if you haven't signed up to get emails from daily candy, you really should go to their site and sign up. they've got a plethora of cities you can get info on now, but so far i've liked the everywhere, nyc, la and kid varieties of newsletters. and i'm an ass about forwarding links from those emails to others saying oh damn check this stuff out it's oh so spendy but oh so cool at the same time!

of note, i'm currently lusting after sixty dollar aprons that they had featured recently...

you'd think i'd have more to talk about than a nifty website link, eh comrade? you'd be right.

tuesday night danielle and i went and checked out the vandals xmas formal show at the house of blues in hollywood. it was the coolest concert i've been to since junior senior back in the big wis...

i've heard a few vandals songs here and there over the years, but i've never seen em live. and i'd have to recommend them to all my friends, because where else but a punk rock show can you see a guy sing a heartfelt ballad about hanging himself from the xmas tree, then pretending to hang himself from one of those cheezy 6 foot tall inflatable trees you can get at rite-aid, then running around on the stage singing with this noose around his neck and the tree dragging behind, then the tree drifts out into the crowd where people start clawing at it like it's the last glow in the dark care bear to be found this xmas season, and the only way the singer can avoid actually hanging himself is to stage dive into the crowd, where security guards race to untangle him and pop the xmas tree?

aside from putting on a really sweet fun show, the vandals also do an awesome, awesome cover of queen's "don't stop me now". seriously. buy their cd just for that. it's beautiful.

it was so great to get to hang with danielle for a good big chunk o time.

she turns 18 this weekend and that blows my friggin' mind. she got accepted to cal state san bernadino yesterday and is holding out for cal state dominguez hills. it trips me out that it's time for her to talk college. and buttknee's not far behind.

insane.

in other news, i tried a new recipe for dinner tonight. you take a crappy microwave burrito, and since you don't have a microwave you throw it in the oven for the perscribed amount of time. then you fry it in the frying pan with some vegetable oil.

the jury's still out... it's kind of good but i think maybe i used too much oil.

very very soon i'm gonna start making my xmas tree. i can't wait. when i got to the art supply store i found out they didn't just carry the regular ol' brown butcher paper, but it also came in a darkish green color - bestill my beating heart, my tree only cost a couple of dollars and it's gonna be freakin' hott. pics to follow.

i swear, for real, not like all those times i said i'd take pictures and then i never got around to it. you will see pics of this tree or i'll eat a hat with french fried potatoes.