you nearly had me roped and tied

[aruan]

Onto a real update. I've finally bought a digital camera - Pentax Optio 555, and that's a whole lotta camera for comparatively very little money. There's nothing like a good deal to brighten any day. People got their ticket situations ironed out so thank goodness on that, and I'm officially all out of coherence, so a list it is.

- Very happy birthday salutes to runerinrun!

- Despite my own set of TicketMaster troubles this morning, I called and reconfirmed and everyone I was buying for has tickets.

- I'm itching for this alleged "dirty" version of A.D.I.D.A.S.

- The prospect of the Celebrity DVD being bought by Steve Fatone's production company and finished/sold that way (as suggested by lisachasez) is a heartening one. *crosses fingers*

- wearemany's comments on JC's Sunset show made me remember to mention this - "...a thing that simultaneously impresses me and freaks me out about JC's live shows is how he hits exactly the right note the right way at the right time every single performance I've ever seen..." I've been to many shows where the live thing didn't come close to living up to the album, and given that I've been tested to have near-perfect pitch, notes being on-key is something I'm sensitive to. He invariably nails it - "...he can do jumping jacks for an hour and still hit every note he wants."

- Came by some anecdotes about JC from someone in his band that, while didn't surprise, made me all 'Aaaw!' in the midst of my chaos of a morning, and I'm very glad his respect/treat people as you want to be philosophy has brought him such likewise good, loyal company.

- The audition call/retraction for dancers for a fall *NSYNC reunion tour was an interesting blip on the radar. My hopes, despite my last post, continue to spring eternal.

- This was too cool. From scot_ty: "Valentine was talking to the lead singer of Maroon 5 about their new album and about playing in front of a crowd as big as the one at the Rose Bowl [at Wango Tango on Saturday]. The guy was very well-spoken and very down to earth about their level of success, that he was kind of overwhelmed today. Then he stops talking all of a sudden, in the middle of the interview. When he starts talking again, he says, totally unsolicited, Chasez's out there right now tearin' the place up." Also, Kevin apparently grooved to one of his songs as the rest of the Boys looked on. Famous fanboys make me squee.

In other news, today is over, and really, that's happy thought enough to make me fly.

Quote of the Day:

"Pop needs JC Chasez."
- anonymous PopJustice boarder (go read the rest, too, with thanks to stamplet for the link)

Comments

[runerinrun.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

I'm quite confident we will since you are rooming with Mr. Sparkly, but we need to do dinner or drinks at Challenge again this year!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

*begin supersekrit message*

I don't know when it became easier to communicate via lj comment than like, a phone call—oh wait, yes I do, it was just now. Because I don't know your home phone number yet, and your cell phone is long distance from the house, and we all use our cell phones for long distance now, and mine is allll the way in the next room, and your post was right here, as was I. Ergo, vis-a-vis, etc.

Wanna do dinner on Wednesday? That would be good for me, so let me know tomorrow. By that time I will most likely be by my cell phone. Or, you know, hit "reply." We'll meet in the middle somewhere.

*end supersekrit message*

Yay, camera! Uh, I'm getting on that. I think. *faceplant*

[giddyupnow.livejournal.com]

That's an awfully nifty-looking set of specs on that camera! If I wasn't such a Cannon devotee, it'd be enough to send me astray :-) The audio and video options especially look promising. Can't wait to see it in action.

Despite my own set of TicketMaster troubles this morning, I called and reconfirmed and everyone I was buying for has tickets.

I'm very glad to hear that. I was about to ask if it would be necessary to write to the fanclub to get their assurances as well for backup, in case anything happened, but if TM is confirming it and issuing tix, then I am content.

Today has just been one thing after another coming from all direction and I think I'm ready to call it a night at 8.30PM just to get it over and done with. Blegh.

(And I didn't see a mention of Lance in this post, which I'm guessing would be on here if you'd seen it yet, so am going to just point you that way now before you stumble into it... Rae has those along with evidence of The Grab. It's, like, the official Post of Pain. Sigh.)

[tortugagypsy.livejournal.com]

- Came by some anecdotes about JC from someone in his band that, while didn't surprise, made me all 'Aaaw!' in the midst of my chaos of a morning, and I'm very glad his respect/treat people as you want to be philosophy has brought him such likewise good, loyal company.

And where might one find said anecdotes? *lol*

And I was going to email you and giddyupnow about Challenge. I was just wondering if you guys wanted to meet up at all for whatever (dinner, just talk, etc etc). I'll be 21 so it doesn't matter where said meeting takes place. *lol*