bohemia: (HP - SBP - Remus has a brain)
- Challengenation.com -- Originally [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky found this, and I got all excited about it but we need more people, I think, to be really sufficient. And now she might not even come? SO GUYS, C'MON, I REALLY WANT TO DO THIS. IF YOU'RE IN THE NYC AREA, LET'S DO IT.

- Goggles4u.com -- I was ranting at work about how having no insurance has led to sucky vision. I used to get my eyes checked every year, but since I haven't had insurance it's been three years since my prescription was updated. I was about to go to Cohen's Optical and get an eye exam and then use 1800contacts.com and zennioptical.com, but I saw one negative comment about the occurrence of prism in zennioptical glasses and my right eye is already fucked up from being hit head-on in third grade. I don't want to fuck with them anymore. But one of my co-workers swears up and down by goggles4u.com, so I think that's a better endorsement. Check them out if you need to!

- Wizard Rock Tour Resource -- There's a Harry and the Potters concert on the 31st and I'm excited. I've been meaning to go to more Wizard Rock concerts and I missed a few in July because I didn't know of a centralized place to look for concerts. I have my favorite groups, but I'm always willing to try out others. I never got around to mentioning the Wizard Rock festival from November but there were so many great bands I'd never heard of before that I need to start keeping track of. WRTR helps a bit. And the Harry and the Potters concert is $10 in advance and only two dollars more at the door.
bohemia: (Misfits - Stare at muh tits yeah?)
So the starling is still with us (and let me know if you can't see those). I still don't know if it's a male or female and won't for a while. I try to stay neutral with "it" but always default to "he," and I'm still undecided on names. I posted a Question on Facebook and so far all that's there is "Feathers." It'd be nice if it was the only bird we had... but it's not. [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky optioned "Cricket," which is scarily accurate to what it sounds like when it's chirping for food. It sort of looks like a Macaroni Penguin or Pidgey the Pokemon right now, but I know it won't always. Other suggestions were Andy, Larry (from Three Stooges), Charlie, Bronx Strong, and Avenue (a nearby street is named Starling Avenue). Give me ideas!

I'm so behind on everything. This weekend I was out all day and then I'd get home and just want to collapse. I haven't been on Tumblr in five days, Livejournal in four, and I'm behind on my shows. I saw Suits, which was awesome and makes up for how I feel about Fairly Legal and Covert Affairs (I tried, but it wasn't working for me), but I still have to watch The Fall of Sam Axe and the premiere of Burn Notice, all of Falling Skies, Leverage's premiere and I'm assuming an episode or two of Men Of A Certain Age and In Plain Sight. I'm starting to get angry at being so far behind. I enjoy these shows and having life intervene, funtimes though they may be, gets to me after a while. I got on the computer at 8pm today and have been meaning to catch up on SOMETHING. And... now it's almost midnight and I haven't even touched VLC yet.

My camera cable is still missing (I'm going to re-order one from Amazon) so I can't post the majority of pictures from my last weekend in Philly or Pride on Sunday, but Pride was simply amazing. I met up with [livejournal.com profile] justspaz in Penn Station and we found a spot along the beginning of the parade together--conveniently outside a Walgreen's that we ducked into a few times--and eventually enough people had left for us to be right along the barricade. The people were phenomenal, the floats and groups were wonderful (a few made me tear up from happiness, especially the ones waving "Thank You Governor Cuomo" signs) and [livejournal.com profile] justspaz made me laugh a few times with commentary, especially towards the end when the bloggers were marching and she said, "the internet is coming!" Afterwards we walked down the parade route to find my friends Carlos and Zev who had taken the Megabus in from Connecticut and tried to find somewhere to eat/a festival Zev said was somewhere on Hudson Street. Eventually we gave up and found somewhere to eat as Zev trekked onwards towards the festival (by the time she found it it was ending). We ended up at Jekyll & Hyde, where I haven't been in forever. The Butler was awesome though, and we had a huge laugh when he asked where we all knew each other from. THERE'S THIS THING CALLED THE INTERNET, MAYBE YOU HAVE HEARD OF IT. He pretended (or maybe he was being truthful) about never hearing about Livejournal, Diggnation or podcasts in general. But we all had a good time, Zev eventually re-joined us, I bumped into a friend of a friend from work, we got on the 2 train to Penn for free, everyone got to their bus on time and my feet were done with me way before I got home. I checked on the starling, who was sleeping soundly, and then crashed.
bohemia: (Scott Pilgrim - Ramona swing)
So last night was Blipfest '11. Going to a chiptune concert has been a dream of mine since I first heard of 8Bit Weapon on Attack of the Show allll the way back when it was actually a geeky show. /elitist

Blipfest's also tonight and tomorrow night but I could only go last night, and really I wanted to see Anamanaguchi and Talks to Animals the most. Zen Albatross was good, too. I thought his set was entirely too short. The others were okay--Crashfaster opened for Minusbaby, and I like him much more than Minusbaby so I was disappointed when they actually took the stage. Definitely checking out Zen Albatross when I can. Ralp was meh but cute while also looking like Kevin Pereira and I was confused throughout that set by my shallowness.

Anthony Carboni and the Bytejacker crew were there. I only saw him for a second and didn't know how to approach him (I did this last time I saw him too, actually) and then @babylonian passed by and looked right at me and I was basically the raisins meme for a good while afterwards. I tried to find Carboni later to say hi or whatever, but he was always either taking pictures, updating Twitter or interviewing people. :/ Later on I found out that Jon was there too (the old cameraman for Bytejacker) and also one of the regular video commenters, Sanskrit and I was like, "Noooo so many Bytejacker people and I met none of themmmmm." (I just.... have a lot of feelings about Bytejacker.) I did however, have the shortest tweetconvo ever with Sanskrit on the train back home. So... there's that.

Anyway, the setup time was so much shorter than regular concerts because, well, they're playing with modded Gameboys, right. No tuning really needed, just audio check. Although Anamanaguchi really took a while and that was pretty sad because I almost thought I would have to leave before their set was over. But they finished in time, yayy.

I really enjoyed the fact that there were people taking pictures with Game Boy Cameras and 3DSes. Really taking the lobit attitude to another extreme. Also there was a furry who was really weird at first because, well, he was a large blue goat, right. But then he started posing for pictures and was actually giving advice to people and having conversations and I was like, "DUDE IS AWESOME; ALWAYS BE MY FRIEND." But now I realize he was actually the mascot for dragonchiptune and lol, well, my noob is showing. He's still awesome but... innocuous now. AND I'M SORRY I THOUGHT YOU WERE A FURRY.

I wish I could go back. NEXT YEAR (or if they do one in December like they usually do), I SHALL. And wherever I'm working, I'm taking off the entire run of days. XD

ALSO TOMORROW IS BIG APPLE COMIC CON SPRING EDITION AND I EXPECT A LOT OF LOL AND FANTASTICNESS THEN AS WELL. My Jubilee costume isn't as great as I wanted it to be (I DON'T HAVE A YELLOW JACKET, SADFACEEEEE), but whatever. I'm done running all over the city looking for one. I'm still new to cosplaying, shut uppppp.

BRB, watching/listening to the live stream of tonight's Blipfest.

P.S. Random tidbit I learned about myself: I can drink a liter of water in 20 gulps or 30 secs.
bohemia: (Misc - NYC)
I KNOW, I KNOW... TV. But I really need to post about this week so I can record it for posterity~*~*.

It all started Saturday, when [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky came up to see the play I'm helping with at school. My dad and I drove down to pick her up from the train station and our car battery died? So we had to wait until a family friend came all the way out to give us a jump and then get to school with enough time for me to do my stage manager stuff. I got there later than I was supposed to--but earlier than the audience, so there was that.

The next day we drove her all the way home, which is always a fun ride, except the intermittent clouds made the roads very bi-polar and scary to drive on at times. My dad and I kept shouting at the rainbows we saw on the way home. THERE WAS A DOUBLE RAINBOW AND A HALF.

After I got back home [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky and I both realized I could have just stayed at her house because she was supposed to come back to NYC for the Rooney show yesterday ANYWAY. But we (mainly me) weren't thinking straight. Then that night's play performance was canceled because one of our cast members hurt their foot.

The rest of the week was a blur. I didn't do much except watch TV and laze about until Wednesday when I went back downtown to pick up [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky and see Rooney. We stopped at McGee's Pub, the inspiration for MacLaren's on How I Met Your Mother, got a little tipsy on Horse's Necks (me) and Gin & Tonics ([livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky) and then somehow found our way to the Rooney show (there was a drunk!voicepost planned but I couldn't remember my passcode since I hadn't done a VP in AGES), where we both got another round of Gin & Tonics and tried to enjoy the show from various points in the venue. We were near the stage by the end though, which was what mattered.

I may have been inebriated, but I have duties at concerts. )

And then the show ended 20 minutes before [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky's train left NYC so even though we made a mad dash to get there in time, she missed it and had to crash at my place. By the time we got back to my house, the next train would have just been pulling into NYC (two hours after the train she was supposed to catch).

AND THEN WE ALMOST MISSED HER TRAIN AGAIN TODAY. But we made it by seconds, even though we were slightly hungover. And now [livejournal.com profile] splits_thesky is now safely back at her own home, I made it to the play (and tech went on without a hitch even though neither lighting or sound was at the rehearsal yesterday), and had a fun day altogether. But now I'm just tired. TOMORROW, TV.

ETA: ALSO! When we were trying to get back to Penn Station for the train, one of the actors from that Enjoy play I saw recently was on the same platform and I had a small celebrity freak-out. :D
bohemia: (SPN - Sam IDFK)
I like to jump on bandwagons sometimes if you couldn't tell. So Happy 4th to y'all who celebrate. And since everyday is apparently some kind of holiday somewhere, Happy ___ to the lot of you celebrating that day!

Yesterday I got lost in Manhattan. Fun times. I used the GPS on my cell to get somewhat found again (I was looking for Grand St. which the maps make you believe is right between Centre and Lafayette and in front of Broomes, when in fact there's ten blocks in between) and then lost again in Little Italy, which I'd never been to, looking for the corner of Mulberry St. with the Paul Frank store on it. Lord & Taylor did not have Julius tees either (a discovery I found after walking from Rockefeller Center on 51st, where I did not discover the NBC store OR Nintendo World, to 33rd and 5th.) I did, however find a Jamba Juice that had Pineapple Smoothies with bananas. Unfortunately I forgot I had that same smoothie last time, and they put strawberries in it which makes it look nothing-- nor taste-- like a pineapple/banana smoothie. But I did get a few comics that I needed, so ha! And looking for Grand St.? Yeah, the one Thai take-out place didn't have mee krob! But I got this delicious (quick 'n delish!) noodle-type thing that was good. And I found an Indian take out place which I am so stalking next time I go down to Centre St., my home away from home You know, the manner of which I'm addicted to the set of Conviction, which last one season, is sad. But hey, if I lived near White Rock, I'd be just as crazy about the boardwalk too.

So I walked up and down between 51st and 33rd, and then took two trains to Canal St. to walk around Chinatown and Little Italy for the day. I'm tired, and out of things to do within my Metrocard's limits so I go home. The moment I hit my train stop, my dad calls me to come downtown to see a movie. So I go home to drop off the comics, refresh and head back down. My iPod dies the moment I board the train. With nothing to read on a local train, I almost died of boredom. But we saw Live Free Or Die Hard and then I got Kelly Clarkson and Mika's CD (shut up, I don't know why I bought it either except that it was $10 and Rufus's CD was $14, I'd forgotten wanted Nelly Furtado's and I wanted to buy two CDs.)

Die Hard! )

And apparently, popcorn movies are really good for my brain. Because while my eyes are enjoying the explosions or senseless violence my brain is concocting large half-baked, thought-provoked paragraphs like the following ones:

Looooongggg and half-baked )

Here, have a slashy promo.

Lia

P.S. No, I do not live in the South Bronx. Mapmakers were on crack when they mapped out the Bronx. South Bronx is actually to the west.

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