Ok I've tried several times to upload a sound for my userpic or whatever. It is being dumb!! The file is a 124 K mp3 file. I go through all the steps and it brings me back to the first page, and I click on my picture and I hear the creepy Mac voice saying I haven't uploaded a sound yet. Help!

tully's

pano's

mall

bars? (what we're 21 now?)

falls

best friends

can't wait

be home next week

i have not fallen off the face of the earth by the way. just fallen into the world of fredonia and music education. i can't wait to climb back out!

now for some fredfest fun...






random crowd at Brian's




Pat and MK sharing a moment





an MK sandwich

fredfest...

less than a week away...

come join in the fun!

=0)

in other news this weekend I bought new shoes and saw Goodbye Lenin, my first subtitle movie in a theater. good stuff.

So last night I went to see Jane Monheit. If you've never heard of her, first of all you're lucky. Second of all, she's a jazz singer who is fairly popular. She has a couple albums and performs in Manhattan a lot. We saw her in Jamestown and we were pretty excited.

I will take this opportunity to invite everyone on Earth to NEVER buy anything that might possibly give her money and NEVER EVER go see her in concert. It was the most disappointing, ridiculous concert I've ever been to. True, she has a nice voice...good singer. But last time I checked, having a pleasant voice didn't make you the greatest person to ever walk the planet. And I truly believe she felt this way.

What bothered me most is that the whole thing was all an act. She was so fake. Everything was fake. During every song there was an opportunity for one of the band members to solo (badly) and she would take this opportunity to shake her hips, dry hump the piano, run her hands through her hair, toss her head back like she was having a you-know-what, make all these faces like the music was really moving her...and it was so obnoxious. I almost felt like it was borderline inappropriate.

And the way she talked to the crowd...oh it was just so phony. Even the band was terrible. They were just competing with each other - no chemistry at all.

It was such a disappointing concert. Never even think about seeing her or recommending her to someone. I feel really bad for the people in the audience who thought it was a great musical experience because it was all so cheesy and fake and DUUUUMMMMBBBB!!!!!

True Story...

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun,proceeding to scream at the top of her voice, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!"

The four men didn't wait for a second invitation. They got out and ran like mad.

The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then it dawned on her why.

A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the Police station. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed.