time and relative dimension in space

I have received my Christmas present from my bb brother!



He's let having a good job go to his head. I'm not complaining in the least.

So obviously I immediately put on the Pogues DVD.

( brief thoughts on The Pogues In Paris DVD )

The inherent problem in listening to "Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say...Pogue Mahone!!!" on shuffle: You can very easily wind up going from a fairly-recent concert audio, with Shane being all growly and slurry and semi-incomprehensible, to an early demo recording, with Shane being all young and punk-band-tough and hitting notes. And then you get sad.

Oh, well, at least all the alcohol will probably keep him alive forever.

Eventually I will post something that is not a meme.

That day is not today.

( lengthy countdown meme goin' around )

I have almost completed my Pogues collection! ...okay, I'm still missing three albums. BUT. I have all their studio albums, half (that's one of two, yo) of their live albums, and four out of six of the compilations. Now I'm just missing The Ultimate Collection (Including Live at the Brixton Academy 2001), The Best Of The Pogues, and Dirty Old Town: The Platinum Collection.

...okay, I'm also missing the two EPs, but those are like impossible to find so I'm ignoring them for the moment.

I am making progress.

Once I finish my Pogues collection, I suppose I'll have to work on my Shane & the Popes collection, which is in a much less respectable state atm.

(Possibly my music addiction is getting out of hand...as of this posting, my iTunes music library boasts 73.99GBs...18809 songs...if I played it continuously it would take 46.6 days to listen to...guys, reassure me that other people packrat their music to the extent that I do? Tell me that your music counts are at least as high! Or nearly as high! Or something reassuring!

I only have an 8gb iPod. Do you know how hard it is to decide what to put on there? *pouts*)


Off that subject...

Oh! Also exciting: I completed my Ghostwriter collection! All of the original series! "Ghost Story" through "Attack Of The Slime Monster"! I haven't watched all of it yet, but I'm excited to have it there to watch, y'know? Yes, I'm a nostalgia dork. I don't care. It's so ridiculously awesome, with the dorky 90s urban fashion and slang and terrible SFX and all. Word.

Also, it's so much funnier watching the attempt at cosplay in "Am I Blue?" now than when I was a kid.


...whatever, I'm a geek, we get it.

And so.

( last night as I slept, I dreamt I met with Behan; I shook him by the hand and we passed the time of day ) OMG SO WORTH IT I LOVE MY BAND SO MUCH.

So far today I've called Artist Arena to switch my concert tickets to the Friday show, sent off resume/references/letter to three theaters with job openings (an ME position, an assistant ME position, and a light board op position), and submitted "The End Of The Road (Is The Beginning Of Your Life)" to fic_tossed for a review. It's kind of sad that the most recent Whofic I've written was in September '07.

And! Artist Arena just e-mailed me again to tell me that the deal's been upgraded and now they'll be refunding the full cost of the tickets, so I'll be going to see the Friday show free of charge. Which is kind of awesome, yo. I mean it's not awesome that they're this desperate to get people to switch to Friday, and I feel bad for the people who can't switch and who might wind up getting turned away from the door on Saturday, and HoB kind of sucks for overselling their show, but I'm going to see the Pogues for no cost. That's kind of awesome.

Also that one Harper vid I was talking about several posts a month or so ago is very nearly done.

All in all, a good day so far.

Anyway, I just got off the phone with Artist Arena about the Pogues concert -- apparently the House of Blues oversold the Saturday show by accident. To try to fix that problem, they're offering a deal (to the presale customers, like me, first) -- 50% rebate on your tickets if you agree to go see the Friday show instead.

I gotta talk to my dad before I agree to this -- given that we'll be spending all of Friday morning on a plane, he might not be amiable to immediately turning around and hitting a concert -- but as long as I get to see my Shane in Boston I don't much care when it is.

Just over two weeks to go until Boston, in any case.

*flails a bit*

I will be in Boston March 20 - March 23. Will anyone else be in the area? Right now the only solid plans we've got are for the concert Saturday night (SHAAAAANE); we're looking at other stuff to do, and planning to do some tourist-y things, but I wouldn't mind meeting up with someone.


There's been some serious fail over at fanficrants recently. Why is that?


Can I be slightly narcissistic for a minute here? I got a positive review today on "In The Mood", and OMG, you have no idea how flattered I am that I'm still getting reviews on that fic almost two years later. I'm really proud of it, and I know how egotistical that sounds, but it's really a big mood-booster.


You know what? Prior to today, I'm fairly sure I hadn't heard Brooks & Dunn's "Boot-Scootin' Boogie" for years (and I gotta say? I didn't miss it). But I've heard it three times today. Why?

On a brighter musical note, today I walked into a store and they were playing Flogging Molly's "Kings Of The Kilburn High", and I had glee.

> Teh Niki's definitely out of the Boston trip. :( I'm gonna call the airline and cry at them and see if they'll transfer one of the plane tickets to a different name, since I already know I can't get a refund. If I can, I'll transfer her ticket to my dad's name. No go - tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Blah. Going to try to get my dad to scrape up the cash for his own ticket. Tickets bought! Managed to get him on the same flights. :) Going to Boston with my dad won't be the same, but dammit, I'm going to Boston and I'm going to see my Shane if there's any possible way I can make this trip work.

> Today I logged into and updated my fic journal for the first time since...November, and miniNaNo. Uhm. Yay, me? At least I finally did something.

> My W-2s finally arrived today! So maybe I can get some money back! Yay!

> Awesome thing: lgbtfest. Go, join, prompt, wait to claim, whatever. It's got some awesome prompts already.

> ARD is still pretty much the highlight of my day. Almost done with book #5 right now. I love these guys to a ridiculous degree.

> Westley's a dick.