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I haven't checked my friendslist since sometime Thursday, so I'm trying to slog through that.

Mindless Self Indulgence on Tuesday was very... interesting. MSI fans are weeeeiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrd. The Birthday Massacre was decent as far as opening bands go, but the first opener made me want to shoot them in the face. :(

Thursday we went adventuring to a skeezy bar in Nashville to go to what was supposed to be a Pink Spiders & Drive By show, but we found out after we (finally) got there that the Pink Spiders cancelled. :( But Drive By was very happy to see us because we were the only ones who knew who they were. :) The bar was ridiculously hard to find mostly due to the fact that it was, quite literally, a hole in the wall. We drove past it like 5 times without ever seeing it and walked around the block for like half an hour before we figured out where it was. Lol. While Drive By was playing, there was a maximum of 15 people in the building, counting the band, the bartender, and the sound guy. Yeah. Poor dudes. We gave them lots of money for merch, though. I bought a t-shirt even though I already have a hoodie and my sis bought herself a hoodie and one for a friend. I kept trying to apologize to them for the show sucking and the lead singer was all like, "No, it was great because you guys came!" Aww, that's sweet honey, but don't you have to, like, be able to put gas in your van or something? ♥

If you have the chance to go see Drive By & The Pink Spiders you should definitely do so. I'm half tempted to hit their show in Cincinnatti on the 30th except for how I really, really, shouldn't.

Then, yesterday, Jen & I headed down to the Ryman to see Eddie Izzard. (♥_♥)
We stopped in Russelville & there was a light on in my car's dash so I decided to check the oil. Which was... practically empty. I made my big sis come out and look at it to make sure I wasn't crazy then she went and got me some oil and she filled it up. I figured I could check when we got to Nashville & before we left to see if it was leaking because I didn't see how it could be, but I also didn't see how it could have so little oil in it otherwise.

When we got to Nashville and were parking, smoke started pouring out of my engine. ...apparently my sister didn't put the oil cap back on & I didn't think to make sure she had. I think it fell out of the engine somewhere on I-24. :(
My mom found a 24-hour car part place and I called them to make sure they had one and I could come get it after the show (because I was not, by fucking god, going to miss that show - the tickets were ridiculous). Went to Eddie (Eddieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! So much more awesome live! Nashville! It is a city... of Nash! Known for its... Nash!) then took a cab to get a new oil cap and then back to the car (Ouch! Cabs are expensive!). Put a couple quarts of oil in (since it all, ya know, sploded out of the engine due to lack of oil cap) and put on the new cap so we could go home.

Originally, we were going to swing by Tony&Tonya's before going home (sorry, dears!) but it seemed terribly inadvisable when I still don't know for sure if my car is leaking oil or what the fuck is actually wrong with it. :(

A mechanic friend of my mom's looked at the car briefly today and said that it has definitely had some kind of major engine work done on it (because there's a fucking bolt missing off the manifold or something) that they neglected to mention when I got the car two weeks ago. So, in summary, the dealership either sold me a car that is terribly leaking oil, or handed it over very very low on oil. Either way, stupid fucking move, dealer. Just because it's a used car does not make that okay. It is supposed to be inspected and shit and neither of those things should have been possible, not to mention the whole missing a fucking bolt thing that ought to have come up somewhere. >:(

Anyhow, I'm going up to the dealership on Monday so they can look at it and I can yell at them until they stop trying to sell me some kind of bullshit story of how it can't be their fault and 1) admit the truth and fix whatever bloody problems it has or 2) give me a fucking refund for the car. Not cool, Gary Force of Bowling Green, not cool at all. You'd better make me happy on Monday, because I don't want this to have to get ugly.

Balancing Eddie Izzard and car troubles, though, I think yesterday still comes out on the positive side. Eddie fucking Izzard, yo. I can't wait for Stripped to come out on DVD. I laughed for pretty much the entire two hours. And Eddie Izzard is just so precious with his bouncing and twitching and flailing and spasticness, I just... ♥_♥

Now I have to go shower and get ready to go to Jazz on the Lawn in Clarksville with my family.
♥

P.S. Why don't I know anyone in Chicago that I can stay with to go see Warped? ;_;

P.P.S. Today is Jen's half-birthday. Happy 22.5, dear!

I can has MCR tickets? I can has MCR tickets!

For Wednesday, April 30th in Birmingham, AL. Yeah, IDK. It was the only way I could take my lil sis. And mom is so not happy about it, but Zoe turns 18 two days before, so... yeah. But, umm, yay for only a 4.5 hour drive instead of 5?

ILU MCR, but damn you for putting me through these shenanigans. Seriously. Still regretting that I was too dumb/liking of money to go see them last April when they actually came to Nashville. Of course, at that point I didn't realize that everyone in bandom only stops in Nashville about every 3 or 4 years... if that.

( Updated concerts list )

I still can't figure out how I'm going to manage Warped because I have several options within a 300 mile radius... and they all suck about equally. Also, if I go after 7/20 I won't be able to see Jack's Mannequin OR The Pink Spiders which will be a bit sad.

I'm halfway seriously considering a trip to FL in the middle of July to hit Warped (7/11) & Tom Petty (7/16) there... but I doubt I can swing it.

I keep telling myself that I do not want to drive 5 hours to Noblesville, IN (the closest the Projekt Revolution tour is coming to me) to see MCR. And then they go and do things like this and fuck with my resolve. Damn you, Gerard and Frank, damn you.

I further resolve to not spend that same day driving to Memphis (almost exactly the same distance in very nearly the opposite direction - odd, that) to see Gym Class Heroes.

I may in fact talk myself into going to Memphis on October 5th to see The Academy Is...
(What? William Beckett is pretty! And I feel the full importance of this fact was lost on me at the Honda Civic tour due to distraction by FOB. Though I do have a picture of him on my phone as proof that he was deeply fascinating even when I did not really know his music yet.)

I have ridiculous amounts of lust in my heart for the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans in October, but I really don't see any way I'm gonna be able to pull that one off.
Price of tickets + finding a place to stay + 10 hour drive = death of my dreams, but fuck do I ever want to go.

What the fuck does bandom have against Nashville*, I ask? Seriously! Music City, people! Visit it! (Not that I particularly enjoy driving to Nashville as it's still about an hour and a half, and ya know Nashville complete with traffic, but at least that's not prohibitively far!)

*I would settle for Louisville, also, though I despise Louisville traffic even more than Nasvhille.

I just finished watching Crossing Jordan. Yes, at work again. What? It's not like I have anything better to do at the moment! And the new card printers are creepy and make weird noises.

But anyway, ( back to CJ (spoilers!) )

In other news, I have billions of things to do this afternoon. No, really, billions. Would I lie?

I hate you, Livejournal. Would you just fucking knock it off already before I have to KILL YOU. Kthnxbai.

ETA: Thank you.

My computer is still being a piece of shit and it's getting worse. *sigh* I'm going to end up having to wipe the whole drive, I just know it. I only hope that will manage to fix it. Whatever, I'll know more once I consult my local computer technician on Tuesday (by which I mean my brother). Entirely aside from the hassle it will be trying to put all my 50 gigs of files back, do you have any idea how long it's taken me to get everything on my computer just the way I like it? Plus, I don't know where the CDs are to reload Windows, and I have no idea how to re-get some of the programs I have right now. Bugger. I'm never going to get to RP, am I?

In happier news, I watched the first two episodes of Firefly today, for no reason in particular. I've had them lying around for quite a while, but never quite got around to giving the show a chance. I had no doubt that I would like it, because, duh, Joss. I think the reason I didn't watch it when it first came out is that I knew it wasn't going to make it and I didn't want to be mentally destroyed when it was inevitably cancelled. I think coming into it knowing it's a closed fandom will make the end easier to handle. But it is excellent and I'm planning to watch more tomorrow. Mal's my favorite character at this point, but then again, he's meant to be, isn't he?

SunuvaBITCH!!!!!! Damn Crossing Jordan! And they were doing so well!
( spoilers )

I just got ridiculously excited because I realize that I get to sleep in until nine or nine-thirty tomorrow after having to be at work at eight AM every morning this week. It's the little things that make life worth living. ^.^

I'm so glad that classes and finals are done for the semester and am quite looking forward to the long break. I feel quite certain that I will need lots of rest in advance to survive next semester.

Now if only my $%@#$@#$ professors would put up my $%@#$@#$@$% grades! *grr*

I have most of my stuff ready to go home tomorrow. Except for my computer, of course, which I will undoubtedly turn off at the last possible minute. :)

It needs to be x-mas now, plzthxbye.

I did not end up turning in my term paper in English today. Ask me why. Go on, ask me! ...fine then, don't ask me! I'll tell you anyway!

Crazy person that I am, I took the fact that she has told us that she HATES title pages and thinks they are a waste of space to mean that I didn't need to have a title page for my term paper. This was, apparently, quite wrong. She refused to take it without a title page. She told me to bring it back Wednesday with a title page and she won't take off any points. But I'm still pissed because now I will end up rereading the drivel and attempting to make it better instead of being fucking RID of it!

Apparently everyone in the class was supposed to know that they would be required to have a title page and outline in order for her to accept the paper without her EVER at ANY point in the ENTIRE semester telling us this. Of the twenty-something people in the class, I think about 6 or 8 term papers actually got turned into today and the rest all had to have something fixed before she would accept them. Even the people that did it right did so purely by accident. They didn't know either, they're just overachievers. *smites professor taylor* I love her to death, really. She's just on CRACK!!!!

@$%^$#^@#$%@%@#%@#$^$@#%^@%!#%!@ FOX NEWS EMERGENCY WEATHER REPORTS, STOP INTERRUPTING HOUSE!!!!!!!111

I'm okay now.

1. WTF is up with the random Cameron/Wilson vibes? That was really, really weird. I couldn't decide whether I should be rooting for them or yelling them so stop fucking talking to each other...

2. In direct opposition of the random Cameron/Wilson-ness, when Wilson was discussing cheating on his wives, he was very damn carefully gender-neutral about who he cheated with. Because he was talking about House, damnit!!! K, I'm fine now.