Greatest Show Yet!

Ragdoll Physics at the Park Theatre... May 20th, 2009.

I figured that I would have blogged about this when it actually happened... but I wasn't really into the blogging as of yet... so here we go...

Dana, Tayo, and Mark form the group Ragdoll Physics.  (Dana is my older brother... and he is on the drums in this video)

Living in Red opened up for Ragdoll Physics and they definitely put on a great show.  The band, made up of four people in their very early twenties, has sort of a Paramore-esque sound to them, what with their female lead singer whose voice is very similar in nature.  

And then there was Ragdoll Physics.  Their best show yet.  I've always said that they have great 

stage presence but man did they ever put on a good show that night.  Tayo, the lead singer and guitarist, even played piano for the intro of one song and the spotlight was on him for a while.  Ex-bassist from Econoline Crush, Mark was on bass and managed to learn all of the songs within a two to three week period flawlessly.  The video posted above is of one of their latest tunes "Chemical World", unfortunately I did not realize that it was going to be their last song and I was on my way to move into a better recording 

angle when the show ended, so naturally I only got a small portion of the song.

The band definitely left the crowd wanting more, as they did not prepare an encore (who does

 when you're not really famous yet) but people still chanted for upwards of 10 minutes before the crowd started to dissipate. 

Visit their myspace page here.

Help me Blog my way to Antarctica...

So I thought... this will be fun, I will enter a contest wherein the contestants have to create a blog post explaining why they should be the ones to win an all-expense paid trip to Antarctica to blog about their adventures and let everyone see that it really is worth it to make the trip to see it.  Well, when I originally entered, I noticed that there were only 10 pages of bloggers... about 182 people to be precise... I like those odds... and I also noticed that the most votes that one person in the first two pages had, was only 40 at the time.

THEN... I kept on clicking through the pages... and my chances seemed to get slimmer and slimmer as the people with the most votes kept climbing...  I think I was shocked at first when I saw that there was someone with 114 votes when most people had 5 or 6... but then there it was... over 500 votes!  There is one guy on there who has blogged before, who has gone on multiple excursions such as this, calls himself an amateur photographer... and that is when I knew I had no chance.  Me, an amateur blogger (even though the contest does say that you do not need to be an expert... I think that the voters are leaning that way)

That's it.  Dreams crushed.  I don't think there is even the slightest chance that I will win this contest.  Damn me and my non-blogging for so many years... I only started a week ago so there is no way that I can compete with the vets.  Also, I haven't been anywhere really, so I can't even say that I've told a story through my pictures... sad sad sad.

Oh well, here's hoping for the pity votes to at least put me in the top 50 bloggers!

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Rock on the Range 2009!!!

One word.  RAINY.  Well... there are a few other words I will use to describe it I guess... but that was the main theme of the day/evening.  At least there was no mud.

We arrived at the Stadium at around 3pm... during Pop Evil's set (I wish I could have seen them, they sounded great even from outside the gates.)  We walked in right in time to see Thornley though, who were great.  They would have been even more great if we weren't forced to cover our faces with our hoods to avoid the wind and rain that was blowing all over the place.  Aside from the shitty weather, Thornley played an awesome set, which included a lot of Big Wreck tunes... which I love and they had great stage presence.

Then we moved over to the second stage to watch Hollywood Undead... who for lack of a better word, stunk.  There were 6 guys in masks rapping... you do the math to figure out how much this sucked.  We definitely wanted our 25 minutes back.

The highlights of the evening for me were: Thornley, Shinedown, Inward Eye, Rise Against, and of course, Billy Talent.  As the last act of the evening, and the headliner, Billy Talent put on an awesome show and made the crowd forget that they were drenched and freezing.  Of course, by that time the rain had subsided, so it was a lot easier to enjoy.  They mixed it up by playing songs from all three albums including a very appropriate "Rusted from the Rain" tune in the set list... and I believe they were by far everyone's favourite band of the event.

All in all, it would have been nice to have some sun, but we still had a great time!  (Minus the bathroom break we took where someone was being dragged out of there because they had puked all over one of the stalls... that wasn't so pretty.)

SO, I wish I could say that I had a few pictures to post for you guys... but unfortunately I did not bring my camera to the 8-hour concert (well, 8 hours for us anyways... 10-11 for anyone who showed up at the beginning...)

Question.

On a side note... does anyone ever use Webdings as a font for their blog posts? Seriously... why is that even an option??

STUPID!!

More than meets the eye...

So... I finally went to see Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen!!! Man was it ever good! (Sidenote: I used to watch the cartoon when I was young, and I even love the noise that they make when they transform... so this movie didn't have to do much if it had those sounds lol jk)

So we went to the 10:30 show, not too packed until right before the show so we ended up getting pretty good seats, and an entire side row to ourselves. The movie started off with a flashback to 17000 B.C. which was a nice back story to start off with, and then went straight into the action. I thought that the Decepticon/Autobot fighting was excellent, possibly better than the first movie because it was a lot easier to pick out what was happening this time around, and that the love story was still there but was a little bit more interesting this time around. That was the one thing that I didn't like about the first movie, the fight scenes were shot too tight and it was difficult to pick out what was happening.

The one thing that I really liked is that this movie introduced a bunch of new interesting characters! The "elder" decepticon was great, the Fallen, some of the new autobots... just all around interesting to see them transform... and of course which new car they were portraying lol... gotta love shameless advertising in movies.

Overall I think that if you liked the first one, you'll like this one. If you hated the first one, then don't bother seeing this one because it's basically the same thing lol. GOODNESS :)

Swine Flu Weekend...

Well well well... who knew that after this past girls' weekend at the cabin, that most of us would end up sick and home from work?

Well, I'm exaggerating, only me, and two others I believe were feeling the wrath of the "almost H1N1" flu-like symptoms...

So anyhow, on my way out to the cabin, KBod turns to me and says "By the way, there were two confirmed cases of H1N1 at my work, and I have a cough... so you might get the Swine by driving me out to the cabin" LOL. Wasn't too worried about it... and then came Monday... but I will get to that after I tell you about our glorious weekend...

So, somehow, even though I haphazardly chose 3 weekends to have all the girls out to my cabin this year, the first one ended up being the nicest weekend so far this year!  With temperatures of +28 on Saturday and +30 on Sunday... we were bound to burn... it was certain.

So, we headed out to the cabin (almost all in separate vehicles, don't know how that worked out...) and then made our way to Grand Beach Saturday morning.  The sun was shining and we were having an awesome time.  BUT, there was a lack of people there.  I don't get it, free park admission, great weather... and NO ONE SHOWED UP!  We were excited about all of the extra room we had, but seriously... Grand Beach... not crowded on a Saturday... something has to be wrong.

Anywho, after a full day of burning (yes burning for most people... Alix and I managed to get away unscathed) we headed back to my cabin for some delicious Costco burgers and chips.  We then proceeded to start drinking, and that's when the fun began.  I was introduced to a game our friend Alix brought called Timberr, which is basically a knock-off of Jenga, but with blank blocks that her and her friends had written different tasks on each one.  So each time you grabbed a block from the bottom you had to read it and do what it said, or drink instead.  If you put it back on top and the whole thing fell, you had to down your drink.  There were some pretty interesting ones... including but not limited to... "Embarrassing Story", "Give 3", "Worst Sex Story", "Sing a Song"... etc.  So you can imagine where a game like this left 8 of us girls and countless amounts of booze...  GOOD TIMES!

All I have to say is that I definitely got to know my girls a lot better this weekend... and I'm sure they can say the same for me!  We didn't even touch the tunes, or the TV... just played that game all night!

So then the morning comes... everyone's burnt... and most people had to leave early in order to go to Father's Day events... except for Alix and I... we didn't have to be anywhere until later on that day... so naturally, being the die-hard beach bums that we are... we went to Birds Hill before heading home... again, awesome weather... and I for sure burnt my shoulders on the Sunday!

All in all... a great girls' weekend cabin success and I cannot wait for the July Edition!

So Monday rolls around... and apparently I'm sick.  I went in to work anyway... thinking it was no biggy, but then I realized that I was a lot sicker than I thought.  I started coughing uncontrollably at my desk, and I felt super hot, and then cold... and then hot again... but I stuck it out till the end of the day!  (I'm a trooper... and I decided that I would take the day after off instead...)

Needless to say, I do not think it was the Swine (LOL) but I definitely had the same thing that has been going around lately... who knows what it is.

Well... it's time for me to finish sketching out my latest work of art... which I will add pics on here if it turns out okay... I've been asked to paint/sketch a picture of a couple on their wedding as a late wedding present from one of their friends.  I hope it turns out okay!

Till next time... I will leave you with our Grand Beach 2009 Group pic #1...

Don't we look awesome??

Cabin this weekend

Hello Hello Hello...

So we are going to be heading out to the cabin this weekend for sun, friends, and good food and drinks! I can't wait for everyone to come out to my grandparents' cabin and enjoy the awesome weather we are going to have this weekend!

I will post a few pictures after the weekend... but here's to a good time!