Busy, busy, busy...

[revid]

Oh LJ, I have missed thee.

But as the title says, I've been busting my hump... I took my lovely vacay to Indonesia in March and I've been paying for it ever since. (YES! I promise I'll get some pics up soon!)

In between the hard work of catching up, I've had a little fun! I went to TWO concerts in one week! Haven't done that since I hit Green Day's two tour openers last summer with and_ed (and loser_and_user and the girls!) I saw Train in Oakland last week...it was the last stop on the tour, and the hometown show, at the Fox Theatre, which is a beautiful restored 1930's art deco place. Walked up to the box office 30 min before doors and got a great seat (no TicketBastard service charge!), then got two free drinks because I had a Visa Signature card. Fun, fun show...Pat Monahan is one of the few singers who sounds just as good live as he does in the studio. And they were filming the video for the new single, and during the encore, the director came on stage on a motorcycle...Pete Wentz! (That gagging sound you hear is linzeestyle. Sorry bb!) Great show, thoroughly enjoyed it!

Then, last Wednesday I went to the Oracle Arena in Oakland and saw MUSE! They were fan-fucking-tastic. Just 3 years ago they were playing to 2000 people at the Fillmore, and now they sold 15,000 seats. So happy to see it, they deserve it. The production was amazing; so much so that I would almost wish they had toned it back a bit. And as an added fan girl bonus, I even got to meet Chris, the bass player, briefly! (Not gonna lie, I was wishing nene was there, so she could have told me something intelligent to say!)

This past weekend I jetted off to Chicago for my niece's first communion, mostly as an excuse to see my bro and his family. They live in a lovely McMansion in Lake Forest, and the company (and booze!) were top shelf. :-)

And then, back to work....argh.

I see my beautiful boys were at the official opening night of their Broadway musical "American Idiot." The reviews are mixed, but even the "bad" ones really aren't all that bad. :-) It won't be everyone's cuppa, but I'm betting it will do well. If it gets extended, I hope I can make it out to NY to see it. I'm really pissed that they have an LA concert coming up (with AFI !!!!!!! opening) but no bay area show yet. Get on that boys!!!!!

Random aside: I fucking love living in San Francisco. feels_like_fire and I spent a Sunday at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park looking at the fishies and funny mammals and then walked in the pouring rain to get sushi. We didn't know of any restaurant, but we knew if we walked down 19th Ave., we would find at least one within 2 blocks, and we did! I have it on good authority that at least two people on my flist are considering moving here, so I say: Get your asses in gear, ladies!

I'm gonna try and catch up on some posts that I missed, so I hope you all have email notifs enabled!

And mikeyface! I have something for you. I'm posting this publicly so I will get my butt down to the post office this week or be forever shamed! XOXOXO

And because I can't possible have a post without mentioning my fabulous gay bf, here's Adam doing "Soaked," a song written by Matt Bellamy of Muse and given to Adam for his album!

Adam's single "Whataya Want From Me?" is number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs this week. This is cool for Adam but:

This makes him the first openly gay artist to have a Top 10 song from a debut album, ever!