"Yes, we can." (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} silveripseity) wrote,@ 2008-07-22 22:04:00 |
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+This summer/fall is shaping up to be one long smorgasbord of concerts and road trips. For the first time in my life, I've had to actually break out a calendar and start writing down all the events I'm supposed to attend. This weekend is the Buggy Bonanza. Next week we're going to West Virginia to visit the Mothman statue and the Rockafire Explosion. The Misummer Night's Run is the next weekend. Gina is flying in at the end of August. My ex-roommate's wedding is early September, then I'm going to Houston for a week, then I'm going to Milwaukee. I'm seeing the Counting Crows, Ben Folds with the Nashville Symphony, Hanson (twice), and the Village People (maybe, haha). So much is going on.
+My longest-held friend, Amy, got married in Gatlinburg last week, and this past Saturday she had a reception for friends and family. And as my friend John dryly pointed out, "Well, that leaves you and me. Maybe we should just go ahead and get married." Errrr... no. :) Anyway, pictures:
Me and Amy.
Me with Jennifer, another friend from high school.
Me with Rhonda and Steve, Lauren's parents.
+In addition to John's comment, I'm getting the boyfriend comments from other angles. My mother, in the very week after I broke up with AJ, asked me if I had, quote, "my eye on another feller." Really, mom? Do you take me for the kind of person who either A) can't stand to be single for more than two days, like my sister, or B) is so heartless that I don't need to bother to heal, or C) was already cheating on him so now I can be with the guy on the side? Sheesh. At our family reunion last week, at least four family members asked me about it and then clucked with sympathy, as if I've already been designated an old maid. And today, when I called my aunt for a quick favor, the only thing she asked was if I'd found another boyfriend yet. Wow. I don't even know what to say anymore.
+Saw "The Dark Knight" on Saturday. One hell of a movie. I don't know if I can even fully discuss it yet, because I need to see it again. It's sensory overload -- almost too much movie to handle in one sitting. Fanboys go on about special effects and whatnot, but it makes such a difference when you have a great script and top-notch acting. Christian Bale is the best Batman to date (sorry, my lovely fellow Kentuckian George Clooney). Michael Caine kills as Alfred. And I can't even get started about Heath Ledger. He's just fucking brilliant. It's a tour de force. When the movie was over, I was simultaneously on a high -- because it was that good and exciting -- and a low, remembering that Ledger is gone and he didn't even live to see his great work on screen.
Just go see it. Even if you're not a fan of comic-based movies, do yourself a solid and plunk down the $10 for the movie. Between this and Iron Man, it's been a great year for this movie genre.
I've been sleep-deprived for far too long. I need to get to bed.
+My longest-held friend, Amy, got married in Gatlinburg last week, and this past Saturday she had a reception for friends and family. And as my friend John dryly pointed out, "Well, that leaves you and me. Maybe we should just go ahead and get married." Errrr... no. :) Anyway, pictures:
Me and Amy.
Me with Jennifer, another friend from high school.
Me with Rhonda and Steve, Lauren's parents.
+In addition to John's comment, I'm getting the boyfriend comments from other angles. My mother, in the very week after I broke up with AJ, asked me if I had, quote, "my eye on another feller." Really, mom? Do you take me for the kind of person who either A) can't stand to be single for more than two days, like my sister, or B) is so heartless that I don't need to bother to heal, or C) was already cheating on him so now I can be with the guy on the side? Sheesh. At our family reunion last week, at least four family members asked me about it and then clucked with sympathy, as if I've already been designated an old maid. And today, when I called my aunt for a quick favor, the only thing she asked was if I'd found another boyfriend yet. Wow. I don't even know what to say anymore.
+Saw "The Dark Knight" on Saturday. One hell of a movie. I don't know if I can even fully discuss it yet, because I need to see it again. It's sensory overload -- almost too much movie to handle in one sitting. Fanboys go on about special effects and whatnot, but it makes such a difference when you have a great script and top-notch acting. Christian Bale is the best Batman to date (sorry, my lovely fellow Kentuckian George Clooney). Michael Caine kills as Alfred. And I can't even get started about Heath Ledger. He's just fucking brilliant. It's a tour de force. When the movie was over, I was simultaneously on a high -- because it was that good and exciting -- and a low, remembering that Ledger is gone and he didn't even live to see his great work on screen.
Just go see it. Even if you're not a fan of comic-based movies, do yourself a solid and plunk down the $10 for the movie. Between this and Iron Man, it's been a great year for this movie genre.
I've been sleep-deprived for far too long. I need to get to bed.
