Went to see the Matt Good concert last night and it was absolutely incredible! pumpkin_dude and I got there nice and early so we managed to get great seats in the second row *happy flail*!

The awesomeness started even before Matt's set did. The opening act was a folk duo from Toronto called Dala. I hadn't heard of them before but they were freaking amazing! I was hooked about 10 seconds into the first song they played. Their voices are gorgeous and their harmonies gave me goosebumps. You guys should check them out, here's a streaming link to their first video:

"Anywhere Under the Moon" by Dala (if you guys like it and want me to upload some of their songs, let me know and I will)

They were in the lobby signing autographs during the intermission and were super-cute and sweet. They complimented me on my "Allow Me to Explain Through Interpretive Dance" T-shirt, which made me happy. So yeah, they were pretty awesome.

After intermission, it was finally time for Matt's set to start. The concert was acoustic, which was cool (despite the fact that MG's muti-layered instrumentals are one of the things I like best about his music), so we got to hear a lot of familiar songs with a different sound. He played a bunch of my favorite songs, like "Champions of Nothing", "Strange Days", "Apparitions", "Born Losers", "Avalanche", and a ton of other stuff. He played for nearly 2 hours, which rocked. And when he came out for the encore he did another 4 songs, which kicked ass.

It was such an incredible and moving experience for me. Being so close to the stage just listening to his amazing voice singing all of these songs that have meant so much to me for so long made me actually made me tear up a couple of times. *hearts Matt liek whoa*

He was super entertaining in between songs too. He's surprisingly hilarious and had the whole crowd laughing out loud. He had a cold (but still sounded great) so he decided that he needed to drink wine on stage, which was pretty funny (and led to him telling us how you can apparently open wine bottles with a scimitar -- LOL!), he kept bugging one of the roadies for loading him up on a bunch of weird homeopathic remedies and for buying him cheap wine that made his teeth hurt.

Near the end of the set, Matt brought out his camera and took a picture of the crowd, (which he does at every concert), he put it on his Flickr page today, and pumpkin_dude and I are in the photo! Check it out (we're in the second row on the far left)! LOL!

So all in all, it was a great concert. And I have to say, as much as I love and adore American TV shows and movies, sometimes it's really nice to take in a night of actual Canadian culture. *waves flag*

*delurks momentarily*


Here are 3 of the 6 videos I just can't get enough of lately:


"Omaha" by halcyon_shift - Heroes, Bennet character study.

"Steady As She Goes" by obsessive24 - Ugly Betty, Mark character study.

"Ramalama (Bang Bang)" by kiki_miserychic - Dexter, Dexter character study.


The other 3 vids I'm going crazy over are submissions to VI Awards so they will be recced later once the round is over ;-)
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Also? OMFG the new Matthew Good single is AMAZING!

"Born Losers" - Matthew Good

Waiting a month for the album to come out is going to be torturous!

I'm in a shockingly good mood today considering that it's Monday. Work was stupidly dead so they let me leave at noon instead of 4:30, which was awesome. So I've watched last night's "Grey's Anatomy" (Denny! Eeeee! *squishes him*), gotten all caught up on my flist, and now have the rest of the evening at my disposal. I'm just trying to decide whether I should vid, make icons, update my webpage (because jeebus, it's been like a YEAR since I've updated that fucker!), or overhaul my LJ (which is going to take FOREVER because I'm completely incompetent when it comes to layout coding and need to look up tutorials on just about everything). Meh, I'll probably wind up not doing any of these things 'cause I'm lame/lazy like that (and "Prison Break"'s on in less than an hour, yo!).


One of the reasons why I'm SO insanely happy today is that I actually won an award for my "Vitamin R" vid!

It was TOTALLY unexpected, as all of the other vids entered were ridiculously good (and wistful_fever, you won! Yay! *twirls you*), so I was very pleasantly surprised to say the least!

*dances*


Since I feel the need to infect others with my good mood, here are a few happy songs to hopefully lift your spirits in case your Monday hasn't been going all that well:


"Tango Shoes" by Bif Naked -- My number one mood lifter song. I can't listen to it without wanting to dance around my apartment like a big freak.

"Crooked Teeth" by Death Cab for Cutie -- I LOOOOVE this song! Anyone have any other Death Cab songs they could rec and/or upload for me (besides "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" as I already have that one)? Pretty please? *bats eyelashes*

"Oh, Be Joyful" by Matthew Good -- To coincide with my uncharacteristically happy mood today I bring you an uncharacteristically happy song by Matthew Good!

"The House Rules" by Kane -- I know I uploaded this song about a month ago, but I'm still loving it. Snag it if you haven't heard it yet. Yeah, it's country, but no matter what your musical style is, you'll probably love it (because trust me, country is SO not my thing but despite that, I still cannot get enough of this song!).


So, what are your happy songs?

Well, work continues to suck all the joy out of my life. They've blocked Livejournal again. Asshats. I haven't checked my flist since Monday so I'm going to spend the entire evening catching up. And I mean the ENTIRE evening. Let's see...it's 6:00 now. I'm predicting I'll be done reading my flist (filtered, with hardly any comms) in about 5 hours or so.

BTW, I'm blaming you guys for the fact that I actually LIKE a country song. That's right, I'm looking at you. I don't even remember who linked to it (because at least 6 or 7 of you uploaded it), but I downloaded "The House Rules" by Kane a couple weeks back (mostly because everyone kept saying that this song should be the unofficial SPN theme song--which, YEAH!) and I'm really liking it. A lot.

This is very weird for me, so I'm taking it as a sign of the apocalypse. I don't like country. At all. I don't have anything against it per se, it's just not my type of music. Actually, thinking back, I don't think I've heard a country song in my life that I've enjoyed, let alone one that I'd go out of my way to listen to more than once. Until now, that is. It's all due to my insane fangirling over Jared and Jensen, I swear. That would also explain why I suddenly think southern accents are incredibly sexy, when they never did much for me before ;-)

*listens to song again*

Speaking of songs, I know I totally dropped the ball on the promised OLP rec post! My FTP server wasn't working properly (probably because I didn't pay my hosting bill--which was due on the 4th or something--until yesterday...whoops). But I got it working again now, so expect the OLP goodies in the next couple of days.

Man, I just realized I haven't even commented on TV shows yet this week! I'm a bad fangirl. Speaking of which, my paid LJ account is like 2 days away from expiring! Yikes! I am not losing all my shiny new icon spaces! *pays*

Work is still dead. I think I've reached the end of the internets.

(ETA: Of course, what would my life be without irony? Literally 5 seconds after I post about how bored I am suddenly work gets busy again. For the first time in like three frigging days. Seriously, WTF? I take it back! I'm not bored! Just make the calls stop!)

I ripped all of my Our Lady Peace albums onto my harddrive yesterday as I needed more stuff to load onto my MP3 player. I love OLP. They're definitely one of my favorite bands (second only to Matt Good). I'm thinking of uploading a bunch of their songs to my webspace and doing a music rec post later. Would any of you be interested?

There are a LOT of songs that are VERY Supernatural-esque. Seriously, I have Dean and Sam running through my head while listening to at least half of their songs on my playlist. I might have to do something crazy like make an interconnected series of SPN vids to several different OLP songs. It'd be like a multi-chapter fic but in vid format. Yeah, I'm totally insane. And I should really, you know, finish the OTHER 5 or 6 SPN vids currently residing on my harddrive. Meh, it can be a project for the summer hiatus, methinks.

But yeah, would any of you want any Our Lady Peace songs if I were to upload them? And if you have any specific song requests let me know, I have every single OLP album :-)

Yoinked from charlietudor:




Aaaaand a song lyrics meme gacked from jennifus:

Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Pick random lyrics from the first 10 songs, no matter how embarassing the song.
Step 4: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: DON'T GOOGLE THEM!

( Clicky! )

I managed to get my parents hooked on "Supernatural". Go me!

I thought of something at work today that I wanted to post about but as soon as I hit the "update journal" button it left my brain. *shrug* So everyone pretend I just posted something particularly insightful and witty, k?


The dog just had a complete spaz attack, ran circles around the apartment for a few minutes, then did a crazy assed flip and rebounded off the back of the couch a-la Donald O'Conner from "Singing in the Rain".

OK then...

I have the weirdest dog ever.


I downloaded some Abandoned Pools over the weekend and they freaking rock. I had the "Clone High" theme on my computer already but hadn't bothered to download anything else until now. I highly recommend them.

Speaking of "Clone High", I've never seen a more impossible to find DVD just a week or two after its release! I love this show. It's so unbelivably hilarious and I simply must own it!

I went to HMV the other day and the guy said they'd be getting some in a few days, I go back a week later they STILL don't have any so they have to special order it!

It's a new fucking release! They should have copies! Or at least SOMEONE should! Is that too much to ask? I suppose I could put some money on my credit card and get it from Amazon, but it's the principle of the thing. pumpkin_dude and I wanted to have a "Clone High" marathon last weekend, but wound up Ghandi-less.

*sigh*


We did finally get around to watching "Team America: World Police" which was as hilarious as I expected it to be. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are comic geniuses. Though I don't think I'll ever get "America, FUCK YEAH!" out of my head now.


I keep getting weird named customers at work. Last week I talked to a "Joy Happy" (who was definitely nowhere near as cheerful as her name would suggest), and today I talked to "Scott Evol"... o_0


I need to get to work on some vids. I have a psychotically angsty Sam vid and a mildly angsty Dean vid waiting to be made (though I think I may wait until after a few more eps air for those, as the upcoming episodes sound like they should be chock full of delicious emotional turmoil). I'm having the strange compulsion to do a really gratuitus humor vid to "United States of Whatever", mainly because Dean has the best facial expressions of anyone on TV ever and I want an excuse to showcase them in a vid.

Also, do you think I'd go to hell for making an Evil-Shapeshifter!Dean/Sam vid to "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails? Yeah, I thought so. Meh, I might not bother with that one though, there have been at least four or five "Skin" vids so far and I hate to be derivitive.


"Prison Break" is on tonight. Yay! Though my excitement for the episode is almost completely eclipsed by the fact that the asshats at Fox are putting the whole fucking season on hold after the next 3 episodes!!! Honestly, what the fuck?

Do they have their heads so far up their asses that they can't see that "Prison Break" is a huge hit that's developing a really big following? I find it a little hard to believe that they can't find one fucking hour in their programming schedule to fit in the best show they currently have on their lineup.

Because American Idol really needs to be on three times a week. *fumes*

I mean, if they're going to shift around one of their new shows, why not move "Bones"? I mean I AM enjoying "Bones" but it doesn't have that sense of urgency that "Prison Break" has. I suppose the Fox execs think that "Prison Break" has a better chance of getting it's audience back after a break as opposed to "Bones", but still. I'm not at all pleased with this.


Wow this entry is all over the place. I'm sure nobody's even reading anymore. Blah.


I'll end this off with a couple of mustic recs of songs I've been listening to incessantly.


"We Are All On Drugs" -- Weezer

"Remedy" -- Abandoned Pools

"The Mixed Tape" -- Jack's Mannequin

"Do You Want To?" -- Franz Ferdinand

"I Slept With Someone in Fallout Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me" -- Fallout Boy

Song meme gacked from sarracenia

List five songs that you are currently 'digging.' It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good. But they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your five songs. Then tag five others to see what they're listening to.

In no particular order...

1. "Be Yourself" -- Audioslave

2. "Mr. Brightside" -- The Killers

3. "Middle of Nowhere" -- Hot Hot Heat

4. "Polaris" -- Jimmy Eat World

5. "Feel Good Inc." -- Gorillaz

tag: javagreen, vamp_rahvin, tweyelite, bana76, saklani2

I'm finally making some good progress on my Angsty!Jack vid.

I fucking hate vidding songs with really lengthy intros! It just means the entire beginning of the vid will be pointless filler!

Ugh, the apartment needs cleaning liek whoa.

I think I'm going to make cheesy garlicky tomatoey rotini for dinner tonight. Mmmm...tasty. Multi-adjective food is always better :-)

Big Brother was fairly predictable last night. I was SO glad to see Michael go (I just wish both him AND Janelle could have been voted off simultaneously!). He's such a fucking loser! I can't believe Janelle was falling for all those cheesy porntastic lines he was spewing! Actually, I can believe it. As she's a whore.

I was very glad that Kayser got HoH. He's probably one of the least irritating people in the house, therefore, I'm rooting for him to win.

The people I want to win never do though (well, with the exception of BB4, I wanted Jun to win from the first episode and she did). I was HARD CORE rooting for Nakomis last season though and she got voted off (by her own BROTHER nonetheless).

Blah.

Why the hell have I never bothered to download any Hot Hot Heat before today? They fucking rock!

Here it is, the long awaited music rec post!

( Complete with MP3s ripe for the downloading! )

Please comment if you take any. I'm curious to see who's downloading what just cause I'm nosy like that :-)