I made it!

So, I guess one-blog-a-day doesn't really work for me :D

But anyways... I made it! I flew out of Frankfurt on Friday morning and landed safely in Chicago. On 9/11 :D I didn't realize my flight was on 9/11 when I booked it, it was the cheapest date, like 100$ less than on any other day. But oh well, it really didn't bother me. And the flight was fine, I had a window seat and the seat next to me was empty = A whole lot of space to stretch out. I slept a lot during the flight, I actually slept through both of my meals :D But the guy who sat with me in the row took my food and placed it on the empty seat beside us so that I could eat it right after I woke up :D The food was... hmm yea well :D The first time they had some kind of fish which was really spicy and I didn't eat that. But there were potatoes with it and I ate those. And the second meal they served were sandwiches, so that was fine.
After we landed customs took a really really long time. And there was this man behind me who coughed the whole time we stood in line and never once put his hand in front of his mouth. I kind of tried to move away from him :D Well after customs I picked up my suitcase and met Sally at the Exit. Then we drove home, to their new house which is a little smaller than their old one but still nice, though a lot of stuff is wrong with it and they sued the company who build it and yadda yadda yadda... Then on Friday night we went over to Renee's house and visited her. Her and Justin got married in June and they have a new house too which is also really nice. They also have a yellow lab, Kacie, she is really cute :) BTW, Riley, the dachshund of the Smiths still remembers me! He got all excited when he first saw me :D

Well and yesterday we went to a birthday party at noon, visited Grandma Smith and later went grocery shopping and ate at Taco John's :) My favorite fast-food place on earth!
Sally is at church right now but she should be back soonish and then we will eat lunch and later we thought of going to the theater to watch a movie. But we don't know yet.

I don't have any pictures to put up yet but I'm sure I will have some soon!

OOOOOH and something else happened I'm really excited about!!
Tegan and Sara released new info on their books!! They are going to be called "ON, IN, AT" and will be available for pre-sale together with Sainthood on Sept. 28th!! I am definitely going to buy this package!! Books + Sainthood! :) YAY

Packing

So, I spent the whole day packing today and got my US dollars from the bank! I hope I didn't forget anything.
I used the Shaun Huberts way from Tegan and Sara's Trailer Talk to pack my suitcase, it's pretty awesome and saves a lot of space!

I'm leaving here at 4:45am to drive to Frankfurt and my flight takes off at 8:50am.
The flight takes 9hrs and I arrive at 10:50am in Chicago, the time difference is 7 hours.

I'm tired :D But I'm not going to sleep now, I hope I can sleep during the flight. Maybe I'll take a nap... NO, I won't wake up if I do :D Oh well...

The Return of the Sarah

Ok, I'm officially one of the worst blogger ever. BUT, there hasn't really been THAT much going on anyways haha... Tegan and Sara released the album artwork and track listing for SAINTHOOD, their 6th studio release and my most anticipated album this year, coming out on Oct. 27th and they just recently confirmed their tour dates for this fall. Count me in for AT LEAST the Cologne date! On a different but kind of similar note, I'm going on a vacation! YAY! I'm flying out of Frankfurt on Friday morning to Chicago where I'm going to meet up with my host mom Sally, who I stayed with in 2006 and 2007 during my exchange year. Pretty much one of the best years of my life! And I love my family there, they are so amazing. So I'm going to be visiting them and staying there for little over a week until the 23rd Sept. when I will fly from Chicago to......... Victoria, BC, Canada :D Now you might wonder, what I am doing there! Or maybe not if you know the Tegan and Sara tour schedule by heart. They are playing at Rifflandia on the 25th! With An Horse! DREAM!! AND I'M GOING!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!

Well, hence this reawakening of my blog. I'm going to try to blog everyday of my vacation, if possible with pictures.

Tomorrow, I shall return! Until then, farewell and may the force be with you!

SSPU on Letterman

I know I should post more. I have lots of stuff to talk about, just can't find the time to blog about it. This though, I have to plug.

The Silversun Pickups played Letterman yesterday with a shortened version of Panic Switch. They had to cut the song down to 3:30min because of TV airtime. It's still a great performance but Nikki looked really nervous! The end is funny too... Anyways, here you go:

IMPORTANT! New Tegan and Sara album title

The new Tegan and Sara album supposed to come out in October is called: "Sainthood"


Thanks to Kurt of .ca for the video.

Bruce Springsteen, Silversun Pickups, Radio, 3Way

Credit: t-klick

As an early birthday gift I got a ticket to see the Boss at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt on July 3rd. It was a fantastic concert, he played for almost 3 hours! An unforgettable night with an all ages crowd. I literally mean ALL ages. You could find gramps and grans, their adult children who then brought along their children. It was amazing seeing a merely 5 yr old boy sing the chorus of "Waitin' On A Sunny Day" (check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pfuAgVdsgE)

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In other news, the Silversun Pickups
played a fantastic MTV Unplugged session a few weeks ago.

Silversun Pickups - New Music - More Music Videos

They played 6 songs and you can watch the full session here: SSPU MTV Unplugged
If you want this session on your iPod just like I did, you can download it here: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/msrtxt
Thanks to Kurt of .ca for that!

I also want to give a shout out to @JanayS (Rainbow Report), who introduced me to the radio station 89x which plays just the best of the best.

BTW, all you frequent AfterEllen readers know about the webseries "3Way". If you don't, you should check it out, it's hilarious. I hope it comes back soon but in the meantime they posted a full episode of "LadyCops"!

Ice Age 3

Ice Age 3 hits the theaters today! One advantage of working at a cinema is you get to see some movies before everyone else does. So after work yesterday some colleagues and I sat down to watch Ice Age 3.

I thought it was pretty cool and funny. The dinobabys were just too cute!
Some parts of the movie kinda reminded me of a movie from my childhood "The Land Before Time" with all the dinos and the "great valley"...

What really brings me back to watch Ice Age again is the little squirrel Scrat. Every time he jumps into the picture I laugh my ass off. The Scrat scenes are the best part of each of the Ice Age movies in my opinion and he did not disappoint in this new one. I just love that little fella.