COLDPLAYYYYY
(pictures speak louder than words)

so last night i checked a lot of things off the 'things to do before i die' list including:

1.seeing sufjan stevens
2.passing out at a concert and
3.going in an ambulance

so yea!!! the show (what i saw) was amazing! this had to be the most entertainingly cute concert- because they were all dressed in matching cheerleading uniforms and did cheers in between each song!


sufjan came out like this at first


they even sang a new version of the star spangled banner, obviously with the state theme he must be pretty patriotic.

superman was there (a blowup doll version, as you can see in the above picture). to make it up to him, for getting kicked off the album cover, sufjan let him come on tour with them.

i got to see him play my favorite song: john wayne gacy jr,

and right after- i think that a culmination of:
1.the only thing i ate that whole day was a tacito
2. being dehydrated
3.being up on the balcony where heat rises and smoke also rises
4.possibly standing for too long with the problem of having hyperextended knees
5. and ofcourse the swooning ability of sufjan

made me get really light headed, and from there i remember telling my friend chris that i was feeling really lightheaded and then automatically waking up on the floor with a bunch of ppl leaning over me after i had just passed out!

ofcourse i didnt want to leave the show but it ended up that chris carried me outside and i sat regaining strength and drinking orange juice to raise my blood sugar level (the weird thing was that it was hard for me to swallow and i didnt understand why).

thennn the ambulance came and i had enough strength to walk over and they checked a bunch of stuff and i didnt want to go to the hospital b/c i wanted to catch the end of the show. so we walked back in and i saw 2 more songs, one including a lame bday song, before the owner came in and told me i had to leave b/c it was house rules that i couldnt go back into the conditions that made me pass out

so me, chris, ashley, and matt all went outside and the lady asked me if i wanted anything, and i was having cold chills so i made her bring me a free coffee. ha.what an exciting adventure! and sufjan was so amazingly good looking!


p.s. happy 3 year dreadlocks anniversary to meeeee!!!

tapdancing and sugar cookies







p.s. i love my mom [she rocks out singing along and reading the lyrics to kelly clarkson in our kitchen]

my best friends in spain and i cant wait to go visit her!

anna irby

last night was amazing! ...here is a hint:







anddddd guess who opened!

ordena fink from azure ray


and david dondero!
heplayed the tina turner song for me when i asked him to.

ive decided i want to be a tap dancer

p.s. look at this freakin awesome huge tree we discovered in the park across the way from the satellite ball room



p.p.s. pre-adventures included- fun with shadows  as we strolled through the downtown mall of charlottesville

"soon"
ive been thinking about that word a lot.
what does it mean anyway?
its such an intriguing middle man word.
it can lead to great excitement or frustration b/c it gives such lee-way with time.
i might want to take it out of my vocabulary completely

i decided, with the inspiration of my roomate emily, to confront the task of reading every book i own before buying any new ones

the task is at hand

tonight i decided to stay in a read the entire play of 'the importance of being ernest' and indeed, it was splendid!

p.s. i miss geepie. i just want to hug her and smell her paws


this is my bank account- send money!

its great to be back in richmond because of
house shows


karaoke


boba!


sister!


playing tic tac toe with over age and under age hands at shows


riding my beach cruiser in black and white


kidnapping roomates for their birthday


sticky rice sushi


porch roomate sleepovers


dancing at shows


observing other ppl's ruckus


my other dread friends


scavenger hunts to get rid of old clothes


last but not least....the river james

last night i saw sigur ros!!!!!!!!!!!! (no exageration on the exclamation)
we (me, gavin, nathan, and vinny)

took the van and got to bethesda, md really early. 1. we met amina and to our surprise the string quartet for sigur ros (amina, also the opening band) was sitting outside the strathmore on a bench...so we talked to them for awhile. (one of them complimented my dress) it was my first time hearing the wonderful accent of iceland. by then it was around 4 so we went to eat and then came back to the strathmore by 6 to walk around. we found a secret elevator- so offcourse we went in.  a girl from peru, who worked there, came in so we asked her how to get into the concert hall and she opened the door to a dream! YES! 2. we sat in the entire sound check of sigur rosssss


after they finished, we went outside to await the show.
me and vinny had 2nd balcony center seats and we in them for amina (who was amazing, definately get their cd) but for sigur ros we went down to the floor,  shockingly there were empty seats- 3.so we watched the whole show from the 13th row!




in the words of a random man talking to one of the ushers,
"this was like church for me tonight!"
lets just say it was ridiculously amazing. they came out for an ancore and had to come out twice more to bow to a 10 minute long standing ovation!


for lack of words....

is right....