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Guitar Night 2 With JC Long, Matthew Trautwein, Rudi Robinson, and DJ Hofer at Push Push theater. This informal evening of music will also feature the talents of vocalists Kristina Baade, Carrie Poh, and Lena Kotler, as well as percussionist Catherine Barson and bass guitar phenomenon Drake Kennedy. Admission is $10, and the show begins at 8:00 PM. For directions and more information, go to: http://www.pushpushtheater.com.

Another bit of info: My pirate band is playing at Piratepalooza on September 16th; I'll have more info by next week on what times we'll be playing, but keep your eyes open! http://www.piratepalooza.com.

Be thar!

Viktor Krum is coming to Dragon*Con!!!111one

Holy frickin' WOOT!!! I admit it, even though I am head over heels in love with my elfboy, I have a wee bit of a crush on the actor who played Krum.

I miss yamguitar's yamquizzes...

Yup, finally got a myspace page set up for my pirate band.

Check it out:
http://www.myspace.com/wherestherumgone

The recordings I was talking about are up on it, keep in mind that they are very ROUGH recordings done in my basement with a laptop and a lapel microphone.

Thanks to Simon and Bert, I've gotten irreversably addicted to D&D over the past few weeks. And thanks to the community, bad_rpers_suck, I found this site of role-playing game based motivational posters.

http://www.cruisegazing.com/RPG_Motivational/

After some careful searching, I found a site to make some of my own motivational posters on:

Crossovers (featuring me and tempest_gypsy)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/lasarigue/motivator4770879.jpg

Lady Pirates (featuring me, tempest_gypsy, and whiskeyfyre)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/lasarigue/motivator6723127.jpg

and The Nameless NPC (featuring potatobandits
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/lasarigue/motivator5375293.jpg

Enjoy!

Cool news update:

After many jam sessions Bert, toni_sama, and I have finally started a pirate band. Even cooler news? We sound awesome live. Some recent news? A few nights ago we did some rough recordings of "Spanish Ladies", "The Dark Lady", "River Rye", and "101 Nights" (which until we get permission from Axel the Sot, we will not be releasing for commercial purposes...not sure if we can release it at all at this point in the game). So once toni_sama gets the tracks mastered and up on the hosting site, I'll let you guys know if you're interested in getting an mp3 of any of the songs.

Cat
"Tabitha Crow, hoarder of shiny things aboard the Katie-Marie"

After looking at some of the dramatic situations of my friends in the past and comparing them to my own, I'm starting to believe that I've avoided most situations of drama involving the mixture of friendship and romance. This is a sort of a mental inventory of what I've done and haven't done which has prevented me from such situations.

1. I don't date my friends' exes.
2. I don't usually date people that go to the same school as I do (two experiences are enough, thank you!)
3. I don't like pulling my friends into vendettas against my exes.
4. I eventually become friends again with some of my exes.
5. If my friends were friends with my ex, I don't demand them to choose between them and me.
6. If I choose to romantically pursue someone in my circle of friends, it's only after careful consideration of such pairing.
7. I don't like remaining angry with people.
8. While sometimes I hold grudges against exes and imagine ways of telling them off or getting revenge, I don't carry them out. They're not going to learn from an outright attack.
9. If I complain about said ex, I don't make shit up or exaggerate to the ninth level on it, it's all true. If I speculate on them, that's all it is, speculation, not fact.

I don't know, just listening to the shit that my boy has to put up with from not only his ex, but his ex's ex/his former friend, and anybody else who's afraid of contradicting the two, I don't know how much more faith I can have in humans. The maliciousness is just plain scary! But on the other hand, it makes me glad that I have the friends that I do. I have a favor to ask of you guys, if you know Simon and see him with me or not, engage him in conversation, get to know him, invite him to hang out or something. He needs to know that not only are there are better people in the world, but also that he is not the shitbag that certain people in his life are making him out to be.

I present: mini-me

Hey, here's to those who couldn't make it to the last guitar night at Push Push Theatre:

The next one is going to be on July 24th (Monday) at 8 PM. Cover is $10 all ages and a beverage service is available.
Musicians include:
Matthew Trautwein (guitar and vocals), Rudi Robinson (guitar), JC Long (I don't even want to know how many things he'll bring this time, all I know is that my hands will be purple at least 4 times this evening at fault of this particular man), DJ Hofer (guitar), Carrie Poh (vocals), Kristin Baade (vocals), Lena Kotler (vocals), Drake Kennedy (bass), and Me (hand drums and vocal protesting to JC's variable tempo changes...sorry, couldn't help myself).

Come out if you like us, buy drinks if you love us, give us money if you adore us. I'm kidding in all respects because I am in a bit of a goofy mood...or am I? ;)

*shrugs* I don't know, my one reservation about this is that the rehearsal for this event is on my birthday (July 20), the evening no less. Oh well, looks like I'll have to push my birthday date with Simon back a day...gives me an excuse to stay over the weekend anyway. I expect a big, fat, birthday lollipop or something like that at the rehearsal though for making me reschedule. I only turn the big 2-0 once, you know?

I guess I shouldn't doubt things when they have the possibility of a good turnout, this weekend taught me that I think. So to put it in short, Cat-woman and elfboy are fully reunited and reconciled. Apparently his definition of "just dating" is about the same as what we had before the temporary breakup, and I'm glad--means that it can only just can get better.

Anyway, saw the new pirates movie with da elfboy on Friday evening. I would have to say that I'm impressed; it may not be something I'd watch over and over, but it was just as fun as the first. I'm a little disappointed though that the Benny Hill theme song didn't play during the waterwheel scene.

Looks like I have both parental and friend approval in my pairing with the boy. About five minutes into dinner and Simon's mom and I were gushing about different types of ethnic foods and restraunts. As for the friends, when they discovered I've been a roleplaying geek since the age of ten, they immediately invited me to game with them on Saturday.

And so I played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time without the automatic system on Baldur's Gate. I gotta say it helped that the guys walked me through it, but it also helped that I was so familiar with the system off of Baldur's Gate and by reading gaming webcomics. It was kind of funny playing my elven thief character with Pete's deeply devout Middle Eastern based paladin.

Me- "There were four dead goblins and nothing else; I would of looted the bodies but I didn't see their attackers anywhere. Shame though, guess we'll have to wait til day to loot them."
Him- "Loot the bodies? I hope you weren't willing to take from the unfortunate?"
Me- "What use is gold to a dead goblin?"
Him- "But what about the orphans?"
Me- "What poor orphans in their right mind would be tramping around a goblin-infested forest in the middle of the night looking for corpses to loot?
Him- "You shouldn't loot unless you were willing to give the money to the orphans in need!"
Me- "Hey, I'm very willing to give to the orphans. I'm an orphan, and since need is often a subjective thing, I NEED this gold!"

Once he healed Simon's neutral evil swashbuckler (Morgan...CAPTAIN Morgan!), I backed off a bit. In between the ranting of the devoutly religious (Pete's Paladin), the half-drunkenness (Simon's swashbuckler), and the obnoxiously boistrous (Nick's gnomish fighter), my character was sitting around, waiting for the bickering to stop so she could do her job. It was fun though, can't wait to continue the module.

She stares straight ahead at the screen, her fingers tipping across plastic buttons like a whack-a-mole game in reverse. Her eyes briefly close and peel back open against the grain of parched contact lenses as she lets a long rush of air escape her nostrils. Why do I torture myself? she thinks to herself as she skims through the tainted words again through her mind. For days she had pondered their validity and as unlogical as they did seem, she is all too familiar with the concept of the slight possibility.
It seemed that the past few months were ruled by the law of Murphy, looming over her with a flamethrower of pain, a chainsaw of death, and a AK-47 of anxiety (he was of the incredibly versatile sort). After a five month emotional massacre it seemed that the limey bastard finally had some mercy in her...All until about two weeks ago, that is.

She draws her knee up to perch a foot on the faux leather cushion of her chair, none this made sense. She was happy, he was happy, what the hell happened? But she waits, oh yes, she had been waiting impatiently with the anticipation of an axe slicing through the air towards her neck, dreading it and wishing for it as quickly as possible. Fear had drained her, doubt had beaten her, and silence had burned her--all left for her to soothe the scars with frightened tears.

The clock strikes midnight and she leans her chin upon her knee with a sorrowful smile.

"Two more days..."She says in the exhumation of an all too familiar sigh, "Two more days."

My secret? The altar of Luvanscandl.

This video is beautiful...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXP3h-I2ji0

warning- not work safe

On another note, like the new icon I made?