ipod's random shuffle...part two if you include leslie's blog

Happy Birthday Andreea on this lovely 1...2....SEVEN? ( not so inside joke from at least a decade ago, sure makes me sound old doesn't it?)

Recently Leslie decided she didn't buy the ipod's "random" in "random shuffle". I tried to explain to her about random number generators, but then I felt like a big nerd. I have to admit the ipod's function is a bit less "random" than others, this morning's ride in was a good example. I think my ipod knew it was two-fer-tuesday and played me two sublime, two harvey danger, and two phish all in a row! I guess technically that's random in some way, but definitely kinda strange.

My thoughts about the ipod's random number generator is that it takes out the most common ones first because generally what plays on my shuffle are the lesser known songs...like for Harvey danger it didn't play flagpole sita, but instead private helicopter and wooly muffler (yeah, i realize I'm probably the only one in existence that still remembers Harvey danger's lesser known songs, but hey I even went to their concert back in the day)....so yeah those are my thoughts on the ipod.

Bad attempts and strip clubs

And the winner for worst pickup attempt was.....

I was thinking about making this a weekly Monday feature in my blog, but most bad attempts are the same so I'll only post when they amuse me a lot.

Friday night I was at Lucky Bar and at one point I was sitting in a booth on one side by myself and katie was across from me while paul and laura and jessica were dancing (thanks for not saving me that time paul :( ) This guy comes and stands next to the table for a bit pretending to be on the phone. He sits down while on the fake call and hangs up. looks at me and goes for his wallet...instead of immediately going for his wallet he grabs my ass, I scoot over a little and he redirects his hand for his wallet. Pulls out a credit card and hands it to katie indicating she should order us all a round on him (he still has yet to say a word). Jessica returns at this point, figures out whats going on, hands the card back and tells him he shouldn't give his credit card to strangers. At this point he looks back to me and says (remember this is the first time he's spoken) "there is nothing more that I want then to make out with you right now"...Then he leans in for the kiss! Clearly i back away as much as you can do while cornered in a booth. He tries to lean in a few more times while awkwardly sitting next to me still neither of us talking to the other (i'm looking around for people to save me and trying to ignore him) he goes to run his fingers through my hair and pull my head in for one more attempt to kiss me...again i resist. He speaks again..."i'm persistent, i'm not going anywhere". "fine" i say, and continue to look away and ignore him. after about five awkward minutes of silence FINALLY HE GOES AWAY.

Also the most amusing part of the weekend was when we were at Camelot for chris' bday and ashley and I got up to give one girl $$ and a good portion of the guys started cheering for us instead of the totally naked girl. I dont think the girl minded though b/c after her performance she came over to me and ashley and told us we were very sweet.

Velvet Lounge and such

Last night a group of us went to see Velhalla at the Velvet Lounge. Katie invited us to see her mom's friend's son's band play. Without finding out any more information I agreed to go. Why not. So we get there and besides us there is a decent sized crowd, but I look around and realize that they are all significantly older than us. So I leaned over and whispered to katie "why are they all older, doesn't the band have their own friends?" at this point katie fesses up...."oh yeah, they are all in highschool".

I think Katie and Lindsay talked to the boys (and yes, i mean boys) for a little before the show while the rest of us sat on some bleachers in the back...who knew there were seats there! The first song reminded me of a cross between pink floyd and the doors, and then to my surprise for the second song they played a doors cover! Then later on for one song the guitar stoped working with the amp so you noticibly couldnt hear it at all, but they continued anyway and it still sounded really good. Then Rob went up and saved the day and made it work.

These boys were GREAT! The singer had an amazing voice, and the rest of the band was genuinely good at their instruments. Quite the musicians. I'd definitely be interested in seeing them again!

Also I picked up a sampler cd a few nights ago at stetsons and it had 6 bands on it, three that I really like (Cedars, These United States, Welbuilt) and 3 that I could take or leave (politics, leaving TX, some band whose name i dont remember) Clearly I'll be trying to listen more to the three I like. I just thought i'd stick this paragraph in while I was talking about local music.

You may have noticed that I recently started using the labels in my blogs. The place where i can type in labels gives some examples of what to use, like scooters, vacation, fall....SCOOTERS? really? is that something written about frequently enough to be any one's label, let alone the example label?

Everybody cut Footloose

Last night about 15 of us went to see Diana in Footloose. I had never seen the movie before so I was pretty excited.

Before the show Katie, Lindsay and I got some ice cream and walked about 10 blocks in the freezing cold, and it wasn't until intermission that I began to thaw out...not our smartest move.

The show was great! Diana has a really good voice, and it was fun seeing her go back in time and dance around :) Since she started auditioning for the part till now I've come to realize there are a bunch of songs from this show that I actually know, including my favorite "lets hear it for the boy"! I just found out yesterday that Matt reads this blog, but I'm not sure if any other camp people do, but one year we sang that song to the boys at camp. good times.

I sat between Rob and Jen who I now know are possibly the loudest breathers EVER. it was like i was sitting next to Darth Vader impersonators.

Also Leslie was at the show and I havent seen her in weeks b/c she's been a traveling girl, so welcome back!

So i'm probably going to get the footloose soundtrack now, unless someone already has it and they want to share.

Who doesnt like a good invention!

I just received some tickets in the mail to an upcoming show and it came in probably the best invention ever. Unfortunately I don't quite remember what site I bought the tickets from because it was not one of the major ones like tickets.com or Ticketmaster. Anyway, the tickets arrived in a magnet with a slot in it to hold the tickets.

If you've seen my apt (and if you are reading this I assume you have) you know its fairly messy, but if there is anything that has a specific place its my tickets for future shows since at any given time I have a whole bunch. Lucky for me this spot is metal so I can now hang my new tickets on it. Awesome!

On another note I keep getting "friend" requests from girls on myspace who claim to have gone to my high school. Why you would lie about this I DON'T KNOW. With 50 girls in each grade you kinda know who everyone is. Most of the fake girls are the ones with the slutty pictures of themselves and they claim to be lesbians. I guess that explains why they want to pretend they went to an all girls school...but why friend us? its just weird!!!

Back from a long weekend

First off Happy Birthday Jim and Kevin! Kevin if you've found this blog by now I'm not sure if I'll make it to the party tonight.

This weekend my parents were telling me what movies they planned to watch if it rained in cape cod while they were there, and as usual my parents both got on the phone at the same time
Mom: I really want to see Blood Diamonds have you seen it yet?
Me: Um yeah, Jordan and I went Christmas eve
Dad: Donna, did you just ask our daughter if she saw a Leo movie? She probably went opening night!

Unfortunately Leo didn't win any golden globes last night, but looked so cute all dressed up! I'll keep my fingers crossed for the Oscars. Chris Shields (yeah i gotta use last names when ALL your friends are named Chris) and I have our annual Oscars night viewing and betting and he's won two years in a row....My putting all my money on Leo will either be a really good thing or a really bad thing...we'll see! I would have picked the departed instead of babel for best picture last night but maybe that's because I haven't seen babel yet and I pick Leo over brad.

oh, and what? borat won an award? seriously?

SNES is way better than Wii any day!

As most of you know I recently resurrected my old super Nintendo system. At first I thought I had set it up wrong and needed to go behind the TV, but it turns out I did it right with the cords in the front and just needed to clean out the pin connectors on the cartridge to get it to work.

This week I finally had time to sit down and play. So I started with my favorite, Aladdin. I beat it once when I was younger, and I think I only passed the Lava Level once, and that might have been my sister passing it I'm not sure...all I know is someone passed and we got the code to skip it from then on. Anyway Last night I both passed the Lava Level AND Beat the Entire game in under an hour. Big night for me!

Games I have
* Aladdin
*Mario All Stars
*Super Mario world
*NHL 94
*Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
*Lion King
*Wheel of Fortune
*Jeopardy

Games I want (and am bidding for on eBay)
*Dr. Mario and Tetris
*Donkey Kong

For some reason those two are "rare" and when they come on ebay they go for somewhere around 20 bucks or more, I did see one for 60. If anyone has any recomendations for other games I should get let me know!