Favorites of '08: Albums

I don't know about you but I still buy CDs. I like to physically have albums I enjoy. Yes I use itunes and own an ipod but I like popping a CD into a stereo and putting it on repeat.

With that being said I've put together a little list of some of my favorite albums of 2008:

Ludo, You're Awful, I Love You. This power pop band from the mid-west has fun songs with catchy hooks. Ludo is at their best when singing about what no other band sings about like lakes that eat people and that creepy guy who lives in your apartment building.

Panic at the Disco, Pretty. Odd. This album sounds nothing like A Fever You Can't Sweat Out but I love it just the same. One album they've got electro/cabaret beats and the next they sound like the Beatles. I'm excited to see what they do next.

Fall Out Boy, Folie A Deux. Everyone knows I'm a huge Fall Out Boy fan and this album is in constant rotation. I think people who might not listen to Fall Out Boy normally should give this album is shot.


Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend. Every one's been talking about this band and they should be. They have a unique style combining African beats, keyboards and even some classical sounds. This was the perfect summer time album for me.

Ryan Adams, Cardinology. Sometimes a Ryan Adams album can be spotty with some amazing songs and a few duds but this is a solid album. Who says you can't make a good album after cleaning up?

Stayed tuned for a few more favorites of 2008 surprises

Reality check

My normal pant size seems to be a bit snug. This is not good. I was trying on pants at the store and I was trying to convince myself it's the pants. No, it's me. I've been eating bad lately. I can eat a lot.

I snack all the time and I'm sort of known at work for not turning down food. Everyone keeps saying it will catch up with me and this could be the beginning. I'm not overweight but I want to stay the pant size I am! Time to nip this in the butt (literally) before it gets out of hand.

Maybe by posting this on my blog where it's there for all of the internet to read I'll be more likely to follow through. I feel so much better when I'm eating well and going to the gym. My mood improves and I have more energy. Maybe I'll look into some type of organized sport, something I have to show up to each week.

My stomach is really making me regret those sweet and sour meatballs I ate earlier today.

This is a boredom post

This is my I don't want to be working today face.

There are a grand total of three people in the office today. It's just a little too quiet. I've done some shopping online (two new pairs of jeans and a jacket), twittered, went on facebook, checked my e-mail, checked the blogs I read, did a little bit of work, and now I'm BORED.

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. I ate too much but it was worth every last tasty bite. I had Thai food from my favorite Thai place, I had food from the Chateau which has the best bread and toasted raviolis, and I had a home cooked dinner of ham, a roast, rolls, potatoes, green bean casserole and corn. This was not all in one day. I'm not that fat.

I should go to the gym today but I shouldn't drive anymore than needed on my spare tire. This is quite the good excuse not to go to the gym.

I just have to say being single around the holidays is no fun. All my friends are spending the weekend with their boyfriends or girlfriends or fiances and I'm just hanging out by myself being bored.

Ok back to "work"

Merry Christmas

I got a flat tire on Christmas Eve. This proves that I have the worst luck with tires. Say a prayer as I attempt to drive to my uncles on a spare.

I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas with no flat tires.

Folie A Deux

I've finally had a chance to give Folie a Deux, the new Fall out Boy CD a good listen. I've had the CD on repeat since the day I got it. This is a different Fall out Boy than we've heard before. Patrick Stump seems more comfortable and his vocals on this album are great. He has a good range and we can finally hear that. The style of songs varries widely. One minute it seems like older Fall Out Boy the next second it sounds like something Panic! At the Disco would have done.

Their first radio single "I Don't Care" is a really fun song and has the typical catchy Fall Out Boy hook. "What a Catch, Donnie" is another stand out song for me on this album. It's a little different than what I'm use to from Fall Out Boy but this slower song is growing on me. "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" features Brandon Urie from Panic at the Disco and sounds like it came off of Pretty Odd. I love these two singing together. One other song I have to mention is "America's Suithearts". That song gets stuck in my head constantly now.

Even if you're not a big fan of Fall Out Boy I would give this album a shot. It's just a good album.

Why I will never watch Hostel ever again

I had a freaky dream last night! Anything with eyeballs freaks me out. Eyeballs are not meant to be touched. That scene in Hostel, yea you know the one, that was one of the most nauseating things I have ever seen. I think you get the point.

So my dream. For some reason I have to wear these colored contacts for a party. I get them in fine but they won't come out. I'm freaking out asking people how to get them out. Someone tells me to just use my finger nail and lift it off. I try that but end up peeling off part of my eye that's stuck to the contact (This is where I freak!!!). My eye looks all crazy like when you mix paint together and swirl it around, that's what it looked like. I could still see out of my eye but that didn't help the freak out factor.

I tried to look up what this dream could mean:

1. To dream that your eyes are injured or closed, suggests your refusal to see the truth about something or the avoidance of intimacy. You may be expressing feelings of hurt, pain or sympathy.
2. To see your own eyes in your dream, represents enlightenment, knowledge, comprehension, understanding, and intellectual awareness. Unconscious thoughts may be coming onto the surface. The left eye is symbolic of the moon, while the right eye represents the sun. It may also be a pun on "I" or the self. If you dream that your eyes have turned inside your head and you can now see the inside of your head, then it symbolizes insight and something that you need to be aware of. This dream may be literally telling you that you need to look within yourself. Trust your intuition and instincts.

I think it means that I don't like things in my eyes.

An ode to sour cream

I think my roommate and I have a problem. This problem is sour cream. We are going through sour cream like water! It all started because it was on sale. So we used it. We had to buy more. Now we can't stop. I had it with two meals today! Not to mention I had it last night with dinner and Friday night. I use to hate sour cream, now I don't know how I lived without it. We're running low. Must restock.

You can tell I'm going a little stir crazy. I mean I'm writing about sour cream.

Twitter time

I'm following Gerard Way on twitter. He is awesome.

If you want to follow me on Twitter here I am.

The world is not ending

Yes it's going to snow. No need to freak out people. This is New England. Snow happens. I'm always amazed at the amount of panic snow brings.

My grand plans for tonight are to watch movies and listen to the new Fall Out Boy cd. I was talking to an ex-boyfriend last night and he asked me what kind of music I listen to now (we dated three years ago and haven't talked much since then). I told him that I listen to all different kinds of music. He asked me if Fall Out Boy was still my favorite band. I forgot we were dating during my hardcore Fall Out Boy phase.

Can't wait to get home, get in my pjs, *chug some cold medicine and rock out.

*I'm not robo trippin', I actually have a cold.

Famous movie scenes + your favorite bands = a fun battle of the bands

Spin.com is having your favorite bands recreate scenes from popular movies in a different kind of battle of the bands. One of my favorite bands, Ludo, recreates a scene from Ghost Busters and Plushgun does an amazing job recreating the famous ending scene of Se7en. Check it out if you have a few minutes.

Just a mothball smelling Monday

I'm not a very patient person and I admit that but today on the T I had to have a little talk with myself and say: Self, this is silly. You're mad because there is a medical emergency on the train in front of you. Please note that someone is ill and needs help so stop being a bitch and and fuming over a medical emergency!

The train smelt like mothballs. I think this was attributing to my crankiness.

So hello Monday. Glad you could make my morning as lovely as that mothball smelling train.

Edward pillow cases?!

So I thought the Edward glitter was bad enough but now there's the Twilight Edward Pillow Case! The product description. (Please try to read without peeing your pants):

Edward will protect you from all your nightmares when you rest your head against this black pillow case with an image of the sensitive vampire. 20'' x 30''. 50% cotton. 50% polyester. Wash warm. Hang dry. Imported.

I can't handle it! I'm just waiting for the whole bed set. Just imagine, I bring a date back to my place. I tell him I'm going to freshen up so I can reapply my Edward glitter. He walks into my bedroom and sees my Edward Cullen pillow cases and matching bed set. That would be amazing.

I'm sorry. I just can't stop posting all the awful Twilight crap that's out there.

I know what I want for Christmas

I haven't been having a very good day. My phone that I just bought in May has died. I'm using an old phone that I hate until I can make it over to t-mobile. It was also a monsoon outside this morning. I think my umbrella just gave up. I was soaked by the time I got to the T.

But the day is not lost! It stopped raining, I'm heading to T-Mobile shortly and then I found Twilight Edward Body Glitter. I needed a good laugh. Thank you Hot Topic.

Here is the product description:

Add subtle shimmer to your body with this iridescent powder. It includes a small application brush and comes in a clear container with an image of Twilight's Edward

It should say on the side: WARNING, may cause moodiness, glaring and lust for blood.

Review up on thehyp.net

My first concert review is done! I wrote a review for the Miracle on Tremont Street show for thehyp.net. I think it came out pretty good considering I was loaded up on cold medicine.

I'm not dead just busy

Wow I haven't updated for a little bit. I feel like I've been busy but I don't have much to show for it. We did an early Christmas for my brother who is now in Texas for boot camp. I saw him get sworn in on Tuesday. I forgot to take pictures because I was so busy taking pictures for my grandmother with her camera. I don't think its sunk in yet that he's gone. I might fly to Texas in February for his boot camp graduation.

So it's finally Thursday. Christmas is getting closer and I have no idea what to get my boss. Last year I wanted to get him these pirate cuff links I saw and then he comes into the office wearing them! I yelled at him and told him I was suppose to buy those for him. Now I'm stumped. Suggestions for gifts for my boss? I can't be cheap as he is not stingy with my gifts.

I've been doing pretty good at not eating tons of junk and I've been running. I'm giving myself a gold star for effort. Once I get into the routine of exercising it's much easier to stick with it.

Oh I did a review of the Miracle on Tremont Street show with Dearly Beloved, Airborne Toxic Event and Franz Ferdinand for thehyp.net which should be up soon. I'll post the link later on.

Time to get the fluff ball (my cat) off my lap and get to work.

There's no escaping the Irish

I was at my grandmother's house tonight for a going away dinner for my brother and I found an Irish surprise in the living room.

Incase you didn't know this is played on an 8trackstero. It says so right there on the front.

Nice vests boys. Green? How very Irish Balladeer of you.

"You can take our lives! But you can never take our Irish Songs of Freedom!!!! (vol 3)"

I love to crank those Irish drinking songs on my 8 track stereo. My brother asked my grandmother what she was doing with these. She replied "how do you play those?" Well if this was say 1970 we would be all set.

Shame we couldn't have "Irish songs of freedom vol 3 (and still more)" playing while we ate dinner. Instead we got to rock out to Celtic Woman. I'm curious as to how many volumes there are considering it says "and still more..."

Do you want fries with that?

I had a strange dream that involved Simon Cowell and cheese burgers. He was visiting the Boston area and stopped me in a mall to ask me where he could get a good cheese burger. Me being an expert on delicious cheese burgers named a few places but my friends decided to bash all of them and tell Simon they all made awful burgers. I yelled "why don't you just go to Burger King then!" and stormed off. Simon ended up taking my suggestion and thanked me.

This is my subconcious saying "hey, you know what's bothering you? When you suggest a place to eat, hang out, get drinks, and your friends tell you they don't like that place or don't want to do that so you end up doing what they want to do which is always the same thing."

I feel like my suggestions are never taken into consideration or out right dissed. I'm always doing what they want to do and I don't complain. I think I need to speak up. This is what Simon Cowell wants me to do. He is like my turtle spirit guide.

Konvict is not a word

Akon makes my ears vomit. His voice is like nails on a chalk board to me. Stop throwing K's in words where they don't belong and stop whining when you sing.

Nickelback, you've been replaced as band/singer I hate the most. I'm sure that you'll be back on top eventually as you are quite proficient in producing awful music.

"Dear God, thank you for blessing me with this amazing voice which I promise to use to ruin as many songs as possible. Oh and thanks for this massive watch. Sincerely, Your favorite Knovict"