-->Gigs: Kate Nash (x2), The Cribs, Hellogoodbye, Razzmatazz, Michael Tolcher, Shane Hines, Jammin' Java Xmas Show, etc
--> New Job!! (@ the State Theatre, Falls Church, VA)
--> New Kitten (Finnegan!!)
--> Getting to use Jonathan's car while he's away in Boston
-->Seeing Stephen Colbert's Portrait
-->Going to the Obama rally @ UMD
-->GRADUATION (last Dec)
-->Graduation Presents

Reasons Why It's GOING TO BE Awesome!
--> Summer Vacation: Kent, England --> 2.5 weeks mid-July
--> Seeing IAMX in Camden
--> Mighty Boosh Festival July 5
--> Doctor Who Exhibition, London
--> (Possibly) Jason Mraz in London
--> Adele @ Sixth & I Synagogue
--> SSLYBY @ Black Cat
--> British Sea Power @ Black Cat
--> Teitur @ Jammin' Java
--> Hanson @ State Theatre
--> Mighty Boosh Live -- Brighton, November
--> Mini-Vacation: Brighton/Stratford/London -- November 08
--> DAVID TENNANT in Love's Labours Lost, Stratford, November 15
--> Dr Who Season 4 w/Catherine Tate

I'll add more as I think of it!

Cheers!
MB

I Might Actually Start Using This Blog!!

I keep meaning to use this blog, but never actually doing it!! The lack of business at work today and the fact that my iPod ran down has finally driven me to it!!

So last night was a huge fiasco... I was supposed to go into DC to see a British band called Foals @ Rock & Roll Hotel. I already wasn't that much in the mood for it, but I decided to go anyway cuz I had already payed $12 for the ticket. So anyway, I'm not sure if googleMaps was wrong or if I'm just stupid, but I couldn't find the place once I parked, and I was afraid that I would get towed from where I parked, and then this really creepy guy started hitting on me/asking me for money. So since I was feeling so stressed/frazzled/unsafe I decided to just go back home. Of course thats easier than it sounds b/c for some reason it was practically impossible to find my way OUT of DC, and then there was traffic for the 2 miles I was on the beltway. And to top it all off, there was a dead goose on the exit ramp to 118 & I almost ran over a bunny when I was parking near my house. So needless to say, I'm a bit frazzled.

Anyway, today should be a lot better. It should be a pretty relaxed day at work because there aren't many shows this week or next week. Plus, tonight I'm going to see Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, and they're great.

I'll probably post more later during a lull!!

*~MB~*