So this weekend was a live, cover band extravaganza for the birthday of yours truely. Now, I never claim to be all up in the knowledge of the music scene…but I do love a good dance party. And what is better for a dance party than 80′s music? Not much! This theory was proven yet again when my friends and I went to see Tainted Love… only the best 80′s cover band you will ever come across.
Tainted Love hails from San Francisco where I spent a year and half working my first job after college. When they played, it wasn’t just a concert – it was an event! No seriously, I’m not trying to be all snazzy with poetic verbiage now that I have a blog – Tainted Love shows ARE an event – an event that require dressing up and letting your hair down. These shows have been voted to have the best people watching by the AYTT (anyone you talk to) Society. Yes, 80′s outfits are bound to be hysterical when done right…but last Friday, it did seem that many people thought that anything tacky = 80′s. But some really pulled it off – we saw a lot of metalic stretchy pants, off the shoulder shirts, zebra print, ugly 80′s prom dresses, and overdone make-up. S-O AWESOME!
This band seriously rocks!!
So anyway…I was nervous that I had hyped them up too much for the friends that attended with me, but we danced the night away – in high heels and all. Here are a couple videos for your enjoyment! The first is their promo video from a couple years ago…and the second is a fan’s shot from right below stage.
well…not exactly I guess, but spectators (myself being one of them) were definitely disapointed about the anticlimactic images being shown on TV this morning. I kept starring at the screen with all the attention I could muster at 7 o’clock in the morning….waiting, hoping, expecting to see some amazing cloud of…something. Little green men would have been cool too, but I would have settled for the dust cloud. But we got nada, zip, nuttin’!
Then, all of a sudden the people, being televized in what I’m assumming is mission control, stood up and clapped! They were certainly all proud of themselves…clapping, puffing their chests out, hoisting their pants up and grinning like fools…yeah, you know exactly what I’m talking about. So I thought, they must have done something right…even though I’m completely clueless as to what just happend. Then after reading this article about the mission’s outcome, I was finally informed that they did happen to collect a lot of data…but that it will still take TWO weeks to determine if water or ice particles are among the findings. Two weeks? Most of the resources in the world and it is still going to take two weeks?
This then got me on a random thoughts track…maybe you actually know a legit answer to this…but did we need to get permission from the world first, before hurling large objects and crashing them into the moon for fun? I mean…it isn’t OUR moon…it’s everyone’s moon. My coworker stated that since we’re (meaning the USA) the only ones who’ve been there…we technically could claim ownership of the moon if anyone were to do so. But I’m not so sure…
So this past week, I got really sick (apparently with everyone else on the planet) which caused me to stay home from work and classes. Side note – apparently EVERYONE and their mothers were sick last week. No joke – two other members of my team at work were out the same days.
Anyway, laying on the couch for two days straight definitely leads to cabin feaver, loopy-ness and what have you. It also means that you’ve probably exhausted all your TV options from the DVR when you weren’t sleeping. On my second full day of being home I was scrolling the movie channels, couldn’t find anything to watch and just choose one to leave on while I snoozed on the couch.
And wouldn’t you know…but Aron Carter actually starred in a movie…a terribly bad one. Yes, you read correctly…all of a sudden a new movie started called Popstar. I knew right away that it would be terrible – but hey, anything to take my mind off the pounding headache for a couple hours. It was AMAZING in a terrible movie with cheezy scripting kind of way…haha…at points I was litterally laughing outloud and sent the following email to a friend who I knew had been into boy bands during our middle school years.
“OMG… I haven’t moved from the couch for like the past 5 hours and right now there is this ridiculously CHEEZY movie called Popstar on TV… it is with Aaron Carter and the scripting is hilarious! Of course I haven’t been able to turn it off… I HAVE to see what happens…It’s so 90′s… it’s awesome…. in a horrific way. Okay, i think i’m going back to bed now… I must be delirious”
For your amusement, I found the Popstar movie trailer on YouTube. This 2 min clip definitely makes the movie look legit…but don’t be fooled, the fact that this video only has 16,800 views certainly makes it a YouTube flop. I could not find some of great, cheezy dialouge …but you’ll still get a taste.
I think my favorite line is “So WHAT? I’m a POPSTAR” hahaha
The largest (no pun intended) news story this morning as well as talk around the water cooler was about the 19 pound baby born in Indonesia…19 POUNDS?! That’s crazy…
Apparently, his mother has diabetes and her high glucose levels contributed to her son’s size. The doctor’s say that he is otherwise perfectly healthy. Obviously I’ll defer to the doctor’s opinion here…but if this were an American baby, I’d be affraid that the fast food industry has more affects on us then we can possibly realize.
Here he is next to a standard size baby…doesn’t he look like a little Jaba the Hut?
Maybe Indonesia will soon be a competitive force in the Sumo wrestling world...
Yeah…so Gchat was down this morning, FML. Yes, and like probably a million other people…I was constantly trying to refresh it and sign in again. When that failed, I decided this blog needed to be a apart of the ever expanding Twitter world…yes, I felt like I sold my soul just a little bit…but, great news! Now you can follow Lil’ Loopy Blog on twitter…click here to follow.
It’s mid afternoon… delirium is starting to set in with everyone it seems. My friend actually laughed out loud at her boss:
“my boss told me in our meeting this afternoon that i was “rather opinionated.” That is the THIRD guy that has said that about me in the past week and none of them meant it in a good way…i actually laughed at him…i was like, please….jump on THAT bandwagon why don’t ya.”
Ah…Boss man, she still managed to give you her opinion.
Let’s face it – giggling is contagious and sometimes, at in opportune moments…we can’t help it. The worst is thinking about something funny during class or a meeting. You try to hold your breath while your cheeks turn a lovely shad of purple and your stomach muscles are desperately crying for relief…all to when you can’t hold it in an longer!
So this weekend was a live, cover band extravaganza for the birthday of yours truely. Now, I never claim to be all up in the knowledge of the music scene…but I do love a good dance party. And what is better for a dance party than 80′s music? Not much! This theory was proven yet again when my friends and I went to see Tainted Love… only the best 80′s cover band you will ever come across.
