| We have lift off!!! |
[21 Jun 2005|04:06pm] |
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So my god...i haven't written anything here for a long,long time. I have been one busy person over the last month or so. There has been so many crazy things happening at work. Everyone is quitting all at the same time... we are having a corporate visit tomorrow...my boss is on vacation with her boy-friend who is an ex-manager for our company...and i think the shit is going to hit the fan!...i think we are going to have a big meeting with our DM(district manager)
and tell her what a horrible Job Christy (my store manager) is doing. It's going to be out of control....BUT, on a much happier note...
I have a band! well i have a bass player who is awesome! His name is Mike we have been practicing almost every day since the day we met. We have around 10 songs in various forms of completion. He's really into old school 3-chord punk-rock and power pop,as well as many of the hipper art punk bands of late...like the Kaiser Cheifs, The Futureheads,Franz Ferdinand...etc. And he's extremely committed to making this work...i'm very,very excited. We may have found a drummer...my friend's brother just moved into town and apparently he is a musical virtuoso...he plays everything...but he's been really wanting to play drums for someone...so i am gonna get a hold of him and see what happens.
We are also looking for a second guitarist....but i want to wait till we get our songs tight and fully fleshed out. But all i am saying people...is this is gonna fucking be good.I'll keep you all posted.
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| if humans bodies are made up of mostly water... |
[21 May 2005|12:40pm] |
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I'd be made up of about 20% whiskey right now. I'm still drunk...from last night and the night before. both nights ruled....with the ramone's show's highlight being Dave somehow convincing them to let him get onstage in between the band's set and playing drums to Rock and Roll HighSchool....and Christina getting up on the stage too to sing it. it was HOTT! Patti seemed really happy to see me at first....and increasingly more annoyed as the night progressed....and as i got more and more obnoxious. It probably didn't help that i had two gorgeous girls(Annie and Christina) dancing on either side of me and we were all acting like asses and just having fun. what's wrong with that?????
highlight of last night....it's a tie for getting to see Hendrix and all the kids from store 19 that i haven't seen in a long time(we also went to tony's birthday party) AND getting shitfaced on several different kinds of alcohol...mainly (in order) Jack Daniels,Vodka, and Whiskey. And dancing so much i ended up taking off more and more layers of clothes as the night went on...and upon leaving the rock show... Annie smooched me right on the mouth...obvously not in a really sexual way or anything...i mean we were at her boy's show...haha....but damn it was the stuff dreams are made of...at least for me. haha. shes so fuckin' HOTT.
This morning's highlight was being made chocolate chip pancakes by christina and being told to go back to bed. that shit was awesome. although it was smokey at the bar we went to for Tony's party that i still feel like i have shit in my lungs and it's very hard to breathe. smoking is nasty people. NASTY. ok that is all now i need to figure out what to bring to the BBQ/Hanalei show. it's a pot luck. i can't wait.
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| oh yea. |
[19 May 2005|02:56pm] |
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I'm gong to he a busy boi this weekend.
I'm going to the Dial's and the Returnables' show tonite. It's a Ramones Tribute show at the Bottome lounge. Doors are open at 8pm and its $8 to get in...in case anyone doesn't have anything to do and would like to come on out and celebrate the birth of one of Punk's greatest founding fathers. I am stoked...it's gonna be a ton of fun...and i am gonna get WASTED!!!! woo hoo!
Then tomorrow night is the Explanation's show at Gunther Murphy's and that should be a hoot too....and i am gonna get WASTED!!!
and Saturday night Rebecca is hosting some wine and cheese event at Early to Bed (sex toy shop near my house) and i am thinking about attending...'cos well she's cute...and not crazy...and i actually have known her for a while...and have had a crush on her before...and i think she likes me....and I'm gonna get WASTED!!!
And then Hanalei's show is on Sunday afternoon at someone's house or something and it's all ages...and only five dollars. and his music is amazing and totally inspiring.but there will be no getting wasted here.
anyone interested in joining me for any of the above events give me a call.
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| Happy Friday 13th! |
[13 May 2005|04:57pm] |
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i haven't posted anything in a while.
I'm tired right now and i just got off of work.
I need to go to a music store and purchase new strings for my guitar...i broke two playing it the other day.
so... that girl Jasmine...decidedly fucking INSANE!... i told her very nicely...as nicely as i could not to call me ever again...why did i tell her that?...because she kept fucking calling me!...like every half an hour...i'd get a new voicemail from her...it was getting really ridiculous. and even after i asked her to stop calling me...she called me again!..to tell me that there was a clown on the train she was on...and she had seen him for 3 days straight on the same train car as her...like said...she's fuckin insane.
Uhmmm...i have been talking to several people about music over the last couple of days...and about playing with them...one band actually lives near my mom's house and i may hang out with them this weekend...more to come as the story unfolds.
i need a nap.
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| odd. |
[08 May 2005|02:09pm] |
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I hung out with Jasmine again...she called me (several) times on Friday...thinking that i was off of work by 2pm...but Friday's are the the only days i work till 4pm. Christina wanted to hang out too...and i couldn't say no, 'cos i felt like i had been neglecting her all week...so we hung around Evanston for a while and then we both drove down to Cicero,where Jasmine lives. She cooked us both dinner which was actually very nice of her...and we just hung out and talked....but she seemed kinda quiet and for some reason....much less attractive than i had originally thought. The more time i spent actually in front of her....the more i realized that i don't want anthing to happen between us. She is exactly what she is. A 20 yr old lesbian...still full of angst. she may try to seem older than she is...but i see right through it...and Christina did too. We talked about it on the ride back and i know for sure...that this girl would be more than a lil trouble if anything else were to go on.
So it won't.
I spent the night at Christina's and we woke up early to watch the Three Stooges and Married with Children. Then i went home and cooked up a storm.
I am at the apple store right now wasting time before i am supposed to go pick up Kristine from work. I want to make us a big ol' feast of a dinner.
Chicken with pasta and asiago cheese...flakey biscuits...and a nice big salad. mmmmmmmmm. i can't wait!!! poopy i'm a comin'!!!!! haha.
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| stranger danger... psychotic girls turn me on. |
[05 May 2005|02:38pm] |
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I hung out with Jasmine last night. I didn't get home till midnight. I am
still pondering our interaction with one another.
She's fiesty,extremely opinionated,somewhat pesemistic,artsy fartsy,kind of
cocky/self-absorbed...but not pretensious. she definitely is physically
attractive...and looks exactly like a girl i have already dated before,named
Katie. She also really,really reminds me of my very first girlfriend ever,
Angelique. And let me tell you...she was no angel.
But we actually had a ton of fun yesterday just hanging out at her place.
I brought my guitar and we played and sang...and talked for hours...and ate
Mexican food (she lives above an awesome resteraunt) i had a lot of fun...
BUT... this girl is everything i would have been so normally attracted to
in my younger days...which is exactly why i am being very,very careful.
friends is a good place to be.
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| sick times... |
[04 May 2005|02:39pm] |
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hey guess what???
not being able to eat for a week because you have a stomach virus...isn't
any fun. and you can believe that! haha...i am feeling much better since
having the virus that wouldn't quit...except now everyone i work with is sick
too. oh well.
the highlight of my weekend was when i felt well enough to venture out into
the world and pick my guitar up from "guitar camp" and i saw a beautious bass
guitar calling out my name...it kept saying..."pssst hey melissa...i love you,
please love me too...and give me a good home." i just couldn't resist it...
for a mere eighty dollars. My lovely,barely used,black on black(pickguard)
fender jazz wannabe,Hondo Bass is a dream come true. I will use a pick to
play my new bass...and i will sound like a guitarist playing a bass...and you
know what...i don't give a damn. this is what it looks like:
http://www.mbgmusicsupply.com/hobagu.html
oh and p.s. i have been talking to that hot punk rock girly...her name is
Jasmine...and damn she cracks me up. for our first date we are going to do
our laundry together....and we are going to dress up. she is going to be a
bubble...and i will be a dryer sheet. this was all her idea. i love it.
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| i found it hard...it's hard to find...oh well...whatever... nevermind. |
[29 Apr 2005|04:29pm] |
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holy shit. I have no voice. It's completely gone. We went out last night. First i hung out with Annie at
her place before we went to Dave's show at the Double Door. We started drinking at 6pm. I bought a case
of Jack Daniels...and finished off before we headed out the door...and was surprisingly not intoxicated...
well at least not enough for me to be stumbling around...i am building up my tolerance...and i am not
sure if that's a good thing. LOL.
So we get to the rock show and drink some more. Now...I'm starting to get tipsy...when you add
several whiskey sours to the mix...it makes for a very funny me. I left right after they played their
set because i was going to meet up with Christina,Erin,and Matt at the bar Mother's. It's downtown near
the other Urban...and they were having live band Karaoke!!!
Throw in a couple of long island ice teas...3 horny,good looking girls,one of which knows how to REALLY
dance/swing on a stripper pole(yes-they had one!)...and you get a very,very,VERY...animated group of
girls pretty much giving a free sex show to anyone willing to watch. haha. AND THAT'S ALL I'M WILLING
TO DIVULGE.
well that...and i won top prize for singing The Darkness' "I believe in a thing called love" and they let
me close the bar down with Nirvana's "Smells like teen spirit" let me tell i didn't hold anything back...
which resulted with everyone in the bar rushing the stage and moshing. It was the most amazing thing to be
a part of. the guys who worked their even came up to me afterwards and told me they have never had a
reaction like that from the people hanging out in the bar. It felt really good. So i get to come back next
week to be part of the finals...where i can win a free IPod. i am so ready...well first i need to get my
voice back.
Now i have to get home and take a nap so i can go out with Christina again... she's is one crazy bitch...
and we're in love like only best friends can be.
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| heart... attack! |
[26 Apr 2005|03:25pm] |
so...i've "met" 2 girls within that last 3 days.
One of them...i've actually known for a while...she was a good friend of an
ex that i dated when i was really young (i was like 20) and i always kinda
thought she was cute in that... "i am very intellegent, i like to read a lot
of books,i wear sexy smart girl glasses,and am very passionate about many
different causes..." kinda way.
The Other...
Is much younger than me ( she IS 20, at this very moment)but i find
attractive in that....
"BUT DAMN, SHE'S A HOT PUNK CHICK..." kinda way.
and i don't know what to do.
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| how the fuck do i get myself into this shit???? |
[22 Apr 2005|04:43pm] |
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I am going to the Deals Gone Bad show tonite. They are playing with Desmond Decker. I don't like Ska....never have... never will. Megan,who i work with,her husband is in the band Deals Gone Bad. She took it upon herself to ask her hubby to put me on the guestlist. He said... "sure!" so now i have to go. I don't like her. I don't like that music. And i don't wanna fuckin go.
She is 8th months pregnant. I am hanging out with a fuckin pregnant angry woman, who is rude and obnoxious....and apparently thinks i am her friend...and that i loooooooooove ska. How this happened. I DON'T KNOW.
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| freak my (b)ass. |
[21 Apr 2005|02:15pm] |
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soooo i think i have gotten bass fever. I was looking up some on Ebay just to
see what was people were trying to sell at the moment...i found this!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=7316344573&rd=1
isn't it beautious? if i had money i would make my mom bid on it for me.
But sadly, i don't get paid till next thursday and the $10.00 i have left
is going to buy delicious luch meat and cheese so that i may have something
to eat next week at work,while on break.
The Sonnets are playing one last show on Sunday at the beat kitchen...and i
really want to go...but i dont know how much it is and i don't think i will
have the money for it after buying my tasty lunch meat. Oh well...once again
turkeys win....and i lose.....or hmmmm since i am eating it....do i win and
They lose???? god...i am so confused. haha.
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| like....woah. |
[19 Apr 2005|02:48pm] |
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holy shit...the band,The Sonnets....totally just asked me to play bass for them. They are really very good...and i actually just posted about them in my last entry. Raise your hand if you went over and checked out their myspace page. DId you love them??? yea me too!! so now here is the delema...i am playing with Jo on Thursday... and i just know that it is going to be awesome....but what if it isn't awesome??? what if for some god for saken reason...it really blows....then do i go out and buy a bass guitar and bass amp with my next pay check???? ahhhhh "i'm torn...i'm all out of faith...this is how i feel" haha. never did i expect two totally awesome prospects of musical greatness to come my way. jeepers.
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[17 Apr 2005|05:21pm] |
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Hey folks here are some bands and musical people that i think you should go check out because they are hot shit....and they are all from our lovely city.
Hanalei. "we are all natural disasters" go fuckin' buy this albulm right now. He is a labelmate with the NewBlackers...on Thick Records and his music makes me wanna go pull out my accoustic guitar and sit on a stage till somone pays attention to me,
People to check out on Myspace:
The Returnables... Becky from the Dials' man leads this outfit and Ryan, Patti's ex is now playing (2nd?) bass for them. It's good stuff and i can't get the song
"Don't think Joey" outta my head. They are playing a Ramones Tribute Show soon and everyone should try to make it out to that. fun times.
http://www.myspace.com/thereturnables
The Its: they just added me as a friend and they fuckin rock. enough said.
http://www.myspace.com/theits
The Sonnets. I learned about these guys not too long ago and god damn they make my booty shake!!!
http://www.myspace.com/thesonnets
Bang! Bang! everyone has seen me wearing these sexy cats' pin on my bag....and this is why:
http://www.myspace.com/bangbangband
God the Chicago Music Scene is fuckin' rad. FUCKIN' RAD.
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| wow it's been a while. |
[17 Apr 2005|05:07pm] |
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I haven't posted in some time now....but i somehow have become to busy doing other things.
Jo (formerly of Boyskout) and I are going to play music together for sure...i don't want to say its "official...official" just yet...but i know deep down in my gut that we are going to be a band that helps rock this city on its ass. So i have to go home now and play guitar and write some more...because she may be coming over to play tonite.
I have been writing more and more...and everything lately has had a very 60's power pop infused sound. I am diging it...I just hope that Jo digs it too.
Last week i went to go see Tracy and the Plastics (a performance art band/ solo rock act") at the Open End Gallery...because Jo is good friends with her and she said i just had to go.
It was pretty bad in that awesomely bad way.
Tracy: "Hey,why weren't you at practice tonite?"
Projected Image of Tracy as a second band member on a big screen: "Uhmmm cos i was busy practicing other stuff..."
Tracy: "oh yea?...like what????"
Projected Image of Tracy as a second band member on a big screen: "Like uhhhmmm.... being a lesbian. I was practicing standing like a lesbian.... And, playing my bass
like a lesbian.... and, combing my hair like a lesbian.... uhmmmm being in my body like a lesbian."
Tracy: "Well, maybe you should practice being a better friend, and being places that you say you are going to be at when you promised to be there."
*sudden rush of electronic drum beats and rock music ensues*
oh yes....awesomely bad.
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| Oh My, God Damn. |
[04 Apr 2005|06:55pm] |
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I am totally freakin' out right now!!!!
I was browsing on Friendster the other day and i happened to stumble across this one girl's profile...
She was playing bass in one of her pictures...she was obviously queer and very good looking.
Had great taste in music according to her profile...and so i decided to just write her and see if by any
chance she was playing with anyone...well...it turns out that she used to be the bass player for this
AMAZING band called Boyskout...i don't know if any of you all have ever heard of them...but i loved this
band i couldn't tell that it was her because in all the band photos she had bleached blond hair...but in
all the friendster pics she had her hair dyed jet black. But she wrote me back,she's living in Chicago
and was actually looking for people to play with...and wants to hang out with me tomorrow!!!
I can't fuckin' believe this!!! please cross your fingers,toes,eyes,and legs that this works out for me!!
http://www.boyskout.com
holy shit. uhhm yea.
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| all tusk, and no teeth. |
[04 Apr 2005|05:52pm] |
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There is beauty in the silence...
stop and listen like new.
Put that gun down now son...
don't let it bother you.
It's time now to be soft...
so soft and still.
'Cos everyone knows...
There's no honour in the kill.
Even when they couldn't see...
all the signs hiding just beneath..
We knew it all along...
you were all tusk,and no teeth.
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