Rocking our socks off

Paramore and No doubt were phenomenal in concert last night. Since Krysti was unable to go with us at the last minute, Erin had a genius idea of making a sock puppet of her to bring her "effervescent" personality with us. Thus Sock Krysti was born.

Erin, her brother Joe, Sock Krysti and I braved the mud and the teenagers to rock out to some seriously good tunes.

Mark Kano totally rocks

I'm obsessed with Athenaeum. I have all their albums, including the six-song demo from like 1997ish. I spent 45 minutes in a Tower Records in Chicago looking through a Spin magazine in 1998 trying to find out who sang the song "What I Didn't Know" and then practically accosted a sales guy to ask him if he knew. As it turned out, the store just so happened to have the song on a listening station and thus my absolute devotion to the band was born.

I've seen them multiple times in concert as Athenaeum (and as the stripped down version of Mark and Mike). I begged the owner of The Bay in Chattanooga to let me in the night before my 18th birthday because the bad was playing and you had to be 18 to get in. Thankfully the owner was awesome and I rocked out with Karen to some of our favorite music.

So, now to the point of my story. I found out today that Mark Kano, the lead singer, has a solo album coming out at the end of the month!!! So I pre-ordered a copy and then sent him a nice little email telling him how excited I am about it (in a much less anxiety-inducing way than above). I told him he made my day. Then this afternoon I get this reply:

"Thanks Susan. YOU just made my day! I hope you enjoy the record! Best, Mark"

Yes, that startling, high-pitched noise you just heard was me freaking out like a crazy fangirl.

Bella's Lullaby?

I must confess, I was a dorky fan-girl and went to Hot Topic at the mall last night to hear the unveiling of the Twilight Soundtrack. I only made it though a few songs because I felt like such a dork. While I was not the oldest, I was in work clothes (ie: dressed up in heels) and did not quite mesh with the skulls and goth clothes in the store.
I very desperately wanted to hear two specific songs: Never Think by Robert Pattinson (the lovely Edward) and Bella's Lullaby, composed specifically for the movie. But I didn't want to be lurking around a store with lots of tweens ans teens eying me like I was out of place so I left before either song came on. So today I did what any dorky fan-girl would do after missing out on my songs - I found them on You Tube. They're not the best quality, but I'll take them. Enjoy.

My Current Life Soundtrack

Mark bought the new Finger Eleven CD a few months ago because he liked Paralyzer and I liked Falling On. But neither one of us had been big fans of the band before (Plead don't get me started on the awefulness that is The One Thing). But somehow this little 42+ minute album has wormed its way into my head and burrowed in for the long haul. And I cannot help but play it. Over and over again. It seems that it's finished as soon as it starts, and by the end, I'm not ready to give it up yet. So I replay. And replay. Until my stereo begs me for something different.

Karen's B-Day CD 2008

As I do every year, I made my sister a CD for her birthday. I usually try to intorduce her ot new music I think she will like as well as throw in some favorites from our childhood and teen years. I struggled with this one because I didn't have any music to put on it. So I began scrambling and just looking up songs from TV and movies and I ended up with one that is pretty damn good. See for yourself:

Fences-Paramore
Crucify-Tori Amos
The World Spins Madly On-Weepies
Good to Me-Inara George
Sway-The Perishers
Beautiful-Adrienne Pierce
Superhuman-Cinder Road
In the Mean Time-Spacehog
Le Disco-Shiny Toy Guns
Six Feet Under-Neve
Monster-Meg & Dia
Shadow of the Day-Linkin Park
Redwing-Hem
Cold Hands Warm Heart-Brenden Benson
Back To Life-Soul II Soul
Unsingable Name-Mike Daughty
Thanks for the Memories-Fall Out Boy
Seven-Prince
Sweet Sacrifice-Evanescence