*wrinkles nose in distaste*
Just saw a Napster ad on a site.. "We'd give you the songs for free."
"But we all know what happened last time."

...this is supposed to be appealing? how horrid is that. wtf.

Anyway.

Going to Steel Music Hall with Mel in like ten minutes cos her current crush's lil baby prog-rock band is playing tonight, along with goodness knows who else. I've been charged with taking pictures.
XD

 
*CRIES*

So I'd finally emailed hmv to ask where the fuck my Sigur Rós cd is, as it's been backordered for like a month...

Thank you for your recent Email.

I have contacted our supplier, who have informed me that the item you requested will be out of stock for a considerable period of time. This would normally suggest to us that this title will soon be considered for deletion.

We are more than happy to continue to try to obtain this item, however I would understand if you would choose to cancel the item which you can do so by going to the 'my orders' section on the website.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience or disappointment caused.

Knew the price was to good to be true. -____-;;; ...I know the product isn't being deleted, but..well, either all the special editions are just gone (possible I s'pose though a lil unlikely? not sure what they would've anticipated the demand to be, or how big it was), or what I found on their site wasn't quite the special edition that was released (which's what I've feared, as it was like $20 when everywhere else it was like $40).. mehhhhhhhh.

So now do I keep waiting or do I just buy the cd? Oh but I'd *so* wanted the pretty lil book with artwork and things!!! *pouts*

(but hey, wow..their response took two days but they gave me an actual personal response as well as a standard form, and really did look into things, that's really awesome.)

 
holy crap I think I just found the best site ever. yourmusic.com...$5.99 for cds always and free shipping, and I can't find a catch aaaanywhere. *G* Except that you have to have a cdlined up that you want each month otherwise they charge you the $5.99 anyway..but that's a pretty easy thing to take care of. (Even for forgetful me!) I did spot that they're a sub-company of bmg, but..I looked through the entire faq and can't find a catch anywhere.
This looks really, really good.

...of course, I currently have $4 cash to my name after NYC, so...this waits 'til I get a job again. ^^; ack. But anyone else interested, lemme know, I'm sure there's some benefit for referring people that we can tap into, hee.

OOOO! Which reminds me. People need to go sign up for some free offers (and then cancel them within a week so's not to get charged, that's what I did) so we can get ipods. I know this works, my brother's friend got one, some other people I know too. And yeah there's a good handful of things you need to sign up for, but.. like I signed up for aol, looked at their latest shell, laughed, then called to cancel and told them their interface is clunky and extraneous and it sucks. It was amusing. Also aol has good hold music. Real rhapsody has lousy hold music. But yeah, it was fun. *giggles* Five people need to go and do this and we'll be good. :D

 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOMGOMGOMGOMG I know I was going to go take a nap and I'm going to now but I was poking around looking at some anime and OMG THEY'RE ANIMATING PARADISE KISS!!!!!!!!!!!! *dances all around (still listening to keane)* YAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!! ..I have the first few volumes of the manga and I adooooore, it's one of the most unique styles I've ever seen and I LOVE and the stores around here stopped stocking it and EEEEEEEEEE YAY!!!!!

link for anyone interested. omgomg. there's a promo floating around bit torrent, getting it now. <3 OOOO!!! the trailer's on the website too! oh yay for instant gratification.


ed. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OMGOMGOMG!!! *hyperventilates* dude even if I didn't already know the series I'd so want this, it is going to be GORGEOUS Omg. *____________* (and the opening song is by tommy heavenly 6! hooray!}

..really going to nap now. ^^; hee.

 
I need a nap like nobody's business, plus concert write-ups will take a lil more time than what I have before metaphysics today, so wait a lil more.. in the meantime though, I have songs for you. Hard to just pick three, but I know if I put up more you'll be less likely to get.

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know (single, probably the most generally-appealing one, the song I first heard of theirs, might be the most solid of the lot..was enough to make me fall in love, though I've other favourites now.)

Keane - Bedshaped (OMG GET THIS SONG. it was in my head all saturday, and blew me away both nights, I was bouncing waiting for them to get to it again saturday night, I could hear this song forever. it..just..get it.)

Keane - Bend and Break (and this one's just wonderful too, so bright and good and carries your soul off and away into brightness and yay. <3)


omfg they're fantabulous. They're incomprehensably amazing live, there's so much passion and-- look, by the second song of their set they had tears in my eyes from sheer rapture. *G* I love, so much. Now, while stupid people behind me were writing them off as "a Coldplay ripoff", that's really not the case.. and anyway, Coldplay wasn't the only one toting that sort of sound a few years back, you had Travis and Starsailor and more right alongside them. (Initially I liked Travis far better than Coldplay..). That and everyone compares everything to Coldplay and it's annoying. *giggles* Admitedly these guys are in sort of the same vein, but..it's a lot brighter, a lot more..summer day when you look up and see the sun shining brightly through green leaves, everything luminescent and bright and full and your heart breaks in happiness. You know. *G* (Also in sadness on some of their songs, "We Might as Well be Strangers" kiiiillled me at the shows..)
Piano drums and singer. That's it. (Though there's guitar showing on the album, live it was just the three of them.) But holy hell do they have a huge sound.. it's the singer who's really been blowing me away, full of passion but also able to shade things very delicately.. open and full and emotive and.. and good.
(Plus he's the most adorable lil U2 fanboy, he was so gushing all through their sets in MSG over the weekend, and he's socute. <3)

ok I'm done now. *giggles*

I love it when hunches like this are right.. jumping between performances in different cities for Live8 (yay internet), I happened to land on theirs a little ways in, and stopped to listen cos I knew they were opening for U2 (who generally have good taste in music *g*), and.. I really, really loved. Rough quality streaming sound and video, song and a half, and I was still able to feel something there that told me they might be really, really awesome. And they so are. \0/

 
Alright. So my life will calm down again..soon. Fall break starts tomorrow, and I haven't a looot of plans, so here's hoping I get back to posting.

Saw U2 twice in Madison Square Garden over the weekend with Megs. I have somuch to tell. ^__________________^

All of my pictures and video clips will be up in the near future, but for now, here's a teaser of some of the best:












..words do not express. oh my loves. <3333


(yes we really were this close. omfg. we were seen. by larry and adam and probablybono. omgomg.)