he's not selling any alibis.

[semisweet]

is lj acting wonky for anyone else? i clicked on my bookmark for it a little while ago and it took me to livejournal.com but all it showed me was a random icon. and then a few minutes later i had clicked on what was supposed to be my friends page but it took me to the friends page of some other random journal. weird.

i went to the saratoga music festival yesterday with scott. conor oberst was amazinggggg and the total highlight of my day and i wanted his set to be 10x longer (&conor;), i was excited to learn that the swell season consists of glen hansard and marketa irglova (they were awesome; he was wicked charming, too - he said something about his holy trinity being bob dylan, leonard cohen and van morrison, big love from the crowd for that), i didn't know who steve earle was but i enjoyed him tremendously, and bob dylan was underwhelming. yeah, i said it. idk, admittedly neither of us are, like, dylan experts of any sort, but by the time he'd played for over an hour and neither of us recognized anything he played (well, "highway 61 revisited" kind of, but eh) and it was after 11 and we'd been there since 1? yeah, we totally left. oops. plus, he was kind of...not engaging? he never spoke the entire time we were there. idk! :/ *fails* also, this was without question the whitest crowd i've ever seen, wow.

omg, i am leaving tomorrow to go to florida! i get a jovi! and a dar and an adrienne and a jen and stuff! and then i get to go to tampa and have a josie! and then i have a mom, lol, and we're off to seattle and then our cruise to alaska! \o/ \o/ \o/ i am not at all packed! D: D: D:

OCC:


ETA: bonus of the littlest cook, because he is SO CUTE.

Comments

[quiet-rebel.livejournal.com]

Yup, that same thing just happened to me with LJ...

Oh, I love that picture!

[fallenangels607.livejournal.com]

yep, i got the bob the builder icon. which at first amused me, but then i was all /o\ because i didn't know what to do. but then i refreshed the page, and it was fine.

mm, the OCC today is glorious. i hope he's feeling better after charlotte. poor exhausted cook. :(

[cookiesr1.livejournal.com]

Did he start not feeling well in Charlotte? I heard something about him getting sick or something just from the lj communities...

[heartsfortress.livejournal.com]

YAY FOR BONUS COOK! \o/

[15north.livejournal.com]

Yes, LJ is being mean.

[cinandtonic.livejournal.com]

lol um...will you be allowed to fly into Florida? You're coming just for the hurricane? ;)

DCook = rockstar \m/

[inlipstickred.livejournal.com]

lol, YES, totes! i haven't had a hurricane for a while and i was missing the excitement. XD

yes, yes he is. ♥_♥, etc

[cricketkate.livejournal.com]

Dylan played in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and I was a little sorry I missed it. But all of the reviews were pretty similar to yours - that he was underwhelming, never engaged the crowd, and no one could tell one song from another. I guess it is possible to stick around and keep touring just a little bit too long.

[inlipstickred.livejournal.com]

yeah, it was kind of disappointing. i mean, ok, so he's 67, i don't expect him to do anything crazy (not that bob dylan was ever about crazy stage antics, obvs), but it just was so anticlimactic. i enjoyed steve earle, who i'd never even heard of, much more.

it's always a weird thing for me when you see people who've had these really long, massive careers, but their biggest hits all happened 20+ years ago. because, like...i mean, bob dylan put out an album in 2006. so did elton john. but i don't go to hear that stuff, i go to hear "shelter from the storm" or "goodbye yellow brick road." and they know that. but at the same time, i respect that they're artists and i certainly don't begrudge them the right to play the music they're making now, you know? i find it depressing when artists are forced to basically just play a live version of their greatest hits albums.[/ramble]

[http://users.livejournal.com/_allshallfade/]

I ♥ Conor so much. And the Swell Season. So I'm pretty jealous right now.

[inlipstickred.livejournal.com]

i had absolutely no idea that the swell season was them. they went on after conor (omg, he was so good) and i had gone to get food because i was starving and they started while i was in line. but then as i was walking back, i heard glen talking and i was like "ooh, irish accent, nice" and then they started playing "falling slowly" and i was like "OH THAT'S WHO THAT IS!", lol.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_allshallfade/]

omg "Falling Slowly" ♥

[http://users.livejournal.com/_allshallfade/]

Aaaaaaaand I just noticed that my icon is your layout! LOVE.

[ispeakinternet.livejournal.com]

bb Cook's little face is my favorite. ♥

and this explains a bit why LJ was all wonky for a few minutes there.