New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Wednesday, December 31, 2003

When did Little Squaw get political? Don't hate me because I have varied beliefs and am willing to declare them...

Okay, so it's New Year's Eve! We're on the cusp of another year and I have to tell you that 2003 was a great one. Lots and lots of things to be happy for (all annoyances aside). Everyone was well. We bought a house. Lots of friends had healthy happy babies. Edgar and Freddie are still two little whipper snappers (going strong after 3 plus years). One brother got married and one brother got engaged. And I saw Fountains of Wayne six times in less than six months.

Last night I had my first Fountains of Wayne dream which was strange but now I think I just figured out why. We were at a SHU game last night and the band stinks. It's really bad. Plus their song selection is very odd. This is coming from a girl who loves bands. I like it all. I particularly love marching bands but a sitting down one will do as well.

Anyway the SHU band's range is very limited. Songs include, Cleveland Rocks, Knock on Wood and who knows what.

So why is a Catholic University band playing a song which was originally placed on Safe and Sound:A Benefit in Response to the Brookline Clinic Violence, hmmmm? An album which I love? I find it yet another example of the inconsistency of said organization. Not to get all political now that you think I am a member of the NRA from my previous post. WHICH I AM NOT. Those people are crazy.

Anyway, I am a Catholic and I am pro-choice. Part of my reasoning is this, like buying guns, people are going to get abortions whether it's legal or not. We need to keep the people who do get them from dieing as a result of back alley abortions or guzzling Penny Royal Tea which will turn your innards to mush. I support education and compassion. I also don't support some of the anti-abortion tactics. Yesterday, I was in a Catholic store looking for a new missal and I rounded the corner to walk smack dab into a Right to Life display featuring a hand pinching a membrane between the thumb and finger and in said membrane was a fetus. I didn't even make it to the text. I averted my eyes and bolted around the corner. No wonder people hate Catholics.

One thing I stand firm on is that I do not support late term abortions. I have several friends who were encouraged to consider the option late into their pregnancies due to what the doctors perceived to be possible birth defects in the baby. That infuriates me. Plus each child in question was born PERFECT. But in truth who defines "perfect"?

I think we need to support people to have the courage to make it through the difficulty and stigma of an unexpected pregnancy. I don't think that there should be a stigma. I also think that there are so many many people who would love to have the opportunity to adopt a child and that people should really consider that as an option. I worry about the day that we choose to have children and whether we will be able to do it on our own. I think of all the children that will never be and I think of how should it play out that way, I would like to adopt. Don't even get me started on the abortion pill. First thing anyone needs to realize is that most people are stupid. You're going to have a lot of stupid people using that pill and dieing as a result of them bleeding to death. That makes me sad. Such is life.

Anyway, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones song reminded me of the compulation and made me want to write a letter to SHU telling them how inconsistent they are (but mainly to get them to pull the song because they play it so badly) and then it reminded me of how we had MMB at SHU in 1996 and what part I had in that and how Gil and I were looking at our college yearbooks the other day and I noticed the MMB mention and how cheesy the article was and then how the other night Gert was looking at the yearbooks and mentioned said article and how I had written it which I didn't even notice or remember.

The Fountains of Wayne dream was similar to the MMB show. Same stage, same kind of people etc...however it ended in some sort of tragedy. The stage was very high. I am standing in the front on a box so I can see. Right before the encore I decide to run to my room to change my earings (I know I know)...the encore is taking quite some time to set up. I get back just as they are kicking into "Survival Car" and all hell breaks loose. I don't know what happened but as I am rushing to the front some sort of scuffle erupts in the crowd forcing FOW to stop playing to stare in horror at the crowd and the show ended. I remember thinking, "Well that's a first."

Okay then. We have celebrating to do so I need to prep.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


The 2003 Fountains of Wayne Year In Review as it pertains to me attending shows...
Fountains of Wayne...Fountains of Wayne...Fountains of Wayne...

A fan since 1996 and about 15 or more shows later:

July 11 7:30PM: Fountains of Wayne in store performance at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ

July 11 11:00PM: Fountains of Wayne at the Tradewinds in Seabright, NJ

August 25 7:30PM:Fountains of Wayne at the taping of the Carson Daly Show

August 26 8:00PM: Fountains of Wayne at the MTV Blast Off concert in Central Park

August 27 2:00PM: Interviewing Adam at Living Room at the W Times Square for my popgurls.com interview

October 23 6:00PM - Fountains of Wayne performance in the Lodge. Finding out that they liked my article. Asking the Barbara H question. Asking Chris to play "I Know You Well" a song he wrote which has never been on an album. Adam playing over it thus launching them into another song. Speaking to Chris later and discussing the song and his other band Gay Potatoes. Giving him my info so that I can write another article when if/ever they have tracks laid down. (Fingers Crossed)

December 12 11:00PM: Fountains of Wayne at the Starlight Ballroom (Formerly the Hunka Bunka Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ). Asking Chris to play my song again as he bent down to adjust his pedals. Him smiling/laughing and saying, "Maybe later." My song not getting played. Encore and Chris comes out and says I'd like to dedicate this song to the nice lady in the front with the homemade t-shirt on and then breaks into "Leave the Biker" not my request but the name of the song on my homemade t-shirt (FOW does not sell cute enough girlie t-shirts to contain me). Conversation afterwards with Chris involving t-shirt making tips and discussions of holiday parties, he knows someone I know, they live in the same town and run with the same crowd, etc...

Biggest FOW regrets of 2003:
Not going to the FOW concert @ Irving Plaza July 10.
Not getting tickets for their Conan appearance. (Tried too late.)
Leaving Seattle the day they performed there in a club which I was at the night before, thus missing them by a day.



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