hii has his wii! and the twisted 13

a couple weeks ago, we learned that janelle's lil' bro' had heard about the wii and suddenly his christmas list changed to only want that... problem was, so did every other lil' boy/girl his age, making it quite hard to find... alas, due to lots of research, calling around, and pimpin' we were able to get word as to when the arrival of the next shipment would be..

i'm sure most of the retail peeps were quite sick of the myriad number of calls they probably got in a day about the wii or ps3, they were quick to answer, "i don't know..." to any inquiry we had when we called.. however, through the grapevine we heard that target would be getting some as well as toys r' us...

thanks to the help of janelle's sis (jessica) and her main squeeze (aj), we were able to split up to head out to target and toys r us.. needless to say, her lil' bro now has a new toy... i can't wait to see his face when he opens it on christmas... that'll be all worth waking up early and standing out in the 0 degree weather... he's been told that he won't be getting one since it is too hard to find, so that'll only set it up even more...

on friday we stepped foot into the starry studded sky of the aragon ballroom to attend and evening with the red jumpsuit apparatus, rise against, and my chemical romance... we're at that stage in life where we feel quite old at concerts (although i'm sure mcr's crowd is geared towards more youngins than oldins)... the good part is that we're taller than everyone else on the floor.. which leaves us to a clearshot view of the stage...

we were able to get pretty damn good spots front and center with an unobstructed view of all the ongoings...highlights included - 2 sorostitutes drunk and dancing to DJ music in between sets, bumping into everyone (mind you that we were packed like sardines, in fact i think i had 5 people who i didn't know in me at one point..) and being quite obnoxious-attention-whore-because-they-realize-their-lives-are-plain-old-boring-jane... they even started picking on some grrls around them trying to start that sorositute shit but the people around them wouldn't have it... they eventually opted to leave (or were made to leave)...

i really liked red jumpsuit apparatus (since their name reminds me of megaman) and rise against were alright (didn't realize how rockin' they were)... my chemical romance were a ton better this time than the last time i saw them... gerard (sp?) must have taken some vox lessons as his singing has vastly improved from the regurgitated-off-key-yelping (pre-black-parade).. but mcr's set was absolutely rawkin... pits broke out all around us as we helplessly were swept back and forth within the crowd, singing at the top of our lungs... it was a good time had by all..

in the end, we were finally able to unstick our sweaty selves from the other sweat laden bodies on the floor and peeled ourselves out the door into the closest corner store for refreshing drink... after a quick el ride (where we heard a homeless man talk on repeat about how his mother had just died [felt quite sorry for him]) we made it back to casa-de-yue and took in some much needed z's....