Well, this has been an Interesting week. As regards interesting item one, I will say no more than to quote Morpheus: "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." As regards interesting item two, I will say more tomorrow. (See, I can make vague and mysterious posts too!)

I managed to survive my birthday yesterday - having holiday I needed to take before the end of the year meant that I had the day off, so I graciously allowed my parents to take me out for lunch - a rather fine meal at Pierre Victoire. Alas, the shopping for birthday presents didn't go quite so well - failing miserably to get anything at all. Ah, well...

This year, I've sent virtually no holiday cards, so thanks to those who did send me birthday/Christmas wishes, and apologies to those I haven't sent anything to.

Re: hate memes: Those of you who participated in these know who you are. I'm sure you're remaining anonymous because you don't want the rest of us that you're pathetic, despicable, bigoted, untrustworthy, nasty little people. Perhaps you should consider the old saying "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" before launching your disgusting and unwarranted attacks on fabulous people like hermorrine and others of my friends, all of whose boots you have proved yourselves utterly unworthy to lick.

OK, it was suggested that I give the scene list from the insert, but apparently I'm far too lazy to type out all 78 of them, so here are some highlights of the new scenes and some of the extended stuff I spotted.

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Now I'm off to start watching the commentaries...

Have LotR:RotK EE sitting on my desk :D

Don't get to leave work for 8 hours :(

Edit: It is teh good. Oh, yes. Alas, am far too tired to post more now...

Well, after queueing in the freezing cold for about three hours, I finally made it into the new Apple Store on Regent Street in London. So much with the geeking ;-)

Needless to say, absolutely no chance of getting one of the lucky bags, but at least I did get a free T-shirt...

Yesterday really didn't get off to the best of starts, what with the whole no sleep thing, and that was followed up by public transport working against me. Still, it was all in a good cause - I was going to the Jazz Cafe to see Vonda Shepard (most famous for doing the music - on and off screen - for Ally McBeal) performing live.

The doors were somewhat late opening (but that was fine, as I was also late on account of my apparent inability to read the tube map), but when I got inside I was able to grab a spot where I could sit on the edge of the stage and read my book until things got started. First up was Mark Buck playing a few blues tracks. He was really rather good - you can download a few tracks for free from Amazon. After that there was another break while they re-set the stage for the main event.

The venue was really great - in terms of size and atmosphere, it was just like being in The Bar on the show - just without Ally's neuroses, Elaine stealing the microphone or a guest spot by a big-name music star. I managed to snag pretty much the best spot - right at the stage by the end of the piano - so, unlike when I went to see Bryan Ferry earlier in the year, I was never more than about 10 feet away from the artist.

Vonda opened with this post's title track, then greeted us "How many of you are here because you watched Ally McBeal?" *big cheer* "And how many of you were dragged along?" *deep-voiced cheer* "Lots of men, I see." *laughs*. The set included tracks from all of her solo albums as well as some from the Ally soundtracks (some, of course, appeared on both). We also got comments about the number of cameraphones - "All I can see from up here is [mimes holding up phone]" (guilty as charged) - and a plug for her website and upcoming live album and DVD.

The set ended in style with Searchin' My Soul (the title song from Ally), then we got a three song encore including the dancing baby song and ending with Maryland (the final track from the first Ally CD), featuring some pretty nifty audience participation, if I say so myself. Overall, it was an absolutely fabulous experience - Vonda and the band were really on top form and really seemed to be enjoying themselves, and I had far too much fun clapping and snapping and singing along (although not dancing too t00bily).

PS. I've now updated my last entry with a picture of me in the pink hat. Enjoy.

Right now, I'm wearing a simply fabulous pink hat, as part of Wear It Pink in support of the Breast Cancer Campaign. If you all make donations, then just possibly you might be rewarded with photographic evidence ;-)

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Normally I don't bother posting these, but as the result was so amusing...

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This is one I reached after a few variations. As served to the t00bs at Pund00mage.

zorac's House Special G&T

1½oz Bombay Sapphire
½oz Gordon's Sloe Gin
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 dash Lemon Juice
1 dash Lime Juice

Shake and pour into a long glass, top up with Tonic Water.

Kazzi is still teh l33test haX0r evAr

zorac caught malachan with his livejournal logged in earlier.

zorac told malachan that he had left his livejournal logged in... without hacking it first.

kazzik would like zorac to know that no good deed ever goes unpunished.

I would say something mean about Mark at this point, but I don't think there is anything mean to say as Mark is loffly. We're all going to have Long Island Iced Teas now because we rock.

You all suck for not being here, so there :P

love
~Kazzi, the current usurper of zorac for her own nefarious purposes.

Happy Birthday hermorrine

*smoooooches*