Remember those HOLD FAST bracelets I made? Well, now you can WIN one!
I'm holding a Cabulous Contest over at my website, and I'm picking 2 people to win Hold Fast bracelets :)

All you have to do is make a video of yourself doing a fairly good job doing the rap from "I am Who I am!"

For more info check out my site. :)

Tomorrow I will be 21. Crazy!

It's going to be a fantastic Saturday filled with friends, food, Merchant Marines, and ball gowns. I'm having a friends+family party in the middle of the day and I'm going to the Merchant Marine Academy Christmas Ball (which is slightly more dressy than prom) at night. My date is 6'1", intelligent, and good looking. And did I mention that he's a merchant marine? And a private pilot? And able to restore and fly old aircraft? Too cool.

I feel like Cinderella. I don't really know why. Maybe it's because I've been busting my butt for the entire semester and I've been getting socially beat up for the past two months. (Evil step-sisters actually exist!) And now I get to go to the ball. :) I'm so excited.

My party should be interesting. My Dad's been talking about it all week, announcing it like it's an episode of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. "College Kids vs. Family -- Round One!" It should be interesting to say the least. I'm not worried -- actually more curious than worried. It's going to be fun no matter what.

I'm so tempted to make an all-Mozart playlist for the party. Mozart died on tomorrow/my birthday. Besides, what else could possibly make this party any weirder?

Apparently Rachel is making me a special cake that looks just like the stage/curtain of the Royal Opera House. If she can accomplish this, not only will I be really impressed, but I'll be tickled pink. (Or red, considering the curtain at the Royal Opera House.) I'm considering putting my Mozart action figure by it. It'll be just like I'm five again! LOL

No, but I'm excited. Only a few more hours! There's still tons of cooking and cleaning to be done tonight, but that's Cinderella's forte, right?

Kamijo mentioned in his blog that he will have a solo interview in the next Rock & Read, which goes on sale on December 24th.

( Not safe for work but hot... )

Very, very hot :) And while I'm not necessarily 100 percent a supporter of PETA, I definitely agree with the "adopt, don't buy" message: there are so many animals out there who need a loving home.

Hello everyone,

I am selling my Hide's Model Guitar, MG-145S CS, on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120501623878

Thank you for your time.

Have a great holiday.... soon!

Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

09:46 you and five other people! Spread the damn word!! @fanlitfrankly I love your Cal Leandros series. #

09:48 Yes @jackiekessler your guess about Goodfellow is correct! But you can't tell *anyone*. It's an arc from Roadkill to Book 6 #

13:17 HA! Study finds that there are NO college males that have not seen porn. NONE. Tsk Horny devils. tinyurl.com/ylz5924 #

13:32 How Goodfellow deals with it is...heh heh amusing @JackieKessler @Rob_Thurman AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH **faints** #

15:14 Foster dog to vet. Dog weighs 100lbs (up 33lbs from starvation at shelter) Vet says dog is fat. *I* say Baby Got Back! Lick that rump roast! #

16:53 Not as evil as I'd like to be. Kid who wished people under the cornfield? My hero. @JackieKessler @Rob_Thurman You know you're evil, right? #

19:40 It kills when you're writing Book 6 & something so fucking rocking happens but Book 5 isn't out until 3/10, so you can't even hint Goddamnit #

20:24 There's the manuscript headed my way @shilohwalker RT @AbsoluteWrite @tasmin21 's "A Devil in the Details" cover art ow.ly/Imzg #

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LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

Where can I go about purchasing tickets for this show?? My friend has tried to get tickets at Lawson but they were not available there. Is there any other way to get tickets for this show?? Any help would be appreciated and thanks!!

The GazettE covers

Here are 2 covers that i did recently :D enjoy.

The Invisilbe wall
www.youtube.com/watch

A moth under the skin
www.youtube.com/watch

Hyena
www.youtube.com/watch

Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

10:11 In the Biblical sense? Or in the morning wood sense? @mark_henry I am risen. #

18:00 For gamers and fans of elves *or* non-elf fans. It's debatable. Penny-Arcade never lets me down: www.penny-arcade.com/comic/ #

18:38 Some days :( @NeverWanderer Nice 2 see Nightlife get some recognition 1 of thefew books I picked up that completely satisfied & surprised me #

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Does anyone happen to have the "Alto's Lament" sheet music? I will die of happiness if anyone is willing to share it. :D

Thanks, guys!

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Hello everyone!
I'm new to this community and would like to make a question, I hope you don't mind!
In the DVD that came with the Anomie CD, when the band is in the car, there is a song on the radio that they start to sing and clap at, and though it's very familiar to me, I can't remember which song is it.

Does anyone know?
I'll be really grateful!

I woke up this morning with really big bruises on the back of my legs. One of them takes up half of my thigh! This is intense. My Mom was like, "Omgosh, what the heck are they doing to you?" But I know exactly how I got them.

Yesterday, I had opera rehearsal from 2-7:30. Granted, I didn't rehearse the entire time (I spent 3 hours assisting the costume designer! More on that in a second) but I had some intense rehearsal time. I blame all my battle wounds on Rossini.

We were doing the trio from The Barber of Seville for about 45 minutes. It's a very physical scene. The music is fast and the situation is intense so things get pretty crazy pretty fast. (Then again, the entire show is fast and intense and hysterical. I cannot wait to sing this show!) Basically, the three of us are trying to get out of my house so that the Count and I (Rosina) can elope. However, each character has a different opinion on the best method of escape so in the end everyone is pulling on everyone else and I really get whipped around the stage because it's me versus two boys.

There's this one section of the staging that came about by improv on the Count's part, but it worked so well that we kept it. However, it was tricky to make it "work" so we had to run it a few dozen times. In the course of the staging, the Count pushes me up against a thigh-high table. Hence the bruises. I kept saying, "I'm going to have bruises tomorrow." And I was right. But I am not ashamed of my battle scars! Besides, the staging is pretty sexy so it's totally worth all the bruising.

The three hours I spent with the costumer were so much fun. (We're starting on costuming for the big opera, Die Fledermaus, which we're performing in January.) She is really cool and über-creative. I wrote down measurements as she took them and helped her catalog all the clothes that people brought in. Between appointments, we got to chat and we were talking about the whole clothing-design industry and being an artist and what we want to do with our lives. She really loves what she's doing and I love to meet people who love what they're doing. She has a studio in NYC that I'd LOVE to see. I knew her vaguely because she worked with us on the opera last year. One of the best pro-s of being the scribe was that I got the scoop on the costumes for all the leads in the show. (The entire production presentation -- with sets, costumes, overall concept, etc -- is next week but it was so nice to get a sneak peek yesterday.)

I'm getting really excited for this show. It's supposed to be set in the 1860s but due to budget issues (and my director's innate dislike for "traditional" productions), we're setting the opera in the 1980s. ROCK ON. I was told that the entire first act is a pool-side scene. The lead soprano is going to be in a bathing suit, cover-up, and heels. The tenor is the pool-boy (LOL). When the costumer asked him if he'd wear a Speedo (and nothing but a Speedo, LOL x 1000), he flat-out refused. Then she asked if he'd wear tiny shorts instead, but he refused that, too. He put his hand to his knee and said, "No shorter than this!" He talked about it for the rest of the day and made his Facebook status "Derek will absolutely NOT wear a Speedo on stage. EVER. Final Answer." <3

I was even more excited to hear what my character is going to be like. They've decided to make my character GLAMROCK. Think David Bowie. Frilly shirt, leather jacket, big boots, crazy hair...YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Apparently the party that I'm throwing is actually a social experiment. All the guests/victims (aka the chorus) are uppity socialites and I'm the "cool" rebel. Cool stuff. I cannot WAIT for January!

I came home so exhausted last night. But it's that great feeling of exhaustion when you're happy and tired and fulfilled. This morning was another story. My severe lack of money forced me to drink instant coffee (that I can get for free at the office I work at). But that's okay. I can settle for instant coffee. In fact, it tastes good just because it's a symbol of what my life will be and I'm happy to take that life because it means that I get to sing opera again tomorrow.

Would anyone be interested in buying one of the collector's photobooks from last year's concert? I bought an extra one that's still in its plastic and needs a good home!



(It's the one on the left, still in its plastic.)

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Hello!

Selling my copy of X Japan Best -Fan's Selection-.

Used, but in mint condition, $6!

More info (and other stuff) over here! :)

Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

13:14 Vote 4 Deathwish (under duo urban fantasy cover) url2it.com/bljr Disappointed the Cal series didn't make the cut. Chris rocks :( #

13:15 Absolute total complete literary crisis of faith. #

13:18 Fan suggested I add 'graphic' sex to my books. Does that mean when Niko and Promise have sex they leave the light on? #

13:34 doesn't that ruin the resell value of your graphic novels? :&gt; @mark_henry It means they get some trim on a bed of graphic novels! #

15:30 Tell those contest people WTF? A series of covers of hot guys! RT @Psistriker Totally! Chris's art work brought your genuis to my attention. #

19:21 I need a screen cap of Silhouette and the nurse from the Watchmen recreating the iconic WWII kiss. Can't find it anywhere. #

19:22 Pictures of Captain Jack and Captain John from Torchwood kissing, though, are everywhere! I love BBCA. #

19:45 Bought a pair of kick-ass Mad Max monster-kicking boots on sale that have satisfied me more than any sexual partner. Sorry, guys and gals! #

19:47 They are truly fucking awesome boots//On another note: Cal 6 is taking an angsty (but still ass kicking) turn. Who'd've thunk? Snort. #

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