from the washington post, wool and sheep festival in ho. co. in a only a few weeks!!
click here for details
the website for the festival is: http://www.sheepandwool.org
wool lovers beware March 31, 2005
natasha’s interview of me March 31, 2005
here are amy’s interview questions:
1.i have known you a long time. yup. what do you consider your best attribute, other than your hair, both physically and mentally?
i guess mentally i have a weird memory like a steel trap, i have the capacity to catalogue weird events and then remember the strange details, plus i do have somewhat of a calculating mind- even though i so rarely use it, i am sort of mathematically minded.
physically i would have to say my knees, they are freckled and that’s about all i have to say about that.
2.if you could go back and live in any historical era, what would it be, where would it be, and what would your station in life be there?
nothing too difficult, probably the 50s when people are just getting into “modern conveniences”, i like to be clean way to much so anything without running water would not be for me. plus during that 40s/ 50s period people enjoyed the things i actually like to do now. my station unfortunately would probably be just as i am now, a single person ( i guess i would be known as a spinster by now, eh?)
3.if you could be a famous person, alive or dead, one man and one woman, who would it be and why? choose one of each for looks, and one of each for personality or accomplishments. did i already mention that these questions are tough… i don’t know, someone creative who accomplished something, i don’t know who i would want to be looks wise, someone still with red hair. i am sorry but i can’t do this one…. i guess i wouldn’t want to be a person who was known for one thing, i would rather be good at lots of stuff. anyway.
4.congrats on getting into library school…once you graduate, what would be your dream job? it doesn’t need to be realistic.
i really love music and organization/ information structure so maybe something dealing with those two things, but not like a musicologist, more like a cataloguer (digital of course) of music (really only music i like, i want to specialize in things i only like!) ok that description sucked, i basically just described freaking napster. ok, i just want to organize people’s records and cds for a living, that’s it. i am going to grad school simply for that. to learn how to cross reference (is this a scene from party girl or what….)
5. you moved out on your own to dc and have actually been able to take care of yourself, first, kudos, second, what are the biggest things you have learned from the experience, and how do you think you have changed as a result? thanks. i have learned really random things like how to walk down a moving or stationary escalator. when i first got here i was terrified of escalators and having to walk on them (mostly down) but just today i walked down this huge escalator into the metro station. this is not a particularly important accomplishment, but i honestly remember having to walk down an escalator at dupont that was broken and i could almost not even force my legs to move- it was terrifying. there are still some wack escalators in dc that i will not walk down… EVER.
also, i walk really fast now. i was never a straggler, but now i am like a speed demon, i get so annoyed when there are all these visitors in dc and they are casually strolling. also, a really good lesson i learned is that in dc a man will basically push a girl out of the way to get a seat on the metro. i know that i cannot live w/o music in my ears while going to work/ coming home, it’s terrible b/c it really is used as a barrier to the outside world/ noise/ and most importantly strangers who might want to converse with you. (um, notice all these things are related to my commute, the biggest change in my life since moving here….)
post the questions and answers on your blog, along with a call for people who want to do the same and be interviewed (if you want to be interviewed, please post a comment)
NP: QOTSA/ Lullabies to Paralyze (Long, Slow Goodbye, how awesome is that song?? am i the last to correspond the album title to a line in Mosquito song from SFTD??)
qotsa March 29, 2005
so finally, i post about the qotsa show. i was so tired, yet, it was totally worth it. i was so angry that i didn’t bring my camera, angel and i got really close up on the right balcony (all the way down by the stage, next to the one vip) on josh’s side so i would have had great photos, i guess i was afraid they would take my camera, they let you bring in cameras, but some times nix ones that look “too professional” i don’t know what that means- zoom lens? so anyway… so for those not in the know, the 9:30 club is fantastic and the view is great from just about anywhere, but i had a spectacular view. the opening band throw rag were insane, some how two of the five members end up in their underwear dancing about in a creepy way (i have told people that it was so weird that josh, who was on the vip balcony opposite from us got his digital camera and was snapping photos on them cracking up… how insane does something have to be for josh to think it’s weird, i mean he toured with nick for how long??) so they are amusing in a weird way, plus there was a guy (one of the non-pants variety) who played a washboard with spoons, who knew that so cal punk needed that??? i sure didn’t
so queens take the stage, and as they were doing set up they put these white curtains around the stage so i thought what is up with that? well it was pretty freaking dramatic when they started playing still with the curtains (Someone’s in the Wolf, which after seeing the video on the dvd scars the bejeezes out of me…) and then they pulled back the curtains- it was crazy.
the show was a great mix of all four albums, plus tons of lanegan action- i really think he might be singing on nearly half the songs now. of course the stage must get super dark before the lanegan will come out.
what else, tons of great stuff regular john, um, new version of god is in the radio, go with the flow (during which josh called this guy out…), burn the witch (so great), you would know, lost art, all great stuff (set list is here)
josh was super talkative, it was great, i don’t remember him being so talkative. he was talkative before someone threw something at his head, but after, even more so. it was insane to see him go so ballistic, i guess from what anyone could gather, the guy was not pleased that nick wasn’t there, oh drama. i saw josh flip the guy off earlier and then it was like a full on fight was about the erupt.
brody dalle was in the house- she looked fantastic kids, really pretty and super cool red high heeled boots.
btw, the photos are from:
http://forums.rekordsrekords.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=6133 (credit: allferret)
Whoa, Dinosaur Jr. on Craig Ferguson March 29, 2005
Natasha is going to love this one! We only saw Dinosaur together once, i think she went to see J solo a few times but i wasn’t able to go. this is such big news. set the vcr now, or tivo, that’s the SNB night, right?
I promise a full queens review soon, but for now you can check out Angel’s take on the show. i am hoping some photos pop up soon…..
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here’s michele posing in her newly completed xmas present from me!! finally!
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for those attending the prom this year… March 27, 2005
are you going to the prom this year?? i don’t know if i’ll go but… check this out! isn’t this so last year???!?!
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saturday was steve and jenna’s wedding- it was a lot of fun. i drove up early on saturday am and met everyone in somerset at the hotel. we then all got ready and then headed out to green gables where the ceremony and the reception would be, super neat place. everyone was there (minus mark, sorry marky!) but we still had a good time. everything seemed to go smoothly. this a.m. michele and i met my fam. at eat n park for easter breakfast, i appreciated them coming up there to meet up. tonight is the queens show, i hope i can stay awake that long!!!
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i am lame March 25, 2005
i just ditched my interpol ticket. as mentioned before, the doors don’t open until 9, so it will be a very late show and with the wedding tomorrow and queens on sunday, i just didn’t want to have to end up ditching on queens. anyway. i am lame. my coworker is taking care of selling my ticket for me (hopefully). laters
extreme food knitting- a must see for knitters March 23, 2005
Straight out of tasmania (via craftster.org/blog)
that’s some serious knitting.
