Does anyone have a current e-mail address or any kind of up-to-date contact info for Oregano?

I just got this weird message on my answer machine from some guy in L.A. called David Willis. He says he's a writer and he got my number because I'm the owner of bmg.net, so I'm guessing he saw Oregano's fics on Dante's Inferno or something.

Anyway, he wants to get in contact with her about "a project". He says he tried e-mailing her but never got a response. He gave me a phone number and I want to pass it on to her, but I haven't spoken to her in over a year and I'm sure I don't have her current e-mail address.

Helpies?

It's about that time again, ladies.

You know what time I'm talkin' about. That random time when I find myself on blah-mah-gah.net looking through the quotes and almost crying from an incredible mix of hysterical laughter and sadness that the times I'm remembering seem so far behind us.

I was messing around on Facebook. I signed up for one yonks ago and, like my myspace, I never updated it at all. But tonight I started to for no reason at all, and I wanted to add some quotes. But instead of going with famous quotes, I decided to go in search of quotes from you guys, because who can come up with anything more touching, hilarious or insightful than you guys? No one!

I have tomorrow off of work, and I think I might just spend it gathering another batch of quotes, because they always make me so happy. But for now, let's just go over some old favorites, shall we?

( Again, no Penile thread title? Why no Penile thread title? Why, why, oh thread making gods?? )

♥

Thank you so much for all the Happy Birthday wishes, flist. *hugs* I know I've been absent lately (and I know that's an understatement), but I think about you guys all the time.

My birthday so far has been pretty average. I haven't even opened my cards and presents yet because I had to go to work this morning and I didn't want to make Brian wake up at 6am so I could open them, and I want to wait until he gets home from work tonight.

But I had a nice Birthday take-out dinner on Saturday night and my amazing friend, Sam, sent me a bunch of awesome gifts that I opened last week. lol She got me Jelly Beans (YUM!), The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams (because it's her bible), a journal, an oh-so-pretty Hanson notebook that she made for me from my favorite Hanson pictures, and a Hanson pendant that she also made herself and it's awesome and I love it.

Oh, and Hanson sent me a gift, too.

*freaks out*

Okay, so I don't know that it was intended as a Birthday gift at all, but it arrived today, so I'm gonna pretend it was intentional. lol

I almost freaked out when I looked at the address label on the big priority mail box and saw the words "Walker Hanson, 3CG Records" (for those who don't know, Walker is their dad).
But I managed to control myself until I'd left the apartment manager's office and was in the privacy of my car. Then I called Sam and flipped out.

Inside was a slip of paper that said "Thank you for donating your URL. We really appreciate the support. - Hanson" It wasn't hand written or anything, but I honestly don't give a crap. lol

SO MANY HANSON GOODIES!

They sent me:

- 1 Great Divide T-shirt (http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/37_sm.jpg?1188934010)
- 1 Walk Tour Hoodie (http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/250_sm.jpg?1195665659)
- 1 copy of Middle of Nowhere Acoustic (DVD/CD)
- 1 copy of Live & Electric (CD)
- 1 Travel Mug (http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/116_sm.jpg?1188934010 it says "Hanson Highly Caffeinated Since 1992" lmao. ♥)
- 2 Large 'The Walk' Stickers
- 5 Sheets of the stickers they only give out to fans on the walks to put up all over town as a sign of where they've walked. *squees*
- 3 Take The Walk Bracelety things
- 1 Hanson Patch Collection (http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/65_sm.jpg?1188934010)
- 1 Hanson Key Chain (http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/89_sm.jpg?1188934010)
- 2 sets of Hanson Playing Cards (http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/229_sm.jpg?1188934010 & http://www.hanson.net/images/data/products/228_sm.jpg?1188934010)

I am so in love with these guys right now, I can't even stand it. I don't even care if this didn't come from them "personally", if they had no say in it, nothing to do with it at all.

I. Don't. Care.

*loves everything*

HOLY FUCK!

I'm sorry, I'm shaking right now.

I just got an e-mail from yet another person at 3CG Records:

Subject: Question From Hanson

Hi,

The guys would like to know if you will be attending a show on this tour? If yes, where? Thanks


*flails* *dies*

No, I'm not attending a show because you never come to this side of the damn country! *runs into a wall and dies some more*

I NEED to go to a Hanson show.

Last night they covered "Lets Get it On" and "Oh Darlin". ajlskhdgljhgkaherugha!

But I just know that if I spend the money to fly out and see them at one of their shows this month, then they're gonna come out with a bunch more US dates in a few months that includes Seattle.

But if I don't spend the money to go see them now, they won't come to Seattle and then they'll go tour South America or Europe or Australia or Asia for the rest of the year and then go make another album and then go tour North America except for the west coast
again and I won't see them at all.

I hate them (I don't really).

And I don't wanna go alone anyway. Too many fansons scare the crap outta me. They scream too much and get drunk and get in chick fights and act like 12 year olds and make the rest of us look bad.

And I HATE viruses. I'm like a virus magnet. I just had to remove another one from my laptop. WHY doesn't Norton catch these things. This one has been around for a couple of years, it should definitely be on their list, but I scanned twice and updated my virus definitions and it said my computer was fine.

*kicks the universe*

Today sucks.

I know. It took me long enough.

'At The Fillmore' isn't my favorite Live DVD from the guys, it's definitely the one I've watched the least amount of times. I just feel like it's lacking something the other live DVDs had. It doesn't have the energy of 'Underneath Acoustic Live' or any backstage stuff like 'Road to Albertane' (I love all of that) and it wasn't as visually captivating as 'Middle of Nowhere Acoustic'.

And Zac looked so bored and miserable half the time! :( I don't know, maybe it was just me, but it seemed like he had these little bursts of enthusiasm every now and again and then he'd go back to looking like he wasn't in to it at all.

But the show does have it's moments. Little things here and there that made me smile. Mostly Tay being a doof and interacting with the crowd. 'In The City' is a great performance. It wasn't one of my favorite songs until I saw it performed on this DVD and then seeing how they threw themselves into it... it just changed how I feel when I hear it, I guess. lol

Anyway! On with the caps...


( (The Wet) Hanson At The Fillmore )

GALLERY

Next up: The Walk Acoustic Live

LYDIA!!!!!!!!

I already burned a dvd of FUTYs etc. for you, so I'm just gonna post these two here instead of doing another one. lol

I don't know if you have this one on one of your tapes, but it's of Hanson on SNICK in 1997. It was on youtube last year and then the user went and got their account suspended and I thought the chances of it ever being reposted were slim to none, which was really sad because it cracked me up and it was such a great example of what I loved about these guys (besides their music) when I was 14. lol. But now it's baaaaaack! Yay!




This one is from SXSW a few weeks ago. I wanted to put it on the DVD but I couldn't figure out how to save it off of the website so I'm gonna have to post it instead. :) I love it.

Guh. Hanson in a 'Rock The Vote' ad? And I didn't know I could love them more.

http://www.hanson.net/site/hanson/qt_view_page/168 (requires Quicktime)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEX!!!!!! :D I hope you have/had a wonderful day!!

Snagged from Becka

1. Pick 15 of your favorite tv shows.
2. Go to IMDB, and find a quote from each show. (Some didn't have IMDB quotes - so I also used Wikiquote.)
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the show
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions.

( Quotes... )

These are SO random. I just scrolled around on the page and picked any quote that wasn't too easy, too hard and didn't involve character names. :p

Cutest. Five. Seconds. Ever.



I'm a total Ezra Hanson fangirl now. Taylor's kids are way too cute, it's not fair. Penny is like the most adorable little girl in the world and Ezra is such a mini version of his dad and River is probably gonna be the same.

I must have a baby! lol

*hugs*

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post. Luckily, I only saw the guy once today and it was in a room full of people, so I didn't have to deal with him. I know, I know, I suck for putting off doing something about this, but I'm so damn nervous. But if he does it again, I will. (and btw, yes, he does know I'm married)


I have some weird news. I just got an e-mail for a guy who works for Hanson/3CG (their record company). It was about my site, takethewalk.net. At first I thought it was gonna be some kind of copyright issue or something bad. But it turns out they want to buy the domain name from me to use as part of their Walk campaign! I said yes, and that they don't have to buy it, they can just have it. I'm sure they'll be able to do a lot more with it than I have!

The suspicious has-seen-the-bad-side-of-the-net-too-many-times part of me is worried it's a con and it's nothing to do with Hanson at all, just some anti-Hanson asshole messing me around and trying to get me to take the site down for nothing. But the guys e-mail address was an @3cgrecords.com, and he gave me a phone and fax number. Hopefully he is who he says and I'm doing the right thing by handing over the domain name. *shrug* I hope I'm not gonna end up some trusting idiot. Or even more of one than I already am.

ETA

He's legit! :) I sent a PM to one of the forum mods at hanson.net and asked her if she knew anyone she could contact to find out if he worked for 3CG, and she just got back to me and said that he does. So now I can stop worrying that I'm being conned.

I don't mean this. I just need to vent.

DAMN YOU, HANSON! DAMN YOU!

Get out your f-ing US map and take a long hard look. See those states north of California?! Yes, that's right, they still exist! So, if it's not too much trouble, would you please stop completely ignoring them?!

Seriously?! 40+ dates last year and almost 20 this spring and NOT ONE FUCKING SHOW IN WASHINGTON STATE?! Or even Oregon? Seriously?! Are you guys like... wanted for some kind of crime in these states or something? Is there some kind of shrub you're allergic to that can only be found in the Pacific Northwest?

I'm not kidding. According to the tour archive on their site, they haven't played a show in Seattle, WA or Portland, OR since 2003. Did we do something to offend?

*sigh* I am so damn crushed right now. I've been watching clips of their shows on youtube for months, just waiting for these new tour dates to come out because I was so sure there'd be a show I'd be able to go to. I haven't been to one of their shows in almost 10 years now! :(

I hope it's a mistake. Or that they're gonna add a bunch more dates soon.


But with Zac becoming a dad in May and their current dates only running up 'til May 7th...

Damn it.


(please excuse the PMSing)

So, I've decided that when Brian and I buy our own place (hopefully later this year, but who knows), I'm gonna send him away for the weekend to stay with his best friend in California and you guys are ALL invited to sleep on our spare bed/couches/floors in our new house.

The Lit Thread Meet Up shall happen.

Oh, yes.

It shall.


(I'm not drunk. The icon just seemed appropriate for how I imagine the weekend might go. lol)

It's 3:15pm and I feel like I wasted my whole day off. *sigh*

I got up at 10am and thought I'd get so much done today. But then I found out my computer has some kind of crappy spyware or virus or something and I've spent 5 hours trying to get rid of it, running scan after scan with Norton and ZoneAlarm and SpyBot and Ad-Aware and I'm still not sure it's gone.

I don't know how people who create this crap sleep at night. They're fucking assholes.

I know I got tagged for some memes and I will do them, I promise. I'm just... not in a meme mood right now. :(

Yeah, so, I know like... 98% of you either hate or couldn't give a crap about those three blonde brothers who sing MMMBop. But if you like music, you still might find this interesting.

Every year, Hanson host a song writing "retreat" in Oklahoma. It's called "Fool's Banquet", it lasts for about a week and it involves them inviting about a dozen of their singer/song writer buddies to spend the week with them, and every day they break off into groups of 3 and each group writes and records a song. Every day. People who've never met before or who don't usually even perform the same genres of music. And I just think that's frickin' fantastic. lol

Last week was "Fool's Banquet 2008", which included: Hanson, Chris Sligh, Pat McGee, Keaton Simons, Jesse Laz-Hirsch and Kai Kennedy (Locksley), Stephen Kellogg, Zac Maloy, Andrew Ripp, Kate Voegele and Jason f-ing Mraz! *composes self*

(Past invitees include: John Crobsy (Vast), Bleu, Shannon Curfman, Andrew WK, Chris Holmes, Sandra McCraken, Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), Derek Webb, Mike Viola, Stephen Trask, Miles Zuniga (Fastball *squees*) and Eisley).

Because I'm a bad fan, I'm not entirely sure when it all started. I'm seeing mentions going back to '04, but it could've been even before that. I actually wonder if it was partly inspired by their trip to Miles Copeland's "songwriting boot camp" in France, which also looks like it'd be kick ass to be a fly on the wall for. I don't know if these were the only artists there that year, but just from the clips of them jamming and recording in SETB, they worked with Carole King(!), Mark Hudson, Miles Zuniga, Ed Robertson (BNL *squees some more*)... seriously! *head esplodey*

Aaaaaaanyway, I just think it sounds like a great idea and I wish someone would make a documentary of it! I think Chris Sligh mentioned on his blog that it was going to be filmed for something on A&E this summer, but I don't know, maybe I got it mixed up with something else he was doing. That would be AWESOME though.

The whole reason I'm even mentioning any of this now and haven't before, is Chris Sligh's blog post. I think, other than the very few short clips of "Fool's Banquet '06" in the Taking The Walk podcast, his account of his time in Tulsa was the most detailed description anyone has ever given about their time there!

More (much, much) about "Fool's Banquet" (this year and in general), including songs and a piccie under the cut for anyone interested.

( Um... the cut. )


Also, anyone familiar with any of the artists mentioned? Obviously, I know the big name ones (like Jason, Miles, Carole, Mark, Ed and John, and I'm familiar with Bleu and Locksley and I know of Chris Sligh, even if I don't know anything specific by him), if anyone had any tidbits to share, that'd be appreciated! :)

Bah. I made these to post with my caps, but I'm gonna link to the caps post at hanson and these might be against the rules there.

Hopefully some fans will find their way to this post on their own.

Here are some short video clips (yes, short clips, not full performance clips, you want the full length ones, you can find them on the DVD!) of some of my favorite 'Underneath Acoustic Live' moments, just in case any fellow fans haven't seen it/don't own it (buy it!)/want to enjoy it again. Or... you know, in case any non-fans stop by and are willing to actually give it a shot. ;)

These clips are mostly about 1 minute long and less than 10MB.

*** = HIGHLY Recommended! (well, they all are. lol But if you don't have time/space for all of them, I'd definitely recommend you go for these ones. ;))

( We're tunin', we're tunin'! )

I'd appreciate it if you didn't post these links or files anywhere else. I know I can't stop you, but I am asking nicely. Please? ;)

I never realized it until I started capping it, but this might be my favorite live DVD. There are things I absolutely love from all of them, and all the behind the scenes stuff from "Road To Albertane" is fun, but there are so many moments during this show that I just can't get enough of.

I made some clips (not full performance clips! Short clips) and you can find them here:
http://watcher-junior.livejournal.com/207166.html
If the mods @ hanson are against this, please comment and let me know and I will remove the link from this post.

Anyway... on with the show!

( Jeez, Taylor! )

Gallery (3000+ caps)

Next up: At The Fillmore

If you read this -- if your eyes are passing over this right now -- please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE-UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

We don't have to know one another well. It can be anything you want. It can be good or bad. The only rule is that IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your journal and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you. (That is, if you're so inclined.) 

So... this is kinda silly and pointless. But I was just going through videos on my hard drive and I came across the video I made last year about my summer in NH with Nicki, and it made me want to watch some of the original footage, so I did.

And there was just this one little bit that really got to me tonight for some reason. In a good way. It was from one night/morning (2am) when Nicki was just babbling to the camera, as she liked to do. lol. And I was just sitting in the background and I wouldn't cooperate and talk to the camera or give her a topic to talk about, so she called me a psycho hose beast and I pinched her on the butt.

1. If any of my friends I'd been around my whole life called me names like that, even in fun, it would have hurt. I know it's stupid, but I grew up incredibly sensitive to any form of teasing. My family couldn't even tease me, I would get so upset, I was so insecure. And I guess I never knew if any of my friends actually cared enough that they didn't mean it when they called me names. Which sucks. Everyone should have friends they can trust and truly believe care about them. I didn't. Not until Nicki. She could call me whatever the hell she liked and I'd just laugh or flip her off because I knew she loved me as much as I loved her and she didn't mean any of it. I knew it.
2. I can't think of any of my friends then or now that I would feel comfortable enough with to just lean over and pinch their ass. lol. Keep in mind, at this point in our friendship, I'd known her about 6 months and had only known her in person for 1 month. But it just felt like I'd known her forever.

Anyway, like I said, it's stupid, and I'm not even sure why I'm sharing it. It's gonna sound silly, especially after you watch it and see how random and pointless it is, but everyone should have a friend like this at least once in their lives, even if they friendship doesn't last forever.

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