Just Cause

nothing new in my life, so here's a little video!

Izzy's cover of Human



CHUUUUTE!

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The Killers 9-15-09

These are some pictures from the Killers show on Tuesday at UCI! Oh. My. Gosh. It was SSSSOOOO good!! The Nervous Wreckords were their official opening band. The lead singer was really funny. They had this song called Josephine that was about a collections agent :)

Anyway, there was also a mariachi band called Mariachi El Bronx. They were four white guys and two Mexican chicks. The band wasn't bad at all, but the lead singer was painfully, obviously stoned out of his mind. You could barely understand half of what he was saying. Boo.


The Killers put on a fantastic show, opening with Spaceman followed by Somebody Told Me. As we were waiting in line, Lili and I were guessing what the opener would be and what Brandon Flowers would be wearing. I said Somebody Told Me and a jacket with feathered shoulders. She said Spaceman and a sequined jacket. She got the song right, I got the outfit right.

I sort of befriended a cougar who was concernedly obsessed with Brandon Flowers. She said that she'd been following them for four shows before that and that the UCI show was so far the best. Right now she's seeing them at the Hollywood Bowl. I dislike her.

Something kind of exciting happened during This is Your Life; a chick about 8 ft away from me threw up and the crowd made an almost perfect circle, I imagine, around it. The result was a crushing wall of human beings preventing me from capturing The Killers response to it. When the crowd started swaying and parting at first, in between verse and chorus, Brandon said something like "Are you moshing? Wait. Stop." When the crowd parted and stilled he said "Are you guys alright. Did someone throw up??" at which point Dave jumped onto the amp right in front of me (RIGHT in front of me... like 5 ft. tops!) and was trying to see if someone had. A girl was passed over the barrier to the security guard. At this point the song had been stopped midway and Brandon went on, "Is that the culprit? Do you guys want us to stop till someone can clean that up or do you want us to keep playing?" The crowd roared, Brandon Flowers laughed, and the song started right back up again like they were just on pause. The circle remained, as did the crushing wall of young men without or without enough deodorant although plenty had more than enough cologne.

They ended with All These Things That I've Done, topping off the song with confetti canons!! I really think that confetti falling at the end of any event is the greatest thing on earth.

The encore was This Is Your Life, Bones, and When You Were Young. *Sigh* so much fun!

After the show we were on a mission to meet the band. We hung around the cougar cause this wasn't her first rodeo. We were on an upper level looking down into the parking. About 10 minutes later Ronnie came out and started walking towards the buses. He was recognized and screamed at. He waved and pumped his fist in the air a few times at us while walking backward toward the bus. I didn't get a picture of that. I, like the lame photographer that I am, got a picture of him talking to a few people in the parking lot. You'll see the picture below. He's the one in the white shirt, just above the woman in the white pants so don't get confused. We watched and waved as the silver bus he climbed aboard drove past us, still waiting for the rest of the band and wondering why he was the only one on that bus. Finally a roadie told us they were all on that bus and that Ronnie was the last one out. Mission failed. It made perfect sense and we left on a mission to secure bottles of water and Slurpee's. Mission accomplished.

Enjoy these pictures. And sorry, some of them are really blurry but I either liked the silhouette or I was too lazy to take them out.


And here's some things to make you throw up (motion sickness).

The beginning of the show! Spaceman!! This isn't zoomed in. I started about 8 people in and ended the show just 2 short people away from the barrier :)



The beginning of Somebody Told Me. The lights were amazing!



This is the beginning of This is Your Life (unfortunately it isn't the very beginning, which is my fav, I forgot that I could film)
I would have recorded the whole song but once he started to have people wave their arms there was no way I could keep it trained.



All These Things That I've Done:



During this next video I got a little too excited at one point and forgot I was filming. You'll see. Sorry lol.



Okay, one more. I was so incredibly excited when he started singing this that I didn't record the first line. This was totally unexpected and amazing because this is probably my favorite song ever and it was sung on top of an amp about 7 ft to my left.


Can't Help Falling In Love


Amazing. Amazing. Fantastic show! Definitely not the last time I'll see them!

So I just looked at the videos and the quality isn't what it is on my camera! I swear, on my camera you can see every facial expression. Oh well, sorry.


P.S. my favorite verse of one of my new favorite songs.
A Dustland Fairytale:

The countdown begins

i have officially (yes, it's legit) bought my Mika tickets, they're on their way now!!! so here are a few things i love about Mika:

1. he's ginormous all over the world except here and even though he can and has sold out stadiums in many many other countries he still prefers to tour in america because he can play much smaller venues.

2. his mom is Lebanese and his dad is American and he's lived half his life in france and half in england. i just think that's cool.

3. his songs make me happy. no matter what mood i'm in, as soon as i hear the opening to Love Today i have to smile.

4. he likes mormons, and big girls.

5. after every show he comes out to meet and sign autographs. once, in munich, there were so many people waiting for him that he stood out there for 5 hours to meet them all.

i can't wait. he rents out a huge storage space in london for everything that his fans have made him. next year it's going to be an exhibit on tour all over europe. heather and i are debating whether or not to make him something, and if so, what??

He's Coming!!!

finally, after a year and a half of withdrawal, my absolute FAVORITE singer ever is touring again! i cannot tell you how excited this makes me. after the crappy year i've had this is going to make up for at least a third of it! the show is october 23 in hollywood. tickets go on sale on saturday. i feel like screaming and i've already done my excited dance about 14 times. his new album comes out the end of next month (already pre-ordered it:) he's only going to be in north america for a month so i'm hoping this means he'll come back next year. i've only seen him once but it was the most spectacularly fun show i've ever been to/heard of! what a big party! and i met him afterward which makes me giggle even now to think about :) oh my gosh! I'M SO HAPPY! :) :) :) :) :)

Just Call Me Irresposible

I'm 21 years old. I've had the same job for almost two years. I've never mishandled or accidentally mistreated a dog, and I've never been bitten. I've never been written up or gotten in trouble at all. I've gotten four raises and two of them weren't automatic. I've paid for my own education and haven't missed many days of school. I consistently get A's and B's in all of my classes. I have a plan for my life and though it's taking a little longer than I'd hoped I'm following through quite nicely. Most people are shocked when they find out I'm only 21. I watch BBC World News and CNN (and even though it was Anderson Cooper that got me into the habit, I'm still informed about what's going on in the world). I followed the presidential election (I was more informed than a lot of people years older than I) and was excited to go through the process of requesting an absentee ballot and making sure it was sent in on time before I left on my cruise. The Tuesday night of the election I stayed in my cabin and missed the Fiesta on deck to watch the progress. I've held my own in political discussions with my friend David who's almost 20 years older than me and has a thing for Anderson Cooper too. I've driven for five years and only got my first ticket last October which I promptly paid by myself and went through online traffic school to strike it from my record. I had my first accident in March and it wasn't in any way my fault but I ended up having to pay for the repairs out of my own pocket. I can't remember the last time I borrowed money and I'm always prepared to lend it, which I have many times to many people. I love my nephews dearly and if they've ever been hurt playing with me it was obviously an accident and I can't recall a time anyone bled, and they were definitely having fun before it happened.

Why have I been labeled the Irresponsible One?

I went through a period of about a year and a half where I didn't want to look for a job and didn't want to hold it down once I had it. I didn't go to school. I barely went to church. I didn't have many friends. I didn't date. I didn't clean my room (in all honesty, it doesn't happen much more often now). I barely showered and changed my clothes. I was horribly, horribly depressed. A lot of the ill opinions of me were cultivated then, no doubt. I completely understand that. But is it fair to continue to judge someone on a period of time someone was so obviously out of it? I really can't think of anything I've done in the last year and a half that would make anyone think I was too irresponsible to be trusted with my nephews.

The only thing I really want to say is that if I ever take my nephews out, just me and them, I would be so afraid that they would get lost, or that something would happen and I would have to return them to their parents in a worse condition than I received them in, that I would keep a more vigilant eye on them than their parents would in the same situation. I just want to be closer to my nephews than I am with any of my Aunts or Uncles.

I love music

I will never be able to articulate how much I love music as well as Zane Ewton.

But I do :)