I’m pleased to announce the resurrection of Big Day! who knows what Amy Lee and I will create there, but I’m sure it’s the start of something interesting!
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I owe a lot to the person who decided to create electric blankets, esp. right now. I’m thankful the power was on long enough to get the bed nice and warm.
is it spring yet?!
ok, these things are impossible for me, it hurts my head to think about it and by the time I’d come up with a list of songs or albums, the next year would be already gone.
here’s what I can think of…. (much thanks (?) to a bout of insomnia tonight)
Lauree’s top 10 rock n roll moments of 2004:
(or the rock n roll lifestyle moments of 2004)
1. meeting R.E.M. after being a fan for the last 16 years!
2. 4 days & nights with the boys of Two Cow Garage and feeling like a permanent, yet welcome, fixture in their van. And them being a permanent, yet welcome fixture in my house! I like when bands sleepover.
3. swivel chairs/audible cd release party in philly and feeling like a celebrity on my own! too much alcohol (I recall having 2 beers in hand most of the night), and the fact that at some point in the night I had no idea where I was exactly, except that I was in Philly.
4. dewey beach popfest! another great year of music and mayhem and once again feeling like a superstar at times.
5. grand champeen rockin’ the galaxy hut and me! so much so that I was lent $20 for gas money to drive up to see them the next night in baltimore with The Bigger Lovers!
6. finding myself getting inside the sold out show from The Thrills at IOTA, just in time for the first note of their first song! despite not knowing many people here in DC/VA, I apparently know the right people! 
I wasn’t *thrilled* with their live show all that much, however, the band does fulfill two main weaknesses I have, ask me and maybe I’ll tell ya!
7. seeing ‘Hard Day’s Night’ on the big screen and taking my roommate with me since she never saw it EVER!!!!! I was more excited than anyone in the theatre.
8. getting to see my great friend, Gavin Conner get to play two of his own songs on stage in the middle of Ben Lee’s set at IOTA!
9. Eugene Edwards and his band here from LA, I agree to give them a place to sleep and meet them for the first time at the gig. I also get us *lost* (which is easy around here) and sidetracked on the grounds of the Pentagon. luckily, I look innocent sometimes. 
10. pretending I’m invincible, and driving up and back to philly in the same night from arlington to The Jane Anchor cd release, after being out late the night before with IKE at IOTA and working all day. and realizing my insanity a week later, when I did it again the following weekend to start my 4 day affair with Two Cow Garage!
bonus:
**** going out drinking with a childhood friend, and realizing that you not only left your keys, and cell phone at your parents’ house, but actually being locked out of the parents’ house and having to throw tennis balls at your sister’s window so she can let you in at 3am, because at 32 you still don’t want your parents to see you drunk!!!
while there’s 2 more weeks of ’04 left and only a few more possibilities for additional moments of rock n roll mayhem, I think something absolutely amazing would have to happen for any of this to change.
the instances of rock have dwindled over the years, but I’ve recently started getting back into the swing of things. somehow, I have a feeling 2005 will prove to be interesting. at least I hope so.
drives me INSANE! of course, I suppose that’s kind of how it works. I just finished one of those ‘get to know your friends’ e-mail chains. between that and re-reading the post I just made, I have flashbacked to my youth at many intervals.
the most hilarious is memories of playing DARK TOWER!!! I can’t believe I remembered the name of it. I found this:
it’s crazy!
*I actually do believe I remembered it, as I have a wickedly great memory in this head of mine.
it’s all in the details…..
Since I’m still dealing with technical issues at work, my day consisted of standard studio fare, making sure all things are running smoothly, etc. It was a strangely busy morning as we had a production in the studio, a class shooting their final project in the conference room, and a van shoot. I’m not used to so many people so early!
I digress…..
has been my site of the day. there’s even a muppet central radio station! 🙂
I originally was going to drive up to Philly tonight to see IKE for their last full band show of ’04, but decided to stay home and relax and rest. I’m doing some holiday decorating and got out my vinyl copy of The Muppet Movie soundtrack. “the rainbow connection’ and ‘movin’ right along’ aren’t exactly holiday songs, but it’s working for me!
between being a hockey fan since birth and the lyrics of “Movin’ Right Along’ I’ve always known how to say Saskatchewan!
My Sesame Street ornaments, finally after 7 years (yikes! it’s been THAT long?!) are free from their plastic bags and price tags, and are hanging on the tree Janice bought a few weeks ago. We also have christmas lights everywhere. I wonder if I can convince Janice and Holly to let me leave them up year round?!
I’ve got to find the episode from my opening scene extra role on Sesame Street. I know I have it on one of the 100 or so VHS tapes downstairs in the basement….of course, most of ’em aren’t labeled!
oooh, I see that ‘So I Married an Ax Murderer’ is on tonight….haven’t seen it since it was in the theatre!!!! not exactly a holiday movie, but if I can’t have Emmet Otter…..