audio: "excuse me while i

audio: "excuse me while i drink myself to death." spent.

(thanks to Beeru-chan for making me think of the above. she's the *real* lush, not me. XD )

fairly decent weekend, all told. Friday night, we had a band party. gathered at Mike's and ordered pizza, listened to the recording of the show from last week, and watched a movie. (well, some of us watched the movie. some others of us drank a teensy bit of Bass and fell fast asleep on the floor. yessirree, typical party for me. sleep is a party in and of itself, and don't let anyone tell you differently. XD)

as for the recording, it's not so bad. Jon had me thinking it was really terrible...and while it's not the most ideal thing in the world, it's not nearly as bad as i'd been expecting. some MP3s will be up sometime soon...whenever Jon gets around to making them. i will of course keep you apprised. but i wholeheartedly second, third, and fourth the notion that we INDEED need stage monitors with a group this size...'specially for the horn players. >.<;;;

saturday, made some chicken satay for Rob's party...also finally perfected sweet (as opposed to hot) peanut sauce for the satay. Spaz can't handle hot foods, so this was a necessity...and it turned out REALLY nummy. and still has red curry paste in it! w00t! i will get my evil curry into you one way or another! mwahahahahhah! XD

(just goes to show that if you grow up in a combination of households serving american, indian, and thai foods, sooner or later, you WILL foist curry on everyone. i have a biological need for curry, don't you know...XD)

i think it's the best satay i've ever made...AND i apparently soaked the skewers long enough this time, as they indeed did not catch fire. XD yay for lack of chicken pyrotechnics! ^^

the party was fun. Rob and Nancy's house is very nice, and they have very friendly cats. in fact, i started mewling at them as the evening wore on, which woke them from sound sleep curled on the couch in between Nancy and Maggie and made them come and congregate (can two individuals congregate? XD) at my feet. looking at me strangely. they'd never seen a pink cat before, after all. XD

Rob made excellent gazpacho and some sort of salad...Maggie made some sort of rice thing that was really good, and EXCELLENT flan. my god. i could've died quite happily while eating this flan. ^^ some neighbours of Rob and Nancy's brought strawberry shortcake, which was also excellently good. and Rob broke out some nummy spumoni. much dessertish goodness was had...which was, of course, the most important part of the meal. or of any meal, really. so it was fun.

got home, fast-forwarded through the tape i'd set for Top of the Pops. watched small bits...the Doves song seemed pretty good, if a bit long. they seemed a bit nervous. Pulp's song ("Bad Cover Version," for the curious) dragged on a bit, but at least it was performed LIVE. i shall have to go back and watch again, but i do believe the only two songs that weren't in fact performed live were whatever song Holly Valance did...and New Order doing "Here to Stay."

a severely truncated version, too. pared down even from the shortness (relatively) of the radio edit. *glares* and mimed badly. which was partially entertaining, and partially sad. mostly sad. and Hooky looked like he was going to fall over...though the one point when he was playing the electronic drum kit and looked like he was going to attack it at any moment with his teeth was kinda funny. XD Stephen just looked...annoyed. and Barney can't lip-synch...he was totally out of time. XD the hopping around was kinda funny, though.

and right after were the chart announcements...and then Oasis. doing "The Hindu Times," of course. ( Kimmie, if you want a copy, let me know. i already know some others of you will want one, and shall oblige...soon. XD) as TotP is 40 minutes long, there was a 20-minute-long "Little Laters" thing on afterward (truncated Jools Holland) featuring the Stereophonics, which i also taped but haven't yet watched...

so the TotP thing was slightly disappointing. i'd known it was going to be mimed. and evidently when they did "Crystal," they mimed that, too. but they used to have a policy wherein they refused to go on if they couldn't perform the song live. this policy apparently did them no favours when they did "Blue Monday" live, but i thought it was rather cool that they'd stuck to that. so, kinda sad...especially since this was the first time i'd gotten the chance to see one of their TotP performances. i end up torn...good for exposure, yes, but this performance prolly won't do them any favours in terms of getting people to go out and buy the singles and/or the soundtrack to 24HPP...

eh, whatever. but either way, the distinct lack of Gillian seems so very wrong...;.;