Hooray for the Screamies!

Here's a cameraphone pic I took at the 7 Shot Screamers show at the Pub on Friday. I think I had it set to "tungsten", though I'm not sure what that means. I was well into my third Beck's Dark by that point and I can't really remember what I thought I was doing. I took 25 pics ranging from somewhat clear to arty to what the hell? I'll post some of the others on flickr.
The show was fantastic..they played a couple of my favorites (Vampire, Live Fast Die Young, Keep The Flame Alive) and of course, Ballroom Blitz. The crowd was not too crazy, unfortunately. Rockabilly people, for all their dressing outrageously and driving of fast cars and motorbikes, are not any more likely to have a good time than goth people. Rebby and I rocked out in front though. I think the show was so wild last time because there was an equal mix of rockabilly people and punk people...this time it was pretty uniformly rockabilly and the punk people who were there mostly lurked in the back. I didn't really talk to the screamers because I had not heard anything from them prior to the show, even though I had volunteered to hang posters for them and they had said they would send some to me. At a certain point one starts to feel like a nag, and I didn't want to hear any lame apologies or any promises that they would come to the restaurant that they wouldn't be able to keep. It's a personal problem, I think. Anyway, I did talk to Mike a bit after the show and get the new CD (file under: AWESOME!!!!) and a bandana. Chris has grown some unfortunate facial hair and was wearing an old man hat that made him look like, in rebby's words, "an 80s movie street performer." I thought that was a pretty funny and apt description. I chatted a bit with Bobby Lamonde which was really nice..he gave me the good news that his new Sci Fi Idols will be playing at the Pub with the Genders in November. Hoorah!
Before the awesome show I had a shitty night at work. I was feeling kinda crappy, and trying not to smoke (though I did end up having approx 5 cigarettes by the time Friday was done), and the baristas who were working were arguing like siblings, and the art show crowd was lame, and the band crowd was lame, and everyone kept ordering things I hate to make, and I was just a cranky pants. Once I got to the Pub I perked up though and now it is hard for me to conjure up exactly why I was so cranky.
Oh! It might have something to do with hormones. I got a little hormonal surprise on Saturday.
Saturday I managed to lay in bed until 8am! I got up with a little bit of a headache and dealt with the hormonal surprise, and was pleased to see that PBS was showing my shows FINALLY after something like 4 weeks of telethon crap. So we watched shows and ate waffles and bacon and drank coffee, and sat around on the couch all day watching movies. It was a great rainy laying around kinda day. I didn't smoke any cigarettes at all! I actually left the house around 6 to get some vegetables and tampons, and then came home and made a kick ass stirfry for dinner. We tried to watch Plan 9 From Outerspace on the TV late at night, but fell asleep on the couch. Hee.
This morning I was up early and bouncing around. I organized almost all of my catering papers (it got too boring about 80% of the way through, but I'm sure I can finish it off quickly on another day) and answered some emails and washed the kitchen and bathroom rugs. Gotta get geared up now for another dinner shift...hopefully I can be in a better mood this time! I've smoked two little cigarettes today, and I have a very little bit of handrolly left. We'll see how it goes.