I just posted about Zooey, but then something came up that I just had to share. Or rather, lazyJ had to share.

I love me some Zooey. You might recognize her from the movies Elf and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and recently her band She & Him released an album. She sings pretty. I added one of her songs to the music player, and there are more are on the She&Him Myspace page.

She was also in the movie The Good Girl where she has a minor role but some really great lines like this one:

(Zooey = Cheryl)

Cheryl: Sit right down here, ma'am. We're going to make you pretty. Now how do you like your hair?
Big Haired Woman: What? Are you going to do my hair?
Cheryl: No, I just need to know if that's your usual way of wearing it, all big and high. If it is, I'll just put more makeup on your chin to offset it. You're going to want to take a whole bottle of this home with you. It's got quite a lot of ingredients in it, so you're getting a good deal. It's got ginkgo extract in it. Do you know what that is?
Big Haired Woman: No.
Cheryl: It's extract of the ginkgo, and it makes your skin real slick so that any liquid will roll right off you, be it water, or lemon juice, or urine. I'll put it in a bag for you.

I turned 30 this weekend, and thanks to friends that are way too good to me there was a seriously rockin' party. Tom and I built a stage, lazyJ took care of the lighting, Felicia loaned us her PA system, and Gabe made this beauty:

At one point there was a rock band drum off of me vs LazyJ. Sadly I didn't realize that the tape ran out before lazyJ's performance, so we can only show you mine:

This makes me feel a little better about the pre-party trash talking video we sent Ammogirl. Here's the flattire boys rocking a little Blink 182. We're pretty spot on with that one but could use some longer guitar straps.

I had set up my camera to take a picture once a minute all night, and here are the highlights. The dark room with stage lights look is lost because of the camera's flash, but oh well. The pics at the end are of a Greg & Tom post part jam session, because the rock band party plus the 5-6 hours of rock band we played the day before apparently weren't enough.

I've got a lot of grainy low light video to upload to youtube for everyone to laugh at but it might take a while. Thanks to everyone who helped out, showed up, and most importantly rocked out.

Lykke Li has a new video out! LazyJ had to tell me which was a little disappointing. At this stage in our relationship I really thought Lykke would've told me personally through her fan mailing list or myspace announcement.

I dig the video which totally reminds me of how awesome she is. And who doesn't love her Lykke dance moves?

btw - this weekend is going to rock.

So I finally carbonated the beer that lazyJ, Tom, and I brewed last December and threw it in the beer fridge. This brew was modeled after New Belgium Frambozen. Yeah, it's a little fruity, but in a really manly kind of way. It still needs more carbonation time, but so far the reviews have been very positive.

My bro is off fighting terror in the Middle East, which sucks but at least he has email access so we can keep in touch. Here's part of his latest email:

So I was taking a dump in the mini latrine toward the outside of our hooch in Zone 6. It's one of those really small latrines with two commodes and 2 urinals in the space of about 5' x 5' The stall I was using had the latch missing, so I had to use my hand to hold it shut. The next thing I know, another person walked in to the portable latrine units, and started rinsing his hands. So while he was in there, I held the door shut with my hand.

Anyways, I was waiting for the person to leave so I can let my hand rest and just let the door swing open, since it’s tiring to take a shit while holding the stall door shut. The next thing I know, the guy was pushing against my door, and I kept pushing it back. It went back and forth about 3 times, and I finally said "yo, i am in here". The other person responded, "my bad man, i thought it was the wind". I am like WTF!!! How can there be wind when the latrine door is closed??? Just another crazy Monday night out here in the desert!

Had a little surprise birthday party for Gabe this Saturday, you may remember him as the guy who gave his daughter a mustache as a follow on to our last flickr war.

Tom made some sweet place mats.

Mmm....salt lick...

I'm still full.

Breaking news, via twitter. A bird just shat on Tom's head through his open sunroof. I don't know if his vehicle was moving at the time or not. I'm picturing some sort of GPS guided smart bomb shit. I bet there are bird generals somewhere reviewing the tapes, congratulating themselves on their precision air strike.

What the bitch needs is to stop buying so many damn books.

I got my haircut, and I look pretty sexy I must say. I decided to grab some Whataburger on the way back to work, and when I pulled up at the second window to pick up my grub the drive through chica asked if I wanted a free strawberry milkshake. I'm generally skeptical of free food which must've come across as a skeptical but curious look on my face. She quickly explained that she had made the wrong flavor for the previous customer. I rarely drink milkshakes, but strawberry is my favorite so I accepted the aforementioned milkshake at zero cost.

Now here I am, 3/4 of the way through a milkshake that's larger than should be legal, when I realize something. Hmmm...do they call them milkshakes because they put milk in them? Uh-oh... Lactose intolerant people should not drink 3/4 of a giant milkshake.

I just popped a couple lactase tablets and am praying for the best.

A few months back Ophelia posted this really cool music video on her site that I meant to repost here but never did. Well I don't think I did.

The song is amazingly beautiful, and the video makes it even better. You need to be in a pretty chill, unhurried and relaxed kind of mood to enjoy it though. If you're currently over caffeinated, save it to watch later.

Here's their myspace for more listening, it's ok stuff but the song Twice is by far my favorite.

Little Dragon's Myspace

Time to go get a haircut.

Work is lame today. My favorite two work people are working from home, so I can't go waste time with them. lazyJ is on IM, but I think he's trying to actually do work. It's a rare occurrence so I don't want to disturb him. Plus I've gone through pretty much all of my feeds in Google Reader. The internet seems kind of empty at the moment.

So....time to post a bunch of random crap right? I'm temporarily motivated, so I figure I'll just go with it. Let's start with a little self promotion.

You should facebook me so we can throw sheep at each other.

Are you tired of rock band posts yet? Well I'm not tired of writing them, so sucks to be you! I just wanted to share that we (I'm including lazyJ and Tom) are not the only ones currently rock band obsessed.

Check out some quotes from Ammogirl's blog.

First this:
Also, I have a package at the post office and I’m pretty sure it’s Rock Band, which means: time to ROCK! My goal is to get good enough to battle Flatgreg and Kario online…and ANNIHILATE them! They will throw down their instruments in awe of my mad skilz and immediately beg me to take them on as roadies, which I will pretend to think about before callously pushing them away! Because I will be a ROCK GODDESS! I don’t have roadies, I HAVE PEONS!!!

Then this:
Rock Band is the coolest thing in one million years times forever! It is my new favorite thing, even more than ice cream, and all I can think about is the how long until I can play again. In fact, last night I was just sitting down for an evening jam session before bed when I heard my IM go off, and although I knew it was John, and I hadn’t chatted with him all day, I still thought, “Awww…” and debated ignoring him or not. I KNOW! That’s so bad! Of course I chatted with him. But: ROCK BAND!

To put that in context, John is her husband and he's deployed in Iraq right now.

And another rock band obsession bit for ya, I was IMing lazyJ about how I haven't been keeping up with people since I usually call people on my drive home, and I've been riding my motorcycle a lot lately which equals no phone calls. lazJ's response?

Yeah, in the car is the best time to use the phone, since you can't play rockband while driving.

I have a bad habit of using "your" instead of "you're" when typing. So much so that the A. Kid gave me this t-shirt since I was always telling him "Your retarded!" in IM.

Well, looks like I found my opposite.

Here is the window phrase blown up, but still practically unreadable.

And here is what it actually says:

peace&love,
lazyJ

It's great that whenever I send a text message from my phone with the word "test" in it, it always tries to auto-complete it with "testes." I don't know if I should thank Microsoft for that one, or if my phone just knows me really well.

I'd take a picture for ya but I don't know how to take a picture of my phone using my phone.

Work sucks. Time to go play rock band. Oh wait, I have to write a status report first.

Weekly accomplishments at work:
- Kept current on the latest developments in the LOLcat industry
- Looked at which Rock Band songs I want to waste money on.
- IM'd lazyJ a LOT. IM'd other people less.
- Researched commuting to work by bike.
- Tried out new pizza place. It showed promise. Need to try it again when I'm not stuffed up with pollen.

I actually did get a lot of work stuff done at work this week, but none of it is worth mentioning here. Ok, now it's really time to go play rock band. Tom's coming over to play. woot!

Nothing exciting to say.

Been playing rock band. I wish I could play the drums on the Yeah Yeah Yeah's song Maps like this guy:

Added songs to the music player:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero, which I wish was available for rock band.

How lame is it to watch videos of other people playing rock band?

What the hell! It's April fool's day, or was, which also means it was my mom's birthday. I mean I remembered this time, unlike last year, but somewhere between walking out of work and reaching my car my mind completely went blank. I think it's the freedom and excitement of leaving work while the sun is still out that just wipes my mind clear. So unfortunately, that phone call to mom got thrown out too.

ARGGHHHH!!!