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Seeing Arctic Monkeys live in a few hours! Wohoo! :DDD So excited about it. :3 Apparently the gig in Mexico City last night got rowdy, cause the tickets were oversold, but hopefully it'll be all right in here.

It's funny how we associate music with certain times of our lives, isn't it? How it sort of stucks to the moment in time where you first heard it, or how you associate it with a memory, or a thought, or a mood or a someone that was important. When I became obsessed with Humbug, I'd just come back from England, and it suited my mood perfectly. After all, the album is all about loss, and longing, and anticipation. I was pretty lovesick at the time, and a bit depressed, and pining after the boy terribly, so I just held onto the album a bit manically. I still miss the boy a lot, of course, but I'm used to it and it's manageable now, most of the time, but whenever I listen to the album I remember those days, and it gets me all sigh-y.

Ah well. The boy sent a text earlier hoping I wasn't going to fling my knickers at them, lol.

What kind of stuff you remember with music? Tell all, flist!

Heeeey. I saw Placebo on concert on Tuesday, which was the highlight of my week. WEE, PLACEBO. They mostly played songs from the new album, which is good, but not my favorite of them, but they played really well and I just love seeing them live. The gig was free, though (you had to win tickets via trivia games, etc) so half the people there didn't even know the band and the crowd SUCKED and I couldn't see that much of anything, but hey, FREE GIG, so. Still. Placebo! :DDD

I saw Jennifer's Body on friday and I was surprised by actually liking it. I mean, it's WEIRD, because it can't seem to decide between being a horror or comedy movie, but it was really self-aware and made fun of cliches and it was funny and overall a lot of fun. WHAT. Also, I have a big big crush of Amanda Seyfried, SO.

And today we got a turtle! It is cute and nameless as of yet. It is also lost in the shrubbery, lol, and we haven't seen it since like 5pm today, when it magically dissappeared behind the bushes. We're, ah, hoping it'll come out for food? and/or sun? And when I say we I mean all but my brother because apparently he's ALL OF TWELVE YEARS OLD and feels REPLACED by the turtle. Yeah. My brother's a big baby. Anyway, it's cute. While it was still visible I took it upstairs to show it to the boy, and he gave his approval, haha. He also suggested 'shelly' as a name, which says a lot about his witty, witty witticisms. SIGH.

I haven't had a chance to watch Merlin yet, but I will do so now! YAY.

Am so so very tired. Am also happy fangirl.

The music fest I was talking about was yesterday, and while it wasn't as good as the one on May, it was still awessssome. ( In order of appearance: Paramore (lol), The Kooks (yay), The Flaming Lips, MGMT (ZOMG), Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails ) So it was all AMAZING and fun and trippy and YAAAAY even if my feet and knees and back and neck ACHED so much by the end of it and even if I did reek of pot, haha.

I slept very badly last night (I always get funny dreams and/or sleepwalk after being in crowds, dunno why) and I've JUST finished my homework, along with having gone to social service ONLY for the damn designer not showing up, curse her. SO I'M TIRED. A LOT. And now I will sleep. YAY SLEEP.

(Someone in today's newspaper called The Kooks 'Like The Libertines, only without drugs.' Not quite true, no, but it still made me laugh.)

I think I'm coming down with a cold, I'm running a bit of a fever. Not surprising, considering I stood in the rain for about 45 minutes yesterday to get into Cut Copy's concert. Was it worth it?

HELL YEAH. :DDDDD Zomg it was SO GOOD. SO AWESOME. They fired up the audience so much and, well, I'm usually at my happiest when jumping up and down and dancing in a concert, always have. ♥ So I slithered my way up to the second row (!!) and danced to my heart's content. The highest point of it was probably when they played Hearts on Fire, the last song before they came back for the encore - it was just so unbelievable good, but Zap Zap, Out There on the Ice and So Haunted (not to mention Lights and Music) were also amaaaazing.

I DID end up going alone, though, and it started really LATE so I was all alone (con mi pinche soledad - hola, soledad, gusto en verte) for like, an hour and a half. That sucked. ALSO. I understand the want to look all kinds of rockstar cool in a concert, but I have a strict comfortable-clothes-only rule in these cases - even my 'concert' bag is godawfully ugly, but oh so practical. I just will never get the girls that go in 10 cms high heels and short short shorts. Like. No. Just, no. How can you JUMP like that? TSK TSK.

(The opening act was two dudes with two macbooks. That's just WRONG for opening stuff. Jeez, at least pretend to play a guitar, or something.)

I did get to see SPN on Friday (and it was ~awesome~) but I still haven't seen Doctor Who. BUT. It was for a good cause! It was!

Because yesterday was the Coca Cola Zero Fest and it was WONDERFUL. YAY.

( Much squee and love for: Metric, Miranda!, The Faint, ZOÉ (OMG ZOÉ WAS SO GOOOOOD!) and The Mars Volta )

( Well, y'all were right, because Travis was absolutely incredible in concert. :) )

In all, it was fantastical, and they gave an amazing show. Just like with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I liked them before, but I love them now. ♥

Also, I couldn't download Feeling Good before I had to leave for class yesterday so I'm listening to the ones I hadn't heard before right now and it's really good! Very different from the rest of their albums, and quite 90s-ish in sound, but really good.

( The Killers, Baby (or, a very long winded review) )

My favorite favoritest concert ever continues to be the Placebo one, (because, DUDE, but first row) but this one was pretty awesome, anyway. ♥♥♥♥

So. Placebo. SDFLAJSDLFJASLDFKJ;LKJALJDFA;LSDJF.

( Recap, in which there is much squee, capslocking and abuse of exclamation points )

I think this one surpassed even Zoé's concert in awesomeness. And that one was a tough one to equal *g* Oh man, I had so much fun!!!

I ♥ Placebo

Yeah Yeah Yeahs was AMAZING. Karen O's just insane, which made it all the greater. De Descartes a Kant, a local band, opened for them, and they were cool enough. My dad called me in the middle of Maps, and I kinda hung up on him XDD In all, it was wonderful, exhilarating and oooh, so cool. They didn't play No No No, though. Nor Bang. Oh well. Now, onto something more important:

¡¡FELÍZ CUMPLE, sarie_gamgee !!

Me considero bastante afortunada de haberte conocido, porque es lindo tener alguien con quien ser patéticas fangirls y pláticar de fandoms e historia y tradiciones y todo lo demás de lo que siempre estamos hablando. Muchas, muchas felicidades, y hey, aquí todavía es tu cumple, así que técnicamente, todavía estoy a tiempo XD Y aquí hay un pequeño regalito, que te escribí en Inglés, pues, sepa por qué, pero ya ves.

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( “Well, happy birthday, kiddo,” says Dean, looking proud of himself... )