The Wild Dogs Cry Out in the Night

George 104.1 won a little spot in my heart when they played Toto's Africa yesterday on my drive from Goddard to the maryland trade tower.




Besides this song being awesome it has a kick ass music video. I mean who wouldnt create a power ballad while hanging out at the library? Plus they managed to sing "kilimenjaro" so major gold stars there. (you might think i'm mocking the song, but no, i really do love it and voluntarily listen to it on a regular basis)

Plus it reminds me of the good ole days hanging out in coogan's attic/the saloon Drinkin' beeahs and playing way too many games of caps with coogs and paulie and gelbone, and shields, and jlau. you boys better come visit me soon! although shields lives down the street from me already :) (also i have lots more friends at home that i'd LOVE for you to come visit me, so dont feel left out that africa doesnt remind me of you)

Anyway points to 104.1 for reminding me of some fun times. Lets see if the globe 94.7 can live up to that!

Radio-tastrophy

All six FM1 Presets on my car radio are set to stations from home(boston). WBCN (104.1 the rock of boston), WZLX( 100.7 great classic rock), and I think also waaf, and wfnx and then two others that i forget...probably not kiss 108 or jamin 94.5 since i always freaked out when people made me listen to them. (and yes, i'm still on bcn's mailing list so if you want to know whats up in boston just ask me)

After making honnor roll and my parents freaking out after September 11th I was allowed to bring my car to DC Nov 2001. I immediately set the six FM2 stations to DC/MD stations. in this order DC101, the arrow, HFS, 104.1, 106.7, 107.3. Since that fall there have been quite a few changes. The first as you all know was HFS...but that just moved to 105.7 so I switched that preset. Next 104.1 changed to classical music but I was too lazy to switch that.

NOW the arrow no longer plays classic rock, but instead plays like 90's music. like 1 out of 10 songs are great and i get really excited, but the rest should have left the air waves years ago. While I am willing to give this station a chance, I am still really disappointed that there is no longer a classic rock station. This music is key for any long drive (including my hour to and from work).

Then I accidentally hit the button for 104.1 and instead of classical its almost the same music as 94.7....weird. I dont know what happened there. I think they keep calling themselves "george".

The only good thing about these new format changes is that they were actually playing music on my drive to work *gasp*. I guess georgie boy is going commercial free for 104 days...now if only they'd play music I want to hear in those 104 days....

So basically what i'm saying is people, I need help. Can someone recommend another station I can set as a preset that will come in while i'm both in MD and in DC since my drive every day spans both....I really need your help here.

Tim Thomas Saves Lives!

Tim Thomas, goalie for the Boston Bruins.

Last night Leslie and I went to the Bruins Caps game because I don't like to miss any opportunity to see any Boston teams in any sport when they come to town. It kinda makes me feel at home.

We got to Section 113 and found ourselves surrounded by amusing people.

Next to us was an older single mother and her maybe 8 year old son. Die hard caps fans, and severely spoiled child.

In front of us were two guys about our age who were clearly bruins fans. Turns out one of them is from Needham (a town close to where I'm from, Newton)...Actually Matt if you read this his name is Pat and he knows you.

The boys kept cheering for Tiiiiiiim Thomas every time the caps tried to score, and announced things like "Tim Thomas has siding for arms", "Tim Thomas has bricks for shin pads" (i guess implying TT is built like a house and can stop anything)...It was almost Jack Bauer-esq.

The mom kept trying to hit on the boys which was kinda funny, especially when the boys invited us out to drinks after the game and not her. (to which we declined) And then when the game went into OT the little boy started cheering and giving high fives to getting to stay up past his bed time!

Lastly what I dont get is why noone appreciates Dippin Dots: Ice cream of the future! Its awesome. Independantly Leslie and each of the guys questioned me on it...asking if i was eatting stones or what. You people just dont understand, its awesome. And just wait till the future comes!




Bruins won in OT shoot out!

Tuesday, you see, she had to be free

Tuesday is one of the best days of the week. I guess its no weekend or anything, but it is the day that new CDs come out. I think right now the CD I'm most excited for should come out some time around April I believe. I've already started hearing a few songs here and there, but those are the songs you get sick of first, so really getting the whole CD is almost always worth it. Another option is to download it, but I really like to get the actual CD for two main reasons. First because looking through the CD jacket the first time is so exciting, second what if your computer dies? well if you've bought the CD you have it backed up for the next computer. If you were wondering what that CD is that I'm excited for, clearly its the new Avril Lavigne CD.

p.s. I posted LOTS of new pictures on my angelfire site :)

Book It! Liberation Dance Party (again)

Sarah was in town so as per usual Sarah Leslie and I went to the Liberation Dance Party. I realized that this is the fourth consecutive year I've been going to this regularly. I love how they show music videos, most of which are totally ridiculous. My favorite might have been the electric six Danger!high voltage. you HAVE to see it. The Perfects (a band) came and played for some of the time...they were much less than perfect. in fact they were borderline terrible. They started and I was thinking OK they sound pretty good, but like 30 seconds into it leaned over to Leslie and said "OK, I'm done with this". Maybe they'll get better, maybe i just wasn't in the mood...who knows

One band that I had never heard before but love now I think was "scissors for lefty" but that could be because the guy in the video wore the sith lord costume the whole time. I'll wait till dc9 posts their play list so i can figure out if that's really the band that goes with the sith video, and then buy it or something. Another video that was awesome was Teddybear's "punkrockstar" with Iggy Pop, check out teddybear and you'll know why.

Funny thing we noticed was that there were a ton of songs we knew from commercials on tv.

I guess this is actually becoming a weekly feature...pick up attempts:

First the amusing one, This was in conversation to both me and Leslie, but I was just being a wing girl ;) So the band members of the perfects kinda dressed appropriately rock and roll, but then the lead singer kinda dressed in a knit sweater bare naked ladies style. Then this random guy "dennis the menace" came up to us and says "i'd probably pay 20 bucks to see them if they changed their name to Fat Guy in a Sweater". We both started laughing incredibly hard. then he says

"ok I am going to give you three options, which band would you buy tickets for?
a. little guy in a sweater?
b. fat guy in a sweater?
c. Midget in a sweater?"

Simultaneously Leslie and i responded "midget in a sweater"

To which he exclaimed "book it!"

Then the horrible one...Some guy was trying to chat with me while I clearly wanted nothing to do with him, he was asking all sorts of questions, so finally i ask him what he does for a living he responds...and i'm not kidding "oh i have a good job, I make a lot of money". He returned the question and asked what I did...he goes "wow, do you even realize how much you could be making?" and i was like "yeah, i have some idea" and he goes "you could be making like 150,000 fresh out" (um, no, you really cant) to which he follows up with "i know because I make a lot of money too"....Needless to say I gave up on being polite and just blatantly walked away at this point. Oh let me also add that he tried to buy me a Schlitz...probably doesn't make as much as he says even if i did care.

I cant even begin to describe the crazy stuff that happened sat night, maybe in future blogs I will. All I know is that the Wizards Lakers game was awesome as was Marie's 29th birthday flip cup fiesta!

I have little to no voice today :(

Vibe Test

Well, I've been running some more tests in the vibrations lab again...make all the jokes you want...Jeff's yesterday was "Okay, just one. Vibe testing can often be a very sticky situation. Now I'm done!"...nothing surprises me.

Anyway during lunch I let an older gentleman drive to lunch because I didnt think he'd like how messy my car was, imagine my surprise when he leads me to the largest pickup truck i've ever been in. He got in with ease while I had to scale the side of the truck to get in. I finally get in and he turns it on and I have to do everything I can to keep a straight face when I realize that we are listening to classical music in this monster truck of his. I dont know why that amused me so much, I think its just because it seems like quite the contrast. Then he gave me quite the tour of what the area use to look like in the 70's. He claims it use to be much nicer.

Also I always feel pretty out of place in the vibe lab, being the only girl in the lab all week (or longer). This was confirmed when one of the guys took my picture to put in the folder he has of the few girls that come through the lab...weird. Anyway this is like my 5th or so test and I've finally figured out the secret to not feeling out of place. Football. Basically I walked in and was like "how bout them bears?" and they were shocked for a second, and then continued talking football with me. This led to other discussions and at the end of the day we were all having fun joking around, and one guy even offered to lend me his music collection. THANK YOU FOOTBALL.

Both the Centrifuge tests and proof tests were running so all the doors I knew how to get to the lab from were now locked or blocked. It was pointed out to me that i could sneak in through the door behind the giant smoking liquid nitrogen tank. yeah, thats not sketchy. Luckily I havent had to use that door yet.

Just waiting for the lab to call me back over today....at least this set of testing will be over by the end of today. Also I've learned to like that lab b/c at least it gets me away from my TWO awful officemates.

Mornings

I think I've figured out one reason I can no longer wake up properly to my alarm clock without hitting snooze 6 times (no joke). Its because I wake up to a CD alarm clock and I think its time to change CD's. This happens from time to time and I probably should have realized this sooner. Its kinda funny too because every now and then I hear one of these morning songs and am sorta jolted like i should be waking up, but i'm already awake and probably out at a bar.

Songs I've become immune to
1. Keane- Somewhere Only We Know (currently in player)
2. Avril Lavigne- Take me Away
3. Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip
3. Placebo- Every You Every Me
4. Beatles- Good Morning Good Morning
5. Blur- Coffee and TV
6. Pink Floyd- Speak To Me/Breathe (probably not a good choice this didnt last long)
(probably some others i cant think of right now)

Songs I'd like to wake up to
1. That song my grandparents use to sing to wake me up in the morning when I lived at their house (yes, i was in high school then, so what?)
2. A real trumpet playing revilre (not a recording)

Any Suggestions As To What I Should Put In Next?