Massive Update

I really hate that it takes me so long to update this thing. I've kinda started a regular schedule over on "Play Your Stereo Loud," so hopefully that'll help me update here. Though I don't know how many of you still read this, if you ever did. I promise I'll try to do better.

Not a whole lot has happened over on the Christina Front. Christina gets paid on Friday. That makes her very happy. You know what else makes Christina happy? Cary Brothers :)

On Saturday, my friend Kaitlin and I went to see this little thingy called the Hotel Cafe Tour at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC. It's sponsored by myspace.com and (RED)TM, that little campaign that raises money for, I think, AIDS research. I should be more with it, haha. Anyway, so the whole little tour thing was kinda conceived by Mr. Brothers. It featured Joshua Radin, Jim Bianco, Kevin Devine and Schuyler Fisk (the girlfriend in Orange County with Colin Hanks!). Oh, and Cary too. But, I mean, seriously. All that great music in one room?!? Are you kidding me? Best $17 plus train&subway tickets I've ever spent! (Musical review to be on "Play Your Stereo Loud" later in the week). Plus we got to meet some of them. Kaitlin is in love with Joshua Radin so we talked to him for a bit and got autographs and then she talked to Schuyler Fisk for a few minutes. I stood next to Schuyler but didn't say anything because I didn't know what to say, haha. But it was cool.

After the talking, we went back upstairs to watch some more and got to see Cary sing "Blue Eyes," the song that appears on the Garden State soundtrack. Oh man, it was a crowd sing along. It was fantastic. After his set ended, we watched a few more songs, but then decided that we had to go in order to catch the very last train out of NYC (1:34am!). We went downstairs where I spotted Cary by the bar. This was my opportunity to tap him on the shoulder, say hi and get him to sign the poster I had Kaitlin rip off the wall for me, haha. So I did. He looks different close up, but he's still super gorgeous :). I told him that it was a great show and I wished I could watch more, but we had to leave. Then I asked him to sign it. He goes to a table to sign it and then turns back to me and extends his hand "Hi, I'm Cary." "Hi, Christina," I smiled. He signed it: "To Christina, Love Cary Brothers." It was really cute:). Then he was like "It was nice to meet you," and I said the same, and then he said "Don't worry. We'll see each other again." I smiled at him and was like "what?" He then explained that he was sure he was going to be in the area again at some point and that he was releasing an album in February so he'd probably be back. "That's great!" I said "So I can come to another show or something." He says, "Yeah, we'll see each other again." Hahaha... oh man, I <3 Cary Brothers.

Oh! I almost forgot to mention that I got my first over-21 wrist band that night, and celebrated by buying a giant cup of Budweiser for $5. Beer has never tasted so sweet, hahaha. Oh, and I also got beer spilled on my knee by some random person. My knee. I don't know how that happens, but that was pretty awesome too...

All in all, it was a pretty groovy night. And and and... I got two Cary Brother's EPs for $10 total. And they are AMAZING. Saturday was a great day :)

Hey You!

Yeah, that's right, you! Have you been reading "Play Your Stereo Loud"? No?!?!? What the heck is wrong with you?!?!? Go read it. Right now.

It is now going to be the site of my new semi-weekly, -monthly, daily, -lifetimey column called "Why I <3 Rock Stars" and features funny news stories or quotes or whatever I can find about rock stars and why I <3 them. You should read it. The first one is pretty funny. And they're not that long either.

Oh, and while you're there... read the reviews, leave comments, go to the bathroom, eat a slice of pizza, whatever you want. Just read it, yo :)

<3 Christina

Update on My Life

Hey all, not a whole lot going on here. I'm full blown into NaNoWriMo now, with outline and characters and all. Actually I'm finding new characters all the time, and I'm only like 25% of the way through my outline. I def need it if I want any chance of making it through this coming month... especially if I want to come out anywhere near the top. It's actually kind of stressful, but this should be fun. It really pisses me off that I also have to deal with this little thing called "school." What a bitch.

Also, Breanne and I went to Fright Fest last night. Wow. Let me tell you... $45 well spent on waiting in line for 2 hours for a 10 minute "scary" hay ride. Though, in its defense, it was kinda creepy b/c it takes you in the woods in the dark and people jump on the wagon and out of trees. It was... cute... it was fun. Waaaay too many people for my likes though... but whatever.

Also, in other bloggy news. You should really check out "Play Your Stereo Loud." The link is just over there to the right ---->
It's good. Read it. :D

PostSecret and NaNoWriMo

So yesterday Breanne, her sister and I went to the PostSecret exhibit in Reading, PA. It was really cool. Pretty inspirational i think. I wish i had more art supplies here. Like card stock. I wrote somewhere around 26 secrets last night after I got back to my room, and I want to send some of them in, but I need to find something to make them out of. I also purchased the book. It's really amazing. I love PostSecret so much

Also, I may have talked about this before, but I'm going to join this thing called NaNoWriMo, which is a group of people around the world (though mostly in the US) that join together for the month of November to write crappy novels. The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. They don't have to be good and they don't really have to be coherent. Plot holes are allowed. The only stipulation is that you have to start from scratch at 0:00 (or 12:00am) on November 1, and you have until midnight or 11:59pm on November 30 to submit your story. This is going to be awesome! www.nanowrimo.org.

That's really all for now... (oh, and I didn't get to meet Alessandro Nivola on Friday:(...sadness) Oh well, maybe some other time, haha.

Christina :)