awesome

The new Yeah Yeah Yeah's video for "Heads Will Roll." Directed by Richard Ayoade [who I have developed a slight crush on]!!!

Fantastic. 

List of shows to watch [in no particular order]

• The IT Crowd

I just finished this and I LOVED IT. I can't wait for the Christmas special and the next series.

• Black Books
• Freaks and Geeks [well I started this two summers ago, and never finished it.
• Parks and Recreation
• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
• Wonderfalls
• Psych
• Big Train

FLIGHT OF THE MUTHAUCKING CONCHORDS

So the show as fanflippintastic!

It started almost an hour after it was supposed to because the 6pm show had some fire alarm problems or something. While we were waiting outside, we could hear snippets of them performing.  

Anyway, we go inside and I almost died because our seats were so close! I sat in the very upper part of the balcony last year at Nob Hill so this was awesome. The first thing I noticed was Sheila and Misty's little red piano! It was sitting right on Bret's table! We sat around some more waiting...I used the bathroom but because they roped off the women's restroom, my friend and I used the men's room after we saw a few women in that line and this guy had told us it was "half and half." Let's just say walking out of the men's room was one of the most awkward moments of my life. WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE WOMEN?! Oh gosh...anyway...

Back inside, the theater started filling up. I noticed the scalper guy who was selling tickets outside the theater had come in and was talking to a couple sitting in the row in front of me [I was in pit row 3] so I'm guessing he sold them their seats. Then my friend and I realized that HE AND HIS LADY FRIEND WERE SITTING PIT ROW 1 CENTER SEATS. Maybe I should explain that I have seen this guy a bunch of times at the Curran Theater trying to scalp Jersey Boys and Spring Awakening tickets. He's making a living off scalping the hottest events.  If you buy a scalped ticket to some popular event in the Bay Area, you're probably buying it from this guy. HE IS EVERYWHERE. My friends and I were annoyed and shocked. 

Finally around 9:50 or something, the Live Nation guy comes out and then Arj quickly follows [after Jemaine's Ronald Chevalier-esque intro]. He was hilarious! I love that he made so many jokes that seemed to be for Bay Area audiences. It was clear that he was happy to be back home. After his set he made us all promise to follow him on twitter and to subscribe this his mailing list. 

Bret and Jemaine came out and immediately went into "Too Many Dicks" which was epic of course. They both got really into the dancing, Bret especially. He kept thrusting that disco ball codpiece.  Jemaine called us "San Francisco" which was amusing to me, since I am from San Francisco, but we were in Berkeley. hahah. He later said that the 6pm show told him he should refer to the audience as "Berkeley" but that he was just going to call us "Bay Area." 

I have the actual setlist so I'm just going to go down the line [the order may have been different, e.g I think Jenny was before Carol Brown, but I'm not sure]

Too Many Dicks- afterwards, they had a bit of banter regarding the song. Like how it was based on true events and such. They broke down the song and analyzed it as well..."Then we say 'Too many dicks' about eight times...." "The second verse was about morality." 

Hurt Feelings - BRET PLAYED THE LITTLE RED PIANO DURING THIS SONG! I'm sorry I didn't get a video of it.

Stana - was awesome. I managed to resist listening/watching the youtube videos of this and I was blown away. I loved it! The red lighting was a nice touch. After the song, Bret totally called out this guy in the front row for recording the song and then giving up because it was too long. 

Sellotape - I almost died from excitement when they started playing this. One of my favorites and to hear it live was amazing. But we didn't have an epic sing a long like they didn't in LA last year, but oh well. It was still epic. They did the banter in between about Bret putting envelopes to his heart and mailing them. 

Carol Brown - Jemaine had omnichord problems again [reminiscent of last year..hah] and he joked about it being in ROCK 1 and that we were lucky it wasn't in ROCK 2 because we would have all been blown away. The weird thing is they didn't have us be the choir...? I don't know why. I was really looking forward to it. 

They introduce Nigel and talk about how the New Zealand Orchestra originally had a few more members like Bruce and some other name that I don't remember right now and how now it's only Nigel. I think it was around this point that somebody yelled out "BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCE!" and Jemaine was confused and said something like "Was that Bruce's original fan? The sad thing is that also sounded like 'Booo!" Hilarious. So Nigel comes out looking suave and stuff in hat and sunglasses. 

Jenny - OH MY GOD HOW GORGEOUS DOES THIS SOUND WITH THE CELLO?! I was so excited when they started playing it. The sad thing is some of the people around me seemed clueless [well the couple next to me didn't even know where they were from.. ] or maybe they were just better at containing their excitement. I'm sure I probably annoyed a lot of the people around me with my constant screams. 

Muth'uckas - Bret got behind the drums for this one! Some people cheered when they got to the "EVERYBODY COME ON" part.

Epileptic Dogs- Bret got behind the keyboard for this one! I was dying during the remix part. Unfortuantely, I only got a few seconds of the strobe light on video...oh well.

I'm Not Crying - they got the sad lightening. Bret asked for lighting that would "remind the audience of a time they don't want remember." Bret made sax noises with his mouth and then Jemaine joined in, and then they both got Nigel to join in! 

H vs R - all I can say is, I was impregnated by Jemaine's potent rhymes. 

Same Girl/Sugalumps - I've been dying to see this one in person and I'm sure you all knew why. I laughed so hard during the "CELLO DAWG WHY ARE YOU CELLOING IT UP WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION OVER HERE DAWG." "JEMAINE DAWG" "YEAH DAWG?" and well, Sugalumps...we all know what happened. Jemaine sat on the edge of the stage on his side whilst Bret came over to my side and did his beckoning and reaching back thing. The best part of course was when he took that girls' camera and started taking photos of his crotch and Jemaine then came over and took the camera and aimed it into his pants! 

Lights went down...everyone cheered for an encore. It seemed like forever until they came back out.

Finally Bret, Jemaine, and Nigel come out. Bret's now wearing the Band Meeting tshirt and once he gets onto his stool, he talks about the merch available. He takes off one, to reveal a smaller Band Meeting shirt, and then another, until it was his own blue tshirt left. He said something like "This one's mine....so you can't have it because there's only one."  

Business Time - everyone's favorite of course. Mark [I think?] played drums! 

Bret says something like "Oh what should we play next?" And so of course I couldn't help myself and shouted "Bus Driver's!" while the girl in front of me shouted "Frodo!" but Bret heard the guy behind us who shouted "Freebird" so they did that and it was hilarious! "Why is a woman trying to have a relationship with a bird?" 

Bus Driver's Song - I don't know if I could explain how excited I was that they played this. I actually squeed and the people around me laughed at me. I doubt they played this because they heard me, but I'd like to think that they played it because they did.

Sometime during the encore [or was it towards the fake ending?] they thanked all the crew members, like Matt, Mark, Amy, and Kimberly! It was so sweet. 

Albi - loooooooooooved it. I loved the colors of the rainbow lighting. 

Then it was over. Bret and Jemaine asked us to stay put so they could take a photo of the audience and that was it!

I went up to the stage afterwards and asked Mark for the setlist and he gave it to me.

The merch table was crazy packed but we made our way to Arj who I talked to a bit and got a photo with. He yelled at my friend to delete a photo because he thought he was blinking. haha. And he signed my season 2 poster. Whilst talking to him, a couple of ladies went up and said hi to him and he told them that they were going into the City for an after party [probably the main reason why they didn't stay after for a meet and greet].

We went outside to where the tour buses were and the crew people made us all wait on the side walk across the street. There were maybe 40 or so people? It was cold but we were all patient. The crew people kept yelling at us to get back on the sidewalk. At one point, Mark [god I hope that's his name] came out with the robot heads and my friend and this other girl ran forward to get them. My friend was kind enough to give me BRETBOT [that's what's written on the inside]. Some people asked to take photos with them and so it made it's rounds. After awhile some crew person told us they left but we all stayed put, and then after some more time we ran back across the street to the theater. We watched the white tour bus drive away and then some more trucks. Someone told us they left an hour ago and so the crowd began to dwindle. Some crew people were still there...including Mark. haha. Finally it was just the blue tour bus and there were maybe 15 of us left? We waited and waited some more...watched TBS through the tourbus window....until the blue tour bus drove away. And then we all dispersed. A bit disappointing, but I guess it wasn't too much of a shocker. 

All in all, IT WAS AN AWESOME AMAZZZZZZZZZZZINGGGG SHOW!

TONIGHT

After waiting for 4 months and 23 days, May 25 is finally here. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS TONIGHT!

Let's just hope and pray that we don't end up homeless tonight.

Things that are currently annoying me

1. Everyone in my family. I can't say I'm looking forward to coming back for the summer.
2. My dad giving me shitty directions while driving.
3. Idiot tourists who don't know how to jaywalk.
4. Driving downtown. I know, I know, you should never drive downtown, but I had to. Public transportation is the way to do it.
5. This cold weather in San Francisco
   
6. The pair of jeans that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Either I gained a ton of weight, my butt grew, or they shrank. :(

This made my night a little better:

I love Bones and Dave.

two days

If there is a God, please do not let me get my brother's fever/throat infection/whatever so that I can enjoy FOTC to the fullest on Monday

Why is it so cold in San Francisco? I felt like an idiot yesterday walking into PPQ last night because I was still wearing my khacki shorts while everyoen was wearing their scarves and coats. Oh well, I got to satisfy my craving for satay beef pho.

OMG

MEAN GIRLS ON ABC FAMILY

RIGHT NOW

♥ ♥ ♥

why does this cheesy ass shit make me emotional

Because I'm PMS-ing?

Oh wait. That's right. I am a loser who will probably die alone. Not even with cats because cats don't like me.

I am currently listening to MJ's "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and I have yet to start on Spanish homework. 

MTV showed "True Life: I'm Addicted to Porn" again tonight. One of my favorites only because of that one scene where that guy is sitting at his desk, watching porn, and suddenly turns the the camera and says "This isn't doing it for me." Suddenly the "Ten minutes later" graphic pops up and you see him standing in his kitchen. All he says is "I just masturbated." LOLOLOLZ. 

I normally find feet gross, but I actually like this picture. A lot.  

classy as fuq

Things that make me happy right now

- The fact that the weather is much more bearable now. 

- My swimming aerobics TA knowing my name. I don't know why, but it made me really happy when I went up to him to check in and he knew who I was without telling him. I still think it's funny how he offered to pull me out of the pool that one time I complained about my arms being too sore to push myself out of the pool

- The IT Crowd

- summer's coming

- popsicles

- getting hella freebies from school

- "UP" coming out really soon

- HP6 also coming out really soon. I said that I wouldn't but I'm probably going to see it at midnight because I'm a loser like that.

- naps

- the random drunk guy screaming outside my room right now

- the fact that my legs don't look so pale anymore

- my current score on Word Challenge. I will probably never beat Vincent's 33,000+ score, but I'm going to try anyway. 

- FOTC in about 4 days

- the movies that we get to watch for MUS 115

- the Star Trek GQ motherfucker memes. Example: BONES

- rediscovering this song. I forgot how much I liked it.

FIVE DAYS

After waiting for almost four months, the show is almost here! 

FIVE DAYS

FIVE DAYS

FIVE DAYS

FIVE DAYS

FIVE DAYS

also, I can't stop listening to this

Back to this CMN 3 assignment.

Why you shouldn't fall asleep in class

"Consider the following study. Researchers are trying to see how credibility,

emotional tone, and message topic relevance affect effectiveness of Public

service announcements (PSAs). They did not conduct an experiment to

collect data, so they decided to use multiple regression analysis to

determine how these variables affect PSA effectiveness.

They reported the following statistic

R2 = 64%, p < .01

Credibility β = .40

Emotional tone β = .32

Message topic relevance β = .11

Based on these please identify whether these three variables influence PSA

effectiveness. If so, how big is it overall? Is it significant? What is an

individual contribution of each variable? Is it positive or negative? Is it

statistically significant?

If researchers had run an experiment what other statistical analysis they

could have used to determine causal relationship between these

independent variables and PSA effectiveness?"

WHAT?

I have no idea what any of this means. Guess I'm going to have to go through all the slides now.....

note

Dear lightning bolt underwear,

I love you. I consider you my lucky pair. I always seem to have good days when I put you on. I actually set my newest high score on Word Challenge whilst wearing you.

But I think you were having an off day today. I can't even count the number of times I had to pick at my butt in public because of the wedgies you were giving me. How embarrassing. Please go back to being awesome, comfortable, and wedgie free as soon as possible.

Yours truly,
Cynthia

Quite possibly

one of the best .gifs ever.

LOLOLOLOLZ

Should I be ashamed?

I can't stop listening to this.

My Love - Justin Timberlake

Ever since Jenny showed me this quote from youtube:

"his voice sounds just like Mickey Mouse and is cool at the same time "

it's all I hear now. HAHA. 

JT, you are one charming mofo. I somehow manage to develop a crush on you every time you are on SNL. [/fangirl]

I am a youtube addict.

So if you know me, you know that I'm a bit of a youtube addict.

 And I'm also a procrasinator. So instead of studying for my midterm tomorrow, I'm going to post some of my favorite youtube videos.

"Scarlet takes a tumble"

One of the funniest videos I've ever seen. Oh Scarlet. I love the fact that you posted this on youtube even though this happened. I love that you changed out of your flats into heels and still decided to get on the table. I'm sorry to say that I laughed for a very long time watching you moan and groan on the floor for a good minute. But that's why this is one of my favorites.

 

Some videos just leave me speechless. The only words that manage to escape are usually "WHAT" and "WHY?! WHY?"  This is one of them. tinaecmusic stripping for all her fans and "sexy men."

Then it gets better with her apology videos. I'm not ashamed to admit that I frequently have tinaecmusic meltdowns. 

Continuing with the trend of people who should not be on youtube, here is doglover199709 doing her version of "Disturbia." [She's disabled embedding]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMdWqaN_Tms

More children on youtube. This one isn't creepy at all. It's actually really cute.

So I was really addicted to this song about a month ago, all thanks to Janet. I couldn't stop listening to this stupid song....it's actually my most played on itunes because of all those nights I kept listening to it on repeat.

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes

So today is Mother's Day and everyone's jizzing their pants over last night's SNL Digital Short. Andy Samberg and JT finally followed "Dick in a Box" with "Mother Lover." I liked it but it's definitely not as good as "Dick in a Box" which is still my favorite Digital Short [Lazy Sunday is a close second.]

Justin's one of my favorite SNL hosts....and Bill Hader's one of my favorite SNL cast memeber. I want a guy like Bill Hader. I think he's perfect.

I actually liked "Watchmen" and I'm kind of sad that a lot of people hated it. Here are two youtube videos that added to my "Watchmen" love.

This one made me miss "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." CARTOON PIZZA LOOKS SO FUCKING GOOD.

Angela just found this for me. "My Immortal - A Dramatic Reading" never fails to make me laugh. If you don't know, "My Immortal" is an infamous Harry Potter fanfiction that has exploded in popularity, mostly because it's so bad. There are a ton of "Dramatic Readings" of "My Immortal" but this one is the best, in my opinion. Take a listen.

Okay I just saw this video...like minutes ago and it's already one of my favorites. Why don't we have cool things like this in the US?

Okay, now for something not as moving. "Touch My Body/Karaoke Fail" is another video that never fails to make me laugh. Mariah is one of my guilty pleasures..and so is this video. I LOVE YOU FIERCE KOREAN BOI.

More MUSIC FAIL. Here's LFO's "Summer Girls". Some of the worst lyrics ever, but just like "Tuts My Barreh" it makes me laugh.

Something that's actually intentionally funny. "Summer Heights High" is one of my favorite shows and Ja'mie's one of my favorite characters. I almost cried watching this for the first time. Chris Lilley is a genius.

Another one of my favorite shows is "Spaced." I give this video to everyone on their birthdays.

Tim sings Happy Birthday to Daisy

I'm such a fan girl for Pegg/Wright/Frost. I love this vlog so much.

I miss MCS so much. I haven't seen them in over a year. I think the last time I saw them I told JP that I was going to make a sign asking them to play "Shiver" the next time they were in San Francisco. Here's one of my favorite MCS youtube videos.

Oh my... I almost forgot to include this. The best show of my life = MCS @ Great American Music Hall on 7/7/07. We wrote a petition to get them to play "Throwdown." Fun fact = "Throwdown" was my first MCS song [off the Doghouse Spring/Summer 2003 sampler]. Here's what happened:

Speaking of shows, I'm going to see Flight of the muth ucking Conchords on the 25th. That's only 15 days from now! Here's a video from when I saw them last year. Caitlin and I lost our shit at the end of this song. I think you'll see why.

Janet showed me this the other day. I laughed.

ETA: WOW. WOW. HOW COULD I FORGET THIS ONE? This one is a classic. Victoria's just a playa lyke dat.

And I think I'm going to end this post with my one of my favorite FOTC videos. Enjoy.

j

I love this picture

It's labeled "gorgeous" on my computer. 

It's videos like this that make me miss high school

I can't believe this has almost 45, 000 views. Oh good times at Lowell!

Remeber how it was a total failure at prom? I'm glad this happened at the Last Dance [which, I might add, was one of the best nights ever].