SF Bratpack mashup
Ok so there’s the awesome Brooklyn one, now there’s an awesome San Francisco one. When are we doing Richmond y’all?
Seriously let’s do a Richmond one. It’s not too late. Never too late.
rainy saturday
I watched Mary Poppins this week and forgot what a great movie it was. Julie Andrews was so pretty and who doesn’t love the penguin dance with Dick Van Dyke. Kate told me that the Broadway musical is coming to D.C. this summer, we might just have to make a trip.
There are lots of great shows coming up, including this one! <3
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One Time Too Many
I already posted Part 1 of these videos, but I just went back and re-watched them. It makes me want to go back to Paris so badly, and one day I will.
Phoenix – Lizstomania / One time too many – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
Make sure you watch Part 3 too!
Moving to Paris this weekend…
Thanks Phil.
Playground love
What a weekend. Just like I knew it would be. I went up to Hunter’s parents in Fredericksburg Wednesday night and early the next morning they drove Hunter and I up to DC to catch the Bolt Bus. It was very nice of them to do that for us and I highly recommend the Bolt Bus to anyone. It was clean and roomy and our bus driver was hilarious!
We got into NYC around 1pm and went to the open call at American Apparel for Hunter to try and get a job. I don’t think the open call was exactly what she was expecting but at least she was able to get her resume in the company. After that we went and met up with Daniel and he let us go ahead and take his keys to get into his apartment so we could chill for a bit before going out. We ended up going to the Bushwick County Club for awhile, did a photobooth picture and then headed into the city.
The night was a little crazy, we ended up with margaritas to go from some place in Brooklyn and put them in the freezer for the next day.
We all slept in the next morning, before we went out we drank our margaritas after some serious adjusting to the flavor, a little tea a little lemonade good to go! Did a little thrifting where Hunter and I both ended up with awesome boots. The boots I bought need to have the heel replaced but other than that in awesome condition!
Our plan was to head to the High Line Park after that we never made it because we had to head to the Phoenix show uptown in Central Park! We got to the show right around 6pm and when the doors opened we were able to snag a spot really close to the stage. We each bought one $6 beverage and chilled out of ran hour before the show. The two girls in front of us were the shortest girls I’ve seen in awhile, Hunter and I both agreed that we did good and not to let them get away from in front of us. Passion Pit came on at 7pm and man are those dudes adorable. You could tell that they were really excited about this show and how big it was for a fairly new band. They played the songs that I half knew and pretty much just got the crowd excited.
When Phoenix came on everyone was so excited, I kept wondering if it was going to be the same setlist from the June shows. They started with “Lisztomania,” same as the previous shows so I wasn’t sure. It didn’t end up being the same because not only did they play “Fences” they also played a “Playground Love” cover of Air during the encore. I was jumping up and down super excited about it and I think I got some looks from people around me but who cars. It was perfect. Thomas Mars was also wearing a different colored collared shirt! At all three shows in June he was wearing the same light blue colored shirt, this one was dark blue. 
The last song of the encore was “1901″ and boy did we plant ourselves in our spot perfectly because Thomas Mars came out into the crowd like he did during the previous shows. I didn’t think it would happen at this show because there was a barrier between the crowd and the stage but he hopped right over it and came right into the area we were. DEF got to sing a bit of “1901″ while grabbing at his arm as he made his way further behind us. He got up on someone’s shoulders (a security guard?) and during that time there was a red cord up against me, I thought it was someone’s bag or something until I realized it was the MICROPHONE CORD! After the whole singing in the crowd thing didn’t really work out he was making his way back towards the stage. Hunter managed to snap an amazing photo of him almost caught up in the cord and I loved how excited she was at that moment as I was.
The show was awesome and it was so much fun to see them in the city like that. I’ve never loved a band as much as I love them and I honestly hope to see them again in the future. Although for now it’s probably enough.
After the show we made our way back to Daniel’s apartment where we finally ended up going to get pizza in Brooklyn, a gay bar in the East Village where my friend Kathryn was and finally the Beauty Bar on 14th Street. We had to catch the bus early the next morning and definitely did some sleeping on it.
Pretty much as soon as I made it back to Richmond I headed out to Travis and Carley’s wedding in the West End. Even though it ended up being a rainy night (that’s good luck right?) it was a very heartfelt ceremony and everything looked great. Carley’s dress and hairpiece was perfectly her as was just about every other aspect of the wedding.
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I wish all the luck to Travis and Carley in the future they seem so happy together and man do I hope to find something like that.
On Sunday Brittany, Hunter, Kelsey and I traveled down 64 East to spend an afternoon in Colonial Williamsburg. An afternoon of colonial gentlemen, colonial hats, Ye Olde Cheese Shoppes, heckling William and Mary boys, and $2 dollar wheat beers is always a great way to end an awesome weekend.
Paramore covers Phoenix
Thank you Phil.
Phoenix
Liz told me the other day that she thought I had a problem. I listen to too much Phoenix. Ehh it’s probably true but if you haven’t listened to “Lisztomania” yet you are definitely missing out on your 2009 summer song. As I’m sitting here I find myself unable to not turn it on…
A couple weeks ago I got to see them 3 times in a 4 day period. Ridiculous I know but let me explain as to why this happened. I originally wanted to buy tickets to see their Washington D.C. show at the Rock and Roll Hotel but I waited too long, like 2 days too long, and they sold out. I saw that they were playing a show at Terminal 5 in NYC the Friday before so I bought Liz and I tickets. I knew I could just go up and stay with Alex and have a good weekend up there anyways. So I call Alex to tell him about the plan and he finds out they are playing Thursday night at a venue in Brooklyn, a venue that is much smaller and one I would probably enjoy the show at more. He gets us 4 tickets.
So the week of Phoenix shows gets here, and by then we had decided to have Raechel come from Philly to NYC for the Thursday night show too. I was excited to dance with at least a couple of my Sauces at these shows. Thursday night’s show at the Williamsburg Music Hall was a blast. During the last song “1901,” Thomas Mars jumped down into the crowd while everyone was singing “fold it!” over and over. When he turned around to come back to the stage we totally had a somewhat sweaty hug. It was amazing. Love the French boys. I think this show was my favorite one, so thank you Alex for finding out about it and making sure we went.
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Friday night’s show at Terminal 5 was a lot of fun, I got to go see them with Liz! Although it was a much larger venue that didn’t mean anything less of the show. Terminal 5 has 3 different levels with bars and even a rooftop bar! It was such a great night to be in the city and to and from the venue Liz and I kept asking ourselves, “why don’t we live here!?”
At some point on Saturday I was on Facebook chat talking to my friend Derick. He told me that he still had an extra ticket for the Phoenix show in D.C. Sunday night. Unlike me he had bought tickets right away. His friend was being really iffy about coming so Derick invited me to go. I checked out bus times and found out it would only cost me $20 from NYC to D.C. and I would arrive right about the perfect time.
You can totally see me in this photo, right behind Thomas Mars is Raechel and to the right is me!
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I got to D.C. around 8pm on Sunday evening and we were a 5 minute drive to the venue. The Rock and Roll Hotel only holds about 400 people, so needless to say it was a very hot, sweaty dance party in there. Even though I did find that the D.C. crowd was kinda lame and not dancing and singing as much when they should have been. I didn’t take my camera with me on the trip but I had a little disposable camera with me, so when Thomas Mars came back down into the crowd for “1901″ like I knew he would do, I was singing and dancing right next to him and managed to get a couple good ones. It was interesting since the R&R is a much smaller place the sound system was much smaller too, so the show sound was entirely different from the previous two I had seen, this one was a lot grittier sounding, not quite as polished, but I liked being able to see that different side.
This is the setlist for all 3 shows. Kind of a bummer it was the same, but I suppose not too many people went to all 3 shows like I did.
1. Lisztomania
2. Long Distance Phone Call
3. Consolation Prizes
4. Lasso
5. Napoleon Says
6. Funky Squaredance
7. Rally
8. Girlfriend
9. Armistice
10. Love Like a Sunset Parts 1 and 2
11. Run Run Run
12. Too Young
13. Sometimes in The Fall
14. Rome
(Encore)
15. If I Ever Feel Better
16. 1901
And you better believe I just got my tickets in the mail to go see them in September in NYC again. A girl obsessed, yes I am.