If you are what you say you are...

... a superstar, then have no fear...

Woodies last night. Living the dream. I can now say I was on TV, and unlike any dumbass on Reality TV, I can say I had a good time.

I was all over a couple of the performances. Lupe Fiasco - Superstar, The Academy Is... - Big Mess, and there was a quick shot of me in Spank Rock's performance. I made MTV News, too. Score.


Wow... so other than the woodies, what has been going on in my life since July?

Concerts, concerts, concerts, resulting in poverty, hunger and new friends.

Beautiful Disaster (locals)
Hanson
The Smashing Pumpkins
Sleeping With Giants Tour (TAI,TRS,Sherwood,AFS,CS) x2
Bright Eyes
Woodies

Hmm... is that all? It seemed like more.

They were all AWESOME. Enough said.

Concerts aside, I've picked up my brother's bass and started trying to play that thing again. So far, so good. But nobody cares about that.

End.

It's been a while...

In a little less than an hour, the MTVU Woodies are going to be premiering on MTVU (pardon my spelling, it's gone downhill a bit since school started and sickness has picked up).

Right, so they say they're the "only award show that matters" to college students, but I feel like that's a false claim. Almost everyone I've talked to doesn't even know what the Woodies are, much less the channel MTVU.

I won't lie, I'm pretty stoked for them, but I was also there. Even so, it was a pretty good show, aside from Spank Rock who scared me a little bit but I kept dancing (cameras were on me, I couldn't not... it was fun anyway).

The Academy Is... got me tickets in (along with a slew of other fans who overlooked Annie Lennox to watch the band set up...) and I wasn't about to pass up the opportunity to go (it was in New York, I am in Maryland).

They performed along with Spank Rock, Tokyo Police Club (who I'd never listened to but found out that they were pretty good), Lupe Fiasco (who was joined by Patrick Stump on stage) and Rilo Kiley (who took the place of Amy Winehouse; win-win).

I tried several times to suggest a story for the Towson newspaper (The Towerlight), but they really didn't seem interested.

Sure, they're not the VMAs but college kids actually had the chance to pick the winners AND see live performances of real music (although, I can't actually recall the last time I heard anyone talking about the VMAs - outside of Britney - either).

Maybe it's the cynic in me but I'm feeling a little less than enthused about things right now. Everyone in my hall is getting ready for a night on the clubs (which they do every week) and I'm sitting here waiting on the Woodies to start so I can stream it on my shitty internet.

Half hour to go. I'M still excited.