Wheeee okay, so the Ben Folds concert: in a word, it was fantastic! Although I rank the last time I saw him live as one of the best concerts of my life, it had more to do with the incredible line-up (Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, and Guster) than with the actual performance. Last night's concert was much much better than that, performance-wise. He ( Read more... )

All right, so first of all, I don't know what my subconscious is trying to tell me. It might be "You are watching way too much Gilmore Girls lately" or "Go out there and make some more friends in Chicago!" or "Wheee! Hormones!" or something. But my dream Friday night was about getting married-- no idea who the groom was, the entire dream involved ( Read more... )

I'm just about to leave for the Ben Folds concert, and was listening to the mix CD John made me back in the day, to psych myself up ( Read more... )

My roommate now has a job with the ELCA, and he came home tonight and told me a story about how he was chatting with the Bishop Emeritus about how the Filioque clause contributed to the split between the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church, and when I expressed confusion over what the heck he was going on about (my roommate is a ( Read more... )

Chicago is full of concerts! And I am going to some!

Here's the trawl so far:

January 10th @ the Metro: Streetlight Manifesto, with openers Grand Buffet and the Stitch Up - I have a universal rule of concerts that whenever three bands are playing the same show, one band will be awesome, one band will kind of meh, and the third band will be so ( Read more... )

Right, so, things ( Read more... )

I'm jumping on the "Top Albums of 2007" list-making bandwagon. Since, y'know, everyone else is doing it. ( Which is kind of the definition of jumping on a bandwagon. )

Stockings on the mantle
It snows here everyday
But it's a green Christmas anyway

Red nose on the reindeer
And tinsel on the tree
But it's a green Christmas for me

It's an emo Christmas for Cat, actually.
*wangst*

Ryan is out on a misguided search for tacos and guacamole, so I'm taking this opportunity to use his computer. Chicago has finally figured out that winter does not just mean Being Unforgivably Cold, and has started to Actually Snow In Quantities That Are Noticeable ( Read more... )

THEY ARE MAKING A MOVIE OF THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.

Holy crap!