The End

So...life is sucking at a rapidly increasing rate as of late.  Let me take this moment to recognize the deaths of two things near and dear to my heart.

Honestly, a life without CosmoGirl! and Mother's Cookies (particularly the Circus Animal cookies) is no life at all.  Now I'm stuck reading Seventeen and eating Animal Crackers, both of which are good but come in second on my list.  I am also stuck shopping at Amoeba and Virgin, which are both good stores (Amoeba is way better than Virgin could ever dream of being) because of the death of Tower.  I still miss Tower =[  And Skateland!  The indoor roller skating rink that used to be by my house!  I haven't even found a substitute for that yet, and it's been gone for two years.  Gosh.  Everything I love disappears.  Let's have a moment of silence for all of these things, gone but not forgotten.

If you hadn't already noticed, I get very sentimental easily.  So sue me.

That's The Way (Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh) I Like It (Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh)!

Life has been goooood!  I'm finally getting better after being sick for like a month, so that's exciting.  I also went to see the Van Halen tribute show, and this is what came of it:

So that's fun.  Michael Anthony was suuuuper cool and really nice!

Oh.  And I'm pissed.  Mother's Cookies went bankrupt.  No more Circus Animal cookies for Amy =[  Poop.  Actually we stocked up on cookies, we bought like $60 worth hahahaha.  We've gotta make them last a loooong time =/

Ahh and today I went to Amoeba!  Yay!  I love that place.  They always have super cool stuff.  I got Shock Treatment, the "sequel" to Rocky Horror.  I've never seen it but it looks good.  I also got Lake Placid, because Betty White is freaking Awesome.  I got a press kit for Walk Hard for $1 from the clearance bin.  It's actually pretty cool!  It has a bunch of pictures, the trailer, info about the movie, and four songs including two that weren't on the soundtrack.  All downloadable onto my computer!  So exciting.  Then I found an LP for $2 by a band called Gentlemen After Dark.  It was filed under Alice Cooper because apparently he was one of the producers.  I have to check it out, it might be good it might not haha.  And finally, I found a copy of Alice Cooper's album Killer on vinyl.  $18 for a used record is a bit steep, but it's so cool!  It's got the detachable 1972 calendar still attached!  Super awesome.  And I guess it's one of the original pressings because there was a note with it about it being on the Blvd. label?  I'm not really good with details about old albums and their rarity.  But it seems exciting, haha.

All-in-all, life has been pretty good.  Except for the cookie debacle =/  SCREW YOU, ECONOMY!

The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary

Long time, no see, non-existent readers!  I can't say that I've been terribly busy, but life has been giving me plenty of things to do.  I played two tribute to Black Sabbath shows, and Steve-O from Jackass came to one!  It was so awesome!  I also went to my best friend, Maggie's, 17th birthday party.  It was amazing!  She had a whole backdrop set up and a professional photographer and we all just brought tons of changes of clothes and had a huge photoshoot.  I can't wait to see the pictures!  What else?  Hmm...I've recorded a few makeup tutorial videos to upload to YouTube but I have yet to edit or upload them.  I've got some more MAC makeup, it's pretty exciting =]

This weekend I'm going to see a tribute to Van Halen show, which Michael Anthony (Van Halen's former bassist) will be attending.  Speaking of bass, I'm learning to play that too now.  I can almost play Ballroom Blitz, yay!  And I've now started rehearsals for my next couple of shows, which will be a tribute to David Bowie and will be in late January.  I got TiVo in my room!  Now I can feed my 90201 habit at any hour of the day.  Yes, sad but true, I'm addicted to that darn show.

This blog is very scattered.  Then again, so am I.  Right now I'm just laying on my bed listening to Frank Zappa and trying to decide what to do with myself.  I'm slightly tired but I don't quite feel like sleeping.  I could watch something off of TiVo but I don't quite feel like that too.  I'm just a bit restless and generally unsettled.  That is due to the fact that I'm sick.  I've been sick on and off for couple of weeks now, and it's not much fun.  It started as some type of stomach unsettlement, went away for a few days, came back as a feverish type of cold, went away for a few more days, and now is back as a cold with a nasty dry, sore, hoarse throat full of mucus.  So that's fun.  And this mucus-y feeling seems to be what is preventing me from sleeping.  Why am I rambling on about this?  I have no idea.  I think I'll go watch TV.

Elected

Wow, long time no talk!  Life is going pretty well, I've been to see a couple of TV show tapings.  Last week I went to see a taping of Don't Forget the Lyrics with Meat Loaf and his daughter Pearl.  That was really awesome, I got to sing Two Out of Three Ain't Bad with Meat Loaf (well, the whole audience did, lol).  He seemed really cool though.  Then today I went to see The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (my favorite late-night show) with special guest Alice Cooper!  Yay!  It was so awesome.  It was kinda like a little private concert because Alice did 2 songs and I got to sit in the front row!  I also got a cool guitar pick with Alice's face on it.  That's on tonight in like 45 minutes...I'm totally TiVoing it haha.

In other news, I'm getting ready to play a couple of shows this weekend.  AND I got my very first MAC product!  I got this awesome eyeshadow, the color is called Club and it's soooo pretty...it's totally hard to explain what color it is too haha.  It's amazing.  I wore it today and ahh I love it!  I really want to start doing makeup tutorial videos on YouTube.  If I do I'm going to use my second account, because I don't think makeup videos would mix well with my other stuff.

Other than that...hmm...oh!  I'm getting my own TiVo unit in my room in a couple of weeks!  FINALLY!  Haha, now I can record anything I want and my parents can't complain when it's taking up space on their unit.  Score!  This also means that we're finally getting HD in the living room, so I can put that big pretty TV to good use =]  But...yeah, I think that's about it for now.  I started school again so I've got some homework but that can wait, right now I'm going to feed my Grand Theft Auto IV addiction haha.  Bye!

Calcutta!

Is it odd that I'm 17 years old and I never miss an episode of The Lawrence Welk Show?  That I obsessively look through used records at thrift stores for Herb Alpert albums?  How about the fact that I absolutely love The Golden Girls.  I really think that I'm an 80-year-old trapped in a 17-year-old's body (which gives me probably as many problems as some 80-year-olds, as far as bad knees and shoulders go).  This is quite an interesting phenomenon.  People look at me funny when I mention that I love polka.  Is loving cheerful music with an overabundance of accordions so wrong!?  I thought not.  I even has a t-shirt showing a jolly man playing the accordion alongside the phrase "I'll polka your eyes out!"  I realize I have issues.

My Lawrence Welk habit has basically taken over the TiVo unit.  I have around 15 hours worth of Welk shows saved on there, and slowly but surely I'm transferring them to VHS so I can treasure them forever.  I'm guessing I'm one of the remote few who wishes they would release everything on a giant DVD box set, but seeing as the show was on for...what, like 30 years?...I really doubt that'll ever happen.  I may have to head down to the senior center and enlist my fellow Lawrence lovers to form an angry mob and insist that they release all of the episodes!  With bonus features!  And behind-the-scenes footage!  Ahhhh!

Could you see that?  An angry mob of elderly folks, rushing forward with flaming canes held as torches, throwing their walkers at the doors of a building.  Those in their motorized scooters are circling, leading the chants of the angry crowd.  (I tried so hard here to come up with a worthwhile chant, but my brain seems incapable of thinking of anything that rhymes with Lawrence, Welk, or Geritol.)  Slowly, some of the crowd members become confused as to why they are actually there, and convince themselves that a company is withholding free prune juice.

And I'm ending there, because A. it's almost 5:30 AM and B. this post has gone to Hell.  Good night.

It's Raining Men

There is something seriously wrong with me.

Last night marks the second time in like...two months...that I have grabbed the glass of water next to my bed, and attempted to pour it on myself, while I'm sleeping.  Why?  I have no freaking clue.  But it is not pleasant.  This time I missed myself for the most part, but my pillow and bed got all wet and I had to get up at like 4:30 AM to get a towel to blot the water up with.  Luckily it was just water but still...ahhhh.  I'm weird.

In other news, while cleaning I found three t-shirts, a dress, and some makeup that I forgot I had and had never even used.  So that was fun!  I also came across an old picture of my friend who I haven't seen in like five years.  Then about two hours after I found that picture, she showed up on my doorstep.  So that was random but cool.  I might get together with her next week to catch up.  But...yep, now off to watch some Golden Girls!

Crazy

So it's been a while since I've written on this thing.  No one really cares though, since no one reads it.  I guess it's just more for my own sad amusement.  But...yeah.  I'm going to try to make this short and sweet!  I got my 88 color eyeshadow palette from Coastal Scents in the mail, SCORE!  This thing is amazing!  I did some swatches on the back of my hand and did one really quick look with just three colors today, but I love it.  It's amazing.  It makes me want to take off my makeup every five minutes and try more of the fun colors.  I actually might do some weird little makeup tutorials on YouTube, we'll see.  But anyways, I also went to camp for the first time ever, and it was AMAZING!  I went to the New York Film Academy one-week camp at Universal Studios.  I had the three best apartment-mates ever (yes, we got to stay in these awesome apartments, if you're ever in Burbank for a while stay at the Oakwood temporary apartments), and the entire experience was just...amazing!  I got to film a short movie of my own [not-so-hot] writing on the Universal Studios backlot!  It was awesome.  I really want to go back next year for the four-week camp but it costs like seven grand so I don't know if I can.  But anywho, after camp I'm used to going to sleep a bit earlier than I used to, so I'm going to go watch some Golden Girls and hit the hay!