So here's my 2008 retrospective post. In some ways, I was loathe to even do this because 2008 wasn't as eventful for me as 2007 was. In 2007 I graduated from college; went on an amazing trip to England and Dublin, Ireland; moved out of my parents' house and into a house with my best friend; started working at the place where I've been employed for ( Read more... )

Thanks to the awesomeness that is utter_bastard (who went way out of her way to upload it for me), I now have an excellent recording of the Nick Cave show I attended almost two months ago in Washington, DC. It's so great to be able to listen to the show again -- both the amazing performances of the songs, and Nick's onstage banter -- and relive that night ( Read more... )

Also -- I know probably some of you are sick of me blogging about the Nick Cave show, LOL. But I just remembered that I never posted these two videos I took at the concert. They have no sound, unfortunately, but I got some pretty decent close-ups of Nick and it's amazing to see how he moves around onstage. I thought the Cave fans on my friendslist ( Read more... )

As a coda to my amazing weekend, here are some pictures from when I was leaving Virginia. And some very appropriate lyrics.

Hey, little train! We're all jumping on
The train that goes to the kingdom
We're happy now, we're having fun
And the train ain't even left the station


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utter_bastard shared a link to an awesome video of Nick's performance of "The Mercy Seat" from last night. Near the end of the video, you can see him reach out to touch fans' hands -- and one of those hands is totally mine. I recognized my ring. :D :D :D


nc @ Yahoo! Video

ETA: I just found a short video of part of last night's performance of "Red Right Hand ( Read more... )

The Nick Cave show was amazing. Absolutely, bloody, fucking amazing. Maybe even the best and most memorable concert I've ever been to.

I found out only a couple of days ago that my buddy Gordon was going, so he and I met up there and had a great time standing together talking about Nick, Tori Amos, music in general, and literature. I also met toilet_trousers and ( Read more... )

In less than twelve hours, I'll be on the train to Alexandria, VA to see the Nick Cave show. I can't believe that the time between when I decided to jump the gun and buy a ticket to the show several months ago, and now that it's becoming a reality, has passed so quickly...craziness. And I'm so glad that it's actually working out. I was risking a ( Read more... )

I just bought two tickets to see the Smashing Pumpkins live, right here in Raleigh, where they'll be playing this Sunday ( Read more... )

Congrats are in order for two of my dearest friends: my roomie Erika (a.k.a. "Wilder") for getting an awesome teaching position at East Carolina University, and Scott for finding an apartment in northern VA (and getting many generous donations of furniture by people from his church). :)

Erika, Jodi, Melissa and I watched the movie In Bruges ( Read more... )

( Look what arrived in the mail today! )