keith's parents live 1.5 hours away from me.
theyr'e away for the weekend.
keith is cat sitting for them...
he is at a show in another state tonight.
i wanted to go to the house to spend the evening with my kitty who is living with his parents right now.
plus he needed me to feed the cats for him.
i get here.
i cant open the garage door.
ive opened it before.
couldn't get it open tonight.
either of them.
so i spent an hour trying to pry the screen away from the window.
i used keys... my fingers... i ripped app art an umbrella to use the metal sticks... and i found a broken drumstick shoved into a potted plant outside the house... THATS what did the trick finally.
i had 2 near breakdowns because i was desperate and frustrated.
the *ONLY* thing (im sure the whole thing will be later... but not right now) that was funny was the fact that MY CAT is a little alien.
he knows my car, so when he lived at home with me and he was outside, i would barely pull up to my house and he'd come bolting across the yard.
well same thing happened here.
he heard noise on the window and scared the SH*T outta me cause im staring at a blank window and all of a sudden BAM! theres my cat. all the OTHER cats either didn't care, or were hiding cause i was freaking THEM out...
but not robin.
and it was ADORABLE cause he kept watching what i was doing and then started pawing at the window trying to get it open. if only it would have been that easy. LMAO!!!!!
*ugh*
but im in now (obviously).
at least thats what i call them.
let me explain.
first, know that im attributing this greatly to the fact that ive been sitting here since 8:30pm (its now 12:24am) or so dealing with a randomly intense-ish anxiety attack and i have *NO* idea why.... so im attributing the following rant to that...
"Today's rant is brought to you by Anxiety: 'Cause everything seems worse with an anxiety attack! *bing!* ::flashes a grin and swings arm in for a thumbs up:: (thats my commercial spot for the day...)
ANYWAY...... hoe band....
when i first met keith he was a member of a pop punkish kinda band, so im used to screaming little 14 -16 year olds screaming about how hot he is while they're standing right next to me with NO CLUE that im his girlfriend (or was... at the time). its cute actually. ...it probably also helped that it was a CHRISTIAN band... so... you know... the chances of hoes coming out of the woodwork were slim to none.... (not that there weren't any.............. thats another story thats not mine to tell because it has to do with another band member...). After them he played with a bunch of alternative country rock type bands... sweet stuff. love it. sure the band's have groupies here and there, but they attract a kind of older crowd... not OLD like grandma old... just... upper twenties through early 40's type deal. again. groupies happen, but not a big deal.
then he played with the blues brotherhood band (while playing with the alt country bands and/or blues bands...) even older crowd still.
the other day he was at the jam at the Sands in Bethlehem and he got scouted by the president of [enter management company here] (i started to write it out, but i thought better about posting it on the WWW. ...nothign is solid so i guess i shouldn't go spreading this shit around unless it falls through... just in case some of the hoe groupies of the band happen to be lurking on weddingbook and are planning on running to the band screaming "OH MY GOD, IS IT TRUE?! 
ANYWAY............ its this entertainment company that has a bazillion cover bands on their roster... and im talking about high paying gig cover bands that play night clubs and what i like to call "party bars" and this and that and whatever.
well the dude gave keith his card and said he had 2 bands looking for a drummer.
keith's got an audition coming up this week sometime... er, next week actually... (and knowing my lovely husband........to be........ he'll be auditioning THEM as much as they're auditioning him lmao! ...the boy does *not* like to waste his time with worthless projects. if its a dead end gig, they better pay well... if they pay sh*tty, they better not be a dead end gig.... lmao). so anyway (i say that a lot...) i just got done checking out this band...
and i think i had a heart attack.
party band is an accurate term i suppose. HOE band is my affectionate name for bands like these................. they play at places like the ever infamous (to my group of friends anyway, cause we always seem to get into fights there for some reason, even though it NEVER happens ANYWHERE else. ever.) hardware bar. for those of you who don't know what the hardware bar is (and im assuming 98% of you dont...) its like your real life coyote ugly in harrisburg, pa. theres a bar wide enough to dance on and the bartenders will and do. ...and any female patron can just take her little ass on up there and dance till her heart is content. (its all fun and games until some stupid b*tch puts her wine down RIGHT IN FRONT of where you're dancing with POINTED shoes on, which when worn, don't allow you to feel ANYTHING with your toes.... and then you kick it over... get her mostly white dress drenched in red wine.... the spanish chick wants to fight you..... and you're trying to make eye contact with your unobservant fiance who SHOULD be watching you up on the bar in the FIRST place but is staring off into space looking at god knows what.... to get you down of the bar before Mercedes climbs up and beat the ever living SH*T out of you...................... no, im not making that up. i have a funny (to me) yet derrogetory (not to me, cause i own the term... im puerto rican...) name for that almost-fight.)
where was i... i lost my train of thought..... (im sure you did too)... oh yeah. hardware bar... coyote ugly... anyway. that place is SUPER packed all the time. this is the kind of band that plays at THAT kind of bar. you can't move an inch wihtout having drunk dudes hitting on you even with your ring on and your fiance one stool down from you, while you're flagging down the bartender... "im engaged."
"the ring comes off"
"he's RIGHT THERE."
"i bet im better in bed than him..."
"f*** off."
those bars are a MAGNET for hoes and manwhores alike........... and i was watching this promo video for the band and surprise surprise, i recognize the hardware bar........... and one of the last songs of this promo video is "girls girls girls" (that might not be the right title) by .... i dunno who...... and there are TONS of girls (okay... like... 7... or 10....) on the stage... dancing around in their skimpy little................
dear god, my husband......... to be........ might be playing HOE shows every week. MULTIPLE hoe shows. and i won't even be able to GO to most of them.
the groupies he had before... i could deal with.... they weren't REAL groupies.........
THESE are real groupies. *REAL*. *GROUPIES*.
i trust him. i really really do........ but it kinda makes me uncomfortable to think about him constantly flogged by a bunch of hot skinny bitches that just wanna jump on his d***.
heaven for him, im sure... mr. "i never get hit on by girls..."
a nightmare for me. cause half those bitches don't even CARE if you're THERE with him. dear god, i was in a situation before i was 21 when he played a show with some of our friends, just for fun... a one time thing... and some girls were hitting on him while he was having a drink upstairs and he even pointed me out over the railing (there was a balcony overlooking the downstairs stage and dance floor) and told her he was with me and she STILL hit on him. hoe.
im not saying *EVERYONE* that goes to those places is a hoe... so don't get all huffy... i mean... *I* go sometimes (clearly), and *IM* not a hoe... but you can't deny that 80% of the clientele.... kinda is.
like i said... i trust my FH 100%, without a doubt........... but it still makes me nervous.
sorry for the rant.
The Fray, a Denver band famous for their first hit album How To Save a Life, have just released "You Found Me". The first song released from their new self-titled album The Fray, "You Found Me" has been received with much applause.
Being a fan of their soft melodies and lyrics from How To Save a Life, I instantly downloaded "You Found Me" from iTunes. I also picked up a free music video from the song's debut on ABC's LOST. This free video is currently available to download from iTunes. Be sure to pick up the song and video there, legally, to respect the song's copyrights and to support The Fray.
After putting it in on my iPod and listening to it numerous times, I was amazed at all the emotion that the song had. Isaac Slade, the lead singer of The Fray, explained the song's meaning in a post on his blog. He wrote, "You Found Me is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you're let down, sometimes you're the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I'm still right in the thick of it. There's some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest."
I'm sure that many people can relate to the powerfulness of Slade's lyrics. It asks why bad things happen to good people. He wrote the song after some of his friends and family went through some difficult times.
I find that this song is so well done that you can feel the pain and sorrow of Issac and the rest of the band. I can honestly say that I haven't looked forward to an album as much as I am looking forward to the release of The Fray on February 3, 2009. It's that good. Be sure to check out song if you haven't heard it yet.
