Thanksgiving Weekend

Yuck, the Monday after Thanksgiving is definitely no fun. I looooovvved having a long weekend...not happy to be back at work, that's for sure. Thanksgiving day was really nice, my brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner and we rounded out the evening with a rather mental game of Scrabble. For once I won by a landslide (Wife usually wins when we play), but maybe the only reason I won was because we decided that you had to create band names and you got double points if you were able to do a real band name. We came up with some pretty crazy possibilities, I'll have to share some of them but I don't have the list with me right now, so that'll have to wait.

Did a little Christmas shopping on Friday, spent a bucket of money at Borders but don't feel too guilty about it:) Then I went and saw "Walk the Line" on Saturday with Husband and Wife. It was really, really good! Definitely go see it, great acting and I give Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon a lot of credit for doing their own singing. Wow, great film...if it doesn't win some awards I'll be stunned. Before we went to the movies, Husband, Wife and I went to Ashley's for a few beers and I think Husband wins for best quote of the night. Somehow we got talking about Brad Pitt and his role in "Thelma & Louise". I argued that was his "break-out" role, Husband retorted, "That wasn't a break-out role, that was a happy accident!" Hmm, maybe you had to be there, but I find his argument about it being a "happy accident" pretty damn funny.

Not too much else exciting going on. I'm playing with the idea of going to see Brendan Benson at the Blind Pig on Friday...we'll see. Still working on expanding my musical tastes/knowledge and have been listening to some stuff by the Psychadelic Furs, The Ramones, Joy Division and The Stone Roses over the weekend. Psyched that Kerrang 105.2 has been playing Alkaline Trio lately along with their usual good mix of stuff (which, of course, includes MCR).


And finally, just because it makes me happy and it's the Monday after Thanksgiving, and I need something to be happy about, here's a photo from MCR's latest appearance on Daily Download. Oh yeah, one more thing, if you haven't submitted any playlists to Spin's Pocket DJ contest, do it! The best part is coming up with weird-ass playlist titles (Husband, you better work on that "The world can go f$@# itself" playlist!)

Happy playlist-ing (I know it isn't a verb, humor me, just go with it).
Ciao,
Sasha