To start things off this is a meme, sent to me by my sister and I thought hey I should do this now.  This is exactly how it came up!

So, here's how it works:
1.) Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2.) Put it on shuffle
3.) Press play
4.) For every question, type the song that's playing
5.) When you go to a new question, press the next button
6.) Don't lie


Opening Credits: Velvet Snow- Kings of Leon
Waking Up: I Think I’m Paranoid- Garbage
First Day of School: You Can Do It- No Doubt
Falling In Love: Wish You Were Here- Kate Voegele
Fight Song: Respect – Aretha Franklin
Break-Up Song: Cold As You – Taylor Swift
Prom: Still Take You Home – Artic Monkeys
Mental Breakdown: My Love is like…. Wo! – Mya  
Flashback: Where’d You Go – Fort Minor
Wedding: Freedom – Wham!
Birth of a Child: Purity - Slipknot
Final Battle: Size Matters- Natasha Bedingfield
Death Scene: Would I Lie To You? - Eurythmics
Great Death: Music Gets the Best Of Me- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Funeral Song: You Make Me Wanna- Usher
End Credits: Twisted – New Kids on the Block

I love the way my Ipod shuffled some of these songs while others I am WTF?  I wish to see this really being played out.  The next time I am in a fight I will make sure to play the song. Haha.

Last week I went to go see the always gorgeous, entertaining and musically gifted Jesse McCartney.  Now I have been a fan of his for the last ten years or so ever since he started on All My Children, then his boy band Dream Street and so on from there.  I met him and he was so sweet. He gave me a hug and his chair fell from underneath him. This wasn’t recent this is a long time ago.  It was funny and memorable.  His new album is just so freaking awesome and it makes you want to dance and the performances were so much fun.  Here is the best of my recollection of the songs he did (not in order):

1)      Beautiful Soul-  love this song always and live it’s fantastic.

2)      She’s No You- he did this song rather angrily. Perhaps it was because his ex was in the video??

3)      Leavin’- the song of 2008.  I love it.  More grown up Jesse Mac. 

4)      It’s Over- I love this song so much.  He makes it dramatic by sitting down, keeping his cool.  And the runs he does at the end is just amazing. He sounds incredible live

5)      Rock You- I really like this song and the intro using Michael Jackson was great since it’s one of my favorite MJ songs.

6)      How Do You Sleep? – this is actually my favorite song on the cd.  Just the title says it all, like how do you sleep with all of this on your conscience. 

7)      Into Ya- Jesse dancing with a cane…. Is he trying to tell us something ;)

8)      Make Up- I love this song live.  He’s very aggressive in the chorus

9)      Told You So- Also very angrily. I love angry JMac

10)   Relapse- This song song live made me appreciate it even more.  I love when concerts do that

11)   Runnin’- my sister’s favorite song and it’s fantastic

12)   Freaky- great song to start the set with

13)   Oxygen- okay pulling out a girl from the audience and putting your head between her “legs”, she’s a lucky little lady

14)   Body language- this is a new song that he did as the finale and it was so damn catchy. I’m so happy he will be releasing it soon. 

15)   My Baby- The high parts make me giggle

Jesse is such a great entertainer that works so hard. You know that he really puts his all into it and I am so happy that I take the chance to see him live. Although people want to start fights with me and I am sitting in front of girls who sing the song like they were screaming in a fire.  But he keeps making it worth it.

I’m still trying to figure out when to take vacation or how to take it.  It may have to be the end of August since that is when my aunt and uncle come and they are worth taking some time off for. They have had a couple of hard years since their grandchild was born with so many problems.

Lastly, I want to shout out my homegirl Jessica for making my current avatar.  She obviously captured the essence of me and my love of chocolate ice cream and red leggings.  Hehe.  Thanks girl!!

Last Tuesday I saw one of my favorite singers (actually my favorite female singer in the whole world), role model and altogether favorite performer Annie Lennox give a talk/acoustic show at the New York Times theater here in New York.  It was a talk with her about her career as well as her work with the HIV positive population in Africa.  This was an amazing night.  The place only held about 300 people and we were sitting in the third row at perfect eye level with Annie Lennox.  She is so beautiful, gracious and charming.  The speaker wasn’t great at all but she truly did take the reigns and made it such a wonderful experience for her fans. Her singing is just so magical.  Especially to see it so stripped down and it’s just her voice and a piano.  You know she’s the real deal . It actually gave me chills.  One fun thing I will say is that she had a fierce hat on.  Her style is always uniquely hers!  I love it and I am so happy to have seen her at a sold out event like that.  It made me happy! =)

On Thursday I had dinner with a coworker of mine named Jessica.   She’s what I call an Awesome Aussie!  We braved it out since we both weren’t feeling that great and had a great dinner.  I tried a chocolate martini only because it was free with our entrée.  The chocolate was nice but mixed with alcohol?  Not so much.  I had a Passion Fruit Mojito.  I took three sips of it and ate the sugar cane that came in it.  It was crazy though to see how much of Times Square was barren.  The financial crisis really is hitting hard.

It was Friday the 13^th this past Friday so my friends and I went to go see the new Jason movie because it had the very hot Jared Padalecki in it.  It was a really fun movie and I am glad it did very well.  That Jason was truly the best I have ever seen. He was so fast and scary as hell. I really wouldn’t want to be chased by him at all. Aaron Yoo is one of the coolest actors to be in movies.  Very funny and give always gives the movies he is in an extra kick! The movie was quite funny and I am so glad that I went to it.  I am looking forward to the sequel for once! 

This weekend was a very strange one.  It was extra long but also my sister and I were worried about our cousin Tracy who lives in Buffalo because after the plane crash there on Friday we thought something happened to her.  Well this Monday she showed up around our way and we had a great time catching up with her and I realize how much I miss her.  We made plans to visit her in May and we told her this saying because we hope to get the Honda CR-V.  Two hours later, we got the call that we did.  Talk about a lucky day!   

These have been a couple of great days.  That’s a surprise to me but it was a very good surprise.  On Thursday my friends and I went to go see Slipknot at Madison Square Garden. What an experience!  I have been to many shows where there is high energy and the crowd loves it but this time it was just non stop rock.  You felt the energy from the band and the crowd was going absolutely ape shit. This was also one of the first times I have seen a male dominated mosh pit.  Now usually there will be a lot of girls holding their own but not this time.  Those guys were losing their fucking minds. It was great.  The best part was the end when they were playing “Spit It Out” and Corey asked the crowd to get low and when he screamed “Jump the fuck up!” they all did.  It was truly a sight to behold to see everyone so calm and crouched down like that.  It shows what a charismatic front man that he is that he can lead something like that. It was so great. They also played so many fantastic songs. It was truly a fun and exhausting concert! 

Friday was my birthday and all I did was work!  =(  Not cool at all. But my boss played me a bunch of birthday songs and that cheered me up. I also thanked my mom for giving birth to me.  It’s her day more than it is mine. She’s the one that went through the pain, right?

On Saturday, my sister, friend and I went to the New York City Comic Con.  That day was so much fun. We started by going to the Warner Brothers Panel that had everything we wanted to see which was Watchmen, Terminator: Salvation and Friday the 13^th. The Watchmen panel (which was the one everyone wanted to go for) was so interesting! They had the original artist of the novel there and he was so charming and British!  They gave us the first 18 minutes of the movie which was just so fantastic and pumps everyone up for March. I know I am!  Then came the Friday the 13^th panel that had the always gorgeous Jared Padalecki on hand answering questions. That Jason movie looks amazing.  It is actually really scary.  He was burning people alive! I love it. I can’t wait for it to come out this weekend.  It will be fun for Valentine’s day. Haha.  Then came the Terminator: Salvation panel. McG first of all is the most entertaining and interesting person.  He really is passionate about his work and really wanted to hear feedback from the audience about the unfinished movie which I thought was very good of him to ask the fans.  It was so interesting. The funniest part was when he called Christian Bale for us to say hi to him but his wife picked up instead. That was truly funny.  The footage looks awesome though and that is another movie that I can’t wait to watch.

After that panel we went to the floor where all the booths are because we wanted to go get Jared’s signature.  The line was so long but we met some nice people.  Although they didn’t get to us we got to look and take pictures of him from the side.  Since we met him before we weren’t so bummed but we did have fun looking at him. 

As well as seeing John Noble from afar!  He looks fantastic in person.  Even much younger!

We then went to go to Milo Ventimiglia’s panel for the comic “Berserker”. That was a fucking amazing panel!  It was so funny and interesting and I can’t wait to read the comic.  We got to meet him afterwards and he is truly the sweetest and hottest guy around!  He always comes around with such interesting projects and I am glad that he comes to NY to debut them.  Makes us feel very special.  I told him how much I love him in Gilmore Girls and he was into it. I also got a picture with him as well as my sister and friend. It was a really great ending to the day. 

Sunday was Elmo Makes Music at MSG with my family and goddaughter.  She had a lot of fun and my Mom was like “What you didn’t see as a child you can see now” and to tell you the truth, I was into it. I was trying not to be too cynical and I am glad that the kid in me took over for that hour and a half.  It was a lot of fun.  I just wanted my goddaughter to have the best time and I think for however much a two and a half year old has for an attention span, that she did. 

Lastly, I will say that my sister was accosted by one Swear Bear. Yup, he totally hit on my sister. It was hilarious. 

So 44 must be President Barack Obama's lucky number. At least I would think so. I am so happy for today because it goes to show you that America can be a place that they tell you when you a child that's true now.  We have freedoms and anybody can be president.  This day is really excellent for that.

This weekend while I was battle stomach viruses and power outtages, my sister and I got in a whole season of 30 Rock under our belts. That is without the DVD extras so far.  I love that show so much.  I'm glad it's on but I think it's going to become like Arrested Development did for me that just when I get into it, it gets cancelled. I hope not because Alec Baldwin is crazy hot in it.  Can't wait to watch Season 2!

So far the new year has been okay....

To all of my friends out there, I hope you are already having a Happy New Year! 

My December was pretty okay.  The holidays went fast as did my days off and I did absolutely nothing!  I just tried to get some rest.  It didn't work.  There are too many guests staying in my house until tomorrow.  After tomorrow I may rest.  God rest my soul.

On Christmas Eve, I implored my dear family to do something different on that day.  Since there aren't a lot of people that celebrate that day with us we went to Midnight Mass at our local church. It was so beautiful and different. First off, I love our local church. It's one of the most beautiful old churchs.  The Mass was both in Spanish and English which in a way worked out great so I can understand what is happening.  Atlhough I do prefer my sermons in Spanish.  I'm old school like that. One tradition that the Mexicans have that I never realized is that they bring their Baby Jesus statues so the Priest can bless it.  It was extraordinary.  I really enjoyed all of it. I was so happy that we went. 

It was Milli's first Christmas and New Years so that was exciting for her.  My nine year old cousin who is staying with us said that the reason Milli doesn't bark at his father is "Because she knows his name is Hitler".  This is true that my cousin's name is Hitler (very long story) but I just had to laugh at his innocence.  Even if Milli could somehow understand what us humans are talking about, she is still too young to have known about the second World War. It was a funny thing that was said though. 

I promised myself I was going to see a bunch of movies these last two weeks in the theater and yet saw not one!  Oh well.  I am intrigued enough to see "Doubt" and also am waiting for "My Bloody Valentine 3D" and the Notorious B.I.G. biopic.  That guy sounds too much like him!

I did catch on DVD "I'm Not  There".  This is appalling since I have had this dvd in my possession for three months and am a big Cate Blanchett fan. But it was done and I did see it.  Fantastic movie.  Love Bob Dylan. He's so damn interesting.  Even if it's all lies.  At least they are his lies.  I liked Richard Gere in the movie.  Something very different from him and of course Christian Bale singing the Christian song was amazing!  I wasn't sure if it was his singing voice but knowing what a dedicated actor he is it could have very well been.  Heath Ledger is just always amazing and very sexy in this role. My goodness!  But of course the movie belonged to Cate as always.  I'm so happy she got nominated for that.  It was awesome.  But David Cross as Allen Ginsberg really took me away.  Amazing!  It just rekindle my love for Ginsberg who I studied for a whole semester in school a couple of years ago.  I need to get back to my poetry books.  Too many fluff magazines are rotting my brain!

This post deserves a teal coloring.  I'm not sure why but it will brighten my day.  My life although filled with work and school and a two year old that won't stop screaming "Josh" everytime she comes into my house meaning she wants to watch Drake and Josh even though she's seen every episode thirty times; is also now surrounded by television.  My mind literaly feels like it's going to implode.  Whereas I should keep space for stuff like lets say Biology, I only retain facts such as Lance Bass' score on Dancing with the Stars.  Here is what the full week line up looks like and how the new fall season is going so far.

Sunday:
I Love Money: Although this show is ending it was awesome!  They need to do like five reunions for this.  But the best part is that Real and Chance are getting their own show where they find their true loves.  But I don't think White Boy is included.  =(
The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, American Dad: They are all starting very soon and I needs my animation.  I can't get enough of it.
Desperate Housewives: I usually watch the show on and off but this year I am going to commit to it since the beautiful Gale Harold is on the show and there can't ever be enough of him.  I use to miss Sundays once Queer As Folk left the air but now I am looking forward to them again!
Rock of Love Charmed School: I'm not sure if it's on Sundays but I believe it is.  Sharon Osbourne, a ruler, and druken rock chicks who think Bret Michael is hot?  Sounds like a comedy to me!

Monday:  the worst day of all!
The Big Bang Theory:  Yes!  Awesome show and I see it real time.  There is nothing like Sheldon's unfamiliarity with social practices to make me laugh.
Dancing with the Stars: Lance Bass and Susan Lucci.  Epic.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles: A) The mutlitalented beautiful and rock star Shirley Manson joins the cast and she is the T 1000!  Unbelievable.  It really made me so happy to see it.  B) Brian Austin Green and Dean Winters equals total hottness. 
Heroes: Brains? Brains! We are back with Villians.  Sylar owns my wicked world and Hiro owns my laughing bone.  Milo, he's just freaking unbelievably hot.  I love this show.
One Tree Hill:  Always the best show and Dan Scott better not die!  Also Brooke with a gun?  Freaking badass.

Tuesday
The Biggest Loser: this show makes me cry.  Just cry.
Making Da Band: Donnie Gotti, I mean Donnie Klang is awesome!

Wednesday
Americas Next Top Model: Mr. Jay Manuel and his silver hair that looks like it's growing out of his actual hair?  Awesome.
Project Runway: Not as good as last season.  Too much crying and people treating Tim Gunn badly.  Not loving it.
South Park: Yay it comes back!  Woo Hoo!   Perhaps more ManBearPig?
Real World/Road Rules Challenge The Island: Johnny Bananas just calling dumb girls sluts.  Just amazing.  I love jerks who know it.

Thursday
Ugly Betty: Henry or Gio?  Who did she choose? I gotta watch it and find out.
The Cho Show: Margaret Cho and her hair dresser, stylist, make up artist, parents and her little person assistant Selene (who rules!).  A pretty damn good show.  Where is All American Girl on DVD?
Supernatural: The best show that I have ever watched.  Especially now that they are bringing in the religious aspect of it with Angels and God.  I love stuff like that.  I'm looking forward to meeting the awesome duo that is Jared and Jensen!  YES!

Friday:
The Ex List: it's not on yet but looks like a very promising show.  I noticed I am watching more CBS shows now.  Or at least one.  hehe.
Everybody hates Chris: High school?  Oh the horror.
The Game:  this show really rocks and I am so happy that the moved it to Fridays so I can actually watch it.  I am too excited to see what happens. Who know football can be so dang interesting.
Degrassi: I will not watch it, I will not watch it. Peter is getting rumors about him being gay?  I will not watch it...

Saturday:
Long Way Down: It's still on but it's going to be over soon.  =(  I am going to miss my weekly dose of Ewan and Charley.  They need to make more!

i'm sure there are others I am not aware of that I missed. What's a girl to do that is committed to some of her favorite (and not so favorite characters).  Just watch.

 

1.       999,999 [Intro] (you can barely hear it with all the screaming!)
2. 1,000,000 (One of my favorite songs kicking major butt!)
3. Letting You (Also amazing and I love the back up vocals on it. Very aggressive)
4. Discipline (The first night Trent was doing some very sexy hip swaying action. I swooned.)
5. March Of The Pigs (Powerful as always, Trent threw mic stands.  It was bound to happen.)
6. Head Down (I really love this song.  I love all the songs from The Slip come to think of it. )
7. The Frail (This is amazing as always live.  The best.)
8. Reptile (Got this two nights which was awesome.  I really loved seeing Trent and Robin crouch down playing like they were reptiles.  It was very theatrical of them.)
9. Closer [The Only Time Breakdown] (Always the sexiest song and the breakdown is the fucking hottest thing ever.)
10. Gave Up (For some reason it felt like the first time I've ever heard this song and I know it forwards and backwards. That's the power of a killer performance.)
11. The Warning (When the screen came down and they were standing in front of their respective red shadows I flipped out.  Especially since it was the first of many Year Zero songs that I have never seen live with my own eyes.)
12. Vessel (Amazing!)
13. Ghosts 5 (Only Trent can keep an audience so captivated by instrumentals)
14. Ghosts 17 (Xylophones never sounded so good!)
15. Ghosts 19 (beautiful imagery.)
16. Piggy [Ghosts] (Jazzy version of this song = pure love.  One of my favorite songs.
17. The Greater Good (Um 80 Feet Screen with Trent's grainy face all over it!?  Are they trying to give me a heart attack?  Also his voice sounds so freaking sexy in this song.)
18. Pinion [Interlude] (still the interlude that everyone flips over)
19. Wish (this song is so freaking great.  Who doesn't feel like screaming when they hear it?)
20. Terrible Lie (Seems like salvation comes only in my dreams...)
21. Survivalism (I was excited to see this live most of all.  The first night on the screen one of the guys in the bathroom was looking on top of the napkin dispenser to see if there were any secret treasures as someone else found. The second night we had the lady in the bathroom.  Haha.)
22. The Big Comedown (I've seen this song live before and love it. But I have been hearing it for the past year and a half daily on my ipod and then knew I must see this live.  I was so happy because like I said, I needed to see it.)
23. Ghosts 31 (I love the blue background0
24. Only (Trent coming at you from a gated cage.  The first night was awesome but the second night I couldn't see it because I had to potty.)
25. The Hand That Feeds (Love it, love it.)
26. Head Like A Hole (The first and best song.  It sucks you right in.)
27. Echoplex (I know it's reduntant to say it but this is actually in my top five favorite songs from NIN.  It makes me emotional. I love it so much.)
28. God Given (This was awesome live!  I always liked the song but seeing it live made me love it!)
29. The Good Soldier (Yes!)
30. Hurt (with the acoustic guitar that Robin played made it even more haunting and different.  It was the first time that both nights the crowd was respectful. I loved seeing that.)
31. In This Twilight (perfect way to end the show. The background was amazing and the second night was when I noticed things were exploding in it. the first night I can only see from the side and not from the front of it.  It was so beautiful and to have Trent be the last person you see walk off the stage must be a big high.) 
32 The Wretched!!!! (he played this the second night.  Something about how his arms flex during this song that gets to me.
33. Me, I'm Not (He sounds so sensual during the chorus.  Love it.)
34. The Great Destroyer (OHMIGOD, my favorite song on Year Zero and it was amazing. I thought I wasn't going to hear it live and when I did I got emotional.  I love everything about this song.  The screens pulsated fantastically to it.  *dies*)
35. Down In It (What a surprise!  Everyone went nuts during this performance and this guy rushed the stage at the end of it and Trent pushed him.  There were like five security guards that took that guy down.  It was hilarious. )

Great time had by all and this makes me strongly want to go to the other cities when he comes around here again.  Trent owns my soul and my money now.