As promised, here’s the photo from the meet and greet at the end of the Kelly Lounge Friday night.
When we were standing there for the photo they had the slowest count down from 3 that I’ve ever heard. Someone could have counted to ten in normal countdown speed. I’m surprised everyone isn’t blinking.
And man, do I need a tan!
Loves.
As I posted the other day I’d “won” tickets to the Kelly Lounge to see Serena Ryder perform. I went over to the Fox Theater right after work and got there about five minutes before Serena hit the stage. My friend from work, Mary Ellen, met me there and we sat pretty close to the stage. Not that getting a good, nay, great seat would be too difficult, they only gave out 150ish tickets and not everyone that “won” even showed up. Idiots. It’s a FREE show!
She came out, chatted a bit, and then opened the show with her current single All For Love.
I took videos of parts of the show. This video is the first verse and chorus of All For Love. She sounds so good live, definitely not an artist that needs any assistance in the recording studio.
I liked the fact that she would stop between songs and chat about her songs or her boots. A kid in the audience said that she liked her boots and that she was wearing boots too. It was pretty funny. She seems like a really cool person and I hope that she is very successful.
Serena played about 5 songs (the Kelly Lounge is short but intimate) before the meet and greet. While standing in line to meet her I bought one of her cds for $10 so I could get her to sign it. Plus after hearing her live I would totally buy her album anyways.
Afterwards Mary Ellen and I went to dinner at this little joint called Happy Jack’s. It’s been in Bakersfield for 30 years and the food is scrumptious. You walk in the front door and there is only counter seating and about 16 seats. They are known for their burger and pies and let me tell you, they deserve it. The burger was yummy and yummy with a bunch of delish thrown in for good measure. Then we had pie. I died. Sooooo good! Pineapple coconut cream pie, dead. Apple crisp a la mode? Killer. I wasn’t sure if I would recover, but I came back to life just so that I could die again at a later date.
There are two radio stations that I listen to regularly here in B-field. The first is KLLY (Kelly) 95.3, a top hits station and the second is KRAB 106.1, a rock station. Kelly is home of the “world famous Kelly lounge”, a intimate concert held at the Fox theater which has featured over 90 artists and bands since it began over 8 years ago. Previous artists that have appeared include Michelle Branch, Ben Folds, Phantom Planet, Jason Mraz, Collective Soul, Gavin DeGraw, Josh Kelley, Ok Go, Augustana, Gavin Rossdale, and Adele. Some artists play a show before they are very popular and others (Adele) appear after their song is regularly making radio play.
Over the weekend Kelly kept playing a teaser that the next artist to visit the Kelly Lounge would be announced Tuesday at 2:25 in afternoon on Facebook. They also were saying that the first 100 people to RSVP would receive free tickets to the show. I don’t have class on Tuesdays until 3:10 so I was able to have my laptop out to try to “win” some tickets. The concert date and artist appearing were posted and I was number 88 to RSVP, earning myself free tickets to the show.
Tomorrow I’ll be stopping by the studio to pick up my tickets for Friday night’s Kelly lounge featuring Serena Ryder. Her current single is All For Love, it’s pretty good and her voice kind of reminds me of Melissa Etheridge.
I’ll post any photos from the show this weekend.
Loves.
Today on my way home from work I was thinking about the little things in life that I love. I thought that I’d share some of that here.
Here’s hoping you found a little something to smile about today.
Loves.
I have some exciting news! This morning I received a response to a request that I made which included a turning in of an application. Got you interested? Good.
I applied for and was accepted into Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology! I will be inducted (as well as my friend Dina) on Friday, May 21st at a dinner and after that will be a lifetime member.
That’s wonderful, but what all does this mean?
So if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go do a happy dance now. And when I’m done dancing, work on my homework to keep my grades high.
Loves.
Occasionally I wish that I had a universal remote. You know, a real universal remote like in that Adam Sandler movie Click. Only I would be responsible with my new found power. I’d just use it for important things. For example, pausing time so that I can sleep in. Or doing a quick rewind to catch information that I missed. And I wouldn’t fast forward through homework, I’d pause time so that I would have even more free time when I finished! I think the only time I’d fast forward through school would be my health psychology class because it’s so slow and boring! We could do in half an hour what’s done in two hours in this class.
Sometimes when I have too much homework or too little sleep I imagine how wonderful it’d be to have the power over time. That’d definitely be my superhero power if I could pick. Though flying would be a close second. I think that’d be fun, though slightly impractical if I needed to take anything with me. Ugh, flying home for the weekend with pillow under one arm and suitcase in my other? No thank you. But that’s ok, I enjoy a good drive with fun music blaring.
Loves.
I think that spring is my new favorite season. I used to love summer but since I’ve moved to the gateway to hell I’ve changed my mind. Spring is green and warm (but not crazy hot) and just as good as a Santa Barbara summer.
After a few weird weather days (clouds, wind, night rain) the weather has gotten warmer and this week two moths have made their way into the apartment. I’m expecting many more this spring and summer, something I’m not terribly excited about, but they’re not hard to take care of. In fact, it’s really easy now.
Godzilla watch your giant scaly back, Dixie, make that Dixilla, is on the case. Mothra and Mothra Jr. went down!
The first moth was flying around the living room which made the capture quite the challenge for Dixie though she didn’t let that deter her from jumping over the couch in one giant running leap while tracking it. After a while we lost it when it tried to fly through my head and I showed of my cat-like reflexes by quickly ducking.
A few hours later I found it hiding in the bathroom so I called Dixie over and closed us in. I had the flyswatter but Dixie had so much fun hunting the moth earlier that I though I’d let her try to catch it. Turns out that for having been a “fuller” cat she’s really agile! (She’s lost weight since I’ve taken her in, probably because I don’t allow her to eat off my plate, and is now 12 pounds.) This cat can jump and move super fast. There was a point where she was standing on the edge of the sink when the moth tried to fly over her. She leapt into the air, clapped the moth between her front two paws, then when she came down to land her one foot missed the edge of the sink so she released Mothra to spot her landing with her front feet. I was totally expecting her to fall but very impressed by the catch even if she didn’t land. She did catch and play with the moth a bit before I removed it. I wish that I’d had my camera to try to catch some video, maybe next time.
Then last night I heard Dixie scratching about and moving stuff so I got up to investigate. She had found another (slightly smaller) moth, Mothra Jr. This one was less exciting, it either couldn’t or wouldn’t fly so it was trying to walk away and hide. It was dead shortly after I realized what Dixie was up to behind my VCR (yes, I still have one!) so he got to join his buddy from two nights earlier. Hopefully this won’t become a very regular event, not that Dixie would mind. Ha!
Loves.
