oh, one thing i forgot to mention was that during before the dido concert, the music was mostly morcheeba sprinkled with a few beastie boys instrumentals. dido has good taste in background music! *cheer*
so has anybody seen _shrek 2_? is it worth watching? the only movie that i'm looking forward to is the _harry potter_ one. why? hermione, of course! she's a-growin' up to become a real woman! bwekekeke.
no, really. _the prisoner of azkaban_ was my favorite one of the three books that i read. (i haven't read the latest two.)
on sunday afternoon, i talked to my mom. she came up with a serious plan for me to meet a girl... going to church. yep. it was a rather uncomfortable part of the conversation, especially when she asked if i felt the presence of the lord back during that year that i went to church with her in high school. i think i gave a grunt and changed the subject.
but yeah, if i dated a religious girl, she'd have to be a closet perv. :)
no prudes allowed!
...my tics are killing me. every week, i think it can't get worse, then WHAM-O! it does. those of you who actually saw me this weekend could probably tell that i was not the usual, gregarious self that i used to be. instead, i smoke more, i don't say as much, i have all these weird poses where my arm is behind my back or on my head, etc. and most of all, i tic more.
life really sucks these days.
sunday, i slept until noon, and the truth is, i could have stayed in bed much, much longer, had peter not come over. i could have spent the entire day lying down and not cared.
ho hum.
i'm not a big lyrics person. and besides that, i'm really dense when it comes to interpresting them. so one thing that i really like is when the artists introduce songs and tell us what they're about.
for example, "take my hand," according to dido was written during her teen years after her first experience with sex. cool.
and "don't leave home," (which i previously wrote a [lost] entry about) is NOT about love. rather, it's about addiction, which was a relief, because my old blog entry was about how WRONG the lyrics were had they been about a real love relationship.
and my favorite was "hunter." it's about being single again.
i want to be a hunter again
want to see the world alone again
to take a chance on life again
so let me go.
awesome. and i especially like the fact that she equates a single person to being a "hunter." go, hunt, go!
let's see... saturday, we had a mini gavilan reunion at jack's house in east bay... we finally got to see his baby anthony, who was cute and all. dave and carolyn were in town from LA for kathy's graduation, so it was good to see them. my only gripe was that i had to leave earlier than i wanted to because of the concert.
ah, yes. the dido concert. it was pretty good, despite the echo-y acoustics of the place. here's a partial playlist:
1. stoned
2. here with me
4. life for rent
5. hunter
6. isobel
9. don't leave home
12. take my hand
13. mary's in india
14. thank you
15. sand in my shoes
16. white flag
encore:
3. see the sun
the thing was, though, that the concert wasn't that interesting to watch. dido didn't really *do* much except prance around slightly and gesticulate a bit. so i don't know if i'd see her again, except at a smaller, hopefully acoustic venue.
there were, however, cool percussionists playing; there were two people that were completely surrounded by percussion instruments like cymbals and bongos and things that i can't name.
that night, though, i got into bed around 1, and i couldn't fall asleep until 4am. i attribute this to not having sportscenter to watch. *RAAR*
and sunday, i didn't do much except rest. woke up, took a nap, and then peter came over. we went to grab some taco bell (my cheesy gordita crunch was thick and nasty), and headed over to valley fair mall for a bit. and after that, i came back, took another nap, and watched the wolves trash the lakers and the _alias_ finale.
speaking of _alias_... WHAT A CLIFFHANGER! so now i'm all terribly intrigued by the ending. and i'll have to wait until next season to find out what happened! *RAAR*